Sentences with phrase «central figures of»

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Masterpieces of the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection features many of the artists» most iconic paintings and offers a rich insight into the work and lives of the two central figures of Mexican Modernism.

There, later that same year, while organizing an exhibition at the Jacques Seligmann gallery, she met Clement Greenberg, through whom she would meet some of the central figures of the New York School, including Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, and David Smith.

In 1980 the editorial board started to give increasing attention to the New York City art scene; Thomas Lawson reviewed on David Salle at Larry Gagosian Gallery / Nosei - Weber / The Kitchen as well as the famous «Three Cs» (Chia, Clemente and Cucchi) at Sperone Westwater Fisher, helping to bring the central figures of the Transavanguardia to public attention.

Kenneth Noland (1924 - 2010) is among the most influential Post-War abstract artists and one of the central figures of Color Field painting.

Our gaze wanders over to the output of central figures of twentieth - century art history caught by Picasso's Stalin portrait in the Communist cultural journal Les Lettres françaises from 1953, Andy Warhol's poster promoting the German Green Party from 1978 (at the suggestion of Joseph Beuys, who also appears in the exhibition), or Robert Rauschenberg's poster for the United Nations» International Conference on Population and Development in 1994.

Fast forward, and Olitski is considered by many critics to be one of the central figures of modern abstraction.

Inspired by the artist Robert Henri (1865 - 1929)- an admirer of earlier American artists Thomas Eakins and Thomas Anshutz - who believed strongly that art could not be separated from life, the four central figures of the Ashcan movement were William Glackens (1870 - 1938), George Luks (1867 - 1933), Everett Shinn (1876 - 1953) and John French Sloan (1871 - 1951).

Indiana's focus on American themes, use of simple but visually bold compositions and shaped canvases made him one of the central figures of American Pop art.

He became one of the central figures of the Newlyn School, which - because of his many successes at the Royal Academy - soon became firmly established.

Marc Rothko is best known as one of the central figures of the Abstract Expressionist movement in American art in the 1950s and»60s.

The exhibition seeks to reaffirm Delaunay's reputation as one of the central figures of the Paris avant - garde.

Ed Moses is considered one of the most inventive and central figures of postwar Los Angeles art, working in several genres over the course of his celebrated career.

Jack Tworkov, Variables II, 1964 - 65 Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 inches January 15 — February 20, 2010 Jack Tworkov was among the central figures of New York's Abstract Expressionist school.

Mitchell - Innes & Nash (booth C09) will present a selection of horizontal Stripe abstractions from the 1960's by a seminal Post War American artist and one of the central figures of Color Field painting — Kenneth Noland (probably better known for his circular, target - like paintings).

Michael Craig - Martin (b. 1941) is regarded by many as one of the central figures of the British conceptual art scene in the 1960s.

The third volume in Ridinghouse's series of anthologies on the central figures of Minimalism, About Robert Ryman offers a crucial look at the artist.

Jack Tworkov was among the central figures of New York's Abstract Expressionist school.

Abiding by Islam's firm ban on pictorialization (which forbids depicting not only the Prophet's likeness but also his voice), Akkad was forced to devise a way of telling the story of Mohammed, after his revelation, without the audience ever seeing or hearing him — or, for that matter, any of the other central figures of the Faith such as his wives or his trusted cousin and son - in - law Ali.

WWE will have some explaining to do regarding the finish of the women's Rumble that somehow allowed Stephanie McMahon and Ronda Rousey to replace Asuka and both women's champions as the central figures of the show.

Christ's birth was celebrated to present him as a figure superior in every way to the central figures of this competing religion.

Unusual aviation monuments with new listings include a memorial with a central figure of Zeus, god of thunder; a Calvary Cross with a figure of Christ crucified, and a memorial in the shape of an aircraft.

Twenty centuries have come and gone, and today He is the central figure of the human race.

What if evangelicals today, instead of focusing on «evangelizing» and «converting» people, were to begin to think of Jesus not as starting a new religion, but as the central figure of a movement that transcends religious distinctions and identities?

