Sentences with phrase «tribal art»

He creates paintings, sculpture, and mixed - media installations that explore his personal interpretations of tribal art, anthropology, mythology, philosophy, and traditions of indigenous American peoples.

Perhaps 60 per cent of them would not consider tribal art as their primary collection.

Numerous critics, for instance, have compared his paintings with primitive tribal art and artifacts, particularly shields and masks.

Your paintings reference tribal art, which records and tells a story about daily life.

Covarrubias introduced Tamayo to the editor of Vanity Fair magazine, Frank Crowninshield, a passionate collector of African tribal art.

Marineland also houses one of the most extensive exhibits of Tribal Art from the Melanesian region, scrimshaw pieces and carved whale teeth, collected by Georg J Craig, who was a crocodile hunter.

Major exhibitions of tribal arts in the late 19th through mid-20th centuries exposed the Western art world to non-Western art.

Traditionally, tribal art galleries invited...

I never sell,» Economou, 61, said about his art collection as he stood in his open, bright Athens home with tribal art displayed alongside paintings by Max Beckmann, Georg Baselitz and Jean Dubuffet on the walls.

It also exhibits tribal art from Africa, Oceania and the Pacific Northwest coast, Byzantine painting and antiquities.

Am happy to see the new chapter.as an African tribal art dealer who is not yet recognised and embarrassed yet, this is hope for me too.

Rooted in his decades - long collage practice, Roy Dowell's paintings and sculptures, extraordinary for their range of color and form, combine modernist cues with other visual languages, from Oceanic tribal art to Latin American art to commercial ephemera.

Tiptoeing between reality and fantasy, the animal portraits in Sonny's paintings are painstakingly rendered in great detail, with part of their flesh stripped down to the bone to reveal colourful patterns inspired by tribal art from the animal's natural habitat.

Among them are prehistoric cave paintings, Northwest and Southwest tribal art, pre-Columbian reliefs and the abstract paintings and sculptures.»

Roy Dowell's is a mythopoesis nurtured through a modernism of archaic forms without parody, informed through tribal arts, the zone inhabited by early 20th - century artists and mid-century artists alike.

Specialist dealers in antiquities and tribal art also took part in the fair and reported good business.

The exhibition also included a number of pieces of tribal art alongside significant loans from U.S. public and private collections.

Leading the dealers» fight against the bill is James Reid, vice-president of the Antique Tribal Art Dealers Association.

Hailing from Australia, Nelson drew his inspiration from the outback and turned the M3 into a piece of Papunya tribal art.

You will feel calm and relaxed as you sink into the pillow top mattress» and light the Moroccan lantern while taking in some interesting tribal art.

A perfect repertoire of aesthetic works of art, Taj Mahal Palace houses diverse collection of paintings and artifacts which include Belgian Chandeliers, Bastar tribal art and Goan Christian artifacts.

One might think of Oscar's art in terms of a post-apocalyptic primitivism, a makeshift, almost tribal art that searches for the simple order of structures rather than the hieratic remoteness of authority.

Newcomers include Marcuson & Hall (Brussels), concentrating on fibre works and textiles from Asia and Africa; Marcus Raccanello Tribal Art (UK) with Polynesian art, and 2R Ritual Gallery (Brussels) with African pieces.

Completing the list, Bernard De Grunne Fine Tribal Arts shows Bornean sculpture; Amir Mohtashemi cross-cultural Asian and Islamic objects; Sydney L. Moss netsuke and lacquer; and Simon Theobald brings German Expressionist portrait prints — a subject close to Rosenthal's heart.

Douglas Dawson Gallery, recently relocated to the historic Santa Fe building on Michigan Avenue, across the street from the Art Institute, specializes in ancient and historic tribal art from Africa, Asia and the Americas.

Tribal art often has the strength of an important artifact, which can impel a modern viewer to rethink their approach to images.

In Massachusetts, Ossorio encountered tribal art from around the world at the Peabody Museum and met - among other artists - Jared French, George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, and engraver Eric Gill.

Established in 1971, Pace Primitive specializes in museum - quality tribal art from Africa and Oceania.

In MacConnel's well documented trip to Western and sub-Saharan Africa in 1989, he speaks of how he went «in search of Picasso's ghost;» meaning he researched the African tribal masks and traditions that Picasso incorporated in his own tribal art and cubist paintings like Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

The initiative «gets a good group of younger curators into Frieze Masters, which facilitates buying», Clements - Gillespie says, adding that last year the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired a piece of tribal art partly through the curator on the Art Fund's programme.

Fritts also says that there are 70 buyers who have paid over $ 1m for individual works of tribal art at Sotheby's, some of whom have dipped their toe in this market only once.

Curry's work always contains this constant osmosis between the warmth of material like natural wood and the artificial slickness of industrial colours, between the memory of a hand - made object and the mass - produced, reproduced, broadcast image, between tribal art and the world of consumption.

Rubinstein's reference to tribal art appears to be based on the formal kinship of Ellison's paintings with, say, Kente cloth, but it also touches on Modernism's roots in both Sub-Saharan African art and an ethos of shared discovery, as witnessed in such movements as Cubism and Surrealism.

The works highlight Clemente's interest in imbuing the human form with spiritual imagery and fables from cultures around the world — a theme that recalls Pellizzi's early collections of tribal art objects, as well as work by artists dealing with the more romantic, mystical impulses of Surrealism.

Zoi Gaitanidou has been using embroidery to create elaborate tapestries that combine abstract patterns with figurative elements resulting in an intensity that recalls tribal art.

Close by the modern and contemporary art sections here, which boast a $ 35 million Henry Moore, a $ 14 million Picasso and fast - selling works by younger contemporary artists Ahmed Alsoudani and Vik Muniz, are the antiquities and tribal art stands, several of which will reappear at Frieze Masters.

She has trained in northern and southern tribal art, fashion, business, politics, leadership and studied in Montréal, NYC, Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong.

[7] Exposure to tribal arts provide inspiration to many modern artists, [8] notably Expressionists, [7] Cubists, and Surrealists, notably Surrealist Max Ernst.

Primitivism Style of Western painting / sculpture characterized by motifs and imagery derived from African, Oceanic, Aboriginal or other tribal arts.

In such close proximity to the Menil's tribal art installations, their fetishistic nature was made clear.

Bold colors, a free - standing hanging method, and vibrant geometric patterns remind of Aztec tribal art — combine them with the enchanting, hypnotic music that is wafting through the gallery, and you have a whole new artform indeed.

He held in high regard the work of Henri Gaudier - Brzeska, who embraced tribal art and its ability to convey power and mystery through three - dimensional form.

S @H: Why is tribal art making such an impact on decor now?

However, once the gameplay mechanics started taking shape, it became clear that the blend of colors and lines running through the space would find an inherent setting in the colorful African tribal art and landscapes.

Antiques in Hong Kong, tribal art in France, and London's first quattrocento maiolica show in 100 years