Sentences with phrase «painterly tradition»

The artist's early paintings demonstrate profound understanding of painterly tradition while giving the impression of simplicity.

I think it is clear that aesthetically his work is a unique synthesis of Minimalism and the felt painterly tradition of Abstract Expressionism.

Guyton stood out as the artist least involved with painterly traditions.

By not painting from life, Doig and most mid-career painters of the late 20th and 21st century have, it seems to me, a fundamentally different relationship with modernist painterly tradition from the generation above them — Freud, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, even David Hockney.

Stephen Hayes's most recent landscape paintings of rural Oregon possess a psychedelic quality that is firmly rooted in painterly traditions but also reflects the garishness of contemporary life in the era of the off - brand discount store and the ink - jet printer.

The Lisson Gallery exhibition presents for the first time a new series of earth works of varied formats: table sculptures modelling micro and macro-landscapes, wall and floor sculptures evoking the natural forms of rock and coral, and works on canvas coated with pigments mined from the earth in a gritty take both on painterly traditions and on Kapoor's own earlier pigment sculptures and void forms.

Since the 1980s, Koether has engaged in an intimate «battle» against painterly tradition, developing a defiant artistic practice able to sketch out a counterhistory of the modernist, male - dominated and heteronormative canon.

For decades he has been an uncooperative force in the art world; a self - styled dandy in the postmodern age; a fervent champion of unfashionable painterly traditions, whose work nonetheless speaks directly to contemporary anxieties.

Seen in an even broader perspective, the Improvisations are part of a long painterly tradition spanning from the fourteenth century through the twentieth century, that valued above all else, clarity, precision, and economy of line, shape, and color.

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.

The New York - based artist is desired as a painter, and delights in turning the discipline on its head through creating abstract installations that turn painterly traditions into powerful and playful and decidedly unexpected interventions.

The classic abstract Nordic painterly tradition of artists such as Per Kirkeby is given a contemporary and already very mature interpretation.

Værslev's work navigates between different painterly traditions, and demonstrates how painting continues to offer the potential for effective personal expression while remaining a sober and prosaic locus for painted signs on a surface.

His works are executed in what would be considered the best painterly tradition of the era, polished and representative, while retaining the slight eeriness in the overall atmosphere.

The ambiguity of the title — state: condition and / or body politic, shade: tint and shadow — refers to a critical study of the discourse and direction of the official Hungarian culture that fosters painterly traditions, or in a wider sense, that of art and nation - state representation.

In his paintings from the 1960s through the 1990s — featured in this exhibition — he developed an individualistic stylistic trajectory, drawing from the action painting techniques of Abstract Expressionism and the optical color sensations and allover approach of Color Field painting, as well as from painterly traditions stretching back to the old masters.

Inspired by Hofmann's acknowledged debt to the European painterly tradition, the British artist's focus shifted from a formal, non-referential abstraction towards a more instinctive treatment of colour, form and mood.

As Kerstin Stakemeier writes in one of the contributions to the twenty - page dossier dedicated to Koether that this issue also features, «Koether does not legitimize herself against painterly tradition, but rather lets its accumulated unmodernness come to her.»

Whatever I have thought about her work, I had to admire the image — with all its connection to intellectual and painterly traditions from the Romantic landscape to Abstract Expressionism.

The three paintings and a collage, all featuring the same figure with folded arms, seem to be rooted in the painterly tradition reminiscent of Otto Dix and even early Tair Salakhov.

The former graffiti artist Ian Tweedy's first solo exhibition in the United States offers a cinematic group of works deeply rooted in the painterly tradition.

Rickhard is distinct part of a painterly tradition addressing history's great questions and in 2001 Astrup Fearnley Museet presented Soft Whispers in the Birch Wood, the first large scale exhibition of his work.

I fuse the domestic with the painterly tradition of painting by staining, mopping, throwing, printing, spraying, dragging, imprinting, brushing, washing and bleaching pigments onto fabrics, drop cloths and canvases forming expressive abstract patterns.

John Sonsini embraces the painterly tradition.

The works on display do away with, or subvert, painterly traditions to explore more fundamental means of visual expression: colour, texture, pattern, shape.

Increasingly interested in the differences between representation in western and non-western cultures, Bickerton's later work strives to reinterpret art historical genres and the painterly tradition, drawing inspiration from artists as diverse as Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Breugel and Gauguin.

Rauschenberg challenged this painterly tradition with an egalitarian approach to materials, bringing the stuff of the everyday world into his art.

Once he settled in his New York studio, he began to reconcile his indigenous training with the painterly traditions that he had encountered abroad, attempting to set himself apart from legions of other downtown artists.

I Refuse to be Invisible emerges from the painterly tradition of Renoir's La Moulin de la Galette, 1876 (Musée d'Orsay), as Akunyili Crosby echoes the traditions of African culture in the Pop vocabulary of Robert Rauschenberg's solvent transfer works.

Ruth Laskey employs weaving, using a traditional floor loom, to expand on the painterly tradition of geometric abstraction.

Rashid Johnson is recognized as one of the major voices of his generation, an artist who composes searing meditations on race and class while establishing an organic formal vocabulary that fuses a variety of sculptural and painterly traditions.

In the case of Mark, the way he structures his professional life, it joins the painterly tradition of De Kooning with a new kind of social activism that we've begun to see in the art world.

Amy's distinctive approach to both painterly traditions and urgent issues of contemporary identity make her one of the most powerful new voices in American art today,» Marc Payot, the gallery's vice president and partner, said in a statement.

Tillmans» abstract images are more closley related to the painterly tradition and he researches photography as a self - reflexive medium.

In addition to utilizing motifs that informed the California Pictorialists, these works reference the painterly tradition.

The work of the three artists emerges from a conceptual rather than a painterly tradition.

His use of broad loose strokes and translucent colour - fields shows a profound connection with the rich history of painting, as an acknowledgement and observation of those painterly traditions.

That Carone did not may be a sign that he couldn't abide an art world increasingly indifferent to the long, painterly tradition to which he had devoted his life.

But I come out of a painterly tradition, which tended to be male.

Owens's approach has pushed the standards of painterly traditions to instead embrace goofy personal allusions and material exploration.