In the great, nearly central figure of Christianity, the God - man, this complex appears at least symbolically, though theology is distorted if it is converted into Christology.

Says Seattle point guard John Lucas, «When the playoffs come around, he'll be the central figure of the last five minutes of the game.

The longest - serving home secretary (six years and counting), Theresa May has been a central figure of David Cameron's government.

3 You might be reminded of criticisms of communist societies, which in practice almost always featured a central figure of power backed by a strong set of supporters.

The central figure of Happythankyoumoreplease is its writer, director and star Josh Radnor of TV's How I Met Your Mother.

How do you turn tasteless literature — Bernhard Schlink's 1995 Holocaust novel, which «complicates» archetypes by making an illiterate, unrepentant Nazi into its central figure of pity — into tasteful, awards - season filmmaking?

Iron Man: Tony Stark was never the central figure of the Avengers (in comics, that is).

Infinity War's most sly trick is making the purple overlord the central figure of the movie and making the rest of the characters seem like star - studded tourists.

The central figure of Irish filmmaker Martin McDonagh's newest outing as writer / director, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, McDormand owns every part of her performance as Hayes, a mother who takes matters into her own hands after the brutal death of her teenage daughter and sets up 3 very prominent billboards questioning the police force's effort to catch her daughter's killer / s.

The central figure of 20th Century Women is 55 year - old Dorothea (Bening), a single mother to her son Jamie (Zumann), whose father left when he was 8 and lives in a boarding home with his mother, roommate Abbie (Gerwig) and mustached handyman William (Crudup).

While the general synopsis sounds pretty familiar with Kamui being the central figure of the whole plot, The 25th Ward The Silver Case does a far better job of presenting it.

MA: With the painting Conjestina Achieng, I wanted to have elements of the painting that suggested that Conjestina, the central figure of the painting, had been given the role of village idiot by the local media (under the guise of public interest, she was repeatedly filmed and interviewed in an institution and at home while going through episodes of paranoid schizophrenia).

A central figure of the California Funk Art movement, Arneson and his peers were eager to distance themselves from the non-objectivity of Abstract Expressionism, and to embrace an unorthodox and sometimes rudimentary formalism that was both strange and refreshing.

A central figure of the British art scene for almost half a century, David Hockney is remarkably wealthy (with a net worth of some $ 40 million), yet still less so than some of his peers.

Among the foremost textile designers of the 20th century, Anni Albers was a central figure of the Weaving Workshop at the Bauhaus in prewar Germany.

Richard Serra (born in 1939) is a central figure of contemporary sculpture.

BAMPFA's newest commission for the Art Wall features a work by Lawrence Weiner, a central figure of Conceptual art.

De Kooning was left as the central figure of the New York School.

Starker in color and contrast than his etchings, Shapiro's woodcuts also show off superb carving and a heightened wood grain that make the block itself a central figure of the works.

A retrospective at the Jewish Museum in New York City frames Goldstein as a central figure of the Pictures Generation of the 1970s and 1980s, although he saw himself as more of an art director or producer.

When the artist moved to Manhattan in 1952 he quickly became a central figure of the downtown art community.

The central figure of the movement was curator and critic, Celant, who fervently supported postwar avant - garde art with a desire to internationalize the art of Europe, and particularly Italy.

A central figure of the New York School's precocious «second generation,» Notley has lived since 1992 in Paris, France, where she has cultivated an iconoclastic autonomy from any one poetic school or set of associations.

In The Crucified (1943), the central figure of Christ (who has an eerie smile on his face) and the figures who surround him (including a Deposition from the Cross group) blend into the curving ribbons of color that envelop them.

Jones - Hogu, a founding member of the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA) and a central figure of the Black Arts Movement, was a Chicago - based artist, filmmaker and educator.

Warhol was the central figure of American Pop Art, a genre that emerged in the late 1950s in reaction to the heroism of Abstract Expressionism.

The series of monochrome photo collage drawings on exhibit focus on the central figure of a working woman, depicted in numerous environments.