Sentences with phrase «american surrealism»

Her early sculptures stand as pioneering examples of American surrealism; her later explorations of the body and of feminine identity ushered in a new sensibility, one that has profoundly shaped contemporary art.

Most scholarship has viewed Smith's early work as developing in a linear fashion, from the European influences of Picasso and cubism in the 1930s; to a figuratively based, highly detailed, American surrealism in the 1940s; to a lyrically abstract, expressionist expansiveness in the 1950s; culminating with the seemingly disconnected breakthrough embodied in the reduced, geometric monumentality of his final works.

She eventually invented her own unique dance style that included surreal stage props (like giant hands worn as gloves by the artist), and massive drawings to create theatrical performances that combined Latin - American surrealism with New York's signature minimalist approach to dance.

The past decade has seen several major museum exhibitions dedicated to American surrealism.

These shows and their accompanying catalogues have helped sustain existing interest in American surrealists and have sparked new interest in American surrealism on a global scale.

Unconscious Unbound: Surrealism in America is part of this renewed interest in American surrealism; its scope challenges the traditional parameters of what constitutes surrealist art while maintaining a spotlight on surrealism's masters.

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It's delightfully weird with hints of surrealism which is what some might expect when a thoroughly Japanese development studio sets a game within a thoroughly American location.

This interest in the juxtaposition of divergent aesthetics has its roots in surrealism, [iii] and Gottlieb's passion for large - scale abstraction and mythology's potential to be a living form of expression placed him in the vanguard of American painting.

Don Van Vliet injects those legacies with his own unique vision, a kind of homespun surrealism born of the lore of the American desert and the artist's own inspired visions, alternately whimsical and nightmarish.

Opening: «Hedda Sterne: Machines 1947 - 1951» at Van Doren Waxter One of the few women in the New York School of artists and poets, a group of post-war American artists that included the Abstract Expressionist painters Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, Hedda Sterne was a Romanian - born painter and sculptor who made work that ranged from surrealism to expressionism between the 1940s and her death at 100 years old in 2011.

The 1940s in New York City heralded the triumph of American abstract expressionism, a Modernist movement that combined lessons learned from Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, surrealism, Joan Miró, cubism, Fauvism, and early modernism via great teachers in America like Hans Hofmann and John D. Graham.

The result is an exhibition where variety in scale, medium, and degree of abstraction is balanced by the strong continuity among all the works — a reliance on automatism, a juxtaposition of unexpected elements and conflicting temporalities, and the presence of organic forms — bringing to light the profound impact surrealism had on pre - and post-war American artists.

(New York City, March 10, 2010)-- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to present Unconscious Unbound: Surrealism in America, the gallery's first exhibition in over a decade dedicated to the influence of surrealism on American figural and abstract art.

The broad scope of this group show enables the exhibition to explore the rich and seemingly divergent manifestations of surrealism in American art.

Influenced by surrealism, the studies of Freud and Jung, African art, and Pacific Northwest Native American art, Pousette - Dart pursued the transcendental not only in abstract forms, but also in the very way in which he applied paint.

He was one of the first American artists to embrace surrealism and his style seems to be a blend of various types of painting incorporating techniques that range from the Renaissance to Folk Art and, of course, to Surrealism.

It is also a characteristic subject of the American Ashcan School, German expressionism, French surrealism and American social realism.

And, while sound is integral to the history of modern art — remember dada's swells of noise, surrealism's fascination with American jazz and the swing and syncopation that suffused postwar American painting — the antiseptic and visual logic of the white cube and the art - as - commodity system it underscores, remain stubbornly intact.

In addition to a 2008 solo exhibition, the gallery has featured his work in several major group exhibitions, including: Aspects of American Abstraction, 1930 - 1942 (1993), Defining the Edge: Early American Abstraction, Selections from the Collection of Dr. Peter B. Fischer (1998), Organic New York, 1941 - 1949 (2005), and two major surveys of abstract expressionism and surrealism, in 2009 and 2010, respectively.

The 1940s was a decade of artistic transition; narrative surrealism as exemplified by Salvador Dalí and Renè Magritte was no longer relavent, and a younger generation of American artists searched for a new visual language.

Well - known for his staged surrealism and exposition of the human body, his photographs are included in numerous museum collections, including Museum of Modern Art (NY), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art.

