Sentences with phrase «american cubist»

Alexander Archipenko (1887 - 1964) Ukrainian - American Cubist sculptor noted for use of «negative space».

Cubism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism were the most important of these movements, and attracted a number of indigenous American artists, including: the New Jersey Cubist / Expressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - American artist.

The selection traces the artist's development as a leading American Cubist through to his late interest in classically composed figurative paintings.

In the mid-1960s, between studying with the American cubist Karl Knaths in Provincetown and at the American University in Washington, Swain worked as a guard in The Phillips Collection.

Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956) German - American Cubist painter, illustrator.

An American Cubist from New Hampshire, later in life she taught at Cornell and could count critic Clement Greenberg as a fan.

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He is also the recipient of the American Society for STD Research Parran Award, the University of Michigan Medical School Distinguished Alumnus Award, and the Cubist Award from the American Society of Microbiology.

Featuring a cubist portrait by iconic American graphic artist / illustrator Charles S. Anderson.

The visual basis of the works of the most interesting of this group of American painters like Georgia O'Keefe, John Marin, Arthur Dove and the great Marsden Hartley ultimately depended upon the work of the Cubists, the Fauves and Albert Pinkham Ryder.

The exhibition brought together the work of the European cubists and avant - garde artists with the work of vanguard American artists.

They still rely on a flattened cubist spatial structure but on a much larger scale and with light flooding the canvases and brush marks recalling American art of the heroic post-war days; recalling, in fact, his own heroic days, for despite an increasingly sure technique, these later works are quieter, blander even, than the assertive and clamorous combines of his early maturity.

Part of the Evans - Tibbs collection of African American art, Douglas's 1936 canvas draws on Cubist influences, evokes emotion through its subject matter and achieves depth utilizing a progression of hues.

The story goes that in 1909 the minor American painter Max Weber, a friend of Gertrude and Leo Stein in Paris, brought in his suitcase the first Picasso — a small, modest Cubist still life — to America.

The conversation begun in Venice is morphing into «a more art historical dialogue,» in Rajaratnam's assessment, one that loops in the voices of American minimalists like Donald Judd (the subject of a recent exhibit at Mnuchin), and 20th century European cubists.

Across the three projections, which split our perspective in both a narrative and spatial refraction, the artist portrays her heterogeneous subjects as they go on with their lives, catching glimpses of people and scenery alike and building a choral — and a little cubist — portrait of the American town.

The museum owns Peggy Guggenheim's trove of cubist, surrealist and abstract expressionist works, along with the Panza di Biumo Collection of American minimalist and conceptual art from the 1960s and»70s.

One can see the dynamic cubist cityscapes of Lyonel Feininger's paintings from the early 20th century as well as the expertly crafted pin - striping of American hot rod car culture.

He was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists group (AAA), served on the Advisory Board of the Museum of Modern Art, and later exhibited as a quartet with A.E. Gallatin, George L.K. Morris, and Suzy Frelinghuysen as the Park Avenue Cubists.

And there is Mark Grotjahn, American, born in 1968, living in LA, looking at the Cubists.

Though most public presentations of art were conservative, capturing the subdued tone of a nation under economic siege, the Museum of Modern Art mounted the first exhibition of cubist and abstract art — but neglected American artists working in this vein.

Davis is generally considered to be the outstanding American artist to work in a Cubist idiom.

Davis first discovered this kind of space in Cubist works on view at the 1913 Armory Show — the exhibition where most American artists first encountered European Modernism.

He died in 1964, on the eve of the Pop explosion that sent mid-century modernist painters spinning, but Stuart Davis's work, which mixes American advertising style with the movements (cubist, dada, Abstract Expressionism) that he grew up with, presages the Pop era in both tone and content.

There are passages reminiscent of French Cubist Georges Braque, Russian abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky, and Armenian - American proto - Abstract Expressionist Arshile Gorky.

In 1974, Harold Rosenberg, one of Saul Steinberg's earliest and most eloquent supporters, wrote that «Cubism... which in the canon of the American art historian is the nucleus of twentieth - century formal development in painting, sculpture and drawing, is to Steinberg merely another detail in the pattern of modern mannerisms; in a landscape, he finds no difficulty in combining Cubist and Constructivist elements with an imitation van Gogh «self - portrait.

When added to the Cubist, abstract, Surrealist, and early American Abstract Expressionist art in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and to Peggy's own purchases of post-war art, the reach of the Venice museum will be extended into the 1970s and even 1980s.

Robert and Sonia Delaunay were pivotal figures in the transition from Impressionism to Modernism, challenging the silvered palette of the Cubists with prismatic color that spawned an independent contemporary group of American painters, such as Stanton MacDonald - Wright and Morgan Russell.

It may seem almost absurd to even suggest that the influence of the works of the so - called French, German, and Italian «Post Impressionists,» «Futurists,» «Cubists,» and other «ists,» as exemplified by representative examples at the Armory show, can have any immediate, or even near future effect, upon the generally strong, good and, from the conventional art viewpoint, sane, American painting and sculpture of today, but there is no doubt that the study of these new groupings, called «movements» in painting and sculpture, which have so emphasized and influenced the art of Europe today, for the past 5 years, and even the derision which they have excited, and will continue to excite, has had and will have a stimulating effect.

