Sentences with phrase «painting traditions»

Jane Wilson is a worthy heir to two great painting traditions: Romantic landscape and abstract Color Field.

How, the exhibition asks, are these realities implicated in their respective painting traditions?

In this vein, Steir is also profoundly influenced by Chinese painting traditions and techniques, especially the inky marks of the 8th and 9th century Yi - pin «ink - splashing» painters, and Taoist philosophy's aspiration for harmonious, unfettered connections between man, nature and the cosmos.

Drawing from the lushness of nineteenth - century European painting traditions and imbuing them with local specificity, ethereal qualities, and distinctly Iranian elements, these paintings reinvigorate representational art while simultaneously ushering beauty back into contemporary painting.

Sometimes disparagingly called «crapstraction,» the prominence that casualist work has gained in art schools and MFA programs has caused palpitations among older painters who despair that exalted painting traditions — technical proficiency, «rigor,» and the craft of building and priming canvases, for instance — will perish.

His paintings evolved from a determination to create «real» art, freed and uncorrupted by formal painting traditions.

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.

Her subdued colors and frequent changes in perspective, with their suggested landscape elements and gestures reminiscent of calligraphy, create a balance between Western and East Asian painting traditions without one outweighing the other.

I was interested in painting traditions when I was very young.

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.

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.

Ironically, despite his often irreverent and flippant imagery, Kay pays particular attention to painting traditions though his employment of historical craft in the form of glazes, pigments and supports.

The artist converts these ready - made, three - dimensional objects into wall - hanging works that reference hard - edged abstract painting traditions.

They are playful and inventive, while formally referring to modern painting traditions.

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.

Characterized by its emphasis on the monochrome, its refined approach to materiality and its philosophical interest in the relationship between the artist's consciousness and the act of making, Dansaekwha borrowed materials, techniques and motifs from both Eastern and Western painting traditions.

«They convey a deep understanding of Chinese literati and postwar American painting traditions that's surprisingly fresh and completely her own.»

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.

In her recent work, Julie Evans continues her ongoing exploration into the painting traditions of India.

Organized around ritual, iconic and narrative themes, the exhibition includes 101 works spanning more than 20 painting traditions from 25 regions.

His works shift between different painting traditions and are recognised by an insistent focus on the painting process.

In terms of painting traditions, and art history, I have been a long time fan of Romanticism.

One of the most significant Indian artists of his generation, Harsha draws on a broad spectrum of Indian artistic and figurative painting traditions and popular arts as well as the western art canon.

Profoundly influenced by Chinese painting traditions and techniques — especially the marks of the eighth - and ninth - century Yi - pin «ink - splashing» painters — mentorships from John Cage and Agnes Martin, and the harmony between man and nature espoused by Taoist philosophy, Steir considers elemental forces active participants in her work, intentionally removing herself from the action and allowing gravity, time, and the environment to determine the work's result.

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.

Given Schutz's absorption of high and low painting traditions, her zany imagination and freedom with the medium, we'd be in fine hands if she were the last painter.

The museum has a world - renowned collection of art from South Asia and Southeast Asia, with examples of this region's sculptural and painting traditions.

Drawing on a broad spectrum of Indian painting traditions and popular arts, as well as the western canon, NS Harsha creates quietly philosophical, luminous works that reflect on geopolitical order and our ever - more technologically mediated relationship with the world.

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.

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.

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).

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.

The Norton Simon Museum houses a world - renowned collection of art from South and Southeast Asia that includes examples of the rich sculptural and painting traditions that developed in this region over the course of more than 2,000 years.

The Brooklyn - based artist challenges painting traditions with his abstract and textured «oil skins.»

Profoundly influenced by Chinese painting traditions and techniques — especially the marks of the eighth - and ninth - century Yi - pin «ink - splashing» (or «flung ink») painters — mentorships from John Cage and Agnes Martin, and the harmony between man and nature espoused by Taoist philosophy, Steir considers elemental forces active participants in her work, intentionally removing herself from the action and allowing gravity, time, and the environment to determine the work's result.

One of the most significant Indian artists of his generation, Harsha draws on a broad spectrum of Indian artistic and figurative painting traditions and popular...

His current work in photography investigates the relationship between the camera, photography, and the painting traditions that precede it.

This work can be interpreted in the simplest, most direct manner — as a stereotyped image of China's food culture and painting traditions, but at the same time, its multiple references to various Chinese social and historical backgrounds make interpretation much more difficult: the use of objects to express morality in Chinese landscaping, satirical poetry mocking ostentatious refinement, and the imitation of handwritten menus to capture a scene of civil life... Viewers unfamiliar with the specific context can easily find themselves lost in the smokescreen of mysterious Oriental poetic calligraphy and bonsai art.

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.

Poindexter begins: «Allison Miller's oeuvre is firmly and unequivocally rooted in the painting tradition, and yet is built upon a conviction, evident in her output over the past decade or so, to explore every inch of the possibilities, conditions and inherited clichés of painting.

He places himself in an early modernist painting tradition that, despite an apparently abstract affect, is always representational in its ultimate methods.

A wonderful analysis of the Appolonian and Dionysian in the representational painting tradition.

I've been to Yuskavageland — an improbable zone at the intersection of the European painting tradition, religious iconography, porn, and, I'll argue, performance art.

We tend to think of the history of art as a series of exceptionally unique ideas, but in fact, the figurative painting tradition is deeply conventional, and artists have mined narrow spaces for invention.

In his recording of reality, Gilewicz remains loyal to the painting tradition.

Nusra Qureshi is trained in the art of the Mughal miniature painting tradition and has developed an extraordinary contemporary painting practice that engages with the rich, visual histories of South Asia.

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.

Dan Coombs has suggested that the abstract paintings of Tomma Abts are better understood «not so much as material objects in the abstract painting tradition but as surrogate people with their own personalities.

He expresses a willingness to integrate himself within the painting tradition, something brave for the best of artists, whilst voicing a very unique standpoint.

Whatever You Want features a black female protagonist in a pose referencing the portrayal of white female nudes in the Western painting tradition.