Sentences with phrase «narrative scroll painting»

Inspired by the hand scrolls and painted screens of early 17th Century Japanese artist Tawaraya Sōtatsu, who combined the traditional themes of the indigenous school of Japanese narrative scroll painting with the bold, decorative designs of the great screen painters of the Azuchi - Momoyama period.

Not exact matches

Instead of accepting the historical narrative that leads from linear - perspective, through the camera obscura, to photography; Kwabena imagines an alternative history, one in which photography grows out of scroll - painting.

Born in Ecuador to Chinese parents, Cecile Chong portrays cross-cultural narratives using encaustic and mixed media with imagery appropriated from international sources, such as European children's books and Chinese scroll painting.

A specialist in Japanese Buddhist painting and narrative art, her dissertation focused on the Life and Acts of Honen (Honen shonin gyojo ezu), a 14th century set of 48 scrolls illustrating the life of the founder of Japan's Pure Land School of Buddhism belonging to the temple Chion» in in Kyoto.

Richard Heller Gallery, hosting a solo show for the artist in 2015, once commented on the artist's «intensely detailed scenarios in colored pencil on paper and sculpture» as «taking inspiration from the infinite possibilities of science fiction, the storytelling of Henry Darger, the isometric perspective and narrative geography of Nintendo and Chinese scroll paintings, the eroticism of Japanese pillow books and the limitless transformations of graffiti.»