Sentences with phrase «cubist painting»

Picasso thought of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon as not just his first cubist painting but also as his first exorcism painting, intended to exorcise his fears of contracting venereal disease in brothels.

While in Paris, he immersed himself in the paintings of Cezanne (1839 - 1906), and attended the salon of Leo and Gertrude Stein, where he met modern artists from the Ecole de Paris (Paris School), including Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973), the Cubist theorist Juan Gris (1887 - 1927), and Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) whose Cubist painting Nude Descending Staircase (1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art) caused such a scandal at the 1913 Armory Show in New York.

He at first painted what he saw, which ranged from Meeting Place (1930), a swap meet scene, and The Yellow Hat (1936), a formal Cubist painting, to Dispossessed (1940), an eviction scene, and Jazz Musicians (1948), a visual depiction of the bebop that was being played in Harlem.

The Russian - American sculptor and teacher Alexan der Archipenko (1887 - 1964) was an innovator in translating the elements of cubist painting into sculptural form.

The bold, simplified forms of the matchbox, safety razor, and fountain pen showcase Gerald Murphy's training in mechanical drawing, as well as his interest in the flattened space of cubist painting.

Picabia's fragmented Cubist painting Dances at the Spring (1912) was compared to a patchwork quilt.

For Greenberg there were only two polarities of culture: serious high modernist art, such as Eliot's poetry or a cubist painting, versus the vacuous art preferred by the majority, including pop music and the paintings of Norman Rockwell.

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Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906) Marked by the use of geometrical shapes, and new relationships between colours - and between form and space - Cezanne's later landscapes (and still lifes) exerted a major influence on Early Cubist Painting (c.1907 - 9).

But I wanted to go my own way — I needed to explore abstraction born of my admiration for Arab symmetry and Cubist painting.

Divided into: Proto - Cubist Painting (pre-1908); Analytical Cubism (1908 - 12); Synthetic Cubism (1912 - 14).

Note: despite its monochrome palette and emotional neutrality, analytic Cubist painting could swing from melancholy (Picasso's Seated Nude (1909 - 10) Tate Gallery) to sensuousness (Girl with a Mandolin (1910) private collection).

Georges Braque (1882 - 1963) Noted for his Cezanne - inspired early Cubist painting (see, for instance, his Estaque landscapes), and his Cubist - style still life painting as well as his experimental collages.

He was impressed by the strong structure of Cubist painting, but declared that it lacked life when compared to Futurist art.

Beyond this, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon — as the first Cubist painting — and Picasso's works of the 1920s and 1930s — in which he combines harsh Cubist elements with wide, gentle, and rounded curves — have been stimulating responses among artists for generations.

It might not be a very good Cubist painting.

«I like to say, you can teach someone to make a Cubist painting.

Abstract expressionism, by its nature, is an individual response to something specific — an experience, a person, a memory, a literary work, the season, the time of day: «You can paint a cubist painting by formula and it might not be a very good cubist painting, but you can not paint an abstract expressionist by formula.»

Her style owes something to the «tubism» of Fernand Leger (1881 - 1955), a variant of Cubist painting which emphasizes cylindrical shapes, yet it retains a distinctive streamlined and modern elegance.

Georges Braque (1882 - 1963)(Proto - Cubist Painting & Analytical Cubism)- The Pedestal Table (Still Life w. Violin)(1911, Centre Georges Pompidou)- The Portugese (1911, Kunstsammlung, Basel)

He picks up a picture of one such tattoo — over a woman's entire neck — and holds it against a reproduction of a cubist painting by Juan Gris.

Helena Newman, the worldwide co-head of Impressionist and Modern Art for Sotheby's, had presided over the first sale of the spring season in London last week, bringing $ 63.7 million for Picasso's «Femme Assise» (1909), the most expensive Cubist painting ever sold at auction.

Plus: Roman coins discovered in Devon shed new light on empire Clara Drummond wins BP Portrait Award Contemporary Art Society and Frieze launch acquisition fund for UK museums State Hermitage Museum to open Barcelona outpost Picasso's Femme Assise sets record for Cubist painting at Sotheby's and Art Cologne reschedules due to clash with Berlin Gallery Weekend

Picasso's Femme Assise sets auction record for Cubist painting Picasso's 1909 work Femme Assise sold for $ 63.7 million at Sotheby's London yesterday, becoming the most expensive Cubist painting ever sold at auction.

