Sentences with phrase «through artistic tradition»

«The evocation of mystery that the viewer experiences in Oliveira's work derives from a depth of feeling refracted through artistic tradition and transmitted to the spectator by the artist's hand,» wrote Peter Selz in a catalog essay for Oliveira's 2002 painting and printmaking retrospective at the San Jose Museum of Art, California.

Often recognized as the father of African and Arab Modernism, Ibrahim El - Salahi aims to redefine trends in European and American art through the artistic traditions of African, Islamic and Arab cultures.

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Although the Church has preserved a tradition as a patron of the arts for more than a millennium, and the great mediaeval cathedrals in particular have portrayed Christianity through their paintings, sculptures, and perhaps especially their windows, Catholic teachers are now refocusing on literary, cultural and artistic beauty as a conscious resource for the transmission of the faith.

We are providing a 21st century approach to its observance not just by recharging memory, but through an artistic reflection with a balanced affirmation of Hispanic heritage and indigenous traditions for collaborative new routes of expression from ancestral roots focused on the concerns of UNESCO: Cultural Rapprochement, Biodiversity, Ocean Care and Seafaring, Climate Change mitigation through sustainable energy, reforestation, gender equity and health issues.

Hike to ancient dzongs, meet local families, wander through serene monasteries, discover unique artistic traditions, and witness one of Bhutan's spectacular local festivals.

Corwin writes: «In the tradition of Klein and Dubuffet, Strobert chooses to site her artistic practice within the confines of painting, while literally doing everything she can to reconfigure that discipline through a re-orientation of mediums and with an expressionistic yet pragmatic eye... Strobert's painting isn't abstract painting but the abstraction of painting.

«El Anatsui is perhaps the most significant living African artist working on the continent today,» said Baratta, citing his «originality of artistic vision, his long - term commitment to formal innovation, and his assertion through his work of the place of Africa's artistic and cultural traditions in international contemporary art.»

Through her use of subtly articulated line and negative space, Ku references East Asian artistic traditions, while her focus on figurative representation through a predominantly female - centric subject matter, suggests a more contemporary Western perspThrough her use of subtly articulated line and negative space, Ku references East Asian artistic traditions, while her focus on figurative representation through a predominantly female - centric subject matter, suggests a more contemporary Western perspthrough a predominantly female - centric subject matter, suggests a more contemporary Western perspective.

In the selected items on view, the developments of American artistic traditions can be traced through the early interests in portraiture, the rise in prominence of landscape painting in the 19th - century, the popularity of genre scenes, as well as the academic traditions of history and large - scale society paintings.

Through the incorporation of materials culled from the everyday, she is able to address numerous artistic traditions including abstract expressionism, minimalism, and color field painting.

Continuing in the Audubon tradition of artistic ornithology, many of Connor's bird paintings seem filtered through a lens of the imagination, effectively transporting the birds from the world of the real to a magical realm of observation and flight.

Jessica Silverman's exhibition, titled White Is The Warmest Color, explores the rich artistic tradition of minimal color from transparent sculptures through off - white works to bleached abstractions... read more

This project works around the working tradition and artistic consciousness of «socialist realism», through watching and discussing art creation by the creation of art, LIU brings the organization and logic that form and limit it to the foreground.

Connected to one another through their contemporary re-examination of traditional artistic languages, the artwork uniquely reveals captivating spins on the context of tradition.

Her current post as director of the HAA Folklife + Traditional Arts Program is a result of her efforts to comprehensively identify, document, and share the cultural and artistic traditions that flourish in Houston through a feasibility study funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

This museum aims to preserve the traditions of art, especially 20th century art, in St Ives, through a program which includes showings of British and overseas artworks and an artistic residency program.

This is demonstrated by Fontana's gestural cuts with a razor blade slicing through the traditions of the artistic canon, Klein's full - scale theatre of flames burning the surface of his paintings at the testing centre of the Gaz de France and Uecker's turn as master of optical illusion, hypnotically hammering nails to dramatize the play of light and shadow.

Japan's artistic scene influenced and transformed the contemporary art's industry, through its fascinating artistic and cultural tradition, its refined and meticulous research of an innovative style, always projected towards a high - skilful technique and virtuosity, and its profound analysis of social matters.