Sentences with phrase «artists seize upon»

Featured artists seize upon Calasso's aphorism, «After the revolution, progress forgets sweetness,» looking at historic tropes in order to re-stage a more convivial time.

For her first solo museum exhibition in the United States, the London - based Polish artist seizes upon the Walker's financial underpinnings in the lumber business of its founder, T. B. Walker, and considers the forest as a metaphor for American freedom.

Not exact matches

When abstract art burst onto the stage in the Western art world in the early 20th century, its practitioners quickly resolved themselves into two distinct camps: the gestural abstractionists, who built upon the liberatingly loose compositions of Post-Impressionists like Cezanne to create non-objective paintings emphasizing the artist's hand, and the geometric abstractionists, who seized on the it - is - what - it - is essentialism of Euclidean geometric shapes.

An artist who for the past several years has worked in a succession of famous male artists» studios (she currently works with Sean Landers), Emily Mae Smith makes paintings that seize upon the studio idiom and allow her to simultaneous spoof and feminize it.

Vital Curiosity focuses on the ways each of these artists — who represent a diversity of generations, formal approaches, and experiences — seize upon color as a dynamic, and often ineffable, element in their abstraction.

Since Picasso, no artist has seized upon the sorrowful aspects of blue as extensively, but many continue to use blue to symbolize sadness.

By the mid-1950s, despite his lack of commercial success, Rauschenberg was already beginning to formulate his brand of aesthetics, founded upon three strands of thought, all of which would be avidly seized upon and developed by the coming generation of Pop - artists.

The standard story of 1970s art tells us that painting and experimental video were two discrete fields — that the artists who seized upon Portapaks and other new, time - based technologies found paint and canvas too conventional and commercial.

As the world's first truly international artist, Calder continues to resonate globally with diverse audiences, and he would have seized upon this opportunity to show his work amidst the Pushkin's venerable collection.»

Notorious for a double murder involving the mistress of the President Félix Faure in 1908, the alley was seized upon soon after as the perfect studio space and home for artists such as Constantin Brancusi, William N. Copley, Max Ernst, Yves Klein, Les Lalanne, Larry Rivers and many other important artists of the early 20th century.