Sentences with phrase «british avant»

Davie returned to Britain to take up a fellowship at Leeds University, and an exhibition at the Wakefield Art Gallery transferred to the Whitechapel in London in 1958, launching him as a significant figure in the British avant - garde, a position he shared with William Gear, who was associated with the European COBRA group.

It confirmed the importance of their position within the world of British avant - garde art, and arguably as two of the most innovative modern artists of the late 20th century.

Bruce McLean: first ever career survey of leading British avant - garde artist: More than 100 works spanning a 50 year career to be shown together

McLean has participated in many major international exhibitions since the 1960s, highlights include: When Attitudes Become Form, Kunsthalle, Bern (1969); Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York (1970); The British Avant Garde, New York Cultural Centre (1971); Documenta 6, Kassel (1977); Art in the Seventies, Venice Biennale (1980); A New Spirit in Painting, Royal Academy, London; Zeitgeist, Martin - Gropius - Bau, Berlin (1982); Documenta 7, Museum Fredericianum, Kassel (1982); Thought and Action, Laforet Museum, Tokyo (1983); The Critical Eye, Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven (1984); Out of Actions; Between Performance and the Object, 1949 - 79, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1997); Bruce McLean and William Alsop, Two Chairs, Milton Keynes Gallery (2002) and Body and Void: Echoes of Moore in Contemporary Art, The Henry Moore Foundation, Hertfordshire (2014).

Among the 38 British artists exhibiting that year was the painter and printmaker Walter Richard Sickert, a pupil and assistant of Whistler (who had been commended in the first Biennale of 1895), and a highly influential figure in British avant - garde painting.

This is a good recipe for this venerable home of the British avant - garde to reclaim its laurels.

Vorticism was a British Avant Garde movement that occurred simultaneously with WWI and although the summer exhibition at the Tate Britain, the Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World, contains work that exhibits infusions from Cubism, Primitivism and Futurism, the Vorticists main aim was to break with and challenge the objectives of the aforementioned groups.

Nevertheless, it had a significant impact on British avant garde art of the mid-1930s, for which see also the St Ives School (c.1939 - 75).

Featuring over one hundred works by important British avant - garde artists such as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and William Turnbull, the show explored the period between two defining movements in English Modernism: Vorticism, England's first abstract art movement, and British Pop art of the late 1950s.

Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith: Connie Martin 1915 — Matthew Smith was a key member of the British avant - garde.

This means stepping around some areas: if you look at the Black British avant - garde, for example, it's figurative: Yinka Shonibare, Lubaina Himid, Isaac Julien, Lynette Yiadom - Boakye.

In the now - derelict, early twentieth - century poured - concrete church of Dilston Grove, artists Ben Burgis, Stuart Middleton and Richard Sides have created their own version of the Mechanical Garden, curated by Naomi Pearce, an installation sketched out but not realised by late British avant - garde artist Stephen Cripps (1952 — 82).

Having moved to London from the USA in 1964 Dwoskin is known for the key role he played in British Avant Garde cinema, especially in regard to film theorist of the 70s.

From Blast to Pop features works by important British avant - garde artists such as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and William Turnbull and explores the period between two defining movements in English Modernism: Vorticism (England's first abstract art movement) and British Pop art of the late 1950s.

And does this little - known British avant - garde movement — if it can be called anything as cohesive - really deserve a major survey at Tate Britain?

In the late 1950s and 1960s, they continued to exhibit their work and established the group's central position within the development of the British avant - garde.

Michael O'Pray, «The British Avant - Garde and Art Cinema from the 1970s to the 1990s» in Andrew Higson (ed.)

Not exact matches

Wear The Walk is a similar concept, except in true British style, the designers are more avant garde and less mainstream.

The British sit com avant la lettre.)

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The new Audi A6 Avant is tested in range topping 3 - litre TFSI form - how does it cope with British roads?

The British marque is calling the Velar as an «avant - garde» Range Rover, a name derived from the original Range Rover prototypes of 1969.

The European side begins with works by two artists not widely appreciated today: Puvis de Chavannes, the eccentric classicist then much admired by avant - gardists, and a big, strange, multifigured allegorical scene by the British painter Augustus John.

Often cited as the father of contemporary art in the United Arab Emirates, Sharif began making art in the 1970s, but soon departed from his region's dominant art form of calligraphic abstraction and embraced the radical approaches of avant - garde movements such as Fluxism and British Constructivism.

