Sentences with phrase «championing pioneering artists»

By showcasing Guyton at this pivotal moment in his development, the Whitney reaffirms its longstanding tradition of championing pioneering artists early in their careers.

Not exact matches

Cézanne and American Modernism reveals how a small group of pioneering American artists championed the reclusive French artist as he gained international prominence in the years shortly after his death.

In England, Lubaina Himid MBE, Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), a pioneer of the 1980s British black arts movement, a long - standing champion of women artists, and lead of UCLan's Making Histories Visible project, has won the Turner Prize 2017.

«The BMA is pioneering the way for institutions to become more inclusive by championing contemporary artists from all walks of life.

As a pioneering London gallery that championed the careers of many influential artists, it was one of the first gallery venues to be associated with Minimalism and Conceptual Art.

In New York, Mr. Tono befriended the Paris curator and critic Pierre Restany, a champion of French Pop - inflected pioneers like Martial Raysse but also of South American counterparts like Marta Minujín, whose Argentine vision of Pop, included in the Walker show, quickly morphed into highly politicized Conceptualism that influenced the work of American artists.

She has instead continued in the spirit that built that collection: collecting work that she loves, championing young artists and embracing the pioneering work being made by diverse artists from around the world.»

Starting in the early 1970s, Snyder was instrumental in establishing exhibition opportunities for women artists and was among the pioneers who championed feminism.

A pioneering feminist artist who was championed early in her career, Snyder has infused her works with physical energy and vibrant color to express deeply personal experiences.

Cubism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism were the most important of these movements, and attracted a number of indigenous American artists, including: the New Jersey Cubist / Expressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - American artist.

A pioneering art historian in the field of medieval studies, he was also passionate about the great modern masters and was a champion of the artists of his own time.