Sentences with phrase «about early modernism»

I was reading about early Modernism, and it's no surprise that Mondrian seeped into my process.

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Hofmann the teacher had the authority of relatively fresh information about European modernism, while his European origins and his direct experience of French vanguard art during his early years in Paris added to the intellectual weight and stellar reputation of his school.

There are many books about his work including Man Ray: Photography and its Double (1998), Man Ray Photographs (1987), Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920 -1934 (1980), Man Ray Women (2006), Man Ray's Montparnasse (2004), Conversion to Modernism: The Early Works of Man Ray (2003), and Man Ray: In Fashion (1991).

Opening: «Folk Art and American Modernism» at the American Folk Art Museum The American Folk Art Museum may be in smaller quarters after selling its Midtown building to MoMA, but it proves that it can still pack a punch with this show about the relationship between the development of the modern art movement in America and the folk art collections of many modernists in the early part of the 20th century.

Symposium subjects included, among other things, discussions of Alfred Stieglitz as a major proponent and supporter of early American Modernism, the ways in which art critic Clement Greenburg's definition of Modernism shaped thinking about this issue for generations yet was exclusive to issues of race, gender and politics, the role of photography figured prominently into the dissemination of the term «modern,» and the many ways photography has played a major role in shaping the history of Modernism in America.

Ill try to keep out of any family feuding as Im a long way off in mind, stuck with my modernism, and frail body, and far too sensitive to personal insult.What does interest me is the frankly appalling lack of anything visual in the current hang at the Tate Britain, which Alan mentions.There was one room where there was a visual lift, with one of the Hoylands from the Whitechapel [crimson ground], an early Gillian Ayres, the odd Prunella Clough and Bernard Cohen.Its as tho Culture in the broadest sense collapsed after about 1985.

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

His work contains some of the early provenances of modernism — pictorial compression of space and a nagging anxiety about a shifting cultural identity — despite the perception of his Fauvist, bourgeois complacency.

Their paintings are based on a period when there was a shared optimism about the wonders of modernism: Bridget Filey, early Frank Stella, and the generic «stripe» paintings of the»60s.