Sentences with phrase «elitist by some of the artists»

Wit and eccentricity were the key motivators of these «pioneers» who combined various materials and media to produce the «more social type of art» in contrast to the abstract expressionism which was viewed as elitist by some of the artists and theorists.

Not exact matches

Entitled «Matchy Unmatchy,» their third offering was prefaced by a provocative work of fiction à la Clockwork Orange written by the artist Ed Atkins, alongside the sole tagline of «Elitist Propaganda, Draggy Gestures, and Tribal Simulacra.»

Curators and critics, however, sometimes prefer not to engage with these invigorating rival claims, perhaps because any attempt to characterize or evaluate can be dismissed as judgmental or elitist, an effort to draw distinctions at a time when what can look like the gray zone of mixed media or multimedia is embraced by an increasing number of artists.

But Hammons» use of the evanescent has a far broader agenda than similar attempts by earlier artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Richard Tuttle who utilised materials to challenge elitist conceptions of what constitutes a work of art.

«By the mid - and late - 1970s,» wrote the curator Richard Marshall in his essay for the exhibition «American Art Since 1970» at the Whitney Museum, «painting had moved further away from the confines of the Minimalist approach — even from a negative reaction to it — and the artists [Jennifer Bartlett, Vija Celmins, Lois Lane, Neil Jenney, Bill Jensen and Elizabeth Murray] inaugurated new ways to treat subject matter and meaning -LSB-...] there emerged a move against an insular, elitist attitude towards art and what it is, should be, or must be -LSB-...] artists began to look at more diverse visual repertory: commercial art, advertising, fashion, television and movies, popular culture, the decorative arts, rugs, religion, ancient artifacts, and Middle Eastern Cultures.»