Sentences with phrase «earlier modernist strategies»

Not exact matches

At once gestural and reductive, his works amplify strategies first explored by modernist artists in the early 20th century.

They will be looking at drawings in the exhibition Noguchi's Early Drawings in order to parse how Noguchi's serial imitations of canonical Modernist approaches to abstracting the human figure helped him develop the values and strategies that became his style.

Along with the White Paintings, which Rauschenberg completed in 1951, the Black paintings signaled the young artist's awareness of the status of the monochromatic canvas within the lineage of modernist painting, particularly as it was developing in the late 1940s and early 1950s at the hands of artists such as Barnett Newman (1905 — 1970), Franz Kline (1910 — 1962), and Willem de Kooning (1904 — 1997).4 Although the White Paintings and the Black paintings explored related formal strategies, the Black paintings in particular have been read as a response to the innovative rethinking of the monochrome that was occurring in those years.

The disarming mutability of this genre evokes a raft of anachronistic associations, from the Early Modernist stylistic transformations embodied in the work of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse to the Postmodernist strategies of Mike Bidlo, Deborah Kass and Sturtevant, with both factions bound up in Romantic myth - making, promoting or denying the idea of the individual genius.