Sentences with phrase «rooted in the contemporary context»

«There is a lot of blue and water in all the works and all the paintings are deeply rooted in the contemporary context, yet somehow speak to the old, to the ancient.

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But there are overlaps between contemporary anti-Semitism and Islamophobia - the roots in reality shorn of context, the conspiracy narratives, the radicalising echo chamber, the dissidents whose narratives you co-opt (Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Maajid Nawaz), the outsider status of you against the world.

Throughout the 1990s, Akomfrah's subject matter expanded beyond the social fractures of contemporary British society to focus on a wider historical context, from the persistent legacy of colonialism to the roots of the contemporary in classical literature.

Moving between and manipulating various styles — primitivism, cubism, expressionism, minimalism — Prata's encyclopedic use of symbols and patterns grows into a language rooted in the history of visual art; however, in borrowing across time and style, Prata's distortion of form — hieroglyphs in symbolic space — proposes a reflection on how representations are read within a contemporary context.

Deeply rooted in post war cultural and political context, 1950s art movements massively influenced contemporary art in general.

In addition to shedding light on the origins of key ideas at the root of contemporary practice, this year's Spotlight section highlights work that has been long overlooked but gains resonance in the context of contemporary society.&raquIn addition to shedding light on the origins of key ideas at the root of contemporary practice, this year's Spotlight section highlights work that has been long overlooked but gains resonance in the context of contemporary society.&raquin the context of contemporary society.»

Illuminated Geographies explores how contemporary miniaturist painting is evolving from its roots in Mughal painting, as it is brought into different contexts and its stylistic foundation is adapted through different artistic visions.

If Anderson's paintings have contemporary affinities in practices (especially with that of Peter Doig, his former teacher), the theoretical contexts they summon are well - rooted — in particular those teleological forecasts about the relationship between his chosen genres as articulated by critics including Kenneth Clark and Clement Greenberg; the latter wrote, in 1949, of the evolutionary conundrum whereby French painting «was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual experience with ever greater fidelity.»

As a counterpoint to norms of categorization and distinction, the exhibition places James Castle in the context of art historical discourse by enabling the viewer to connect the artist's soot - and - spit drawings and found - object constructions with the work of contemporaries, many of whose practices were (or are) firmly rooted in the art world.