Sentences with phrase «various painting traditions»

Not exact matches

Her paintings draw on various traditions of abstraction from gestural and geometric, hard - edge styles.

This work can be interpreted in the simplest, most direct manner — as a stereotyped image of China's food culture and painting traditions, but at the same time, its multiple references to various Chinese social and historical backgrounds make interpretation much more difficult: the use of objects to express morality in Chinese landscaping, satirical poetry mocking ostentatious refinement, and the imitation of handwritten menus to capture a scene of civil life... Viewers unfamiliar with the specific context can easily find themselves lost in the smokescreen of mysterious Oriental poetic calligraphy and bonsai art.

Using a variety of media including wood, bronze, urethane and ceramic, Anne Chu incorporates painting into unexpected materials, exploring established artistic conventions of the East and West and drawing from various art making traditions.

«Drawing together various art forms (video, sculpture, painting, and live performance) across the lines of race, multiple generations and interdisciplinary canons, Blues for Smoke places the idioms of blues, and other distinctly African - American traditions, at the center of the American tableau of creativity.»

Filled with reproductions of Kehinde Wiley's bold, colorful, and monumental work, this book encompasses the artist's various series of paintings as well as his sculptural work — which boldly explore ideas about race, power, and tradition.

Though the work in the exhibition utilizes various genres and media, the strength of much of Thomas's work is clearly rooted in a deep investment in the history of painting, its long tradition of masters and masterpieces, and the generations of audiences that have accepted its tropes and icons.

Also shown were many rarely seen works from the artist's family collection, including fine examples of Dong's free and adept experimentations in painting, incorporating techniques and themes borrowed from various Chinese artistic traditions.

From the press release: The first museum exhibition devoted to the Indian influences in Clemente's work and how they relate to the artistic practices and traditions of various regions in India features approximately 20 works, including paintings from the last 30 years, and four new, larger than life - size sculptures created especially for the exhibition.

The Rubin Museum of Art, New York Curated by Beth Citron The first museum exhibition devoted to the Indian influences in Clemente's work and how they relate to the artistic practices and traditions of various regions in India features approximately 20 works, including paintings from the last 30 years, and four new, larger than life - size sculptures created especially for the exhibition.

Both The Deep (2006) and Ocean of the Mind (2006) are in the tradition of reductive field painting and bring to mind various mid-century sources, particularly Barnett Newman and Rothko.

They draw on the old tradition of «History Paintings» and act as memorials or descriptions of various historic people, places or moments.

But by the end of the first paragraph the text backpedals a bit: «We hope to present some of the various tendencies in the tradition of abstract painting from where they may have begun to where they are going today.»

Her graphic works, objects, paintings and installations explore in a processual, serial and cyclic manner various themes and working means, from the «60s - «80s experimental, conceptualist graphics to the more tradition - oriented painterly approach embraced by her after 1990.

A master of combining various painting techniques, Pindell is accustomed to using strange artistic materials such as glitter, talcum powder and perfumes, unconventional practices that helped her stretch the boundaries of the rigid tradition that blindly relied on rectangular, canvas painting.

His work is known by its great artistic freedom as he uses unquestionable technical skills as well as a thorough carefulness while acting out a respectful disrespect for the various stylistic traditions and conventions of traditional painting.

A wall painting transports the visitor from one space to the next, and a room filled with photographs makes it clear that Lotte Lyon's staging is meant to give an impression of theatricality and performance, as much as they are referencing various Minimalist traditions.

Cynical Realists borrowed imagery from various traditions, including Surrealism and Symbolism, as well as classical figure painting.

We hope to present some of the various tendencies in the tradition of abstract painting from where they may have begun to where they are going today.