Sentences with phrase «first as an abstract painter»

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Richly colored acrylic paint - and - paper collages illustrate the life of Vasily Kadinsky, a first painter of abstract art, who as a boy, felt he could hear the colors he painted.

As a painter, Fairfield Porter forged a distinctly American vision out of two disparate styles: the first — intimate, sensual and representational; and the second — colorful, gestural and abstract.

These successes launched Hoptman back to MoMA in 2010 as curator of contemporary art in its painting and sculpture department, and since then her landmark show has been «The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World,» the 2014 conversation - starter billed as the first contemporary painting survey at the institution in some 30 years, featuring 17 contemporary abstract painters — including Mark Grotjahn, Kerstin Brätsch, and Mary Weatherford — who notably remix the techniques of painters from previous eras.

Guston achieved fame in the 1950s as a part of the first generation of abstract expressionists, although the painter himself preferred the term New York School.

Signed LL Theorodos Stamos is heralded as one of the few abstract painters who bridged the New York School's first and second generations.

Painter Arshile Gorky, who committed suicide in 1947, is described as the last of the surrealists and first of the abstract expressionists.

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It recalls America's first abstract painter, Arthur Dove, as well as New Mexico's most famous admirer of the desert, Georgia O'Keeffe.

A possible correction: I don't know abstract painters or surrealists but I do know photographers: Ernst's other woman «Dorothea» is likely not Dorothea Lange as stated in the first part of the article but the Dorothea Tanning mentioned in the second.

When British artists saw the first London exhibitions of American abstract painters such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko in the late Fifties, they were astonished by the improvisatory freedom of their works, in which paint appeared to have been hurled on to the canvas without any preconceived ideas, and by the sheer size of the paintings.

The monograph, designed by Takaaki Matsumoto and authored by philosopher and art critic David Carrier, is the first to trace Rohrer's trajectory over 40 years, describing the highly unorthodox arc of his life — from Mennonite stock in rural Pennsylvania to prominence as an exceptional abstract painter of the late 20th century.

While he did not switch completely over to abstract techniques until 1910, he is regarded as one of the first abstract painters of modern times.

As a small, nervy group in 1936 — led by such figures as painter George L. K. Morris, muralists and WPA leaders Ilya Bolotowsky and Balcomb Greene, and sculptor Wilfred Zogbaum — they challenged Alfred Barr and The Museum of Modern Art to include Americans as well as Europeans in MoMA's first major survey of abstract arAs a small, nervy group in 1936 — led by such figures as painter George L. K. Morris, muralists and WPA leaders Ilya Bolotowsky and Balcomb Greene, and sculptor Wilfred Zogbaum — they challenged Alfred Barr and The Museum of Modern Art to include Americans as well as Europeans in MoMA's first major survey of abstract aras painter George L. K. Morris, muralists and WPA leaders Ilya Bolotowsky and Balcomb Greene, and sculptor Wilfred Zogbaum — they challenged Alfred Barr and The Museum of Modern Art to include Americans as well as Europeans in MoMA's first major survey of abstract aras well as Europeans in MoMA's first major survey of abstract aras Europeans in MoMA's first major survey of abstract art.

This monograph, authored by philosopher and art critic David Carrier, is the first to trace Rohrer's trajectory over 40 years and describes the highly unorthodox arc of his life, from Mennonite stock in rural Pennsylvania to prominence as an exceptional abstract painter of the late 20th century.

In the latest example of the Nasher Sculpture Center's foray into contemporary art, Mark Grotjahn Sculpture is the first museum exhibition to focus on a body of work in this discipline from an artist primarily known as an abstract painter.

But since a major exhibition at Stockholm's Modern Museum in 2013, she's been hailed as the first abstract painter, whose mysterious spirit - guided compositions predate the efforts of male modernist titans such as Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky by a good decade.

The forthcoming exhibition marks 30 years since Ayres was elected as an Associate Royal Academician, and over 50 years since she took part in the Art Council's «Situation», a touring exhibition showcasing the YBAs of the day, including Bridget Riley and Anthony Caro, and which Ayres credits as firmly establishing her reputation as one of Britain's first and most eminent abstract painters.

