Sentences with phrase «figure of a single artist»

All in all, the 150 - minute Mr. Turner is an impressive accomplishment, laudable for the way it uses the figure of a single artist to explore both art and cinema.

Not exact matches

While her legendary status and influence on artists of all generations means Schneemann (born in 1939) continues to be a central canonical figure, it is shocking that «Water Light / Water Needle» — a modest collection of photographs, drawings, and a single video work currently on view at Hales Gallery — is her first solo exhibition in London.

Indeed, you have to wonder if giving this prime spot to a single artist for such a long time is the best use of space, at a time when attendance figures at our principle gallery of British art have been flagging, prompting the institution's entire purpose to be questioned.

In his series Figure Compositions, American artist Daniel Catalano's beautiful paintings consist of single and multi-figure compositions which reject any kind of narrative and instead experiment with multiple states of being, across many timeframes.

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They deliver the artists» customary blend of tart and sweet, neatly distilled in a single tableau of two toddler - size animal figures, a rat and a bear, asleep and softly breathing on a pile of blankets, like F. A. O. Schwarz toys gone homeless.

An iconic figure in avant - garde art in America during the 1950s, the composer and artist John Cage is noted in particular for his controversial 1952 «musical composition» 4 minutes 33 seconds (4» 33»)(which contained not a single note of music), along with his teachings at Black Mountain College on a variety of artistic topics: these include Indian Sand Painting, forms of Performance art such as Happenings (eg.

The artist became known for her pierced shapes, and her most famous works include Single Form, which is in the United Nations Plaza in New York, and Winged Figure, on the side of the John Lewis department store in London.

He had progressive ambitions — creating «spatial films» in the museum galleries with photographic reproductions of famous African American figures, videos of members of the Harlem community, and recordings of jazz music — but not a single artwork by a black (or white) artist was included.

Later works include exuberantly satirical works of the 1960s, many featuring the vaguely autobiographical figure described by critic and artist Anne Doran as a «nattily dressed and deeply ridiculous Everyman in mad pursuit of liberty, poetry, and sex»; the pornography - inspired «X-Rated Paintings» of the early 1970s; the «Noun» paintings of the same period (each depicting a single everyday object against a bright, patterned background); the schematic, figurative canvases made in homage to Copley's Surrealist idol Francis Picabia; and the story cycles and morality tales from the 1980s and 90s, including a painting from the installation project The Tomb of the Unknown Whore.