Sentences with phrase «pictorial traditions such»

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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.

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.

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.

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.