Sentences with phrase «early twentieth century european»

The artist's formal references were not wholly introspect, however, with early twentieth century European modernism playing an equally significant role.

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... In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the European Westernization of Egypt produced intellectual titans of liberal secularism: Taha Hussein, Muhammad Hussein Haykal, Abbas Mahmud al - Aqqad, and more....

God or Nothing, by Cardinal Robert Sarah (Ignatius Press): It was the book being discussed at Synod - 2015 and with good reason, for this interview - style autobiography of a life of faith is moving, insightful, and a wonderful testament to the fruits of the European mission to Africa in the early twentieth century.

Distinct from the ways that early twentieth - century European avant - garde film advanced narratives of «failed vision» and «enlightenment» within the transformation of modern life, this conversation reconsiders the aesthetics of abstraction and experimentation that are beholden to an ethics of contingency and fragmentation within contemporary culture.

The carpet evokes the thousand - year history of Venice, the «Most Serene Republic», but also recalls the Middle - European culture so loved by the artist; for example, we are reminded of Sigmund Freud's early twentieth - century Viennese study.

Known as the mother of American modernism, Georgia O'Keeffe played a pivotal role in the development of American contemporary art and its relationship with European movements of the early twentieth century.

Strongly influenced by twentieth - century icons Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, and Henri Matisse, Quaytman's work reveals a fascinating interplay between earlier strands of European Modernism and American postwar abstraction.

Georgia O'Keeffe, also known as the mother of American modernism, played an extremely important role in the development of American contemporary art and its relationship with European movements of the early twentieth century.

Highlights of the European art collection include English genre painting of the nineteenth - century as well as examples of French post-Impressionistic painting from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

The Museum's collection of European art consists of examples from the Baroque - era through the early twentieth - century.

Simonetta Fraquelli is an independent curator and specialist in early twentieth - century European art.

Curated by Simonetta Fraquelli, an independent curator and specialist in early twentieth - century European art, the exhibition explores Pablo Picasso's work between 1912 and 1924, prior to, during, and after the tumultuous years of the First World War, when the artist began exploring both cubist and classical modes in his art.

The exhibition examines the history of the artist - orchestrated meal, assessing its roots in early - twentieth century European avant - garde art, its development over the past decades within Western art, and its current global ubiquity.

Borne out of early twentieth - century anxieties and uncertainties created by an industrial boom, the Precisionism movement merged European formal styles, like Cubism and Futurism, with distinctly American subject matter.

In turn, early twentieth - century artists such as Alfred Kubin, Paul Klee and the German Expressionists Emil Nolde and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner were inspired by his creative power and radical rejection of traditional European ideals of beauty.

Nonobjective Art The abstract or «nonobjective» art in this gallery represents a period in the early twentieth century when American artists began to follow their European counterparts in questioning the purpose and nature of art.

Active in European avant - garde circles in the early decades of the twentieth century, Alexander Archipenko revolutionized and reinvigorated sculpture by reintroducing color, incorporating negative space, and integrating mixed media.

Born in Lewiston in 1877, Hartley played a role in the European avant - garde movement of the early twentieth century, spending extended periods of time in Paris and Berlin.

By making Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, and Ad Reinhardt the sole artists represented, the narrative of a purely New York phenomenon is promulgated, drawing a line of demarcation between these painters and the European modernists who tested the dark palette in the early twentieth century.

The early part of the collection features European art from the beginning of the twentieth century, including work by André Derain and Pierre Bonnard, cubist paintings and holdings of expressionist and modern British art.

Breton's continuing links to Lam not only reflect the internationalist perspective that Breton and the other Europeans brought to the New York art scene in the early 1940s, but Lam's work and even the person of the artist himself (whose father was Chinese) also exemplify the rich mix of cultures in the New World that increasingly shaped the second half of the twentieth century and its art.

However, once in power, Lenin replaced the Wanderer Group with a new Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AARR), which became popular with traditional painters rebelling against the European Cubist and Surrealist - inspired abstract movements of the early twentieth century.

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.

In the early Twentieth Century, African and Oceanic objects were popular collectibles and a source of inspiration for many European artists.

Ian Wardropper is Director of The Frick Collection and has organized more than twenty exhibitions in his specialties of European sculpture, earlier decorative arts, and twentieth - century design and decorative arts.

To return to Albers, that the how might generate as much meaning as the what was the hope and desire of early twentieth - century European abstraction brought to the States in large part via Black Mountain College.

In the early twentieth century there was a racial and eugenic streak to population - reduction arguments: some claimed that there were too many Africans and Asians, who might weaken the power of white European nations.