Sentences with phrase «cubist work»

Starting with Cubist work from Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, the exhibition continues with Surrealism and Magritte's famous «La Trahison des Images (The Treachery of Images)» and postwar art in which letters, numbers, words and phrases became artistic motifs, objects and part of an artistic practice.
A year earlier, in 1909, the French avant - garde painter Francis Picabia painted Caoutchouc, a proto - cubist work featuring unrecognizable geometric shapes enveloped in seemingly unrelated color fields.
«Torse de Femme» (Female Torso) from 1908, a proto - cubist work by Pablo Picasso, from the Chicago - based Sara Lee Corp..
New Yorkers had ample access to Cubist work, which was shown prominently at the city's young Museum of Modern Art.
I really despise later Cubist work — whether its Picasso or anybody else's.
Gorky's acquaintance with Synthetic Cubist work — specifically that by Picasso — came primarily through his familiarity with paintings in museums and in publications such as Cahiers d'Art, a leading periodical that featured reproductions of works by both Braque and Picasso.
Les Demoiselles D'Avignon (1907) Picasso's seminal Cubist work: one of the greatest 20th - century paintings which paved the way for abstraction.
After that she worked as a curator at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn., and the Douglas Cooper collection, a private collection of cubist work.
The Cubist work actually wasn't the superstar of the 1913 Armory show, Agee contends — Duchamp's vertical image was just the easiest to reproduce (and to parody in cartoons) in publications.
It was an early cubist work that Schapiro shared with her students, contrasting its bold formal energy and its improvisational use of collage materials with a clear feminine source with Robert Delaunay's more etiolated and academic paintings of the same period.
This proto - cubist work pictures five nude prostitutes ironically called «Les Demoiselles.»
There are examples of Cubist works with reference to mark - making in the cubist shapes and using coloured tones.
The European installation culminates in a display of the paintings that provoked the most bewilderment and notoriety in 1913: Cubist works by Picabia and Gleizes, along with Duchamp's «Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2),» which prompted its famous description by one critic as «an explosion in a shingle factory.»
Rare cubist works by Arshile Gorky, John Graham, and Ad Reinhardt are contrasted with non-objective works from the 1930s by Bengelsdorf, Diller, Drewes, Ferren, Gallatin, Holtzman, Kelpe, Morris, Shaw, Slobodkina, and Swinden.
Picasso and Britain will include key Cubist works such as Head of a Man with Moustache 1912 (Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris) which was seen in Britain before the First World War, when Cubism was first introduced to a British public through Roger Fry's two Post-Impressionist exhibitions.
While not purely cubist works, the influence of cubism on Isberg's abstraction is more Juan Gris than Picasso.
Cubist works by George Braque will be shown next to works by Pierre Dubreuil, while the Abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock will stand beside Otto Steinert «s «luminograms».
Davis first discovered this kind of space in Cubist works on view at the 1913 Armory Show — the exhibition where most American artists first encountered European Modernism.
In his first Cubist works, that enabled him to find both.
Following his earliest Cubist works and his still lifes of the 1930s, Georges Braque's Atelier, or studio, paintings from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s form the most important series in the artist's late work.
His sculptures were displayed alongside Cubist works by the pioneers including Fernand Léger and František Kupka, and «offered a sensual alternative to the more severe, geometrical works of his contemporaries.»
The exhibition centers on Jean Metzinger's At the Cycle - Race Track (Au Vélodrome) of 1912, one of the pivotal Cubist works at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
You can see it in cubist works where planes are shifting.
The suggestion of the feet being twisted and offering impossible views of the soles — a word that conjures its homonym «souls», another link with memory and mourning — can also be seen as echoing the different perspectives in play in Picasso's late cubist works, including, notably, The Charnel House 1944 — 5 (Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Words, in paintings, are often very awkward things to incorporate harmoniously and there are very few artists, notably Picasso in his cubist works, who have succeeded happily.
Art Institute of Chicago Noted for its extensive collection of Old Master paintings, plus Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Cubist works, and some of the finest American art.
