Sentences with phrase «landscape tradition»

Meanwhile, it lets in enough light to recall Western or Chinese landscape traditions.

The long, horizontal format and muted palette, however, link his work to the English landscape tradition of Gainsborough, Constable and Turner.

Keeping the persistent place of landscape tradition in mind, Dean created works for the RA's new spaces, with the brand new large - scale photogravure, Forty Days, really standing out.

Burra's use of watercolour positions him within the English landscape tradition, but his works have an intensity unlike any other artists handling of the medium: as Pierre Rouve, wrote of the artist: ``... The power of his larger compositions is unique and uniquely disconcerting in the eyes of those convinced that watercolours can only water down all colours.

Grimes» large - scale paintings of the wooded landscape evoke the majesty of the American landscape tradition with all the fervor of the Abstract Expressionist movement.

Recent projects involving trees include beat (2002), a commission for the Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain, in which Gallaccio responded to the British landscape tradition with a sculptural installation of oak tree trunks placed upright in the gallery like rough hewn columns.

Davenport's images recall the romantic landscape tradition of nineteen century artists such as Casper David Friedrich, Yet whereas that tradition grants the spectator a sense of absorptive repose and visual mastery, the impeding mishaps of Accident Prone produce a sense of anxiety and uncanny humor.

This acquisition will allow the National Gallery's visitors to see the work of these innovative landscape artists alongside the British landscape tradition of Constable and Turner.

Banewl recalls the work of seventeenth — century Dutch painter Aelbert Cuyp, known for his moody, open scenes of cows, as well as that of John Constable and the eighteenth — and nineteenth — century British pastoral landscape tradition.

Lee is known for her fusions of Eastern and Western landscape traditions, and the visual dissonance of this piece mediates the view as more internal than external.

«American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum,» features landscape paintings that trace the «evolution of American art from its roots in an emerging national landscape tradition to the liberating influences of European modernism» — the progression from the 19th - century Hudson River School to the present.

Jean - Baptiste - Corot and the Barbizon School helped to establish a French landscape tradition in the 19th century.

A new exhibition at the Royal Academy provides an opportunity to explore the genesis of this native landscape tradition, considered by many to be one of the most distinctive British contributions to world art.

Edmonton lacked a strong landscape tradition during and after the war, but in the 1970s Ron Myren and Brian Chubb produced strong new work influenced by Goodridge ROBERTS and W. L. Stevenson.

The American landscape tradition from which so much abstract painting emerges is a tradition born out of grandness — adventure and limitless possibility are its hallmarks.

Featuring European and American masters from the Smart Museum collection, this exhibition focused on exchange among landscape traditions, while questioning the usefulness and limitations of conventional geographic classifications.

The observations she gathered both in nature and the urban landscape, which she has called home for the past 30 plus years, inform an artistic practice that is firmly rooted in the plein - aire landscape tradition.

Kurland's work draws upon the nineteenth - century landscape tradition of depicting a perfect place.

The works in this section of the exhibition, by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jean - Marc Bustamante, Sandra Cinto, Gustave Courbet, Willie Doherty, George Inness, Emil Nolde, Sophie Ristelhueber, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and others, provide a context for exploring three salient themes in Kiefer's practice that also reflect the modern landscape tradition: The Political Landscape, The Psychology of Landscape, and The Transcendent Sublime.

Andra Ghecevici explores notions of trespass as she reconsiders landscape traditions in Transcendence, a collection of paintings and charcoal drawings on canvas.

The catalogue to Soaring Flight: Peter Lanyon's Gliding Paintings gives us a figurative rather than an abstract artist, an isolated last link in a centuries - old landscape tradition.

Her work engaged a range of art movements, including surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, the Northern California modernist tradition represented by Adams and White, as well as the broader American landscape tradition embodied in the photographs of Harry Callahan and Ralph Eugene Meatyard.

Jesse Alexander, photographer and writer, will discuss «The Nymph and the Shepherd», a year - long residency with Bank Street Arts in Sheffield exploring amorous romance within Romantic landscape traditions.

Certainly there were cross-influences between the two, and the Americans looked at the work of the St Ives group as well as vice versa, but the roots of the Americans lay in European Symbolism and Expressionism, whereas the St Ives group were closer to the English landscape tradition, or, in Heron's case, to the school of Paris.

The level of detail in these prints is mesmerising, and recalls the painstaking Chinese landscape tradition, yet Kantanen's technique is equally suggestive of painters such as Twombly, Innes, or Alex Katz — the pure strokes of colour creating a dream - like world where nothing is fixed.

He noted that Mr. Pendexter has a «deep love and knowledge of prints that is revealed in the depth of his vision, especially in such favorite themes as the pastoral landscape tradition, or the muscular forms and movement of European baroque printmaking.»

American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum, on view July 1 through September 18, 2011, traces the evolution of American art from its roots in an emerging national landscape tradition to the liberating influences of European modernism.

His work represented the maturation of the great American landscape tradition, and his painting of the Valley of the Yosemite in California has been called his crowning achievement.

I think of it as kind of a pastoral, figure - and - landscape tradition.

His room of double portraits, by contrast, spoke to that uniquely English 18th century genre, the «conversation piece», and more recent work of course to the landscape tradition exemplified by Turner and Constable.

At the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, which he attended in 1996, Martin began his critique of the landscape tradition by appropriating and copying advertisements with unlocatable «magnificent» views; as time passed he began inventing his own generalized images, the essence of grand, unpopulated wildernesses.

The Norwich School continued the landscape tradition, while the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, led by artists such as Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais, revived the Early Renaissance style with their vivid and detailed style.

Parke's paintings have evolved out of the landscape tradition, but nature is still very influential to her work.

Their aim was to resist the conservatism of Canada's landscape tradition, which they believed had prevented modernism from developing in the country.

The scattered lots belong less to the landscape tradition than to city records.

McAllister calls upon still - life and landscape traditions to host these seemingly contrary structural languages.

The exhibition examines Ferdinand Richardt's Niagara in the context of landscape tradition.

Taken together, this body of work attests to Wegman's rigorous and sustained engagement with the natural world and places the artist squarely within the American landscape tradition.

These paintings, which have never been displayed together publicly before, offer a compelling view of how artists working in an array of styles have interpreted the landscape tradition over the last four centuries,» said Susan M. Taylor, The Montine McDaniel Freeman Director.

David Chow's large, gestural paintings of flowers are neither spin - offs of New Image painting nor are they merely belated nods to the romantic landscape tradition.

Artists as diverse as Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, David Hockney, Ed Ruscha, and Gerhard Richter bring fresh perspectives to the landscape tradition.

«I thought it was a really interesting engagement with a lot of issues around nature, the environment, landscape traditions, Romanticism, melancholia — some of Pierre's big subjects,» says Lynne Cooke, who organized a 2002 show of Huyghe's work at the Dia Art Foundation in New York and is now senior curator for special projects in modern art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

The book became notorious for Dewhurst's insistence that the English landscape tradition, especially the work of John Constable and J. M. W. Turner, was at the root of modern French painting.

Claire Sherman's paintings are rooted in the American landscape tradition.

Murat Akagündüz's exhibition «Vertigo» presents a series of white on white oil paintings depicting some of world's highest mountain peaks as seen on Google Earth, and explores the transformation of the human - nature relationship within the landscape tradition.

Such works as Lost Mine were, thus, positioned within a landscape tradition while retaining their formal innovation.