Sentences with phrase «where traditional art forms»

What does it mean to live in a country where traditional art forms lacking innovation struggle for contemporary relevance; where cultural curricula and public event lament the era before the Khmer Rouge wiped out intellectual life, or before Communist propaganda replaced one's right to freedom of speech?

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It has 22 Vaishnavaite monasteries, some of which date back to the 15th century, where traditional Hindu arts, music, and dance forms are kept alive.

Bold and powerful forms and proportions are, upon closer inspection, contrasted with aspects of traditional Japanese craftsmanship expressed in a contemporary way,» said Alfonso Albaisa, senior vice president of global design at Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. «The exterior's combination of western and eastern concepts continues inside the Xmotion, where advanced connectivity and autonomous technologies mix with modern Japanese digital art and cultural craftsmanship.

In 1955 Rachel Rosenthal moved to Los Angeles where she embarked on a new form of improvisational theater called Instant Theater, while Robert Rauschenberg took over the lease on her Greenwich Village apartment and employed traditional performance conventions to concepts already understood in his visual art practice.

Along with the more traditional mediums of painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, conceptual, video and performance art we also encourage the submission of sound, text, spoken word, dance, comedy, cooking, large scale painting... As a new century begins and the last still informs every move we make an anxiety of where we are takes many forms from the personal to the political.

But Kounellis» work is not about the artifice of traditional painting; rather, its strict formality is railing against the prevailing gestures, drip and daub tendencies of Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel where the action, emotion, material, touch and will of the artist is inextricably interwoven within both the medium and the form.

It then struck me that Lucio Fontana had made the slash paintings, where he slashed holes in the canvas — hard angry gestures against traditional forms of painting and art history.

He trained from 1966 - 68 at St Martin's School of Art in London, where several of his contemporaries were busy questioning traditional forms of aArt in London, where several of his contemporaries were busy questioning traditional forms of artart.