Sentences with phrase «development of modern art»

Voulkos» practice arose out of a significant moment in American art: At the same time that critic Clement Greenberg was tracking the self - critical development of modern art to the Abstract Expressionist painters, the G.I. Bill was transforming university art education.

His extensive theoretical work that was based on contentions that color, rather than form, is the primary medium of pictorial language, directed development of modern art during the 1950's and 1960's in the United States.

He intended to pursue a career in banking and even enrolled in an executive training program at the Chemical Bank New York Trust, but in a sudden reversal that Buck would later attribute to Fred Licht's course «The Development of Modern Art: From Goya to the Present,» which he took in college, he decided to study art history at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University instead.

Lawrence Alloway Lawrence Alloway (1926 — 1990) was a key figure in the development of modern art in Europe and America, maintaining a prolific output as an art critic and curator.

In 1951, her work was exhibited alongside that of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Hans Hoffman in the celebrated «Ninth Street Show,» which marked the ascendancy of Abstract Expressionism within the development of modern art.

This major exhibition considers how Scottish artists absorbed and responded to the development of modern art in the first half of the 20th century.

Night Vision: Nocturnes in American Art explores the critical importance of nocturnal imagery in the development of modern art by bringing together 90 works in a range of media — including paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, and sculptures — created by such leading American artists as Ansel Adams, Charles Burchfield, Winslow Homer, Lee Krasner, Georgia O'Keeffe, Albert Ryder, John Sloan, Edward Steichen, and Andrew Wyeth, among others.

Aram's paintings reveal the essential role that ornament played in the development of Modern art in the West.

It was he who first proposed an exhibition at the Museum that would reveal the influence of El Greco on the development of modern art.

As photographer, critic, dealer and theorist, Stieglitz had a decisive influence on the development of modern art in America during the early 20th century.

How a master of postwar art (Jasper Johns), a key critic (Max Kozloff), and a sculptor crucial to the development of modern art (Medardo Rosso) could meet

The exhibition reveals the remarkable yet relatively unknown response by Scottish artists to the development of modern art in the first half of the 20th Century.

By considering him alongside the likes of Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso, and illuminating his transition from representation to abstraction, the exhibition looks at Piper's pivotal role in the development of modern art in Britain — and also shows how his work connected to early art forms including stained glass and stone carving.

The magazine highlighted key moments in the development of Modern Art, such as the Carnegie International Exhibition in 1937, A.E. Gallatin's Museum of Living Art in 1938, the Museum of Modern Art's roundtable on Modern Art featuring 15 major art critics in 1958, The Downtown Gallery founded by Edith Halpert, and The Jewish Museum's Primary Structures exhibition in 1967.

In 1995, CoBrA's importance to the development of modern art was cemented with the founding of the CoBrA Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam.

The celebrated art prize has had a substantial influence on the development of modern art in Britain, including the rise of the Young British Artists movement.

Drawing a connection between the development of Modern Art and Living History, particularly as part of research she conducted on the Rockefeller family, who built the Museum of Modern Art and Colonial Williamsburg simultaneously, Smith traces alternate lineages of abstract art and social practices through common everyday things of the past.

I thought this would enhance the art and learning experience for our guests, and offer them the rare opportunity to explore the development of modern art from the late 19th century to the present.

For the understanding of the development of Modern Art, one needs to understand the root of knowledge, and as such this book is an excellent guide to the masterpieces of England's art.

A short and lively essay by Carolyn Lanchner, a former curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum, accompanies each work, illuminating its significance and placing it in its historical moment in the development of Modern art and the artist's own life.

Structure is a key characteristic of modernism, and paintings made by Folinsbee during this period reveal him to be much more engaged in the development of modern art in America than has been previously thought.

The emergence of abstraction was a key process in the development of modern art.

Through his activities as a photographer, critic, dealer, and theorist, Alfred Stieglitz had a decisive influence on the development of modern art in America during the early twentieth century.

Cubism was absorbed in Italy by the exponents of futurism (c. 1909 — c. 1915) and in Germany by the Blaue Reiter group (1911 — 14); both these movements were cut short by the advent of World War I. Fauvism and cubism were introduced by members of the Eight to a generally shocked American audience in the Armory Show of 1913, and from then on Americans began to participate significantly in the development of modern art (see American art).

Mangolds» work will have a lasting impression on the development of modern art in America and the world over.

With his figurative, narrative style of painting and his choice of subjects, Spencer has contributed significantly to the development of modern art.

Drawing from the collection of the Neuberger Museum of Art, When Modern Was Contemporary: Selections from the Roy R. Neuberger Collection surveys the development of modern art in the U.S., from representational modes in the early years of the twentieth century through the Abstract Expressionist revolution at midcentury.

Modern art begins with the heritage of painters like Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat and Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec all of whom were essential for the development of modern art.

There is something about the margins that perpetually fascinates, and work exploring this has had an impact upon the development of modern art that can not be understated.

During the 1950s and 1960s, St Ives became famous for its abstract sculpture (exemplified by Hepworth), and its abstract paintings, which had a major impact on the development of modern art in Britain.

Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 75) The greatest twentieth century female sculptor, Hepworth was a huge influence on the development of modern art in general and abstract sculpture in particular - notably biomorphic abstraction.

Today De Kooning is considered a major influence in the development of modern art, especially semi-abstract art, and his paintings sell for huge sums.

And the one art course he took at Williams — «The Development of Modern Art: From Goya to the Present,» taught by Fred Licht, now a curator at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice — had left an impression so enduring that he abandoned banking to pursue a master's degree in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and make museums his career.

They quickly became good friends seeing each other frequently in France and Spain in the following years, a crucial period in the development of modern art.

This exhibition focuses especially on drawings, shown alongside important paintings, sculptures, and prints, to highlight the crucial role that process and materials played in the experimentation and development of modern art.

African masks, collected since the beginning of the 20th century in particular, and considered to have greatly influenced the development of modern art through the primitivism movement, continue to fascinate the Western world to this day.

Bringing together 50 iconic works by more than 40 influential artists, many recognized as the who's who of Modernism, this exhibit at Denver Art Museum brings masterpieces from Albright - Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY that illustrate the development of modern art.

A huge influence on the development of modern art in America, he was the first to work in metal, and his synthesis of Cubism and Surrealism into a highly personal style bought a new dimension to Abstract Expressionism.

Along with her contemporaries Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982), Naum Gabo (1890 - 1977), and Henry Moore (1898 - 1986), Hepworth was a huge influence on the development of modern art in general and abstract sculpture in particular - especially biomorphic abstraction.