Sentences with phrase «british artists»

In 1967, the announcement that Moore was going to give a selection of his sculptures to the Tate concerned young British artists who felt the gallery was dedicating too large proportion of its space and funding to a single artist.

One of the most talented and unpredictable British artists today, Phil Hale is a figurative painter especially known for his characteristically intense paintings and portraits.

From 1973 to 1988 and 1994 to 2000, he taught at Goldsmiths College in London where he was a powerful influence on a group of students who later became known as the Young British Artists (YBAs), including Gary Hume, Sarah Lucas, and Damien Hirst.

As a tutor at Goldsmiths College from 1974 - 88 and 1994 - 2000, he had a significant influence on two generations of young British artists.

This summer The Venice Biennale will showcase an emerging generation of young British artists who, according to the Biennale's curator, Massimiliano Gioni — noting an «exciting time for art in London over the past year» — are «dealing with media culture in an innovative and unusual way».

With a theme as broad as the British Line that encompassed British artists and drawings, Cousin had to set limits for herself and restricted the show to monochrome.

More recently, of course, we saw this with the YBAs [Young British Artists], or earlier in the twentieth century with those artists who seized the apparently dichotomous challenge of being both modern and British, in Paul Nash's words.

But, since the Berlin wall came down, the city has exerted a magnetic pull on British artists, especially those whose work is unconfined by language (though rising film star Sam Riley, who stars in the recent film adaptation of Brighton Rock, is a Berlin resident).

Located in the heart of the city's redeveloped Salford Quays, the Lowry is a spectacular waterside building which houses an outstanding collection of work by LS Lowry, one of the most popular British artists of the 20th century.

Horse 1999 Bronze 9 Jun — 3 Jul 2010 William Turnbull, one of the most important living British artists, is exhibiting a selection of his work at Waddington Galleries in William Turnbull: Beyond Time.

«In the art world right now there is an increased interest in, and understanding of, the contribution of black British artists in the 80s,» he said.

The sculpture is thought to be the only plaster work by Giacometti in the UK, and was something of a totem for British artists including Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth.

A Brooks Art are pleased to announce their participation in Places and Spaces 2017 part of the curated Folkestone Fringe Festival Edge: Push / Pull showcasing British artists Sam Nightingale and Rachel Wilberforce with architect David Kitt over the weekend of 28th and 29th October 2017 in Folkestone Kent.

Eduardo Paolozzi is one of the most significant British artists of the twentieth century.

One of the most significant British artists of the last century, working from the early 1960s to the present day, Jones explores the representation of the human figure.

Owens will perform his new commission Anthology (2014) live, delivering scores (short sets of instructions, some specific, others open to interpretation) contributed by a selection of British artists.

Hypergienics, Hadrian Pigott's first major London show since Young British Artists V at the Saatchi Gallery is a culmination of his investigation of the fetishism of domestic manias and the...

Henry Moore may be regarded as one of the greatest British artists of the 20th century, but a group of Columbia University students have nevertheless rejected his work as «hideous».

There are plenty of works by British artists too, such as Tony Cragg, Richard Hudson, Lynn Chadwick and Diane Maclean, whose oxidized stainless steel Open Book greets visitors as they arrive.

(The show's title is not alluding to the controversial 1997 Royal Academy exhibition of Young British Artists, also called Sensation.)

Neon might once have been considered a quintessentially American medium but the British artists who have worked with it are numerous.

They range from examples by Flemish artists working in Britain in the 16th and 17th centuries, to British artists» experiments in modernism after the First World War.

Drawing from the British context as point of departure, and the wave of exhibitions by Black British artists — highlighting the recurrence of the issues they addressed in the 1980s and demonstrating the continued relevance of their art to this day — this project is the result of ongoing conversations with artists who have always been alert to the fragility of democracies and concerned with the pockets of exclusions that exist in the so - called «Free World».

Return Journey British artists including Chester's Ryan Gander and Ellesmere Port's Mark Leckey explore their connections with the places they come from.

In 1997 «The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living» was included in «Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection» at the Royal Academy, London.

This year's Turner prize shortlist was announced today, signalling an end to the domination of the UK art world by the so - called Young British Artists typified by Damien Hirst.

