Sentences with phrase «traditional painting genres»

Curated by Michelle Grabner, the exhibition is built on a triad of traditional painting genres: still life, landscape, and portraiture.

Along with Fairfield Porter (who wrote perceptively about his work), Jane Freilicher, Grace Hartigan and Larry Rivers, he infused a gestural approach into figuration, while also engaging traditional painting genres.

For Wood, shifts in scale push the limits of traditional painting genres.

Combining acrylic and oil with collage and printmaking techniques, Wilson depicts a variety of imagery that draws from traditional painting genres and historical influences that range from Matisse to Bearden.

American Genre: Contemporary Painting is an exhibition built on a triad of traditional painting genres: still life, landscape, and portraiture.

Could it be this painterly quality to Dean's films that led the NPG, in collaboration with its neighbour the National Gallery, and the Royal Academy (whose offering I haven't seen, as it doesn't open until the end of May), to the decision to divide the present survey of her work into the three traditional painting genres — portraiture, landscape, still life?

Some of Lichenstein's greatest works evolved from imagery drawn from popular culture: advertising images, war - time comics, and pin - up portraits, as well as traditional painting genres such as landscapes, still lifes, and interiors.

Not exact matches

While portraiture is a traditional, time - honoured genre, this exhibition offers a new perspective by bringing together iconic portrait paintings by artists such as Max Beckmann, Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach with more unconventional works by artists such as Lara Favaretto and John Bock.

Their subject matter includes all of the traditional categories within Western Art: figurative, landscape, portraiture, indoor and outdoor genre and still life paintings.

The Art of the Flower positions floral paintings within a broader art historical and cultural narrative and reveals how the traditional genre was reinvented through artistic experimentation in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Presented as a cinematic installation recalling the format of painted panoramas, «Halka / Haiti» probes the present - day power of traditional artistic genres to embody, represent, and, ultimately, construct national identities in the 21st century.

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.

This exhibition reveals how the traditional genre of still - life painting was re-invented by 19th - century painters, even as the art world was radically transformed by the advent of modernism.

She was an enthusiastic student of the history of art, frequently quoting historical paintings by artists such as Gustave Courbet and J. M. W. Turner, as in Barometer (1992), or traditional artistic genres, especially landscape painting.

Inspired by work such as Marlene Dumas» «Chlorosis» and the Terracotta Warriors of Xi'an, China, Bassel uses the traditional genre of portraiture in conjunction with the obscurity of a crowd to allow a sense of intimacy to unfold, even within the monumental scale of her painting.

He did not invent a new language as Picasso, Matisse and Mondrian did, but he renewed traditional genres through his excruciatingly sensuous, desperately urgent immersion in the process of painting.

There are probably several reasons why I turned to photography: first of all, because only this medium can hold completely unseen fragments of the world, and because its enormous popularization has turned it into the container of a visual heritage that is practically infinite, in comparison with the rigid traditional structures of the genres of figurative painting.

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.

Her figurative paintings use traditional art - historical genres (the still life, the formal portrait, depictions of classical statuary) to explore people and objects that no longer have the fixed representational or symbolic status that allowed those genres to operate.

In the wide range of art the gallery offers, subjects range from water and beach scenes, boats, landscape, flower arrangements, graphic paintings of musicians, fifties photographic paintings, birds, fish, traditional still life, figure painting, portraits and trees, covering every major contemporary figurative category and genre.

Following the traditional motifs of still life and landscape painting, Pecis challenges the genre with her use of energetic and vibrant swaths of color, highly pigmented patterns, and manipulated perspectives.

The work of Gillian Carnegie introduces into the traditional genre of landscape painting undertones of anxiety, conveyed not by the subject matter but through the paint and its obsessive handling.

His observational paintings of people in his neighborhood are contemporary versions of traditional genre painting, still life and portrait» (PR TTG).

Moving Pictures is presented in four components: the introductory section suggests parallels between the first American films and traditional artistic genres such as landscape and marine painting.

Butler writes that both shows» [suggest] that a renewed interest in traditional genres — portrait, still life, landscape — is thriving within the painting community... That galleries are positioning a new kind of painting to replace what they (and many critics) see as a tired form of abstraction is a salutary development and very different from the days when the objectness of Minimalism, performance, installation, and electronic media challenged painting.»

