Sentences with phrase «art after the second world war»

It redefined modern art after the Second World War and was very well received.

To understand why Riley is such a huge original you need to compare these drawings — for instance Untitled (Right Angle Curve)(1966) which plots a typically eye - flummoxing whoosh of black lines — with the great American abstract painters who had transformed art after the second world war.

Beginning on the 2nd of June, one of the most important living contemporary artists, Georg Baselitz — who almost singlehandedly showed a generation of German artists how to engage with national identity and issues of art after the Second World War — has a new exhibition at Dachau Castle entitled «Mit Richard unterwegs» (On the way with Richard).

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Runciman's postings during and just after the Second World War shadowed his historical and social interests, with jobs in Sofia, Cairo, Jerusalem, and Athens as well as a chair in Byzantine art and history in Istanbul.

The magnificent collection of European art in the Hermitage was founded by Catherine the Great with many old masters and now enhanced by works removed from Germany by the Red Army during and after the Second World War.

After surviving the Second World War in concentration camps with her mother, in 1947, she moved to Prague where she studied sculpture in the studio of Otto Wagner, among others, and later studied at the Ecole de Beaux Arts, Paris in 1949.

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.

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 winning a bursary to study at Edinburgh School of Art, he spent several years in the Navy during the Second World War, before returning to Britain to study at Camberwell.

After the shock and turmoil the Second World War produced, American art seems to have broken off into two distinct directions, both of which were to offer the world something brand new — styles and innovations that were genuinely AmerWorld War produced, American art seems to have broken off into two distinct directions, both of which were to offer the world something brand new — styles and innovations that were genuinely Amerworld something brand new — styles and innovations that were genuinely American.

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.

He had initially trained as a doctor, and served as a medic during the Second World War, but took up art after being captured in Tunisia in 1943 and interned in Hereford, Texas.

While the first part of the exhibition focuses on local involvement and the story of modern art in Europe up to the Second World War, the later part deals with the huge shifts in society after 1950 and wider global influences that came into play.

After the Second World War, Beuys turned to art full - time, studying under sculptor Joseph Enseling and eventually associating with Fluxus and Minimalist artists such as Nam June Paik, George Maciunas, and Robert Morris.

Creating in a period after the Second World War, Klein was part of a wider artistic movement that sought to substitute the visual pollution of contemporary milieu with light as a new medium of art.

In 1958 a group of artists came together under the name ZERO with the purpose of heralding in a new beginning in art after the horrors of the Second World War and explicitly opposing the psychologically charged pictorial inventions of Abstract Expressionism.

As abstraction gained momentum after the war, black American artists were at the forefront of aesthetic debates, but unlike their white counterparts, they also had to contend with an art world that saw them first as black and second as artists.

The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945 at Barbican Art Gallery is the first major UK exhibition to focus on Japanese domestic architecture from the end of the Second World War to today, a field which has consistently produced some of the most influential and extraordinary examples of modern and contemporary design.

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

The exhibition focuses on some of the dramatic changes in British art in the wake of French Impressionism right through to the period just after the Second World War, and tells the stories behind some exceptional works of art.

When pioneering artists and scholars first demonstrated the potential for using computers in arts and humanities research in the period after the Second World War, their work often provoked antipathy because of this anxiety to maintain a distance between art and the machine.

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.

Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, this exhibition is the second stop on a three city tour.More than one hundred pieces, from paintings to sculptures are included in this exhibition of the career and life of the artist Henry O. Tanner (1859 - 1937)- including Tanner's upbringing in Philadelphia in the years after the Civil War, the artist's success as an American expatriate artist at the highest levels of the International art world at the turn of the 20th century; Tanner's role as a leader of an artist's colony in the rural France and his unique contributions in aid of American servicemen to the Red Cross efforts in WWI France and his modernist invigoration of religious painting deeply rooted in his own faith.

This exhibition — the grand finale in a three - part series showcasing some of the 1,200 artworks that have come to the Mead since 2007 — features an extraordinary array of art made after the Second World War, more than half of which dates to the past decade alone, and most of which has never before been presented at the Mead.

Originally from East Germany, all the artists exhibited were highly influenced by the post war guilt felt by many in Germany after the Second World War and trained in art in a divided countwar guilt felt by many in Germany after the Second World War and trained in art in a divided countWar and trained in art in a divided country.

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.

Crosscutting the conventional periods and» - isms» of postwar art, curator Paul Schimmel defines a cultural aftermath to the Second World War that echoed the eruptions of expressionism and dada during and after the First.

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 Worldworld shifted from Paris to New York after the Second WorldWorld War.

-- John Loughery, The Washington Post «After Modern Art, in only 245 pages, covers that amazing creative period following the Second World War.

After the Second World War he taught at the Penzance School of Art until 1965, exhibiting at the RA in 1960 and elected as associate in 1967.

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.

After the Second World War, Delaunay joined Groupe Espace, a collective of artists and architects who aimed to integrate art with every element of daily life.