But Hammons» use of the evanescent has a far broader agenda than similar attempts by
earlier artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Richard Tuttle who utilised materials to challenge elitist conceptions of what constitutes a work of art.
Wall's photographic works are compared with those of
earlier artists such as Diego Velázquez, Jan Vermeer, Claude Monet and Marcel Duchamp.
As a young artist he was very much drawn to color and has cited influences by the work of Josef Alberts, Frank Stella and
earlier artists such as Piet Mondrian.
Self - portraits by other artists are also examined, including works by Sarah Lucas, Maud Sulter and Donald Rodney that challenge conventional stereotypes, contrasted with more traditional self - portraits by
earlier artists such as David Bomberg and Mark Gertler.
These include British contemporaries such as Frank Dobson (1886 - 1963), Jacob Epstein (1880 - 1959), Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975) and Leon Underwood (1890 - 1975); the European avant - gardes, for example Alexander Archipenko (1887 - 1964), Constantin Brancusi (1876 - 1957), Henri Gaudier - Brzeska (1891 - 1915) and Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973);
earlier artists such as Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917) and Michelangelo (1475 - 1564); examples of African, Aztec and Cycladic art from the British Museum; and publications which Moore studied as a student and young artist.
The first one, practiced by Li Sixun, the court painter, and his son Li Zhaodao, employed the meticulous and decorative manner of painting using precise line technique, inspired by
the earlier artists such as Zhan Ziqian and Gu Kaizhi.
Furthermore, Handforth's monumental sculptures are reminiscent of
earlier artists such as Claes Oldenburg, who also enlarged familiar objects in his art, while the painted and bent metals can resemble the crashed cars by John Chamberlain.
Not exact matches
This attitude enabled original programming
such as «Behind the Music» and «The Real World» to eventually blossom and gave
artists like Michael Jackson, Madonna and Prince a national stage at
early points in their careers.
Starbucks has also become a champion of emerging
artists such as John Legend, Madeleine Peyroux and Fleet Foxes, introducing customers to these musicians at an
early point in their careers.
Many
artists,
such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Correggio, trained and completed some
earlier work in Florence.
The
artist's eye — interpreting data from probes
such as NASA's Cassini, which is now exploring the Saturnian system, and MESSENGER, which has flown by Mercury three times and goes into permanent orbit next March — allows us an
early visit to these unforgettable locales.
Explores how attitudes have changed throughout history, from
early medical drawings, 19th - century paintings, anatomical models and cultural artefacts, to works by
artists such as Damien Hirst, Helen Chadwick and Wim Delvoye.
From his
early days as a fresh and creative music video director for
artists such as Fatboy Slim, The Beastie Boys, and Björk, Spike Jonze has continued his unique style and original approach with his feature length films, effectively carving out niche in the film industry for himself.
Gus Van Sant's Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot was one
such film, earning warm
early reviews; the biopic about
artist John Callahan stars Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, and Rooney Mara, a triple axel of awards - bait talent.
Bill Pohlad, a producer who has overseen
such films as Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild, Tree of Life, and 12 Years a Slave, as well as the musically inclined biopic The Runaways, makes his directorial debut (technically a sophomore effort as his original debut was canned in the
early 1990s) with a biopic of The Beach Boys» Brian Wilson that, while not a perfect film, is an interesting and sometimes illuminating portrait of an
artist as a young and older man.
In the
early 1990s, as a young
artist out of graduate school at Bennington College in Vermont, where he studied the work of mainstream abstract painters
such as Helen Frankenthaler and Kenneth Noland, Odita got a job at Kenkeleba House in New York, owned by the painter Joe Overstreet, who collected and showed work by African American
artists.
Earlier this year «System and Vision» at David Zwirner, in cooperation with Berlin's Galerie Susanne Zander, examined the obsessive work of vernacular
artists such as Morton Bartlett, a doll maker who photographed his creepy creations; Prophet Royal Robertson, an
artist of brimstone - burnt apocalyptic fervor; and George Widener, a living
artist whose mixed - media pieces entail complex mathematical and calendrical calculations.
