Sentences with phrase «larger tradition of painting»

The decoration and making of folding screens is a specific strain within the larger tradition of painting.

As always, Warren is not afraid to get her hands messy and her material handling of the psychically charged spaces of the id and the ego, the feminine and the masculine, imagos and logos, maintains the improvisatory, even rebellious nature of clay while couching the medium within the larger traditions of painting, sculpture, and space.

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Using a condensed and dramatic form mixing elements of comic book art, Californian underground, and murals with the great European tradition, the large scale religious implementations of the Baroque in particular, Danø works range from the traditional painting to reliefs and singular objects.

Part homage to a civil rights hero, part critique of the traditions of art history, this large - scale painting powerfully reminds us of the exclusion of African American culture and history in the wider art historical canon.»

Reynolds enlisted a large - scale, high - tech printing process in the tradition of artists like Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons and Urs Fischer who have pushed the boundaries of painting through mechanical reproduction before him.

The artists participating at the Grundy Art Gallery are Allison Katz, who displays a trilogy of works comprising painting, sculpture and print; Amy Stephens, whose practice centres on reclaiming objects and images from the native landscape; Ruth Beale with new large - scale works on paper, drawing on the British tradition of satire to critique current events; and Rebecca Birch, who brings an interactive installation investigating the politics of surface.

The world's largest open submission contemporary art show will be continuing the tradition of showcasing work by both emerging and established artists in all media including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, architecture and film.

In the selected items on view, the developments of American artistic traditions can be traced through the early interests in portraiture, the rise in prominence of landscape painting in the 19th - century, the popularity of genre scenes, as well as the academic traditions of history and large - scale society paintings.

It assaults the Large Glass of Marcel Duchamp, the architectural ideal of the glass house, recently an inspiration in painting to Stefan Kürten, and the tradition of painting as a mirror or window.

Fischl's paintings from that time dealt with issues of early sexuality and voyeurism, while his most recent large - scale canvases focus on the tradition of bull fighting.

The world's largest open submission contemporary art show, now in its 244th year, continues the tradition of showcasing work by both emerging and established artists in all media including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, architecture and film.

Later in his career, Twombly began producing large - scale works that harkened back to the tradition of historical painting.

The wide array of sources that underlie her large - scale forms include Biblical and mythological narratives, Arab oral traditions, Gothic architecture, Western painting, Islamic ornamentation, and scientific advances in physics and astronomy.

Rarely do these commissions make any kind of larger statement about American art, but last fall, when Barack Obama selected Kehinde Wiley — a figurative painter who deploys the techniques, poses and patterns of the grand tradition of Baroque European paintings to portray contemporary black and brown men he finds on the street — to paint his official portrait for the Smithsonian, it at least reflected the Obamas» well - developed connections to the world of culture.

«Epic Paintings» carries with it a sense of history and tradition, grand style, ambitious, and larger - than - life narratives of the human condition.

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.

Unlike the black - and - white formats of the ink portraits of the 1960s, the large paintings revisit traditions of modernist painting such as the checkerboard works of Piet Mondrian and the Alphabet paintings of Jasper Johns while depicting everyday speech in a variety of color palettes.

Wiley's large paintings place contemporary black men into the rich tradition of European royal portraiture.

Faiz continues this tradition with her large - scale oil painting «Divider» (2015), by combining post-painterly abstraction with Albert Oehlen's version of abstract art, an aversion away from recognisable forms.

In this presentation Brice expands her recent use of a near single colour palette to include dynamic reds and deep greens to create large - scale paintings which address the art - historical tradition of the female nude.

Within the Pop Art tradition, he has created a prolific body of influential work that straddles the worlds of art and design including street art, graphic and product design, paintings, murals, and large - scale sculptures.

Taking on the artistic traditions of Western nineteenth century painting, Monkman's appropriations of «New World» painting are meticulous recreations of large - scale, sublime landscapes.

At 50, Humphries is part of a stalwart group of painters (many of them women) who are continuing a tradition of making large abstract paintings with strong roots in both Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism.

From the press release: The first museum exhibition devoted to the Indian influences in Clemente's work and how they relate to the artistic practices and traditions of various regions in India features approximately 20 works, including paintings from the last 30 years, and four new, larger than life - size sculptures created especially for the exhibition.

The Rubin Museum of Art, New York Curated by Beth Citron The first museum exhibition devoted to the Indian influences in Clemente's work and how they relate to the artistic practices and traditions of various regions in India features approximately 20 works, including paintings from the last 30 years, and four new, larger than life - size sculptures created especially for the exhibition.

The group's members worked in a wide variety of styles, though in large part within the tradition of modernist abstraction, and in media including oil painting, collage, printmaking and watercolor.

In the same way that Gustave Courbet's work challenged the traditions of painting by depicting ordinary people on a heroic scale, Wheat seeks to reapply the idea of the large - scale tapestry, hung primarily behind royal thrones and used as symbols of authority during medieval times, by re-contextualizing their use and imagery.

The Norwich School remains an important historical element in the larger tradition of English landscape painting.

Victorian painting developed the Hogarthian social subject, packed with moralizing detail, and the tradition of illustrating scenes from literature, into a range of types of genre painting, many with only a few figures, others large and crowded scenes like Frith's best - known works.

In jarring juxtapositions of contemporary, modernist and retro - futuristic motifs within classical landscape compositions, Ged Quinn's large scale paintings combine anachronistic references to art and literature with the strong traditions of landscape and still - life painting.

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His large - scale figurative paintings are equally as grand, ornate, and rich in symbolism as traditional portraiture; however, Wiley subverts the canon by depicting male protagonists of African descent, a demographic that has been virtually omitted from the Western painting tradition throughout the centuries.

Marcil moved to Paris in 1952, where he embraced the longstanding European traditions of large abstract oil paintings and figure drawings.

Meleko Mokgosi (b. 1981, Botswana; lives and works in New York City) produces large - scale figurative paintings that rethink the tradition of historical European compositions.

On view May 2 through August 12, 2018, these large - scale figurative paintings rethink the tradition of historical European compositions by depicting daily life in southern African nation - states and post-colonial ideals of democracy.

Teaches beginners to paint in the Scandinavian tradition, suggesting types of paint, colors, tips for steadying the brush for large swirls, producing dry brush highlights, and personalizing your creation with initials and date.