Sentences with phrase «as avant»

As a flagship, it's as avant - garde as it should be — and it gives other flagships a run for their overpriced money, too.

Later in 2000, he launched his eponymous brand as an avant - garde designer and received notability for his designs...

Mr. Andre's signature floor - hugging works, formed from softly glowing tiles of lead, zinc and copper, could function unobtrusively as avant - garde rugs.

Mr. Huang, who was born in 1954 in Xiamen, had built a reputation in China as an avant - garde provocateur.

In fact, within the world of visual art, the term art festival typically embraces the widest possible spectrum of creative events, involving contemporary art: from traditional media, such as painting and sculpture, to more modern forms like installation and video art, film - making, animation and photography, as well as avant - garde art forms such as performance art.

Living in New York, Paris, and Rome in the late»60s, Serra became acquainted with artists of the New York School: Philip Guston, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhart, and Frank Stella, as well as avant - garde composer Philip Glass.

These projects cemented her reputation as an avant - garde artist in the UK and internationally.

In New York for instance, European surrealists introduced their ideas to key opinion - formers like Leo Steinberg, Clement Greenberg and Peggy Guggenheim, as well as avant - garde artists - known as the New York School - such as Arshile Gorky (1904 - 48), Jackson Pollock (1912 - 56), Robert Motherwell (1915 - 91), Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976) and Robert Matta (1911 - 2002).

But what has compounded the controversy is a growing unease with the perception that the New Museum has strayed from its initial mission as an avant - garde alternative to traditional art museums, and is now a closed circle of insiders.

And yet SMS suggests otherwise: that he was in fact deeply engaged with many of the most advanced artistic practices of the 1960s, including Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme, Fluxus, Mail Art, Earth Art, and Conceptual Art, as well as avant - garde music, poetry and performance.

The term was reportedly first applied to visual art in the early 19th century by the French political writer Henri de Saint - Simon, who declared that artists served as the avant - garde in the general movement of social progress, ahead of scientists and other classes.

KM: Though I exhibit in the context of galleries and museums, as a fine artist, I really think of myself in many ways as an avant - garde cartoonist.

Kusama establishes her career as an avant - garde artist through stimulating happenings and exhibitions until the mid-1960s.

Ruiz subsequently gained a reputation as an avant - garde filmmaker, with titles such as L'Hypothèse du tableau volé (1978), Les Destins de Manoel (1985) and L'île au trésor (1985), before moving on to collaborations with high - profile stars like John Hurt (Dark at Noon, 1992) and Catherine Deneuve (Genealogies of a Crime / Généalogies d'un crime, 1997).

• Alberto Giacometti (1901 - 66) Swiss sculptor noted for his «existentialist» figurative and semi-abstract art, as well as his avant - garde Surrealist abstract sculpture.

It also has a primitivist aesthetic reminiscent of Outsider art as well as the avant - garde work produced by the Cobra Group (1948 - 1951).

Where the nine hundreds can be considered as the avant - garde century, the age - old motif of the mutual influence and interference between word and image on the one hand and figurative arts and literature on the other gains a new specific setup precisely with avant - gardist culture.

Influenced by late 19th century techniques, like Cloisonnism (Emile Bernard) and Synthetism (Paul Gauguin), as well as avant - garde artists including Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944), Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), Robert Delaunay (1885 - 1941), and Frank Kupka (1871 - 1957), they began to explore the properties and effects of colour.

The collision between Abstract Expressionism and jazz began in the galleries and clubs of New York in the 1940s, as avant - garde artists from each world learned more about each other.

However, as an avant - garde artist living in New York, her situation alters the context of the dress, creating a cross-cultural amalgamation.

Downey quickly established himself as an avant - garde pioneer of video and technology art and for the next two decades began to explore invisible forms of energy and communication, describing himself as a «cultural communicant» and an «activating anthropologist.»

Jim Dine (b. 1935) first emerged as an avant - garde artist creating Happenings and performances with Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, and others in the early 1960s.

Exhibitions have showcased numerous contemporary art movements such as Minimalism, Neo-Expressionism, and Britart by Young British Artists, as well as avant - garde art from China, while featured artists have included outstanding figures like Andy Warhol (1928 - 87), Phillip Guston (1913 - 80), Richard Serra (b. 1939), Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945), Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), Donald Judd (1928 - 94), Damien Hirst (b. 1965), and Tracey Emin (b. 1963), among many others.

