Sentences with phrase «pictorial traditions of»

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.

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.

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Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

As Walter L. Nathan has observed, the art rejected by these three church fathers was not the «entirely new pictorial language» of a mature Christian art but the Christian art of their time, which had «borrowed freely» from the late classical pagan 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.

Maybe the exhibition title suggests that the works are only just at the point of gesture, like the Andrea Madjesi - Jones painting, where gesture seems to be included in a wider pictorial strategy, or perhaps that they have arrived at the point of gesture having set out from some other place, Clem Crosby's work, for example, coming out of the monochrome tradition to a reconsideration of the role of drawing.

Wall has created a unique, seductive and complex pictorial universe by drawing upon philosophy, literature, nineteenth - century painting, Neo-Realist cinema and the traditions of both Conceptual art and documentary photography.

In fact, Jinchi's mystical aesthetic is traceable to the abstract tradition of qit «a, an Islamic pictorial genre based in the word or verse fragment, and originating in the late 15th century.

He embraced the European tradition of pictorial illusionism while employing decidedly low or «pop» imagery.

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.

There, he learned the language of portraiture, a pictorial tradition that White believed could uplift race through aspirational images.

By the 1960s, photography had established pictorial traditions and standards of craftsmanship.

The virtuosic ambiguity of these figures is an exercise in untethering the body from the staid traditions of representation, challenging pictorial norms both past and present.

Transcending and merging their cultures» printmaking traditions, these artists too moved «beyond East» and «beyond West, «Japanese pictorial traditions, including expressive sumi - e brush painting and Zen calligraphy, the use of un-sized supports, and ukiyo - e printing, inspired artists such as Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, and Robert Motherwell and influenced their development as Abstract Expressionists, American ceramists Gertrud and Otto Natzler, Glenn Nelson, and William Wyman looked to Zen - inspired ceramics.

Again the appropriation and reanimation of a pictorial tradition goes hand in hand with its decontextualization and the radical opening of its signification.

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.

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.

Working in the tradition of Eugène Atget, Walker Evans, and Stephen Shore, Guidi's large format color photographs are full of surprises and pictorial sophistication.

[24] In 1978 he worked on the monumental historical ensemble Fifty Days at Iliam, a ten - part cycle inspired by Homer's Iliad; since then Twombly continued to draw on literature and myth, deploying cryptic pictorial metaphors that situate individual experience within the grand narratives of Western tradition, as in the Gaeta canvases and the monumental Four Seasons concluded in 1994.

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.

Abigail Groff Hernandez uses the restrained tradition of still - life painting to subtlety break the illusion of pictorial space through contrasting formal compositions.

This is evident in the understanding of the buildings as undressed cubic volumes of geometry, descendants from sculptural minimalism; also, in the exploration of color and their application in visual rhythmic structures that invokes the legacy of the pictorial constructivist tradition, but from a clear awareness of the use of the camera as a working tool.

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).

Throughout his complex and compelling practice, Marshall combines a wide range of pictorial traditions to counter stereotypical representations of black people in society.

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.

From the beginning he discovered a means of expression that reflected his temperament, and thereby made a clean sweep of pictorial tradition.

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.

Working within the traditions of artists such as Philip Guston and Robert Ryman, Lasker focusses his efforts on reimagining pictorial ideas within the material constraints of painting.

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»

The elegant symmetry of the works in this series is achieved by placing a sequence of L - shaped right angles in a variety of combinations — in Telluride they are placed back to back — to produce the first paintings in Stella's oeuvre that breaks centuries of artistic tradition that enclosed pictorial illusion within the confines of a rectangular enclosed space.

Including: «A Pictorial Encyclopedia of The Oriental Arts» 2 vols in slipcase, edited by Shoten, publ by Crown; «Oriental Cloisonne and Other Enamels» by Chu; «Japanese and Oriental Ceramics» by Gorham; «Half the World», edited by Toynbee; «Chinese Jade of Five Centuries» by Hartman; «Chinese Export Porcelain» by Lunsingh - Scheurler; «Treasures of Chinese Glass Work Shops» by Asiantiques; «A History of Far Eastern Art» by Lee; «The Art of Japan» by Kidder; «Japan: A History in Art» by Smith; «China: A History in Art» by Smith & Weng; «Jade of the East» by Wills; «Wolf Kahn, Paintings & Pastels», 2 vols in slipcase, Ameringer - Yohe Fine Art; «Near Eastern Mythology» by Hamlyn; «Vasarely» by Diehl; «The Drawings of Milton Avery» by Taplinger; «Milton Avery» by Haskell; «Wolf Kahn, Landscape Painter» by Sawin; «Wolf Kahn, The City as Landscape» by Ameringer / McEnery / Yohe; «Hans Hofmann», ibid; «Picasso at Work at Home» by Schiff; «Wondrous Strange, The Wyeth Tradition»; «Fletcher Martin» by Cooke; PLUS (14 vols set) Cooper - Hewitt Museum Art & Antique Guidebooks; PLUS several gallery exhibition catalogs.Read more

The superabundance of his pictorial energies - the expression of a power almost grotesque in relation to its situation - link Pollock to the tribal art tradition of romantic exaggeration and hyperbole.

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.

Colin B. Bailey, Director of the Morgan Library & Museum, traces Boucher's process in the elaboration of his masterpiece, examines the tradition of marine mythologies from Raphael to Poussin and beyond, and considers some of the textual and pictorial sources which may have inspired the painter.

Consonant to those of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, the found objects in these works refigure the two - dimensional pictorial traditions.