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.
Not exact matches
Her paintings are influenced by European and American art
traditions and tensions, and she reconciles them
with her own
pictorial voice, albeit one that gives a shout out to artists including Henri Matisse, David Hockney, Albert Oehlen, and Dana Schutz, to name a few.
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.
Again the appropriation and reanimation of a
pictorial tradition goes hand in hand
with its decontextualization and the radical opening of its signification.
She often uses subtle references to the cultures and
traditions she was exposed to growing up: calligraphy, manga and the flatness of the Japanese
pictorial plane contrasted
with the gravitas of twentieth century Western modernism.
As the artist himself has said, «You can't invent a painting from scratch; you are working
with an entire
tradition... The
pictorial language of the 20th century, from Kurt Schwitters's collages to Jackson Pollock's drip paintings, makes up a range of possibilities that I utilise in order to create a transhistorical figurative painting — a painting of the image as such, of representation» (A. Ghenie, quoted in «Adrian Ghenie in Conversation
with Magda Radu,» Adrian Ghenie: Darwin's Room, exh.
Numerous
pictorial works clarify how central the arbitrary is to Armleder's ouevre, works made
with neon lights revive the minimalist
tradition of employing ready - made industrial materials, the multimedia installation in the Fridge will incorporate a variety of soundtracks and videos in an accumulation of audio - visual information without any hierarchical distinctions.
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.
Hans - Ju ̈rgen Hafner, 2016 commented: The impressive thing about Rainer is how unconventional, and above all how quickly he covers the scope of what is possible in painting, and reorganises it for himself alongside local
tradition and connection
with the international Modern Movement, anti-academicism and outsiderhood,
pictorial symbol and the act of painting, conceptualisation and phenomenology, surrealism and abstraction»