Sentences with phrase «crucial role of artists»

The exhibition highlights the crucial role of artists in representing contemporary conflict.

Project X's curatorial projects illustrate the crucial role of the artist's voice in shaping and sustaining the Los Angeles art community.

Independently producing ten exhibitions across Los Angeles and Orange County during the nineties, the group's curatorial projects illustrate the crucial role of the artist's voice in shaping and sustaining contemporary art culture in Southern California.

Only in the past two decades have the crucial roles of artists such as Norman Lewis, Joan Mitchell, and others been returned to their rightful place at the heart of the story.

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Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a whole?

Additional highlights include Helen Frankenthaler's Belfry and February Turn (both 1979), which mimic the look and feel of Abstract Expressionism yet in truth represent a rupture with that tradition through the use of a staining technique that seemingly minimizes the artist's role in the process; Frank Stella's Double Scramble (1978), whose nested squares, color contrasts, and pulsing optical effects bridge the artist's early minimalism and later illusionism; and Robert Rauschenberg's Golden Chalice (1989) which, insofar as it marries abstraction and representation and juxtaposes gestural brushwork and photographic media, affords a crucial link to late 20th - century abstraction.

As we continue to explore ways in which the Foundation can advocate for artists within our society and amplify their voices, we are grateful to these artists and all of our recipients for the crucial role they play in this ongoing and essential dialogue.

«The role, the voice, and the responsibility of the artist are more crucial than ever before within the framework of contemporary debates.

The exhibition will present a number of large, heavily textured and abstract paintings, forming a contextual backdrop to the ceramic and bronze works which have played a crucial role in the artist's practice since the mid-1990s.

Presented in conjunction with CraftNOW — a citywide exhibition examining the fluid boundaries that exist around art, design and craft — this show considers how contemporary revivals of sewing, weaving and embroidery reflect the continuing feminist interest in historical technique and play a crucial role in helping these artists understand the past while addressing identity in the present and future.

Ossian Ward interviews Lizzie Fitch to draw out the finer points of the artists» collaborative process and discuss the crucial role of materials and objects in the creation of atmospheres and narratives.

«At a time of global disorder,» she writes, «the role, the voice and the responsibility of the artist are more crucial than ever before within the framework of contemporary debates.»

Meanwhile, the artists associated with Alfred Stieglitz and his «291» gallery remained loyal to their belief in nature as a source of ongoing renewal for visual culture, and emphasized the crucial role that intuition and spirituality played in their creation of art.

Joseph Rishel (Philadelphia Museum of Art) sketched large themes about the crucial role of Chicago collectors, teachers, and gallerists in making important surrealist work accessible to local artists.

The Canada Council for the Arts and the provincial art councils have played crucial roles in this development, as has the expansion of museums, art galleries, and alternative and artist - run spaces, as well as the growth of art departments in colleges and universities.

Ideas relating to the concept of folds play a crucial role in the artist's practice as his work is highly adept at drawing out libidinous subtleties of images and objects using minimal gestures.

9 Jun - 3 Sep 2017 Yayoi Kusama is one of the world's most influential artists, and has played a crucial role in key art movements of the 20th and...

«The role, the voice, and the responsibility of the artist are more crucial than ever before», said Macel.

Sherman's early works were undoubtedly important during an era in which identity politics played such a crucial role in contemporary art and it's true that the Pictures Generation's critique of media laid the ground for so many of today's artists.

Peggy Guggenheim resided in New York between 1941 and 1947 where she «discovered» and promoted Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and others, playing a crucial role in the success of the Abstract Expressionist artists.

Georges Braque was a French artist who played a crucial role in a development of Cubism, an art style that revolutionized 20th - century.

Yet his openness to new influences and to new friendships, including those with artists Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko, assured his crucial role in the evolution of Abstract - Expressionist discourse in 1940s and 50s New York.

More than ever, the role, the voice and the responsibility of the artist are crucial in the framework of contemporary debates.»

Organized into seven thematic sections, the show considers the varied material production of 18th - century Mexico and artists» crucial roles in society at the time.

We support our artists» work and encourage debate as an essential component not only of the PROTOTYPES project but of art's crucial role in effecting societal change.»

We now support over 120 artist members, playing a crucial role as a resource and forum for artists living locally and working globally, by providing an infrastructure to support the development of their work and their careers by nurturing skills, experiences, relationships and professional expertise.

GSS supports about 60 external artist members and about 60 artists — studio holders, playing a crucial role as a resource and forum for artists living locally and working globally, by providing an infrastructure to support the development of their work and their careers by nurturing skills, experiences, relationships and professional expertise.

PAMM and the Guggenheim Foundation both combine a focus on international and transnational artists and cultural movements with a deep interest in local context, and her work at both institutions has re-affirmed Nawi's belief in the crucial role museums play in writing and rethinking histories, and building and contributing to communities through the establishment of public dialogue.

Growing up the daughter of renowned artist Betye Saar and painter / conservator Richard Saar, played a crucial role in her formative years, as well as in the development of her artistic career.

On the one hand, her time studying with famed artist Hans Hofmann plays a crucial role, who taught his students much about Cubism, and Picasso in particular, who championed the use of collage and was one of the biggest influences on Krasner's art.

In April of 1953 the two artists traveled to New York City, where Noland introduced Louis to the influential critic Clement Greenberg, who henceforth would play a crucial role as supporter and guiding source of Louis» career.

Emphasizing the crucial role played by Kleinean psychoanalysis in Bourgeois» artistic project, Nixon nevertheless maintains her focus on the specific formal qualities of Bourgeois sculptural inventions, drawing us deep into the mysterious sources of the artist's multifarious creation and its relation to the work of her contemporaries.

Even though the art of these years saw radical departures and shifts, drawing, which is among the most traditional of media, played a crucial and consistent role in the work of a great majority of the most significant artists.

Unwittingly encountering the ways in which each artist created specific situations by articulating spatial relations, viewers might come to realise the meaning of site - specificity and identify its crucial role in the two artists» works, both consciously and unconsciously.

For this event a huge array of artists comes together to demonstrate the crucial role that drawing plays in contemporary art and to endorse the Drawing Room as a platform for its presentation and exploration.

-- This boundary - breaking artist has played a crucial role in the development of the art of our time.

Such an essay could never be written about the critics and artists of today: the crucial role of ratification has been almost entirely outsourced to the market — the most successful and expensive artists are entirely critic - proof.

Producing an engrossing selection of paintings and fabricated metal print works, the artist has rendered detailed, abstract portraits to embody the dozens of audio interviews he conducted with those who have played crucial roles in his life.

The Ferus Gallery was a small exhibition space in L.A. that played a crucial role in developing the careers of a number of contemporary artists.

«Sarah Charlesworth: Doubleworld» is the first major survey in New York of the artist's work to date, encompassing an innovative career that played a crucial role in expanding the possibilities of photography and establishing the medium's centrality to contemporary art.