Sentences with phrase «late modernist tradition»

His work makes references to the late modernist tradition of the New York abstract expressionists, yet stand out as the products of a contemporary struggle, pointing at the grey blocks of paint covering up graffitied walls of Istanbul, metaphorically paralleling the country's everlasting attempt of covering up creative progress of free direction.

Not all art labelled as contemporary art is modernist or post-modern, and the broader term encompasses both artists who continue to work in modern and late modernist traditions, as well as artists who reject modernism for post-modernism or other reasons.

Not exact matches

By not painting from life, Doig and most mid-career painters of the late 20th and 21st century have, it seems to me, a fundamentally different relationship with modernist painterly tradition from the generation above them — Freud, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, even David Hockney.

This lecture begins by exploring the roots of northern Romantic landscape painting (as outlined by Robert Rosenblum in Modern painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition) and its influence on later modernist abstract painting.

In visual art, the term «late modernism» refers to movements or trends which reject some aspect of «modern art», but which otherwise remain within the modernist tradition.