Sentences with phrase «century avant»

By referencing animistic notions by which artists ascribe a spiritual core to individual works, as well as 20th - century avant - gardes that mined the human subconscious and practiced a kind of social awareness, Kim's work has developed around the visual tradition of illusionism.

With a selection of works by artists such as Victor Brauner, Max Ernst, and René Magritte, the museum enjoys a reputation for having an exceptional representation of Surrealist art - the twentieth - century avant - garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind.

Her many areas of interest in twentieth - century avant - garde literature and art include Surrealism, poets René Char and André Breton, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group, and artists Robert Motherwell, Joseph Cornell, and Pablo Picasso.

Considered one of the great innovators of the twentieth - century avant - garde, Rodchenko continues to influence future generations of artists.

The works in Slideshow are indebted to the rich history of geometric abstraction and early 20th century avant - garde art, particularly in Latin America.

This was in the late 1960s when detailed information on 20th century avant garde art and artists was relatively sparse, and a few years prior to the last major retrospective of László Moholy - Nagy's (1895 > 1946) work in the United States.

Joan Miró was a seminal figure in 20th - century avant - garde painting.

His major writings include Clement Greenberg: Art Critic (1979), The Cult of the Avant - Garde Artist (1993), Health and Happiness in Twentieth Century Avant - Garde Art (1996), Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries (2000), and The End of Art (2004).

«White - Tipped Blooming» exemplifies many outstanding characteristics of Surls's oeuvre, which call to mind the artistic traditions on which he builds his practice: the unique oak - and - steel construction consists of expressively carved biomorphic forms that conjure primitivist aesthetics and mythical imagery of early 20th - century avant - garde sculpture, while the humble, organic materials pay homage to American folk art.

One of the greatest innovators of the XX century avant - gardes, Alexander Rodchenko (1891 - 1965) formed his artistic practice following the Russian Revolution by exploring painting, sculpture and graphic design.

Anna Ostoya's (b. Poland, 1978) draws upon the histories and strategies of 20th Century avant - garde movements from Constructivism to Dada, Futurism to Abstract Expressionism, in a bid to activate and revisit works and ideas from the past and imbue them with new meaning.

The exhibition is divided into chronological chapters, ranging from early twentieth century avant - garde movements such as the Harlem Renaissance to current debates around «Post-Black» art.

His research fields include the history of Chinese photography, contemporary Chinese photography, and 20th century avant - garde art.

Annely Juda Fine Art: Established in 1960 • Specialises in British Contemporary, Russian Constructivism and masters of 20th century Avant - garde • Represents over 35 international artists including David Hockney, Christo, Anthony Caro, Leon Kossoff and the Estate of Naum Gabo •

Dr. Mandelbaum, a humanities graduate of Wesleyan University, was a respected New York internist who loved Broadway, jazz, classical, and twentieth - century avant - garde music.

Lucy McKenzie approaches subjects of social and historical engagement, drawing inspiration from 20th - century avant - garde painting, fashion history, decorative arts, music, literature and popular culture.

Over the past 50 years, Sean Scully has created an artistic system of his own, gathering and developing the best plastic traditions of the early 20th - century avant - garde and combining them with complex metaphysical philosophy from the Ancient Greeks to theorists of the present day.

Just Light and Colour», focuses on the significant oeuvre of German artist Heinz Mack, who is among the founders of the mid-20th Century Avant - Garde Art network, the ZERO movement.

The exhibition addresses one of the fundamental postulates of 20th Century Avant - garde movements, the mutual penetration or even fusion of art and everyday life, is indebted to three phenomena known from the history of 20th Century art which have remained topical and universal until the present day.

Selected projects she has commissioned, produced and realised with Electra include 27 Senses (Kunstmuseet KUBE, Norway, 2009), Art Now Live (Tate Britain, 2007), Perfect Partner by Kim Gordon, Tony Oursler and Phil Morrison (Barbican Centre, 2005), Her Noise (South London Gallery, 2005), Sound And The Twentieth Century Avant - Garde lecture series (Tate Modern, 2004), Sounds Of Christmas by Christian Marclay (Tate Modern, 2004), Emotional Orchestra and Sheer Frost Orchestra by Marina Rosenfeld (Tate Modern 2005/06).

The YBAs took the late 20th century avant garde — which had previously only seen tiny audiences — repackaged it with rock»n' roll attitude and booted it to the tabloids who responded obligingly.

Grotjahn's strange masks are contemporary scarecrows that combine the use of materials typical of early 20th century avant - garde with the eccentric energy of outsider art.

Drawing from provincial and traditional histories, as well as the varied landscape of 20th century avant - garde movements (Futurism, Art Nouveau, and Arte Povera) the works are strongly rooted in process.