During a trip to Paris in 1921, Nicholson saw Cubist works, which influenced his first semiabstract still lifes; in 1924 he executed his first completely abstract painting.
Also included are cubist works by Fannie Hillsmith, painterly expressionist pieces by Hugh Mesibov, op art by Bernard Rosenquit, Indian Space by Howard Daum, and those by Fred Becker and Hans Burkhardt that touch on the surreal.
Although most Cubist works were still derived from objects or scenes in the real world, and thus can not be considered to be wholly abstract, the movement's rejection of traditional perspective completely undermined natural - realism in art, and thus opened the door to pure abstraction.
16: «Georges Braque: A Retrospective»: The first museum exhibit in many years to present the full arc of Braque's career, from 1906 to the 1960s, including more than 25 of his greatest Cubist works.
The dining room displays early Cubist works by artists such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
These undercurrents compelled a number of artists, particularly those of the Stieglitz Circle, to reject European influences and abruptly end their earlier forays into abstraction — O'Keeffe's wonderful meditations on form and color, Hartley's Synthetic Cubist works painted in Provincetown and Bermuda in 1915 and 1916, Dove's seminal series of pastels from 1910 - 11 — and focus on more recognizable subject matter.
The Wexner Center for the Arts has one of the most dynamic contemporary programs in the country, and the Columbus Museum of Art, which opened a new building in 2015, has a dynamic program and diverse collection that includes cubist works by Picasso and Juan Gris, and superb paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi, Mary Cassatt and Marsden Hartley.
Despite its post-modernist image, 1950s Assemblage compositions can be traced back to the early twentieth century Synthetic Cubist works of Georges Braque (1882 - 1963) and Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973).
Since then, thanks to additional gifts (including Raoul La Roche's magnificent collection of Cubist works, as well as donations from the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation and the Im Obersteg Foundation), the museum has managed to assemble a highly distinguished and extensive sample of modern works.

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Mahoney: Ellington saw the art in the way that Ray Allen and Rip Hamilton worked, but he's something of a cubist himself.
Examples of Cubism showing the close up detail of markmaking and analysis in the works of the Cubists.
This unit of work, encapsulated in a PowerPoint presentation, looks at the formal elements of art and gives examples of how to apply them to cubist art.
The Tate didn't purchase a Cubist Picasso until 1949, decades after the artist's pioneering work in Cubism.
The visual basis of the works of the most interesting of this group of American painters like Georgia O'Keefe, John Marin, Arthur Dove and the great Marsden Hartley ultimately depended upon the work of the Cubists, the Fauves and Albert Pinkham Ryder.
Her work is also on a par with the early and excellent Cubist - inflected efforts of Chagall, Miró and Malevich.
«This once - in - a-lifetime exhibition comprises works from every phase of Picasso's extraordinary career, including masterpieces from his Blue, Rose, Expressionist, Cubist, Neoclassical and Surrealist periods,» describes John E. Buchanan, Jr., director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
The exhibition traces the evolution of Michael Goldberg's work from the early cubist inspired drawings of the 1940s to the monumental nonobjective paintings of the early Read More»
Davis employs a variety of techniques that add a unique 3D quality to his work, including ornate stenciling of neoclassical patterns that create a kaleidoscope «quilt» of color in cubist patterns.
This genre of work reflects, in part, the early Cubist style and the era's preoccupation with the psychological symbolism of African art, masks in particular.
The exhibition brought together the work of the European cubists and avant - garde artists with the work of vanguard American artists.
The forms she paints inhabit a shallow, cubist - like space, if I have the chronology correct many of the later works are larger in size.
My work relates to Cubists and Futurists paintings — in which the natural world is translated into a stark pictorial language of shapes, lines and angles.
By choosing that dark theme, rather than a more overtly Cubist still life, the Whitney makes his early work prefigure his late paintings.
In these new works, your faces are more abstract, more explicitly Cubist or Constructivist.
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