Sentence examples for preoccupation of artists from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 — Making old things new again is a frequent preoccupation of artists in many mediums.

The show also seeks to correct the misconception that Renaissance portraits were the exclusive invention and preoccupation of artists in the south of Europe, especially Italy.

Black bodies, and representation of them, have become the chief preoccupation of artists like Kehinde Wiley, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Deana Lawson.

Hudson, director of Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, said the judges were reflecting the practices and preoccupations of artists working in Britain today.

As Linda Dalrymple Henderson writes in "Duchamp in Context" (Princeton, 1999), he was drawn in not only because those naughty X-rays could "penetrate clothing and flesh" but also because they promised something more: "Here was a new kind of light that allowed a painter to go beyond the preoccupation of earlier artists with surface appearances" -- or the retinal in Duchamp's derogatory term.

"The wish to make something, always perhaps the greatest conscious preoccupation of the artist himself, is constant, independent of time," he wrote.

Identity remains a popular preoccupation for artists from non-English-speaking backgrounds (Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Fawad Khan) while a good third of the works yield imagery relating to portraiture, place, language and perception.

This strikingly recurrent statement reflects a preoccupation of many contemporary Chinese artists: contending with China's radical transformation in recent years, thanks in large part to garish new architectural projects that appear in conflict with both its landscape and traditional architecture.

But bashing old-school naturalists and scientists is not the only -- or chief -- preoccupation of this popular, prolific artist.

That interest in erasing the gap between artwork and reality — a preoccupation for visual artists of the time too — is clear in "Slant Board," which is performed on a wooden ramp leaned at a 45-degree angle against a wall.

Among the intellectual elite, the preoccupation with history remains: the two major art shows in Berlin this fall, for instance, deal with German division and with the work of artists forced to flee by the Nazis.