Not exact matches
Whatever position one takes on his worth
as an
artist, one thing is for sure: Fincher has come a long way since the early days of his career, when he was known simply
as yet another television -
commercial and music - video wunderkind (
along with, say, Spike Jonze, Mark Pellington, Michel Gondry, and others) taking some bold stabs at feature - film directing.
So, it's a relatively new construct and all the way
along one of the things that I found most interesting, I remember reading an article about Hirst and him saying that, everything he has done, everything that he has set out to do
as a very
commercial minded
artist has been done before.
Bringing together some 80 paintings, collages, and objects,
along with a selection of photographs, periodicals, and early
commercial work, the exhibition offers fresh insight into Magritte's identity
as a modern painter and Surrealist
artist.
Organized by the Marlborough Chelsea gallery, a
commercial venture, with the help of the nonprofit Broadway Mall Association and the city's Parks Department, it is intended
as a 10 -
artist group show, the first
along Broadway, where public exhibitions are usually devoted to a single
artist.
Bringing together some eighty paintings, collages, and objects,
along with a selection of photographs, periodicals, and early
commercial work, the exhibition offers fresh insight into Magritte's identity
as a modern painter and surrealist
artist.
Siegel points to Tibor de Nagy Gallery, which opened in 1950 and represented Frankenthaler
along with other second - generation New York School
artists,
as the nexus of a taste that embraced decorative art, campy humor, and exquisite found objects alongside more
commercial abstract paintings.
In 1933 he founded the abstract group Unit One,
along with fellow
artists Henry Moore (1898 - 1986), Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975), her husband Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982), and the critic Herbert Read, and during the following years he staged further exhibitions,
as well
as doing
commercial work.