Sentences with phrase «century saw a collection»

The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, pacifists, cranks, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and radio, the mail as well as the mail carrier.

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On the other hand, we read here several poems hardly distinguishable from the work of Second Isaiah; and we must conclude, therefore, that Isaiah 56 - 66 comes out of continuing Isaianic circles of prophetism surviving the sixth - century debacle, and had as its nucleus a small collection of Second Isaiah's oracles not incorporated in 40 - 55 and perhaps of somewhat later origin (see especially the three chapters, 60 - 62, and the Servant Song in 61:1 - 4).

If your school / after school is randomly assigned to the non-implementation group, you will implement your after - school STEM programming as normal, but will 1) participate in the data collection activities for the study (see above); 2) receive $ 2000 yearly to support staff time for data collection and purchasing materials; and 3) have the opportunity to participate in a 10 hour workshop series exploring MediaBreaker (an online learning and editing tool for the development of 21st century media literacy skills).

She discovered the collection in Milan, you see, where the owners of a century - old cat cafe had faithfully been transcribing the feline residents» literary efforts.

Where: Los Angeles Miles from highway: 5.8 Another must - see museum in Los Angeles, the Getty Center displays its collection — from pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, and sculpture to 19th - and 20th - century American, European, and Asian photographs — in pavilions around a central garden.

Casa del Herrero is steeped in cultural heritage, which is seen in both the George Washington Smith designed house and the collection of fifteenth and sixteenth - century art objects from Spain.

If you're interested in visiting museums, The Picasso Museum is a must see for an amazing collection of 20th century artwork made by the famous Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso.

After sampling some of the town's local produce, you may wish to see the 9th - century Brömserburg, the oldest castle on the Rhine, or Siegfried's Mechanical Music Museum, with one of the largest collections of selfplaying instruments.

As we move on from and reflect upon the 20th century, this staggering collection represents the foundations of what would influence some of the fastest changing creative fields, and a long - overdue recognition of the enormous contribution graphic design has made to economics, politics, social causes, arts, media, and the way we see the world.

«The luminosity and depth of his work stands up to any Old Master or 19th Century Master that we have ever seen, but with an added modernity — employing the use of innovative materials and collage to tie it all together,» said gallerist Laura Grenning, who arranged the show by selecting works from private collections as well as those on loan from Marlborough Gallery.

The exhibition includes iconic images from the early 1970s, important series and portfolios held in the Memphis Brooks collection as well as the rarely seen 21st Century Photographs.

In Paris, Nicholas Ghesquière showed silk - embroidered frock coats comparable to those seen in 18th - century portraiture for his women's Spring 2018 Louis Vuitton collection; in New York, the Metropolitan Museum's recent Michelangelo show was the tenth most visited exhibition in its history, outstripping even the Alexander McQueen blockbuster in 2011; in London, renowned contemporary British artist Glenn Brown is presenting his reinterpretation of the Old Masters at the Gagosian Gallery (until 17 March), while at Victoria Miro (until 7 April), Mark Wallinger's Italian Lessons exhibition takes inspiration from the Italian masters and masterpieces in Italian collections.

This year sees Frieze New York host a collection of ambitious presentations from leading international contemporary and 20th century art galleries.

I saw the collection, which is focused on the art of South America in the 17th and 18th centuries, at the Hubers» home some years ago (Roberta was a trustee at the Brooklyn Museum when I worked there).

Predominantly, we see people all over the world trying to assemble collections of 20th century art, and very clearly seeing the lineage from Impressionism right through Contemporary art.

1997 Seeing Jazz, International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; Western Gallery, Bellingham, WA; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT; Munson - Williams - Proctor Institute of Art, Utica, NY; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN; Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV; Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX Revisiting American Art / Works from the Collections of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY Queens Artists: Highlights of the Century, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY

It wasn't difficult to see the connections across the span of a century, towards the abstract expressionist works that made up much of MoMA's permanent collection.

Viewers can see themselves mirrored in the glass, which could be read either as an intentional provocation — implicating viewers into the postcolonial quagmire — or an ironic update on the gilded expositions of ethnographic fairs and 18th - century aristocratic art collections.

While I'd love for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston to pass on one of its never - ending «once in a lifetime» opportunities to rent other museums» Impressionist collections, it's hard to see how San Antonio's interests don't include giving the city its first look at a significant concentration of works by the artist Green has argued made the most important painting of the 20th century — especially since SAMA's contemporary collection includes painters such as Hans Hofmann and Richard Diebenkorn whom Matisse influenced.

Numerous loans from private collections and institutions make this survey the most important Hopper retrospective seen outside of his native New York City in over a quarter century.

The European paintings collection spans several centuries, with examples from the Middle Ages and Renaissance through the early modern era, including several Impressionist works, such as Van Gogh's Irises, seen here

The show pushes our conceptions of the boundaries of Indian abstraction by including works like 17th century Islamic tiles from the CSMVS permanent collection along with the selection of modern abstract works from the Foundation's collection.The layered interpretation of Indian abstraction as well as the inclusion older works, usually unmentioned in this modern context, make this a show a must see.

On view thru Sept. 27, America Is Hard to See — drawn entirely from the Museum's collection — reexamines the history of art in the United States from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present and examines the themes, ideas, beliefs and passions that have inspired American artists in their struggle to work within and against traditional conventions.

The collection on display at the State Hermitage Museum, which includes two diptychs and two triptychs, spans the breadth of Griffiths» artistic concerns for more than a decade, beginning with an ode to corporate greed (21st - Century Boy, 2006), musings on the impact of war upon individual souls (Finest Hour, 2015) and the most recent, never - before - seen The Things They Carried (2016) which references the current refugee crisis with breathtaking urgency.

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.

Reflections offers innovative ways to see the Museum's collection in the present moment, and allows an opportunity to contemplate the rich, expansive range of ideas linking artists throughout the twentieth and twenty - first centuries.

(For US collections of 20th - century paintings which include examples of hard edge painting, see: Best Art Museums in America.)

SJMA's permanent collection of more than 2,000 twentieth - and twenty - first - century works of art, including paintings, sculpture, installation, new media, photography, drawings, prints, and artist books, has a special focus on West Coast art, seen in an national and international context.

The strength of this small collection is in the works of the nineteenth and twentieth century British artists, particularly significant is the small cluster of paintings by LS Lowry (see image below).

The gallery will bring together work from Wakefield's art collection, exhibitions by contemporary artists and rarely seen works by Barbara Hepworth, one of the 20th Century's most important artists who was born and grew up in Wakefield.

With masterpieces by important European painters such as Gauguin, Van Gogh, Modigliani, Picasso and Joan Miro, as well as American modernists like Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky and the sculptor Louise Nevelson, its no wonder that art scholar Thomas Hoving, a former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, describes the Albright - Knox as a must - see art museum - a small and intimate place, with one of the most arresting collections of 20th century art in the world.

Istanbul is best known these days as a thriving commercial hub and tourist spot, but its record of devastating quakes is etched in centuries of artwork, as seen in the slide show below, with the images drawn from the remarkable collection of earthquake art assembled by Jan Kozak in Prague.

I see no reason BEST couldn't have been done a quarter century ago, or more and better data collection could not have begun, and more and better mathematics and communication and organization, too.