Sentences with phrase «american painting movements»

An American painting movement which depicted urban / industrial landscapes often in a Cubist / Futurist manner, its members were known by a variety of labels such as «Cubist - Realists», «Immaculates», «Sterilists» or «modern classicists».

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Basquiat is an American artist first known for his graffiti painting in the lower East side of Manhattan during the 70's street art movement.

Through 44 full - page paintings and a text told in the fictionalized, informal voice of an African American senior citizen looking back on her life, Nelson presents an intimate, powerful view of American and African American history, from colonial days through the civil rights movement.

Following Mirabilis, her highly acclaimed debut, Susann Cokal blends pre-Raphaelite painting, American brothels, Utahan polygamists, a bit of cross-dressing, a dynamite - wielding labor movement, one California millionaire, and the invention of electrical sexual stimulation (as treatment for consumption) into a comic novel that gallops across the American West.

United States About Blog Dena Tollefson is an American artist whose bold contemporary floral, still life & landscape oil paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement.

United States About Blog Dena Tollefson is an American artist whose bold contemporary floral, still life & landscape oil paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement.

During this time, Neel maintained her practice of painting political personalities, more specifically African American activists and supporters of the women's movement.

AT THE HEIGHT of the Abstract Expressionist movement, which has been referred to as the «Triumph of American Painting,» 1 a somewhat younger generation of painters, while interested in and often respectful of their predecessors, formed the conviction that an art based on the depiction of the natural world could make a serious and ambitious statement in the latter part of the Twentieth Century.

His photos of the day - to - day life of gangs in the Bronx and the radical black liberation movement the Black Panthers are much more than a documentary illustration of a given period in time: they represent an insider's view, one which paints the portrait of the contrasts in American society.

Paul Jackson Pollock born 1912 in Cody, Wyoming was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement well known for his unique style of drip painting.

Just to cover the historical end of the spectrum, there are two big museum shows: Color as Field Field: American Painting, 1950 - 1975 at the Smithsonian, the first full show dedicated to the color field movement (OK, so the show's not in New York, but it's full of New Yorkers); and Color Chart: Reinventing Color from 1950 to Today at MoMA.

The Gallery's curated exhibition History, Painting connects three painters whose work reflects three distinct movements in American social activism over a period of three decades.

Their ideology and style of art were later maintained by the American Scene Painting [6] movement as well.

In 1949, just as the Abstract Expressionist movement was establishing itself as the up - and - coming force in New York, Pepi went to Rome for two years to study at the American Academy and immerse himself in the art historical tradition to which he pointedly related his painting, giving rise to later critical accounts of his work as «academic» at heart.

In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, made a series of 60 small tempera paintings on the Great Migration, the decades - long mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North that began in 1915 — 16.

Jack Youngerman is an American artist, who works in multiple media, and belongs to Minimalism, Hard - Edge painting and Abstract art movements.

Leaning over unstretched canvas laid flat on the ground, the American artist experimented with the movement, speed, density, and height of paint in his drip technique.

At the heart of the Bay Area Figurative movement — which detained Diebenkorn for about ten years — there was probably a growing reservation about «American - type» painting and its New World hubris.

[4] During the 1920s, American artists Patrick Henry Bruce, Gerald Murphy, Charles Demuth and Stuart Davis created paintings that contained pop culture imagery (mundane objects culled from American commercial products and advertising design), almost «prefiguring» the pop art movement.

In Germany, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz and others politicized their paintings, foreshadowing the coming of World War II, while in America, modernism is seen in the form of American Scene painting and the social realism and regionalism movements that contained both political and social commentary dominated the art world.

In this brief essay fromPhaidon's Art in Time: A World History of Styles and Movements, we learn about the historical developments and key artists that paved away for this highly influential American painting style.

With over 150 paintings, sculptures and photographs from public and private collections across the world, this ambitious exhibition encompasses masterpieces by the most acclaimed American artists associated with the movement — among them, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Phillip Guston, Franz Kline, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Aaron Siskind, David Smith and Clyfford Still, as well as lesser - known but no less vital artists.

Organized by the DAM and curated by Gwen Chanzit, Women of Abstract Expressionism brings together 51 paintings to examine the distinct contributions of 12 artists who played an integral role in what has been recognized as the first fully - American modern art movement.

The abstract drip paintings were made during the climax of his career and pushed Pollock to the forefront of Abstract Expressionism — the first American art movement to wield international influence.

