Sentences with phrase «vernacular art traditions»

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.

The exquisite lines of her hand - cut paper silhouettes speak to centuries of vernacular art tradition in the United States and Europe.

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Questioning the distinctions between high and low art, Ceramics presents new works that are an appropriation and celebration of the cultural and historical vernacular traditions of her native Poland and a wider European context.

«Souls Grown Deep: African - American Vernacular Art of the South,» a groundbreaking exhibition of over 450 artworks by some 30 contemporary artists, highlighting a significant artistic tradition that has risen in concert with the Civil Rights Movement.

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.

However, «Cowboys» can be seen not only as a cynical representation of reality, but also, in the critical tradition of Conceptual art, as a piercing inquiry into the ethos of the American vernacular, and even as the existential gesture of a figurative and realist artist.

By the mid-1990s Arnett's efforts resulted in an ambitious project to survey the visual tradition of the African American South: an exhibition and two - volume book, titled Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, which was ultimately presented at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and remains the most in - depth scholarly examination of its kind.

An English and Spanish word that broadly describes images and objects produced in the Americas and typical of American cultures, here it is specifically intended to evoke both North American vernacular art collecting traditions and a unique hemispheric perspective that reaches across national borders.

Often without formal training, and facing economic insecurity and racial discrimination, these artists created profound works from both conventional art media and cast - off materials, giving visual power to a highly developed vernacular tradition that enriches an alternative to conventional narratives of modern art.

She mines vernacular traditions for geometric patterns and templates that she can use, extending the options from contemporary art - making while honoring the labor - intensive activities of everyday folk.

They — along with many other artists whose works could easily have fit in this exhibition — are vernacular cosmopolitans of a kind, moving in - between cultural traditions, and revealing hybrid forms of life and art that do not have a prior existence within the discrete world of any single culture or language.

Notes curator Claudia Bohn - Spector: «Our exhibition hopes to show that Berman was a transitional figure, who deftly blended the art of the European avant - garde with native vernacular traditions, like jazz and folklore, and his own hybrid version of American and Jewish mysticism.»

Stories are a starting point for all of Taus Makhacheva's works and they are told in local vernacular: ordinary people, everyday objects, works of applied decorative arts, landscape, traditions, family lore and institutional archives.

By juxtaposing their works, A New American Sculpture reveals the confluences of sources — from archaism and European avant - garde art to vernacular traditions and American popular culture — that informed these artists» novel contributions to the history of sculpture.

His research and eventual film work will explore how the influence of these committed intellectuals reverberated widely in the post-war cultural arena, eventually giving rise to an emerging discipline of «cultural studies», that, in its focus on popular art forms and vernacular traditions, posed considerable challenges to the established academic elite of that time.

MG As much as your work engages with non-Western traditions, it is also very much rooted in American culture, where there is a long legacy of sculptures built out of found objects — not only in «high art,» but even more so in vernacular expressions, of which your work seems keenly aware.

For over three decades Tony Tasset's work has employed tropes of fine art, popular culture, folk and vernacular traditions to question the conditions of value and flatten hierarchies of high and low culture.