Sentences with phrase «of realist representation»
[5] By the 1960s, Neel had reached her mature style, blending elements of realist representation with expressionistic aspects such as her frequent use of green as a base for skin tones, a choice that infuses her paintings with an unsettling quality.
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as his social - realist picture, but those early scenes alone indicate a greater interest in the way representations of reality can facilitate his genre - bending predilections.
For example, in 1960 a group of realist painters wrote a letter complaining that the museum was incorporating too much abstraction into its painting annual; other groups advocated for the museum to establish a day of free admission, or called out the lack of representation for female artists and artists of color.
From Megan Marrin & Tyler Dobson's Postkartenständer (Postcard Stand, 2014), on which photo - realist selfie paintings were offered as postcards stacked among kitschy tourist views, to Allora & Calzadilla's Contract (SWMU 10)(2015), a huge silkscreen of the lush, tourist brochure - style palm trees printed over a Warholish sweep of grey paint (a sign of the silkscreen medium itself), representation was shown helplessly submitting to the production which makes it visible.
Night Vision is organized chronologically beginning with landscape artists» visions of moonlight, moving to early Modernists» experimental representations of electrified evenings, and concluding with interpretations of the night by American realists and abstract artists.
However, «Cowboys» can be seen not only as a cynical representation of reality, but also, in the critical tradition of Conceptual art, as a piercing inquiry into the ethos of the American vernacular, and even as the existential gesture of a figurative and realist artist.
Other strengths of the twentieth - century collection include: sixty works by members of the Ash Can School; significant representation by early modernists such as Alfred Maurer, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Max Weber; important examples by the Precisionists Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Preston Dickinson and Ralston Crawford; a good showing by the American Scene painters Charles Burchfield and Edward Hopper; a broad spectrum of work by the Social Realists Ben Shahn, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Jack Levine; and ambitious examples of Regionalist painting by Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, notably the latter's celebrated five - panel mural, The Arts of Life in America (1932).
They share a common drive to subvert the tropes of the realist mediums by delving into the realm of perception and allegorical representation.
The move from a robustly realist style of representation through impressionism to purely abstract painting was seen as natural, inevitable, and good.
Drawn to Paris in 1912 Mondrian also explored Cubism, seeing in it an even bolder escape from a realist mode of representation.
He starts with a painting that is precisely what it purports to be — a painted wall rather than a representation of a painted wall — an ultimate realist painting.
Her work typically consists of multi-part painting installations that reflect on the history of art and issues surrounding representation in realist painting.