Sentences with phrase «early twentieth century masters»

Popular artistic practice has remained stuck in the prerevolutionary tradition, where artists are encouraged to create works that imitate early twentieth century masters such as Cézanne and Picasso or deal with religious themes and iconography.

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Russian Photography after the Revolution will feature rare, large - format gelatin silver prints by Boris Ignatovich (1899 - 1976), a master of the Soviet avant - garde; Arkady Shaikhet (1898 - 1959), widely considered to be the founder of Soviet photojournalism; and Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891 - 1956), perhaps the most acclaimed figure in early twentieth - century Russian art and design; as well as Abram Shterenberg (1900 - 1979), Georgy Petrussov (1903 - 1971), Semyon Fridlyand (1905 - 1964), Sergey Shimansky (1898 - 1972), Solomon Telingater (1903 - 1969), Emmanuil Evzerikhin (1911 - 1984), Yakov Khalip (1908 - 1980), and Georgy Zelma (1906 - 1984).

The collection has particular strengths in Ming and Qing dynasty Chinese painting, Mughal dynasty Indian miniature painting, Baroque painting, old master prints and drawings, early American painting, nineteenth - and early - twentieth - century photography, Conceptual art, international contemporary art, West Coast avant - garde film, international animation, Soviet cinema, early video art, and the largest collection of Japanese films outside of Japan.

It has grown to include works by many international artists of earlier generations: not only postwar masters like Bacon and Giacometti, but also pivotal figures in the history of twentieth - century art, such as Richard Hamilton, Mario Merz, Bruce Nauman, Richard Prince and Kurt Schwitters.

Charles Gaines's new original master composition for the Art Biennale is derived from his most recent body of work, Notes on Social Justice, a series of large - scale drawings of musical scores from songs, some borrowed from as early as the American Civil War (1860 — 1865) and others dating from the mid twentieth century.

From the beginning, his paintings were both dramatic and romantic, revealing not only his knowledge of these earlier masters, but also a keen awareness of twentieth - century expressionism, especially in Europe but also in America.

The work will be exhibited in the museum's Early Twentieth - Century Art Gallery, among works by other modern American masters such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Sheeler and George Bellows.