Sentences with phrase «referencing art historical traditions»

According to the gallery, «The Girl» encapsulates Op de Beeck's uncanny ability to create visual fictions of wonder, silence and introspection, while referencing art historical traditions of the panorama, landscape painting and German - Romantic notions of melancholy and the sublime.

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This work can be interpreted in the simplest, most direct manner — as a stereotyped image of China's food culture and painting traditions, but at the same time, its multiple references to various Chinese social and historical backgrounds make interpretation much more difficult: the use of objects to express morality in Chinese landscaping, satirical poetry mocking ostentatious refinement, and the imitation of handwritten menus to capture a scene of civil life... Viewers unfamiliar with the specific context can easily find themselves lost in the smokescreen of mysterious Oriental poetic calligraphy and bonsai art.

The exhibition title references many facets of arts and culture traditions from ancient history to the modern day, arising out of Smith's meditations on the number's spiritual significance as a marker of immortality, as well a number of noteworthy cultural and historical facts and figures featuring the number itself.

Despite these various mediums, Middlebrook's work consistently references art - historical traditions, styles, and movements.

Blurring the lines between painting and sculpture, imagery and objecthood, her work frequently includes plays on art historical references and traditions.

The work is rooted in a multi-disciplinary approach that is as faceted in the mediums employed as in the array of art historical, literary and folk tradition references.

Woven together here are numerous references, pleasing art historical ones and more populist memories of the British comedy tradition.

Her imagery merges traditional nonfigurative Turkish art with Western art historical references, while highlighting shifting notions of gender and class within the context of the struggle between modernity and tradition.

While all of these objects share clear references to Minimalism and abstraction, their twarting of this art historical tradition could not be more radical.

The patterns reference art historical styles and canons, from Jugendstil to Islamic art, allowing the painted subject to transcend linear interpretation, and providing a dialogue between contemporary painting and an array of epochs and traditions.

Soaring, gathered mountains and delicate water and trees coalesce to form a serene landscape that is replete with references to both art historical tradition and contemporary commentary on the act of graphic creation.

Reflecting on the influence that Concrete art's appearance and concepts had on later manifestations of abstract art, including Op - art and Hard - Edge painting, Saul Sánchez utilizes the square, repeatedly, as a reference to the historical traditions he is addressing.

Inspired by a broad range of historical and contemporary sources, from Italian Renaissance art to twentieth - century advertisements and fashion magazines, his work both references and examines the tradition of painting itself.

Aho's art historical references derive from the modern as well as from grand tradition.

Whilst referencing the long art - historical tradition of depicting the Stations, «Repetition is Truth» also offers a broader commentary on the universality of human rights abuses.