Sentences with phrase «tradition of painting»

They show us the complete tradition of painting for what it is: a problem of the relationship of the human mind to the body.
R: Yes, and also in the European and American tradition of painting more widely.
The decoration and making of folding screens is a specific strain within the larger tradition of painting.
The juxtaposition reveals the various pioneering styles and techniques each artist employed while paying homage to earlier traditions of painting.
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.
It is a linguistic fact that comes out of specific cultural traditions of painting reflecting both local and global contexts.
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.»
Similarly, Pigott and Heygate subvert traditions of painting through the canon of still life and trompe l'oeil aesthetics.
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.
Sabio, there's actually a very old tradition of painting Mary nursing Jesus.
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.
After the turn of the milennium, he became famous for his break with the figurative tradition of painting in Leipzig.
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.
In this sense, here the Western tradition of painting encounters a fundamentally Oriental matrix of art - making.
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 artist skilfully fuses great traditions of painting and current practices of graffiti in her local surroundings.
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.
In this way it unites both the artist's own ingenuity and vision with the historic and classical tradition of painting that comes before it.
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.
As a young man, Che studied Fine Arts at National Taiwan Normal University, where he was taught about the Eastern traditions of painting.
Jukkala says, «Didier's artistic practice connects with the deep traditions of painting, drawing, printmaking and figuration at PAFA.
As ground - breaking as the Abstract Expressionists had been, they remained within the historic traditions of painting and sculpture.
Through this process Ferris developed a motif of masks to engage themes of identity while interrogating traditions of painting.
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.
Henry is an oil painter who studied in the Boston School 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.
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