Sentences with phrase «surrealist painting art»

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Chalk & Vermilion Fine Arts has loaned two oil paintings — La Dialectique appliquée and Les Grands rendez - vous — and a 1950 sketch by renowned Belgian surrealist René Magritte to «The Pleasure Principle,» a traveling exhibition that just completed a run at the Albertina Museum in Vienna.

Peter Saul's new paintings, with their hyperactive, surrealist blend of Pop Art, art history, and political commentary, gave a pretty good answer in his latest show, Fake NeArt, art history, and political commentary, gave a pretty good answer in his latest show, Fake Neart history, and political commentary, gave a pretty good answer in his latest show, Fake News.

Alexandra Dillon's love of old master painting, folk art, and myth inspire her recent body of surrealist work.

I am reminded of some of those old black & white surrealist films but can't quite recall a specific one, and action painting, abstract expressionism, neo Dada, are all in here too, as are art - historical / art critical ideas of constructivism, all overness, and Leo Steinberg's «flatbed picture plane», in other words modernism, post modernism, and I want to say post-post modernism (Metamodernism even).

She created associations with Mondrian painting and surrealist art; and deliberately used what is normally considered waste in filmmaking, such as the picture fading at the tail end of a roll.

Complex and seductive, their references include color field, social realist, and surrealist painting; 1960s and»70s counter-culture graphics; 1970s feminist art; and bodily forms and fluids.

Since the Club 57 era, Scharf has vehemently pursued an artistic practice that's consistently characterized as pop, surrealist, imaginative, and a bit loopy — though it spans street art, painting on canvas, video / performance, and installation.

The painting and sculpture section spans in time from the Renaissance to present day and is further sub-divided in chronological sections: Late Gothic painting; Dutch and Flemish painting, including works by Rembrandt, Rubens, van Dyck and Jan Brueghel the Elder; Italian Baroque and Venetian 18th century, including works by Domenichino, Canaletto, Guardi and Bellotto; Swiss painting, including Hodler, Segantini, Vallotton, Giovanni and Augusto Giacometti; Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, with masterpieces by Géricault, Manet, Monet, Cézanne, van Gogh and Bonnard; Nordic Expressionism, including a large selection of works by Edvard Munch and Oskar Kokoschka; Modern art, with works by Mondrian, Klee, Chagall, the Surrealists, Léger, Matisse and Picasso; the Giacometti section comprehends the most important museum selection of works by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti; the Art since 1945 collection includes works by Tinguely, Twombly, Beuys, Kiefer and Baseliart, with works by Mondrian, Klee, Chagall, the Surrealists, Léger, Matisse and Picasso; the Giacometti section comprehends the most important museum selection of works by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti; the Art since 1945 collection includes works by Tinguely, Twombly, Beuys, Kiefer and BaseliArt since 1945 collection includes works by Tinguely, Twombly, Beuys, Kiefer and Baselitz.

Instead, the abstract art of Mondrian, the twisted figurative paintings of the surrealists, and Jackson Pollock's Lavender Mist all revealed a new freedom for the medium.

Depending upon your art - historical attachments, Rees's paintings may recall works of Abstract Expressionism, surrealist automatism, colour - field painting, Australian Aboriginal «Papunya boards» or even the ink drawings of the Song Dynasty scholar painters.

But, says Storr, who is curating Murray's career retrospective for New York's Museum of Modern Art later this year, «she's the first person to deal directly with the topological surfaces of surrealist painting.

The Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale will host works by 20th - century Cuban masters before offering large - scale paintings by famed surrealist Sebastian Matta and a sure - to - please Andy Warhol retrospective after the New Year.

From Clifford Rowe's left - wing posters and paintings in Coventry to a show by the Italian surrealist Enrico David in London, find out what's happening in art around the country

From sculptures to illustrations, hip - hop photography to surrealist paintings, SVA grads are putting out some amazing work into the art space.

AH: Even though I am interested in all those movements especially modernist painting, surrealist collage, abstract expressionism, and pop art not very many people have discussed that aspect of the work in depth.

