Sentences with phrase «vernacular art such»

Also involved in postal art, as well as collections of folk and vernacular art such as The Uses of Literacy: «Manic Street Preachers» (1999).

Not exact matches

Though the art world may not yet have a satisfactory way of referring to artists like Mullen, who are variously described by such leaky terms as self - taught, outsider, and vernacular, it has, over the past few years, shown more interest in them and is gradually growing the existing market for their work.

In this month's issue, Brendan Greaves looks at the current trend for embracing such art as it begins to extend to the marketplace, with an auction at Christie's and representation of vernacular artists by mainstream galleries.

5 Storr, whose essay is full of perceptive comments about Drexler's work (as when he notes how the «vernacular» quality of her colors evokes «sideshow signage») is certainly correct in making the connection between Drexler and her abstract contemporaries, but we shouldn't let the existence of such strong affinities (whether with Pop or with abstract styles) distract us from the distinctive qualities of Drexler's art, especially when it comes to materials and process.

At a time when artists across the board were turning away from painting and towards photography and conceptual art, Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica addresses the history and impact of artistic styles such as Post-Impressionism and Fauvism, all executed in Hockney's signature vernacular.

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.

The diverse works on view include rare early pictures, major examples of the Pictorialist art movement by figures such as Peter Henry Emerson and George Seeley, and a broad range of twentieth - century art and vernacular photographs.

When Bates was a boy, his mother brought him to art classes at the Dallas Museum of Art, where he was exposed to work by the Dallas Nine and Texas Regionalist painters such as Jerry Bywaters and Otis Dozier, artists who shunned the European stronghold on American modernism in the 1930s for vernacular landscapes of the Southweart classes at the Dallas Museum of Art, where he was exposed to work by the Dallas Nine and Texas Regionalist painters such as Jerry Bywaters and Otis Dozier, artists who shunned the European stronghold on American modernism in the 1930s for vernacular landscapes of the SouthweArt, where he was exposed to work by the Dallas Nine and Texas Regionalist painters such as Jerry Bywaters and Otis Dozier, artists who shunned the European stronghold on American modernism in the 1930s for vernacular landscapes of the Southwest.

In the 1970s, though, Bates hadn't found his own style, and Dallas art was more interested in so - called Texas Funk, which blended vernacular Texas idioms with psychedelic and pop art (and included artists such as Bob «Daddy - O» Wade and the Oak Cliff 4).

Whether rough - hewn beauties in earth tones or frenetic explosions of bright color, they reveal influences from southern vernacular art traditions and muralists such as Keith Haring.

But, in an ironic twist, Marshall's huge paintings depict vernacular African American settings such as public housing projects, thereby slyly placing those subjects within the canon of Western art history where they were previously ignored.

Pangburn's pursuit of independence within the legacy of the New York School has resulted in a show of genuine vitality, whose stylistic vernacular reminds us of a time when New York was the center of the art universe, with such major participants as de Kooning, Gorky, and Pollock.

The description is apt, given that he often grafts a specifically urban vernacular onto a unique brand of formalism, not only to summon such art - historical precedents as Mark di Suvero's and Anthony Caro's metallic structures but also to make clear turns on the project of Minimalism — on Donald Judd and Dan Flavin in particular.