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It is Nisenbaum's awareness of and capacity to synthesise two culturally distinct traditions of painting while raising their stakes in novel ways (not to mention that she is also a great colourist) that makes her someone worthy of special attention.

Not exact matches

This is the assertion that, as the catalogue essay by Dominique de Villepin observes, these «involuntary heirs of two traditions of landscape painting» found a way while living in exile — de Kooning the Dutchman in New York, Zao the Chinese in Paris — to soar free of the constraints of «stifling tradition.»»

Corwin writes: «In the tradition of Klein and Dubuffet, Strobert chooses to site her artistic practice within the confines of painting, while literally doing everything she can to reconfigure that discipline through a re-orientation of mediums and with an expressionistic yet pragmatic eye... Strobert's painting isn't abstract painting but the abstraction of painting.

According to the gallery, «The Girl» encapsulates Op de Beeck's uncanny ability to create visual fictions of wonder, silence and introspection, while referencing art historical traditions of the panorama, landscape painting and German - Romantic notions of melancholy and the sublime.

While Borremans's technical command of his medium recalls classical painting — the rich tactility and special glow of his painted surfaces evoke the Old Master tradition and artists such as Francisco Goya — his compositions elude traditional interpretative strategies.

Over the past 17 years, Shahzia Sikander has worked within the tradition of Indo - Persian miniature painting — creating a dialogue with a traditional form of art while engaging in a transformative task.

His work incorporated traditions of conceptual art, minimalism and monochrome painting but made its own internal logic its primary reference point while strenuously resisting a reduction to any single style.

Spanning painting, sculpture and works on paper, Foster's practice borrows from the traditions of British Romantic painting while touching on the absurd with one fanciful brushstroke and then flitting forward to an uncertain, sinister future.

He paints in the tradition of the master American painters Dickinson and Hawthorne, using careful modulation of color - value while working directly from the motif in natural light.

A picture such as «Grind» playfully echoes the edge - conscious»60s abstractions of Frank Stella and Jo Baer while evoking the vernacular tradition of sign painting and the cross-fertilization of painting and graphic design that culminated in Pop art.

Fischl's paintings from that time dealt with issues of early sexuality and voyeurism, while his most recent large - scale canvases focus on the tradition of bull fighting.

Through this process Ferris developed a motif of masks to engage themes of identity while interrogating traditions of painting.

Invoking past and future in a critique of the present, these paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos, and other works document observed, current realities while referencing the aesthetic traditions of 19th - and 20th - century art.

Jeff Bark's monumental photographs plumb the depths of a collective human experience in the manner of history painting's grand masters, from Titian to Jacques - Louis David, while drawing from the tradition...

Raja Ram Sharma works in the tradition of Indian miniature painting, while Kathryn Lynch's paintings capture the scenic panoramas seen from her house on Shelter Island.

This ritual reflects a common tradition among cultures that practice sand painting — allowing for new drawings to be made while also speaking to the impermanence of life and the cyclical nature of the universe.

While the formal still lifes may conjure associations with Audubon and are occasionally mistaken for watercolors or drawings, the consequence of motion is a startling and surprising range of subtle colors, suggesting painterly strategies that refer to a long tradition of European still life painting.

One of Bearden's «hierographic paintings,» it is more analytical — and less concerned with religious faith than with trying to work through the European art - historical tradition while homing in on a distinctly modern style.

But, while relying on the familiar arrangements of white - male painting tradition, Thomas allows her photographic compositions to spiral inward, away from the superficial tropes of exotica, toward the complex sexuality of her models.

When looking at her paintings, the artists who come readily to mind comprise a passage from the 1950s,»60s and»70s and into our own time: Anni Albers, Lee Bontecou, Alberto Burri, Franz Kline, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, and Alan Shields; while the organic quality of her work, particularly being exhibited in Italy, resonates with the tradition of arte povera.

While the work brings to mind monochromatic painting and the symbolic meaning of yellow in the western tradition — light, warmth, and luxury — it also questions our conventional understanding of art because it is a work that can be executed by anyone, anywhere.

Unlike the black - and - white formats of the ink portraits of the 1960s, the large paintings revisit traditions of modernist painting such as the checkerboard works of Piet Mondrian and the Alphabet paintings of Jasper Johns while depicting everyday speech in a variety of color palettes.

Both artists evolved out of the Dutch figurative tradition into complete abstraction at exactly the same time, but while Mondrian remained with his bleak, geometric painting throughout his life, Van Doesburg had other ideas, dozens of them.

In the 1970s, Bayrle's painting coexisted with music by groups like Kraftwerk and Can, who through focused sonic repetition referred to the structures of the postmodern world (highways, computers) while resisting western music traditions.

