Sentences with phrase «more traditional artists»

The organizers of the show were the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, whose original intention was to showcase a selection of works exclusively by contemporary American artists - including hypermodern painters from the Ashcan School and The Eight, as well as more traditional artists from the National Academy of Design.

Philipsz saw off competition from more traditional artists including Dexter Dalwood whose collection of politically - inspired paintings includes an imagining of the death of Dr David Kelly.

Not exact matches

Established more or less to operate as a traditional chamber of commerce, the organization earned nonprofit status and assembled a board of directors that read like a dream team of local arts and culture: Colon, Logan Square real estate magnate Mark Fishman of M. Fishman & Co., Empty Bottle Presents» Peter Toalson, Chicago Artists» Coalition executive director Carolina Jayaram and others.

The acclaimed single is an impeccable display of the newly - emerged artist's talent for taking the traditional styles of music we know, and love and interpreting them in a more...

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The Chicago chef is more mad scientist than traditional culinary artist and he is attempting.

But he's remained remarkably level - headed and creatively ambitious in the five years since the group's demise, exploring his more progressive leanings in Punch Brothers and teaming up with Michael Daves for a more traditional collection paying tribute to past bluegrass greats like Bill Monroe and fellow Newport artist Earl Scruggs.

Mr. Turner hits the traditional biopic beats more routinely than the latter, but at least it refuses to truck with that most irksome generic sawhorse, the emotionally tidy rise - and - fall arc, by a simple expedient: opening at the height of its subject's popularity, and then dwelling with Leigh's characteristically misanthropic relish on the artist's latter - day sufferings and setbacks.

Imagine a classroom that looked less like a traditional classroom and more like an artist's studio.

And then as the new century started, more typical things happened with traditional publishing and the Retrieval Artist series.

But I and many of my other author friends treat this professionally and hire a reputable cover artist (mine is used by traditional houses); hire a developmental / content editor AND a copyeditor AND one or more proofreaders (many of whom are from traditional houses and are working on the side); and hire a professional formatter.

As indie manga has gotten increasingly popular in recent years, more and more young artists are choosing to take this route as opposed to the traditional way.

Traditional Spanish Market - 61th Year TBA 2012 Santa Fe Plaza (downtown) More than 200 Hispanic artists gather on the Santa Fe Plaza on for the annual Traditional Spanish Market, which features an array of Spanish Colonial art works, including hand - carved furniture, tinwork, weavings, straw appliqué and images of saints.

Seville, capital of Andalusia, Roman city, Arabic, renaissance, baroque, American, Mary - devoted, flamenco, bullfighting, modern, festive, luminous, perfumed, seafaring, traditional, hospitable, gracious, cosmopolitan, religious... All these adjectives and many more that could be added to describe this city, that aside from personifying the typical «Spanish» and «andaluz», has so many attractive artistic, cultural, social and tourist qualities that has converted it into one of the most universal, well - known and most - visited cities in the world, cradle of inspiration for writers, painters and artists in general.

Remaining independent as a performing artist and forming project - based artist cohorts yields a creative process that is more easily funded and managed — from page to stage — than is possible with traditional institutional models.

That achievement in the arts, as in any field of endeavor, demands struggle and sacrifice, no one would deny; that this has certainly been true after the middle of the 19th century, when the traditional institutions of artistic support and patronage no longer fulfilled their customary obligations, is undeniable: one has only to think of Delacroix, Courbet, Degas, van Gogh and Toulouse - Lautrec as examples of great artists who gave up the distractions and obligations of family life, at least in part, so that they could pursue their artistic careers more singlemindedly.

«A quality - based approach gives us the chance to include artists that might never present together under more traditional circumstances.

From traditional approaches to the more challenging usage, Out of Easy Reach will investigate the contemporary and conceptual expansion of abstraction by female - identifying artists from the black and Latina diasporas.

In the back gallery, individual objects that are more like the artist's usual work, and much closer to traditional paintings, are hung alongside her grandmother's needlepoint exercises, coyly implying that there is no difference between so - called high art and the cliched.

Pop artists abandoned traditional modes of printmaking such as etching and woodcut in favor of more commercial approaches to the medium.

When Torpedo Factory associate artist Stephanie Lane agreed to paint a mural in a D.C. - area home in 1990, she didn't know she was cultivating a relationship that would bear fruit for more than 20 years, even as she blurred the lines — as our artists often do — between a traditional workplace and a paint - flecked studio.

The design of it though is a bit more complex — it draws on the traditional idea of the art fair for the ground floor and first floor of the Saatchi Gallery but then the second floor is a series of curator - lead projects including solo exhibitions, a group exhibition and solo artist presentations.

Inevitably, the cleaned half retains a palimpsest of the colors that were absorbed into the gesso; as a result, the artist's palette exists outside of the realm of traditional painting and instead suggests a far more unique chromatic vocabulary.

The artists work in a variety of unique and innovative ways; some incorporating a more traditional figurative approach, while others are combining metalpoint with other media to produce striking and unexpected results.

«Even in traditional MFA programs, you see more and more artists including participatory, collaborative, performative, site - specific elements into their work.»

