Sentences with phrase «early modernists such»

Like Robert Motherwell, Reginato does feel not compelled to overthrow his predecessors, which includes early modernists such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Joan Miró, as well as the Abstract Expressionists and Color Field artists.

Thomas has drawn inspiration from multiple artistic periods and cultural influences throughout Western art history, particularly the early modernists such as Jean - Auguste - Dominique Ingres, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Edouard Manet, and Romare Bearden.

The works reference the original containers, frequently used to transport black - market petrol, while also calling to mind the tribal masks which influenced the early Modernists such as Picasso and Braque.

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.

Critics have, perhaps too often, related her images to the historical precedents set by early modernists such as Edward Weston, Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Alfred Stieglitz (notably his «Equivalents» series of 1925 — 34).

Other strengths of the twentieth - century collection include: sixty works by members of the Ash Can School; significant representation by early modernists such as Alfred Maurer, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Max Weber; important examples by the Precisionists Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Preston Dickinson and Ralston Crawford; a good showing by the American Scene painters Charles Burchfield and Edward Hopper; a broad spectrum of work by the Social Realists Ben Shahn, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Jack Levine; and ambitious examples of Regionalist painting by Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, notably the latter's celebrated five - panel mural, The Arts of Life in America (1932).

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I have long remembered the remark of a notable art critic — though I have forgotten which one — that many modernist paintings could be understood as fragments of classical painting blown up for their own sake, displaying the formal and technical elements by which painting is accomplished but eschewing the narrative depiction within which such patches of paint on canvas would earlier have had their place.

It presents 19 early modernist works by artists such as Alexander Calder, Jacques Lipchitz, Isamu Noguchi, and Auguste Rodin.

The lines of academic and modernist influence from Europe to the United States can be traced in the field's early days, by such artists as Stuart Davis and Marsden Hartley.

Thomas Chimes: Early Works (1958 - 1965), 2009 Text by Lisa Saltzman 56 pages, Hardcover Published by Locks Art Publications ISBN: 978 -1-879173-41-5 «Developing, in these formative paintings, a visual style indebted to the palette and compositional structures of such modernist forefathers as Marsden Hartley and Henri Matisse and emboldened by the stenographic proto - abstractions of such New York School predecessors as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, Chimes systematically put forth a series of paintings that pressed such experimentations with the limits of figuration into the realm of the theological, the philosophical and the historical.

His early work was largely shaped by non-Western art, but in the later period, he was much inspired by leading modernists such as Picasso, Arp, Brancusi, and Giacometti.

His early 1950s works, painted in a European Modernist style, often show originally «American» subject matters such as scenes of western expansion.

The 1940s in New York City heralded the triumph of American Abstract expressionism, a modernist movement that combined lessons learned from Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Surrealism, Joan Miró, Cubism, Fauvism, and early Modernism via great teachers in America such as Hans Hofmann from Germany and John D. Graham from Ukraine.

Early proponents of concrete art such as Max Bill, Judith Lauand and Lucio Fontana were working during a period of great technological achievements which opened a broad perspective to objective thinking and modernist ideas.

It presents 19 early modernist works by artists such as Max Bill, Alexander Calder, Jacques Lipchitz, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, and Auguste Rodin.

Descended in the Zorach family, this lyrical painting enhances VMFA's survey of modernist art and increases the number of independent early - 20th - century women — «instinctive rebels» (in the words of Zorach's daughter) such as Georgia O'Keeffe and Florine Stettheimer — in the American art collection.

Mangold's woodcuts premiering for the first time are also presented in conversation with works such as Movement in White, Umber, and Cobalt Green (1950) by early American modernist John Marin (1870 — 1953), known for his abstract landscapes, and with Duet and Murmur (2014), New York — based contemporary artist Cheonae Kim's (1952 ---RRB- paintings from her linear black - and - white series.

The Pompidou may largely be closed but it's not idle: Among recent undertakings, it has organized this exhibition of roughly a hundred paintings and drawings, charting the early development of the pioneering modernist, who conceived of abstraction in purely visual terms, quite distinct from the spiritual motivations of early nonobjective artists such as Kandinsky and Mondrian.

