Sentences with phrase «about modern art»

The scene looked like a mid-century cartoon about modern art.

We also talk about modern art, technique, and theory.

For me, the whole thing about modern art is, you can invent your own game and all the rules.

His work has been included in key exhibitions such as Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa at the Whitechapel Gallery in London and major publications such as Phaidon's.

Arts Editor Joe Riley on the Public Challenge of the Turner Prize; «WHEN PRIZE WINNER IS NAMED THERE WIILL BE THE USUAL DEBATE ABOUT MODERN ART TAKING LEAVE OF ITS SENSES» Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England); October 19, 2007; 700 + words... s top visual arts award.

I associate her mature work with its gorgeous tapestry of light brown and with the smell of a hair salon in the Fuller Building, where she had a gallery at her death in 1983, when I was just learning about modern art.

His TV series The Shock of the New changed the way people thought about modern art.

During the summer, Ernst and Tanning spent a few months in Honolulu, where Ernst led a course of nearly thirty lectures about modern art at the University of Hawaii.

Arts Editor Joe Riley on the Public Challenge of the Turner Prize; «WHEN PRIZE WINNER IS NAMED THERE WIILL BE THE USUAL DEBATE ABOUT MODERN ART TAKING LEAVE OF ITS SENSES» Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England); October 19, 2007; 700 + words... visual arts award.

If you would like to know more about modern art, but have difficulty wrapping your head around the Futurists, Neo-Impressionists, Abstract Expressionists, and the myriad other - ists and - isms of this vast subject, perhaps you should untether yourself from timelines.

He has been outspoken about modern art, leaving a note at a Tate exhibition saying British art was «lost» if this was the best it could produce.

Go back and troll a few of her favourite hangouts, in this case a gallery of Kate Moss photographs, which in Richard Curtis's Britain's is clearly the thing everyone simply must have an opinion about («the important thing is the sense of history»), the same way everyone in Annie Hall had an opinion about modern art.

To open the Westport Country Playhouse's 86th season, Mark Lamos had the artful concept of presenting a gallery of plays about modern art and the people who appreciate it.

For this research article, art historian Martin Hammer reviews Kenneth Clark's public spat with Herbert Read about modern art, situating...

In the 1930s and early forties, while working in advertising and the fabric industry, Kootz had found time to write about modern art.

Tansey earned a name for himself with layered irony about modern art.

«In school, people would say, «Oh, disco music is soulless and meaningless» - and the same, of course, continues to be said about modern art.

«I am absolutely delighted with the new jewels, which capture succinctly what I love most about modern art: the spontaneity,» Mr. Graff said.

«The whole set of assumptions about modern art was that it was incumbent on an artist to define for him or herself a particular signature style, something that was indisputably their own,» Benezra explains.

His record of important exhibitions and acquisitions is extraordinary... He was famous for his gruff manner, which masked a warm and deeply affectionate colleague who cared enormously about modern art and the Museum that was home to him for more than forty years.»

However, as far as the «great tradition of German painting» goes, I received a very patchy account of that due to the ideological slant on art as it was taught to us, and the attitudes about modern art that were more or less mangled by the time they reached us from the West.

Thannhauser's commitment to supporting the early careers of such artists as Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Franz Marc, and to educating the public about modern art, paralleled the vision of the Guggenheim Foundation's originator, Solomon R. Guggenheim.

In 2010, he wrote and presented Modern Masters, a four - part series about modern art that was broadcast on Sunday evenings on BBC One.

Even before entering high school Bultman studied with a teacher who was passionate about modern art.

In 1950, Sterne was a key participant in the «Artists» Sessions at Studio 35,» a discussion about the modern art scene in New York and the aims of the artists.

A sly joke or a serious statement about modern art?

Lichtenstein's work of the early 1960s contains a virtual catalog of ruling cliches about Modern art.

His work has been included in key exhibitions such as Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa at the Whitechapel Gallery in London and major publications such as Phaidon's The 20th Century Art Book.

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Their accrued gravitas as art made sometimes decades ago and even more the blunt educational instrument that is Abstract Expressionism, one of the first thing any school kid learns about modern art, weighs down the limber wrist and the long but light contemplation that comes with a repeated gesture, the Zen thoughtlessness that Motherwell made his own.

Because people have notions about abstraction that are still like the very first New Yorker cartoon about modern art: What is it?

The work of Meyer Shapiro was fundamental to her thinking about modern art and her interest in «social questions, urban issues, and the way in which abstraction could be understood as a machine aesthetic».

He also edited, wrote and lectured about modern art.

The final section will also consider the artist's post-war reputation, from the widespread hostility provoked by the 1945 - 6 V&A exhibition which re-ignited many of the fierce debates about modern art that first raged before the First World War, to the phenomenally successful survey of his career at the Tate in 1960.

Recent exhibitions include the Sharjah Museum Calligraphy Biennial, UAE, 2014; Transformations: Recent Contemporary African Art Acquisitions, Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2009; Newark Museum, Newark, NJ 2004; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 2004; and Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa, Whitechapel Gallery, London 1995.

MoMA's expansion revealed today has a fundamental problem for a museum that has the unique mission of telling a specific story about Modern art: