Sentences with phrase «tradition of living artists»

Continuing our tradition of living artists transforming the Main Galleries, with recent solo shows including Kapoor, Hockney and Kiefer, we turn our focus in Autumn 2015 to Ai Weiwei Hon RA.

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The artist, tradition, has quite properly been involved in the creation of an image, exercising an appropriate interpretive function, but tradition has produced the portrait working originally from a life model, from a living presence.

The artists draw on an ancient tradition of Mary as herself a voracious reader, stewed in holy Scriptures, and a notion, then commonplace, of the affinity between the intellectual and spiritual lives, of the «garden enclosed» where the God of truth meets the believer, set apart from the demands of the world.

Persons were no longer bound by the constraints of family, community or tradition, but instead were free to be artists of their own lives.

For those offended at the idea of director Roland Emmerich taking liberties with the biography of a beloved artist, consider the long cinematic tradition of this M.O. Start with «Shakespeare in Love,» which won a Best Picture Oscar for a wholly fictitious take on the Bard's love life.

La Chola Cusco Restaurant has a legendary story in the middle of the twentieth century worked here a cookhouse with the same name, famous throughout the city for being a meeting place for renowned artists, poets, writers, politicians and intellectuals.Among the most famous visitors can not fail to mention to Pablo Neruda, who, inspired by the majesty of Cuzco and in love with the beauty of the house during his stay he composed much of his work referred to Cusco and Machu Picchu.Su culinary tradition has been restored and recovered giving new life to the restaurant offers a menu with dishes from the new Peruvian and international cuisine, the wine cellar built inside an Inca wall helps maintain the quality of a rich selection of wines with different characteristics.

The village comprises traditional Balinese compounds and natural surroundings, and you'll be fascinated by the residents who enthusiastically embrace the traditions and rituals observed in every facet of their life: most of them work as traditional craftsmen or artists.

Frieze enjoys a strong tradition of commissioning artists» time - based work, with live and participatory works by Dora Budor, Pia Camil, Maurizio Cattelan, Giosetta Fioroni, Liz Glynn, Anthea Hamilton, Ryan McNamara and Eduardo Navarro featured in recent editions of Frieze New York; the first performance work ever acquired for the collection of the Tate, meanwhile, was acquired from Frieze London in 2004.

«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.»

Nadja Swarovski, Member of the Swarovski Executive Board said, «Swarovski has a proud tradition of supporting and celebrating artists across the creative spectrum and so we are delighted to continue our partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery in honouring the life's work of Howard Hodgkin, a unique talent and a true icon in the visual arts.»

The Museum has a long tradition of collecting the art of the day, beginning with the Cone Sisters, whose acquisitions from living artists lead the Museum's commitment to contemporary art.

Some of the most interesting living artists («living» as opposed to «contemporary» here; Memling's dead, but he's still the competition) channel traditions and currents that, while not altogether outside of the modernist purview, are nonetheless — how to put it?

Select group exhibitions and biennials featuring her work include Virtual Views: Digital Art from the Thoma Foundation, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN (2017, forthcoming); Nature Morte: contemporary artists reinvigorate the still - life tradition, Bohusläns Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden (2016); Momentum: An Experiment in the Unexpected, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (2014); Turning Inside Out: Video Art by Nam June Paik, Joan Jonas, and Jennifer Steinkamp, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE (2012); Blink!

The premise of the exhibition, which also includes Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, Joe Bradley and Rashid Johnson, is that contemporary artists continue to cull techniques from various 20th - century traditions, breathing new life into an old medium that appears more relevant than ever.

It follows in the Royal Academy's tradition of celebrating its Royal Academicians, continuing the strand of programming that has showcased some of the most significant living artists including Anish Kapoor, David Hockney, Anselm Kiefer and Ai Weiwei.

As an artist who first developed his craft in South Korea in the seventies, and spent most of his adult life in New York, one can clearly understand Lee's coming out of a variety of traditions.

Proposals are evaluated on the basis of the following criteria, which are weighed equally: How well a project aligns with the MAP Fund's goal of supporting experimentation and innovation in all traditions and disciplines of live performance, especially work that brings insight to the issue of cultural difference, be that in class, gender, generation, race, religion, sexual orientation or other aspects of diversity The artistic strength of the proposed project The viability of the project, based on the applicant's professional capabilities as demonstrated in the project narrative, bio and artist statement, and work samples.

