Sentences with phrase «past artistic traditions»

A movement, forged in the late 1950s by the German artists Otto Piene and Heinz Mack, that fostered artistic discovery by promoting a new environment unconstrained by past artistic traditions.

Not exact matches

I'm not sure what I think about what that means for painting: I often think about the durability of certain artistic traditions in the past over long periods of time with small variants based on location and time and then that a style and even an aesthetic idea would continue to be worked within and around for sixty or seventy years makes a bit more sense.

Presenting a selection of works from this year's Young Masters prize, as well as established artists represented by Cynthia Corbett, Over-Seas House's exhibition celebrates artists that are influenced by the artistic traditions of the past.

Pollock's friend and patron Alfonso Osorio described what is so unique and compelling about Pollock's work by saying about his artistic journey, «Here I saw a man who had both broken all the traditions of the past and unified them, who had gone beyond cubism, beyond Picasso and surrealism, beyond everything that had happened in art... his work expressed both action and contemplation.»

Over the past 50 years, Sean Scully has created an artistic system of his own, gathering and developing the best plastic traditions of the early 20th - century avant - garde and combining them with complex metaphysical philosophy from the Ancient Greeks to theorists of the present day.

However solely placing Santalov's work in the Russian artistic tradition of the beginning of the past century does not do it enough justice.

Although keenly aware of Japan's artistic traditions, the Gutai artists attempted to distance themselves from the sense of defeat and impotence that pervaded their country, and to overcome the past completely with «art that has never existed before».