Sentences with phrase «native tradition of abstraction»

At the opposite end of the artistic spectrum from Riley and the Martins is the lushly sensuous painting of Howard Hodgkin (b. 1932), who has sustained the native tradition of abstraction founded on representation: the nudes and still lifes of Sir Matthew Smith (1879 - 1959) and the watery landscapes of Ivon Hitchens (1893 - 1979) all seem to have influenced him.

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This simple gesture not only reintroduces «the hand» into the formula, but it as well, returns the idea of abstraction to the cultural sources that it was once taken from: Non-Western visual traditions of Native America, Africa, India, Mexico and South America.»

This simple gesture not only reintroduces «the hand» into the formula, but it as well, returns the idea of abstraction to the cultural sources that it was once taken from: Non-Western visual traditions of Native America, Africa, India, Mexico and South America,» explains MacConnel.

Despite such rough, utterly profane surfaces, it is a spiritual tradition of abstraction that Martin's work draws from: Native American folklore, religious mysticism, anthroposophist symbolism, the landscape painting of North American romanticism — and the great melting pot of New York City itself, where Martin has lived since 1975.

Chicago also has a long native tradition of formal abstraction that, like Imagism, finds inspiration in the turn of a sharp eye toward overlooked corners of everyday life.