I would imagine that, back then, the thought of an Abstract Expressionist concurrently adhering to a traditional genre would be considered taboo and the paintings themselves retrograde.

This summer Jesse Greenberg and MacGregor Harp of Brooklyn's 247365 organized «Don't Look Now» at Zach Feuer, a group show suggesting that a renewed interest in traditional genres — portrait, still life, landscape — is thriving within the painting community.

Although he worked in a modern style, the subjects of his work were often traditional, such as portraits, still life, landscapes and genre paintings.

Fern Canyon features a selection of drawings and paintings that introduces Sherman's innovative approach to traditional genre, displaying her patent perspectives on contemporary landscape painting.

The artists use the traditional genre of landscape painting in compelling new ways, addressing contemporary issues of land use, nature appreciation, and ecology through their paintings of the American environment.

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

The other traditional classes of history and portrait painting were present, but the period is more notable for a huge variety of other genres, sub-divided into numerous specialized categories, such as scenes of peasant life, landscapes, townscapes, landscapes with animals, maritime paintings, flower paintings and still lifes of various types.

He works in the three traditional genres of landscape, still life, and the figure, yet what he is really painting is thought itself.

Subject to this condition, Performance artists can incorporate any discipline or medium into their art, including Dance, Music, Recitation, Mime, Fashion, Theatrical Design, Film, Juggling, Tumbling, Contortionism, Escapology, Installation, Body and Computer art (to name but a few), as well as more traditional genres like painting, drawing and sculpture.

Tapies» chosen genre within the general Art Informel style, was Matter Painting, which stressed the evocative power of unusual materials and also undermined the conventions of traditional fine art.

Landscape painting was, likewise, revolutionized by the artists of this generation, who found in this traditional genre a sustained source of inspiration.

Meanwhile, in parallel to this «traditional» genre of Irish landscape, some Irish artists went abroad - particularly to France - where they joined other European landscape artists in schools at Barbizon, Pont - Aven and Concarneau, as well as St Ives in England, to paint in the Impressionist and Post Impressionist styles, to name but two.

Stingel's paintings, however, fall between abstraction and figuration, even between time and space, becoming decoration, painting, architecture all at once, indeed transcending the traditional genre.

This graphic narrativization is a stylistic update of Marshall's best - known work, monumental paintings of African - American subjects based on the traditional genre of narrative history painting.

Reinvesting traditional art historical genres (still life, portraits, nudes, landscapes, and interiors) with an abundance of rich and surprising forms — such as cast sculptures and assemblages, paintings, digital montages, spatial installations, kinetic objects, and texts — he ceaselessly explores the intersection of art and everyday life.

«Changing Views» features landscape paintings that extend the traditional definition of the genre to include the cityscape and the built environment.

Los Angeles — Kohn Gallery is honored to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Mark Innerst, consisting of up to 28 new works, all of which continue the artist's conceptual investigation into thematic genres of traditional painting.

As a result, Otero refines his unique visual language by exploring the relationship between representation and abstraction in order to expand the traditional genre of abstract painting.

Artists working with new genres such as installation, digital process, or collage are welcome to apply, as well as artists who work with traditional paint medium.

The permanent collection of the PAMM is installed thematically within two rooms on the first floor and four rooms on the second and is organized around the historical criteria of genres within Western painting and the traditional hierarchy of genres that developed out of the Renaissance period and was promoted within European art academies up through the 19th century.

Although the genre of landscape painting - and Hayes» landscape paintings in particular - mine a familiar and traditional vein of art, these paintings challenge our security in what we know, trust or take for granted.

The exhibition introduces Sherman's innovative approach to a traditional genre, displaying her patent perspectives on contemporary landscape painting.

He engages traditional genres of painting such as the interior, still life, and landscape, filtered through the lens of photography.

Note: Genre - painting is one of the five main types of painting, which form the traditional Hierarchy of the Genres.

The Metamorphosis exhibition provides an insight into the relational structure of James Welling's oeuvre and ranges across such traditional genres and styles as portraiture, landscape, abstraction and documentary, and thereby also touches on other cultural disciplines such as painting, architecture, sculpture and dance.