Sentences with phrase «traditional canvas painting»

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In the past, this form of painting was only done on the outer walls of houses but Mahlangu is one of the first artists to transfer these traditional designs to canvas, shoes, sculptures, ceramics and other modern mediums, making her a pioneering Ndebele artist and showing that adapting to change is an essential skill in the art world.

Free morning At 13:45 pm A Guided Cusco City Tour, Excursion, visiting Koricancha «The Sun Temple» the golden Inca «s temple that impressed so much to the first spanish conquistadores when they arrived in 1534, Cusco main Cathedral with their exquisite canvas from the Cuzqueña Painting School, chapels, Virgins and Saints, Saqsayhuaman Inca Complex, where every year in June in the winter solstice in this hemisphere the young Cuzqueños perform the old and traditional Feast of the Sun «IntiRaymi» in honor to the Sun, then we visit Tambo Machay, Qenqo and Puca - Pucara.

His canvases during this decade thus fuse the harmonious composition of the traditional landscape painting with the dissolving surfaces and complex manipulation of colour that had emerged in art following impressionism.

Current art world phenom Wyatt Kahn, whose fragmented canvases blur the line between painting and sculpture, transcends traditional roles once again as curator for Rachel Uffner Gallery's group show, «Proper Nouns.»

This 1990 oil on canvas is also an acknowledgement of the importance and significance of traditional painting.

Over the course of her young career, Erika Keck has been steadily minimizing canvas (or other traditional backing) in her paintings, composing instead with long, sticky - shiny stripes of acrylic paint, draped across stretcher bars or other structures.

Pollock studied under Thomas Hart Benton before leaving traditional techniques to explore abstraction expressionism via his splatter and action pieces, which involved pouring paint and other media directly onto canvases.

Conceived as an adjunct to painting in the earliest years of its development in the first decades of the 19th century, when many painters discovered how useful photographs could be in composing their canvases, photography quickly assumed an artistic presence and legitimacy of its own (albeit one that often still took its cues from traditional painterly modes of representation).

The grouping of objects will create an overall image by their dynamic arrangement within the space, an arrangement that mimics the way I would approach a more traditional painting on canvas.»

Without recourse to the traditional means of brush, canvas and illusion, he has «painted» with fire and iron, creating a tight, balanced composition with all the compelling pictorial logic of a great abstract painting.

Kaz Oshiro's sculptural painting contorts the physical plane of the canvas, playfully breaking the traditional hard edges in a brilliant shade of hot pink.

Rather than assembling a group of artists who are concentrating on the demise of traditional painting supports — torn, shredded or punctured canvasses, exposed stretcher bars, paintings hung backwards, oddly shaped canvases, painting as sculpture, etc... this exhibition will focus on works that address time as a subject, or are time - sensitive.

He later invented his Texturologies — abstract paintings which adapted the traditional Tyrolean technique used by plasterers: Dubuffet covered his canvas in layers of tiny droplets of paint, and combined it with materials including collaged elements and sand.

After all the years of videos, rumpled beds and elephant dung, a truly shocking contemporary artist emerged last night as the bookie's favourite to win the # 20,000 Turner Prize - Michael Raedecker, who creates delicately beautiful, eerie landscapes in the traditional materials of paint and embroidery on canvas.

A painting may begin in a traditional sense, with a few strokes on canvas, then become whitewashed, sanded, thrown on the ground to collect spills from another project, whitewashed again, and so on, up to at most 15 times before a surface is built, and the work is deemed finished.

Two of Hirst's more recent paintings in which the artist returned to the traditional medium of oil on canvas are included, as well as «Resurrection» (1998 - 2003)-- a unique sculpture featuring a skeleton bisected by two glass panels, in the position of the crucifixion.

Challenging the traditional form and, with that, the definition of painting, Sam Gilliam forgoes the practice of stretching his canvases, instead allowing them to drape, and Angel Otero builds works from skins of dried paint and shreds of canvas.

Alfonso Ossorio, known primarily for his later compositions of found gewgaws and the ever - present evil eye, also has a traditional oil on canvas action painting from 1955.

Through his investigational approach, Otero combines the traditional act of painting with his innovative creation of «oil skins,» produced by layering oil paint on glass and then peeling it off in «sheets» before transferring it to canvas.

Laurel Sparks works on traditional canvas, but in addition to painting she is using assemblage while letting the material fulfill its duties to communicate with the entire composition.

Many artists today are producing paintings and sculptures that resemble or reference textiles, using traditional materials like paint, canvas, wood, paper and glass.

There are no traditional canvases in Gomes's work: painting instead becomes sculpture, object, an act of mark making upon a surface, or an arrangement on a wall.

It's a common story of contemporary art for artists to describe abandoning the two - dimensional confines of traditional painting on canvas for the more immediate materiality of sculpture, installation, or performance.

Using traditional tattoo iconography as well as a free hand drawing style, Dr Lakra brings energy to every page, canvas, or object that he floods with paint and ink.

While antithetical to traditional landscape painting, the square canvas, with slight compositional variations of placement, scale, color, and architectural imagery, is appropriate to her modernist subject matter.

