Sentences with phrase «early mail art»

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The exhibition showcases rediscovered production materials from Ray Johnson's compendium of mail art and work by early Fluxus artist Dick Higgins.

Having witnessed the phenomenal rise of young British artists in the early 1990s, he contacted those he knew and admired and invited them to make a work for his mail art project, Imprint 93.

Ray Johnson (1927 - 1995), an early conceptualist and pioneer of mail art, ended his life by diving from the Sag Harbor - North Haven Bridge.

Communication as an art form is an ancient tradition, but mail art as an organized and conscious artistic movement first appeared in the late 50s and early 60s.

Japanese expatriate artist On Kawara is an early pioneer of conceptual painting and mail art.

If the Board was always planning to accept a class to the School of Art, what could possibly have been the purpose of deferring an entire round of Early Decision applicants two weeks after their acceptance letters were ready to be mailed?

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Ray Johnson (1927 — 1995) studied under Josef Albers and Robert Motherwell at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, and worked as a painter early in his career, exhibiting alongside Ad Reinhardt and Charmion von Wiegand before embracing pop imagery, collage and mail art, producing thousands of collages and other works on paper.

Pioneer of mail art and an early participant in both the Pop and Fluxus movements, Ray Johnson created complex, punning works that ingeniously combine text and image, celebrity culture and art history, wit and melancholy.

As an early champion of good art in advertising and illustration, he created artwork for direct - mail industrial advertising in the 1930s and 40s.

Besides being one of the earliest Pop artists, Mr. Johnson became known for creating whimsical works known as «mail art,» art created out of scraps of correspondence.