Thus she harks back on the one hand to the Nordic tradition of landscape painting in the 19th and 20th centuries (Dick Bengtsson, Carl Fredrik Hill, Ernst Josephson, among others), while on the other hand she takes interiors from forensic investigations as her basis and thus allows unvarnished reality to enter her paintings in the form of commonplace rooms.

While the commissioned still life painting was once a rarified symbol of status, this slow tradition now continues in streams of multiplicity.

Taking inspiration from the time - honored tradition of copying paintings in museums, Lowman will replicate a work currently on view in Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective, while opening up his own studio practice to the public.

For years Angelina has developed a method of abstract work that alludes to stain and pour painting traditions of Frankenthaler and Louis, among other influences, while contemplating urban and interior structures that make up today's world.

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The Coffin Paint series was inspired by a burial tradition he witnessed while growing up in Fujian province, southern China, where it is customary for the elderly to cope with their impending mortality by acquiring a casket and painting it in red lacquer, adding a coat of paint every year on the same date as a celebration of longevity.

Their inclusion seems to mourn the disappearing tradition of imaginative picture - making while much painting today is heavily invested in theory and / or materials.

While the tradition of painting will set the backdrop for this class, when it comes to take - home assignments, students will be encouraged to work in whatever mediums best reveal the truths they want to tell.

Dove Bradshaw's imagery is rooted in a long abstract painting tradition, while at the same time depending on chemical reactions that are both planned and wrought by the vagaries of time and atmosphere.

Writing in the catalogue of the exhibition, Enrique Juncosa, Director of IMMA and curator of the exhibition, describes how Winters, while participating in the aesthetic debates of his time, is also «heir to a tradition that includes some of the greatest names in abstraction — Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock and Cy Twombly — all of whom had a profound impact on 20th - century painting... Winters is without doubt, one of the leading painters maintaining the currency of abstraction after Minimalism.

Reichman's compositions frequently reference those of religious paintings, imbuing the erotic with a sense of sacred space, struggle and sacrifice, while locating his work in a tradition of historical painting.

Livingston asserts that by abandoning the canvas she is able to push the idea of painting as a «flexible» medium that can be expanded upon while still engaging with the traditions that have come before.

The exhibition also lays bare the tension surrounding painting then and now — the interrogation of its history and traditions as well as the willingness of artists to destroy, reinvent, and reframe the practice over time, all the while finding an uneasy reconciliation of their presence within the history of its tradition.

Each of these artists confronts issues of violence and power, shifting between personal, political and historical events while maintaining a dialogue with the tradition of figurative painting.

While Maisel's work is rooted in photography's tradition of recording, the monumental scale and presentation of his prints also draw upon the language of abstract painting.

Following the traditions of minimalism and land art while pursuing a path toward abstraction, his photographs, paintings, public installations and sculptures have undoubtedly been influenced by nature and the Los Angeles environment in which he lives.

While his work has been linked both to conceptual art and land art, Fulton saw himself as heir to British traditions of landscape painting.

In a press release announcing the news, Gagosian Gallery said, «While the content of his epic figurative paintings is unmistakably of his own time and cultural context, his formal virtuosity and complex layering of narrative reveal a deep and astute working knowledge of the inventions and traditions of painting from the Renaissance to the present day.»

Ming painting maintained the traditions of the earlier Southern Song painting academy, as well as those of the Yuan Dynasty: the Zhe School of painters (Zhejiang) pursued the descriptive, style of Song ink and wash painting, while the Wu School (Suzhou) school practised the more intense and expressive calligraphic idiom of Yuan scholar - painters.

Melded with his appreciation for (and acute knowledge of) the traditions of American realism, Hagege's paintings capture the magic and mystery of his subject matter while pushing the traditions of American realism into a contemporary visual space.

I came to see the difference: while Rothko has his own silence, steeped in the transcendental sides of both emotional tragedy and spiritual ecstasy in the tradition of romanticism — I always felt as though I'm the monk standing in the great Caspar David Friedrich painting The Monk by The Sea.

Still, while some would superficially fall under Downes's link to the landscape tradition of painting, it is clearly grounded in a generation of artists born in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Spanning the galleries spacious Midtown gallery, the works weigh heavy on painting, a genre that has helped Indian artists to explore the country's vast visual tradition while exploring possibilities of implementing socio - political commentary.

His new commission Pleasant Places #S006.201 is a computer - generated animation based on 3D - scanned natural scenery in southern France which pays homage to the tradition of landscape painting, while also alluding to a pivotal moment within its history when representation began to verge on abstraction.

While Martha Mayer Erlebacher has certainly studied the history of art, and has looked hard at the rich tradition of allegorical painting, she is neither a neo-Classicist nor a rigid adherent of any theory of contemporary narrative painting.

As always, Warren is not afraid to get her hands messy and her material handling of the psychically charged spaces of the id and the ego, the feminine and the masculine, imagos and logos, maintains the improvisatory, even rebellious nature of clay while couching the medium within the larger traditions of painting, sculpture, and space.