This work, along with La Ville de Paris (City of Paris) by Robert Delaunay, was the largest and most ambitious Cubist painting undertaken during the pre-War Cubist period.

«It has been decades since a Cubist painting of this calibre has been offered at auction,» says Sotheby's Helen Newman.

After some years Cubism - practice Delaunay refused to use the rather rigid and very limited color - method in Cubist painting art any longer.

This is a series of powerpoints 5 lessons for students to learn to paint a Cubist painting using a celebrity picture and complementary colours.

As we've already been told, the pilgrim along this pathway moves among «shifting and elusive conceptions of goodness and truth»» the moral equivalent of one of those spiraling, pulsating screen - saver images, or a cubist painting in random, perpetual motion.

Of course, outside Germany some world - shattering things were going on as well: in Paris, Braque's and Picasso's cubist paintings and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, which brought on a riot at its premiere; in Bologna, Marconi's experiments with radio waves; at Kitty Hawk, the Wright brothers» first flight.

B - Being John Malkovich: The Criterion Collection Rated R for language and sexuality Available on DVD and Blu - ray I can imagine the time when people first got a look at Picasso's first cubist paintings and what their thoughts might have been.

From non-art affectionados Picasso's cubist paintings or simple line sketches may elicit comments such as «any kid could have drawn that.»

Gertrude Stein referred to landscapes made by Picasso in 1909, such as Reservoir at Horta de Ebro, as the first Cubist paintings.

One thing I see, standing in Sam's outsider boots, is that Mark's sculpture kind of looks the same as Robin's or Anthony's or Katherine Gili's — the same in the way a lot of Picasso's and Braque's cubist paintings kind of look the same.

The bright, slick Synthetic Cubist paintings by their contemporary, Stuart Davis, hold their own against the Picassos in this show.

He is well known for sculptures that look like 3 - d cubist paintings and for striking mobiles.

The early part of the collection features French and Russian art from the beginning of the twentieth century, cubist paintings and superb holdings of expressionist and modern British art.

On its 100th anniversary, we will celebrate the Cubist paintings and sculptures in its galleries with an exhibition curated by Andrianna Campbell and Daniel S. Palmer featuring 27 contemporary artists at Henry Street Settlement's Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand St, NYC).

Visions of Modernity presents highlights from the individual compilations of these six collectors, ranging from the Cubist paintings of Picasso and Gris and abstractions by Kandinsky, Schwitters, and Mondrian to Modigliani's nudes and Calder's mobiles.

In MacConnel's well documented trip to Western and sub-Saharan Africa in 1989, he speaks of how he went «in search of Picasso's ghost;» meaning he researched the African tribal masks and traditions that Picasso incorporated in his own tribal art and cubist paintings like Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

The gift of 79 excellent Cubist paintings, drawings and sculptures received from Leonard A. Lauder last year, was certainly an opportunity to ponder over the improved structure that would present the existing collection more effectively and lure more donated works of art from collectors and donors.

Their linear character and open spaces call to mind classic, monochromatic Cubist paintings of 1911 — 12.

Cubist paintings were based on things in the visible world.

In addition to its collections of Old Masters, its Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Expressionist and Cubist paintings, as well as works of Constructivism, Dadaism and Surrealism, the museum maintains an impressive holding of contemporary and postmodernist art, by Swiss, German, Italian, and American artists, such as Joseph Beuys, Georg Baselitz, A.R. Penck, Walter Dahn, Martin Disler, Siegfried Anzinger, Rosemarie Trockel, Robert Gober, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Brice Marden, Bruce Nauman, Jonathan Borofsky, Francesco Clemente, Mimmo Paladino, Enzo Cucchi, and others.

They also organised exhibitions of Post-Impressionist and Cubist paintings.

Analytical Cubist paintings duly became more and more fragmented and their content increasingly abstract.

When you get a bit closer the space in the photos becomes more apparent, it reminds me of the space in a cubist paintings now.

He had relatively little interest in Analytic Cubism, but was particularly interested in Picasso's flat, richly painted, and deeply colored Synthetic Cubist paintings of the 1920s.

Impressionists, expressionists, cubists all painted the same yet they were individuals.

Initially influenced by Toulouse - Lautrec, Gauguin and other late 19th century innovators, Pablo Picasso made his first cubist paintings based on Cézanne's idea that all depiction of nature can be reduced to three solids: cube, sphere and cone.