Sentences with phrase «first cubist»

Picasso thought of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon as not just his first cubist painting but also as his first exorcism painting, intended to exorcise his fears of contracting venereal disease in brothels.

Beyond this, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon — as the first Cubist painting — and Picasso's works of the 1920s and 1930s — in which he combines harsh Cubist elements with wide, gentle, and rounded curves — have been stimulating responses among artists for generations.

Initially influenced by Toulouse - Lautrec, Gauguin and other late 19th century innovators, Pablo Picasso made his first cubist paintings based on Cézanne's idea that all depiction of nature can be reduced to three solids: cube, sphere and cone.

Some historical examples of categorical risk will serve to clarify my term: the first cubist, futurist, constructivist paintings; Duchamp's signed urinal or his bicycle wheel; Pollock's drip paintings; Yves Klein's jump, but also Allan Kaprow's Happenings and Joseph Beuys» lectures.

In his first Cubist works, that enabled him to find both.

Pop Art used irony to that end, while a Minimalist might have relied more on formalism, but both tactics were present from the first Cubist collages.

Gertrude Stein referred to landscapes made by Picasso in 1909, such as Reservoir at Horta de Ebro, as the first Cubist paintings.

B - Being John Malkovich: The Criterion Collection Rated R for language and sexuality Available on DVD and Blu - ray I can imagine the time when people first got a look at Picasso's first cubist paintings and what their thoughts might have been.

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Of course, outside Germany some world - shattering things were going on as well: in Paris, Braque's and Picasso's cubist paintings and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, which brought on a riot at its premiere; in Bologna, Marconi's experiments with radio waves; at Kitty Hawk, the Wright brothers» first flight.

Both artists started to make their first early Cubist art: landscape paintings, in Estaque and Ceret.

Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928 — 1945 is the first in - depth look at the years leading up to and through World War II, a period in Braque's career when he used the theme of still life to synthesize cubist discoveries and hone his individual Cubist Still Life, 1928 — 1945 is the first in - depth look at the years leading up to and through World War II, a period in Braque's career when he used the theme of still life to synthesize cubist discoveries and hone his individual cubist discoveries and hone his individual style.

The story goes that in 1909 the minor American painter Max Weber, a friend of Gertrude and Leo Stein in Paris, brought in his suitcase the first Picasso — a small, modest Cubist still life — to America.

Between 1930 and 1932 composer Arnold Schoenberg worked on Moses und Aron, one of the first operas to make use of the twelve - tone technique, [76] Pablo Picasso painted in 1937 Guernica, his cubist condemnation of fascism, while in 1939 James Joyce pushed the boundaries of the modern novel further with Finnegans Wake.

The Dadaists first borrowed collage from the Cubists and used it to serve as a «low» material in protest against the «high» status of the more expensive oil painting that represented bourgeois society in Germany and other parts of Europe.

Picasso and Britain will include key Cubist works such as Head of a Man with Moustache 1912 (Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris) which was seen in Britain before the First World War, when Cubism was first introduced to a British public through Roger Fry's two Post-Impressionist exhibitFirst World War, when Cubism was first introduced to a British public through Roger Fry's two Post-Impressionist exhibitfirst introduced to a British public through Roger Fry's two Post-Impressionist exhibitions.

[52]: 167 In 1912, Metzinger and Gleizes wrote the first (and only) major Cubist manifesto, Du «Cubisme», published in time for the Salon de la Section d'Or, the largest Cubist exhibition to date.

With distinctive focus yet remarkable comprehensiveness, From Picasso to Pollock unites the major artists and developments of the first half of the twentieth century through significant examples of non-objective, Cubist, Surrealist, Expressionist and Abstract Expressionist painting and sculpture.

Thus was the geometric aspect of capitalism's abstract spatiality given definite form, depicted by the Cubist painters in the first decade of the twentieth century.

Though most public presentations of art were conservative, capturing the subdued tone of a nation under economic siege, the Museum of Modern Art mounted the first exhibition of cubist and abstract art — but neglected American artists working in this vein.

His first museum shows were in 1976: a drawings show of works from 1958 - 1970s at the Wight Gallery at UCLA, and a show of new abstract and cubist red paintings at LACMA curated by Stephanie Barron, marking a transitional moment in his career.

Helena Newman, the worldwide co-head of Impressionist and Modern Art for Sotheby's, had presided over the first sale of the spring season in London last week, bringing $ 63.7 million for Picasso's «Femme Assise» (1909), the most expensive Cubist painting ever sold at auction.

This painting was first exhibited at the Salon of the Section d'Or of October 1912, which introduced the Cubist artists to the general public.

Davis first discovered this kind of space in Cubist works on view at the 1913 Armory Show — the exhibition where most American artists first encountered European Modernism.

Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928 — 1945 offers the first detailed examination of Braque's experiments with still lifes and interiors during the years leading up to and through World War II, an overlooked and transitional period in the career of this leading founder of Cubism.

Prior to the First World War, Bomberg's work was heavily influenced by the geometrical abstractions of the Cubist, Futurist and Vorticist movements.

