He noted that Mr. Pendexter has a «deep love and knowledge of prints that is revealed in the depth of his vision, especially in such favorite themes as
the pastoral landscape tradition, or the muscular forms and movement of European baroque printmaking.»
Banewl recalls the work of seventeenth — century Dutch painter Aelbert Cuyp, known for his moody, open scenes of cows, as well as that of John Constable and the eighteenth — and nineteenth — century British
pastoral landscape tradition.
Not exact matches
I think of it as kind of a
pastoral, figure - and -
landscape tradition.
Drawn from the American
landscape and still - life
traditions, her works depict rural
pastorals and coastlines, oftentimes with nondescript barns or cottages.
Using leftover paint from construction supply stores, McMillian responds to the absence of bodies in the history of
landscape representation; his pours and splatters evoke what he describes as an «abject history of turmoil or the spillage of blood» that is often missing from the
pastoral tradition.
With a rare, refreshing distillation of formal acumen and social issues, McMillian engages with the layered concepts of
landscape — the body's interior and public
landscape; the
landscape as a physical place and a repository of memories, myths, and obsessions; and the absence of bodies in the history of
landscape representation, or what the artist describes as an «abject history of turmoil or the spillage of blood» that is often missing from the
pastoral tradition.
Certain individuals approached the theme from an art historical perspective, focusing on the perception and
tradition of still life,
landscape, and
pastoral imagery, as can be seen in the works of David Klamen and Allison Schulnik.
She is reluctant to think of her paintings as
landscapes, imaginary or otherwise; and the notion that her work belongs to the
tradition of «
pastoral» painting, as Lawrence Alloway and other critics have proposed, strikes her (Continued on Page 62) as mostly rhetoric.