Sentences with phrase «dadaist works»

The Spanish artist Cuixart has, after a visit to New York, spoken with great indignation about how these artists only create Dadaist works «formally.»

As a munificent reversal of this historic Dadaist work, the gallery renders the display useful again, allowing guests to borrow the commercially made tools from an art gallery setting.

It sold for # 1.1 m ($ 1.3 m)(est. # 400,000 - # 600,000) at Christie's, surpassing the previous auction record of $ 824,000 (est. $ 8,000 - $ 12,000) for the Dadaist work on paper Mechanischer Garten (1920) at Christie's in 2007.

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Limited to a largely gray - scale palette, save for a few sepia - toned works, the show has Dadaist undertones, especially in DeFeo's still life photography.

British artist Linder is possibly best known for a record sleeve she designed for the Buzzcock's single Orgasm Addict in 1977 - an iconic image, of a naked woman with an iron for a head and grinning mouths instead of nipples, has become a symbol, not only of a defining era of punk culture and feminism, but also a microcosm for her expansive body of work, which operates on a deeply contextual level with issues of gender, feminism, stereotyping and sexualisation, echoing the work of Hannah Hoch, the German Dadaist for whom this edition was created in homage.

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.

[4] However, several of the original Dadaists denounced the label Neo-Dada, especially in its U.S. manifestations, on the grounds that the work was derivative rather than making fresh discoveries; that aesthetic pleasure was found in what were originally protests against bourgeois aesthetic concepts; and because it pandered to commercialism.

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.

The recent exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World (6 October 2017 — 7 January 2018), opened with numerous works by Huang dated to his early Dadaist years.

Mixed in with the works of Willumsen are rarely seen works by the better known Dadaist Francis Picabia (1879 — 1953) and newer work by the suddenly resurgent Julian Schnabel (b. 1951), who — as might be expected — is the main draw.

Mr. Castellani was working in Milan, where he was close to Piero Manzoni, an artist with a more Dadaist approach.

Rauschenberg and his close friend Jasper Johns are referred to as Neo Dadaists; this category of artists continued the earlier Dada movement in which artists questioned the very definition of a work of art.

At the very least, Henry Codax has firmly aligned himself — or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he has been firmly aligned — with a tradition of fictional and pseudonymous artists that includes French Dadaist Marcel Duchamp masquerading as a woman named Rrose Selavy and the artist Richard Prince and dealer Colin de Land reportedly making work under the name John Dogg.

From the late 1980s onward, working in parallel with his systems - based work but in a very different mode, Anthony Hill exhibited dadaist pictures and collages under the pseudonym Achill Redo.

Rosalind Jacobs» lifelong friendships with many of the iconic artists of the Surrealist and Dadaist movements resulted in an amazing collection of works by Rene Magritte, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, and most substantially, Man Ray.

The Polkes later settled in Düsseldorf, which proved to be an excellent incubator for a budding artist: it was the location of the first postwar Dadaist exhibition in 1958 and in the 1960s a local commercial gallery began showing the work of Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly.

Kurt Schwitters, who produced art at the same time as the Dadaists, shows a similar sense of the bizarre in his «merz» works.

Drawing from Dadaist techniques, this work proposes a form of Little Theatre: objects are actors that perform and are performed by conditions and chance occurrence.

Like the Dadaists before him, Wojnarowicz projected a world on a path to self - destruction, and incorporated items of his daily life into his work as part of an individualized critical response to the conditions he found himself.

This attitude - reflected not only in Saret's wire pieces, but also in Lynda Benglis» poured latex works, Robert Morris» scattered and draped felt and Richard Serra's splashed lead - may be seen as an extension of the chance procedures of the Dadaists and, more recently, the contemporary composer John...

There is a clear connection between the radical works of Duchamp, the rebellious Dadaist — with a sense of humor; and pop artists like Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and the others.

There is certainly a resemblance of appearance, of certain technical devices, but Rauschenberg has seen something in them, has seen the Dadaist objects as the works of art they have tried not to be, and by concretizing what he has seen, and repeating it, new meanings and values come into being.

There is a clear connection between the radical works of Duchamp, the rebellious Dadaist — with a sense of humor; and Pop Artists like Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and the others.

The use of found objects, of course, has been a constant in art since the Dadaists, while serialism dates to the 1960s, with arrangements of images in grids cropping up in the work of artists from Andy Warhol to the Bechers and Stephen Shore.

Working across media including hand - drawn animation and opera, he has become something of a rock star and was in top form with his rendition of a sound poem first presented by the Dadaist Kurt Schwitters in 1932.

Following high school, Twombly began formal art training at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (1947 - 49), where he became interested in the Dadaist and Surrealist work of artists such as Kurt Schwitters and Alberto Giacometti.

