Sentences with phrase «earlier abstract sculpture»

It can, for example, lead one to appreciate how «fussy» some earlier abstract sculpture is.

Szapocznikow would later recall how people struggled to square her earlier abstract sculpture, «so big, so ugly», with their maker, who in photographs looks chic, petite and playful.

As with some of the earlier abstract sculptures downstairs, there's even something vaguely human about the shape when viewed vertically.

Barbara Hepworth, sculptor whose works were among the earliest abstract sculptures produced in England.

Not exact matches

It includes paint on canvas and bronze sculptures, both staples of earlier abstract art.

This exhibition focuses on her early abstract metal sculptures and paintings as a starting point for future examination of a long and continuously inventive career.

Working across large - scale woodcuts, gouache paintings, so called «typewriter drawings» and ceramic sculptures, their uniquely carnivalesque visual language combines influences from traditional folk art and abstract art from the early 20th century European avant - garde.

The National Portrait Gallery, meanwhile, looks at the origins of art photography via the work of four celebrated figures of the Victorian era, and Tate Modern takes things further with Shape of Light, which entwines the histories of photography and abstract art from the early 20th century to now and positions work by the likes of Man Ray and Thomas Ruff against abstract paintings, sculptures and installations.

Robert Murray has been investigating the possibilities of large - scale abstract sculpture since the early 1960s.

Some of the earliest works by Christo and Jeanne - Claude were «wrappings» in which the artists wrapped a variety of objects in tightly bound fabric, creating abstract sculptures out of everyday items.

An early 20th - century school of painting and sculpture in which the subject matter is portrayed by geometric forms without realistic detail, stressing abstract form at the expense of other pictorial elements largely by use of intersecting often transparent cubes and cones.

Born in the segregated South in the 1930s, Edwards has created innovative, abstract welded - steel sculptures since the early 1960s.

Starting from the early experiments of the beginning of the 20th century to recent digital innovations, the show will examine the history of abstract photography side - by - side with seminal paintings and sculptures.

Inside, though, I found an early — and slightly gauche — digital video thudding away on the gallery's biggest wall, a huge, dressing screen - like sculpture created from a grid of metal bars, and, best of all, an ingenious series of abstract paintings created from bathroom tiles and coloured grouting.

In this survey, organized by acting Kunsthalle director Margrit Brehm, Armleder's early works will be re-created and documented alongside a selection of abstract canvases and «furniture sculptures» — both of which play on the utopian seriousness of Russian Constructivism.

Greatly influenced by the influx of European surrealist artists who emmigrated to the United States after World War II, Bourgeois's early sculpture was composed of groupings of abstract and organic shapes, often carved from wood.

His early works are great, but we could do without the years of globby abstract wall sculptures.

Her essay situates Kusama's work in the context of European abstract painting, and discusses the remarkable new silkscreens and sculptures in relation to Kusama's earlier practice.

At the University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery, a retrospective of Seattle - born artist Doris Totten Chase (1923 — 2008) pairs her early abstract paintings and wood sculpture with her experimental computer - animated works of the 1970s and 1980s, which she made after moving to New York at age fifty - two.

Celebrating his life as an artist, this expansive exhibition (organized by Douglas Fogle, former chief curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles) presents a selection of Mr. Melotti's work, featuring his early, somewhat - surreal figurative ceramics and his later abstract, brass sculptures, which portray political and theatrical subjects.

Considerably more abstract than much of Warren's previous work in this medium — though perhaps even more overtly sensual — they recall a whole tradition of manually expressive sculpture, from the early ceramics of Lucio Fontana through Willem de Kooning's bronzes and those of William Tucker to Franz West's plaster «Passstucke.»

«She set herself up a project early on, which was to explore materials, whether metal or polyurethane or rubber or glitter, and to test the boundaries of abstract sculpture,» Ms. Hoptman said.

The Krasner's woody gray and rose verticals almost cry out for the company of some of Louise Bourgeois's totemic sculptures from the early 1950s, which may be the most innovatively abstract and expressionist of postwar American sculptures.

In the ensuing years Serra's huge, curved, torqued, space - enclosing, and space - defining steel sculptures, best experienced not by simply looking at them, but by wandering through and around them, have become extremely popular and are widely thought to be among the most significant abstract sculptures of the late 20th and early 21st cent.

