Sentences with phrase «as painting movements»

Influenced by First Nation, folk and Bauhaus textiles as well as painting movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Wadden complicates hierarchies of media and disciplines with his work, throwing the distinction between high and low into flux.

Not exact matches

I once attended a lecture in which a right - wing evangelical speaker used isolated examples of eco-terrorism to paint the entire green movement as having a «violent, anti-Christian agenda.»

Working with the therapeutic educational indications of Rudolf Steiner that were developed into a framework by Audrey E. McAllen that is referred to as The Extra Lesson, Rachel teaches a collection of remedial drawing, painting, and movement exercises that address and may help with remediation for difficulties experienced by students struggling to learn writing, reading, and arithmetic.

Courses such as painting, drama, chorus, and movement support the academic lessons while practical arts — weaving, woodwork, and metal work — foster self reliance and a genuine engagement with the world.

«It would be catastrophic because under the present circumstances the Momentum campaign would keep control of the party machine, its funding, its communications, its outreach... and the rump coalescing around the parliamentary party would have to start a new party and they would therefore be portrayed as the ones who once again betrayed the wider Labour movement and that's the way it would be painted.»

He said: «This Prime Minister seeks to paint the millions of trade unionists and their families as «the enemy within», with a Tory party drunk on class prejudice, intent on destroying this movement as a force in British life.»

The French, in particular, are doing incredible work analysing paint recipes and tracing the movement of the ancient artists as they painted.

What I once considered an ugly collection of random paint splatters now spoke to me as a joyous celebration of movement and energy, the bright yellow and blue bringing to mind a carefree laugh.

Just as modernist painting bears the traces of the painter's movements and presence, and modernist literature has moved toward the first - person essay, the autobiography, and the diary, so the strain of modernist filmmaking that was launched with the French New Wave has integrated the filmmaker's methods with the movie itself, and turned fictions into documentaries about their making.

Election is Alexander Payne's follow - up to his startlingly mature 1996 feature debut, Citizen Ruth, an equal - opportunity abortion satire that starred Laura Dern as an unhappily pregnant, paint - huffing loser who becomes a pawn of both the pro-choice and pro-life movements.

When Wark proclaims that he's «always had trouble drawing nigger faces,» and so paints white men's faces on the bodies of black slaves, the poignancy of that movement, independent of its inherent poignancy, identifies Junebug as something like an allegory for the ways that we deny the things we can't escape.

Until she managed to help launch a movement in 1995 to locate and restore a neglected trove of historic art at Chicago Public Schools (CPS) campuses, as many as 440 murals and smaller paintings had been gathering dust in school hallways, libraries, and auditoriums, often crumbling, obscured by grit, stuffed in closets, or forgotten in boiler rooms.

De Stijl as modern art movement had a huge impact, mainly on architecture, abstract painting and modern design.

Additional lessons include eurythmy (a form of movement which is unique to Steiner schools), languages, as well as lessons in games, painting, drawing, landwork, woodwork, clay modelling, handwork and music.

Nelson Lichtenstein, a labor historian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said the unions» strategy on testing follows years in which they have been under assault, by conservative leaders and by the bipartisan education - reform movement that has painted unions as a central obstacle to improving schools.

Following Mirabilis, her highly acclaimed debut, Susann Cokal blends pre-Raphaelite painting, American brothels, Utahan polygamists, a bit of cross-dressing, a dynamite - wielding labor movement, one California millionaire, and the invention of electrical sexual stimulation (as treatment for consumption) into a comic novel that gallops across the American West.

Artist Katherine Carl spent 10 months with the Empress in 1903 while painting her portrait and described her as shrewd, but with great presence, charm, and graceful movements resulting in «an unusually attractive personality».

«There's this pro-pit-bull movement that tries to paint these dogs as nanny dogs and sweet, lovely and kind,» Borchardt said.

As the millennial generation is coming of age, there's been a recent artistic movement from the traditional paintings of sailboats near the sandy shores to provocative and avant - garde work.

Again, as you expand your studio you'll likely gain more of these icons that let you shift brushes around until you get to a point where this small element of management almost disappears entirely as you have enough symbols, brushes and movement icons to let you paint as much as you want.

I have chosen this image showing the light breaking through dark clouds because I loved the drama and movement in the image I will be using it as a starting point for my pastel painting but am always prepared to let the painting guide me as it develops.

Passlof and Resnick came of age as artists in New York in the 1950s during the ascendancy of this nation's first internationally recognized avant - garde art movement, the New York School of Painting.

His paintings are, fittingly, usually seen as part of that heroic art movement, even though they replace its existential undercurrents with a stylistic capriciousness that sifts through European modernism with abandon.

Some of the new styles and movements that appeared in the early 1960s as responses to abstract expressionism were called: Washington Color School, Hard - edge painting, Geometric abstraction, Minimalism, and Color Field.

Monet comes off not only as the leading practitioner of Impressionism (which is probably the most important and popular movement of the nineteenth century) but as a potent and prophetic force in twentieth century painting as well.

