The catalogue to Soaring Flight: Peter Lanyon's Gliding Paintings gives us a figurative rather than an abstract artist, an isolated last link in a centuries -
old landscape tradition.
Not exact matches
Let us lead you into a land of
traditions... Indonesia is a land of escape with its sublime white sandy beaches and stunning
landscapes... But this dream destination also offers its visitors many cultural riches, where local crafts and age -
old art blend
Village and temples dot the
landscape where age -
old traditions are...
In this little village in rural Norway, modern architecture encounters the natural and cultural
landscape — and shows that the modern and innovative can go hand in hand with local building
traditions and good,
old - fashioned handicrafts.
Seville could not be understood fully without exploring its Islamic past; windy streets and squares splashed with mudéjar towers, inherited from the
old Mosque towers, compose an urban
landscape with a medieval
tradition.
The source for his practice is the millennial -
old tradition of Chinese
landscape painting, using scrolls as his format and ink and paper as his medium.
These abstract qualities generate a form of psychological impressionism, reanimating a more than century -
old tradition of
landscape painting that insists on temporal and subjective experiences above representational content.
He may use scrolls and work in ink in the millennial -
old tradition of Chinese
landscape painting, bu...
Painting a
landscape on the face of an
old hand saw or polishing an extraordinary tree root into an abstract sculpture reflected one's access to free time, materials, the natural world and
tradition.»
Yet all seven painters share one common bond — their work is a contemporary interpretation of the centuries -
old tradition of American
landscape painting.
«So Pasmore, in spite of his abortive pursuit of pure abstraction, joined the ranks of the British semi abstract painters, Lanyon, Hilton, Scott, Hodgkin, and others, who can not commit to a full hearted abstraction, but in their irresolution on the question offer succour to all those who hold on to that naturalistic spatial illusion, or hints of such, that keeps their work linked to the
old English
traditions of poeticised
landscape reference»
Stemming in part from the Rythm Mastr comic strip project first developed for the 2000 Carnegie International exhibition, the monumental paintings in this new body of work portray figures in the urban
landscape of the South Side of Chicago, inspired by the
tradition of
old - master paintings, especially the townscapes of Canaletto.
Was Hoyland also trying to get away from «the great British
landscape tradition» and the more rustic - type lyricism at work in
older artists like Heron and Lanyon?
The use of ink and wash clearly reveals his solid grounding in the centuries -
old tradition of Chinese ink
landscape painting.
From reviving
old traditions, to mystical
landscapes, street art has great potential to beautify our cities and imbue their spaces with a sense of wonder that they sometimes sorely lack.