Unlike John Quinn, another important art collector of the period, who saw Matisse as an avant - garde artist, Barnes felt the Fauve painter was part of a «classic» French tradition.

Derde Verde is a group steeped in Americana as well as the avant - garde.

Jason Adasiewicz is a 34 - year - old vibraphonist hailing from Chicago, and in keeping with the city's longstanding cross-pollination of jazz and indie rock — see the work of Rob Mazurek as well as the iconic post-rock group Tortoise — he has played with Edith Frost and Pinetop Seven as well as the avant - garde ensemble Exploding Star Orchestra.

William Katavolos's career as an avant - gardist spans 60 years, culminating in his ongoing research into aquatecture, or liquid architecture.

Krauss, for example, describes Pablo Picasso's use of collage as an avant - garde practice anticipating postmodern art with its emphasis on language at the expense of autobiography.

The first gallery shows some of the paintings that Clark grew up with, though there is little that can be remotely described as avant - garde.

Krasiński's Warsaw apartment / studio was opened to the public in 2007 as the Avant - Garde Institute and quickly became a popular stop for art professionals visiting the city.

Nicolas Guagnini, a young artist, gave a talk on Maciunas at the Sculpture Center, and turned the spotlight on Fluxus as an avant - garde impulse that had avoided institutional absorption and as a model for how artists, working cooperatively, secured viable living conditions in the city.

In anticipation of the centennial of the Russian Revolution, this exhibition examines key developments and new modes of abstraction, including Suprematism and Constructivism, as well as avant - garde poetry, film, and photomontage.

Others who have been credited as avant - pop's pioneers include the Velvet Underground's Lou Reed, [8] singer Kate Bush, [3] performance artist Laurie Anderson, [9] art pop musician Spookey Ruben, [10] and Black Dice's Eric Copeland.

Around 1940, as avant - garde art and artists increasingly flooded into the United States from war - torn Europe, American artists forged a new movement: Abstract Expressionism.

They offer an impressive survey of some of the most important international artistic positions in the four decades between 1960 and 2000, but at the same time reflect the history of the Galerie Paul Maenz, whose self - perception as an avant - garde showcase set new standards in West Germany.

Not long before his death in 1993, Nelson expressed great pride in his role as an avant - garde force in art education and in his ongoing willingness to cross conventional boundaries, whether in his personal studio work or in his interdisciplinary approaches and public projects.

[56]: 43 What, however, can be said, is that it was a movement that developed in the early 20th century mainly in Germany in reaction to the dehumanizing effect of industrialization and the growth of cities, and that «one of the central means by which expressionism identifies itself as an avant - garde movement, and by which it marks its distance to traditions and the cultural institution as a whole is through its relationship to realism and the dominant conventions of representation.»

By the 1960s, masterworks at MoMA like «Les Demoiselles d'Avignon,» «Girl Before a Mirror» and «Guernica» had so permeated American culture that, to the next generation of artists, they looked about as avant - garde as «Whistler's Mother,» «American Gothic» and «Christina's World.»

The Rauschenberg - Johns team added new members to its arsenal after a while, as the avant - garde composer John Cage and a choreographer Merce Cunningham joined and reinforced the artistic pair.

It is we artists who will serve you as avant - garde [Saint - Simon has his artist proclaim in an imaginary dialogue between the latter and a scientist]... the power of the artists is in fact most immediate and most rapid: when we wish to spread ideas among men, we inscribe them on marble or on canvas....

For those who appreciate fine dining, the Jardin Tropical prides itself on its gastronomy, offering fresh fish, burgers and crabs, and healthy natural foods, as well as avant - garde Italian and Argentinian cuisine.

Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel, Ljubljana is a landmark at night as the avant - garde light design attracts much attention.

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He's as avant - garde as it gets: he came up with the Nissan Cube during a coffee break, the 350Z when he was in a creative slump.

The new Audi RS 6 will therefore only be available as an Avant to start with, with the unrivalled combination of 580 bhp and a maximum 1,660 litres of luggage space.

It's available as a four - door saloon and as an estate, known as the Avant.

It is not clear at this point if Audi will resurrect its RS 4 badge for the new A4 sedan (the current RS 4 is only available as an Avant wagon).

Like the show car, this test mule has headlights that are angled into the center, but they aren't nearly as avant - garde.

Its styling can almost be described as avant - garde, but some may see it as having an awkward presence.

The next step up is the A6 3.0 T, which uses the same drivetrain as the Avant 3.0 T and offers identical fuel mileage.