American Art News opted to make light of the affair with a poem that included the lines «This «Cubist» is a master / For he hath hidden stair and dame / Beneath some brown courtplaster.»

Each season, demand for all areas of the American paintings market — from subdued Hudson River School landscapes to Marsden Hartley's Cubist creations — continues to rise.

The committee on the award of the $ 10.00 prize, offered by the American Art News for the best explanation or solution of the so - called Armory Puzzle of the supposed lady in Duchamp's picture in the «Cubist» room in the International Exhibition of Modern Art, which will close at the 69th Regiment Armory this evening, as was announced last week, awarded the prize to «Guilfish.»

The conundrum of the season in the New York art world is the identification of either the Nude figure or the stairway in a canvas entitled «Nude Descending a Stairway,» in the Cubist room of the Armory at Lexington Ave. and 25 St., where the first International exhibition of modern art, organized and managed by the American Painters» and Sculptors» Society, is in progress.

In addition to its collections of Old Masters, its Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Expressionist and Cubist paintings, as well as works of Constructivism, Dadaism and Surrealism, the museum maintains an impressive holding of contemporary and postmodernist art, by Swiss, German, Italian, and American artists, such as Joseph Beuys, Georg Baselitz, A.R. Penck, Walter Dahn, Martin Disler, Siegfried Anzinger, Rosemarie Trockel, Robert Gober, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Brice Marden, Bruce Nauman, Jonathan Borofsky, Francesco Clemente, Mimmo Paladino, Enzo Cucchi, and others.

She was the only female participant in the Precisionist movement, which in the 1920s and 1930s took a Cubist - inspired approach to painting the skyscrapers and factories that had come to define the new American landscape.

Art Institute of Chicago Noted for its extensive collection of Old Master paintings, plus Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Cubist works, and some of the finest American art.

These displays of European art were augmented by solo exhibitions for American modernists like Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943), John Marin (1870 - 1953) and Arthur Dove (1880 - 1946), and Cubist - Realists like Charles Demuth (1883 - 1935), Paul Strand (1890 - 1976) and Charles Sheeler (1883 - 1965), the leader of Precisionism.

An important influence on modern art painting in the United States, Precisionism was an American movement (also referred to as Cubist Realism) whose focus was modern industry and urban landscapes, characterized by the realistic depiction of objects but in a manner which also highlighted their geometric form.

Further alluding to art history, the colorful background and abstract forms in Hothouse, as in many of Abney's works, recalls the pop - cubist style of the American modernist painter Stuart Davis.

The first international modern art movement to come out of America (it is sometimes referred to as The New York School - see also American art), it was a predominantly abstract style of painting which followed an expressionist colour - driven direction, rather than a Cubist idiom, although it also includes a number of other styles, making it more of a general movement.

Inspired by Romanesque, Byzantine, Cubist, and Surrealist painting as well as African, Oceanic, and Native American art, he created a lexicon of biomorphic and totemic forms that provided rich visual and symbolic sources that he would explore throughout his long career in a multitude of painterly approaches.

The Synchromists made use of the broken planes of the Cubists, but their lavishly colored areas of paint sometimes looked, as the art historian Abraham Davidson has described them, like «eddies of mist, the droplets of which collect to form parts of a straining torso... To find anything like this in American painting one has to wait for the color - field canvases of Jules Olitski in the 1960s.»

The Park Avenue Cubists continued to evolve a European - based abstraction, and modernists such as Stuart Davis and Charles Demuth applied a precise, geometric vocabulary to American architecture and advertising.

He also encountered a number of American modern artists including the Cubist Stuart Davis (1892 - 1964), the Russian - born primitivist Max Weber (1881 - 1961) and the Italian - born Futurist Joseph Stella (1877 - 1946).

The formal abstraction initiated by Picasso and the Cubists reached its extreme in the emergence of the avant - garde American art, Abstract Expressionism, in the 1940s.

The organization has developed a place in art history for artists» books, temporary installation art, and performance art, and researched the history of the contemporary artists» book through such exhibitions as Cubist Prints / Cubist Books, The Avant - Garde Book: 1900 - 1945, Fluxus: A Conceptual Country, as well as thematic shows such as Artists» Books: Japan, Multiples by Latin American Artists, Contemporary Russian Samizdat, and Eastern European Artists» Books.

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The exhibition features 25 drawings by Bonnard, Vuillard, Dutch - born painter van Dongen, French masters Derain and Lamotte, and renowned cubist Léger, along with two lithographs by American modernist Davis based on his drawings of Paris.

The Russian - American sculptor and teacher Alexan der Archipenko (1887 - 1964) was an innovator in translating the elements of cubist painting into sculptural form.

As a result he was able to associate with many of the big names of his day including writer Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), the Cubist Fernand Leger (1881 - 1955), as well as the American modern artists John Marin (1870 - 1953) and Arthur Dove (1880 - 1946).

Important artists who left Europe and settled in America during the inter-war period, included the Armenian - born Arshile Gorky (1905 - 48), who settled in the US in 1920, the German - born Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966), the ex-Bauhaus painter Joseph Albers (1888 - 1976), the Cubist Fernand Leger (1881 - 1955), the geometrical abstractionist Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944), and the Surrealists Yves Tanguy (1900 - 55), Andre Masson (1896 - 1987), Max Ernst (1891 - 1976), who briefly married the American heiress and collector Peggy Guggenheim, and Andre Breton (1896 - 1966).