Sentences with word «dadaist»

Koh's performances and installations have been linked to the durational performances of Marina Abramovic as well as the antics of Dadaist provocateurs of the early twentieth century.

Max Ernst started out as Dadaist in Cologne,...

Surrealism exhibits held in Europe during the 1920s and early 1930s featured both figurative and biomorphic styles, as well as works that might be classified as Dadaist.

This project revolves around the story of Laure Prouvost's grandfather, a prolific conceptual artist and close friend of famous German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters.

At the very least, Henry Codax has firmly aligned himself — or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he has been firmly aligned — with a tradition of fictional and pseudonymous artists that includes French Dadaist Marcel Duchamp masquerading as a woman named Rrose Selavy and the artist Richard Prince and dealer Colin de Land reportedly making work under the name John Dogg.

Materially reflecting the complexities of individual and collective identity, Les guérillères XII also evokes the uncanny formal ruptures employed by Dadaist artists in the aftermath of World War I. Perret's figure in repose occupies the time and space between action and inaction; whilst guns pose a key threat to societies of our time, here this cast resin gun is candy - like, fetishised, temporarily immobilised yet still harbouring potential.

Rosalind Jacobs» lifelong friendships with many of the iconic artists of the Surrealist and Dadaist movements resulted in an amazing collection of works by Rene Magritte, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, and most substantially, Man Ray.

Drawing from Dadaist techniques, this work proposes a form of Little Theatre: objects are actors that perform and are performed by conditions and chance occurrence.

The Spanish artist Cuixart has, after a visit to New York, spoken with great indignation about how these artists only create Dadaist works «formally.»

Dr. Richard Huelsenbeck, the Berlin dadaist who had subsequently become a psychiatrist in New York, introduced Tinguely to a crowd of like - minded postmodernist artists, including Rauschenberg, Stankiewicz, and Chamberlain, to cheer him on.

Third, again like Dadaists, he believed that the idea behind a work of art was more important than the work itself - a belief he held in common with the growing Conceptual art movement.

Today he is best known as an irreverent Dadaist who, like no other artist before him, created a body of work that defies consistency and categorization, ranging as it does from Impressionist landscapes to abstraction, from paintings of machines to photo - based nudes, and from performance and film to poetry and publishing.

Critics have even cited Dadaist influences on the punk rock movement of the 1970s.

The gallery also has a traveling exhibition titled «Schwitters Miró Arp,» that brings together works by renowned European Dadaists Kurt Schwitters, Joan Miró and Hans Arp.

Nauman's Clown Torture videos borrow Dadaist ideas about the procedures and operations of art making, but as Joanna Drucker describes, that is where their fine art referential ends: «The imagery and iconography of (Nauman's) work comes from a banal world of mass meditation, pop's playroom of neon and lettering.

For Cutting Out The New York Times (1977/2015), O'Grady reticulates snippets of the newspaper into Dadaist poems.

The art quotes describe the revolting attitude of several famous Dadaist artists in and around Dada, like Hans / Jean Arp, Kurt Schwitters and Theo van Doesburg.

Possible associations include Dadaist sculpture and linear abstract painting.

Following the selection, it will be a discussion about the dialogue between the original Dadaist films and their contemporary counterparts, as well as delving into the reasons why Dadaism was originally created, and why in today's political climate, filmmakers, curators and audiences alike still see Dadaism as relevant.

Mr. Castellani was working in Milan, where he was close to Piero Manzoni, an artist with a more Dadaist approach.

Using found domestic objects such as shoes or irons as a means of mark making or as sculptural elements, Willie Cole adopts dadaist strategies of appropriation and assemblage to political representations of marginalized identities.

Informed by Georg Wilhelm Hegel's Philosophy of Nature, Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830), Barton anatomises orchids with splayed legs which are set against hallucinatory resonant patterns that recall Dadaist photomontages.

Though it's an act of vandalism, graffiti is also regarded as an artistic style, as much a contemporary statement as the early Dadaists painting on urinals to make bold statements against World War I.

Already an accomplished cartoonist and illustrator, Bearden immediately began further study with former Dadaist George Grosz at the Art Students League.

Known by his nom de plume CPLY, he was a self - taught artist pushing the limits of art - world decorum, as well as a collector, gallerist and connector of some of the most important artists of the 20th century, in particular European Surrealists and Dadaists such as Max Ernst, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp, and American Pop artists.

[4] However, several of the original Dadaists denounced the label Neo-Dada, especially in its U.S. manifestations, on the grounds that the work was derivative rather than making fresh discoveries; that aesthetic pleasure was found in what were originally protests against bourgeois aesthetic concepts; and because it pandered to commercialism.

The late paintings of Marcel Duchamp's friend and fellow Dadaist Francis Picabia (1879 - 1953) are resurrected every few decades as harbingers of the newest trends in art.

Signer's Dadaist love of the absurd can be seen in artworks as diverse as Cap with Rocket (1983)-- in which the artist lights the fuse on a rocket and waits tensely until it shoots high into the air, taking his hat with it — and an enigmatic Table (1994) floating off the coast of Iceland, blithely unaware of its sublime surroundings.

Like latter day Dadaists andTaoists, Theo Michael and Sofia Borges seek to disengage art from language so that a viewer can experience a mental state of «no mind.»

And his detractors were not wrong when they said that he could be bombastic, a man whose understandable impatience with bland formalist abstraction and the art world's ever - growing anti-art Dadaist shenanigans led him to sentimentalize the virtues of a return to representational painting, as if some particular style could save the day.

If there is any one thing that distinguishes Dieter Roth's anarchic dadaist assemblages from all else that has come on the scene since, it is that their inflection of a radical practice is coextensive with Roth's own life.

Moreover, the French avant - garde - perhaps due to its entrenched Communist Party - had a more political flavour and thus took a more Dadaist line encouraging audience participation in their preferred Performance, Happenings and Conceptual art under the umbrella term of Nouveau Realisme (c.1960 - 70).

Jean Arp (1886 - 1966) French Dadaist, Surrealist, organic abstraction sculptor, painter, collage artist.

Many of his previous shows have felt like incredible, offbeat, anarchic versions of the very best in political cartoons or Dadaist reinterpretations of popular culture, with titles such as Sticks and Drones and Ebony and Benghazi.

These stories include Heinrich Vogeler's path to the Soviet Union, Dadaist Tomoyoshi Murayama's sojourn in Berlin in the 1920s, and the collaborations between Nicolás García Uriburu and Joseph Beuys.

Like latter day Dadaists andTaoists, Theo Michael and Sofia Borges seek to disengage art from language so that a viewer can experience a mental state...

The new group exhibition at Various Small Fires, Artificial Complexion, is inspired by the work of poet / artist / bohemian Baroness Elsa von Freytag - Loringhoven, an influential Dadaist figure who collaborated frequently with Man Ray and may have conceived Marcel Duchamp's infamous Fountain.

The Polkes later settled in Düsseldorf, which proved to be an excellent incubator for a budding artist: it was the location of the first postwar Dadaist exhibition in 1958 and in the 1960s a local commercial gallery began showing the work of Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly.

In 1919, when the playful Dadaist drew a mustache and goatee on a postcard of the Mona Lisa and named it L.H.O.O.Q., he opened a giant can of double - edged laughter that clearly has yet to die down.