Sentences with phrase «early modernism taken»

When Zet was an art student, his training, consisting mainly of classicism and social realism, would have hardly had early modernism taken into account, let alone the conceptual and performative breakthroughs of such figures as Marcel Duchamp, Bruce Nauman and Joseph Beuys.

Early modernism took for granted that its models of the world corresponded with the world as it is.

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This is a very serious question for anyone attempting to revive the glories of earlier centuries, and although Hoodbhoy may risk making the same mistake himself when he recruits Ibn Sina or al - Razi to prove that «the seeds of modernism» can be detected among famous Muslim scientists a thousand years ago, it is an area in which conservative Muslims, Christians, Hindus or anyone else ought to take great care.

These early days of modernism took a different turn: glass became a peripheral material of windows and walls; whilst Taut instead believed that all architecture and even furniture could be made of glass and the material itself could have qualities to be mediated.

Two primary means to his work - fragmentation and abstraction - take us back in their directness to the experimental works of early modernism.

The earliest work takes a tentative approach to Modernism, a caution that will haunt Futurism forever.

He respected Modernism and abstraction as early as 1911, but he had no interest in taking on the world.

Pablo Picasso's re-working of classical composition inspired in part by African masks, Frank Stella's creation of non-rectangular shaped canvases, and Dan Flavin's experimentation with neon light are all important milestones in the history of modernism — an art movement that has origins in Western Europe in the early twentieth century and took hold in America in the 50s and 60s.

Following up her earlier work critiquing mid-century modernism, i.e., abstract painting, in which she redid Kenneth Noland stripe paintings as awnings, Morris Louis stain paintings as tie - dyes and even Barnett Newman «zips» as monochromes divided with real zippers, Dunphy is now taking on the entire modernist canon in the form of miniature embroideries.

«America's Cool Modernism» takes the viewer on an impressive narrative journey through the works of famous painters and photographers of the 1920s and «30s including early paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe; photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand and Edward Weston; and ends with the melancholy of Edward Hopper's cityscapes.

(It defined Gill not by his private life, but as a key figure in early modernism, and a leading advocate of the techniques of «direct carving» later taken up by Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore.)

His artistic evolution took him through early modernism, through social realism, and finally to fully realized abstraction.