Artist Mark Bradford moves past a traditional definition of painting with his palimpsest - like canvases comprising layers of collaged and painted material that the artist sands, slices, and lacquers.

By the 2000s, though, his ability to make the traditional medium of painting feel exciting and relevant ensured that his canvases were widely coveted.

Originally trained in traditional Japanese Nihonga and Western - style Yoga painting, by the time Shiraga joined Gutai he had begun to experiment with oils, spreading thick impasto across the canvas using his fingers, hands and feet.

As we've found throughout in our ongoing coverage of Phaidon's new contemporary painting compendium Vitamin P3, smearing pigment on canvas is hardly a lost art — in fact, by all appearances, this most traditional of art forms is still going strong.

In one of the new landscape paintings, traditional pictorial devices used to suggest depth or perspective are playfully challenged by the use of filmic text or explicit engagement with the flatness of the canvas.

Often rendered on unusually shaped canvases with paint layered so thick it seems three - dimensional, Murray's decision to stick with painting an a time when it had largely fallen out of favor with modern artists — along with her choice to ignore many of painting's traditional boundaries and labels — helped her to stand out.

Stingel is best known for his wall - to - wall installations, constructed of fabric or malleable Celotex sheets, as well as his seemingly more traditional oil - on - canvas paintings.

At the opening reception of his latest exhibit, The World of Line, Ink, and Nude by Chang - Woo Seok, now on display at the Korean Cultural Center Washington DC through June 8, the artist demonstrated his very personal technique, making use of his prosthetic limbs to grasp a brush and his torso movement to paint across a room - sized canvas of traditional Korean paper, spread across the gallery floor.

From traditional and non-traditional paintings on canvas, to sculpture, video and photogram collages, this body of work transcends historical perceptions of abstraction and challenges the boundaries of the genre.

With a playful title just one letter away from describing a traditional form of painting, Acrylic in Canvas reminds viewers how flexible borders between seemingly discrete categories can be.

As particular and individual in their use of colour as they are distinctive in composition, James» works interrogate traditional approaches to painting, often actively integrating the physicality of the canvas and stretcher into the composition, as well as incorporating dust, glue or debris into the surface.

In his paintings Moffett extends the traditional two - dimensional frame in a number of ways, including converting the ordinariness of the flat plane into highly textured reliefs, making paintings that are opened up and turned inside out, or presenting intricate illuminations through the use of video projections on the canvas.

From iconic silkscreen graphics to black light paintings, McGinness creates a hybrid of experience that move beyond the traditional canvas.

Eschewing traditional methods of painting, in one of his critically acclaimed series Estep used an industrial kiln to sterilize soil before he sifted it in careful patterns through a metal screen onto the glue coated canvases, smearing them when he removed the screen.

Hard - edge painting, geometric abstraction, appropriation, hyperrealism, photorealism, expressionism, minimalism, lyrical abstraction, pop art, op art, abstract expressionism, color field painting, monochrome painting, neo-expressionism, collage, intermedia painting, assemblage painting, digital painting, postmodern painting, Neo-Dada painting, shaped canvas painting, environmental mural painting, traditional figure painting, landscape painting, portrait painting, are a few continuing and current directions in painting at the beginning of the 21st century.

In these works he had dispensed with the more formal traditional technique of drawing and under - painting in favor of working directly on the canvas with a loaded brush.

There are also his more traditional - seeming, good old oil - on - canvas compositions, that range from photorealistic to blurred, positioning his paintings as a repository of memory, unreliable in its nature, and indubitably mediated by the artist's subjectivity.

Honorable Mention awards in the Traditional Art category were given to Julia Jenkins for her acrylic painting, «Metamorphosis,» Shabana Kauser for her oil on canvas, «Identity», Seon Young Kim for her oil on panel, «Jared» and Elzbieta Karnas for her oil on canvas, «Sunshine.»

Contributed by Becky Huff Hunter / It's a common story of contemporary art for artists to describe abandoning the two - dimensional confines of traditional painting on canvas for the more immediate materiality of sculpture, installation, or performance.

Before conceptual art, art was made of traditional materials, paint, canvas, bronze, marble, and more.

Thinking beyond the traditional notion of painting as paint on canvas, many of the artists in this exhibition also expand the possibilities of support.

Raised and educated in Sichuan, China, there is a clear influence of traditional Asian painting in the build - up of her markings on the canvas.

From the»40s on, American Abstract Expressionism dominated the Western art landscape and returned many artists» attention to the evocative formal qualities of paint on canvas and traditional sculptural materials — although the biggest figure associated with «Action Painting», Jackson Pollock, also stuck detritus including cigarette butts, coins, buttons, and keys onto the surfaces of his paintings.

Erik Parker is known for his precisely painted and organized worlds of chaos that exist within his brightly coloured, intensely layered, highly saturated canvases, that riff on the traditional genres of portraiture and still - life.

With a range of traditional and nontraditional materials, including acrylic and oil paint, ceramic, paper, canvas, carpet, and larvae, as well as varying techniques — from painting, pouring, cutting to burning — the artists employ different degrees of chance, and some more than others.