Sentences with phrase «revolts against tradition»

A good deal of American painting and sculpture since 1900 has been a series of revolts against tradition.

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In truth, the abandonment of allegory was a revolt against the Church's tradition, including the tradition that is found in the New Testament itself.

It was marked by revolts of young people against accepted values and traditions.

And this shift, though «a deep and radical revolt against the central tradition of western thought which affirmed the existence of eternal values,» is, in Berlin's eyes, a very good thing.

We have already seen how al - Wahhab adopted the ideas and spirit of Ibn Taymiyya — the return to the Qur» an and the traditions of early Islam, and the revolt against the strict application of the shari`a.

The Reformers, to be sure, revolted against the dominance of tradition at the expense of the Bible.

Marked a conflict with the art of painting and especially the expressive tradition, revolted against all Western Art, which was dominated by the School of Vision.

Hofmann was a well established German artist who had founded the Berlin Secession (1898) which was the first open revolt against academic traditions and paved the way for modern German art movements such as Expressionism.