Sentences with phrase «york after the second world war»

It was partly because of him and his revolutionary style that the centre of interest of the art world shifted from Paris to New York after the Second World War.

He began his career as a painter in New York after the Second World War, studying at the Art Students League of New York in the late 1940s.

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After the Second World War ended in 1945, the center of the art world shifted from the School of Paris to the New York ScWorld War ended in 1945, the center of the art world shifted from the School of Paris to the New York Scworld shifted from the School of Paris to the New York School.

Born in Belgrade just after the end of the Second World War, Marina Abramovic (born 1946) was raised in the Serbian Orthodox Church (her great uncle was a Patriarch and a canonized saint in the Church) and left Yugoslavia in 1976, having already established herself as a performance artist, living in Amsterdam and eventually New York, where she presently lives.

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.

After the Second World War, New York artists such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko were labelled «Abstract Expressionists» for their exploration of subjectivity and instinct.

After the Second World War, the abstraction of the New York School and subsequent generations of artists symbolizes the re-emergence and an apparent de-ideologization of art in the USA.

So New York stole the idea of modern art from Paris after the Second World War.

Buoyed by America's ascendancy among nations after the Second World War, they projected the confidence of New York as the new world capital of progressive culWorld War, they projected the confidence of New York as the new world capital of progressive culworld capital of progressive culture.

Two complementary archetypes dominate the story of New York's ascent to art world supremacy in the decades after the second world war: the inscrutable artist, from Andy Warhol to Jeff Koons, and the savvy dealer.

The artist is present not only in the exhibition but also in the experience of the book.Born in Belgrade just after the end of the Second World War, Marina Abramovic was raised in the Serbian Orthodox Church (her great uncle was a Patriarch and a canonized saint in the Church) and left Yugoslavia in 1976, having already established herself as a performance artist, living in Amsterdam and eventually New York, where she presently lives.

She founded three of the most important avant - garde galleries of the 20th century: Guggenheim Jeune, in London's Cork Street, which brought surrealism to London before the second world war; Art of This Century, which opened in New York in 1942 after Peggy's return to the US; and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice - which still houses her personal collection in the palazzo where she ended her life.

New York's streets are narrow and have been one - way for almost a hundred years, but the avenues are wide and according to the New York Times, they were not converted to one - way until after the Second World War, between 1951 and 1956, the era when cars really took over our cities.