Sentences with phrase «modernist tradition»

Sze draws from Modernist traditions of the found object, dismantling their authority with dynamic constellations of materials that are charged with flux, transformation and fragility.

Known for his handcrafted sculptural installations of crochet, tulle, spices and stones, Neto's renowned art - making practice draws from a wide variety of sources, from Modernist traditions of biomorphic abstraction, through Arte Povera and American Minimalism, to the legacies of Brazilian neo concrete, conceptual and Tropilcália movements.

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.

Like the Fanfare series, first exhibited in 2003, Clarke's books find their place in the long modernist tradition of the collage.

Abstract Expressionism owed a great deal to the European Modernist tradition.

Parallel to this great modernist tradition there is also an explicitly Brazilian conceptual art that was less dogmatic and structuralist than its counterparts in Europe and North America, but more open, more poetic and more politically engaged, as we can see in the works of Cildo Meireles.

New York's older modernist tradition resounds in uncertain repetition with a much more contemporary set of concerns.

In a career spanning more than forty years, Bates has combined exquisite technique with a deep understanding of American modernist traditions, resulting in a body of work that is at once sophisticated, soulful, and accessible.

The exhibition, curated by Kelly Grovier, provides a good overview of Scully's recent interests and makes a compelling case for Scully's ability to imbue life into what too often seems to be a tired modernist tradition.

Scully is a great artist because, constructing a great variety of two and three - dimensional works from a narrowly restricted choice of forms and media, he shows, in opposition to almost all other contemporary painters and sculptors and, also, to most art writers, that there is life, still, in this now seemingly distant modernist tradition.

How might we consider Hammons's installation within a larger modernist tradition — both as represented at SFMO - MA and in the art world at large?

In the classic Modernist tradition of collage he cuts up found images, favouring that most despised of formats the VHS cassette which he buys, ten for a pound in charity shops, integrating them with his own video footage.

Anton Vidokle engages modernist traditions in works that explore the persistence and failures of utopian ideals.

AB Your writing links you far more to a certain modernist tradition than to a lot of contemporary work.

Sullivan Goss presents an exhibition of oils and watercolors by a powerful American artist working in the early Modernist 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.

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.

In parallel with this great modernist tradition is also an explicit Brazilian conceptual art that was less dogmatic and structuralist than their counterparts in Europe and North America, but more open, more poetic, more politically engaged, as we can see in the works of Cildo Meireles and Vik Muniz.

Copied by a young Giorgio de Chirico, and claimed ironically perhaps, by Marcel Duchamp as his favorite painter, Böcklin is part of a well - worn, if less traveled, «other» modernist tradition of which Lüpertz is definitely part.

Before this, though, Stevens lived and worked in New York City and began a separate career as a published poet in the modernist tradition.

Gallery - worthy artwork adorns the villa, representing Thailand's ancient and modernist traditions.

Contemporary artists are updating the modernist tradition with new tactics and new media Read More

Rubinstein writes: «Chia, Cucchi, Clemente, Mariani, Baselitz, Lüpertz, Middendorf, Fetting, Penck, Kiefer, Schnabel... these and other artists are engaged not (as is frequently claimed by critics who find mirrored in this art their own frustration with the radical art of the present) in the recovery and reinvestment of tradition, but rather in declaring its bankruptcy — specifically, the bankruptcy of the modernist tradition.

In both the «Gray Paintings (Loxodonta)» and the «Organ Pipes», the materiality of the objects open up to suggest a vast scope of cultural production — the elemental tin transformed into the majestic pipe organ, an achievement of pre-industrial design on par with horology; the «Gray Paintings (Loxodonta)» echoing the stone surface of prehistoric cave paintings and also the modernist tradition of the monochrome.

Following the Modernist tradition, the artist has dedicated her whole career to understanding visual perception, engaging with form and color.

In fact, Edward Hopper's «Monhegan Landscape» utilizes rich colors and heavy brushstrokes in the modernist tradition; this provides a unique contrast to some of his later, more well - known works.

The artist works the various material in order to arrive at objects that are inventive, often precariously balanced, brightly colored and both formally sophisticated, in the Modernist tradition, as well as humorous and playful all at once.

It has a nod to modernist traditions in Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, or Louise Nevelson.

Paul Wackers creates paintings that are rooted in the modernist tradition while simultaneously subverting this same history.

I'm very interested in the modernist tradition of abstraction, yet also figurative work.

My work is rooted in the modernist tradition of 20th - Century art.

Her highly personal style, however, is thoroughly grounded in the modernist tradition.

[13] These experiments produced elaborate abstract paintings which reflect on the concepts of originality and authorship which underpin the Modernist tradition and, in particular, the mystique of American Abstract Expressionism.

«4 Stylistically, Pettibon's fluid quoting and intuitive collaging of images, phrases, and themes places him squarely in the Modernist tradition of Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Kurt Schwitters, and Robert Rauschenberg.

Narrator: In a way, the title Stella gave this work announces his intention to be playful with the modernist tradition.

Wieder - Blank is dialed into a modernist tradition that goes back to Jan Müller via Souls Grown Deep artists such as Mose Tolliver and Georgia Speller.

Like all the works of this period, Collection is held together, across its material disunity and the variety of materials out of which it is constructed, by a grid structure derived from the modernist tradition in which Rauschenberg was trained by Josef Albers, by the drips, stains and thick brush marks that create an over-all surface, and by the similarity of value shared by its range of colors.

In the modernist tradition, Richard Tsao pulls one in.

He clearly considered himself to be part of a tradition - a modernist tradition, in his case - that he hoped to advance at something like the same level of quality that he admired in the masters he favored.

Incorporating many of the ideas set forth in his paintings and drawings, his prints form an extraordinary compendium of a career spent investigating the modernist tradition of the power of color and contemporary abstraction.

His desire, however, was to create a reverberation of feelings full of memory - a symbolist's soul conveyed through the modernist tradition.

In his work, the eroticized body stands out assertively from its surroundings, rejecting the integration of figure and ground that characterizes the modernist tradition from Impressionism through Abstract Expressionism.

Atria's work connects with the modernist tradition of geometric abstraction, but with the express intent to relate it to specific visual situations encountered in the world.

Not all art labeled as contemporary art is postmodern, and the broader term encompasses both artists who continue to work in modernist and late modernist traditions, as well as artists who reject postmodernism for other reasons.

In a career spanning more than 40 years, Bates has combined exquisite technique with a deep understanding of modernist traditions, resulting in a body of work that is at once sophisticated, soulful, and accessible.