Sentences with phrase «long painterly tradition»

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While the formal still lifes may conjure associations with Audubon and are occasionally mistaken for watercolors or drawings, the consequence of motion is a startling and surprising range of subtle colors, suggesting painterly strategies that refer to a long tradition of European still life painting.

Unlike Ireland, where there seems to be a sympathy towards both the painterly and the abstract, Britain has long maintained a figurative tradition and held abstraction at arm's length.

That Carone did not may be a sign that he couldn't abide an art world increasingly indifferent to the long, painterly tradition to which he had devoted his life.