Sentences with phrase «at early modernism»

Like most histories, this one omits everything important, but it offers a handy way to look at early Modernism.

Not exact matches

Religious modernism of the type which flourished at the University of Chicago early in the century was in the American spirit.

For maybe the first time since early Modernism — and the last time before today's chaos — art had many movements, often at war.

Words Without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go, recently on view at Almine Rech in New York, the exhibition depicts a history of words used in artwork, from early modernism through to contemporary.

The German artist's small objects at Metro Pictures resemble wooden constructions, redolent of early Modernism.

This tendency was apparent among early avant - garde movements at the outset of Modernism, and has seen numerous revivals.

Opening: «Folk Art and American Modernism» at the American Folk Art Museum The American Folk Art Museum may be in smaller quarters after selling its Midtown building to MoMA, but it proves that it can still pack a punch with this show about the relationship between the development of the modern art movement in America and the folk art collections of many modernists in the early part of the 20th century.

You said earlier that in the 1950s you felt at odds with the idea that modern art, modernism, was to do with progress.

One, in a 1944 painting at the Met and not in the exhibition, plumps herself down amid what look like knock - offs of early Modernism.

By the early 1920s, Henderson had expanded his aesthetic interests to incorporate the very latest directions in European modernism, which had received its sensational introduction in America not long before, at the 1913 Armory Show.

In a way, as critic Charles Darwent has written, Ofili «seems to be reliving 20th - century modernism backwards,» cycling through clear formal periods wherein his compositions have become more stripped - down, foregoing the dense layering and collaged elements of earlier works, and often focusing on a limited color palette — including the red, green, and black of Marcus Garvey's pan-African flag in the series of paintings he began in 2000 and showed in concert in an immersive environment at the 2003 Venice Biennale's British Pavilion.

One can always marvel at how much of early Modernism is still out there, as with a booth just for Giorgio Morandi, but has one then succumbed entirely to the market?

At Mumok, Müller, together with Manuela Ammer, co-curated Always, Always, Others (2015), a collection exhibition that brought together early modernism and the 1970s.

He was considered both an insider and outsider, caught in a racially divided environment and edged to the margins of American modernism despite significant early exhibitions at renowned institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art and features in national press outlets.

Despite significant early exhibitions at renowned institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art and features in national press outlets, Lawrence was considered both an insider and outsider, caught in a racially divided environment and edged to the margins of American modernism.

At Dreier's suggestion, these went on loan to the Brooklyn Museum, giving the young McNeil early exposure to the European modernism against which he and his future colleagues would react with such significant results.

The author of The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 (1990), he has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogs including Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1890 - 1910 (2005) as second author and The Armory Show at 100: Modernism and Revolution (2013).

At the Bronx Museum, she also co-organized «Art AIDS America,» «Beyond the Supersquare: Art & Architecture in Latin America after Modernism,» and «Martin Wong: Human Instamatic,» and played a role in the early stages of planning the museum's forthcoming Gordon Matta - Clark survey.

Let's pause here to note that a significant portion of this figuration rides whimsically on a wave of easy nostalgia — for early modernism, for children's books, or, in the case of Jane Corrigan, who had a solo show, «EvilActivity123,» at Feuer / Mesler (January 9 — February 14), for the covers of Nancy Drew volumes.

Diverging from her food - centered paintings, spotlighted in her previous solo exhibition at the gallery, All U Can Eat, her new works feature abstracted landscapes grounded in an engagement with early modernism and an exploration of color relationships.

These new interpretations present a concept of what is really at stake in our «new» economic and cultural landscape, while harking back to early Modernism when tapestries were not only portable, but were indicative of enormous wealth and standing.

Ill try to keep out of any family feuding as Im a long way off in mind, stuck with my modernism, and frail body, and far too sensitive to personal insult.What does interest me is the frankly appalling lack of anything visual in the current hang at the Tate Britain, which Alan mentions.There was one room where there was a visual lift, with one of the Hoylands from the Whitechapel [crimson ground], an early Gillian Ayres, the odd Prunella Clough and Bernard Cohen.Its as tho Culture in the broadest sense collapsed after about 1985.

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

What to see at the Aargauer Kunsthaus The Kunsthaus is primarily devoted to Swiss art from 18th century to the present, paying a special attention to the work of Caspar Wolf, Johann Heinrich Füssli and Arnold Böcklin; its comprehensive collection includes artworks belonging to various styles: landscape painting, early Modernism, Swiss expressionism, post-war abstract art and contemporary art; the concrete art section is also particularly remarkable, with notable works by Max Bill, Sophie Taeuber - Arp and Hans Arp, among others.

In the «Black» paintings (included in the Museum of Modern Art's 1959 Sixteen Americans exhibition) and the «Aluminum» paintings which followed (his earliest shaped canvases, exhibited in this first solo show at the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1960) the picture's surface echoed and reiterated its depicted shape, reinforcing modernism's notion of painting's flatness as it sought to establish the painting as an object.

At the same time, Gillick's design decisions are frequently informed by progressive art movements from earlier eras (De Stijl, the Bauhaus): varieties of functional, utopian modernism that promised a transformed world.

At Crystal Bridges, The Paley Collection complements the earlier exhibition of modern works shared with Fisk University, The Artists» Eye: Georgia O'Keeffe and the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, and presents a rare opportunity for guests to view these masters of European Modernism that inspired many American artists.

«At first glance, Dimitri Kozyrev's work is grounded in a combination of traditional landscape painting and the analytic cubism of early Modernism.

Looking at the history of early American modernism through the lens of the Shein Collection offers a timely opportunity to consider the contributions made by American artists during the advent of modernism a century ago.