Sentences with phrase «dutch avant»

The Dutch avant - garde began to call for new standards in their national art that would incorporate such trends and move beyond traditional landscape painting.

In 1909 Mondrian's Luminist works were exhibited in a large group show at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, which firmly established him as part of the Dutch avant - garde.

A generous hint of his direction could be seen in the 2012 Biennial (then hailed by New York Times critic Roberta Smith as «one of the best Whitney Biennials in recent memory»), which included such unforgettable moments as Werner Herzog's presentation of drawings by Hercules Segers intermixed with filmed performances by the Dutch avant - garde cellist and composer Ernst Reijseger; Dawn Kasper's performative residency in a ramshackle studio of her own creation on the museum's third floor; and the transformation of the entire fourth floor into a long stage for dance, most memorably Michelson's highly concentrated, multipart «Devotion Study # 1 — The American Dancer.»

• De Stijl (1917 - 31) Dutch avant - garde design group founded by Theo van Doesburg.

It is an international project, for which several art spaces have partnered to simultaneously commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the Dutch avant - garde art movement De Stijl.

In keeping with the exhibition's assertion that Cobra has particular resonance with contemporary art practice, the design of Human Animals: The Art of Cobra reflects the innovative installations of the first Cobra exhibitions that were designed by Dutch avant - garde architect Aldo van Eyck, with a re-working of the «Poet's Cage» featured in the landmark 1949 Cobra exhibition in Amsterdam.

In this traditional paperback, renowned critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist teams up with Dutch avant - garde architect and paradigm - shifting intellectual, Rem Koolhaas, for a discussion of Koolhaas's work in China, his designs for Prada, architecture as metaphor, and the development of urbanism in the slipstream of globalization.

Not exact matches

Baker writes: «Drawing a connection between the redrawing of political borders and the subsequent exchange of ideas among previously alienated artists, the exhibition theorizes that the surge of creativity in the 1920s and 30s could have been a direct response to the mingling of Russian Constructivists (who migrated west due to the increasingly conservative Soviet policies against the avant garde) and the radical Dutch conceptualists they encountered.

Despite spending the majority of his life in Delft, the Netherlands, where he worked from 1946 to 1979 as a civil servant for the Dutch Postal Service, Schoonhoven rose to artistic prominence as an active and influential member of the international avant garde.

Ryan McGinness, #metadata March 19 - April 15, 2016 Dean Levin, XTC (Gallery 2 & 3) January 16 - February 27, 2016 Lita Albuquerque, Embodiment January 9 - February 27, 2016 2015 Simmons & Burke: Dutch Masters November 6 - December 19, 2015 Object / Space: Robert Ryman + Giorgio Morandi September 19 - October 31, 2015 Annette Bonnier, India's Elephants (Gallery 2) September 19 - October 31, 2015 The West Coast Avant - Garde, 1950 - Present July 17 - September 4, 2015 Jess's Didactic Nickelodeon and Lawrence Jordan's Collage and Film (Gallery 3) June 6 - July 10, 2015 William Monk, The Cloud is Growing in the Trees May 29 - July 10, 2015 Camille Rose Garcia, Mirror, Black Mirror (Gallery 3) April 25 - May 20, 2015 Tom LaDuke, Candles and Lasers April 11 - May 20, 2015 LAND, AIR, SEE February 21 - April 2, 2015 Troika, Cartography of Control January 10 - February 12, 2015 2014 Lita Albuquerque, Light Carries Information November 15 - December 20, 2014 Bruce Conner, CROSSROADS & Works on Paper November 8 - December 20, 2014 Eddie Martinez, Nomader September 12 — October 25, 2014 Joe Goode, Flat Screen Nature July 12 - August 29, 2014 Mark Ryden, The Gay 90s West May 3 - June 28, 2014

There are jazzy paintings by the Dutch artist Sedje Hémon that can be read as musical scores; paintings, texts, and scores by the great egalitarian Englishman Cornelius Cardew, who assembled orchestras that included untrained musicians; a video by Ross Birrell and David Harding of a performance of Henryk Górecki's effective but schlocky neo-Romantic Symphony of Sorrowful Songs; the avant - gardism of Avraamov; corny instruments fashioned by Nevin Aladağ from everyday objects; performances of work by the esteemed queer minimalist Julius Eastman; austere and inventive pieces by Alvin Lucier; and many more.

In the 1960s, Schoonhoven co-founded the avant - garde Nul - groep (Nul Group), a Dutch branch of the international ZERO movement that sought to reduce art to the zero degree by simplifying compositions and using everyday materials.

Throughout the 1980s Dercon was active in the Belgian and Dutch performance, dance, and avant - garde theatre scene.

A giant of 20th century American art who occupied the area between abstract art and representationalism, the Dutch - born artist Willem de Kooning was the most consistent and longest - living contributor to the postwar Abstract Expressionism movement, and an iconic figure in avant - garde art.

De Stijl was the name of a Dutch design and aesthetics journal and avant - garde art movement, devoted to geometric abstraction (non-objective art), which was founded and led by Theo Van Doesburg (1883 - 1931).

The European equivalent of the gesturalism or «action painting» style of American Abstract Expressionism, COBRA was a non-conformist avant - garde movement founded by painters, sculptors and graphic artists from the Danish group Host, the Dutch group Reflex, and the Belgian Revolutionary Surrealist Group.

Inspired by the flat East Anglian landscape with its big skies, Norfolk Broads and rivers, and by 17th century Dutch Realist painters such as Meindert Hobbema (1638 - 1709) and Jacob van Ruisdael (1628 - 82), Norwich School artists included amateurs as well as professionals, many of whom practised the avant - garde method of plein air painting.

There are (at least) three big ones this year: the Russian revolution with its impact on the avant garde, Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, and the Dutch art and design movement De Stijl, founded by Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg in 1917.

They include American pop artist Frank Stella, British artist Richard Wilson, sculptor Antony Gormley, Oscar ® award - winning producer Lord David Puttnam, Irek Mukhamedov of the Bolshoi Ballet, new media guru Lev Manovich, fashion entrepreneur Victoria Beckham, fashion authorities Colin McDowell, Calvin Klein's Kevin Carrigan and Matthew Williamson, revolutionary Dutch designer Marcel Wanders, production designer Grant Major (Lord of the Rings), American theatre giant and avant - garde director Robert Wilson (Einstein on the Beach), animator - producer David Sproxton (Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run), actors Andrew Lincoln and Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead), and actor - producer Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct).

Tate Modern presents the first major exhibition in the UK devoted to the Dutch artist and pivotal figure of the European avant - garde, Theo van Doesburg (1883 - 1931).