Art dealer who set up his Mayfair gallery in 1966, where he gave lifelong support to British artists and championed the American avant garde

Roberta Smith writes a wonderful obituary in the New York Times of Barry Flanagan, the British sculptor who seemed to reject avant garde art in favor of leaping hares:

To set their iteration firmly in its new location — just as the original was rooted in the New York avant - garde scene of the 40s, the new centre of the art world, having stolen the crown from Paris — Breese and Little have further ensured that all artists included engage, on some level, with the British art scene, be that through representation or being based here.

The British counterpart to Italian Futurism, Vorticism was an avant - garde art movement, influenced by Cubism and Futurism, founded in London by the painter, illustrator and war artist Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882 - 1957).

Exhibitions have showcased numerous contemporary art movements such as Minimalism, Neo-Expressionism, and Britart by Young British Artists, as well as avant - garde art from China, while featured artists have included outstanding figures like Andy Warhol (1928 - 87), Phillip Guston (1913 - 80), Richard Serra (b. 1939), Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945), Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), Donald Judd (1928 - 94), Damien Hirst (b. 1965), and Tracey Emin (b. 1963), among many others.

Unit One sought to champion British modernism, advocate avant - garde practice and revitalise British art.

John Dunbar (born Mexico City, 1943) is a British artist best known as co-founder of Indica, the avant - garde London gallery of the mid 1960s, and for his many friendships and connections within the art and music counter-culture.

She has also worked with a range of photographers and external curators to realise group exhibitions including the Feminist Avant - Garde of the 1970s (2016), Work Rest and Play — 50 Years of British Photography (exhibited in four venues in China, 2015 - 16), 4 Saints in 3 Acts: A Snapshot of the American Avant - Garde (2017) and FreshFaced + WildEyed (2013 - 15).

... responsible in 1933 for founding Unit One, a group of British artists — including abstract painter Ben Nicholson and the sculptors Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore — who wanted to promote avant - garde art in England.

British artist Clare Goodwin, creates large cardboard sculptures with reference to the avant - garde TV installations of celebrated Korean artist Nam June Paik, regarded as the father of video art.

In 1914 a group of young British artists, the Vorticists, in their avant - garde journal Blast!

Turnbull brought the avant - garde creative scenes of Paris and New York to the staid British art world.

Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942) British painter, pupil of Whistler, advocate of French avant - garde art in Britain.

The British multimedia artist Tracey Karima Emin RA emerged in the late 1980s as a member of the Young British Artists movement, led by Damien Hirst and supported by the patronage of millionaire avant - garde art collector Charles Saatchi.

A member of Abstraction - Creation, Unit One and other avant - garde groups, he received considerable international exposure from British Council tours during the 1940s and 1950s, and from the critical support of Herbert Read - one of the top modernist art critics.

However, the name is also used in a broader sense to embrace all progressive, avant - garde British artists who achieved recognition during the late 1980s and 90s.

held at the respected Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA; while Damien Hirst's pickled shark (The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living) became a worldwide symbol of avant - garde British art in the final decade of the 20th century.

• Young British Artists (Britart)(1980s) Group of avant - garde artists supported by millionaire art collector Charles Saatchi, who took contemporary art by storm during the 1980s and 90s.

These include British contemporaries such as Frank Dobson (1886 - 1963), Jacob Epstein (1880 - 1959), Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975) and Leon Underwood (1890 - 1975); the European avant - gardes, for example Alexander Archipenko (1887 - 1964), Constantin Brancusi (1876 - 1957), Henri Gaudier - Brzeska (1891 - 1915) and Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973); earlier artists such as Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917) and Michelangelo (1475 - 1564); examples of African, Aztec and Cycladic art from the British Museum; and publications which Moore studied as a student and young artist.

In addition to those Vorticist members mentioned above, certain other artists were closely associated with the movement including the much underrated painter David Bomberg (1890 - 1957), the US - born sculptor Jacob Epstein (1880 - 1959), who settled in Londin in 1905, and the American - born British photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882 - 1966) noted for his avant - garde black - and - white abstract photographs, known as Vortographs.

Anthony McCall (born 1946) is a British - born New York based artist and was a key figure in the avant - garde London Film - makers Co-operative in the 1970s.

This led to the moment when British sculpture joined the international avant - garde.

The Contemporary Art Society was founded by people who were among the first in this country to understand the importance of the avant - garde in Europe — Roger Fry was the curator of Post-Impressionist exhibitions in London in the first years of the 20th - century that changed the British scene forever.

Taylor - Wood, Sam (b. 1967) Avant - garde filmmaker, video artist and photographer, member of Young British Artists movement, whose works explore the difference between perceived appearance and actual being.

The latter made British artists pedantic while in France the avant garde, less rattled by the camera, were seeing dots and cubes.