Sentences with phrase «us high modernism»

Perhaps you thought that the classic works of high modernism - works like Ulysses or The Waste Land - were important because they had something pertinent to say about the spiritual conundrums of modern life.

But it is Muriel's deft combination of high modernism and leftist critique — bearing out Gilles Deleuze's comment that Resnais and Straub - Huillet are the most political filmmakers — that has influenced so many subsequent films, including Michael Haneke's Caché and, most extensively, Jean - Luc Godard's 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, which JLG called a «partner» to the Resnais, and which features a poster of Muriel as homage, also condemns a criminal war (Vietnam), and similarly parallels a portrait of a woman with that of a city under urban renovation.

Back then, abstract painting investigations were still rooted in aesthetic considerations coming on the heels of high modernism.

One sees an emphasis on European art that may surprise visitors expecting a paean to American high Modernism.

In the 1940s, however, she tried to work her way through high Modernism, and it meant playing around with European painting.

Nostalgia for the Concourse came to mind while taking in Christian Maychack's latest exhibit at Jeff Bailey, being that so much of his work, to my eye, playfully sends up or gently skewers high modernism.

I want you to think about the seductive nature of the pharmaceutical industry as well as the purist and transcendental language of high modernism when you look at them.

Samplers and blanket chests take up residence next to luminous paintings from the Hudson River School and works of high Modernism by the likes of Georgia O'Keeffe.

High modernism can overemphasize autonomy and art's separation from the world.

And it sets a precedent for the red square in Piet Mondrian's Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red (1937 - 42), which sits at the heart of this exhibition, upholding high modernism and geometric abstraction at their most sophisticated.

Saddest of all, the multinational institution of high Modernism comes off as a dead end.

She sticks to a bastion of high Modernism, abstract painting, in bright waves of color.

Rebecca Warren's (b. 1965, UK) striding high - heeled legs fuse high Modernism with the lowly comic book in an expression of pure eros.

I left at 5 because I wanted to get home to write about the exhibition of Josef Albers Paintings on Paper, an exhibition at the Morgan Library closing this weekend — in that decision were multiple ironies, that I was leaving a fashionable art event inimical to painting in order to write about an artist who in fact I had always seen as didactic in a way that could be seen as part of the repressive politics of high modernism which contributed to my move towards feminism as a young artist.

He engages ink or chlorine and manual resist - dyeing techniques to produce abstract patterns that feel like faint memories of Western High Modernism in that they allow for doubt, failure and chance.

Both used images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work, while retaining the abstraction and painterly gestures of high Modernism.

While some scholars see modernism continuing into the twenty first century others see it evolving into late modernism or high modernism, [18] which is then superseded by postmodernism.

That first showing of his late figurative paintings had been assailed by critics and admirers of high Modernism as an act of heresy, a fully - fledged betrayal of abstract painting.

His biomorphic curves could oppose nature and local traditions to high Modernism.

[13] Jean - François Lyotard, in Frederic Jameson's analysis, does not hold that there is a postmodern stage radically different from the period of high modernism; instead, postmodern discontent with this or that high modernist style is part of the experimentation of high modernism, giving birth to new modernisms.

Both used images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work, while retaining the abstraction and painterly gestures of high modernism.

The title references the period of high modernism but also, more specifically, the dates of two historical anecdotes that serve as conceptual touchstones for his current sculptures.

Although the endgame is high Modernism, including Abstract Expressionists (de Kooning, Frankenthaler, Motherwell, Diebenkorn) and Pop (Lichtenstein), Elderfield first trots out a number of Old Masters, including Chardin, Eakins and Gerome, with a provocatively Pygmalionesque portrait of himself carving a plaster figure of Tanagra.

Postmodernists distrust both humanism and high Modernism.

As an idea, formalism reached its peak in the period of high modernism, between the last decades of the 19th and first half of the 20th century.