McNeil speaks of why he became interested in art; his early influences; becoming interested in modern art after attending lectures by Vaclav Vytlacil; meeting Arshile Gorky; the leading figures in modern art during the 1930s; his interest in Cézanne; studying with Jan Matulka and Hans Hofmann; his experiences with the WPA; the modern artists within the WPA; the American Abstract Artists (A.A.A.); a group of painters oriented to Paris called The Ten; how there was an anti-surrealism attitude, and a surrealist would not have been permitted in A.A.A; what the A.A.A. constituted as abstract art; a grouping within the A.A.A. called the Concretionists; his memories of Léger; how he assesses the period of the 1930s; the importance of Cubism; what he thinks caused the decline of A.A.A.; how he assesses the period of the 1940s; his stance on form and the plastic values in art; his thoughts on various artists; the importance of The Club; the antipathy to the School of Paris after the war; how Impressionism was considered in the 40s and 50s; slides of his paintings from 1937 to 1962, and shows how he developed as an artist; the problems of abstract expressionism; organic and geometric form; the schisms in different art groups due to politics; his teaching techniques; why he feels modern painting declined after 1912; the quality of A.A.A. works; stretching his canvases, and the sizes he uses; his recent works, and his approaches to painting.

Masson's other contribution to surrealist automatism dates from 1927 and involved a series of sand paintings (cf. sand art) made using chance as a substitute for conscious control.

Despite being described by Tate as a «contemporary surrealist», the Italian's shortlisted work contains a number of paintings containing the theme of a harlequin that even a schoolboy would identify as «art».

«The painting leaves the studio as a purist, abstract, non-objective object of art, returns as a record of everyday (surrealist, expressionist) experience («chance» spots, defacements, hand - markings, accident - «happenings,» scratches), and is repainted, restored into a new painting painted in the same old way (negating the negation of art), again and again, over and over again, until it is just «right» again» (Ad Reinhardt, in: Americans 1963, Museum of Modern Art, NY, 196art, returns as a record of everyday (surrealist, expressionist) experience («chance» spots, defacements, hand - markings, accident - «happenings,» scratches), and is repainted, restored into a new painting painted in the same old way (negating the negation of art), again and again, over and over again, until it is just «right» again» (Ad Reinhardt, in: Americans 1963, Museum of Modern Art, NY, 196art), again and again, over and over again, until it is just «right» again» (Ad Reinhardt, in: Americans 1963, Museum of Modern Art, NY, 196Art, NY, 1963).

They show similar emphasis on the unstudied and intuitive application of that paint in a form of psychic improvisation akin to the automatism of the Surrealists, with a similar intent of expressing the force of the creative unconscious in art.

Existential Art (1940s and 1950s) John Paul Sartre's existentialist philosophy, with its themes of alienation and angst in the face of the human condition, can be seen in paintings by the American Abstract Expressionists, the Informel and «CoBrA» movements, the French Homme - Temoin (Man as a Witness) group, the British Kitchen Sink art group, and the American Beats - all of whom from time to time are designated Existential, as are many individual painters and sculptors: like the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, and the surrealist / expressionist Francis BacArt (1940s and 1950s) John Paul Sartre's existentialist philosophy, with its themes of alienation and angst in the face of the human condition, can be seen in paintings by the American Abstract Expressionists, the Informel and «CoBrA» movements, the French Homme - Temoin (Man as a Witness) group, the British Kitchen Sink art group, and the American Beats - all of whom from time to time are designated Existential, as are many individual painters and sculptors: like the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, and the surrealist / expressionist Francis Bacart group, and the American Beats - all of whom from time to time are designated Existential, as are many individual painters and sculptors: like the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, and the surrealist / expressionist Francis Bacon.

To me abstract art is an abstract of all the basic qualities of good painting transferred unto the canvas without the crutches of realistic, symbolic, surrealist, or socially significant elements.»

Paintings by Damien Hirst, Frank Auerbach, Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland feature in the collection, alongside surrealist and contemporary African art.

Her visual vocabulary has developed over time through research into early feminist art, textiles, early modernist painting, and surrealist philosophy.

Aware that the Surrealists favoured automatic brush strokes (see automatism in art), Motherwell began by tipping thinned paint onto the canvas.

Whether it's because art historians have been put off by his urbane and privileged background, or have opted to focus on his famous series of paintings, Elegies to the Spanish Republic, the fact remains that Motherwell's early work and his evolution from surrealist vocabulary to the subdued abstract expression he later embraced has been largely ignored.

Impressionism, much of Post-Impressionism, the Surrealism of painters like Magritte (along with contemporary surrealist revivals), the majority of Pop Art painting, Photorealism, and the contemporary varieties of landscape or figure painting belong in this category.