Sentences with phrase «early modernist sculpture»

Houseago lived in the Netherlands and Belgium before moving to Los Angeles in 2003 and was heavily influenced by Hellenistic statuary, science fiction, and early Modernist sculpture.

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From her early collections of mock burial artefacts, to primate - like figures constructed from discarded fur coats, and her more recent enigmatic gurus, Upritchard has developed a highly idiosyncratic language of sculpture that frequently borrows from craft practices and a broad range of references from the deep recesses of museum collections, folklore and counter-cultures to high modernist design.

At the gallery's 293 Tenth Avenue location, «Robert Motherwell: Early Paintings» examines the lesser - known, experimental abstractions of the artist's pre - «Elegy» years.1 Around the corner at Kasmin's 515 West Twenty - seventh Street venue, «Caro & Olitski: 1965 — 1968, Painted Sculptures and the Bennington Sprays» looks to the personal friendship and creative dialogue between sculptor and painter.2 And finally, up the block at the gallery's 297 Tenth Avenue address, in «The Enormity of the Possible,» the independent curator Priscilla Vail Caldwell brings the first generation of American modernists together with some of the later Abstract Expressionists — Milton Avery, Oscar Bluemner, Charles Burchfield, Stuart Davis, John Marin, Elie Nadelman, and Helen Torr, among others, with Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.3

Strengths in French and Italian painting of the 17th and 18th centuries, 19th - century sculpture, and early modernist painting characterize this collection.

Beginning with her earliest works — drawings and paintings created in the 1940s while studying at Black Mountain College — this beautifully illustrated volume traces Asawa's trajectory as a pioneering modernist sculptor who is recognized nationally for her wire sculpture, public commissions, and activism in education and the arts.

They recall the early modernist visages of Alexej von Jawlensky, but on a contemporary scale and with references to our political present: a raised (white) fist here, collages of African sculpture elsewhere.

His work interrogates the implications of early modernist ideas of nature, in particular a photograph of four angular «tree» sculptures made by the artists Joel and Jan Martel in 1925.

Still, for lovers of early and modernist Texas painting and sculpture, that's a half - dozen more examples than they'd otherwise get to see in a major museum.

The show comprised five sculptures each of which was made using a similar process to his earlier works: images of classical and Modernist art objects found on the Internet were rendered, via a computer, as basic three - dimensional models.

Smaller rooms in back hold other early sculpture along with modernist painting.

Jeffrey Weiss, an authority on modernist and postwar sculpture, in close collaboration with Morris, systematically catalogues the object sculptures, and subjects them to critical and historical interpretation in the context of Morris's early practice overall.

Leckey's interests might have shifted throughout the last decade — from an obsession with pop culture, subculture and the figure of the dandy in earlier films such as Parade (2003), and in his band collaboration DonAteller, with fellow artists Ed Laliq, Enrico David and Bonnie Camplin; to the high / low culture face - off of his BigBoxStatueAction performances (2003 — 11), in which Leckey's giant speaker stack confronts icons of modernist British sculpture, such as Jacob Epstein's Jacob and the Angel (1940 — 1); to his later multimedia performance lectures, the Internet - driven epiphany of dematerialisation In the Long Tail (2009) and its antithesis Cinema - in - the - Round (2006 — 8), with its more reflective inquiry into the physicality of images via, among others, Philip Guston, Felix the Cat, Gilbert & George, Homer Simpson and Titanic (1997).

From her investigation into the notion of artificial beauty to references of futuristic architectural ideas from the early 20th century, Korean artist Lee Bul has, over the past two decades, garnered international renown with a diverse and intellectually challenging body of work that includes sculptures, performances and installations, while always maintaining an intriguing relationship with modernist ideals.

Curtis has a thing for modernist British sculpture of the early - and mid-20th century.

«THE MODERNS» also intends to honor the museum's Founding President, the late Ambassador Arnold A. Saltzman, who during his life formed one of America's great private collections of early modernist painting and sculpture, according to the museum.