Sally Smart's most recent work The Choreography of Cutting is a series of projects re-framing early 20th century avant - garde dance movements and their performative multi-disciplinary practice in experimental visual art forms.

He associates the aesthetic — and therefore political — self - determination of Percy's House of Style with De Stijl, an early twentieth - century avant - garde movement.

With Professor Eric Hobsbawm, eminent historian and author of Behind The Times: The Decline and Fall of the Twentieth Century Avant - Gardes; Frances Morris, specialist in contemporary art and Art Programme Curator for the Tate Gallery of Modern Art.

RITE OF PASSAGE is New York's first major exhibition devoted to the early years of the 20th century avant - garde movement, Vienna Actionism.

They will discuss artistic methodology and the use of the absurd as a political tool by these 20th century avant - garde groups and will look at art historical precedents for their work.

The exhibition at Hauser & Wirth provides a unique insight into the Sylvio Perlstein collection, spanning 20th - and 21st - century avant - garde art.

Simon Dybbroe Møller subjects twentieth - century avant - garde to a subjective revision in his work.

Recogninzing the importance of performance in 20th century avant - garde art, this catalogue traces the careers of three artists who have each made a significant contribution to that history.

It's an organization that enacts the bureaucratic fantasies of Kafka or the underground paranoia networks of Pynchon, and blurs these with the forms and procedures of early twentieth - century avant - gardes (manifestos, committees, declarations and denunciations, expulsions, etcetera).

Wir sind kreativ («we are creative») presents itself as an early 20th century avant garde manifesto, advocating an «Avant Garde for Decency.»

With a profound knowledge and understanding of the history of twentieth - century avant - gardes, experimental music, and cinema, Aitken's art embraces a collaborative spirit across disciplines.

He was a pioneer in 20th century avant - garde art and photography and a leading figure in the Dada and Surrealist art movements in both America and in later on in Paris where he became the group's unofficial photographer.

Areas of special interest include: the relationship between architecture and memory, psychoanalysis, the 20th Century avant - garde, conceptual poetry, and the impact of digital technologies on the self.

Using the Utopian rhetoric typical of twentieth - century avant - gardes, he wrote of a desire to escape the bounds of a social system that rewards conformity and limits experience, and argued, in stridently Marxist terms, that this system forces artists into producing bourgeois objects for an art market that requires the stability of the assembly line.

For this special presentation, Aitken and Vergne discuss Aitken's uniquely immersive aesthetic; the work's relationship to 20th - century avant - garde art, cinema, and experimental music; the nature of creativity in the 21st century; the possibilities for artmaking within our ever - mobile, ever - changing, image - based contemporary world; and other ideas central to the artist and the exhibition.

In the modern era, however, this dialogue has been dominated by the towering figures of Brazil's mid-twentieth century avant - garde — the likes of Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark — with little else besides the legacy of Modernism making its way into the global arena.

Shapiro takes the installation into the realm of a metaphysical playground that bounces from dream states, hence the infinite possibilities of the unconscious, toward utopian spirituality as a reference to precedents observable in numerous examples within the 20th century avant - garde.

Gökcan Demirkazık graduated from Harvard College with a degree in History of Art and Architecture in 2014, focusing on 20th century avant - gardes and 18th century French art.

It is the monolithic image of the 20th Century Avant - garde.

Peggy Guggenheim and Nelly van Doesburg, the story of two strong women in a world dominated by men, sheds new light on a chapter in the history of the early 20th century avant - garde.

The exhibition also includes some of his most significant works, including The Wasteland and Many Times, making this an important opportunity to grasp the work of a great artist who reinterpreted the tradition of classic sculpture on the basis of 20th century avant - gardes.

His work is also included in the 2013 Phaidon publication «Art Cities of the Future: 21st - Century Avant - Gardes.»

Mai - Thu Perret is known for her multidisciplinary, installation - based practice that combines feminist politics with literary texts, homemade crafts and 20th century avant - garde aesthetics.

«Adam Pendleton: The Making of an Art - World Star» by Ellen Gamerman Wall Street Journal Under a headline declaring him an art «star,» the Wall Street Journal describes Adam Pendleton «s practice as «a race - infused take on 20th century avant - garde» and cites the Richmond, Va. - born artist's impressive bonafides.

In the two - year period 1961 - 1962 made the first Mirror Paintings, which directly include the viewer and real time in the work, and open up perspective, reversing the Renaissance perspective that had been closed by the twentieth - century avant - gardes.

His instructions harp on all these themes of the 20th - century avant garde.

Synthesizing sacred geometries with 20th century avant - garde literature, Chimes remained largely isolated from contemporary art circles over the course of his long career in Philadelphia, working with a singular intensity that is perhaps best ascribed to the archetype of the hermetic alchemist.