It also brings together artists working in New York in the 1980's, such as Jean - Michel Basquiat, Felix Gonzaelz - Torres, Jeff Koons, and Cady Noland; «Young British Artists» like Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst; and Chinese and Japanese artists including Gu Wenda and Takashi Murakami, for a gathering of late - 20th - century art that is stellar in quality and distinctively international in perspective.

Peter Phillips: Star Players (1962) 9 — 13 September 2015 20 21 British Art Fair Modern and Post-war British artists featured this year by England & Co at the 20 21 British Art Fair at the Royal College of -LSB-...]

In the 1990s, Turk came to prominence as one of Britain's infamous «Young British Artists» and was included in the influential Sensation exhibition in 1997.

Young British Artists Jake and Dinos Chapman create iconoclastic sculptures, prints, and installations that examine contemporary politics, religion, and morality with searing wit.

Young British Artists V: Glenn Brown, Keith Coventry, Hadrian Pigott, and Kerry Stewart, Saatchi Collection, London, 1995.

England & Co will focus on works by Modern British artists, including paintings, sculpture, works on paper and photographs.

The answer is long and complex, and has much to do with the radical shifts in culture that have occurred over the past 25 years or so, both in Britain and the world: the unstoppable rise of art as commodity and the successful artist as a brand; the ascendancy of a post-Thatcher generation of Young British Artists (YBAs) who set out, unapologetically, to make shock - art that also made money; the attendant rise of uber - dealers such as Jay Jopling in London and Larry Gagosian in New York; and the birth of a new kind of gallery culture, in which the blockbuster show rules and merchandising is a lucrative sideline.

During the twentieth century several important British artists began to paint features of visual experience rarely ever painted before, including...

Five exhibitions each year profile the work of established international figures such as Tom Friedman, Mark Dion, Rivane Neuenschwander, Alfredo Jaar and Superflex; as well as that by younger and mid-career British artists such as Oscar Murillo, Eva Rothschild and Ryan Gander.

He was one of the very few British artists at the time who actually knew both Matisse and Picasso, visiting Picasso's studio in 1914 in Paris and was excited by his use of pasted or collage, in his pictures.

Although Emin first rose to prominence as part of the so - called generation of Young British Artists (YBA), the highly autobiographical nature of her work set it apart from the general artistic trends of the 1980s and 1990s.

Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, October 2, 1999 — January 9, 2000.

Dark & Light opens Megan Piper's relaunched exhibition programme, which presents and re-evaluates the work of British artists working since the 1960s and 70s.

This documentary by Adolfo Doring, follows celebrated British artists Rose Wylie and Roy Oxlade.

We have works from some of the greatest influential contemporary British Artists including: Grayson Perry, Julian Opie, Chris Levine, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Gavin Turk and much more

Group of British artists founded in 1975 who aimed to revive the painting of figure subjects in idyllic rural settings

One of the most significant British artists of the last century, working from the early 1960s to the -LSB-...]

In 1999 he co-founded the Stuckist movement, which railed against the dominance of the Young British Artists» conceptual art, in favour of contemporary figurative work.

Artists» journeys have been documented throughout art history: Those whose main practice has been «walking» include British artists Richard Long and Hamish Fulton, as well as others like Francis Alÿs, whose counterintuitive trip in «The Loop» (1997), from Mexico to California via a loop around the world (all to avoid the crossing of the US — Mexico border), was message - driven.

Turk's work has been included in many seminal exhibitions including currently the groundbreaking POPLIFE show at Tate Modern as well as the Venice Biennale the 46th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul in 1999; Material Culture, Hayward Gallery, London in 1998 and Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, Saatchi Collection, London in 1995.

Having witnessed the phenomenal rise of young British artists in the early 1990s, he contacted those he knew and admired and invited them to make a work for his mail art project, Imprint 93.

Since then Freud has become one of the best - known and most highly - regarded British artists of the 20th century.

Open Plan is a long term public art and education project which invites international and British artists to create artworks with and for the SLG's close neighbours on Elmington, Pelican and Sceaux Gardens housing estates, along with a programme of events at the gallery.

David Wilkie was one of a number of British artists working between 1800 and 1820 who achieved professional success in direct proportion to their «Netherlandish» approach, combining observational accuracy, minute description and high finish.