Lee Miller (1907 - 77) Talented American portrait and fashion photographer, influenced by surrealism.

Open to both undergraduate and graduate students, HAVC courses are rich and varied, taught by faculty scholars with fabulously diverse interests ranging from ethnomusicology to landscape in American film, the role of femme fatales in Western art, contemporary African artists, French surrealism and much more.

Citing American painters Wayne Thiebaud and Robert Bechtle as primary influences, Townsend's work is a mixture of pop, photo - realism, surrealism and representational interpretations of largely mid-century subject matter.

In the post-war era, interest in and connections between the UK and Latin American art shifted away from surrealism and muralism towards abstract geometric, kinetic and op art movements and then towards forms of conceptualism.

Robin Jaffee Frank, Chief Curator and Krieble Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, will discuss Peter Blume's politically charged 1936 painting The Eternal City and make visual and thematic comparisons to other works in the collection, from surrealism to contemporary art.

Influenced in his use of colour, like Rothko, by the abstract artist Milton Avery (1885 - 1965) known as the «American Matisse», Gottlieb's surrealism received a boost in 1940 with the arrival in America of European Surrealists fleeing the German Occupation of Paris.

In the 1940s her New York gallery was both a vitrine for European surrealism — a key influence on the American avant - garde — and hosted early shows for Pollock, Rothko, Baziotes and Motherwell.

These artists rejected the prevailing working methods of American artists, surrealism, geometric abstraction, regionalism, and representation, and created a new kind of experience of art based on personal gesture, immediacy, painting according to sensation, and direct («existential») engagement with subject matter.

John Wesley (b. 1928, Los Angeles, California) is an American artist whose paintings hover between pop art and erotic surrealism.

Like nearly all the advanced American painters who matured during the 1940s, Rothko's early work was founded on the tenets of both cubism and surrealism.

They represent the bridge from European surrealism, how that modernist ideal of depicting unconscious experience becomes the DNA that makes American post-war abstract expressionism possible.

Joseph Cornell, the American artist in assemblage and collage, began showing at Julien Levy's gallery with the surrealists, and from his first collages of 1931 Cornell demonstrates the influence of surrealism - although, as he wrote in 1936 to Alfred Barr (the Director of the Museum of Modern Art who organized «Dada, Surrealism, and Fantastic Art»), «I do not share in the subconscious and dream theories of the surrealists.»

«Baziotes, Gottlieb and Stamos... [t] hey represent the bridge from European surrealism, how that modernist ideal of depicting unconscious experience becomes the DNA that makes American post-war abstract expressionism possible.»

This American artist and art professor is well known for her figurative style of painting incorporating subjects of surrealism.

Embracing and melding abstraction, surrealism, social documentary and street photography, Walker's work challenges the myth of a singular African - American aesthetic.

Even abstract expressionism, the first American art movement to achieve international attention, was a synthesis of European surrealism and abstraction with American experience.

His work took on a singular style, which defies categorization but shows the influences of the dominant movements of the 1950s, abstract expressionism and surrealism, as well as the dominant movements of the 1930s and early 1940s, social realism and the American Scene.

One of the finest - and most personal - collections of modern art in the United States, it excels in surrealism, abstract expressionism and such American neo-Dada and pop artists as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Twombly and Andy Warhol, and their European peers.

The American painter Arshile Gorky (1905 - 1948) created a personal language of form dealing with the iconography of the unconscious that enabled him to extend surrealism in the 20th century.

Initially influenced by surrealism and cubism, abstract expressionists rejected the social realism, regionalism, and geometric abstraction so popular with American painters of the 1930s.

This group of noted American and British sculptors explores themes that range from social realism to otherworldly surrealism to abstraction of form.

The Columbian - born South American artist Fernando Botero is noted for his large - scale contemporary art - a unique blend of surrealism and figurative art comprising obese depictions of both humans and animals, some of which have been repeated as sculpture.

Her work engaged a range of art movements, including surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, the Northern California modernist tradition represented by Adams and White, as well as the broader American landscape tradition embodied in the photographs of Harry Callahan and Ralph Eugene Meatyard.

Thematic group exhibitions on Modernism, early American abstraction, realism, surrealism, abstract expressionism and social realism have also been consistently presented from new perspectives.