Sentences with phrase «century art scene»

His research on geometric shapes and the interaction of colors remodeled the 20th century art scene, attempting to provide an alternative to Abstract Expressionism and concepts such as color - field painting, geometric abstraction and op art.

A 112 - year - old institution, one of the most important events in the international art calendar, the Biennale showed signs of engagement with a fast changing twenty - first century art scene.

Sacré Bleu is a highly - entertaining and smartly - written romp through the late 19th Century art scene in Montmartre and beyond.

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1 «Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story» (Todd Haynes, 1987) 2 «Don't Look Back» (DA Pennebaker, 1967)-- Bob Dylan 3 «Gim me Shelter» (David Maysles / Albert Maysles / Charlotte Zwerin, 1970)-- Rolling Stones 4 «24 Hour Party People» (Michael Winterbottom, 2002)-- Manchester scene 5 «Topsy - Turvy» (Mike Leigh, 1999)-- Gilbert and Sullivan 6 «Monterey Pop» (DA Pennebaker, 1968)-- concert 7 «Be Here to Love Me» (Margaret Brown, 2004)-- Townes Van Zandt 8 «Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould» (Francois Girard, 1993)-- Glenn Gould 9 «Cocksucker Blues» (Robert Frank, 1972)-- Rolling Stones 10 «Bird» (Clint Eastwood, 1988)-- Charlie Parker 11 «The Last Waltz» (Martin Scorsese, 1978)-- The Band & Friends farewell concert 12 «Rude Boy» (Jack Hazan, David Mingay, 1980)-- The Clash 13 «Scott Walker: 30 Century Man» (Stephen Kijak, 2006)-- Scott Walker 14 «Bound for Glory» (Hal Ashby, 1976)-- Woody Guthrie 15 «The Decline of Western Civilization Parts I & II» (Penelope Spheeris, 1981, 1988)-- LA punk;»80s metal & hair bands 16 «The Devil and Daniel Johnston» (Jeff Feuerzeig, 2005)-- Daniel Johnston 17 «Sweet Dreams» (Karel Reisz, 1982)-- Patsy Cline 18 «Art Pepper: Notes from a Jazz Survivor» (Don McGlynn, 1982)-- Art Pepper 19 «Elgar» (Ken Russell, 1962)-- Edward Elgar 20 «Rust Never Sleeps» (Neil Young, 1979)-- Neil Young 21 «The Future is Unwritten» (Julien Temple, 2006)-- Joe Strummer 22 «DiG!»

National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman), France / USA North American Premiere Master documentarian Frederick Wiseman (Crazy Horse, At Berkeley) takes the audience behind the scenes of this London institution, which is inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.

The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).

In the latest installment of The Art Of..., director Sofia Coppola takes us behind the scenes of her 19th - century Gothic thriller, The Beguiled.

The term remix comes from music but applies unreservedly to all creativity, whether you're fuelling your art by stealing bass lines, scenes from movies or bits of 17th century poems.

The Eczacıbasi family is central to Istanbul's growing art scene; it founded the Istanbul Biennial in 1973, and in 2004, Füsun Eczacıbasi's sister - in - law, Oya Eczacıbasi, founded Istanbul Modern, a museum housed in a 19th - century warehouse on Karaköy Quay.

I think that the contemporary painter, trying to figure out how to proceed in the impossibly complex art scene of the early twenty - first century, could learn a lot from this approach.»

The publication captures a snapshot of the evolving art scenes of these communities over the last half - century, as well as various locations around the world through the gallery's participation in art fairs, biennales and off - site projects.

The renegade who hawked mirror balls a quarter of a century earlier had morphed into a doyenne of the international art scene.

Robert Irwin is a pivotal figure in the Los Angeles art scene for the last five decades and founding member of the «Light and Space» movement, but also one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

Alan Davie, who died on Saturday aged 93, was one of the great 20th - century British artists, a life - long maverick whose explosive canvases cut a swathe through the provincial aridity of the postwar art scene.

Any art professional will expound how important John Cage's writings and works were to the New York art and music scene in the mid-twentieth century.

However, as a group, the photographs constitute a unique document attesting to the vibrancy and dynamism of a generation of individuals who were vital presences on the New York art scene in the late 20th century and represent a virtual who's who / time capsule of the art world at a particularly complex and historic moment.