French
artist Caroline Achaintre's visually striking, witty ceramic sculptures and hand - tufted wall hangings bring together a whole host of references
such as catwalk fashion, carnival, and death - metal iconography, as well as Primitivism and Expressionism —
early twentieth - century Western art movements that borrowed heavily from non-Western and prehistoric imagery to find new ways of representing the modern world.
Younger than this generation, all of whom were born in the
early 1930s, and were undoubtedly affected by the horrors of World War II, Farrell shares something with the reductive impulses that are central to Minimalist
artists such as Robert Ryman, Brice Marden and, to a lesser degree the Radical Painting of Marcia Hafif.
Some of these
artists are now well established,
such as Amy Cutler, others are
early in their careers,
such as Ellen Lesperance, who is currently exhibiting her intricate works on paper and objects at Ambach & Rice in Los Angeles.
Colen emerged onto the New York art scene in the
early 2000s alongside
artists such as Dash Snow and Ryan McGinley.
From the
early days I juxtaposed established
artists such as Michelangelo Pistoletto with someone like Felix Gonzalez - Torres when he was totally unknown.
The collection also includes works by
early African American
artists Robert Duncanson and Edmonia Lewis, and contemporary figures
such as Alvin Loving, Kerry James Marshall, and Julie Mehretu.
Additionally, Tyler's paintings are reminiscent of the work from past
artists such as the simplified geometric grids of Piet Mondrian's later work, color field paintings of Mark Rothko and the
early abstract expressionistic work by Philip Guston.
It presents 19
early modernist works by
artists such as Alexander Calder, Jacques Lipchitz, Isamu Noguchi, and Auguste Rodin.
In the late 1930s and
early 1940s in pieces
such as «PH - 313» (1942), the
artist starts to move «closer to his abstract expressionist style,» says Dean Sobel, director of the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver.
In addition to the founding stories of the RA and PAFA, this exhibition recognizes the other
artist - founders of PAFA, West's role as the teacher of eighteenth - and
early - nineteenth - century American
artists, and the development of monumental history paintings
such as Christ Rejected and Death on the Pale Horse.
The exhibition begins with works by
early Minimalist
artists such as Sol LeWitt and Carl Andre; drawings by conceptual
artists Lawrence Weiner, William Wegman, and Mark di Suvero, among others; and continues with recently celebrated
artists Fiona Banner, Teresita Fernandez, Jutta Koether, and Tracey Emin.
Alongside significant
early works
such as Me, Jesus and the Children (2001 — 2003)-- a photorealist painting of the
artist's chest, overlaid with cartoon cherubs and floating speech bubbles — the exhibition features paintings from Colen's long - running «Gum» and «Trash» series.
Geometric abstraction boasts a rich history that dates back to the
early 20th century and
such artists as Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian.
Other highlights include Fawn and Snag, two remarkable bronze works from 1944, and
earlier works
such as the untitled brightly coloured standing mobile from around 1942 that Calder gifted to his good friend, the
artist Jean Hélion.
The Arts Council memorial exhibition that opened a year later — largely due to the efforts of the
artist's widow, Lilian Holt, Joanna Drew of the Arts Council and the critic Andrew Forge — commenced the reappraisal of Bomberg's work, although the show was an uneven account of his career, entirely omitting the monumental
early works
such as In the Hold and The Mud Bath.
While
early practitioners
such as Robert Mangold embraced a minimal sensibility, the next generation of
artists such as Elizabeth Murray and Ralph Humphrey further evolved the practice; Murray's canvases are explosive and energetic, and Humphrey's paintings are tactile, with thick and textured surfaces.
Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture at the Parrish Art Museum features 57 photographs by
artists who range from
early modern architectural photographers
such as Berenice Abbott, Samuel H. Gottscho, and Julius Shulman, to contemporary photographers like Iwan Baan, James Casebere, Thomas Demand, Andreas Gursky, and Hiroshi Sugimoto.
Also featured in the exhibition will be a series of paintings based on memorabilia from the American punk scene of the 1970 - 80s and other works that use
early Modernism as a starting point to address topics
such as fascism, sex and boredom, which the
artist likens to «Suprematism on poppers.»
The lines of academic and modernist influence from Europe to the United States can be traced in the field's
early days, by
such artists as Stuart Davis and Marsden Hartley.
Some of the
earliest inspirations for founding Abstract Expressionist
artists such as de Kooning, Kline, and Arshile Gorky were introduced via John Graham, a highly influential
artist immersed in these European movements and the exploration of the subconscious.
The Sidney Janis Gallery held an
early Pop Art exhibit called the New Realist Exhibition in November 1962, which included works by the American
artists Tom Wesselmann, Jim Dine, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, George Segal, and Andy Warhol; and Europeans
such as Arman, Baj, Christo, Yves Klein, Festa, Rotella, Jean Tinguely, and Schifano.
Such was the fate of 79 Park Place, a five - story building that was almost entirely occupied by
artists in the
early 1960s before it was razed to make way for the World Trade Center.
The gifted works range from
early creations
such as Discourse on a Chair (1985), which was only recently rediscovered, to his latest works — More Sweetly Play the Dance, which was recently shown at Marian Goodman Gallery in London and is discussed in this interview with the
artist.
The nominated
artists range from 28 to 71 years old and include widely recognized names in the art world,
such as Julie Mehretu, Philippe Parreno, Theaster Gates, as well as a cross-section of some of the most noteworthy
early - to mid-career
artists working today.
This exhibition should broaden our understanding of what the late 16th - and
early 17th - century
artists who encountered Caravaggio or his works in Rome and Naples were then able to achieve, from Neapolitan masters
such as Mattia Preti and Jusepe de Ribera through to French and Dutch «Caravaggisti», including Georges de la Tour and Gerrit van Honthurst.
A member of the first wave of East Village
artists, Wojnarowicz began showing his work during the
early 1980s in
such now - legendary spaces as Civilian Warfare, Club 57, Gracie Mansion, Fashion Moda, and the Limbo Lounge.
«The Whitney Museum's revelatory survey of the work that earned O'Keeffe
such derision, the evocative, more - or-less abstract art she made starting in 1915 — phenomenally
early for an American
artist — should reopen eyes to an undeniable fact: O'Keeffe produced some of the most original and ambitious art in the twentieth century.»
The
earliest origins of Pop art can be traced to the mid-to-late 1950s in Britain and the United States, where
artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns combined visual aspects of advertising, comic books, and popular culture with theoretical elements of Dada and Surrealism.
Extensive travels through Europe in 1952 had a significant impact on Chimes's work and it was in the paintings of
artists such as Giorgio de Chirico, Andre Breton and Henri Matisse, that Chimes found the affirmation of his own developing ideas that would soon lead to the
earliest mature works included in this exhibition.
A pioneering gallerist, she took a daring approach — like mounting Acconci's controversial Seedbed — and introduced or gave
early shows to major
artists such as Carroll Dunham and Ashley Bickerton in 1980s.
One of the
early contributors to the Arte Povera movement living in Genoa in the 1960s, Prini became involved in shows
such as «Arte povera — Im spazio» and «Collage 1» curated by Germano Celant, art critic credited with grouping the
artists together.
Her distinctive style, born of an obsession with dots that she has nurtured since childhood, flowered in the late 50s
early 60s when she moved to America and became an integral part of the New York avant - garde, rubbing shoulders with
artists such as Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg.
Curators Beckwith and Roelstraete make salient connections between celebrated contemporary
artists such as Emilio Cruz, Nick Cave, and Glenn Ligon and lesser - studied figures of the
early movement....