Sentences with phrase «art movement in»

Andy Warhol, an American artist best known as the leading figure of the pop art movement in the 20th century, was an avid cookie jar collector.

From the Automatistes in Montreal to the conceptual art movement in Halifax, to the influence of Clement Greenberg through the Emma Lake workshops on the Prairies in the 1940s, the visual language of shape, form, colour and line that exists for its own sake without reference to external reality, changed the artistic landscape in this country.

Schneemann is a touchstone for the feminist art movement in America during the 1960s and»70s.

Several date from the 1970s and 80s and have a lack of confidence typical of an art movement in its dotage, as Krasner assimilates the repetitions and mixed media stratagems of 1960s art, even borrowing from Warhol.

Later, when I met Rafael Ferrer, a Puerto Rican musician - cum - artist who had played an important role in the process art movement in New York, information was travelling faster and sharing had become a priority for artists.

Artlyst critic, Edward Lucie - Smith said of the prize; «Since its heyday in the 1990s, when it helped to establish the reputation of the last really significant art movement in Britain — or perhaps anywhere else — that of the so - called YBAs or Younger British Artists — the Turner Prize has been in decline.

Charles Saatchi invented an entire art movement in the»90s, and Mary Boone had the magic formula in the»80s.

Please join Art League instructor and Torpedo Factory artist Joyce McCarten as she shares her expertise on Color Field, the major art movement in the United States during the 1960s, and the theme for the March juried exhibit at The Art League.

Since its heyday in the 1990s, when it helped to establish the reputation of the last really significant art movement in Britain — or perhaps anywhere else — that of the so - called YBAs or Younger British Artists — the Turner Prize has been in decline.

Donald Judd was a major figure in the Minimalist art movement in the 1960s when he and others sought to create a depersonalized art in which the physical properties of space, scale, and materials were explored as phenomena of interest on their own.

American Lyrical Abstraction was first recognized as an art movement in the 1960s and 70s.

In the 1960s, Tom Wesselmann (1931 - 2004)-- along with Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg, and Jim Dine — formed the core of the Pop Art movement in the United States.

[2] Done in oil on two separate pieces of canvas, the work exemplifies the beginnings of the pop art movement in the way that Rosenquist takes imagery from mass media, using a picture of a tomato and a clipping from an ad for hand cream.

Arguably the first of the many Chicano artists whose artistic, cultural, and political motivations catalyzed the Chicano art movement in the 1970s, Almaraz began his career with political works for the farm workers» causa and co-founded the important artist collective Los Four.

A pioneer of the British Pop Art movement in the early 1960s alongside Richard Hamilton, David Hockney gained recognition for his semi-abstract paintings on the theme of homosexual love before it was decriminalized in England in 1967.

Tom Wesselmann was one of the founding members of the Pop Art movement in America.

His work recalls that of artists associated with the Feminist art movement in the 1970s, who sought to reclaim traditionally female domestic crafts as fine art.

In conjunction with the Whitney Museum's current exhibition «Rituals of Rented Island,» which explores the seeds of the performance - art movement in 1970s New York, curator Jay Sanders will present a screening of one of Squat Theatre's performances with original group members Eva Buchmuller and Anna Koos, with a discussion following the event.

Shortly after abandoning his legal studies, in 1948 Tàpies co-founded Dau al Set, the first post-war art movement in Spain.

Rotella's visionary experimentation with advertising posters proved hugely influential on the burgeoning pop art movement in Europe and America and its related emphasis on language and text.

Stanczak was one of the leaders of the short - lived Op art movement in the 1960s.

Muir is the author of Lucky Kunst: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art, part memoir, part history of an art movement in which he concedes he was an early YBA groupie.

Seen as a founding member of the British Pop Art movement in the 1960s, he has been the subject of countless solo exhibitions worldwide including a major touring retrospectives staged at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Tate Gallery, London in 1988, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London (1995 - 6).

Land art, earthworks (coined by Robert Smithson), or Earth art is an art movement in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked.

National Museum of Australia in Canberra showcases a new Aboriginal art movement in an exhibition on view through November, 2013.

After producing installation pieces such as Womanhouse (1972) and The Dinner Party (1975), Chicago achieved international stardom as a pioneer of the feminist art movement in the 1970s.

