Sentences with phrase «art brashness»

Aside from Jean - Michel Basquiat and Marcel Duchamp, there's little provocation or pop art brashness in David Bowie's art collection — instead he's weirdly fascinated by 20th - century British painting

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It is also a concept that seems somewhat nostalgic and countercultural, in a world that is often both too harsh and too coarse, a world where brashness and bravado seem far more common and rewarded than the gentler and subtler acts — and art — of grace.

Taking the premise that Pop Art is not what it used to be, the artists featured in POPulence demonstrate that contemporary Pop is no stranger to refinement, sumptuousness, or elegance, and that subtlety, delicacy, and sophistication are now as much a part of its vocabulary as brashness, immediacy, and vulgarity.

The 1980s saw a vibrant overhaul of both figurative and abstract painting, intensified by the raw energies of street art and magnified by the booming art economy and a larger culture of glitz and brashness.

The collection has a a trove of 20th century British art including works by Damien Hirst, an artist Bowie adored for his brashness and vivid use of color.

The brashness of Reid's oeuvre is well suited to the London art world, but that would be a disingenuous consideration of her work.