Sentences with phrase «early modernists»

In the former Czechoslovakia, the work of early Modernists such as Vaclav Spala, Emil Filla, and Otto Guttfreund was anathema to the Communist regime.

This exhibition traces the transformation from early modernist works influenced by Cubism through the age of Abstract Expressionism and beyond.

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.

Maki's work is influenced by early Modernist Abstraction, while her combination of materials and technique make the pieces uniquely her own.

The artist's first works from the 1920s and 1930s reflect the influence of early modernists such as Cézanne, and predominantly feature still - lifes and figurative scenes.

Jizi was by and large self - taught, synthesizing the techniques and philosophy of traditional Chinese ink painting with individualistic expression culled from early modernist artists in the West.

The results owe something to Milton Avery and Alex Katz, revere nature and revisit the important role of landscape painting in early modernist abstraction.

Inspired by the work of Egon Schiele, he reexamines the romantic, emotionally charged gestures found in early Modernist painting.

Even as Sweeney beefed up the museum's collection of early Modernist art, he sought out new work, regularly visiting artists» studios and taking note of developments beyond Manhattan.

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.

The exhibition then showcases nineteenth - century artists who pursued their careers in Europe, such as John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatt; moves into the twentieth century with early modernists including Marsden Hartley and Georgia O'Keeffe; and concludes with the triumph of American painting following World War II with abstract expressionism and Pop Art.

Alloro recasts the attempts made by early modernist artists to create a formal visual language for experimental film aesthetic.

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.

An important early modernist in Canada, she was preoccupied with design, bright colour and the study of tangible space, and her paintings were highly subjective.

During the first half of the»80s many American artists based their own work on earlier modernist art — critics described this trend as «appropriation art.»

The continuity of materials and aesthetic allude to the school's early modernist roots in the 1920s and correspond with the formal exercises Macuga herself undertook as a student in Poland.

The show displays a selection of pieces displayed salon style as both a reference to early modernist salons but also to the clutter and natural chaos of her own workspace.The show includes photographs, collages, drawings, and large - scale Polaroids, displaying for us a more personal, introspective viewpoint that we haven't seen yet from the artist.

Her architectural historical research explores early Modernist themes in diverse contexts with contributions to international architectural journals as well as published books, including Open House: Unbound Space and the Modern Dwelling (Rizzoli) and the upcoming Envisioning Gateway (Princeton Architectural Press).

Mechanical movement is an important part of her sculptures, and her films conjure up memories of early modernist experiments in form and motion by László Moholy - Nagy.

They recall early Modernist images of life as a tragicomic circus of love and loss, stylish dignity struggling with inelegant humiliation.

Tillman Kaiser shares concerns with other contemporary European artists in displaying a fascination with early modernist design, Utopian ideology and Futurism redux.

While Meckseper's earlier vitrine works commented on contemporary consumer culture using the shop window as an example and focus point for civic unrest and protest in our late capitalist society, her current works allude to the political dimension of early modernist display architecture and design between World War I and II in Weimar Germany.

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.

«Something of that magic makes its way into the «shield paintings,» executed on hide stretched over ironing boards... Their sharply angular compositions allude to European early Modernist movements, like Orphism and Rayism, but the curved contours of the boards foster all sorts of other associations: the surf - inspired art of 1960s Los Angeles, or the early shaped canvases of Frank Stella, or, as the titles suggest, heraldic armor.

Like many young artists today, Alex Chaves seems to view painting and early Modernist figuration as full of potential, and he argues the case convincingly in his New York solo debut at Martos.

Intellectually conceived and informed by the work of many artists, on whom she has carried out detailed research in the past, such as Frank Stella and Bridget Riley, Tabacco infuses the apparently unyielding language of optical art with a poetry and release from the strictures of early modernist explorations, with a remarkable freedom and sheer beauty, with an exacting tenor.

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.

Rejected in life, after death he was recognized as the preeminent early modernist and embraced as the model artist - martyr in an uncaring, hardheaded world.

On view are Illustrations by early modernist Arthur Dove and others, a genre group by John Rogers, experimental photography by Martina Lopez, abstract work by James Rosenquist as well as works by Alonzo Chappel, François Girardon, George Grosz, Daniel Ridgeway Knight, Henry Varnum Poor, Adolf Schreyer, and others.

It traces the shifts from earlier modernist strategies of the sixties and seventies after the period of decolonization, and the rise of pan-African nationalism, to the postcolonial representations of critique and satire that evolved from the 1980s, to the postmodernist irony of the 1990s, and to the globalist strategies of the 21st century.

The Face Paintings may be seen to extend the primitivistic aesthetic pursued by much early Modernist art, with strong connections to the mask - like faces captured by Picasso and Matisse.

Formally, the works relate to early modernist collage and assemblage techniques and practices and, in their subject matter, make numerous art historical references to the works of Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas, Wassily Kandinsky, and Hans Memling, among other artists.

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.

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.

Matthew Magee's large site specific window installation also makes use of found plastic and references early modernists constructions.

JM Well, I think I'm trying to do a little bit of both because I think that a lot of marks that I make are definitely connected to an art historical context, oftentimes early modernist paintings like Picasso's early works.

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

Coincidentally, a news release for «John Marin, Alfred Stieglitz and the American Avant - Garde» at Meredith Ward notes that the American early Modernist John Marin had «a career that spanned from Whistler to Pollock.»

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.

With guidance from Hofmann, Krasner learned the concepts of Cubism, Neo-Cubism, Fauvism, collage and many other early Modernist tendencies.

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.

As a variety of technical devices were employed by early modernist painters to intimate extension beyond the space defined by the picture plane, and by later artists to reveal and acknowledge the two - dimensional surface of illusion, the artists in this exhibition have utilized devices which indicate a contemporary view of time and space and the work of art.

10 Drawings in the Modernist Style, 2005: these works (india ink on paper with found frames of various sizes) continue the artist's exploration of early modernist graphic and painterly tropes...

Very much present, however, are other phantoms from the past — notably those of Early Modernist Expressionism and Surrealism.

If you have deep, deep pockets, go buy Early Modernists.

Scandinavia House could continue for decades bringing worthy Nordic early modernists to renewed attention in solo exhibitions and not run out of excellent material: Harald Slott - Møller, Prince Eugen, Akseli Gallen - Kallela, Laurits Andersen Ring, Hammershøi's old teacher Krøyer and his wife Marie Triepcke, Enjar Nielsen, on and on.

Jan Sluijters along with Gestel and Mondrian belongs to the first early modernists.