Sentences with phrase «european modern art»

Yet all of this (not to mention the significance of his disadvantaged upbringing, his artistic roots in Harlem, his SoHo success, his taste in abstract European modern art, his bohemian Montparnasse social life, his frequent travels throughout Europe, and his warm long friendship with Baldwin and other American artists living in France) still does not adequately sum up or provide a definitive characterization of Delaney and his art.

Indeed, guided by her advisor Juliana Force, she had accumulated almost 700 works of American art, which in 1929 she offered to donate to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, as the city's newly opened Museum of Modern Art, maintained a preference for European modern art.

The least strident sub-variant of the wider Art Informel style - itself one of the most important European modern art movements of the post-World War II period - Lyrical Abstraction (or «Abstraction Lyrique») was a French style of 20th century painting in the manner of American Abstract Expressionism.

This show was the first time much of America came into contact with European modern art.

The second one was the appearance of a brand new network of NY museums and galleries that staged (for the first time in US) major exhibitions of European modern art (MOMA was found in 1929 and gained its popularity by exposing collections of Cubism, Abstract Art, Dada, Surrealism as well as retrospectives of Leger, Matisse and Picasso; Guggenheim Museum started its career in 1939 by a grand exhibition of Kandinsky).

In 1915, Sir Hugh Lane bequeathed his collection of European modern art to Dublin, but controversially this went to the Tate, which expanded its collection to include foreign art and continued to acquire contemporary art.

European modern art was highly influenced by the stylized forms and geometrical shapes of African art.

Retrospectives and monographic exhibitions of works by the most prominent Croatian artists have been taking place there since the end of the 1960s, as well as theme exhibitions of Croatian and European modern art.

To Pollock and others of his generation, Cubism and Surrealism were the most important of the European modern art movements, and in many ways Pollock's works of 1942 - 46 are products of these two influences.

In 1913 five of Henri's paintings were accepted for the famous Armory show, the exhibition that first introduced the American public to European modern art.

Both he and Jackson Pollock studied under Frederick John de St. Vrain Schwankovsky and were introduced to European modern art, Eastern philosophy, theosophy and mystic literature.

If there was a single impulse behind Regionalism, it was a semi-patriotic rejection of European modern art (especially such abstract art movements as Cubism, Constructivism, De Stijl, Neo-Plasticism and Surrealism) in favour of a strictly American idiom - ideally one with roots west of the Mississippi.

With Kurt Schwitters as an early reference, Twombly is affected by European modern art as an ideal of uncompromising self - expression, and a feel for the poetry in the most humble substances.

His style draws on a number of influences, including European modern art and American abstract expressionism, as well as comic book illustrations.

Maurice Freedman's deliciously chromatic canvases are a paean to the Expressionist idiom and tradition of both American and Northern European modern art.

Nevertheless, Hockney was the go - to - guy when it came to British Pop art and undoubtedly made his mark on the European modern art, influencing generations upon generations for decades.

Boetti's work knew no boundaries in both form and function, and he single - handedly changed the course of European modern art in ways we are only just now fully understanding.

By fall, he is expected to teach his first course in European modern art.

Giacometti made Femme in 1928 - 29 and it was purchased by the painter Winifred Nicholson in the mid-1930s just as the European modern art movement was beginning to influence British art.

The gallery is also home to one of the leading regional collections of European modern art, with works by Picasso, Klee, Severini and Derain being particular highlights.

Not exact matches

«So I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism.

What was long thought to be a change in cave art style was in fact the natural evolution of a hybrid species — the elusive ancestor of modern European bison

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While the Musée des Beaux Arts hosts an impressive collection of pieces from ancient Egypt and European paintings and sculpture dating from the 14th Century, many of the galleries on Rue Burdeau showcase modern artists.

A living testimony to his zest of harmonizing nature and art, his joy for blending traditional motifs with modern material, for balancing European geometries with a Balinese sense of place and symbolic form, can bee seen in this Water Palaces he built: the Ujung Water Palace in 1923, the Tirta Gangga in 1957.

«My sister, Olga Polizzi, Director of Design for Rocco Forte Hotels has together with interior - design specialists KCA International, created a very stylish contemporary European design with abundant glass and mosaics complemented by modern Middle Eastern art and accessories, to give the hotel a real sense of place.»

