Sentences with phrase «national painting movement»

All three of them studied in Japan and created a New National Painting movement, influenced by the Japanese style.

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The power of words — slogans, graffiti, signs, newspaper stories — and the interpretive space opened up between their transmission and reception are explored in works such as Homage to the Walls of Athens 1941 - 19..., 1959, by Vlassis Caniaris (1928 - 2011), a palimpsest of sacking, wax and cloth saturated with whitewash plaster in which we see fragmentary hand - painted letters — including the letter E, for Eleftheria (freedom), for Ellás (Greece), for EAM, the National Liberation Front, the main movement of the Greek Resistance during the Axis occupation during World War II.

Known for her incredible 1970s story quilts, Ringgold's 2013 solo exhibitions at ACA Galleries in New York and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., introduced many to a little known foundation of her practice that began a decade earlier — a series of bold, dynamic paintings inspired by black pride and the civil rights and feminist movements.

Especially as the competition between national schools of abstract painting escalated, breaking out in arguments and even punches in the case of Kline and the French painter Jean Fautrier, it would follow that the internal competition within these national schools also intensified.27 This was certainly true on the French side at the Venice Biennale: in a very unusual move, two artists — Fautrier and Hans Hartung — were awarded Grand Prizes in painting, whereas normally only one was given, because the jury could not decide between the two contenders.28 Within the context of the politics internal to the movement of abstract expressionism, Meryon could thus be seen as a reassertion of Kline's original, breakthrough style as his own and thus a defence of his personal artistic identity, after Kline himself had turned to colour, around 1955, and left it up for grabs.

About the Abstract Expressionist movement and his fellow artists Motherwell said: «But really I suppose most of us felt that our passionate allegiance was not to American art or in that sense to any national art, but that there was such a thing as modern art: that it was essentially international in character, that it was the greatest painting adventure of our time, that we wished to participate in it, that we wished to plant it here, that it would blossom in its own way here as it had elsewhere, because beyond national differences there are human similarities that are more consequential...» (5)

The power of words — slogans, graffiti, signs, newspaper stories — and the interpretive space opened up between their transmission and reception are explored in works such as Homage to the Walls of Athens 1941 - 19..., 1958, by Vlassis Caniaris (1928 — 2011), a palimpsest of sacking, wax and cloth saturated with whitewash plaster in which we see fragmentary hand - painted letters — including the letter E, for Eleftheria (freedom), for Ellás (Greece), for EAM, the National Liberation Front, the main movement of the Greek Resistance during the Axis occupation during World War II.