Sentences with phrase «dadaist influences»

Critics have even cited Dadaist influences on the punk rock movement of the 1970s.

In this piece, Ambron uses watercolor and vinyl paint to create a fragmented figure that shows Dadaist influence.

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Most of the artists of the sixties and seventies that the Whitney features were influenced by and created derivative variations of the work of Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Dubuffet, and various other European Dadaists and Surrealists.

FRANCIS PICABIA: OUR HEADS ARE ROUND SO OUR THOUGHTS CAN CHANGE DIRECTION Picabia was on the ground with the Dadaists in Paris, but this exhibition includes his later work, which has influenced contemporary painters — perverse figurative paintings that look like precursors to Pop Art, or pulp fiction book covers.

A loose generational cohort of artists rather than a stylistically cohesive movement like the Minimalists or Dadaists, the Young British Artists burst on the London scene in the 1990s with intensely attitudinal artworks that injected brainy, Duchamp - influenced Neo-Conceptualism with a liberal helping of grit, sex, and death.

His main influences during his formative years were the European Dadaist Marcel Janco, Dan Hoffner, the director of Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem, the optical and kinetic artist Yaakov Agam in Paris, and primarily — the painter Eric Brauer of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.

He is influenced by the notion of «tensegrity», proposed by Kenneth Snelson, the paintings and prints of Terry Winters, methods of unifying conscious and subconscious thought such as through Surrealist Automatism, and the approach of Dadaists to question the meaning of symbols.

This experience probably reinforced his insight into the studies of light and the use of exhibition space and exposed him to the Impressionists, Colorists, Modernists, and Dadaists whose influences are made explicit in his work through his practice of leaving pieces untitled yet dedicated to artists including Mondrian, Brancusi, Jasper Johns, and Duchamp.

His breakthrough came in 1924 when, under the influence of Dadaists and Surrealist writers André Breton and Louis Aragon, he freed his work from the restraints of realistic representation.

The founder of British Pop - art, Paolozzi trained at the Edinburgh College of Art (1943), St Martin's School of Art (1944), and at the Slade School of Art (1944 - 1947), before working in Paris, France (1947 - 1949) where he met and became influenced by a number of famous artists, including the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, the former Dadaist and Surrealist Jean Arp, the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi, and the Cubists Georges Braque and Fernand Léger.

The recent creative history of Winnipeg brings up a number of successful artists influenced by Dadaists, graffiti art, and outsider artists like Henry Darger.

He became intoxicated by the Surrealists and assorted Dadaists which influenced his unique blend of American Pop mixed in with a healthy dose of European Surrealism; all weighted by the color and pattern legacy of Matisse.

Tate Britain will on Wednesday open the first major exhibition examining the later work of a Dadaist artist now regarded as one of the true greats of 20th - century modernist art, whose abstract collages and concrete poetry were an enormous influence on later generations of artists.

In 1986, he founded Xiamen Dada, a postmodern group mixing Zen Buddhism with Dadaist surrealism, influenced by artists including Joseph Beuys, John Cage and Marcel Duchamp.