Sentences with phrase «of the realist tradition»

Due to his multilayered imagery and sharp - witted symbolism, the artist pushes the boundaries of the realist tradition.

These startling, frank subjects — such as Paddy Flannigan (1908, Erving and Joyce Wolf)-- reflect the artist's profound understanding of the realist tradition of portraiture practiced by such masters as Diego Velázquez, Frans Hals, Edouard Manet, and James McNeill Whistler.

Putting aside what might arguably be called the novelty artists — a whole swath of modernist fashionistas labeled pop, op, conceptual, installations, etc., and with these I'd also include the abstract expressionists and action painters of yesteryear, funded by post-World War II corporate America — Herman Rose is up there with the major painters of the realist tradition, figures like Ryder, Bellows, Hopper, Soyer and Alice Neel.

Galerie Emanuel Layr is pleased to present Gaylen Gerber, Park McArthur, Jim Nutt, an exhibition that brings together the work of these three artists, each part of the realist tradition in the visual arts, in an immersive installation with each artist's work representing a lucid and independent understanding of that tradition.

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In his philosophical works Edward Holloway suggests a slight realignment of detail within the realist tradition in the light of modern insights into material reality.

In that «realist» tradition the intelligible actuality of a thing is not a projection from the mind of the observer — as in Kant and the subjective schools that come from him — but is an intrinsic aspect of the thing itself.

What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.

More generally, it stands within the «realist» tradition in affirming the objective reality of the orders of truth and other kinds of excellence, as against nominalists and subjectivists who believe that knowledge is essentially a human construct and values are nothing but human preferences.

Ermanno Olmi, who has died aged 86, almost single - handedly revived the realist tradition of Italian cinema in the 1960s.

In a tradition ranging from the kitchen - sink realist films of the late»50s and early»60s to the contemporary works of Mike Leigh and Andrea Arnold, English movies set among the working classes have tended to have fatalistic trajectories and miserabilist aesthetics, underlining their drabness to reflect their characters» sense of hopelessness and to visually convey a lack of upward mobility.

Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the «magic realist» tradition, is famous for novels... (more)

Haiku Adventure is a magical realist adventure game which allows players to inhabit intricately composed landscapes that celebrate Japanese woodblock traditions, and explore the transformative tricks of perception contained within the formal constraints of haiku poetry.

Autobiographical in the modernist and realist painting tradition, his paintings depict his own personal effects that include biker paraphernalia such as jackets, boots, helmets and gloves, alongside his packets of cigarettes and books.

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.

As a perceptual, realist painter, I am committed to the tradition and rigorous practice of working only from observation.

Chicago artist Marla Friedman's recent portrait sculpture of the legendary Apollo 13 astronaut Captain James A. Lovell, Jr. follows the historic and time - honored realist tradition.

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

These can be read in distinct but overlapping registers, evoking at once the raw internal spaces of the body and the psyche, the humanist and realist painterly tradition of Rembrandt, Soutine and Bacon, and the wider cultural reality of social and political upheaval, violence and trauma.

He discusses Pop Art's place in art history; his initial feelings about being considered a Pop artist; the influence of Los Angeles and its environment on his work; his feelings about English awareness of America; a discussion of his use of words as images; a discussion of the Standard Station as an American icon; a discussion of the notion of freedom as it is perceived as a Southern California phenomenon; how he sees himself in relation to the Los Angeles mural movement (L.A. Fine Arts Squad); the importance of communication to him; his relationship with the entertainment world in Los Angeles and its misinterpretation of him; his books; collaboration with Mason Williams on «Crackers;» his approach toward conceiving an idea for paintings; personal feelings about the books that he has done; the importance of motion in his work; a discussion of the movies «Miracle» and «Premium;» his friendship with Joe Goode; his return from Europe and his studio in Glassell Park; his move to Hollywood in 1965; the problems of balancing the domestic life and the artistic life; his stain paintings and what he hopes to learn from using stains; a disscussion of bicentemial exhibition at the L.A. County Museum: «Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties,» 1981; a discussion of the origin of L.A. Pop as an off shoot from the American realist tradition; his feelings about being considered a realist; the importance for him of elevating humble objects onto the canvas; a discussion on how he chooses the words he uses in his paintings; and his feelings about the future direction of his work.

Jason Ward is a fine — art painter and illustrator inspired by both the Hudson River School painters of the 19th century and painters and illustrators working in the realist tradition today including Odd Nerdrum, Daniel Sprick, Doug Henderson, and James Gurney.

developed in the chinese artistic tradition of mirroring forms found in nature, the two «watermelon» ceramic pieces are realist manifestations of this organic and commonplace object.

The artist's hyper - realist still lifes recall Dutch and Flemish traditions and consist of intimate domestic interiors that carry an unexpected element of the divine.

While Dinnerstein's work derives both stylistically and technically from a long history of realist painting in the United States and Europe, he has brought the traditions into the twenty - first century.

There are 60 or 70 of those, firmly realist in the tradition of artists from the civil war onwards.