With its thin, delicate tracery of black threading throughout the strokes of whites and filaments of shifting color forms, Number 15 is a fitting culmination of Tomlin's career.By inclination a superb colorist, Tomlin reduced his palette from 1945 to 1947, and focused first on the painterly mark, adapting a calligraphic technique within a vaguely Cubist structure of horizontals and verticals.

Though her paintings may at first glance evoke the Constructivist or Cubist tendencies of the avant - garde of yesteryear, the newly minted art star Avery Singer's paintings are in fact eminently contemporary, utilizing Photoshop and Google SketchUp to render figures in the current idiom of blocky avatars and clear gradients.

The irony is that McNeil arrived at a style of his own by rejecting the Cubist scaffolding that provided structure to so many modernist paintings of the first half of the 20th century.

Curated by Simonetta Fraquelli, an independent curator and specialist in early twentieth - century European art, the exhibition explores Pablo Picasso's work between 1912 and 1924, prior to, during, and after the tumultuous years of the First World War, when the artist began exploring both cubist and classical modes in his art.

His first museum shows were in 1976, marking a transitional moment in his career: a show of drawings from 1958 - 1970s at the Wight Gallery at UCLA, and a show of new abstract and cubist red paintings at LACMA curated by Stephanie Barron.

In 1945 in New York, Willem de Kooning merged together his Cubist and Surrealist tendencies into a figurative abstract called Pink Angels, which is considered his first abstract expressionist work.

In Bunker's Falling Fugue, Parkinson continues, «the figures (torn and cut shapes and gestural painterly marks), seem to occupy a fairly narrow cubist space, blues often being interpreted (by me at any rate) as sky, which sometimes opens up into a much deeper space than I was first perceiving.»

The conundrum of the season in the New York art world is the identification of either the Nude figure or the stairway in a canvas entitled «Nude Descending a Stairway,» in the Cubist room of the Armory at Lexington Ave. and 25 St., where the first International exhibition of modern art, organized and managed by the American Painters» and Sculptors» Society, is in progress.

The first Modernist artists to incorporate collage into their works were the Cubists, namely Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.

During a trip to Paris in 1921, Nicholson saw Cubist works, which influenced his first semiabstract still lifes; in 1924 he executed his first completely abstract painting.

The first international modern art movement to come out of America (it is sometimes referred to as The New York School - see also American art), it was a predominantly abstract style of painting which followed an expressionist colour - driven direction, rather than a Cubist idiom, although it also includes a number of other styles, making it more of a general movement.

During his first decade in the United States, Gorky befriended Stuart Davis and John Graham, two artists who were also pursuing Cubist motifs.

He confronts the viewer with cubist face structures, opaque masks of shapes that at first glance nothing to do with the genre with «Face — Off» have to do the portrait.

1913 is also the year, in which Duchamp created his first Ready - Made — and, thus, set a revolutionary milestone in art history, while receiving much critical acclaim for his early Cubist paintings at the time.

In 1918 Barth caused indignation with Das neue Leben (The New Life), the first exhibition to showcase cubist tendencies in the work of local artists.

From the first supporters of the Cubists to the critics and collectors who embraced Abstract Expressionism early on, the bewilderment one sometimes experienced on encountering new art was embraced as a complicated intellectual challenge, demanding new alignments of sense and sensibility.

• Katarzyna Kobro (1898 - 1951) Considered to be the most outstanding female Polish sculptor of the first half of the 20th century, she is best known for her early Cubist - style nudes and abstract kinetic forms hanging in space.

The Czech painter Frank Kupka (1871 - 1957) produced some of the first highly coloured abstract paintings, which influenced Robert Delaunay (1885 - 1941) who also relied on colour in his Cubist - inspired style of Orphism.

He continued to use Cubist motifs in many of his early paintings, so it was appropriate that Daniel - Henri Kahnweiler - Picasso's original agent - organized Masson's first solo exhibition at the Galerie Simon in Paris (1923).

Rothko dropped out of Yale University and was first exposed to the arts in 1923 when he visited a friend at the Art Students League, he enrolled in classes with Cubist artist Max Weber and later also took courses at New York School of Design with Arshile Gorky.

Outstanding in the first room is his absolutely stunning picture postcard painting «Santa Margherita Ligure», 1964, and a painting of the famous cubist painter «Portrait of Juan Gris» 1963, one of the artist's early works, intriguing for its predominate figure, as he produced few figurative paintings; advancing to the fifth room where light and shadows are being used in Caulfield classic twee interior scenes to understand the depth of pictorial space.

Although Braque's late paintings and Cubist compositions have come under fresh scholarly scrutiny in recent years, Georges Braque: A Retrospective is the first museum exhibition since 1988 to present the full arc of the artist's career, from his first Fauve paintings of 1906 to 1907, to his final monumental canvases of the 1960s.

The first symbolic forms I noticed when examining Marcus's works were the angular features which have been part of our art world universals since the Cubists became interested in the angular shapes of African masks and applied them to their art.

Indeed, she is considered by most art experts to be the first Irish Cubist, preceding Evie Hone and Mainie Jellet.

16: «Georges Braque: A Retrospective»: The first museum exhibit in many years to present the full arc of Braque's career, from 1906 to the 1960s, including more than 25 of his greatest Cubist works.