In my figurative work, the primary interest has been to unfold
various traditions of painting and sculpture into my own, emerging with something altogether new.
His commitment to a
grand tradition of painting superimposes a value on his work that accretes history as if its challenges demanded that a position be taken and held, whatever the cost.
In such works, Cézanne was reinterpreting a long
tradition of paintings with nude figures in the landscape by artists such as Titian and Poussin.
Polly Apfelbaum's (b. 1955) artistic practice is distinguished by a hybridized aesthetic that
fuses traditions of painting, craft, and installation.
A recent graduate of the MFA program at the University of Illinois Chicago, Cowan has in a short period distinguished himself as a penetrating observer of and participant in the
long tradition of painting, questioning its cherished ideals and putting forth provocative proposals for its future.
In a press release announcing the news, Gagosian Gallery said, «While the content of his epic figurative paintings is unmistakably of his own time and cultural context, his formal virtuosity and complex layering of narrative reveal a deep and astute working knowledge of the inventions and
traditions of painting from the Renaissance to the present day.»
I fuse the domestic with the painterly
tradition of painting by staining, mopping, throwing, printing, spraying, dragging, imprinting, brushing, washing and bleaching pigments onto fabrics, drop cloths and canvases forming expressive abstract patterns.
A Visual Essay on Gutai traces efforts by these artists to resolve the inherent contradictions
between traditions of painting — the making of images on a flat, framed plane — and the core tenets of a movement that called for experimentation, individuality, unexpected materials, and, perhaps above all, physical action and psychological freedom.
It is Nisenbaum's awareness of and capacity to synthesise two culturally distinct
traditions of painting while raising their stakes in novel ways (not to mention that she is also a great colourist) that makes her someone worthy of special attention.
He accepts the challenge to paint what he calls the «unedited and torrential, pixellated, flickering, backlit, and instantaneous» nature of contemporary culture, with the realization that the
rich tradition of painting is his best ally.
In the specific context of abstract expressionism, a breakthrough entailed a move away from figuration towards abstraction and, most particularly, from the
European tradition of painting towards a unique personal style.
What they share here — apart from the very strong painting that pervades the show — is a consciousness of the art
historical tradition of painting within which each artist creates his or her work.
The original mission of the Blue Mountain Gallery was to show the work of strong representational painters and to stimulate the representational
tradition of painting which was almost totally absent from New York's commercial galleries in 1980.
For instance, post-impressionistic painting arose in the wake of impressionist painting and contributed to the
evolving tradition of painting, even helping to show impressionism and its antecedents in a new light.
She has been one of the most talked about artists of the past decade, consistently finding new narrative structures to infuse the
venerable tradition of painting with an unpredict - able expressionism.
Using two
classic traditions of both painting and map making, Two Feathers communicates a tragic, yet often humorous story that, through a slight of hand and bristle of the brush retell and reshape historical roles of race, class, and gender.
Packed with humor, sexual imagery and a heaviness of spirit, the 31 paintings in this book are intimate works, difficult to assign to an
obvious tradition of painting.
Inspired by the plein air paintings of Lois Dodd, whose retrospective at the Kemper Museum is on view February 8 — August 4, 2012, this exhibition brings together works that convey varied approaches to the long -
standing tradition of painting flowers.
through 7 September, Gammel Strand 48 This summer group show pays tribute to the
longstanding tradition of painting in New York, which has been a centre of avant - garde and innovation for many decades.
In Cameroon there is a
visual tradition of painting the exteriors of the home with symbols intended to keep out evil spirits, and painting other symbols on the interiors to capture friendly ones.
Steeped in the
academic tradition of painting, Brown draws from the compositional structure, historical motifs, and virtuosic brushwork of master painters across a diverse range of genres.
Unabashed in his embrace of the history of painting, Gisholt paints timeless, poetic worlds where the everyday and the grand
tradition of painting merge.
The curators explore how sculpture can be a useful foil to the historically
laden tradition of painting, with Cameron Crawford's large works, which include painted canvas, stretcher bars and other endemic materials of traditional painting, deconstructed and represented as sculpture.
Consistently inventive, Stella, now 74, is one of the most significant artists to work in the
abstract tradition of painting, sculpture and print making over the past 50 years.
Still, while some would superficially fall under Downes's link to the
landscape tradition of painting, it is clearly grounded in a generation of artists born in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Just as the once - feared «death of painting» has yielded an
ongoing tradition of painting, so the deconstructive art of Broodthaers has become part - and - parcel of both the gallery system and the public art museum, though he certainly aimed to upend this dialectical narrative by such acts as the destruction and / or reuse of his own previous work.
Flavin's «monuments» embody what he described as his goal of working on «a sequence of implicit decisions to
combine traditions of painting and sculpture in architecture with acts of electric light defining space.»
Beautiful to look at, almost to the point of decoration, the works echo out toward the viewer, and one is easily taken by the romance of the pleasing combination of color and structure, and the quiet reference to an earlier
artistic tradition of painting interiors.
While European modernists had never rejected the old
craft tradition of painting smallish canvases on an easel, he claimed, Americans instinctively reached for something bigger and more free.