Sentences with phrase «new pictorial language»

As Walter L. Nathan has observed, the art rejected by these three church fathers was not the «entirely new pictorial language» of a mature Christian art but the Christian art of their time, which had «borrowed freely» from the late classical pagan tradition.

There were conceptual voices, like that of Mambor, one of Tacchi's closest friends; investigations on new pictorial languages, like in Twombly, or works that employed new, unorthodox materials and media like in Kounellis, a key figure of the «Arte Povera» movement.

As a result Impressionism opened up a whole new pictorial language, and in so doing paved the way for Picasso's reinterpretation of reality - which in turn dramatically expanded our concepts of fine art.

Suprematism's few followers were active in Russia alongside the Constructivists, who also championed geometric abstraction; El Lissitzky claimed membership in both groups and brought their radically new pictorial language to the West, where it would become hugely influential among avant - garde circles, particularly the Bauhaus in Germany.

In a monumental salon - style presentation using 18 feet of the gallery walls, the show presents several bodies of work made throughout the past five years that highlight Stuckey's preoccupations with creating an entirely new pictorial language.

Monet created a new pictorial language that enabled his art to breathe and endlessly expand.

Published in cooperation with the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, and featuring critical essays by a diverse array of writers and art theorists — including feminist philosopher Hélène Cixous — ALLY shows how these artists have worked together to create a new pictorial language.

In the early 20th century, when Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso pioneered the new pictorial language of cubism, they profoundly affected the course of modern art.

This watershed period witnessed a flourishing of breakthrough works — such as the present example — in which the artist unfurled a new pictorial language inspired by the natural world and infused with childhood memories of his Armenian birthplace.

Later described by art historian Herbert Read as «the most revolutionary event in post-war British art», this experimental period saw Pasmore's work progress towards a new pictorial language and representation of reality.

New pictorial languages are created with existing materials, such as reproductions of the early 19th century wallpaper by the French manufacturer Joseph Dufour.

Painting in Italy 1910s - 1950s: Futurism, Abstraction, Concrete Art relays a complex historical account of the fraught relationship between art and politics in Italy during the interwar and postwar period, attesting to the bumps, curves, utopias and traumas experienced by an eclectic group of artists working to assert a new pictorial language by challenging the dominant tenets of their culture.

Absent from the group of artists invited to show their works were the painters who, since the mid-1930s, had taken the first steps toward a new pictorial language, bolstered by the art of the past and at the same time turned toward Abstract Expressionism.

Ms. Ashton was closely involved in the small world of artists who were discovering a new pictorial language in the years after World War II, both as a friend of Philip Guston, Mark Rothko and others and as a reviewer for numerous publications, including Art International, The Art Bulletin and The New York Times.

While working on The Kalevala, for which he traveled to West Africa, he also invented a new pictorial language.

There he discovered a room full of paintings, «years of work never before exhibited», Flags and Targets, an entirely new pictorial language that turned symbols into abstractions.

They cut into the shape structure more to become shapes in their own right, For me they are an affirmation of non objective colour painting that looks toward a new pictorial language and one which connects abstract painting to it's history.

New pictorial languages are created with existing materials, such as reproductions of the early 19th - century wallpaper by the French manufacturer Joseph Dufour.

His paintings are illusions that afford us a better understanding of spatial questions and reduce the dissatisfaction we feel when confronted with a new pictorial language.

Lichtenstein's work chimed with our own interests at the Royal College of Art in developing a new pictorial language consonant with our times.

Through 50 works the exhibition explores the progression of Pasmore's work between the 1930s and mid-1960s, and his experimentation towards a new pictorial language and representation of reality.