Only few art movements have been so criticized as Action Painting or Gestural Abstraction.

AT THE HEIGHT of the Abstract Expressionist movement, which has been referred to as the «Triumph of American Painting,» 1 a somewhat younger generation of painters, while interested in and often respectful of their predecessors, formed the conviction that an art based on the depiction of the natural world could make a serious and ambitious statement in the latter part of the Twentieth Century.

Just to cover the historical end of the spectrum, there are two big museum shows: Color as Field Field: American Painting, 1950 - 1975 at the Smithsonian, the first full show dedicated to the color field movement (OK, so the show's not in New York, but it's full of New Yorkers); and Color Chart: Reinventing Color from 1950 to Today at MoMA.

Jack Tworkov (1900 - 1982) was a founding member of the New York School and is regarded as one of the great artists, along with Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, and Clifford Still, whose gestural paintings of the 1950s formed the basis for the Abstract Expressionist movement in America.

Vertical compositions and movement came naturally, but as I had not been painting horizontal for a while I was challenged in getting the movement I wanted.

The most important movement that emerged as reaction to the Action Painting was Tachisme.

Kenneth Noland, working in Washington, DC., was also a pioneer of the color field movement in the late 1950s who used series as important formats for his paintings.

In an art world where somehow Anti-Formalism became synonymous with the Anti-War movement artists were supposed to tear down the tradition of painting and sculpture as a metaphor for being anti-government.

A pioneer in the Southern California Light and Space movement, Turrell began using light as a sculptural medium in 1966, painting the windows of his studio in Santa Monica to seal off the natural light and experimenting with sunlight projected through shades and blinds.

In the painting shown below, titled Guitar, the artist creates an oscillating mathematical rhythm, creating the illusion of movement as the patterns collide in the center of the work.

Of the dozen or so paintings of Ryder's in the 1913 Armory Show it was said by critic Charles Caffin: In his unobtrusive sincerity he, in fact, anticipated that abstract expression toward which painting is returning and may almost be said to take his place as an old master in the modern movement.

These works gained him international recognition as one of the first painters to develop a new style of postwar abstraction, and he was eventually associated — despite his rejection of labels — with such movements as tachisme, art informel, and action painting.

Associated with movements as diverse as Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Minimalism, Op art, and Postmodernism, the artists featured in Rothko to Richter were at the forefront of debates about the changing priorities and imperatives of painting after World War II, each seeking to redefine abstraction for new social and cultural milieus.

Rebelling against the rigidity of Modernist painting in the linear, reactionary mode of developing new art movements that was at the time à la mode, Breer decided to take change as his own modernist absolute, a choice which would lead him through kinetic sculpture to film.

There she painted friends, neighbours, casual acquaintances and people she encountered on the street among the immigrant community, and just as often cultural figures connected to Harlem or to the civil rights movement.

It helps explain how a single movement has struck different people as formalism or action painting, the pure representation of space or an artist's self - representation.

Reed's gestural mark - making refers to painting movements as varied as Mannerist and Baroque painting, Abstract Expressionism, and Postminimalism.

A founding member of the New York School, Jack Tworkov is regarded as one of its defining figures, along with Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, whose gestural paintings and dramatic strokes defined the Abstract Expressionist movement in America.

And, for the viewer, it is not hard to imagine the movement of her arms, pushing paint against gravity creating thick walls as her hand stops and joints turn over to allow a change in direction.

In the late 1950s, as the movement sputtered out, McNeil began incorporating the figure into his paintings.

He established himself as a major artist of the movement in Italian figurative painting known as the Transavanguardia, a Neo-Expressionist movement that sought to re-emphasize color and representation in reaction to the Conceptual Art of the times.

Revisiting manifestations of the black square and tracing its evolution over time to a more layered and frayed entity are a new suite of paintings by Ellen Gallagher riffing off of Kazimir Malevich's Black Square on a White Ground (1915), mixed media works by Turiya Magadlela, a bound fabric wall sculpture by Laura Lima, and Jonathas de Andrade's photographic iterations of the black square, which use plastic tarp to reference the movement of land occupation and the square form as a historic reference to capitalism.

Using light as a conceptual manifestation of the physicality of paint itself, works such as Three Fluorescent Tubes (fluorescent lights, 1963) and Alternate Diagonals of March 2, 1964 (for Don Judd)(daylight fluorescent lights, 1964) are particularly important for their connection to Russian Constructivism, a movement that influenced the Minimalists by its favoring of integrated production and industrial materials over the conventional approaches of traditional sculptural impulses.

Lehmann Maupin 536 W. 22nd St., [phone] Through June 13 Mary Corse (b. 1945) was one of the few women involved in the 1960s - and - on Southern California art movement called «Light & Space,» which typically featured ultra-minimal architectural environments instead of more conventional art objects such as paintings and sculptures.

Much of his work relates to abstract expressionism and minimalist painting, remixing formal characteristics to highlight the cultural and social histories of the time, such as the civil rights movement.