[4] It is a registered non-profit organization with the stated mission of being «a trampoline to advance the burgeoning contemporary art movement in Egypt.»

Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 75) was a leading figure of the international modern art movement in the 1930s, and one of the most successful sculptors in the world during the 1950s and 1960s.

This is the first survey exhibition of this important Mexican - American artist and muralist, who has had profound influence on the Chicano art movement in the United States.

At Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, there will be an exhibition of the work of Fateh Moudarres (1922 - 1999), one of the founders of the modern art movement in Syria, Mathaf will also present a solo exhibition by Mounira Al Solh with works made in collaboration with Syrian refugees, as well as a group exhibition titled «Revolution Generations» including works by Simone Fattal on Syria's tragedies.

Allan Kaprow had a huge influence in the next movements: «Kaprow's happenings paved the way for the international Fluxus groups» actions and the general performance art movement in the late 1960s and 1970s, and also set a standard of interactivity, multimedia, and an art of everyday life that was a huge influence for later contemporary art.»

One of the most influential artists whose artistic, cultural, and political motivations catalyzed the Chicano Art movement in the 1970s, Almaraz straddled multiple — and often contradictory — identities.

Arguably the first of the many Chicano artists whose artistic, cultural, and political motivations catalyzed the Chicano Art movement in the 1970s, Almaraz began his career with political works for the farm workers» Causa and co-founded the important artist collective Los Four.

According to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which named the Whitney Studio a National Treasure in 2014, Whitney's work to showcase American art at the studio spurred the modern art movement in the United States, and in 1929 the space became the original site of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art famously rejected Whitney's Modern art collection and a donation to maintain it, and according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Whitney's work to showcase American art at this studio spurred the modern art movement in the United States.

While The Metropolitan Museum of Art famously rejected Whitney's art collection and a donation to maintain it, Whitney's work to showcase American art at this studio spurred the modern art movement in the United States.

I've also been doing a bunch of research on Arte Povera, an Italian Art movement in the 60's and 70's that was interested in the using bare, raw materials around them and putting them in relation to other things.

If you were part of a neglected or forgotten art movement in your youth, your time has come.

W.A.R., 2010), charting the history of the feminist art movement in America.

While the afterlife is often depicted as a magnificent, gleaming - white realm, Wassily Kandinsky, a founding member of Germany's Der Blaue Reiter (aka «The Blue Rider») art movement in the years prior to World War I, believed heaven to be blue.

An accomplished artist who works with photography, video, painting and sculpture, Olga is a pioneer of digital art movement in Russia and has belonged to the Neo-Academism group of artists, «The New Academy», in St. Petersburg since 1994.

But when I was in Italy, arte povera [«poor art» - an important art movement in Italy during the second half of the 20th century] was in / current.

Artsy profiles the Neo Naturists, a «body - painting trio of female flashers» that started an underground art movement in the 1980s.

Himid was one of the pioneers of the Black Art movement in the 1980's which offered a forum for black artists exploring the social and political issues surrounding black history and identity.

While each Pop artist developed a distinct style, there were commonalities in their approaches to image - making that helped define the Pop art movement in the early 1960s: the use of commercial art techniques, and the depiction of popular imagery and everyday objects.

Magic realism developed as an art movement in the years after World War I when many American artists began to explore the interconnections between the material and the imagined.

The film and related archive provide first - person histories of the pioneering individuals and key founding members of the feminist art movement in the United States, along with younger generation of artists influenced by them.

Canadian - born artist Miriam Schapiro (b. 1923) was one of the great forces behind the feminist art movement in Los Angeles.

The most significant of the often loosely defined movements of early contemporary art included pop art, characterized by commonplace imagery placed in new aesthetic contexts, as in the work of such figures as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; the optical shimmerings of the international op art movement in the paintings of Bridget Riley, Richard Anusziewicz, and others; the cool abstract images of color - field painting in the work of artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella (with his shaped - canvas innovations); the lofty intellectual intentions and stark abstraction of conceptual art by Sol LeWitt and others; the hard - edged hyperreality of photorealism in works by Richard Estes and others; the spontaneity and multimedia components of happenings; and the monumentality and environmental consciousness of land art by artists such as Robert Smithson.

Kitaj was associated with the beginnings of the Pop art movement in Great Britain in the early 1960s.