Sentences with phrase «national landscape tradition»
«American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum,» features landscape paintings that trace the «evolution of American art from its roots in an emerging national landscape tradition to the liberating influences of European modernism» — the progression from the 19th - century Hudson River School to the present.
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It includes native - born artists who drew in the European landscape tradition to reflect on their own culture, as exemplified by José María Velasco's paintings of Mexico, which not only embrace the European Enlightenment sensibility, but also a growing sense of national identity.
This acquisition will allow the National Gallery's visitors to see the work of these innovative landscape artists alongside the British landscape tradition of Constable and Turner.
«I thought it was a really interesting engagement with a lot of issues around nature, the environment, landscape traditions, Romanticism, melancholia — some of Pierre's big subjects,» says Lynne Cooke, who organized a 2002 show of Huyghe's work at the Dia Art Foundation in New York and is now senior curator for special projects in modern art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
This wide - ranging collection of objects dates from the colonial era to the late 1920s and encompasses the major genres of American art — from the founding tradition of portraiture and the first «national» style of landscape painting to a diversity of still life and figure painting.
His fascination with mythical landscapes has been nourished by pictures in the National Gallery and in «The Caged Bird's Song» one senses the excitement of the fusion of different strands of his own art coming together with the historic tradition of tapestry - making.»
His national tradition of landscape painting, young as it was, seemed stronger, and when it was on the point of being embalmed in an Australian Academy of Art (luckily short lived) the reaction was urgent and noisy.