«Inventing Downtown,» an art - packed historical deep - dive at the Grey Art Gallery at New York University, tells the story of that lost chapter, the upstart gallery scene that flourished for more than a decade in the East Village, bequeathing a body of work that considerably scrambles not only the map but also the lock - step narrative of 20th - century art movemenart - packed historical deep - dive at the Grey Art Gallery at New York University, tells the story of that lost chapter, the upstart gallery scene that flourished for more than a decade in the East Village, bequeathing a body of work that considerably scrambles not only the map but also the lock - step narrative of 20th - century art movemenArt Gallery at New York University, tells the story of that lost chapter, the upstart gallery scene that flourished for more than a decade in the East Village, bequeathing a body of work that considerably scrambles not only the map but also the lock - step narrative of 20th - century art movemenart movements.

It will showcase some of the greatest artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, starting with Picasso's study for his masterpiece Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon, the painting that changed the world in 1907, and concluding with Julie Mehretu, the Ethiopian - born artist and one of the stars of the contemporary international art scene.

Other strengths of the twentieth - century collection include: sixty works by members of the Ash Can School; significant representation by early modernists such as Alfred Maurer, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Max Weber; important examples by the Precisionists Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Preston Dickinson and Ralston Crawford; a good showing by the American Scene painters Charles Burchfield and Edward Hopper; a broad spectrum of work by the Social Realists Ben Shahn, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Jack Levine; and ambitious examples of Regionalist painting by Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, notably the latter's celebrated five - panel mural, The Arts of Life in America (1932).

Upritchard is drawn to a variety of arts, crafts, and design from around the world produced over the past several centuries, and an array of objects and techniques have informed her work: the fifteenth - century German sculptor Erasmus Grasser's wooden figures; the Bayeux Tapestry, made in the eleventh century, with its scenes of the Norman conquest of England; the use of canopic jars in Egyptian mummification; the bronze figures of the Chola dynasty in India; and the blank expressions of the masks used in Japanese Noh theater.

A central figure of the British art scene for almost half a century, David Hockney is remarkably wealthy (with a net worth of some $ 40 million), yet still less so than some of his peers.

Original artworks and commentary by Mark Tansey (b. 1949), whose large scale monochromatic allegories reference the art of photography, a pivotal technology in the reproduction and dissemination of popular images; John Currin (b. 1962), who has referenced the art of Norman Rockwell, and whose provocative figural paintings reflect upon domestic and social themes that were prevalent, though differently portrayed, in the mid-twentieth century; Vincent Desiderio (b. 1955), whose dark intellectual melodramas re-imagine scenes of crime and adventure from pulp fiction; Lucien Freud (1922 - 2011), the painter of deeply psychological works that examine the relationship of artist and model; and Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946), son of noted painter Andrew Wyeth and grandson of illustrator N.C. Wyeth, whose images convey stories real and imagined, among other artists, will be featured in the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue.

With unprecedented access to private family archives and personal interviews, Middleton has crafted a vivid behind - the - scenes look at the famous couple who shaped Texas culture and the 20th - century art world through civil rights support, art patronage, and public gallery innovations.

Go behind the scenes of «Art in the Twenty - First Century» Season 8, as we film Barbara Kasten and Theaster Gates in Chicago.

Go behind the scenes of «Art in the Twenty - First Century» Season 8, as the ART21 production crew films Brian Jungen and Liz Magor in Vancouver.

The 16th - century Low Countries painter Pieter Aertsen pioneered a new genre of large - scale art: the market scene, which combined the virtuoso rendering of materials prevalent in still life paintings with a human element that often had an allegorical subtext.

Yves Klein, Untitled Anthropometry, 1960 Hirshhorn Collection May 20 — September 12, 2010 One of the last century's most influential artists, Yves Klein (French, b. Nice, 1928; d. Paris, 1962) took the European art scene by storm in a prolific career that lasted only from 1954 to 1962, when he suffered a heart attack at the age of 34.

Housed in a striking 18th century Palazzo that was home for the eponymous heiress Peggy Guggenheim for three decades, the Guggenheim Collection is today the focal point of the city's contemporary art scene.

The artworks, many painted by white grandees influential in giving shape and depth to the city's art scene in the early 20th - century, were easy targets.

Gordon Matta - Clark (1943 - 1978) is one of the great heroes of late twentieth - century art, a cult figure as much in the contemporary art world as on the architecture scene, whose work is independent from any movement or school.

