Kandinsky is generally regarded as the founding father of abstract art; however, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint may, according to
art historians, have created the first abstract painting as early as 1906 — a whole five years before Kandinsky.
In addition, an iPhone application designed to complement 50 Years at Pace, featuring audio clips of artists and
art historians and a walking tour of public works in Manhattan, will be available to download from the iTunes store free of charge.
The awards «honor the outstanding achievements and accomplishments of individual artists,
art historians, authors, conservators, curators, and critics whose efforts transcend their individual disciplines and contribute to the profession as a whole and to the world at large,» and will be presented Feb. 15 at CAA's annual conference in New York City.
is vital reading for arts professionals, art and curatorial studies students,
art historians, practicing artists, and anyone curious about exhibition - making today.
Rail Curatorial Projects seeks to establish dialogues between artists, curators, dealers, critics, collectors, and
art historians via rigorously conceived and researched exhibitions and events.
With new knowledge about the pigments and techniques used in the painting,
art historians, scientists, and conservators from the Getty Research Institute, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Getty Museum, along with a distinguished group of invited scholars, consider how these findings modify an understanding of Pollock's process and larger body of work.
Unfortunately Anne Tabachnick has long been one of the many New York School painters relegated to a minor role by
art historians.
And more recently, thanks to feminist
art historians, Artemesia Gentileschi (1593 - 1653) has become much celebrated.
Art historians have traced countless instances of Matisse's influence, but there is one episode that hasn't, I think, been sufficiently explored.
Art historians Sims and Jacqueline Francis are contributing essays and interviews with Marshall and Thomas will also be featured.
Art historians will have an easier time of it, filing Songsong's achievement as another blip amongst the novelties that power the marketplace, if not the life of art itself.
McMillian was selected by an independent advisory committee made up of renowned curators and
art historians from across the U.S. Led by Heather Pesanti, Senior Curator of The Contemporary Austin, this year's inaugural advisory committee included Stephanie Barron, Senior Curator and Head of Modern Art Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Naomi Beckwith, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Peter Eleey, Chief Curator, MoMA PS1; Hamza Walker, Executive Director, LAXART; and Heidi Zuckerman, Nancy and Bob Magoon CEO and Director, Aspen Art Museum.
In conjunction with the exhibition program, Dominique Lévy gallery produced a series of catalogues and monographs, including original essays by renowned
art historians and writers and previously unpublished archival material.
Unlike the work of Wassily Kandisky, Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, who were considered by academic
art historians to have been the pioneers of Abstract, most of Klint & rsquo»; «s works were never exhibited during her lifetime.
The winner is selected by the independent advisory committee made up of renowned curators and
art historians.
Sundays with the Modern offers unique perspectives on special exhibitions, with artists, curators,
art historians, and writers holding conversations in the galleries.
MCA Monographs offer an ongoing visual record of today's freshest and most influential work, in all its far - ranging variety, in conjunction with thought - provoking essays by leading
art historians and critics.
P.S. 1 will also use the works in the exhibition as a basis for a symposium this spring to encourage a lively dialogue between artists and
art historians in New York.
The nonpainting trends of those years have been relentlessly celebrated and valorized by museums,
art historians and biennials.
Lyubov Salnikova was appointed gallery director, and
the art historians Elena Selina and Elena Romanova became its chief curators.
The FAQ Team is a group of artists and
art historians who study each exhibition in order to discuss the work and assist with contextualizing CAMH's dynamic exhibitions for diverse audiences.
Art historians have jostled for centuries over the issue of attributing works to Giorgione.
The early ones especially, and Short Circuit most definitely, are loaded with personal, autobiographical, and even private esoteric references, which critic Yve - Alain Bois derided as «semantic traps,» good for little more than «keeping
art historians busy for generations to come.»
This relationship between art and art history, and
art historians and artists, especially pesky, living ones, stuck with me for the rest of the conference.
Museum directors,
art historians, collectors, dealers, all acted as though American artists didn't exist.
