Sentences with phrase «by surrealism»

Initially influenced by surrealism and cubism, abstract expressionists rejected the social realism, regionalism, and geometric abstraction so popular with American painters of the 1930s.

The collection covers abstract expressionism, geometric art, constructivism, conceptual art, optical art and pieces influenced by surrealism and pop art, in addition to works dating from the last few decades.

Abstract Expressionism, influenced by surrealism and post-World War II psychology, expanded on that goal, hoping not only to inspire an emotional response from viewers, but also to affect them on a subconscious, unconscious, or primal level.

Over the next decade his diverse work varied in terms of content, medium, and technique as he was inspired by surrealism, dadaism, and minimalism.

Affected by surrealism and also by Picasso, he moved toward a highly abstract art in order to express, rather than illustrate, feeling.

In contrast with the artist's previous work, which addressed universal political concerns, this new series returns to the essence of the imagination, an exploration of the subjective and the subconscious that is inspired by surrealism.

These works were both influenced by surrealism and a harbinger of Pop Art and, as such, form an art historic bridge between movements.

Lee Miller (1907 - 77) Talented American portrait and fashion photographer, influenced by surrealism.

From her an exile in America, through to her struggle to develop as an artist during the post second world war dominated by surrealism, abstract expressionism, and men.

Influenced by surrealism, the studies of Freud and Jung, African art, and Pacific Northwest Native American art, Pousette - Dart pursued the transcendental not only in abstract forms, but also in the very way in which he applied paint.

«Childhood Memories» is described in the gallery's press release as «returns to the essence of the imagination, an exploration of the subjective and the subconscious that is inspired by surrealism».

Inhabiting liminal spaces heralded as much by surrealism as by folk traditions, Nordström looks to the cultural, psychological and physical margins of society.

Not exact matches

Flappers» swinging silhouettes were inspired by the bold patterns that marked Art Deco and surrealism, jazz music, and Egyptian motifs (thanks to the discovery of King Tut's tomb).

The picture is savage, intense, with a top note of surrealism; Kafka's greatest hits, as sung by Tom Waits.

A Gentle Creature is savage, intense, with a top note of surrealism; Kafka's greatest hits, as sung by Tom Waits

Fueled by horror, rainbow - sugar - pixel - rushes, and video games, Brittany is a freelancer who thrives on surrealism and ultraviolence.

Madagascar 3 is deeply involved in surrealism, rivalling Disney's pink elephants on parade in a circus sequence that, if not as good as Dumbo's, is not as good because it's scored by a genuinely dreadful Katy Perry song.

The film mixes political commentary, wartime character studies and madcap surrealism, emphasized by Newton Thomas Sigel's gritty, vibrant experimental cinematography.

Directed by Federico Fellini in 1980, City of Women contains touches of surrealism and often harsh portraits of women.

Classical tragedy mixed with moderate sadism and Polanski - ish surrealism, upstart filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos» latest test of audience endurance plays like «Sophie's Choice» by way of «The Burbs».

July makes this sheltered worldview all the more fascinating by introducing an element of surrealism — soon, her characters» paradoxical desires to move forward and stand still give them to power to bend the universe to their will, as an imminent break - up is stalled by the literal stoppage of time.

Ignored by most audiences, this is a subtle, sublime work that merges the best of Villeneue's craft — his arch, noir tendencies from Prisoners, his level of detail exhibited with Polytechnique, his sense of complexity beautifullly realized in Incendies, and even some of the morose surrealism of Enemy.

Classical tragedy mixed with moderate sadism and Polanski - ish surrealism, upstart filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos» latest test of audience endurance plays like Sophie's Choice by way of the «burbs.

Whereas in Haneke's film the shot has some naturalistic grounding, Carax ventures into dreamy surrealism right from the start, and doubles down on the meta by making his a film - going audience.

Rudolph's underrated and visually inventive comedy Investigating Sex (2001)-- loosely inspired by José Pierre's study of the relationship between surrealism and sex — returns the director to a more salient concern with the connection between human desire and art; as its characters discuss their thoughts on sex, they sit among paintings and sculptures that would likely have also piqued the interest of Hilly Blue in Trouble in Mind.

Behind «Holy Motors» — the strange, perverse and entertaining neo-noir film by Léos Carax — lies a near century of movie surrealism: of deliberately fantastic, illogical and sometimes pathological filmmaking in which the cineaste (whether it's Luis Bunuel or Jean Cocteau or Maya Deren or Carax) tries to dream on screen and carry us into the maddest of reveries.

He was admired by later artists of the Surrealist art movement as a precursor of surrealism.

Research, Writing, and the «Isms» Submitted by Paula Guhin Students collaborate in pairs to research any of these art styles: realism, impressionism, post-impressionism, expressionism, fauvism, cubism, futurism, or surrealism.

The collection contains eight new stories that promise the same combination of surrealism and insight as those in her striking debut, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (2006).