In the tradition of Flemish and Dutch still life, the artists also bring one close enough to touch.

The results are less lively, even, and visually arresting than her previous work, and they fit more into a tradition that might include Fiona Rae, David Story, and Guy Goodwin — artists more dependent on visible structure, clearer geometry, and deploying a menu of marks and configurations on canvas, all to lesser effect than Ferris has already reached — but I will not stop paying attention to this live wire.

In the 1980s, a decade when artists commonly appropriated styles or imagery from earlier art historical periods, Mark Innerst became known for beautifully crafted natural and urban landscape paintings that gave new life to the American tradition of the romantic sublime.

A tradition since 2001, Queens International is the Museum's biannual exhibition of artists living or working in Queens.

In this new body of work, the artist continues to advance the tradition of still life painting and more specifically, the rich history of representations of flora in art.

Scully is a great artist because, constructing a great variety of two and three - dimensional works from a narrowly restricted choice of forms and media, he shows, in opposition to almost all other contemporary painters and sculptors and, also, to most art writers, that there is life, still, in this now seemingly distant modernist tradition.

1993 Les Amis des Musées de Verviers: Aspects de la mouvance construite internationale, Fondation Pro Mesures Art International, Verviers, Belgium (catalogue) Yale Collects Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Skowhegan 93, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME (booklet) Building a Collection: The Department of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Artists» Photographs: A Private View, Blum Helman Gallery, New York Live in Your Head, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst and Galerie Metropol, Vienna (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) The Tradition of Geometric Abstraction in American Art 1930 — 1990, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 15th Anniversary Group Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA Drawing the Line Against AIDS, AmFAR Art Against AIDS, Venice Biennale, Venice Looking at Collecting Today, Chateau de Tanlay, Burgundy, France Legend In My Living Room, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, New York I Love You More than My Own Death, Venice Biennale, Venice Italia - America, L'Astrazione Ridefinita, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, San Marino, Italy (curated by Demetrio Paparoni, catalogue) New York Painters, Sammlung Goetz, Munich (catalogue) Legend in My Living Room, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, New York Wall Works, Edition Schellmann, Cologne, Germany Works on Paper, Kohn Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles Twenty Years, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Peter Halley, Todd Levin, Thread Waxing Space, New York (video project) Living with Art: The Collection of Ellyn & Saul Dennison, The Morris Museum, Morris, NJ (catalogue) Color, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York New York on Paper, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

Inspired by the High Line as an ambulatory space experienced most naturally in motion, Wanderlust extends the tradition of Conceptual art wherein the act of walking served as an inspiration for many artists who explored life both in the urban context and in an ambivalent confrontation with nature.

As the premier showcase for Western contemporary art, the Ann Korologos Gallery proudly offers a wide array of Western artists working in a variety of techniques and representing diverse artistic traditions: Bold Post-Expressionist still lifes by Angus Wilson, delicate realism in the style of Chardin by Sarah Lamb, Plein Air landscapes by Dan Young, cutting - edge Macro Photography by Gayle Waterman and meticulous linocut prints by Sherrie York.

«We are not in Rome and we don't want to go there,» he said, expressing his concern that artists should paint contemporary life as they knew it, instead of following the tradition of copying Italian Old Master paintings.

As its European father, the American Impressionism saw different artists gathering and following in its footsteps regarding the depiction of the everyday modern life and the tradition of the en plain air, started with Monet's landscape paintings.

This collective of visual artists living and working in Park Slope and Windsor Terrace has been opening their doors annually and this tour has become a great neighborhood tradition.

The emphasis in Akunyili Crosby's work on retaining a sense of self and tradition after immigration seems particularly topical in an international city such as Los Angeles, where the artist currently lives and works.

Your artist statement on your website says, «My life and art are modes of intentional living borrowing from native traditions and contemporary subcultures.»

Artists who have lived and worked in the Caribbean, as well as artists living abroad who responded to the rich visual tradition and history of the area are shown side - by Artists who have lived and worked in the Caribbean, as well as artists living abroad who responded to the rich visual tradition and history of the area are shown side - by artists living abroad who responded to the rich visual tradition and history of the area are shown side - by - side.

