Sentences with phrase «everyday imagery»

The exhibition includes a group of drawings of tangible objects, such as shoes, books, and irons, with which everyday imagery made its way back in Guston's art in a transformation that shocked the art world when these works were first exhibited in 1970.

Of course, he was not the first artist to use everyday imagery and ephemera in his work.

His focus on the work of art as an object in its own right paved the way for Minimalism, while his appropriation of familiar everyday imagery was a major influence on Pop Art.

Donald Baechler transforms everyday imagery into iconographic editions employing a variety of printmaking techniques.

In the mid-1950s a group of young artists living in New York began exhibiting paintings and sculptures that contained everyday imagery and objects.

Considered part of the second generation of the Bay Area Figurative movement, influential artist Joan Brown obsessively painted everyday imagery from her own life: domestic scenes, swimming excursions in the San Francisco bay, or outings to the opera with her husband.

Using photographic images from newspapers or snapshots as a starting point, Peter Doig recasts everyday imagery to make imaginary landscapes and figure scenes.

His 86ft - long painting F - 111 (1964 — 65), in which a fighter - bomber jet is shown amid a jumble of everyday imagery, went on to become a defining image of the Vietnam War era.

In the early twentieth century, a number of photographers turned their cameras to their immediate environment, finding subjects in the everyday imagery and visual clamor of the streets in modern cities like Chicago, Moscow, New York, and Paris.

The images themselves became a form of found object — Rauschenberg used pictures clipped from newspapers, showing scenes both iconic and quotidian, and transformed them in his prints, while Johns made everyday imagery, like the United States flag or a target, the focal point of his work.

Working in a bright palette and always with one eye on figurative forms and the other on architecture, Stokoe creates his scenes from a combination of memory, photographs and the everyday imagery.

Drawing inspiration from films, popular culture and everyday imagery, Estelle Cherel's exquisite drawings, collages and watercolours present intriguing scenes where animals and the human figure take centre stage.

During the 1950s and 60s, Lawrence's work was characterized by stylistic experimentation and everyday imagery.

The use of this type of simple, everyday imagery (albeit in abstract form), anticipated the brightly coloured mass - consumer imagery which appeared in the works of Jasper Johns (b. 1930), the Pop art paintings of Andy Warhol (1928 - 87) and Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 97), and the huge Pop sculptures of Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929).