Having been immediately hailed by European critics as one of his era's greatest painters, Soutine, who was based in France for much of his career, was largely ignored in America until the Museum of Modern Art in New York hosted a small exhibition of his work in 1950.

NEW YORK — Several works in the 19th - century European paintings sales garnered strong prices at a typically quiet auction - market period that stretches from the end of the major, early, May New York auctions to the start of the London Impressionist, modern and contemporary art auctions each June.

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On view until January 2015, this exhibit offers an enticing selection of European Impressionist, post-Impressionist and modern art.

Mark Borghi Fine Art specializes in American Post-War Art, maintaining a strong inventory of the New York School, European Modern, and Contemporary Art.

Drawing on the Met's collection of European sculpture and modern and contemporary art with a selection of important works from national and international museums and private collections, the exhibition will examine sculpture from 14th century Europe to the global present.

Catalogue Carlos Rolón: Outside / In will be accompanied by a catalogue that features essays by NOMA's Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Katie A. Pfohl, the Perez Art Museum's Curator of Contemporary Art Maria Elena Ortiz, and the Museo de Arte de Ponce's Associate Curator of European Art, Pablo Pérez d'Ors, an interview of Carlos Rolón by NOMA's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow for Modern and Contemporary Art Allison Young, as well as short essays by artist Theaster Gates and NOMA Curatorial Fellow Lucia Momoh.

On view exclusively at The Met Breuer, this major international loan exhibition of about 120 works draws on The Met's rich collections of European sculpture and modern and contemporary art, while also featuring a selection of important works from national and international museums and private collections.

Following the years of war - time austerity and slow post-war recovery, it was not until the 1950's that the growth in London's art galleries and auction houses began to rival those of Paris and shift the focus of the European market for modern art to the British capital.

The origins of Sylvester's criteria for a modern realism with a strong formalist and humanist grounding were integrally bound to his formative experience as a young critic in Paris, as the art historian James Hyman has carefully detailed.17 With the re-opening of European borders after 1945, Sylvester enthusiastically crossed the channel along with British artistic peers including William Turnbull, William Gear, Eduardo Paolozzi and Lucian Freud to soak up the aesthetic and philosophical ideals of Paris.

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By chance «Legends» coincides with the Museum of Modern Art's sweeping survey «Inventing Abstraction: 1910 - 1925,» which traces the development of a largely geometric form of abstraction, mostly by European and Russian artists who often worked in closely related styles.

Drawn entirely from the permanent collection and spanning the nine collecting areas of Phoenix Art Museum - American, Asian, Contemporary, European, Fashion, Latin American, Modern, Photography, and Western American - these works reveal the loosely defined typology of portraiture, and provide a broad dialogue of art history, perception, and popular cultuArt Museum - American, Asian, Contemporary, European, Fashion, Latin American, Modern, Photography, and Western American - these works reveal the loosely defined typology of portraiture, and provide a broad dialogue of art history, perception, and popular cultuart history, perception, and popular culture.

Defined by an earnest use of color and deft symbolism, his paintings and collages express modern sensibilities and blend European, American, and African art forms.

The Nelson - Atkins serves the community by providing access to its renowned collection of nearly 40,000 art objects and is best known for its Asian art, European and American paintings, photography, modern sculpture, and new American Indian and Egyptian galleries.

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After the second world war, as the US became a superpower, a new generation of artists made New York the centre of modern art, with a strange yet authoritative form of abstraction that was free from the influence of the still - living European modern masters.

To coincide with the Museum of Modern Art show Martha Jackson showed Younger American and European Painters which opened on 18 May (closed 12 June).

In 1995, Barbara and Melvin Nessel donated more than seventy works in a variety of media to increase the Museum's holdings of modern and contemporary American and European art including the 1968 canvas by Frank Stella, Yazd II (Khurasan Gate Stretch Variation).

Phoenix Rising: The Valley Collects brings together works from Arizona's most significant private collections of American, Asian, Modern, Contemporary, European, Fashion Design, Latin American art and photography.

The space presents modern and contemporary European and American art.

The art and craft of the woodcut was a source of inspiration for a small, influential group of European and American artists whose work helped shape the modern book in the decades immediately preceding and following the turn of the twentieth century.

Several galleries, notably Pierre Matisse and Julien Levy, began showing the work of European Surrealists on a regular basis, while major group exhibitions, such as Fantastic Art Dada and Surrealism at the Museum of Modern Art in 1936, brought it to the attention of a larger audience.