Sentences with phrase «course of art history»

Rauschenberg was a pivotal figure in course of art history, challenging not only prevailing notions of artistic identity, but also the function of the picture plane and the very experience of viewing art work.

While Conceptualism took on on various forms, movements, and mediums throughout its development, the written, imagined and physical work produced from this concept changed the entire course of art history.

It stands as Ruskin's most compelling set of reflections on Giotto's masterpiece — an artwork that, in Ruskin's estimation, changed the very course of art history.

Throughout the course of art history, self - portraiture has been an irresistible exercise for artists as different as Rembrandt van Rijn in the 17th century and Frida Kahlo in the 20th, two of the genre's...

Throughout the course of art history, self - portraiture has been an irresistible exercise for artists as different as Rembrandt van...

«Certain people bend the course of art history,» agrees Chuck Close, whose 1969 Phil, a colossal rendering of composer Philip Glass, is in the show.

It brings together painting, sculpture, and photography by iconic modern and contemporary artists whose work and ideas have changed the course of art history.

The exhibition will also feature an untitled installation on muslin, painted by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns during «18 Happenings in 6 Parts» in 1959 — the performance conceived by Allan Kaprow that forever changed the course of art history by moving art off of the wall and into life, involving the participation of the audience and incorporating sound, smell, poetry, music, and lights.

HALF a century ago, on Oct. 4, 1959, an event took place at the Reuben Gallery in the East Village that changed the course of art history: a performance piece by the artist Allan Kaprow titled «18 Happenings in 6 Parts.»

Beyond this, the iconic significance of the gallery, and the historical moment necessitates that certain artists whose ideas and actions impacted on society, and on the course of art history, be included.

Being responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture, his work has changed the course of art history greatly.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao's dynamic program of temporary exhibitions featuring modern and contemporary art, as well as its periodic exhibitions of art from earlier centuries, offers a sweeping view of international art over the course of art history.

Unlike the iconic painters of the day — the Pollocks, Newmans, Rothkos, and Reinhardts — who were intent on changing the course of art history, she eschewed theory and resisted the urge to contrive elegant commentary to satisfy art critics.

Throughout his career, the American Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg has consistently challenged the prevailing ideologies and techniques of the art world, and can even be said to have changed the course of art history.

Yesterday Ellsworth Kelly, a brilliant painter whose monochrome canvases changed the course of art history, died at his home in Spencertown, New York.

Who were the artists that changed the course of art history?

From founding historically important cultural spaces and curating exhibitions that changed the course of art history, artists have always been at the helm.

Who were the artists that changed the course of art history and what were the artworks that broke the mold?

The exhibition features 100 key works by artists whose radical work changed the course of art history and catapulted New York City to the centre of the international art world.

It's rare that a single work of art can change the course of art history...

Signed by Duchamp in 1960 for its owner — a young Robert Rauschenberg — this ever - provocative and still astonishing work has a deep connection to two significant artists who radically challenged and redefined our notions of «art» and changed the course of art history.

«I doubt your work is going to change the course of art history.

Despite the idea that a woman artist could literally have invented abstract painting, over the course of art history Klint's name has been all but scrapped from the record of abstract art, which has been cast, however falsely, as a genre driven by machismo and muscle.

With incisiveness, ingenuity, and humor, Rauschenberg changed the course of art history by establishing new genres of sculpture — found object, environmental, theatrical, photographic, and filmic — by including a wide range of contemporary subjects, and by using non-fine art materials along with conventional ones.

Still is now one of the most widely respected of the Abstract Expressionist artists, and along with Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, his works stand as examples of the revolutionary paintings produced during a period that changed the course of art history.

Horses have appeared throughout the course of art history to a multitude of effects, from ceramic votives in ancient Chinese burial sites to European hunting and battle scenes.

Many of the artists we have worked with, such as Lubaina Himid, Steve McQueen and Yinka Shonibare, have gone on to achieve national and international acclaim, changing the course of art history and the wider cultural hinterland.

This slippery demarcation subsists at the margins of taste, determining the course of art history and culture as well as defining the parameters of consumption and capital.

Exhibitions complement the courses of art history and studio art taught within the Department of Art.

The exhibition, on view from May 28 through September 4, 2011, features 100 key works by artists whose radical work changed the course of art history and catapulted New York City to the centre of the international art world.

Abstract Expressionist New York: Masterpieces from The Museum of Modern Art opens May 28 at the AGO and features more than 100 works by the legendary artists whose drips, splatters, and fields of incredible colour catapulted New York to the centre of the international art world in the 1950s and changed the course of art history forever.

As the political traumas of their time reverberated around them, they placed their massive canvasses on floors and walls, creating artwork that exploded into life with spectacular vision and changed the course of art history forever.

By focusing on the 1940s, the group of works on view illuminates the aesthetic investigations that preoccupied the artists who would change the course of art history in the period just before Abstract Expressionism came to its full fruition.

Without anything of physical interest, the «burden of proof», so to speak, falls on the spindly concept of depicting something three - dimensional in two - dimensions, and how tough that is; this, of course, being a question which is raised and resolved a dozen times or more in the course of an art history textbook, and one which is not added to or made more interesting by Shepherd's half - involvement of computers.

However improbable it may be, the typical 21st - century MFA is intent on being discovered, making an international reputation, and somehow influencing the course of art history.

Whiffs of game - changing artworks — those that shifted the course of art history — emanate from Leung's mischievous, sometimes melancholy sculptures.

Her innovation changed the course of art history and influenced generations of artists, beginning with Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis and Jules Olitski.

Her signature paint - thinning technique, in which she diluted the oil paint with turpentine, coupled with an entirely revolutionary method of staining (rather than dripping or brushing paint onto) the canvas undoubtedly changed the course of art history and influenced the likes of Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis and Jules Olitski.

Over the last 60 years, 10 art critics altered the course of art history.