As suggested by the title of her first UK solo exhibition — which translates as «Gold Rain» — the abstract painter Beatrice Casadesus is infatuated with the illuminating quality of golAs suggested by the title of her first UK solo exhibition — which translates as «Gold Rain» — the abstract painter Beatrice Casadesus is infatuated with the illuminating quality of golas «Gold Rain» — the abstract painter Beatrice Casadesus is infatuated with the illuminating quality of gold.

Henri Rousseau's (1844 — 1910) detached treatment of surface composed of flat, juxtaposed and overlapping planes and grids, foreshadowed many aspects of Modernism have long fascinated Ghenie who regards him as «the first abstract painter».

These two important abstract painters were longtime friends (having first met in the «60s), as well as colleagues, and this exhibition of their work shows an aesthetic conversation rooted in place and the materiality of paint.

The drip - painter Jackson Pollock had his first museum exhibition at SFMOMA, as too did abstract expressionists Arshile Gorky and Clyfford Still.

Sally Yard, author of Willem de Kooning: The First Twenty - Six Years in New York, details the progress of de Kooning's career, from his brief stint as a WPA painter, to his first one - person exhibition of abstract work in First Twenty - Six Years in New York, details the progress of de Kooning's career, from his brief stint as a WPA painter, to his first one - person exhibition of abstract work in first one - person exhibition of abstract work in 1948.

Rochelle Feinstein (born 1947) has long been influential as both an abstract painter and an educator (she was one of the first women to be tenured at in the Visual Arts at Yale, where she still teaches).

But Ms. Remington — a first cousin twice removed of the Western artist Frederic Remington — painted as painters had since the Renaissance and embraced illusion as the raison d'être of painting, abstract or not.

Motherwell created his first collages in 1943, explaining: «For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures».

Professor Evertz, a noted abstract painter, knew Mr. Wells first as his teaching assistant at Hunter, where he was a full professor, then as a colleague and, until the end of his life, as a close friend.

After first establishing herself in New York as a highly regarded abstract painter in the midst of the heavily male New York School, Schapiro continued shaping feminist art, inviting Judy Chicago and the women artists of her Fresno Feminist Art Program to CalArts, and serving as a key player in bringing about the Feminist Art Program's legendary installation art project and performance space, Womanhouse, in 1972.

Theodoros Stamos is heralded as one of the few abstract painters who bridged the New York School's first and second generations.

At the same time, while very interested in first - generation abstract painters such as Richard Pousette - Dart, I'm impatient with latter - day markmaking employed as a conveyance for fuzzy feeling.

After a period of working as a commercial artist in Chicago, she returned to painting in 1912 and read the first translation of the abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky's «Concerning the Spiritual in Art.»

Out of all the Chinese abstract painters, artist Mao Lizi can be said as one of the first that truly embodied what it means to create abstract paintings as a Chinese artist.

As part of its Viewing Room programme, Simon Lee Gallery is proud to present work by American abstract painter Roy Newell (1914 - 2006), marking the first solo exhibition of the artist's work in the...

During the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration hired him as a mural painter, and he was one of the first artists to create completely abstract designs for the project.

A bold and colourful painting by one of britian's foremost abstract painters Gillian Ayres OBE RA Gillian Ayres was the first great English female abstract artist, and is widely acknowledged as one of Britain's foremost abstract painters.

And just when we think we've got it all covered, we encounter new exhibitions of overlooked artists such as the female Brazilian neo-concrete artist, Lygia Clark (b. 1948) at MOMA, in 2014, and much earlier, the abstract painter, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (b. 1862), dubbed the first abstract painter, preceding Wassily Kandinsky.

The show represented my first mature body of work as a newly minted abstract painter!

We are thrilled to be bringing the work of a man described by the Washington Post as one of America's «finest abstract painters» to a UK audience for the first time in more than 20 years.