And so, from the dadaists he adopted the idea of teamwork (both as a member of Gruppo T and in his subsequent work) and a refusal to accept art as a sublimated activity that separates the perceiving subject from his or her own body or surroundings.

Games were also intrinsic to the work of war - addled Surrealists and Dadaists, the inventors of the exquisite corpse and automatic drawing, in their quest to upend the bourgeois pretensions of art and free the artistic imagination.

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.

Many artists of the twentieth century — the Cubists, Dadaists, Surrealists in the early decades and the Pop, Conceptual, and Narrative artists in our own time — have incorporated text in works of visual art.

Surrealism exhibits held in Europe during the 1920s and early 1930s featured both figurative and biomorphic styles, as well as works that might be classified as Dadaist.

Nauman's work is conceptual and has been compared with Dadaists, particularly Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray.

by Kurt Schwitters Dadaist and creator of total works of art Kurt Schwitters wrote and composed his Ursonate between 1923 and 1932.

«Through Leger, Matter met and began working for Swiss graphic designer and photographer Herbert Matter, who, as an artist for Condé Nast publications, was largely responsible for translating the photomontage innovations of the dadaists into the visual vocabulary of the cultural mainstream.

With this adroit relationship to images, Tompkins is thus as much a Dadaist as she is a feminist; the two strands of her work commingle and produce heretofore - unexplored spaces for reflection upon identity, causing one to understand the true nuance of art informed by gender and sexuality.

But Fort Gansevoort flips the script on millennia of male - dominated athletics with art works by thirty - one women made between the mid-twentieth century and now, from Elizabeth Catlett's jubilant 1958 print of a barefoot girl jumping rope to a just - finished collage of a pigtailed boxer by Deborah Roberts, a young artist who borrows the Dadaist strategies of Hannah Höch for the era of Black Lives Matter.

The Canadian - born artist Marcel Dzama is known for his Dadaist multidisciplinary work — drawings, puppets, dioramas — and his collaborations on standout music videos.

Also on view at the Museum, will be kinetic sculptures by Alexander Calder, installations by Kurt Schwitters and Man Ray, abstract works by František Kupka and works by classic Surrealist and Dadaist masters Joan Miro, Marcel Duchamp, André Masson, Jean Arp.

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.

At the museum's Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria, large - scale bronze works will be on view, including Miffy Fountain (2008), a working fountain that co-opts the beloved children's book character created by Dutch author and illustrator Dick Bruna; a new edition of Sachs's bronze interpretation of a Buddhist stupa, Stupa (2012), created specifically for this exhibition; and Duralast (2008), a Dadaist construction from the artist's series of «battery towers,» comprising a stack of automobile batteries rendered in bronze.

Working in the lineage of the Dadaists and the Nouveau Réalisme movement, Bradford has honed a refined technique of décollage, a process defined by cutting, tearing away or otherwise removing, pieces of an original image.

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.

Third, again like Dadaists, he believed that the idea behind a work of art was more important than the work itself - a belief he held in common with the growing Conceptual art movement.

Putting this criticism into context, it is important to note that, after 400 years of Renaissance - dominated aesthetics - which decreed that painters and sculptors produce works of art from exclusively noble (and thus highbrow) subjects - the idea of creating art from trivial, commonplace objects was irresistibly appealing to Dadaists and their heirs.

Iconic Dadaist, surrealist, and conceptual artist René Magritte died 50 years ago this August, but his work is reborn in a new immersive experience called Magritte VR.

Edward Steichen was, together with Alfred Stieglitz, the founder of the journal Camera Work, playing an active role in New York's 291 gallery where modern art was first exhibited in the early 1900s; Man Ray and Erwin Blumenfeld were closely connected with Dadaist painters; George Hoyningen - Huene was a student with artists André Lhote and Man Ray; William Klein studied with painters André Lhote and Fernand Léger; Horst P. Horst was an assistant to architect Le Corbusier and worked with Salvador Dali.

The new group exhibition at Various Small Fires, Artificial Complexion, is inspired by the work of poet / artist / bohemian Baroness Elsa von Freytag - Loringhoven, an influential Dadaist figure who collaborated frequently with Man Ray and may have conceived Marcel Duchamp's infamous Fountain.

The objects found within her assemblage works offer a direct nod to artists such as Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp and much of the Dadaist movement.

The gesture exudes a Dadaist absurdity that unites many of the works in this show.

The Beninese artist Georges Adéagbo brings to bear on his work the sensibilities of a sociologist, an archivist, an art dealer and collector, an explorer, an entrepreneur, a storyteller, a philosopher, and, if one could imagine it, a postcolonial Dadaist.