«The work represents traditional painting, in the sense that each artist engages with painting's traditions, testing and ultimately reshaping historical strategies like appropriation and bricolage and reframing more metaphysical, high - stakes questions surrounding notions of originality, subjectivity, and spiritual transcendence,» states the museum.

Nowadays, the Ashcan School is one of the finest examples of how early 20th century artists were able to rebel against conservative American tastes — which were, in fact, a lot more traditional than most academic leanings of Europe.

Two of Hirst's more recent paintings in which the artist returned to the traditional medium of oil on canvas are included, as well as «Resurrection» (1998 - 2003)-- a unique sculpture featuring a skeleton bisected by two glass panels, in the position of the crucifixion.

The layers of ideas the artist explored in his early performance art, conceived of as existential explorations and social commentaries, have carried through to the more traditional studio practice he embraced upon moving to Shanghai in 2005, after living and working for eight years in New York City.

If abstraction is not your thing, there are plenty of shows of artists working with images, some in a more traditional mode.

Japanese artist Tetsuo Mizù, in his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong at Whitestone Gallery, presents a welcomed deviation from more traditional depictions of the subject with paintings that focus on the storied practice of international maritime flags.

The artist is also a master of multi-layered imagery, referencing characters from his direct neighbourhood, local «Nouchi» street culture and homage to more traditional forms of Vodou.

Foremost is the museum's founder, Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861 — 1949), who with support from his trusted advisor, the German - born artist Hilla Rebay (1890 — 1967), set aside a more traditional collecting focus to become a great champion of nonobjective art — a strand of abstraction with spiritual aims and epitomized by the work of Vasily Kandinsky.

In contrast to postwar American artists who constructed a language of freedom through an innovative use of traditional materials, many Italian artists — both those who were part of arte povera and those more indirectly influenced by it — adopted «poor» materials in order to free themselves from the

While portraiture is a traditional, time - honoured genre, this exhibition offers a new perspective by bringing together iconic portrait paintings by artists such as Max Beckmann, Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach with more unconventional works by artists such as Lara Favaretto and John Bock.

Advertising and television quickly emerged as rich new mediums for expression and artworks themselves were transformed into branded products while the artists standing behind them were viewed as celebrities much more alike today's famous personas than what traditional artists were viewed throughout history.

At IPCNY their prints confirm that while such American artists were adventurous and curious, they remained far more attached to traditional representation than their European peers.

Gomes belongs to a generation of Latin American artists that includes Beatriz Milhazes (b. 1960), Ernesto Neto (b. 1964) and Adriana Varejao (b. 1964), but her work also contains qualities found in the Neo-Concretism of the early 1960s, when a Brazilian group of artists — such as Lygia Clark (1920 — 88), Lygia Pape (1927 — 2004) and Helio Oiticica (1937 — 80)-- broke away from traditional Latin American modernism in favor of a more integrated and experiential form of geometric art.

Raising even more eyebrows was a roster that eschewed more traditional stage pieces in favor of performances from artists and choreographers such as Boris Charmatz, Jérôme Bel, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, and Tino Seghal.

It's a common story of contemporary art for artists to describe abandoning the two - dimensional confines of traditional painting on canvas for the more immediate materiality of sculpture, installation, or performance.

Traditionally, the reclining nude has been one of the most recognizable subjects, but beginning in the 20th century artists have been seeking to make this traditional subject more contemporary and relevant.

The artist, known for working on a monumental scale and utilizing a wide range of more industrial materials in his work, selected a more traditional medium for this diptych on view at the gallery's booth at The Armory Show.

Dance, music and performance artists frequently animate common areas and museum spaces, in ways seldom undertaken at more traditional institutions.

A widely exhibited artist known for large mixed - media prints that combine digital and traditional processes, Carmon Colangelo's work has been featured in more than 20 solo shows and dozens of group exhibitions in Argentina, Canada, England, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and across the United States.

In this book (more a stand - alone artist's project than a traditional catalog) Stettner compiles photographs that play with light and shadow, surface and depth, to challenge the viewer's perceptions and create alternate visual worlds.

In a city like Amman, for instance, there are relatively few commercial art galleries that are showing work outside of more traditional, maybe academic styles, but then there's also Darat al Funun, an experimental space that holds an important collection in the region, hosts residencies and workshops, and commissions works by young artists.

An innovative hang in the main dining room sees a Neon sign by Tracey Emin juxtaposed with more traditional works by other renowned British artists such as Bridget Riley and Keith Coventry.

I am taken by the fact that many artists are seemingly less concerned with Western formulas, Pop and Expressionism among them, and are focusing instead on developing ways of working with more traditional materials including ink, brushes, and xuan paper.

Please see below for this semester's full line - up, followed by more information on each of these acclaimed artists and writers: Ribuoli Digital (Jennifer Mahiman and Andre Ribuoli) on Wednesday, October 3, 2012, 12:45 p.m., Myrtle Hall 4E - 3 «Inside the Collaborative Studio» Andre Ribuoli and Jennifer Mahlman founded Ribuoli Digital, a collaborative fine art studio specializing in creating original artists» projects and editions utilizing digital technology and traditional printmaking techniques, in New York City in 2009.

Catherine Sullivan, a Chicago - based artist who works primarily with video and performance, gives us an example of artistic practice rooted in the more familiar academic territory of historical and traditional theoretical research.