Sentences with phrase «early modern sculptors»

The early modern sculptor, famously known for The Kiss (ca. 1882) and other sensual and organic depictions of the human form, was enamored with spired and buttressed French Gothic cathedrals.

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In the modern Games» early days, painters, sculptors, writers and musicians battled for gold, silver and bronze
As the art studio and salon of the sculptor and arts patron Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875 — 1942), the Whitney Studio was at the center of the development of the early modern art movement in America, borne out of Mrs. Whitney's tremendous advocacy on behalf of living American artists.
Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture at Tate Modern will trace the works of the groundbreaking US - born sculptor, born in 1898, from his early years entertaining the bohemians of inter-war Paris with works such as Calder's Circus.
It covers much territory: 16th - century Albrecht Durer's moral themes, graffiti - inspired Keith Haring, early modern James McNeill Whistler and»60s smashed - up automobile sculptor John Chamberlain.
· The sculptor Anish Kapoor, whose sculpture Marsyas filled the Tate Modern earlier this year, won the Turner prize people's poll, in which the public voted for the best artist of all those shortlisted since 1984.
Johns, Jasper (b. 1930) One of the most successful modern artists during the second half of the 20th century, he was an early Pop - art painter, sculptor and printmaker who pioneered the use of mundane objects, like flags, maps, beer cans in fine art.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Ernest Trova was among the most widely acknowledged sculptors working in the United States, resulting in invitations to exhibit in three Whitney Annuals, three Venice Biennales, and Documenta 4 in Kassel, Germany.i In 1969 his work was heralded by the New York Times as «among the best of contemporary American sculpture,» and throughout those decades examples of his art were prominently displayed in dozens of major museums including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
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