Sentences with phrase «primitive art»

They sought creativity outside the mainstream art world and were greatly inspired by folk and tribal art, forms of primitive art, and Scandinavian mythology.

See the market and learn about the distinctive textiles and primitive art for which the area is famous.

The artists sought creativity outside the mainstream art world and were greatly inspired by folk and tribal art, forms of primitive art, and Scandinavian mythology.,.

As his interest in primitive art forms emerged, anticipating his «pictographic» paintings of the 1940s, Gottlieb won a U.S. Treasury competition for a post office mural in Yerrington, Nevada.

The Alberses didn't appropriate from these forms in the way that some other European modernists borrowed from primitive art at the time.

By contaminating this formal elegance with motifs from vernacular culture, Curry echoes modernism's foundational appropriation of another strain of folk art — the so - called primitive arts of Africa.

Gottlieb and Rothko, ever the learner, sought common ground with primitive art generally.

Having grown up in Pollock Pines, CA at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Jacqueline draws influence from nature as well as primitive art and prehistoric cave paintings.

Christopherson's work showed a poetic intensity, ranging from a private - image world of abstraction influenced by primitive art to haunting, un-peopled townscapes of deceptive simplicity.

Ossorio's early exposure to primitive art at the Peabody Museum at Harvard University and his later co-founding role in the organization L'Art Brut in America, enabled him to attain fluency in the «prodigiously fecund» language of the authentic visionary.

His perspective changed as a Harvard freshman where, in a course on primitive art, he studied African masks in the ethnological museum, and then saw recently made films and heard audio recordings of rites in which similar masks were used.

Here we will visit, primitive art galleries & the famous town mural, also we visit a women's textile cooperative to see hand weaving and natural dye process used in the making of unique textiles.

ANCIENT ARTS AND CULTURES For a review of primitive art forms including painting, sculpture and decorative arts, see: Ancient Art.

Savage Harvest By Carl Hoffman Morrow • $ 15.99 • ISBN 9780062116161 Hoffman sets out to determine what really happened to Michael Rockefeller, who vanished while collecting primitive art in New Guinea in 1961.

This is an engaging and imaginative introduction to Rousseau and his Postimpressionist primitive art.

Carved in an anthropomorphic shape from an Osmunda fern root, this work recalls primitive art.

For this 6th project they produced a series of paintings comprised of either a combination of designs from various schools of Modernist art or a series of patterns from primitive art objects.

The Bay Area artist Roy De Forest has said he thinks of himself as a «classical American painter with some correspondence to American primitive art and people like George Caleb Bingham and Edward Hicks.»

Goldwater was one of the first art history students to study modern art at a time when the subject was not considered worthy of serious graduate research and in 1957 he became the first director of the Museum of Primitive Art NY.

If it's a bit wonky, it is all the more charming for being a bit like primitive art.

The handwritten notes above are the last two sentences of Donald Judd's May / June 1962 review of «Gods with Fangs,» an exhibition at The Museum of Primitive Art for Arts Magazine.

The impact of African, Oceanic, Aboriginal and other so - called primitive art on Western artists continues to this day, and encompasses a number of forms including painting, sculpture, assemblage, body art (such as face painting and body painting), tattooing, wood carving and others.

Although Baziotes shared their interest in primitive art and automatism, his work consistently displayed stronger affinities with European surrealism.

[3] It reflected Matisse's incipient fascination with primitive art: the intense warm color of the figures against the cool blue - green background and the rhythmical succession of the dancing nudes convey the feelings of emotional liberation and hedonism.

Similarly, much as Pollock and the rest, she looked for inspiration to what they considered — or imagined — as primitive art that turns on the West, but as one more discovery in a thoroughly urban art world.

His early wood carving works were influenced by primitive art, in particular by African art and by the almost primeval simplicity of Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi's works.

As is customary at the Museum of Primitive Art, it is excellently displayed.»

It was bad enough that she painted images of what was considered a savage and primitive art form.

Hi, I'm Sheena Spacey and I work with stoneware clay and other mediums, with influences from folk and primitive art.

Everything from fine art to primitive art is waiting for you to admire and take home!

He grew up surrounded by his parents eclectic and eccentric group of friends; Austrian philosophers, American Indians, FBI agents, members of the Hollywood Ten, Eastern European refugees, Thai aristocracy, mysteriously talented dealers in primitive art and a wide array of writers, from Ray Bradbury to Jim Thompson.

It included a church and castle, which today is a primitive art museum.

You will discover the fabulous San Francisco Convent and Church containing archeological treasures from Isla Zapatera a primitive art exhibit and Indigenous museum.

After visiting Maximon, visit the local church and learn about the history of this very traditional town, and also see the market and learn about the distinctive textiles and primitive art for which the town is famous.

Next, visit the local church and learn about the history of this very traditional town, and also see the market and learn about the distinctive textiles and primitive art for which the area is famous.

Jimbaran Bay Beach Resort and Spa features a blend of modern architecture with traditional Indonesian detailing highlighting the Indonesian materials and workmanship and decorated with collection of primitive art and antiques from around Indonesian archipelago.

The Gili Amor Boutique Resort really brings the traditional elements such as ancient artifacs, Javanese furnitures and primitive art.

Both trendy and traditional galleries will be visited, showcasing a variety of fine weavings, wooden statues, and primitive arts.

What is immediately distinct to all who come across this puzzle platformer is its primitive art style.

Hiroshima, Japan Manufacturing (radiators) Contemporary art; primitive art; antique textiles Top 200 appearance: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

Viola's art, like that of Robert Smithson or James Turrell, is situated within a contemporary art tradition that draws its authority and iconography from primitive art and mythology, reaching back in time to the origins of art in religion.

Significant writing projects, both published in 1937, were the essay «Primitive Art and Picasso» in the Magazine of Art, and the book System and Dialectics of Art, which outlined his theories on abstract paintings and provided an international context for American Art for the first time.

Main image: Martin Doustar, Ancient & Primitive Art, Collections, Frieze Masters 2017.

The memory of the past — from the legendary suggestions of the pre-Columbian lands to the Etruscan world passing through Oceanic and primitive art — is permeated with visions of a futuristic future, creating an imagined dimension which is, however, always connected with the social and political reality the artist was deeply involved in.

Ms. MacAgy organized such definitive exhibitions as The Disquieting Muse: Surrealism, The Sphere of Mondrian, and Totems Not Taboo: Primitive Art.

Inspired by a wide array of influences including folk art, advertising, primitive art, comic books, and fetishism.

These influences are diverse and many - layered, from poetry and photography to primitive art: they encompass the works of artists such as Edouard Vuillard, Vanessa Bell, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Modigliani, William Scott, Milton Avery, and the self - taught artists Alfred Wallis and Bill Traylor.

Inspired by natural sciences, primitive arts, Eastern philosophies and ancient rituals, he synthesized diverse influences into an expressive, nonrepresentational language emphasizing subtle graduations of color and form.