Sentences with phrase «emergence of abstract art»

The emergence of abstract art coincided with the invention of Cubism in Paris in the first decade of the 20th Century.

The emergence of abstract art was also influenced by the Art Nouveau movement (c.1890 - 1914).

Aspects of American Abstraction: 1930 - 1942 explores the emergence of abstract art in America during the Great Depression and WWII.

Her first book, Intimate Collaborations: Kandinsky and Münter, Arp and Taeuber (Yale University Press, 2014) investigates the role of artist couples in the emergence of abstract art.

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But he was most enthusiastic about the emergence of abstract expressionism, stating to a friend his pride that «American art had finally «made it.

The exhibition explores the emergence and evolution of symbolic, abstract, and conceptual portraiture in modern and contemporary American art.

Following her education at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts between 1941 and 1944, Lassnig played a key role in the emergence of art informer in Austria, and in the early 1950s she exhibited in Vienna with abstract painters such as Arnu lf Rainer and Josef Mikl.

The 21st Century saw an emergence of different art movements; as technological development brought new opportunities, new movements have emerged, and many of them could be described as abstract art: digital art, computer and internet art, hard - edge painting, geometric abstraction, appropriation, hyperrealism, photorealism — to mention a few.

Not only were the great collections that changed hands in the 19th and 20th centuries lost by the Corcoran to institutions in other cities and later to the National Gallery and the Smithsonian, but seminal movements in American art, such as the emergence in the 1950s and»60s of abstract expressionism, pop art and even the Washington Color School (which started in its own back yard!)

During the First World War the emergence of the De Stijl group in the Netherlands further expanded the possibilities of abstract art, led by Piet Mondrian.

One example would be an exhibition that traces the emergence of and shows the interrelationship between important movements such as abstract expressionism, hard - edge painting, lyrical abstraction, minimalism, and conceptual art.

The background for Gilliam's art was the 1950s, which witnessed the emergence of abstract expressionism and the New York School followed by Field Painting.

One effect of this increased European influence was the gradual emergence of a school of abstract art: initially Cubist - oriented, later geometric and colourist in nature, it provided an obvious contrast with native representationalism.

In the arts, this dynasty was noted for architectural structures like the al - Azhar Mosque and the al - Hakim Mosque of Cairo; ceramic art in the form of pottery decorated with figurative painting and ivory carving as well as relief sculpture and the emergence of the «infinite pattern» of abstract ornamentation.

Petra Cortright's paintings wedge themselves between the celebrated history of gestural art, mostly Expressionist and abstract, and the past generation's frantic upheaval of established visual norms generated by the emergence and now ubiquity of digital imagery.

Beginning with abstract expressionism in the mid-forties, America's position as the center of the art world remained virtually unchallenged until the latter part of the 20th C and the emergence of contemporary art as a dynamic international pursuit.

Spanning the emergence of Black feminism, debates over the possibility of a unique Black aesthetic in photography, and including activist posters as well as purely abstract works, the exhibition asks how the concept of Black Art was promoted, contested and sometimes flatly rejected by artists across the United States.

The freestanding and wall mounted sculptures spoke to these new tendencies, alluding to an emergence of painterly sculpture in Bushwick's abstract art scene.