Sentences with phrase «controversial artists during»

Caro pays tribute to late Abstract Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler, who campaigned against controversial artists during the 1980s

Caro pays tribute to late Abstract Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler, who campaigned against controversial artists during the 1980s Anthony Caro one of the world's most famous and critically acclaimed living sculptors, has paid tribute to US Abstract Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler, who died last week.

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The most famous, controversial — and, some would say, overexposed — British artist never to have had a UK retrospective will dominate the Tate's programme during the 2012 Olympics.

Emerging during the 1970s, Installation is associated with Conceptual art and can therefore be traced back to artists such as Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) and his modernist readymades such as his controversial urinal called Fountain (1917).

During her lifetime, the artist and educator Barbara DeGenevieve fearless and controversial work was rarely shown.

An iconic figure in avant - garde art in America during the 1950s, the composer and artist John Cage is noted in particular for his controversial 1952 «musical composition» 4 minutes 33 seconds (4» 33»)(which contained not a single note of music), along with his teachings at Black Mountain College on a variety of artistic topics: these include Indian Sand Painting, forms of Performance art such as Happenings (eg.

Some of the most controversial «found objects» were presented by Young British Artists (YBAs), who - thanks to the patronage of Charles Saatchi - swept onto the art scene during the 1980s.

During his lifetime he was controversial, but now the German performance and installation artist, sculptor, graphic artist, art theorist, pedagogue of art and politician Joseph Beuys is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

Beuys, Joseph (1921 - 86) Controversial German sculptor, performance and installation artist, acclaimed by contemporary art museums during the 1980s for the intellectualism of his works.

While remaining a highly controversial figure in Paris, he became the most prominent French artist in New York during the 1950s, with the American abstract expressionists embracing Dubuffet as one of their own.