Perhaps more than any other sculptor of his generation, he made manifest in his sculpture of the early 50's the whole, abstract and essentially non-Cubist space that was being developed by the Abstract Expressionist painters.

Early in his career he used rocks as the material for abstract sculptures but the late 1990s, he shifted gears, adopting two motifs for which he's now widely known: dinosaurs and the Mao jacket.

Heizer's early works included a number of more conventional abstract paintings and sculptures, but he evidently soon found New York constraining.

Is the «complexity» which is now sought in abstract painting and sculpture some sort of response to those disqualifications posing as real art, since it grows out of the earlier» simplified era??

Croisière (French for «cruise») was among his earliest abstract works, shown at Calder's first exhibition of abstract sculpture at the Galerie Percier in Paris in 1931.

Following this line of thought, the Canadian artist's three - dimensional works and paintings cast him as a pure maker of abstract sculptures and surfaces that supposedly date from early - to mid-1960s Italy.

The first major 20th century British sculpture exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts for 30 years is set to take place early next year.The survey will be a chronological tour to» represent a unique view of the development of British sculpture» Works have been chosen to highlight the artists» figurative and abstract choices, comparing works such as Phillip King's Genghis Khan and Edwin Lutyens's Cenotaph.

The influx of European Surrealist artists who immigrated to the United States after World War II greatly influenced Bourgeois in her early sculpture, composed of abstract and organic shapes, often carved from wood.

His breakthrough came in the early 1960s with a series of steel abstract sculptures, which were credited with changing the face of the art form in Britain.

The Tate Modern show features Ms. Choucair's early abstract paintings and her sculptures — created in wood, metal, stone and fiberglass — from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Hepworth began working in the same abstract manner from the early 1930s onwards, which was un-fashionably early for abstract sculpture in England.

The earliest example of a series of abstract sculptures representing the tension of points almost touching.

Ipoustéguy gradually moved towards figurative work, and some of his early sculptures were abstracted heads in bronze, such as Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc, 1957), Roger Binne (1959), Homme qui rit (Man who laughs, 1960), and Tete de mort (Skull, 1961).

His earliest works on paper explore forms and colors for his abstract sculptures, as seen in the Specimen drawings of the early 1960s.

There, he exhibited large abstract sculptures, such as Early One Morning (1962), which were brightly painted and stood directly on the ground to engage the spectator on a one - to - one basis.

Since the early 1980s, the celebrated British - born sculptor Tony Cragg (born 1949) has demonstrated a virtuoso handling of a range of materials — marble, wood, glass, bronze and fiberglass — first exploring figurative and then abstract sculpture.

From the first major U.S. exhibition of long - overlooked abstract painter Hilma af Klint and the biggest U.K. show of pioneering video artist Joan Jonas, to the passionate paintings of early 20th century Viennese modernist Egon Schiele and the world's first space sculpture by contemporary artist Trevor Paglen, here are 12 shows opening across the globe — and beyond — that you won't want to miss.

Ironically it was during the 1930s, when Moore's work was so violently attacked in the press, that he and his contemporaries Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982) and Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 75) were laying the foundations of abstract sculpture in England - the new Modernism - after the earlier innovations of the bohemian Jacob Epstein (1880 — 1959).

Her early sculpture was composed of groupings of abstract and organic shapes, often carved from wood.

Since the early 1990s, Tam Van Tran has been producing an impressive body of work comprising abstract paintings, mixed - media collages, ceramic tiles, and sculpture.

The dealer investigated further and discovered that the Polish artist, born in 1930, had been a friend of Alina Szapocznikow — a major artist for the gallery — in the «60s and was still alive and working on a series of extraordinary neo-primativist head sculptures that she had begun decades earlier, and which had become larger and more abstract over time.

an early abstract wood sculpture by Alexander Archipenko that had slipped through an auction in Maryland two years earlier for $ 425.

Though some of her designs in that period dismayed admirers of her earlier, abstract creations, her sculptures were so popular in San Francisco that residents dubbed her the «fountain lady.»

Claire Falkenstein began working in abstract sculpture in the early 1930s.

Works of the Early 1960s consists of a selection of gestural abstract oil paintings from Zajac's moving series depicting the deposition of Christ and two bronze sculptures from his equally touching and well known series of sacrificial goats.

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