Both exhibits focus on Japanese artistic movements that shone light on the principal questions, directions, themes, techniques and imagery that dominated the country's art scene in the middle of the 20th century.

From as early as the 1980s, photography and video art have found their place in the German Pavilion, side by side with painting, sculpture and installation: the works of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Thomas Ruff, Candida Höfer, Katharina Sieverding and Rosemarie Trockel — all of them protagonists in the vibrant art scene at the Düsseldorfer Akademie in the late 20th century — were followed by the actions and films of Christoph Schlingensief and Romuald Karmakar, along with the documentary approaches of the Indian artist Dayanita Singh and the South African photographer Santu Mofokeng.

A fundamental member of the «70s SoHo art scene, Beckley's work provides a crucial glimpse into one of the key New York art movements of the 20th century.

Its subject is the 1940 - born painter Robert Cenedella, who rose up during one of the nation's most interesting periods of 20th - century painting, when Pollock, Rothko and their comrades were making abstract expressionism synonymous with the American art scene.

One of the last century's most influential artists, Yves Klein (1928 — 1962) took the European art scene by storm in a prolific career that lasted only from 1954 to 1962, when he suffered a heart attack at the age of 34.

Pop Art was quicker than any other art movement of the twentieth century to gain entrance to art markets, and was widely exhibited and enthusiastically received as soon as it began to emerge on the scene in the UArt was quicker than any other art movement of the twentieth century to gain entrance to art markets, and was widely exhibited and enthusiastically received as soon as it began to emerge on the scene in the Uart movement of the twentieth century to gain entrance to art markets, and was widely exhibited and enthusiastically received as soon as it began to emerge on the scene in the Uart markets, and was widely exhibited and enthusiastically received as soon as it began to emerge on the scene in the USA.

Collot's Commedia dell» Arte Characters and 17th - Century Scenes / through December 11 Boydell Shakespeare Gallery Engravings / through January 8 Mobile Museum of Art

Late in life Twachtman visited Gloucester, Massachusetts, another center of artistic activity in the late 19th century, and produced a series of vibrant scenes that anticipated a more modernist style yet to gain prominence in American art.

Oglethorpe offers an exhibition of works by early - 20th - century artists depicting gritty scenes of old New York including John Sloan, Reginald Marsh, George Luks, Robert Henri and George Bellows culled from private collections within the Atlanta metro area, the High Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Apocalyptic scenes have played a major role in art throughout the centuries as means to point to the threat of evil.

The Political Persuader: Cartoons by Frank M. Spangler, Sr. / through November 27 Collot's Commedia dell» Arte Characters and 17th - Century Scenes / through December 11 Boydell Shakespeare Gallery Engravings / through January 8 Mobile Museum of Art

Celebrating the role of drawing in Western art and underscoring its importance in the Smart Museum's collection during the last 20 years, the 20 still lifes, landscapes, allegories, historical scenes, and life drawings in this exhibition range from a sketch by French impressionist Camille Pissarro to a drawing by 16th - century Dutch painter Abraham Bloemaert.

Emerging from the California art scene, in which he worked for half a century, Conner's work touches on various themes of postwar American society, from a rising consumer culture to the dread of nuclear apocalypse.

In the second Behind the Scenes podcast produced on the occasion of the exhibition Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500 - 1800, Grasselli talks to host Barbara Tempchin about the Gallery's exceptionally rich collection of 18th - century drawings by the major artists - Boucher, Fragonard, Greuze, and Watteau, among many others - each represented by several works of outstanding quality.

We spoke to «the flower guy» about what street art has to do with 17th - century Dutch still lifes, and how the Internet has transformed the scene over his two - decades - long career.

Featuring more than 120 paintings, drawings, prints, and works on paper, the exhibition explores the Parisian art scene of the late 19th century.

Paris, Fin de Siècle: Signac, Redon, Toulouse - Lautrec, and Their Contemporaries is a new exhibition at The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao that analyses the Parisian art scene, underscoring the most important French avant - garde artists of the late 19th century, particularly the NeoImpressionists, Symbolists, and Nabis.

Throughout their careers, the couple participated actively in not only contributing to the dialogue of 20th century visual art, but cementing the importance of the how influential the West coast Abstract Expressionist scene was to the movement as a whole.

Behind - the - scenes access to the RISD Museum's extraordinary collection of 85,000 works of art — from early Egyptian relics to 21st - century experimental light sculptures — provides students and faculty with unparalleled opportunities for in - depth research.