Sentences with phrase «early modernist sculptural»

Often working with every day and found materials such as fabric, glass, wood, metal and ceramics, the artist typically makes small to medium scale organic constructions that combine an almost «Beuysian» shamanistic or ritualistic use of materials with the formalism of early modernist sculptural objects.

Not exact matches

The monochromatic sculptural pieces, like Giallo Cromo (1961), recall, instead, the modernist work of Louise Nevelson, the American sculptor who, in fact, made her European debut right at that time, in the early 60s.

Boyce, 43, creates sculptural installations that often reference the modernist design of the early 20th century.

From his early Cubist and Surrealist assemblages to later ceramic and cut sheet - metal works, this major exhibition from the quintessential Modernist master is bound to elevate this «painter's» brilliant and unique sculptural language.

Peters» sculptural language draws from diverse iconographic influences which include Assyrian antiquities, Greco - Roman tragedy masks, Egyptian funerary figures and Cypriotic portraits, as well as the work of Elie Nadelman, early American folk art, Constantin Brâncusi, and early modernist figuration.

All the major American artists and works from the seventeenth century to today are included, such as epic history paintings by Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley; sublime landscapes by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederick Church; society portraits by John Singer Sargent; groundbreaking abstract expressionist and pop art by Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Andy Warhol; and challenging sculptural, installation, and video works from more recent years by Robert Gober, Fred Wilson, and Matthew Barney In architecture, dozens of different building types are illustrated and discussed, from the earliest colonial houses and churches to the most spectacular modernist and postmodernist houses, stations, museums, and iconic skyscrapers.