Sentence examples for expressive tradition from inspiring English sources

During his lifetime Rodin, who was born in 1840, exhibited many of these pieces as independent works, and they helped establish his reputation as the initiator of a more humanized and expressive tradition for sculpture.

In Utrecht Vermeer would have met artists who were immersed in the boldly expressive traditions of Caravaggio, among them Gerrit van Honthorst.

It is worth remarking that the winner of the 1965 Book Week poll, Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man," arose from a similar impulse to bring the historical experience of black Americans, and the expressive traditions this experience had produced, into the mainstream of American literature.

The expressive side of this tradition was well documented in "Bala," a 1976 film about Balasaraswati by the Indian director Satyajit Ray.

Another line comes from the tradition of expressive distortion in caricature and satire into more expressionist styles – the physical distortions in Egon Schiele's portraits have precedents in Daumier's cartoons.

In the scriptoria at Glastonbury and Canterbury a lively tradition of expressive outline drawing developed, and some of the most arresting Anglo-Saxon works of the period are filled with animated figures in flying ruffled drapery (e.g., the Leofric Missal, 970s; Harley Psalter, early 11th century).

This work has produced educative catalogings and critical surveys of particular ideas and idea-spaces; intellectual and aesthetic expressive agendas, practices, and traditions; and networks of individuals, organizations, and institutions serving philosophizing in African and African-descended life-worlds.

The trends in Japanese calligraphy continued in essentially two major channels the court-inspired, elegantly mannered script and the bold, ruggedly expressive forms of the Zen tradition.

A largely nonwritten tradition of reciting expressive, often witty quatrains called pantun is common in most Malay areas throughout the archipelago.

Nicole Eisenman, painter expanding the expressive potential of the figurative tradition in works that engage contemporary social issues and restore cultural significance to the representation of the human form.

But more to the point, in recent years J. Owen Burdick, Trinity's director of music until 2008, established a tradition of trim, expressive "Messiah" performances, accompanied by period instruments and drawing on recent scholarship, that made this presentation a favorite of listeners whose tastes lean toward early-music performance practice.