Sentences with phrase «pictorial tradition»

Working in parallel to Western pictorial traditions of landscape, Clare uses precise combination artist - made and collected sculptural objects, photographic images, event and documentation as vehicles to re-access, re-experience, re-stage, identify, imagine.
An innovator beyond his time, Burri's recomposition of Western pictorial tradition was cited as an influence in later Arte Povera, Neo-Dada, and Process art movements.
South Korean Choi jeong Hwa builds his large installations by combining local and Korean, new and old, unique and mass - produced elements, blending Korean pictorial tradition with global consumer culture.
Mark Lewis» films, through their attention to light, depth, color, and geometry, evoke pictorial tradition and suggest ways in which film can be said to reinvent it.
The Chinese - French painter Zao Wou - Ki (1920 — 2013) developed a distinctive abstract style blending the visual poetry of Chinese painting and calligraphy with European pictorial traditions.
Motifs from Western and Eastern pictorial traditions are regularly referenced in his works, and we often find visual references to Medieval and Renaissance paintings.
With a dash of inspiration from his personal history, Lerma's work often reflects on pictorial traditions such as portraiture by prodding at colonial tropes evidenced, for example, in monetary iconography.
Featuring nearly 80 works — including 72 paintings — that span the artist's 35 - year career, the exhibition reveals Marshall's art practice and trajectory as he explores a wide range of pictorial traditions while countering, through paintings, stereotypical representations of black people in society and adds a place for the black figure within the canon of Western painting.
He believed that, in rejecting pictorial traditions, he could access a more essential form of personal expression — one that was raw and unfiltered, and espoused a Jungian, primal way of being.
Not only is the isolation from society and the political climate, typical of the modern pictorial tradition, absent in the case of Golub, in his work he makes constant allusions to specific individuals and socio - political events.
He draws on certain pictorial traditions, from calligraphy to handicraft techniques, and pushes them into the present.
Consonant to those of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, the found objects in these works refigure the two - dimensional pictorial traditions.
Beattie is notable for his personal take on Western pictorial traditions, particularly Abstract Expressionism.
Nick continues, «Our hope is that the consistently high quality of the painting exhibited will reveal the enduring relevance, the compelling visual richness, and the limitless variety of this pictorial tradition.
All of the artists engage with a number of pictorial traditions, influenced by predecessors ranging from Josef Albers and Sol LeWitt to Man Ray and László Moholy - Nagy.
«For me, what keeps me engaged in making more objects... is the fact that there is still so few representations of Black figures in painting at the center of the pictorial tradition.
A reality where the pictorial tradition of landscaping no longer seems adequate to deal with the intricate web of meanings brought forth by the great networks and metropolises.»
Kerry James Marshall's major monographic retrospective presents a broad range of pictorial traditions to counter stereotypical representations of black people in society and reassert the black figure within the canon of Western painting.
Well educated in the pictorial tradition of art history, Sprick's influences reach back to Northern European masters such as Robert Campin and Rogier van de Weyden, admiring their ability to render a convincing look at invisible realms and otherworldly occurrences.
There, he learned the language of portraiture, a pictorial tradition that White believed could uplift race through aspirational images.
This issue's cover reproduces a painting by African American artist Kerry James Marshall, a work that exemplifies the artist's absorption of pictorial tradition in order to challenge stereotyped representations of blackness in society.
Burri's work both demolished and reconfigured the Western pictorial tradition, while reconceptualizing modernist collage.
Again the appropriation and reanimation of a pictorial tradition goes hand in hand with its decontextualization and the radical opening of its signification.
Thus was «Pittura Analitica» born 1974, identifying an exclusive number of European painters who worked on a limited number of themes: the creative process, the operative method, the choice of materials, the role of the spectator, the absence of autobiography, the lack of references to any pictorial tradition, the importance of seriality.
Despite being engaged with matters of abstraction for some 15 years, he was remaining loyal to the pictorial tradition of the Old Masters, which he honored time and again.
In an extract taken from the Richard Hamilton exhibition catalogue, art critic Hal Foster uses the essay to explore the connection between the artist's photography as a snapshot, which finds «its place between the genres» of academic art and pictorial tradition (in Spanish).
From the beginning he has merged the pictorial tradition with photography and cinema, beginning in 1978 with large format color transparency works, then introducing black & white works and later color prints.
Throughout his complex and compelling practice, Marshall combines a wide range of pictorial traditions to counter stereotypical representations of black people in society.
Electronic animation of Cannula refers directly to the pictorial tradition of abstract expressionism.
In this dazzling new reality, the pictorial tradition of landscape painting no longer seems apt to capture the intricate web of new significations emerging from cityscapes in the age of the global city.
From the beginning he discovered a means of expression that reflected his temperament, and thereby made a clean sweep of pictorial tradition.
Espousing Gutai's vision to rethink inherited artistic and pictorial traditions, the artists developed unusual techniques and incorporated unexpected materials to achieve their own distinct painting styles.
The particular avant - garde methods of the Viennese Actionists emphasized the body as a challenge to pictorial traditions and conservative cultural and political systems (specifically, Austria's Second Republic in the early 1960s).
After all, his work has consistently revealed a conceptual indebtedness to and concern with art history and pictorial tradition, resulting in an oeuvre that has in one way or another always been about Art itself.
Resisting the weight of a pictorial tradition based on the logic of linear perspective, they began to record properties of vision rarely ever recorded before.
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