These materials have become easier to get and are often cheaper than
traditional art materials while having the ability to impersonate aspects of paint.
Not exact matches
In the 1960s,
while studying at Turin's Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, he fell under the influence of older contemporaries, including Michelangelo Pistoletto and Giovanni Anselmo — artists who used unconventional
materials and forms to create works that replaced the artifice of academic
art with simplicity, criticism of
traditional social values and an interest in the potential of the everyday.
He used ordinary objects and everyday junk
while also employing
traditional art materials.
Landscape Portraits continues Oppenheim's investigation of the relationship between image, process and
material,
while also engaging the
traditional art historical categories and hierarchies of landscape and portraiture.
Last year, during a summer residency at Lake George in upstate New York sponsored by Openings Artist Residency, Lee experimented with new forms, techniques and
materials,
while continuing to take inspiration from masters of
traditional Chinese
art and modern, abstract painters.
Gestural and expressive, his explorations in oil, concrete, wood, resin and other
materials, go beyond
traditional modes of painting
while simultaneously paying homage to his
art - historical predecessors.