Sentences with phrase «traditional folk arts»

Are you inspired by folk dance, song, or music and interested in making links between traditional folk arts and contemporary arts practice?

Folklore style means paring back — from the earthy shades of nature to the primary shades and flat, simple shapes of traditional folk art.

You can take a piece of Merida home with you by visiting La Casa de las Artesanias, a state - run shop displaying the work of regional artists, many of whom produce traditional folk art.

In this solo exhibition, titled Lineages, a series of Farmanfarmaian's elaborate mirror sculptures are installed across from a number of her intricate geometric drawings, revealing an astute conflation of Western abstraction and traditional folk art of her native -LSB-.....]

Working across large - scale woodcuts, gouache paintings, so called «typewriter drawings» and ceramic sculptures, their uniquely carnivalesque visual language combines influences from traditional folk art and abstract art from the early 20th century European avant - garde.

Gert and Uwe Tobias» large woodcuts, gouache paintings, typewriter drawings and ceramic sculptures combine influences from traditional folk art and abstract art from...

American Folk Art Museum Dedicated to traditional folk art, it was initially called the Museum of Early American Folk Arts and focused on traditional arts & crafts of 18th - and 19th - century America, before changing its name in 1966 to the Museum of American Folk Art, and in 2001 to American Folk Art Museum.

«Gates» is a site - specific piece employing the traditional folk art of quilting with contemporary art practices such as assemblage, installation and performance to create an environment that explores notions of cultural lineage, social tensions, economic degradation and social constructs.

«Gates» is a site - specific piece employing the traditional folk art of quilting with contemporary art practices such as assemblage, installation and performance to create an environment that explores notions -LSB-...]

American Folk Art Museum (NYC) Devoted to traditional folk art from the Americas, predominantly from the 18th - century onwards.

Several works featured in the solo exhibition called on traditional folk art forms to narrate the complexities of underground drug cultures infused with violence and shiny objects paid for with obscene amounts of ill - gotten gain.

The naïve shapes hark back to traditional folk art and included amongst the designs are the Kent Ivy corn dolly.

Not exact matches

The 29th Annual Lowell Folk Festival will feature five stages of traditional music, authentic crafts demonstrations, ethnic foods, art and children's activities.

Stylistically, both the characters and the action sequences (under the direction of Jennifer Yuh Nelson) have been pushed further, incorporating elements of traditional Chinese folk art with kung fu movie posters and flashes of glittery Japanese animation.

I have worked in the publishing industry for over twenty years, been a published author, and had some great sales numbers (printed editions of The Art of Abundance over 95,000 copies sold total) and awful numbers (the less said the better), lived through a publisher bankruptcy, ridden the waves of change in the industry, and saw the bottom fall out in mid-2008, with all the folks I worked with laid off and my way of making a living in traditional publishing disappear.

There are several attractions to visit at Xcaret Mexico, such as the Mayan ruins, the Mexican Folk Art Museum, a traditional Hacienda Henequenera and the Chapel of Guadalupe.

With its narrow passages and 19th - century buildings housing traditional restaurants and folk art shops, Olvera Street certainly evokes the romance of an authentic mercado.

Clara's interior is a celebration of local art, with pottery, folk - art, tropical wood - working, paintings, and sculptures, you'll be immersed in the best of traditional Mexican decor.

Like the other side of a coin, Zihuatanejo retains much of the laid - back, Mexican charm of a sleepy fishing village, with its winding streets, market, boutique hotels, galleries, folk art shops, traditional town plaza and palapa - style seafood restaurants serving up the daily catch.

Upending traditional distinctions between fine, folk, and decorative arts, Grebenak subverts the readymade tendencies of the Pop - era to establish a cheeky - irreverence all her own.

The organization has awarded a total of $ 642,000 to 95 artists (including four collaborations) throughout New York State in the following disciplines: fiction, folk / traditional arts, interdisciplinary work, painting, and video / film.

Baselitz is also known for his distinctive approach to sculpture: his roughly hewn and boldly painted wooden figures fuse traditional woodcarving techniques with primitivist and folk art impulses.

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The cozy NEWD Art Show, on Johnson Avenue, featured the Lower East Side gallery Regina Rex, which displayed several of Hannah Barrett's playfully deviant folk - arty takes on the traditional portrait and still life; Greenpoint's 106 Green, an artist - run space showing gently noirish figurative paintings by Beijing - raised Xinyi Cheng; and Greenpoint Terminal, offering Eric Shaw's meticulous but sardonically wobbly hard - edge abstractions.

Honoring traditional Asian arts through her use of Hanji paper, Korean silk, and calligraphic brushstrokes, she plays with iconography and symbols that have been classified as «foreign» such as blue and white china patterns, fortune cookies (which originated in California but are identified as Chinese), Korean fans, and floating dragons and intermingles them with references to Pop and southern folk art.

Interested in the traditional fields of icon - painting and folk art, he later transferred his attention to the most modern avant - garde trends in Russia and Western Europe, more precisely Paris.

The Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. proudly presents The Sun, the Moon, and the Lotus, a new exhibition of contemporary works by Jeon Soo - min that reinterprets traditional Korean landscape and folk paintings to create a modern vision of oriental art.

Utilizing the exterior architectural niches and arches of the building, her work featured graphic folk art - inspired figurative narratives and vivid geometric patterns reminiscent of traditional American quilt work and Pennsylvania Dutch hexes.

This summer, Tate Britain will celebrate the diversity of British folk art, with an unprecedented display of objects that will deliberately do away traditional artistic categories.

More difficult to place is outsider art, a genre that has expanded over the last 20 years from focusing on traditional folk crafts to including obsessive outpourings by the mentally ill and flea - market pickings.

Text from Scott's recent exhibition at the Danforth Museum (MA) describes her work as «Influenced by the aesthetics of contemporary painting, as well as the thrifty and improvised nature of folk art, Susan Scott manipulates traditional painters» materials such as canvas, wood, staples and paint to create an elegant and quirky hybrid of painting and sculpture.»

Xin Song (b. 1970, China, lives in New York) is rare in the eclectic Contemporary art world as she embraces traditional Chinese paper - cutting as her medium, long considered a folk art chiefly used in decorating windows and doors, and displayed on festive occasions such as weddings and childbirths.

The Folk and Traditional Arts grant program is designed to enrich Minnesota communities through folk and traditional art forms being passed on, documented, practiced and shaFolk and Traditional Arts grant program is designed to enrich Minnesota communities through folk and traditional art forms being passed on, documented, practiced Traditional Arts grant program is designed to enrich Minnesota communities through folk and traditional art forms being passed on, documented, practiced and shafolk and traditional art forms being passed on, documented, practiced traditional art forms being passed on, documented, practiced and shared.

The Museum of Art has also produced a series of major exhibitions examining the artistic heritage of New Hampshire, focusing on the Isles of Shoals, the White Mountains, the art colonies of Cornish and Dublin, New Hampshire folk art, and the state's traditional arts made of woArt has also produced a series of major exhibitions examining the artistic heritage of New Hampshire, focusing on the Isles of Shoals, the White Mountains, the art colonies of Cornish and Dublin, New Hampshire folk art, and the state's traditional arts made of woart colonies of Cornish and Dublin, New Hampshire folk art, and the state's traditional arts made of woart, and the state's traditional arts made of wood.

Known for his woven paintings — made of handwoven fibers, wool, cotton, and acrylic on canvas — Wadden's work often disrupts traditional divisions between folk art and fine art.

Brent Wadden's woven paintings seek to entangle the traditional divisions between folk art and fine art.

By applying tools and techniques from handicraft traditions to contemporary designs, he blurs the line between the traditional categories of fine and folk art.

While their traditional use of folk art — woodcuts, embroidery and lace — evokes cultural nostalgia, their contemporary aesthetic refers and renews Geometric Abstraction.

Jeon Soo - min combines a unique perspective on Korean landscape paintings to create dreamlike art that re-envisions and recompiles the rich natural symbolism of traditional folk paintings.

Along the way they helped transform ceramics» reputation as a strictly traditional, craft - based medium — often regarded as primitive, or assigned to the realm of folk art — into a sophisticated form capable of complex expression.

«We do not systematically recognize vibrant artistic forms that exist right smack dab in Houston (or elsewhere),» she says, «because, since they forego the performance stage or gallery exhibition, folk and traditional arts are almost always «embedded» and «performative,» surrounded by the messy, meaningful stuff of social life.»

Chicago also pointed out that her career was not propelled in a traditional manner; indeed, the established and respected folks of the art world made it extremely difficult for her to gain greater public access.

While Van den Dorpel speaks through the specialized language of computer programming and perhaps abstrusely anthropomorphizes variably folk or «traditional» approaches to fine art, his work addresses more universal concerns related to ethics of economic austerity as well as those of inclusion, alienation, and social hierarchies.

[1] He established a studio in Madras (now Chennai), [2] and became interested in both the religious and folk traditions of India and in the traditional art and crafts of the country.

The Museum maintains an ambitious program of changing exhibitions annually, embracing a wide range of subjects, both historical and contemporary and including folk art, contemporary craft, multi-disciplinary installations, community - based work, as well as traditional media.

In the Constable Rotunda gallery, four large abstracted dolls adopt and transform traditional topsy - turvy folk art dolls.

Hojalata Studio A, Lower Level Try your hand at creating Hojalata, or traditional Mexican folk art made with tin and decorated with unique cultural motifs and bright colors

Traditional Native American folk art is stitched together with a hint of Paul Klee's diminutive monsters, a whiff of Jean - Michel Basquiat's calligraffiti, some of Alexander Calder's delicate mobiles, a bit of Robert Rauschenberg's scrap storytelling.

2012 NYFA Fellowship Award in Painting The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced the recipients of its 27th annual Artist Fellowships, including, for the first time, recipients and Finalists in the Folk / Traditional Arts category.

A total of 94 Fellowships of $ 7,000 each were awarded in the following disciplines: Fiction; Film / Video; Folk / Traditional Arts; Interdisciplinary Work, and Painting.