Along with the White Paintings, which Rauschenberg completed in 1951, the Black paintings signaled the young artist's awareness of the status of the monochromatic canvas within the lineage of modernist painting, particularly as it was developing in the late 1940s and early 1950s at the hands of artists such as Barnett Newman (1905 — 1970), Franz Kline (1910 — 1962), and Willem de Kooning (1904 — 1997).4 Although the White Paintings and the Black paintings explored related formal strategies, the Black paintings in particular have been read as a response to the innovative rethinking of the monochrome that was occurring in those years.

Murray's work builds on the legacy of early twentieth - century Modernist movements such as Cubism and Expressionism, funneling them into her own language that is equally concerned with psychology and the quotidian.

Leckey's interests might have shifted throughout the last decade — from an obsession with pop culture, subculture and the figure of the dandy in earlier films such as Parade (2003), and in his band collaboration DonAteller, with fellow artists Ed Laliq, Enrico David and Bonnie Camplin; to the high / low culture face - off of his BigBoxStatueAction performances (2003 — 11), in which Leckey's giant speaker stack confronts icons of modernist British sculpture, such as Jacob Epstein's Jacob and the Angel (1940 — 1); to his later multimedia performance lectures, the Internet - driven epiphany of dematerialisation In the Long Tail (2009) and its antithesis Cinema - in - the - Round (2006 — 8), with its more reflective inquiry into the physicality of images via, among others, Philip Guston, Felix the Cat, Gilbert & George, Homer Simpson and Titanic (1997).

Whereas the then - fashionable neo-Expressionists combined images pastiched from eclectic cultural sources with a loose painterly style, Jensen renewed the symbolist impulse that fueled the work of late American Romantics and early American Modernists such as Albert Pinkham Ryder and Marsden Hartley without resorting to parody or kitsch.

Highlights from the collection include furniture by Charles and Ray Eames, ceramics by Beatrice Wood, and sculptures by Claire Falkenstein, George Rickney and Peter Voulokos; Early 20th Century European Modernist paintings by Vasily Kandinsky, Alexej Jawlensky and others from the Milton Wichner Collection; and contemporary artists such as James Jean, Sherrie Wolf, and Sandow Birk whose paintings have recently been added to the collection.

Galerie d'Orsay offers works ranging from Old Masters such as Rembrandt and Renoir to early 20th century modernists such as Picasso and Miro to contemporary painters, print makers, and sculptors such as Bruno Zupan, Luc Leestemaker, and Samir Sammoun.

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.

It ranges from the contemporary work of Elizabeth Peyton and Dana Schutz to artists of Katz» generation like Al Held and early - 20th - century modernists such as Charles Burchfield and Marsden Hartley.

Blake will bring European and American artists of several different generations — including well - known contemporary artists such as Mike Kelley, Katharina Fritsch, Christian Marclay, Ken Price, Philip Guston, and Cindy Sherman — together with a number of under - appreciated and / or rarely exhibited figures, among them the comic strip artists Ernie Bushmiller, George Herriman, and Kaz, Nancy Grossman, the early American modernist sculptor Gaston Lachaise, Thomas Lanigan - Schmidt, as well as anonymous folk artists.

Calder is one of only a few early American modernists to hold status as a global artist, exceeding constraining categorizations such as nationality.

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.

Early 1960s works by Argentine artist Antonio Berni anchor a gallery featuring such familiar modernists as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Roberto Matta as well as one devoted to much younger contemporary artists like Teresa Margolles and Oscar Muñoz.

This was a modernist movement where several artists presented their works that were influenced by several personalities such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, Henri Matisse, and Man Ray, who excelled in Cubism, early Modernism and Fauvism.

This collection mainly includes painting and sculpture from the late 19th - century and early 20th - century (featuring movements like Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Ecole de Paris, Dada and Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, Minimalism and Conceptual Art), as well as drawings and poster art, and works representing design movements such as Art Nouveau, the Bauhaus Design School, and the modernist idiom of Art Deco.

On view in this exhibition will be a selection of artworks by contemporary artists including Elizabeth Peyton and Dana Schutz, artists of Katz's generation such as Ronald Bladen and Al Held, whose reputations continue to grow, and foundational early twentieth - century modernists such as Charles Burchfield and Marsden Hartley.