Sentences with phrase «exiled surrealists»

In New Your, he joined the influential group of exiled surrealists, but later found a better setting in Woodbury, Connecticut, where, he said: «I have a feeling of greater space and light here - more room».

During World War II, Gottlieb encountered exiled Surrealists in New York and they added to and reaffirmed his belief in the subconscious as the well for evocative and universal art.

Additionally, like many of her European contemporaries, Bourgeois relocated to New York City during the Second World War and she associated with a number of exiled Surrealists, such as André Breton, Andre Masson and Joan Miró.

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It was Schapiro, in fact, who changed the course of the young artist's life by introducting him to a group of surrealist exiles, including Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst.

The newer research tends to put the exile - surrealist Wolfgang Paalen in the position of the artist and theoretician who fostered the theory of the viewer - dependent possibility space through his paintings and his magazine DYN.

His contact with European Surrealists exiled in New York during World War II led him to experiment with archetypal abstractions of animals, eyes, and spirals (as in the Pictograph series (1941 — 51)-RRB- and bolstered his belief that evocative art has its roots in the artist's subconscious.

In 1953 he went back to Puerto Rico enrolling at the University of Puerto Rico, where he spent one year studying art with an exile of the Spanish Civil War, Eugenio Granell, a surrealist painter and writer.

(1) Over the course of the war years Matta was joined in New York by fellow Surrealists, including the likes of André Breton, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dali, and Max Ernst and accompanied by a larger circle of prominent «artists in exile,» such as Piet Mondrian, Marc Chagall, and Fernand Léger.

Upon moving to New York in 1940 to study at Columbia University he was encouraged by Meyer Schapiro to pursue painting who introduced him to Max Ernst, Masson and Duchamp - the group of exiled Parisian surrealists - who greatly came to influence his work.

Between 1940 and 1950, de Kooning's manner of drawing the human figure exploded from within, under the pressure of some heady influences: Picasso and the Surrealists, and de Kooning's fellow Europeans in New York exile, John Graham (1881 - 1961) and Arshile Gorky (1904 - 1948).

In addition to these artists and the European surrealists in exile, Baziotes befriended Jimmy Ernst, Gordon Onslow - Ford, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner.

Krasner was one of the first painters in wartime Manhattan to learn the lessons of the European surrealists exiled there; one of the first to study Jung; one of the first to discover abstraction.