Jewish Museum Members are invited to an early Members - only viewing of Chaim Soutine: Flesh, featuring Soutine's remarkable paintings depicting hanging fowl, beef carcasses, and rayfish, imbued with the unique visual conceptions and painterly energy that the artist brought to the tradition of still - life, considered among his greatest artistic achievements.

Etel Adnan (b. 1925 in Beirut, Lebanon, and lives between California and France) is an award - winning author, playwright, poet, and visual artist, who, in the tradition of the Dadaists and Surrealists, moves fluidly between writing and art making.

Opening Reception: April 10, 2016, 4 - 8 pm A tradition since 2001, Queens International is the Museum's biannual exhibition of artists living or working in Queens.

Throughout the early 20th century, artists were radically breaking with all traditions in art, inventing a new visual language that responded to the experience of living in a new century.

While her visual sensibility recalls the work of the American artists Romare Bearden, Richard Yarde, and Mickalene Thomas, whose two - dimensional works are heavily textured through their use of color and pattern, Akunyili Crosby casts off in a singular direction, fusing African, European, and American influences and creative traditions while pondering the personal effects of living in an increasingly global, hybridized society.

His paintings of nudes, skulls, and still - lifes, along with images of centaurs and muses, place Lüpertz among such diverse artists as Nicolas Poussin, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, and Hans von Marées as he continues to reinvent classicism and engage with tradition.

Other topics included an influential 1983 article by Sid Sachs (University of the Arts)-- who was in the audience — on whether there was such a thing as a Philadelphia Imagist tradition; a College Art Association conference chaired by curator Judith Stein (also in the audience); the number of artists who taught and lived in both Chicago and Philadelphia (particularly Ree Morton and Rafael Ferrer); and the equal representation of men and women among the Chicago Imagists.

A Living Tradition: Selections from the American Abstract Artists, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York.

The artists examine universally relevant cultural concepts of tradition, spirituality, family and the environment, within the context of modern African experiences and daily life.

As part of an interdisciplinary initiative at the College to explore the rich traditions of large - scale artworks and to develop new scholarship around the mural format, Nadia Haji Omar, a Sri Lankan multimedia artist living and working in Rhode Island, will transform the exhibition space with mirrored surfaces and her signature alpha - numeric abstraction.

The League has historically been known for its broad appeal to both amateurs and professional artists and for over 130 years has maintained a tradition of offering reasonably priced classes on a flexible schedule to accommodate students from all walks of life.

Aliriza's paintings further the living tradition of known motif with her devotion to observing and depicting what is in front of her as the artist along with her approach of seeing freshly the act of painting and the power of direct expression.

Some of Johanson's words and compositions feel like heirlooms from a long and ragtag coastal tradition of poets, artists, and musicians: Wallace Berman's mystical photocopies and seminal Semina culture; the poem - paintings of Kenneth Patchen; the beaming peacenik posters of Sister Corita Kent; the blurring between art and life embodied by Allan Kaprow (the subject of a 2008 MOCA retrospective); all filtered through the dirty socks of punk and the wondrous messy freedom that tumbled out of that.

Both artists evolved out of the Dutch figurative tradition into complete abstraction at exactly the same time, but while Mondrian remained with his bleak, geometric painting throughout his life, Van Doesburg had other ideas, dozens of them.

Highly engaged with international art movements such as cubism, abstract expressionism, arte povera, and conceptual art — but also having studied and lived in Europe and the United States — an older generation of the artists on view pioneered modern art in Cyprus, through a dialogue within local traditions.

The Thomas Cole National Historic Site and The Olana Partnership / Olana State Historic Site co-hosted a landmark exhibition of contemporary art to highlight the pivotal role that the two historic properties — and the artists who lived and worked there — played in shaping America's tradition of contemporary art.

These artists pay tribute to the artistic traditions of portraiture, still lifes, and memorials, respectively, while illuminating or subverting the common conceits that define those traditions.

Selectively and imaginatively revisiting old master techniques and concepts, artists today are again exploring the figurative tradition as a viable way of approaching contemporary life.