Sentences with phrase «traditional modes of representation»

Coined by Russian painter Kazimir Malevich in 1915, Suprematism declared a break with traditional modes of representation, embracing geometric abstraction and aiming to revolutionize artistic practice with an autonomous visual language of «pure artistic feeling.»

Artists sought to criticize traditional modes of representation, mainly government - commissioned religious and allegorical works, by blending elements of high and low culture and incorporating parts of newly modernized quotidien life in their works.

Halasz offers contemporary insight to seemingly traditional modes of representation.

As a contemporary artist who deliberately chooses to work within the parameters of a traditional genre and to employ a traditional mode of representation, my challenge is to create work that embraces tradition (which I'm convinced remains vital and relevant for our time) while simultaneously transcending the sense of nostalgia often attributed to it.

Not exact matches

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).

Similar to the way Manet initiated a new freedom from traditional subjects and modes of representation, each work featured in the exhibition intentionally takes the landscape genre as a way to capture a contemporary state of being.

Wiley's larger - than - life figures disturb and interrupt tropes of portrait painting, often blurring the boundaries between traditional and contemporary modes of representation and the critical portrayal of masculinity and physicality as it pertains to the view of black and brown young men.

She often strips her subjects of their original contexts, working with — while often transgressing and deconstructing — traditional Western modes of representation.

The content of her work meanwhile questions conventional modes of filmmaking: linear narrative is passed over for a circular approach, and recurrent themes — investigations of time, duration, and the act of seeing — favor visual explorations instead of traditional representation.

In contrast to leading conceptual art practices of the 1970s, Clemente refocused attention on representation, narrative, and the figure, and explored traditional, artisanal materials and modes of working.

In each canvas, he has layered abstract images, traditional European painting, warped cartoons and the front - seated trompe l'oeil figurine creating a visual assault that begs the viewer to grapple with the hierarchies within modes of representation — high and low.

Often blurring the boundaries between traditional and modern modes of representation, he emphasizes the established portrayal of masculinity and physicality connected to the representation of black young men.

This session examines how digital and analog reproduction technologies, holographic re-creations, manipulated selfies, virtual reality, and alternative camera - lens representations are philosophically changing traditional modes of portraiture — and even «being» itself.

The artists included in this exhibition furthered this mission by abandoning traditional art - making practices in favor of new modes of representation.