Memento Mori
“Memento Mori”, the latin phrase meaning “reminder of death”, began to occur in medieval art as a visual manifestation of the ephemeral nature of life.
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Oct
Tag Archives: the trops
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Oct
“The Rose Period”
Following Picasso’s Blue Period was his contrasting “Rose Period”, characterized by a warm blush color palette, between 1904 and 1906.
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Oct
“The Blue Period”
Pablo Picasso’s “Blue Period” refers to the paintings the artist made in his early twenties, following the suicide of his friend, the painter and poet Carles Casagames.
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Aug
Xingzi Gu’s “Pure Heart Hall”
“Pure Heart Hall” by Xingu Gu at Lubov Gallery, running from April 27th- July 13 in Chinatown.
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Feb
February Cinema Circle
Filmmaker, artist, and "high priestess" Judith Dimitria Fleishman shares a 1984 short film created in her early career as an artist in ...
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Dec
How To Look At Art: Design Principles
Design principles are terms to communicate how the formal elements are used, and what kind of effect that has on the work and the viewer: balance, rhythm, proportion and scale, emphasis, unity and variety.
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Dec
How To Look At Art: Formal Elements
Moving past the basics of visual analysis, we can look into the work for the formal elements and the principles of design. The formal elements of art are basic terms we use to communicate visually; line, light, color, texture and pattern, shape, space, and time.
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Nov
Keeping The Faith, November 2023
The Trops presents community paintings created live in NYC’s public spaces, representative of the sort of pieces that were done on the walls, streets, and trains that manifested into a global movement. Mark making attached a figurative significance to the individual spirit that guides self-expression in these exhibitive spaces; however, in their original contexts, the art of writing was not necessarily intended as a painting in the western sense of the word. These works, painted by legendary living writers, are contemporary developments of the Style Writing tradition that bring the vitality of the culture into canvas.
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Sep
August Serenade
August 23rd was a very special Bohemian Wednesday, featuring music and poetry and various festivities at Nublu.
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Jul
EROICA VARIATIONS, July 2023
The Trops takes pride in standing behind emerging artists, whom you may not have heard of- yet- but you should, and likely soon will. By naming this survey after the Beethoven compositions we are putting forth a bold claim that these voices are heroically breaking through as a force to be reckoned with on the world stage.