Sentences with phrase «examples by major artists»

The National Gallery of Art in Washington is adding nearly 100 works to its photography collection, including prime examples by major artists from the 1960s and»70s.

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Factory's «Roger Corman's Cult Classics» line of drive - in classics and exploitation items presents a pair of standouts that are both superb examples of their respective genres and early works by major American film artists.

Influenced by artists such as Michelangelo Pistoletto, Turk's skilful manipulation of materials was evident throughout the show, for example in his exquisitely - cast bronze rubbish bags, and with the major sculptural work Ariadne (2006 — 2014).

For example, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston only had three paintings by African - American artist back in 2000, but now holds one of the most significant collections of art by African Americans in the nation, including works by almost every major African - American artist working during the past century and a half.

«Hardly any of these artists are in, for example, the major Art Since 1900 textbook by Rosalind Krauss, Benjamin Buchloh et al that came out in 2004,» he explains.

The Guerilla Girls is an example of an artist collective with feminist aims — cloaked by pseudonym and rubber gorilla masks, the highly political activist group plastered their agenda throughout the streets of major cities — using clear imagery and concise text to convey their messages, such as «Do women have to be naked to get into the Met...

The Guerilla Girls is an example of an artist collective with feminist aims — cloaked by pseudonym and rubber gorilla masks, the highly political activist group plastered their agenda throughout the streets of major cities — using clear imagery and concise text to convey their messages, such as «Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?»

For Encounters and Collisions, Ligon has chosen works by 45 major artists — many of whom are referred to in his own art and writing — to be displayed alongside key examples of his own work.

Featuring recent paintings as well as examples from the last 25 years, this exhibition is timed to coincide with the publication of a major monograph on the artist's work by Thames & Hudson.

At its annual meeting in March, the Collectors Committee of the National Gallery of Art made possible the acquisition of Piano / Piano (1963 — 1965/2011) by Richard Artschwager, a major example of the wooden sculptures that employ Formica as a laminate, for which he is known; Plaster Surrogates (1982/1989) by Allan McCollum, the last large grouping available of the artist's signature works in this series; and Condensation Wall (1963 — 1966/2013) by Hans Haacke, a breakthrough kinetic work from the artist's early career.

Shortly before Mr. Fisher's death in 2009 the couple agreed to house 1,100 works from their collection — prime examples by major contemporary figures like Calder, de Kooning, Diebenkorn, Warhol and Lichtenstein, as well as by living artists like Cy Twombly, Mr. Kelly and Brice Marden — at the museum for 100 years.

An upcoming exhibition at the MoMA, «Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction» is the most recent example of the current interest in setting the record straight by highlighting women artists who changed the face of art in the mid-century — beyond the token few who've gained major recogArtists and Postwar Abstraction» is the most recent example of the current interest in setting the record straight by highlighting women artists who changed the face of art in the mid-century — beyond the token few who've gained major recogartists who changed the face of art in the mid-century — beyond the token few who've gained major recognition.

Augmented by major works from important private collections to fill gaps in the MCA Collection and to provide examples of recent works made during the last few years, the exhibition includes work by approximately 75 of the most important artists of the last sixty years including Chuck Close, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Jasper Johns, Lari Pittman, Rudolf Stingel, Clare Rojas, Laura Owens, Josef Albers, Rene Magritte, Francis Bacon, Brice Marden, Caroll Dunham, Thomas Scheibitz, Jean Dubuffet, Sherrie Levine, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, Sigmar Polke, Rebecca Morris, Roberto Matta, and Yves Tanguy, among others.

At the AGO, there have been some major contemporary exhibitions by compelling international artists in recent years (Theaster Gates and Hurvin Anderson, for example).

Unlike other Australian artists of his generation, Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd, for example, Drysdale never lived abroad for any length of time, but he remained a regular exhibitor in London, where his 1950 show at Leicester Galleries, at the invitation of Sir Kenneth Clark, represented a major milestone in the history of Australian art, by convincing British critics that Australian painters had a distinctive vision of their own.

The relative lack of critical and financial support as well as the example of influential postwar artists who left to advance their careers — Golub and his wife Nancy Spero, Westermann, and June Leaf had all moved away by 1961 — contributed to an inferiority complex that prevented Chicago from seeing itself as a major contemporary American art center.

An exhibition celebrating the work of Irish artist Patrick Scott which brings together the most comprehensive representation of this remarkable artist's 75 year long career; two major international retrospective exhibitions by acclaimed Indian artist Sheela Gowda and renowned Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica; a fascinating exhibition, Trove, selected by Irish artist Dorothy Cross showcasing the extraordinary depth of the National Collections of Ireland; two exciting new projects by Irish artists Isabel Nolan and Duncan Campbell; exhibitions and projects that bring leading examples of international artists work to Ireland including artists Haroon Mirza, Mike Kelley, Linder Sterling and Jeremy Deller; Light Rhythms an interactive exhibition for families and young people; are just some of the exciting programme highlights taking place throughout 2014 at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and announced today (Tuesday 11 February) by IMMA's Director, Sarah Glennie.

The exhibition features major examples by artists such as: Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Willem de Kooning, Mark di Suvero, Richard Diebenkorn, Arthur Dove, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Philip Guston, Frida Kahlo, Ellsworth Kelly, Franz Kline, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Georgia O'Keeffe, Claes Oldenburg, Nathan Oliveira, David Park, Diego Rivera, Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha, Frank Stella, Clyfford Still, Mark Tansey, and Wayne Thiebaud.

The paintings by de Kooning also represent two iconic bodies of his late work, including four major examples of abstract landscape paintings from the 1970s, in which the artist's vibrating strokes of bright blues and flesh pinks evoke the sea, sand, and coastal light of East Hampton, and a group of paintings from the 1980s where he transforms his richly impasto canvases of the previous decade into luminous compositions in which ribbons of color ripple and curve across pale, ethereal backdrops.

Although there are only three examples here, assemblage became a major undertaking that landed Schloss in The Art of Assemblage, an exhibition of 250 works by 130 artists that opened in October 1961 at New York's Museum of Modern Art and traveled to the Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Art.

Several works by our Annual Commission 2015 artist Jon Rafman have also been loaned for the exhibition, including examples from the New Age Demanded series recently shown in his major solo exhibition at Zabludowicz Collection.