The phrase
"painting tradition" refers to the way painting has been practiced and passed down from one generation to another over time. It includes the techniques, styles, subject matters, and principles that artists have used and built upon throughout history.
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The artist converts these ready - made, three - dimensional objects into wall - hanging works that reference hard - edged
abstract painting traditions.
Drawing on a broad spectrum of
Indian painting traditions, miniature painting, popular art and western art, he creates works that reflect on the modern world.
Thomas's bodies begin as substrata, canvases to a libidinal urge reminiscent of depictions of the Other in early photography and pornography (and, in turn, historical photographs» mimicry of
Western painting traditions).
Derived from the plein air
painting traditions of the Barbizon school of landscape painting, Impressionism in France encompassed many famous painters and many individual styles, and its paintings ranged across all genres, from landscape and still life to portraiture and genre scenes.
Shared Space, 2016 Brian Calvin represents the further development of the
figurative painting tradition from Los Angeles, where David Hockney was a pioneer in portraying the city's privileged population and lifestyle.
Paul Cezanne - a workaholic and a huge influence on Matisse and Picasso - adapted Impressionism into a means of slow acutely observant painting of familiar scenery, using grid - like structures in an attempt to pursue French Classical
painting traditions from outdoors.
He holds a unique position in the
European painting tradition due to his strong, personal and subjective form of expression that combines figuration with elements of abstraction, expressionism and surrealism.
In Untitled (1958), Chu Teh - Chun conflates the Chinese landscape
painting tradition with the free spirit of Art Informel and Western abstraction; while in Bangkok III (2013), Andreas Gursky depicts the Chao Phraya as a dark, reflective flow, conjuring a lineage of painterly depictions of water, from the cascading riverbanks of Song dynasty landscape paintings to Claude Monet's Nymphéas.
Carly Drew examines our ever changing relationships to place through layers of personal history, industrial changes to the terrain and the rich American
landscape painting traditions.
Led by Stanhope Forbes, Frank Bramley and Norman Garstin the Newlyn School was inspired by the naturalist plein -
air painting tradition of the French Barbizon School and aimed to reproduce the realities of country life.
In the Paris of the 1920s he had a rising career as a supporter of Georges Braque and the
French painting tradition coming out of Fauvism and Cubism, which he ardently endorsed as an art critic from 1912 to 1924.
He was anxious to see more works by the classical French artist Claude Lorraine (1600 - 82) and exponents of the English
Landscape painting tradition led by JMW Turner (1775 - 1851) and John Constable (1776 - 1837), all of whom he greatly admired.
The National Gallery's commitment to exploring the
American painting tradition began in 2009 with the launch of its ongoing collaboration with the Terra Foundation for American Art.
His recent work lies at the confluence of Eastern and Western
monochrome painting traditions and he deliberately situates his work in this world, as a part of our ever - evolving daily life.
Los Angeles native and New York - based visual artist Kehinde Wiley has firmly situated himself within art history's
portrait painting tradition.
With her absorption of high and
low painting traditions as well as her zany imagination and freedom with the medium, Dana Schutz creates beautiful and thought provoking work.
Fernández responds to their interpretations and biases through a conversation about a deeper sense of these varied American cultures, contesting the iconic view of the «American Landscape»
painting tradition constructed by Church and his peers that often omitted or erased other narratives and figures.
His work is characterized by a meticulous, old - masterly technique and an unfashionable investment in
classical painting traditions commingling with other representational languages drawn from popular culture, including movies, pinups and Scandinavian pornography.
He achieved this even as many fellow - artists, whom we now associate with him, seemed prepared to leave the high road of twentieth -
century painting tradition for the byways of myth and symbolism.
The ARMA has paintings from almost everyone who have had a major influence on
Balinese painting tradition and is the only place where you can see the works of Walter Spies
He places himself in an early
modernist painting tradition that, despite an apparently abstract affect, is always representational in its ultimate methods.
An inheritor of a
post-war painting tradition that was already rigorously abstract, Manister has continually tested an «all - over» painting approach against a variety of traditions and genres.
Individual galleries will be dedicated to two of those artists: Abstract Expressionist James Brooks (1906 — 1992), and Alan Shields (1944 — 2005), whose work reflects a bold reversal of
conventional painting traditions.
Since early on in his career Angel Otero has aligned his practice to the oldest and most
revered painting tradition, which he endeavors to constantly reinvent it.
Fragonard's beautiful paintings, a delicate blend of the Italian Baroque and Dutch Landscape painting, were well received in Paris and he was expected to «save» the French
historical painting traditions.
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.
I see my graphic, pop roots as a strength and reflective of a very American story, and I apply them to the
various painting traditions that I have come to understand and love.
Exhibitions such as Paint Things (January 27 — April 21, 2013) at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and Phantom Limb: Approaches to Painting Today (May 5 — October 21, 2012) at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago have brought together artists working through
resuscitated painting traditions to rebrand process, materiality, and form in ways that are not easily labeled.
But, while relying on the familiar arrangements of white -
male painting tradition, Thomas allows her photographic compositions to spiral inward, away from the superficial tropes of exotica, toward the complex sexuality of her models.
The nearly 80 of Marshall's paintings on view in his retrospective at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art make use of
multiple painting traditions from the Renaissance up to post-minimalist abstraction.
For years Angelina has developed a method of abstract work that alludes to stain and
pour painting traditions of Frankenthaler and Louis, among other influences, while contemplating urban and interior structures that make up today's world.
Where an early generation of artists had portrayed the romantic lure of the American Southwest during the nineteenth - century using European
Academic painting traditions to represent the environment and inhabitants of the region as exotic, Modern artists took a very different approach.
Her large - scale, bold and colourful abstract works could not seem further from the pale, stormy and subtle paintings by Turner, who was working within the landscape
painting tradition almost a century earlier, but the two artists share a connection in their attraction to landscape and nature.
Having studied in Cologne at the Werkkunstschule, which was then heavily infuenced by the artist / teacher / shaman Joseph Beuys, Trockel radically departed from the
masculine painting tradition that preceded her.
Formally trained as a painter, Jones is a conceptual artist working between painting, sculpture, and sound to mine the territory of Modernism and the abstract and
minimalist painting traditions, combined with experimental jazz.
Faulwell wryly references French
Orientalist painting tradition, in particular Delacroix's famous 1834 painting of the same name and Picasso's 1954 homage to it.
Or, «What would a mural or
public painting tradition in the United States look like in the aftermath of some of the great muralists?