Sentences with phrase «modern abstract traditions»

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Over the past twenty years, Morris has resolutely trodden her own path, developing an abstract visual language that transcends modern traditions such as Modernism, Pop Art and urban culture, with craftsmanship and material playing a leading role.

His work has played a major role in advancing the tradition of modern abstract sculpture in the aftermath of Minimalism.

He is the ultimate international artist, connecting fireworks, an ancient Chinese tradition, to the modern, Western tradition of abstract expressionism.

Highly engaged with international art movements such as cubism, abstract expressionism, arte povera, and conceptual art — but also having studied and lived in Europe and the United States — an older generation of the artists on view pioneered modern art in Cyprus, through a dialogue within local traditions.

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.

This major traveling exhibition reveals the exceptional variety of Native artistic production, ranging from the ancient ivories and ingenious modern masks of the Arctic to the dramatic sculptural arts of the Pacific Northwest, the millennia - long tradition of abstract art in the Southwest, the refined basketry of California and the Great Basin, the famous beaded and painted works of the Plains, and the luminous styles of the Eastern Woodlands, including the Great Lakes.

They seem to borrow from the «primitive» art traditions that Barnett Newman, writing for the catalogue of Parson's opening exhibition Northwest Coast Indian Painting, had already connected to «our modern American abstract artists»

While some emphasize the power and spiritual intensity felt when viewing Sime's works, others note the figurative and abstract traditions of Ethiopia's modern history, evident in the objects Sime creates.

Al Loving was an artist who drew on sources as varied as free jazz, his family's quilting traditions and the history of Modern painting when creating abstracted works that riffed on color, form and flatness.

Kathy Halbreich, director of Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, writes about the range of influences he absorbed: «From his early drawings rooted in a European Surrealist tradition to his monumental abstract canvases, Motherwell's visual language synthesizes a veritable history of modern painting, reflecting ties to Picasso's early collages, Matisse's color - rich paintings, and the development of American Abstract Expressionism in which he played such a pivotal role».

The review described his technique as watercolour, gouache, ink and gold leaf pressed down with sealing wax and Strauss, later to be head of Impressionist & Modern Art at Sotheby's, said the combination of shapes and colours represented «the best of abstract traditions».

They also miss out a third part of the equation — abstract painting, a profound tradition that evolved in the modern age.

Francis was one of the great abstract painters of the mid / late 20th century, an artist who grew up in the traditions of modern art but who also contributed to contemporary art.

Together they represent the expanding horizons of contemporary Asian art that melds ancient traditions with key motifs in historically modern and more recent abstract painting.

In Nagasaki, this striking modern chapel by Yu Momoeda Architecture Office readapts these old joinery traditions to create a spiritually uplifting space that's also visually abstract, thanks to a load - bearing, fractalized structure that dominates the interior.