Sentences with phrase «artists rebelling against»

Moving to Beijing after he graduated in 1996, Liu Wei gravitated toward a group of artists rebelling against such ideas.

One thing however is clear: for a woman to opt for a career at all, much less for a career in art, has required a certain amount of unconventionality, both in the past and at present; whether or not the woman artist rebels against or finds strength in the attitude of her family, she must in any case have a good strong streak of rebellion in her to make her way in the world of art at all, rather than submitting to the socially approved role of wife and mother, the only role to which every social institution consigns her automatically.

In the 1970s, as many artists rebelled against color - field abstraction, they appeared to be denying modern art itself.

So my vision of what the Pop artists rebelled against was not so much the message as the inaccessibility of the message.

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One suspects that Scorsese's insistence on leaving it in suggests that either the artist in him rebelled against being told what he could or could not do, or some satanic impulse hinted that without that slight movement under the bedcovers, none of the publicity generated by fundamentalist protest would have come about.

Without society to rebel against and to sail away from, there would be no advances in civilization; there would be no need for healers and mystics, priests and artist, or shaman and writers.

One of the most influential artists of his generation, Kelley rebelled against his conceptualist forebears with a dizzying stream of complex works that challenged art world values.

Gluck wasn't just an artist; railing against both artistic and gender norms at the turn of the 20th century, they were a rebel.

Nowadays, the Ashcan School is one of the finest examples of how early 20th century artists were able to rebel against conservative American tastes — which were, in fact, a lot more traditional than most academic leanings of Europe.

Featuring works by six nationally recognized artists from across the country, The New Real seeks to demonstrate the continued relevance of realism in a contemporary art culture that defines itself by rebelling against traditional art genres.

Like most young artists, Katz wanted to rebel against the generation before him: the Abstract Expressionists with Pollock and Rothko and the School of Paris with Matisse, Picasso and Miro.

Besides, artists today have no dogma, neither high - modern ambiguity nor postmodern irony, against which to rebel.

Rebelling against aristocratic lifestyle and future as some rich guy's wife, she found a job in the avant - garde bookshop The Sunrise Turn, where she was exposed to artist and radical thinkers.

Some, such as landscape painter Wogan Phillips, artist Clive Branson and sculptor Jason Gurney, joined some 40,000 men and women from 53 countries in the International Brigades, fighting for the democratically elected Republican government against General Franco's Nationalist rebels.

According to the New York Times, two artists «unveiled the striking statue in tribute to a 19th - century rebel queen who had led a fiery revolt against Danish colonial rule in the Caribbean.»

Polish artist Aleksandra Waliszewska (born 1976) rebels against traditional representations of victimhood.

Three gallery shows that exemplify the trend — and a fourth farther uptown — are of work by artists who share elements of the same profile: the bad - boy avant - gardist with machismo to spare, rebelling against aesthetic conventions, social norms or both.

He became associated with a group called «The Ten Whitney Dissenters,» or simply «The Ten,» artists, including Louis Schanker, Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, and Joseph Solman, who rebelled against the strictures of the Academy and held independent exhibitions.

Suddenly, figurative painting, which had been left for dead, remerged: in the early 1980s a new generation of artists eagerly spoke up, rebelling against Minimalism and Conceptual Art and establishing a kind of art characterized by expressivity and emotion.

Invariably, artists see this commission as a way to either reject the materialism of a commercial Christmas or rebel against tradition.

For decades, a broad spectrum of artists have produced their own small books, revisiting, rebelling against, and responding to the American painter and photographer's idiosyncratic collections.

Few artists are afforded the liberty to dictate exhibition schedules and public appearances, but David Hammons eschews the spotlight and rebels against the conventions of the art world.

Her aesthetic idiom, in many ways, reflects her background as a member of the Indian Radical Painters and Sculptors Association — a short - lived but hugely influential collection of artists and art students who rebelled against what they perceived to be the commodification of art in India.

As the artist has observed, rebellion is often fixated by the subject against which it rebels.

Jackson Pollock and Sid Vicious both, consciously or otherwise, mobilized the conventional signs of a (still) romanticized countercultural artist - as - rebel struggling against the strictures of consumer culture.

However, once in power, Lenin replaced the Wanderer Group with a new Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AARR), which became popular with traditional painters rebelling against the European Cubist and Surrealist - inspired abstract movements of the early twentieth century.

Systems features four artists — Julie Mehretu, Kimsooja, John Baldessari, and Allan McCollum — who invent new grammars and logics, finding comfort in some systems while rebelling against others in todays supercharged, information - based society.

The whole backlash against feminism and women practitioners themselves rebelling against being called women artists or architects should seem antique.

In this conversation, artists discuss how their approaches to the figure pay homage to — or rebel against — the body's representation.

In this conversation, artists discuss how their approaches to the figure pay homage to — or rebel against — the body's representation.Donna Huanca, Artist, Berlin; Antony Gormley, Artist, London; Melati Suryodarmo, Artist, and Artistic Director, Jakarta Biennale 2017, Jakarta; Xavier Cha, Artist, New YorkModerator: Qinyi Lim, Curator, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Access: Open to the public and free of charge

But Wang makes a convincing case that one can not escape the power of the past, even one that this artist has spent most of his life rebelling against.