Sentences with phrase «early modernist forms»

As if groping after the loss of parkland under the Brooklyn Bridge, temporarily under construction, it retreated to early modernist forms and a few familiar names, including its organizers.

Not exact matches

Bailey's closed forms reflect another trajectory, that of Italian chiaroscuro («light / dark»), crucial to neo-classical certainty, which modernists since Picasso (Léger, scuola romana, Rivera, Tooker, early Gorky and Guston, etc.) have also utilized.

Forming part of his Tsukumogami series (meaning a type of Japanese spirit), his radical designs are greatly inspired by the early experiments of the Russian and Italian Modernist movements, as well as Dada inspired concepts of perceived realities.

This exhibition traces the career of artist Gary Erbe from his early troupe l'oeil works to his recent paintings combining realism with modernist tendencies, including works that focus on objects arranged to emphasize composition, form and structure.

German - born Bluemner was an important member of the modernist circle that formed around Alfred Stieglitz's galleries, 291 and the Intimate Gallery, in the early twentieth century.

The works in this exhibition — the earliest made in the early 1970s and the most recent completed in 2007 — replicate, modify, and critique Modernist aesthetics, illuminating form's relationship to history, subjectivity, and social space.

Treib's calligraphic - like brushstrokes read like some mysterious language, other forms feel grounded in the vocabulary of early modernist abstractions.

We witness the tension between surface and depth and the tension of the modernist struggle familiar through the push - pull theories of painting and surface put forth by the influential teacher Hans Hoffman, the entanglement between line and space so apparent in Robert Motherwell's early open form paintings, and especially Lucio Fontana, whose Spatialism in the 1940s through the 1960s emphasized the puncturing of surface and the monochrome as a two dimensional membrane.

In his early work, Will Barnet combined intimist evocations of family life with a modernist sense of form, while teaching printmaking and painting at the Art Students League, and other schools.

«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.

Spanning the period between 1828 to 1945, the exhibition opens with the earliest form of American maritime painting — the grand academic - style portraits of graceful sailing ships — and includes waterscapes from the sea to the lakes and rivers of the American heartland, light - flooded impressionist visions of quaint New England seaside towns, and modernist renderings of industrial waterfronts and everyday life on the water

On the fifth floor, the colorful paintings of Shara Hughes push natural forms toward feverish abstraction using the Fauves and early American modernists like Charles Burchfield.

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.

The Grantchester Pottery was formed at Wysing in 2011 by artists Giles Round and Phil Root and is a conceptual pottery and design team inspired by early modernist decorative artist's studios like Roger Fry's Omega Group.

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

Each painting consists of abstract / semi-abstract, spectral, monochromatic forms, simultaneously re-engaging early 20th Century black and white cinema and the tradition of the Modernist monochrome.

Joyce explores some of the classic tropes of early modernism, autonomous form, light as material, and the vertiginous and optimistic rhetoric of colour put forward in manifestos by artists and composers in the modernist period.

Amongst the rare and much sought - after items in Christie's forthcoming Design Masterworks sale, a pair of Steltman chairs, for instance, designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1963 — placing their production firmly in the mid-century period — are rooted in the far more remote early modernist years, while hints of the 1960s» brutalist architectural style are also easily detected in the form.

Alluding to Color Field, a style characterized by large, highly simplified compositions in which the use of color is independent of line and figuration, Scharf connects with modernist art movements by creating new hybrids, almost as if these earlier forms of art had been placed in a blender.

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.

Influenced by European art movements of the early twentieth century, American Modernists including the Precisionist Charles Sheeler and Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb emphasize the industrial, the international, or the psychological through gesture, texture, surface, geometry, shape, form and color.