Each movement, focused largely on the 1950s and 1960s, seems to confirm a conventional narrative of the triumph of American painting, with upbeat titles like «The Pure Products of America Go Crazy» for Pop.

From Impressionism and the Arts and Craft movement through Regionalism and American Scene Painting, women increasingly influenced the dialogue across the nation.

In an attempt to compete with European masters whose art wealthy American art patrons so desired, many Americans traveled to Paris and enrolled to study painting and sculpture at the prestigious Ecole des Beaux - Arts or to study with some of the most influential artists of the Impressionism movement in their studios or privately run academies.

A founding member of the New York School, Jack Tworkov (1900 — 1982) is regarded as one of the great American artists of the 20th century, along with Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, whose gestural painting of the 1950s formed the basis for the Abstract Expressionist movement in America.

Around the mid-1800's, the time that the French Impressionism lost its edge and became a valuable style, with various exhibitions happening in America presenting the European painters, the American painters began to gather in artistic colonies that centered on outdoor paintings, which later influenced a movement of garden art in America.

The remarkable naturalism and minutely observation of nature never deserted the American landscape artist and just a few of them surrendered to the spontaneity of European movement's idiom, while the rest continued producing realistic style portrait art and Barbizon School landscape paintings.

His painting took an enormous leap when he came into contact with the American abstract expressionist movement, attending their exhibitions and meeting their members - artists such as Franz Kline.

Alongside works by the first generation of great American Hyperrrealists, including Richard Estes, John Baeder, Tom Blackwell, Don Eddy, Ralph Goings and Chuck Close, are European paintings and works from contemporary artists influenced by the movement.

Even though O'Keeffe didn't follow any artistic movements, an eminent photographer Alfred Stieglitz recognized her as the first female American modernist painter and her paintings of flowers and desolate landscapes have become a part of the American artistic treasure.

From then on Davis devoted himself to painting, surviving years of poverty to become one of the deans of American painting, aware of all movements yet beholden to none.

Grimes» large - scale paintings of the wooded landscape evoke the majesty of the American landscape tradition with all the fervor of the Abstract Expressionist movement.

The Letter Paintings, by incorporating the names of mainly male and female African - American musicians, undermined prevailing aesthetic categories by conflating many contemporary movements including Conceptual Art, Color Field, Pattern and Decoration, diary entry and social commentary.

This exhibition features stunning American Impressionist paintings and is bracketed by precursor and subsequent movements in American art.

The oil paintings presented include Untitled (1988) by Joan Mitchell — an essential member of the American Abstract expressionist movement and Black (2007) by award winning artist Pat Steir whose work can be found in various public collections including those at MoMA, Tate and the Guggenheim Museum.

In his opinion, the revived concept of abstract art is a combination of formalist methods in painting and the zombielike return of the discarded aesthetics of Clement Greenberg, art critic responsible for the promotion of the American abstract expressionist movement.

Monochrome and its Moment Over the past 25 years, I have continued to study the American monochrome painting movement since the 1970s.

Ligon's paintings and sculptures examine cultural and social identity through found sources — literature, Afrocentric coloring books, photographs — to reveal the ways in which the history of slavery, the civil rights movement, and sexual politics inform our understanding of American society.

Alexander Liberman, Sun II, 1962 Acrylic on canvas, 79.25 inches diameter, private collection Feb. 16 — June 17, 2007 The first comprehensive survey of Op Art by an American museum in more than 25 years, the exhibition examines the development and lasting influence of the international movement exploring perceptual phenomena in painting, sculpture, and light installation.

In the American modernism movement she painted between 1892 and 1962 where she thrived during the modernist movement in St. Louis, New York, and Paris from 1897 to 1906.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

Join us as we explore the work of Jackson Pollock, an American artist known for his major role in the abstract expressionist movement and his unique style of drip painting.

Transforming these unintentional tableaux, Gallery references the masterful paintings from American abstract expressionism and French décollage art of the 1960's Nouveau Réalisme movement.

Robert Ryman is an American painter identified with the movements of monochrome painting, minimalism, and conceptual art.

Considered one of the greatest and most famous American painters, Jackson Pollock was a performer of sorts, an artist who dripped and smeared his paint onto the laying canvas through a series of movements and gestures, thus giving life to Action Painting.

In the midst of the women's liberation movement between 1964 and 1987, American artist Alice Neel painted a series of seven pregnant nudes.

A prolific and versatile artist credited with moving American art beyond Abstract Expressionism, the dominant movement of the immediate post — World War II years, Rauschenberg created paintings, sculpture, and even sets for dance and theater.