Sentences with phrase «informed by modernism»
In the years following the Mexican Revolution (1910 - 20), jewelry and other silver objects were crafted there with an entirely innovative approach, informed by modernism and the creation of a new Mexican national identity.
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Thus in the approach to church design and decoration taken by Stroik and those who share his convictions, the full richness of Catholic theology, not a spare modernism, informs the architect's vision — and the Church's worship.
Informed by elements of popular culture ranging from manga and anime to punk rock, Yoshitomo Nara fuses Japanese visual traditions and Western Modernism to create adorable but menacing characters that possess a startling emotional intensity.
Yet it is also clear from Hofmann's writings that, apart from a persistent undercurrent of a mystical, rather Germanic sense of the spiritual in nature, his approach to teaching was profoundly informed by his pragmatic understanding of vanguard modernism.
Informed by elements of popular culture ranging from manga and anime to punk rock, Nara fuses Japanese visual traditions and Western modernism to create young characters that possess a startling emotional intensity.
My work is particularly informed by the art of the medieval period, the primitive Flemish, the German, French, and Italian renaissance, and the 19th and 20th century African sculpture that so informed European modernism and cubism.»
At the same time, Gillick's design decisions are frequently informed by progressive art movements from earlier eras (De Stijl, the Bauhaus): varieties of functional, utopian modernism that promised a transformed world.
His drawings, sculptures, books, installations, and performances are all uniquely informed by period designs and quintessential historical buildings — the Italian baroque, French neo-classicism, and 20th century modernism and postmodernism are evidenced alike throughout Bronstein's beautiful and subtle oeuvre.
Roy Dowell's is a mythopoesis nurtured through a modernism of archaic forms without parody, informed through tribal arts, the zone inhabited by early 20th - century artists and mid-century artists alike.
Bringing together three hundred pictures, magazines, and journals by more than one hundred artists from the dawn of modernism to the present, the exhibition looks at the ways in which photography at once informs and challenges our understanding of what sculpture is.