Sentences with word «cubism»

Cubism is a style of art developed in the early 20th century. It involves breaking objects down into geometric shapes, often showing several viewpoints at once. It is called "cubism" because many of the shapes resemble cubes. Full definition
Visitors would as likely find Warhol in cubism as pop.
Her still lifes show kinship to the synthetic cubism of Juan Gris.
The destruction of traditional perspectival space in the picture plane has defined everything from cubism through Ellsworth Kelly and Andy Warhol all the way up to Takashi Murakami at the turn of the millennium, making «flat» one of the prime qualities sought in good, honest painting.
As Williams explains, Diller, born in 1906 in the Bronx, experimented with cubism in the early»30s, as the earliest work in the exhibition, an untitled graphite drawing from 1930, makes clear.
The exhibition also considers ideas that contributed to the development and rejection of later art movements such as cubism, surrealism, pop art, minimalism.
The physical act and process of painting couched in a formal construct is explored by Nola Zirin's thick scraped surfaces, Cecily Kahn's dripping take on cubism, and Marthe Keller's insouciant acrylic washes.
Arshile Gorky's Untitled (Cubist Figure)(c. 1930) is a fascinating experimental work that combines painting and collage elements on paper and responds to the analytic cubism of Picasso and Braque.
During the 1940s his paintings were heavily influenced by cubism.
Echo the painter's passion for cubism with edgy geometrics — patterned ceramics keep things playful.
Krasner, who studied cubism at Cooper Union and then painted murals for the WPA, also studied with Hans Hoffman.
His genres included cubism, constructivism, and neo-primitivism.
Reminiscent of early forms of abstract modern art — a moment of convergence that did not actually occur in art history between cubism, constructivism and neoplasticism — her paintings emerge through a process of layering and accrual, with the finished work being «a concentrate of the many paintings underneath».
The German - American painter Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966) approached abstract painting through cubism and Fauvism.
And they act like it's all about cubism turning into abstract painting and that's what's important.
The surrealism and cubism found in his paintings is also evident in his photography.
Though the exhibition looks to the future of textile work, McIntosh selected work that was in conversation with the art - historical influences like cubism, surrealism, dada, abstract expressionism, color field, and minimalism.
Lawrence called his art style «dynamic cubism,» and, working in the same style, illustrator Myers has captured the vibrant energy, bold hues, and expressionist shapes of Lawrence's work.
They worked alongside each other, exploring cubism before their separation and divorce three years later.
Pollock's friend and patron Alfonso Osorio described what is so unique and compelling about Pollock's work by saying about his artistic journey, «Here I saw a man who had both broken all the traditions of the past and unified them, who had gone beyond cubism, beyond Picasso and surrealism, beyond everything that had happened in art... his work expressed both action and contemplation.»
He comments, «Paradoxically, similar to analytic cubism perhaps, the attempt to understand something in its totality often results in partially obscuring it.
Lee Krasner was an artist who studied cubism at Cooper Union and worked as a painter as part of the New Deal's Federal Art Project.
In the 1950's, Vicente explored collage, integrating the analytical cubism of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris into works that were highly animated.
, propagated a style that blended influences from French cubism and Italian futurism into an independent British modernism.
Mario is classic, iconic, the platform genre as a whole was basically invented by the small mustached man and his red cap; now, Nintendo is literally offering you potentially infinite Mario stages, and more importantly, the ability to create them yourself, like Picasso taking cubism to strange new places.
It had been there for centuries, this yard - show tradition, but almost no one outside the culture knew about it, this not - for - our - eyes cubism, fauvism, expressionism, surrealism, dada, abstract expressionism, pop, minimalism, graffiti, postmodern, neo-this, neo-that, neo-everything.
«Picasso didn't call those paintings cubism.
Then cubism and impressionism started breaking up the picture plane.
In works from the late 1970s and 1980s, he employed a brightly hued palette and fractured cubism to change perspective, and his interest in the works of Picasso and his experiments with Polaroid photography are mirrored in his work of this period.
Rubik's cubism Ernö Rubik, a lecturer at the Academy of Applied Arts and Design in Budapest, Hungary, made the prototype of his famous cube in 1974, as an exercise in design and structural problem solving.
This culotte was perfect for Prague because cubism is a very common style in the city.
When Pablo Picasso said, «I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money,» many people probably wrote the statement off as a bit of verbal cubism and forgot it.
The hotel has been thoughtfully designed by Olga Polizzi in Czech cubism.
Our time and attention are diverted by all mannerism's of American commercialism, movie posters, film clips, book jackets, souvenirs, comic books, propaganda posters, Tiffany glass, vases, craft, sociological display boards, journalism, literature, advertising photography, illustration, social realism, third rate cubism and third rate geometric abstractions.
It was at this point that he and his friend Picasso engaged in a rigorous analysis of form and developed cubism.
Even though I thought that his idea of absoluteness of modern art which gave a logical view of how cubism should be concluded was completely untenable, and I didn't want to paint like him, I still liked the way he painted.
Both Sonia and Robert developed an offshoot of cubism known as Orphism (aka Simultaneism).
Having previously lived under Nazis, followed by the Communist regime and the approved social realism he studied at college, Baselitz knew almost nothing about German expressionism, dadaism, surrealism or even cubism.
Then de Kooning swoops in with his explosive cubism.
Maludi works to find an alternate approach to geometric shapes and collage, having coined his own style: monochromatic cubism, symbiotic quantum.
She attended Bennington College in Vermont, where she was exposed to cubism under artist Paul Feeley.
Works from this period, 1948 - 1954, represent Caziel's departure from figuratively informed cubism, and the start of his search for a new abstract language.
«Common to them was an attempt to rationalize cubism or, as they felt was necessary, to correct its aberrations.
Braque famously worked alongside Pablo Picasso as the two developed the new style of cubism around 1910.
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