Sentences with phrase «european art»

A Ph.D. in art history, Myers has extensive knowledge of European art from 1700 to 1945, with a specialty in 19th - century French painting.

Discover how one family's personal collection of paintings became America's first museum of modern art in 1921, then grew into one of the world's great collections of impressionist and modern American and European art.

His mastery of formal composition, colour and detail have made him one of the pre-eminent European art photographers of our time, and he is best known for his large - scale cityscapes and his ongoing series of family portraits, many of which nod to Renaissance paintings.

Karen K. Butler, assistant curator, on Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928 — 1945 and John Klein, associate professor of art history, Washington University on Face and Figure in European Art, 1928 — 1945.

If the overarching point of his Museum is that contemporary African art is no more definable or homogeneous than contemporary «European art» or contemporary «American art», then he makes it very well.

Myers will begin work in Dallas on February 29, 2016, and will report to Meslay, who also serves as the Museum's Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture and The Barbara Thomas Lemmon Curator of European Art.

The Museum's collection of European art consists of examples from the Baroque - era through the early twentieth - century.

These include European art from the 18th through 20th centuries in Women Artists in Europe from the Monarchy to Modernism; dedicated exhibitions of works in photography from such noted artists as Anne Collier, Sarah Charlesworth, and Catherine Opie; and sculpture by Isa Genzken, Eva Hesse, and Annette Lawrence, among others, in the Museum's quadrant galleries.

Sam Francis absorbed influences from the many places he lived and worked throughout his extraordinary life, blending American Abstract Expressionism with European Art Informel and Eastern art in his celebrated paintings and prints.

Stimulated by what he saw there, Browne began to study Cahiers d'Art, the French magazine devoted to progressive European art.

Key artists in the European art collection are Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Gustave Courbet, André Derain, Francis Hayman, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and Pierre - Auguste Renoir.

The National Gallery of Art is on the National Mall near the Capitol and features works of American and European art.

At its earliest, we see the influences of European art, as well as a post war sense of brokenness.

The female figures arranged in challenging poses throughout her work gives new agency to the female form, long placed as passive in European art history.

Unlike Colescott, Kerry James Marshall aims to create artworks that continue the canon of European art history but enrich it with a Black aesthetic.

The collection of European art at the Dallas Museum of Art is an exquisite grouping of paintings, sculptures and works on paper, with strengths in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, including works of art by Jacques - Louis David, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Gustave Courbet, Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore.

* But beyond the consensus that Turner must be ranked among the greats of post-Renaissance European art (regardless of what criteria such an estimation might be based on), no one seems to know quite what to do with his immense, intractable body of work, so seemingly incommensurable with the production of any other artist.

Highlights of the European art collection include English genre painting of the nineteenth - century as well as examples of French post-Impressionistic painting from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

The works of these artists together reassess both history painting and history itself through layered references to paintings from the European art history canon.

When Olivier Meslay — the DMA's associate director of curatorial affairs, senior curator of European and American Art, and the Barbara Thomas Lemmon Curator of European Art — began exploring its drawings, he initially had thoughts of mounting a comprehensive exhibition of collection highlights.

The narrative touches on broader themes as well, such as the American artists» relationship with European art, the establishment of indigenous painting styles, the role of patronage in American art, and the question of provincial vs. «high» art.

She had, though, shifting encounters with the latest European art, only starting with German Expressionism.

He proclaimed the steady march of European art toward abstraction.

Dozens of amazing artists are linked with this essential postwar European art movement that had influenced a number of other artistic movements and styles from 1950s.

During the whole exhibition period there will be a focus on the European art scene, EU and cultural politics in our regular Thursday Events.

How, for example, British artists and travellers brought exotic subjects and faraway events within the conventions of European art; but, conversely, the way the indigenous art traditions of overseas territories adapted to the British presence.

According to Barbara Gladstone, the gallery owner, it's a logical step to any American art entrepreneur who also shares strong ties with the European art scene.

In 2013, Nicholas Serota presented him with the Federation of European Art Galleries Award in Basel, lauding Waddington as an individual «without equal in the profession».

The Dallas Museum of Art has acquired three significant works of European art thanks to two separate donations by Thomas C. and Jeanne Campbell and Ann Jacobus Folz.

Already comprising roughly 1,000 works by around 100 artists including Carlos Amorales, José Bedia, Alfredo Jaar, Gego, Guillermo Kuitca, Vik Muniz, among others, it is now the largest collection of Latin American art in Europe — an exciting new resource that will doubtless have interesting long - term ramifications for contemporary European art.

You had all these European art dealers looking for a young kid who knew his way around.

The emphasis lies on North American and European art of the second half of the 20th century.

It had its versions of European art and Minimalism, like that of Rosemarie Trockel — who just had a retrospective at the New Museum.

Her body parts recall Kiki Smith, Magdalena Abakanowicz, and the Eastern European art later in «Transmissions,» but without the explicit politics or pain.

In October 2013 Wilson was featured as one of just six «rising stars» in European art by the Wall Street Journal.

Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection at the High Museum afforded Atlanta audiences rare glimpses into the formative years of European modernism.

Europe is a territory that is more polycentric than ever before, where artists come and go from one city to another, without no longer being attached to their home countries nor determined by the canons and rules that have long defined and structured the various European Art Nations until now.

Americans, unless they could afford to travel abroad, had little contact with European art, let alone cubism, post-impressionism, and Fauvism.

«German Impressionist Landscape Painting presents a wonderful opportunity to explore why it took nearly 20 years for Impressionism to make its way from Paris to Germany,» added Dr. Helga Aurisch, MFAH associate curator of European art and co-organizer of the exhibition.

The exhibition is the first part of an extensive and evolving exhibition series that will travel on to other European art institutions.

Most of all, the Prussian - born artist found himself and a still - new European art where one might least expect it — in his late forties and in America.

Martyrs Even though Rudolph draws deliberately on the legacy of European art, his historical appropriations involve always transformation and re-evaluation processes.

In 2008, Hans Mayer received the European Gallery Award of the Federation of European Art Galleries Association.

It was real advantage that in Brazil there is a genuine infrastructure, an «art system», with all the same ingredients that we have in the European art world.

It transforms Arte Povera into a poster for European art film or the mark of Zorro.

The Armory Show of 1913 introduced US audiences to the great masters of modern European art for the first time and gave young American artists an opportunity to show their work alongside them.

The installation will present themes within the general chronology of European art, presenting a fuller story of European art.

Perhaps the turning point in Diller's life and career came around 1933, when he discovered the work of Piet Mondrian in European art journals.

Manja is Head of the Old Masters & 19th Century European Art sale in Amsterdam and is specialised in Dutch landscape painting in Rome around 1700.

As Curatorial Fellow for European Art, Kelsey Brosnan will primarily work on the planning and implementation of the major international loan exhibition The Orléans Collection, to open October 26, 2018.