Art historians and museum curators don't seem to have much interest in it.
But one would like to find out more about similar precocious qualifiers for art academies who then went on to achieve nothing but mediocrity or failure — in whom, of course,
art historians are uninterested — or to study in greater detail the role played by Picasso's art - professor father in the pictorial precocity of his son.
«We give funds to the whole ecosystem, not just artists, but
art historians, curators, and critics,» Füsun says.
To me the art world is galleries, museums, critics, collectors,
art historians, and just plain serious art followers and buyers, those who go regularly to the Venice Biennale and Art Basil.
Vatican restorers cleaning Michelangelo's last frescoes didn't remove later overpainting, dividing
art historians and prompting an appeal to a higher authority.
As
some art historians take pains to point out, pranks and jokes are not the same thing.
This year's slate of major shows, books, and panels on feminist art reflects the rise of powerful female curators,
art historians, and — notably — patrons, who are working to change art institutions from the inside.
What is stressed in all these stories is the apparently miraculous, non-determined and a-social nature of artistic achievement; this semi-religious conception of the artist's role is elevated to hagiography in the 19th - century, when
both art historians, critics and, not least, some of the artists themselves tended to elevate the making of art into a substitute religion, the last bulwark of Higher Values in a materialistic world.
She attended cultural events throughout the city regularly when she was growing up, and she later went to college in upstate New York, at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, from which she graduated with a degree in philosophy, minoring in both Greek and art history, in 1951, according to the Dictionary of
Art Historians.
Curators, critics, and
art historians refer to them to discern the arc of an artist's career.
Two
art historians presented «E-visitors» with virtual re-creations of 18th - century exhibitions; one used a first - person - shooter video - game engine, the other, Google Sketchup.
Nowhere is more inspiring for keen young
art historians than the city of Florence, where at every turn visitors stumble across fascinating museums, art exhibitions and magnificently frescoed churches.
When Patricia Cornwell first named the artist Walter Sickert as Jack the Ripper, she sparked outrage from
art historians and Ripperologists.
In You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice, Vanderbilt talks to the geniuses behind algorithm - based curation systems like Pandora, the food - science folks responsible for military rations and
art historians who can predict your preferences in paintings.
In You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice, Tom Vanderbilt talks to the geniuses behind algorithm - based curation systems like Pandora, the food - science folks responsible for military rations and
art historians who can predict your preferences in paintings.
«I was looking for a way kids can feel comfortable thinking about real art, and the real questions
art historians live with.»
The Association of
Art Historians hopes the battle to save the A-level will boost the subject's popularity, particularly in the state sector.
Smarthistory is a platform for the discipline where
art historians contribute in their areas of expertise and learners come from across the globe.
The curators, architects,
art historians and artists of the FDR - sanctioned Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives crew scrambled around Europe during the war, saving what they could, finding Nazi - looted and culturally priceless Rembrandts and Picassos and frescoes, many of them crated deep within Hitler's salt mines.
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out - of - shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and
art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world's artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners.
The group known as «The Monuments Men» consists of various architects,
art historians, and curators who are not fit for war by any means.
Along with Clooney and Damon the cast is packed with Hollywood A-listers, including Bill Murray, John Goodman, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville («Downton Abbey»), Cate Blanchett and Jean Dujardin («The Artist»), to tell the true story of how a small group of
art historians and museum directors from across the globe became soldiers and
Edsel's historical source material chronicles the efforts of the «Monuments Men»: a group of American and British
art historians / museum curators who rally to recover art stolen by the Third Reich before it is destroyed — as members of Hitler's regime rush to cover their tracks during the final days of WWII.
English landscape painter JMW Turner, commonly exalted as «the painter of light», was one of the great artists of the 19th century, his work considered by
art historians something of a precursor to the impressionist movement.
It feels like production has gone on as long as World War II itself for The Monuments Men, George Clooney's film about a platoon of soldiers comprised of
art historians and experts tasked with the job of saving irreplaceable and priceless artwork from getting destroyed by the Nazis.