Sentences with phrase «in painterly traditions»

The three paintings and a collage, all featuring the same figure with folded arms, seem to be rooted in the painterly tradition reminiscent of Otto Dix and even early Tair Salakhov.

Not exact matches

In the aftermath of the Mexican revolution, the country's artists forged a new painterly vocabulary, which fused European modernism with local folkloric traditions, and became a global phenomenon.

These «lyrical abstractionists» sought to expand the boundaries of abstract painting, and to revive and reinvigorate a painterly «tradition» in American art.

The exhibition explores the question of how painterly approaches, rooted in a narrative tradition, can reflect phenomena of collective (youth culture) memory.

Each artist works in the abstract formalist tradition, but, through the development of new painterly vocabularies and use of unusual materials, attempts to redefine the boundaries of painting.

And therein lies the paradox and the multiple readings that extend from the oeuvre: Morley's canvases are rooted in tradition, in the painterly sense, but resolutely contemporary in terms of bravura and the splicing together of images.

For decades he has been an uncooperative force in the art world; a self - styled dandy in the postmodern age; a fervent champion of unfashionable painterly traditions, whose work nonetheless speaks directly to contemporary anxieties.

In the 1940s, it was Mondrian who provided an alternative tradition to painterly expressionism and informed the art of Stuart Davis, Ralston Crawford, and von Wiegand's good friend Carl Holty.

Related to her memorable installation presently at the New Museum, it shows an imaginary black dancer in a blue leotard in a bold pose reminiscent of Sargent's Madame X (1883 — 84), and equally boldly painted — few artists have more strongly claimed and reconfigured European painterly traditions than she.

The images are characterized by a psychological energy that deeply believes in the painting tradition — an energy that also comes through in Kasseböhmer's last two self - portraits, which are painterly variations of a photograph and can also be seen in the exhibition.

These can be read in distinct but overlapping registers, evoking at once the raw internal spaces of the body and the psyche, the humanist and realist painterly tradition of Rembrandt, Soutine and Bacon, and the wider cultural reality of social and political upheaval, violence and trauma.

There is no easy way to define Franz West's art: it is fundamentally sculptural in its construction, veers frequently toward the biomorphic and prosthetic, mines the intellectualism of Freud and Wittgenstein, and possesses an awkward beauty that speaks with equal fluency to the tradition of painterly abstraction and the aesthetics of trash art.

Raised in Hawaii, Charles Yuen brings a rich personal approach to the tradition of painterly allegory such as the work of Philip Guston and Francis Picabia.

Astrup was trained in the painterly naturalist tradition by fellow Norwegians Harriet Backer (1845 - 1932) and Christian Krohg (1852 - 1925) in Oslo and Paris but it was during study tours in Europe that he identified the importance of the innocent, untutored eye in recording truth in nature.»

In works rich in both allusion and painterly craft, McCann merges careful observation, popular culture, and an encyclopedic knowledge of the tradition of paintinIn works rich in both allusion and painterly craft, McCann merges careful observation, popular culture, and an encyclopedic knowledge of the tradition of paintinin both allusion and painterly craft, McCann merges careful observation, popular culture, and an encyclopedic knowledge of the tradition of painting.

I Refuse to be Invisible emerges from the painterly tradition of Renoir's La Moulin de la Galette, 1876 (Musée d'Orsay), as Akunyili Crosby echoes the traditions of African culture in the Pop vocabulary of Robert Rauschenberg's solvent transfer works.

«Besides suggesting kinships to Edward Hopper's scenes of solitude and the meditative still - lifes of the Italian modern master Giorgio Morandi, Gallace's way of painting — it hardly seems a style — has affinities with a New York tradition of painterly realism that was developed in the nineteen - fifties by Fairfield Porter...» - Schjeldahl, Peter.

Her densely packed paintings are also in the abstract expressionist or painterly abstraction traditions, but she brings a stylistic maturity and technical finesse to her work that is lacking in some of the painters on view in Richmond.

The overall concept of Dummy Vexillography seems a means to an end — a pretense that allows Robinson to indulge in material experimentation and formalist preoccupations, engaging with and reveling in material culture and painterly styles and traditions, rather than political discourse.

In addition to utilizing motifs that informed the California Pictorialists, these works reference the painterly tradition.

By positioning a woman - of - color as primary picture - maker in whose hands the figurative tradition is refashioned, I knit my contemporary concerns, personal and painterly, into the centuries old conversation of representation.

Since the 1980s, Koether has engaged in an intimate «battle» against painterly tradition, developing a defiant artistic practice able to sketch out a counterhistory of the modernist, male - dominated and heteronormative canon.

His works are executed in what would be considered the best painterly tradition of the era, polished and representative, while retaining the slight eeriness in the overall atmosphere.

As Kerstin Stakemeier writes in one of the contributions to the twenty - page dossier dedicated to Koether that this issue also features, «Koether does not legitimize herself against painterly tradition, but rather lets its accumulated unmodernness come to her.»

Her graphic works, objects, paintings and installations explore in a processual, serial and cyclic manner various themes and working means, from the «60s - «80s experimental, conceptualist graphics to the more tradition - oriented painterly approach embraced by her after 1990.

Hannah is a self - described «idiosyncratic» painter, having emerged improbably from New York's punk 1970s demimonde as a figurative artist obsessed with painterly technique and single - mindedly focused on reviving the narrative tradition in painting.

An interview with the artist reveals the nuances of Fischl's painterly perspective and his extensive knowledge of art history, and places him squarely in the great tradition of artists who have defined the iconography of their age.

In Untitled (1958), Chu Teh - Chun conflates the Chinese landscape painting tradition with the free spirit of Art Informel and Western abstraction; while in Bangkok III (2013), Andreas Gursky depicts the Chao Phraya as a dark, reflective flow, conjuring a lineage of painterly depictions of water, from the cascading riverbanks of Song dynasty landscape paintings to Claude Monet's NymphéaIn Untitled (1958), Chu Teh - Chun conflates the Chinese landscape painting tradition with the free spirit of Art Informel and Western abstraction; while in Bangkok III (2013), Andreas Gursky depicts the Chao Phraya as a dark, reflective flow, conjuring a lineage of painterly depictions of water, from the cascading riverbanks of Song dynasty landscape paintings to Claude Monet's Nymphéain Bangkok III (2013), Andreas Gursky depicts the Chao Phraya as a dark, reflective flow, conjuring a lineage of painterly depictions of water, from the cascading riverbanks of Song dynasty landscape paintings to Claude Monet's Nymphéas.

The Lisson Gallery exhibition presents for the first time a new series of earth works of varied formats: table sculptures modelling micro and macro-landscapes, wall and floor sculptures evoking the natural forms of rock and coral, and works on canvas coated with pigments mined from the earth in a gritty take both on painterly traditions and on Kapoor's own earlier pigment sculptures and void forms.

Learn about Soutine's singular role in the art world of Paris between the wars, through a consideration of the unique visual style and painterly energy that the artist brought to the tradition of still - life painting.

By engaging with the traditions of painterly practice but normalising the almost exclusive presentation of black people within her work, Yiadom - Boakye's formal investigations of composition, structure and palette also raise questions of identity, visibility and representation, pointing to the dearth of such depictions in the Western art - historical canon.

And while in fact Murray's work demolished Greenbergian tenets, at the same time her painterly ambition both embraced and reinvigorated the great tradition of New York School painting of which his philosophy were an important component.