Sentences with phrase «concrete art»

Examples of concrete art can be seen in many of the best art museums around the world.

As a result, most concrete art is based on geometric imagery and patterns, and is often called geometric abstraction.

Key collections of this kind of concrete art can be found at the following places, and in many of the best art museums devoted to late 20th century works.

«We have always been interested in Concrete art in the gallery,» Quiroga adds «Marcius continues that story.»

Grupo Ruptura founded the Brazilian concrete art movement, which espoused... Read More

The exhibition traces all the stages of Pape's career, beginning with her square paintings, reliefs, and blocks, all done between 1954 and 1956, when Pape was a member of Grupo Frente from Rio de Janeiro, which also included Clark and Oiticica, and which initially followed the tenets of concrete art as outlined by van Doesburg.

During this time, he began to formulate the principles of Concrete Art by expanding the theories of Theo van Doesburg, guided strongly by his training.

David Batchelor «s first exhibition in the gallery at Roche Court will focus on the Concretos, a body of new work which reveals his interest in Brazilian concrete art.

The unprecedented program will «put Latin America at the center of art history,» said Andrew Perchuk, deputy director of the Getty Research Institute and a co-curator of a hotly anticipated Getty Center exhibition of Concrete art from the collection of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

In 1948 Grossi joined the MAC (Concrete Art Movement).

These significant events led the Catherine Petitgas art collection — which is based on a larger interest encompassing the many strands of contemporary Latin America, and already contained works by a number of Brazilian artists associated with concrete art, including Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape and Sergio Camargo — to expand this connection further.

Since the 1990s Nowacki had collaborated with Heinz Teufel, a collector who owned one of the most prestigious art galleries for concrete art in Europe located in Cologne and later in Berlin.

Born in 1938, Böhm has been for decades associated with minimalist and European Concrete Art movements (art that, generally speaking, appears geometric or potentially made by a machine).

Having trained at the Bauhaus and taken much from Van Doesburg's «Concrete Art Manifesto» (1930), Bill stood for clarity of design in painting, industrial design, architecture and writing.

In 1957 the first Concrete Art Exhibition was held in Gallery Schettini.

Whether intended or not, his work of this period offered a useful stepping stone between American concrete art of the 1940s and the Minimalism of the mid-1960s and 1970s, and, as a result, influenced several of today's top contemporary artists.

In May 2012, ends the RETROSPECTIVE group exhibition on British Concrete Art at Laurent Delaye Gallery.

Laurent Delaye Gallery is delighted to announce the book launch of: CONCRETE PARALLELS / CONCRETOS PARALELOS British Constructivism / Brazilian Concrete and Neo Concrete Art held at: FRIEZE MASTERS Dan... Continue reading →

When Jackson Pollock (1912 - 56), Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966), Arshile Gorky (1905 - 48) and a number of their contemporaries sought in the early years of World War II to emancipate themselves both from the closed world of geometric concrete art (including styles like De Stijl and Neo-Plasticism) and from the image - suggestion of both representationalism and Surrealism, they suddenly found themselves in an unfamiliar territory, bereft of conventional signposts or prescribed procedures.

Geometric forms of abstract painting had appeared long before the term concrete art.

Adjaye's other projects in the US include the Sugar Hill housing project in New York's Harlem and a red concrete art museum in Texas.

The most famous piece of concrete art produced by the Section d'Or group.

Early proponents of concrete art such as Max Bill, Judith Lauand and Lucio Fontana were working during a period of great technological achievements which opened a broad perspective to objective thinking and modernist ideas.

Joaquín Torres - García, Composición constructiva 16, 1943 Oil on cardboard «There is a spidered but unbroken vein feeding cannibals (Yes, I said that) into Concrete Art, snaking through the 20th century from the deepest reaches of the Amazon River in Brazil.

Founded in the Netherlands during World War I, by Theo van Doesburg, the older Piet Mondrian, architect Gerrit Rietveld, and Bart Van der Leck, it advocated a geometrical type of abstract art, (later called concrete art, by Van Doesburg), based on universal laws of harmony that would be equally applicable to life and art.

The red concrete art museum that British architect David Adjaye designed for the Linda Pace Foundation is now under construction in San Antonio, Texas.

He followed closely Max Bill's Concrete Art concepts and studied Visual Gestalt principles.

Referencing concrete art, a European movement coined by Theo van Doesburg in 1930, Wulffen bases his artistic examinations on real objects, structures, and spaces.

Theo van Doesburg, his sourced artist quotes on his painting art, De Stijl, Dada and on making Concrete art.

For a few vigorous decades in the mid-20th century, artists in the rapidly - growing cosmopolitan cities of Montevideo, Caracas, Buenos Aires, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro were exploring concrete art.

Reflections on Concrete Art put in dialogue RARE works from the 1960s, 1970s and... Continue reading →

Temkin has laid out a chronology of Cuban Concrete art from 1939 to 1963, and includes biographies on twelve artists from the movement.

Through defining emergent networks and layered instructions, he has defined a unique area of visual experience that builds upon concrete art, conceptual art, experimental animation, and drawing.

Patricia Phelps de Cisneros discusses the CPPC's collaboration with the Getty's Research and Conservation Institutes that led to surprising new scholarship concerning Concrete art from Latin America.

[14] Located at 2120 Oxford Street in Berkeley's arts district, the design combines the existing 1939 concrete Art Deco - style building, unoccupied since 2004, with a new metal - clad, skylighted structure that will include galleries, a 32 - seat screening room, a store and a learning center.

This show, curated by Jeu de Paume director Daniel Abadie, is France's first survey of the work of the Japanese avant - garde group Gutaï Bijutsu Kyokai, or «Concrete Art Association.»

His writing, «The Mathematical Way of Thinking in Art» (Die mathematische Denkweise in der Kunst) from 1949 gave concrete art a theoretical foundation.

While not referencing specific artistic antecedents in Handmade, Muniz's vocabulary draws connections to abstract art movements including concrete art, constructivism, and op art.

«In 1960 he put together a second concrete art exhibition that also included North and South American positions (Alexander Liberman, Ad Reinhard, Ellsworth Kelly, Leon Polk Smith, Mary Vieira, Luiz Saciloto, Hermelindo Fiaminghi and others).

Painting in Italy 1910s - 1950s: Futurism, Abstraction, Concrete Art relays a complex historical account of the fraught relationship between art and politics in Italy during the interwar and postwar period, attesting to the bumps, curves, utopias and traumas experienced by an eclectic group of artists working to assert a new pictorial language by challenging the dominant tenets of their culture.

He currently lives and works in Germany, where he also serves at the photography advisor for the Peter C. Ruppert Concrete Art in Europe museum collection.

The organic shapes of the exhibited works contrasted with the geometric style of concrete art found in traditional abstract painting.

Thus an abstract painting whose motifs or shapes are evidently derived from any natural elements, would not be considered concrete art: the picture must be wholly devoid of any naturalistic associations.

One of the most influential pioneers of concrete art during the period 1920 - 1944, he developed his precise geometric style as a counter-statement to the emotional chaos and uncertainty of the first half of the twentieth century.

A leading exponent of Minimalist concrete art, he is best known for his geometrical skeletal structures.

• Anton Pevsner (1884 - 1962) Russian - born French sculptor, brother of Naum Gabo, pioneer of Constructivist concrete art.