Sentences with phrase «western abstract tradition»

«Matino... paints within the western abstract tradition, using color and the physical act of painting with a spirituality akin to the aesthetics of Eastern civilization.»

With a background in graphic design, his work seems part of a Western abstract tradition but also freighted with symbolism: the use of denim, a material idealised for proletariat durability in the West, is a reminder of 1980's Chinese fashion; seemingly enigmatic geometric patterns are derived from brain — teaser puzzles.

Not exact matches

The real problem he faced in seeking to be an abstract artist is that a synthesis of Chinese and Western traditions is extremely difficult.

As he told the MoMA curator William Rubin in 1969: «My main interest has been to make what is popularly called decorative painting» — decorative being the ultimate insult in western modernism, though no bad thing in other traditions — «truly viable in unequivocal abstract terms».

The bindi becomes a language or code we begin to read through works that elicit formal connections with abstract expressionism, op art, and geometric abstraction from Western painting and the tantric and neo-tantric traditions of India.

As the premier showcase for Western contemporary art, Ann Korologos Gallery proudly represents 40 national and local Western artists representing diverse artistic traditions: abstract and representational photographs...

He is the ultimate international artist, connecting fireworks, an ancient Chinese tradition, to the modern, Western tradition of abstract expressionism.

For his second solo show COME OUT 2 SHOW THEM at Lichtundfire in the Lower East Side, New York - based artist Christopher Stout created a series of abstract minimalist paintings informed by the traditions of Western Reductivistism and the Japanese philosophy of wabi - sabi.

As he moved away from earlier experiments in abstract expressionism, he retained his Pop sensibilities and synthesized aesthetics of western European traditions, such as Fauvism, into his work.

Reza Derakshani's previously unseen paintings — on show in London — bridge Iranian artistic traditions with Western contemporary and abstract inclinations.

Gina Han: New Work Han employs traditions of Western art in her abstract paintings and infuses them with an Asian pop sensibility.

«The nature of my paintings and installations,» Han states, «seemingly appear to be within the realms of abstract art, based in the western art tradition.

And this should happen at the end of the 20th century because today, abstract artists are not pioneers anymore: abstraction belongs to one Western tradition.

Following Sophia's successful inaugural exhibition of his work in 2016, «Hunting the Light» features twelve new paintings demonstrating Derakshani's continued quest for a visual language that bridges Iranian artistic traditions with Western contemporary and abstract inclinations.

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.

«Hunting the Light» will feature twelve new works demonstrating Derakshani's continued quest for a visual language that bridges Iranian artistic traditions with Western contemporary and abstract inclinations.

But there's no disagreement that the invention of Western abstraction revolutionized art production in the 20th century, nor that it was predated by centuries of abstracted forms and patterns in non-Western traditions.

«Hunting the Light» will feature twelve new works demonstrating Derakshani's continued quest for a visual language that bridges Iranian artistic traditions with Western contemporary and abstract i...

It enriches the abstract tradition in Western art with fresh political and spiritual content, and deepens our understanding of the background of major trends in recent African American art, from the material - loving, politically conscious abstractions of Mark Bradford to the politically and spiritually charged sculptures of Betye Saar and Vanessa German.

The art historian EH Gombrich, who hated abstract art, thought it was a decadent assimilation of non-western decorative prettiness, the end of the western tradition of representation.

Whilst Derakshani's practice is grounded in Iranian artistic traditions, his dynamic brushstrokes reveal the influence of the textured surfaces from Western abstract art movements.