Sentence examples for tenets of art from inspiring English sources

And trying to analyse the portraits via the tenets of art history is like explaining Benny Hill through Cicero.

This sly wordplay refers both to the Gestalt principle of perception that is a tenet of art training and to the fact that Mr. Fischl's focus -- in paintings, photography, drawings and sculpture -- is the human body, while Ms. Gornik's is landscape.

What are some of the tenets of modern art?

"It's borrowing from some of the tenets of modern art," Wiley says.

Recently joining their roster, Levine's work engages many of the core tenets of postmodern art, challenging notions of originality, authenticity, and identity.

The program also focuses on living by the tenets of martial arts: respect, intelligence, courtesy, responsibility and wisdom.

We have no intention of breaching the most fundamental tenet of the art museum world: that art in the collection can only be sold to acquire more (and better) art.

Beal said that although the agreement between the museum and the city has yet to be reached, officials have "no intention of breaching the most fundamental tenet of the art museum world: that art in the collection can only be sold to acquire more (and better) art".

The idea of physical handicapping as a spur to creativity has remained a basic tenet of his art.

The unabashed visual richness of these works attests to the power of the decorative while extending the tenets of Conceptual identity art into an unusually full-bodied form of painting.

The earliest works of these two young painters combined influences from Michelangelo and from northern Gothic engravings in a novel style, which departed from the tenets of High Renaissance art and was characterized by its highly charged emotionalism and departure from classicism.