Sentences with phrase «multiple painting languages»

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Calligraphy, miniature painting, Sufi mysticism, and other traditions are the starting point for a new generation of artists from the Islamic world who are using the language of contemporary art to inflect their work with multiple layers of meaning.

Spurred on by a 1960's enamel on paper drawing by sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965), Wendy White presented a new painting featuring multiple canvases with spray - painted gestures and hints of language.

In their capacity to evoke both the natural and supernatural, whilst synthesizing multiple artistic languages, the Face Paintings return the medium to a kind of ground zero, allowing Grotjahn to explore new possibilities both for painting and for one of its most time - honored subjects: the human face.

While the pairing of their techniques represents stylistic extremes — Bresson's classical roots in Renaissance and Baroque painting and Prata's borrowing of multiple modern styles — together they build a language around representations of movement and stillness, reality and incongruity, tragedy and humor.

(4) In response to them, Stella embarked upon a language of his own, making paintings with «single or multiple box forms placed in varying contexts of bands or stripes.

Transiting through multiple languages, such as painting, photography, performative action and video, Desali's work is marked by the subversion of hierarchies, both artistic and social.

Channa Horwitz's elegant drawings and paintings derive their design from a simple mathematical language, and the minute variations of their predetermined patterns play out in this exhibition across multiple series.

Painting for an open source age, Abney draws on multiple references which she samples and remixes in order to create a new language inflected by elements of popular culture, from satirical cartoons to graffiti and hip hop, as well as politics, entertainment and the history of art.

Rather, each painting is an assemblage of multiple artistic hands, borrowing from visual languages across time.