And so is the foundation of this novel: a man turned political allegory edged by Orwellian surrealism.

Designed by renowned architect Antoine Pinto, the hotel blends Belgian surrealism with renowned French elegance.

-- Pixel Related (9/10) All clearly inspired by the nightmarish flesh - stretching surrealism of HR Giger with occasional hellscapes in the style of Hieronymus Bosch, Tormentumis never less than amazing to look at and the push to see the next piece of f *** ed - up artwork is what drove me on through the game the most.

If surrealism is your thing, you might just want to check out this weird and wonderful series of illustrations by Camelia Pham — a freelance illustrator and graphic design student of the Academy of Fine Art, Italy.

The works, influenced by pop art, dadaism and surrealism, show originality and freshness.

New oil paintings on view are filled with dynamic figures that span reality (an upside down figure on a roller coaster) and a sense of surrealism (a figure lounging on the beach in red flips flops, atop clouds, with some body parts replaced by shapes).

Saul is often associated with the Chicago Imagists, a group of artists typically defined by their Post-War tradition of fantasy - based art - making rooted in surrealism, pop culture, and the grotesque, as well as the Funk Artists of the San Francisco Bay Area.

During her school days, talented young Trockel has already shown an undeniable interest is the grotesque and the unusual and majority of her early artworks were influenced by the later forms of surrealism.

Enhanced by elements of surrealism and abstraction, her oeuvre responds to past forms of conceptualism, current art trends, interior design, and modernist architecture.

His abstract work was varied and could not be categorized, but was influenced by expressionism, surrealism, and cubism.

2013 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Columbia University, New York NY Performa Institue «GET READY FOR THE MARVELOUS: BLACK SURREALISM IN DAKAR, FORT - DE-FRANCE, HAVANA, JOHANNESBURG, NEW YORK CITY, PARIS, PORT - AU - PRINCE, 1932 - 2013» Conference NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development organized by Adrienne Edwards

The works in Surrealism USA are borrowed from public and private collections in the United States and abroad, and all aspects of the Surrealist movement in America are represented: the figurative depictions of a fantasy world by Peter Blume, Dorothea Tanning, and Helen Lundberg; the social surrealism of O. Louis Guglielmi, James Guy and Walter Quirt; the imaginary landscapes of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy; Joseph Cornell's enigmatic and poetic constructions; the lyrical abstractions of Arshile Gorky and William Baziotes; the automatic experiments of Jackson Pollock and Gerome Kamrowski.

Feminism proposed two alternative sets of criteria between 1970 and 1990: in the 1970s, the first — in whose development Schapiro participated — challenged the formalist canon for its exclusion of so much political narrative, and even formal content and materiality, and proposed alternatives that looked to craft, costume, folk art, surrealism, the real, lived experience, and the body; the second, developed by deconstructionist feminism during the 1980s, challenged the first for its essentialism and looked back to aspects of modernism other than those promoted by Greenberg, namely the fragmentary, the filmic, the appropriational, and the disruptive aesthetics of Brechtian distantiation.

With «Hernan Bas: The Dance of the Machine Gun & other forms of unpopular expression» at Lehmann Maupin's Lower East Side space, Bas's contemporary waifs have once again been transported to the aesthetic utopianism of German Romanticism, but this time they are shaped by a newfound interest in modernist theater, from Marinetti and the Futurists to the absurdist surrealism of Alfred Jarry's «Ubu Roi» (1896).

Recommended reading In the London Review of Books, T.J. Clark visits Tate Britain's Paul Nash retrospective, observing that «surrealism, if an artist is to be influenced by it, is best taken in operatic overdoses for a very short time».

Despite a varied body of work, characterised by experimentation and a sustained and fruitful engagement with abstraction and surrealism, the exhibition reinforces the perception that Nash was a painter who only found a sense of purpose with the outbreak of war.

By Alexandria Wismer 2017-10-27T11:20:50 +00:00 October 27th, 2017 Categories: Artists Tags: cuba, cuban art, drawings, exhibition, lam, main gallery, modernism, surrealism, wifredo lam

[4] The result was a fluid composition that «well served Margo's brand of surrealism: a futuristic universe, inhabited by strange biological and architectural forms.»

This fantasy of a direct projection of thought not only had a decisive impact on the birth of abstraction but also influenced surrealism and its obsession with the collective sharing of creation and, in the post war period, it gave rise to numerous visual and sound installations inspired by the revolution in information technology, leading to the declaration of «the dematerialisation of art» in conceptual practices...

The result is an exhibition where variety in scale, medium, and degree of abstraction is balanced by the strong continuity among all the works — a reliance on automatism, a juxtaposition of unexpected elements and conflicting temporalities, and the presence of organic forms — bringing to light the profound impact surrealism had on pre - and post-war American artists.

The early history of abstract expressionism, with surrealism as a catalyst, was explored through works by Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, and others.