Highlights from the collection include furniture by Charles and Ray Eames, ceramics by Beatrice Wood, and sculptures by Claire Falkenstein, George Rickney and Peter Voulokos; Early 20th Century European Modernist paintings by Vasily Kandinsky, Alexej Jawlensky and others from the Milton Wichner Collection; and contemporary artists such as James Jean, Sherrie Wolf, and Sandow Birk whose paintings have recently been added to the collection.

In his later years, he also designed furniture whose simplicity echoed his own sculptures and the work of early modernist designers he admired, like Gerrit Rietveld.

The Chrysler's collection of European Painting and Sculpture ranges from works by Renaissance masters to bold early modernist canvases.

In the early 1970s, when sculpture was ruled by modernist monuments and Minimalist hulks, Joel Shapiro caused a sensation when he placed three - inch - high bronze or cast - iron domestic objects — a chair, a dollhouse, a coffin, a bird — on the floor of Paula Cooper's SoHo gallery.

Curry may work in acidic colors and surfaces but his forms always referenced the sculpture of early modernists like Noguchi, Miro, Calder.

Van den Dorpel's first solo exhibition in the United States, Release early, release often... introduces the artist's spherical Perspex sculptures, web - based work, and collages, the latter appearing at once high - Modernist yet akin to melancholic, mass - produced hotel lobby art.

In Bird in Space (2004), named after a famous sculpture by Constantin Brancusi that was first shown at the Arts Club in the early 1920s, Starling's unorthodox reinvention of Brancusi's talismanic modernist masterpiece, re-presented in the work's original context, links the institutions» past and present.

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.

In Britain, in the early 1930s, Henry Moore combined humanoid forms, African and Oceanic cultures, and organic abstraction in a varied, eclectic style that reconciled modernist methodology with Greek sculpture.

Neo-expressionism is a style of late modernist or early - postmodern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s.

Elsewhere a suite of Glenn Ligon's early drawings from the mid -»80s juxtaposes famous modernist sculpture, like Brancusi's «Endless Column,» with hair pomades in a sly move that suggests the influence of African culture on European modernists.

Overview: 21 works by 19 artists were shown in this exhibition of early modernist paintings, sculptures, and drawings selected from the collection of Edward and Deborah Shein.

Neo-expressionism is a style of late - modernist or early - postmodern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s.

This collection mainly includes painting and sculpture from the late 19th - century and early 20th - century (featuring movements like Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Ecole de Paris, Dada and Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, Minimalism and Conceptual Art), as well as drawings and poster art, and works representing design movements such as Art Nouveau, the Bauhaus Design School, and the modernist idiom of Art Deco.

2014 Sculptor's Jewellery, Pangolin London, London, UK The Shape of Things: Three Decades of British Modernist Sculpture, Daniel Katz Fine Art, London, UK In the Shadow of War, Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham, UK Mini Crucible, Gallery Pangolin, Gloucester, UK Crucible 2, Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, UK British Invasion, The Bechtler Museum, North Carolina, US Sculpture in the City 2014, Square Mile, London, UK Masterpiece, South Grounds, The Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, UK Those early years: British and German Art After 1945, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, DE Jane Drew (1911 - 1996): An Introduction, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK

An important influence on the development of American art during the early 20th century was the American photographer, editor, and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz (1864 - 1946), later the husband of artist Georgia O'Keeffe, who - with the help of his close colleague Edward Steichen (1879 - 1973)- devoted much of his energy to promoting fine art photography as well as modernist painting and sculpture in the New York area.

He also created sculptures based on the work of early modernists like Constantin Brancusi and Piet Mondrian, and even found inspiration in the poetry of Ezra Pound and the pared - down aesthetics of Shaker furniture.

Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture, The Phillips Collection's survey of works by the 74 - year - old Danish artist, is a must - see exhibition for anyone who has walked through that museum's collection of early modernist masters wondering which, if any, of today's painters have picked up the project they bequeathed to us.

Jones's sculptures at first glance look like a kind of tribute to the early and mid-century Modernist abstraction of sculptors like Anthony Caro, David Smith, and Tom Scott, for whom Jones worked as a studio assistant in the eighties.