Sentences with phrase «visual traditions»

This simple gesture not only reintroduces «the hand» into the formula, but it as well, returns the idea of abstraction to the cultural sources that it was once taken from: Non-Western visual traditions of Native America, Africa, India, Mexico and South America.»

Through ceramics, Leigh references vernacular visual traditions from the Caribbean, the American South, and the African continent, as well as the black diasporic experience dating from the Middle Passage to the present.

Informed by elements of popular culture ranging from manga and anime to punk rock, Yoshitomo Nara fuses Japanese visual traditions and Western Modernism to create adorable but menacing characters that possess a startling emotional intensity.

This simple gesture not only reintroduces «the hand» into the formula, but it as well, returns the idea of abstraction to the cultural sources that it was once taken from: Non-Western visual traditions of Native America, Africa, India, Mexico and South America,» explains MacConnel.

The questions of repression, disenfranchisement, and resistance that dominate the lives of many people around the world are fused with lessons from US history, African spiritualism, and the rich visual traditions of Afro - diasporic art.

Carolee Schneemann is an American visual artist, known for her discourses on the body, sexuality and gender and research into visual traditions.

Milhazes draws upon local visual traditions as diverse as Baroque colonial art, folk styles of decorative painting and the mass - produced textiles, wallpaper, and ceramic tile of her everyday surroundings.

The second section of the exhibition, «To Learn is To Create,» showcases earlier works made between 1945 and 1954, a period in which Zao tapped diverse visual traditions and methods, ranging from European painters such as Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, and Paul Klee, to ancient Chinese bronze inscriptions, rubbings from Han - dynasty tomb decorations, and Tang - and Song - dynasty landscape paintings.

When you look at the artwork that David Gentleman did for the Stop the War campaign, which was chaired by Corbyn, or simply the sharply designed logo of his leadership campaign, you can see something of this older visual tradition of public relations in the UK.

Wyatt Resident Artists Gallery Negar Ahkami's expressive, tactile paintings are inspired by Iranian art, and by global visual traditions that intersect with Iran's rich art history.

Her practice borrows from simultaneous visual traditions, ranging from photographic and figurative portraiture, social documentary aesthetics, and vernacular family album photographs.

Leigh's sculptural works in ceramic and other materials reference vernacular visual traditions from the Caribbean, the American South, and the African continent, as well as the black diasporic experience dating from the Middle Passage to the present.

Her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos and the body of the artist in dynamic relationship with the social body.

Matthew Ronay's first major museum presentation in the United States surveys a recent body of meticulously hand - crafted and vibrantly colored sculptures, reliefs and installations that deliver a phantasmagoric vision of physical and psychic processes fueled by visual traditions and conventions in art, science, and popular culture.

Alongside such unique artists of authorship like Jim Shaw, Ella & Pitr and Tim Kerr, the new year brings the promise of a wider vista of interactive visual traditions, and perhaps discovering a few heroes along the way.

And if Guston's fascination with the poetry of D. H. Lawrence, W. B. Yeats, and some other Italian and American writers links him to modernism, the political engagement of his figurative paintings — so utterly relevant right now — marks his entry into a later, very different visual tradition.

In removing the female figure from countless «masterpieces» of western art, Grove effectively demonstrated its lynchpin role — the voyeuristic impulse at the heart of an entire visual tradition.

Artists like Lari Pittman, Elliot Hundley, and Liz Larner come to mind as others who operate in a similar visual tradition, and who value a more - is - more aesthetic strategy.

Here, as in all of his recent art, Scully links himself with the larger European visual tradition.

Guest curated by Professor David C. Driskell while he was Chairman of the Department of Art at Fisk University, Two Centuries not only announced the presence of Black contemporary fine artists, but also shocked visitors and critics in attendance record - breaking numbers with its display of objects from several visual traditions that had previously been omitted from most accounts of American art.

California Mexicana: Missions to Murals, 1820 — 1930, demonstrates how a unique amalgam of Mexican and Anglo visual traditions created a profile for California distinct from any other U.S. state.

Symbolic references to oral and visual tradition come to life in the reconstituted fairytales of Verne Dawson.

For many Chinese artists, their country's long, illustrious, and in some ways hide - bound visual traditions are an elephant in the studio when it comes to making contemporary art.

Aram recycles spiritual symbols and visual traditions common to both the East and West, from media advertisements, to Renaissance painting, to Persian miniatures, and infuses them with new meaning in order to challenge stereotypes and misconceptions.

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.

Rooted in his personal heritage, Aryanpour's works bring a thoroughly contemporary expression to the Iranian visual tradition — from its artistic techniques to cultural symbolisms - while referencing and exploring the Western tradition of abstract art.

This gallery showcases visual traditions from Africa's central and western regions and includes sculptural arts and masks of the Senufo, Dogon, Dan, Bwa, and Baule peoples of West Africa as well as sculptures and masks in ivory and wood from the Lega, Kuba, and Kongo peoples of Central Africa.

The exhibition presents a focused look at a group of artists of Middle Eastern and South Asian descent whose work engages the diverse forms of Islamic visual tradition to explore religion, culture, and socio - political issues today.

Visitors will be able to enjoy the story of Wales's unique visual tradition and its place within a wider British and international context through works from Tudor to modern Wales, outstanding European Old Master paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism drawn largely from the world - class collection of French art bequeathed by Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, and an inspiring contemporary collection.

They draw from distinct visual traditions, including Southern handcraft, sixteenth - century architecture, history painting, and hard - edge abstraction.

The exhibition features expansive displays of Bracquemond's distinctive images of birds, which reveal both his deep appreciation of nature and growing interest in Japanese visual tradition.

Dial and Holley employ methods of recycling found materials into toys or larger - scale decorative objects, engaging in a centuries - old visual tradition that has become associated with notions of folk and outsider art — not unrelated to the quilting customs adapted from African weaving techniques and passed down through generations of Southern Black women.

Negar Ahkami creates expressive, tactile paintings inspired by Iranian art and the many global visual traditions that intersect with Iran's rich art history.

Her practice borrows from simultaneous visual traditions, including photographic and figurative portraiture, social documentary aesthetics, and vernacular family - album photographs.

A pioneer of feminist performance who has transformed the very definition of art, her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, and the body of the artist in relation to the social body.

Working in a restrained, icon - like format for the past decade, Brennan's paintings also reflect upon an array of related topics, such as historical photography, early filmmaking, non-Western visual traditions, literature, and urban culture.

Her work is primarily characterized by research into visual traditions, taboos, and the body of the individual in relation to social bodies.

The exhibition will attempt to examine how artists in the 20th and 21st centuries use and vary the motif of the candle, with its diverse visual traditions, and place it in new contexts of meaning.

Her early work developed out of European geometric abstraction (Concrete art), but Pape expanded these idioms, drawing on the visual traditions of her native country.

With her back to the viewer and head swiveled toward us, Shinique's gaze plucks at the heart of a visual tradition dependent upon looking at women, but which has rarely provided the female sitter with such control over the space outside the picture plane.

Pursuing what she has called «new possibilities for portraying naturalism,» Singer's mode of painting brings together a mix of visual traditions that span the technologies of visuality, from the pre-photographic to the post-digital.

And what do those modernist ideas in the first place amount to but a surprise reanimation, through abstraction and dissociation, of visual traditions?

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.

In Cameroon there is a visual tradition of painting the exteriors of the home with symbols intended to keep out evil spirits, and painting other symbols on the interiors to capture friendly ones.

Informed by elements of popular culture ranging from manga and anime to punk rock, Nara fuses Japanese visual traditions and Western modernism to create young characters that possess a startling emotional intensity.