Her intricate looped and tied wire sculptures sit comfortably between the biomorphic high modernism of Brancusi, Arp, and Noguchi, and the wider world of engineering, design, and craft.

[45] Postmodernism emerges from a «generational refusal of the categorical certainties of high modernism.»

[8] Jean - François Lyotard, in Fredric Jameson's analysis, does not hold there is a postmodern stage radically different from the period of high modernism; instead, postmodern discontent with this or that high modernist style is part of the experimentation of high modernism, giving birth to new modernisms.

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These artists used images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work, while retaining the abstraction and painterly gestures of high modernism.

Hilla Toony Navok's work explores themes of high Modernism and abstraction as they appear in consumer products, as a way of examining the ideological underpinnings of design and the assimilation of the history of Modernism in contemporary consumer culture.

Michael Stubbs, still a student on the MA course at Goldsmiths», paints knowing parodies of high modernism, using the elevated language of late twentieth - century abstraction — Robert Ryman, Jasper Johns — to make pictures that look, oddly, like overdecorated wedding cakes.

No feminist herself, Frankenthaler was often defined by her romantic relationship with formalism's ruthless arbiter, Clement Greenberg, and her later marriage to the painter Robert Motherwell, another polemicist of high modernism.

The sculptural objects and installations he has produced refer to topics as varied as High Modernism, topical issues, the landscape — both physical and cultural — as well as music, jokes and cartoons.

Los Angeles - based artist Amy Bessone mines the cultural representation of female form in history, from Greco - Roman marble nudes and the odalisques of high modernism to contemporary thrift - store objects.

So conspicuous has been Michael Fried's profile as high Modernism's most forceful and articulate standard - bearer that the detailed substance underlying this reputation has been more often assumed than examined or reexamined.

Best known for her exquisite, colorful paintings full of references as diverse as folk art, Carnival decorations, sixties psychedelia, jewelry, embroidery, colonial Baroque imagery, and high Modernism, Milhazes has recently been diversifying her art practice through her exploration of prints and collage, theatrical sets, site - specific public installations and design work including fabric and tapestry.

These paintings were both an assault on and acknowledgement of high Modernism's insistence on the flatness of the picture plane.

Although Liberman studied art during a time of major developments in high modernism, his conservative art education focused primarily on earlier periods of art.

HOW CAN AN ARTIST keep high modernism alive when rumors of its death abound?

Appropriately, for an artist whose career has taken him from Scotland to England, from England to the Netherlands and Belgium, and then to California, where he is now, these works capture simultaneously something of the weighty confidence of European high Modernism, northern English phlegm and late - twentieth - century West Coast lassitude.

In comparison, the exhibition catalogue (MIT Press, 2004) focuses more on the theoretical than on the political implications of this transitional period between high modernism and postmodernism, when the United States overthrew the shackles of European dominance and became a world - class art power.

The critics of high modernism celebrated the painter's mark upon the canvas, especially the first one - that initial splatter, spray, drip, zip.

Reminiscent of Suprematist aesthetics, the strength and severe geometry of their lines also recalls the abstraction of High Modernism, drawing attention to its devolution into the world of commercial decor.

High Modernism keeps appearing and reappearing and is continually taking on new meaning and escalating Modernism as an art form that is critical of itself.

The critics of high modernism celebrated the painter's mark upon the canvas, especially the first one - that initial spla...

«Abstraction in the visual arts has often been misunderstood through the lens of the historical avant - garde and high modernism, whose utopian ideals of universality and humanism were intertwined with the totalizing ambitions of the social and political projects of Western modernity,» said curator Acevedo - Yates.

But high Modernism, graffiti, cartography and early American painted furniture are also conjured.

Koetje includes many references to high modernism in her paintings, from uninflected geometric forms to collage - like compositions that evoke the colorful and hard - edged arrangements of Stuart Davis» jazz - infused paintings.

Abstraction, as a language, remains linked to the high modernism left behind in its original form somewhere in the last century.