Sentences with phrase «first modern abstract art»

One of the most important 20th - century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract art works.

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Soon after World War II, the center of the avant - garde shifted from Europe to the United States when the first American - grown modern art movement — abstract expressionism — was born.

This is our first sighting of a body of work that could hold its own in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art or the Museum of Modern Art and in the history of American abstract painting.

Vasily (Wassily) Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) was a Russian painter, teacher, and art theorist who was one of the first artists to explore nonrepresentational art and, in 1910, created the first totally abstract work in modern art, a watercolor entitled Composition I or Abstraction.

Working before Kandinsky and Malevich, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint was arguably the first abstract painter in the history of modern art

(January» 56) Influenced by exhibition «Modern Art in the United States» at Tate Gallery, London, his first encounter with American abstract painting.

The Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. proudly presents Dance of Light, a solo exhibition featuring 70 radiant, spiritual works that evoke an abstract vision of the natural world by Bang Hai Ja, celebrated as being among the first generation of professional artists from Korea to embrace abstract art in the modern era.

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 veart 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 veArt mounted the first exhibition of cubist and abstract art — but neglected American artists working in this veart — but neglected American artists working in this vein.

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 aArt to include Americans as well as Europeans in MoMA's first major survey of abstract artart.

The first show I did when I got into the Museum of Modern Art was the «New Images of Man» and I would say that the people that showed there not only had WORD coming from Chicago but European showed there, SOMONE, SOMEONE, Francis Bacon and many others were every bit as important as the abstract expressionists both in America and Europe.

In 1955 he organized the first exhibition of American abstract art at the Museum of Modern Art, Tokart at the Museum of Modern Art, TokArt, Tokyo.

1910 is the official date given by Alfred Barr, founding director of New York's Museum of Modern Art, for the creation of the first abstract paintings, but Af Klint made her forays into abstraction four years earlier — in 1906.

The first is that the Modern art historical construction of abstraction (via Clement Greenberg et al) ignored a centuries - long history of abstract and formalist practices from around the world.

And I don't exactly — I can't remember exactly how he did it, but this was done — it was organized around the same time that the Museum of Modern Art was doing its first American abstract show, which showed the first generation around World War I and the «20s and the second generation, the «30s and «40s.

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.

The Scottish Modern Art Gallery's new retrospective is his first UK show in two decades, and begins spectacularly in the grounds, where the bright yellow - painted bronze «Declination» (2004), a huge bottle form metamorphosed in combination with other vessels into an abstract push - and - pull dynamic, echoes the twisting energy - plus - elegance of Charles Jencks's permanent landscape spiral.

Wassily Kandinsky was the creator of the first modern abstract paintings by following the concepts of nonfigurative art and notions of connection between art, music and spiritual forces.

Jarvaise got his first burst of attention in 1959 when his abstract paintings were selected by curator Dorothy Miller for her 16 Americans show at the Museum of Modern Art.

Gottlieb became one of the first exponents of abstract expressionist painting to be collected by a major arts institution when, in 1945, New York's Guggenheim Museum bought 11 of his works, followed, in 1946, by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, who purchased a single work.

For the exhibition, which first opens at Yorkshire Sculpture Park before touring to other venues around the UK, Gander has selected works from 30 different artists featured in the Collection, pairing figurative sculptures with other artworks containing the colour blue, which to Gander represents the abstract ideas often found in modern and contemporary art.

During the first half of the 20th century, representational painting was for the most part sidelined in favour of the «modern» abstract art that came to dominate France and the rest of the world.

Into the Light at Tate Modern, sponsored by Hyundai Card, will provide the first opportunity to closely explore the relationship between abstract art and photography.

Thanks to exceptional loans from the Hartung - Bergman Foundation (Antibes), the Museum of Modern Art (New York) and the Albright - Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo), key works by the artist have been brought together for this survey exhibition tracing the artist's development from his first abstract works in about 1922 through 1989, the year of his passing.

«Women of Abstract Expressionism, for the first time, positions this expanded group of painters within the context of abstract expressionism and its cultural milieu,» said Gwen Chanzit, curator of modern art at the DAM.

One of the first abstract painters to be specifically linked with Minimalism was the Abstract Expressionist Frank Stella (b. 1936), whose black «pin - stripe» paintings made a huge impact at the 1959 art show («16 Americans») staged by Dorothy Miller at the Museum of Modern Art in New Yoart show («16 Americans») staged by Dorothy Miller at the Museum of Modern Art in New YoArt in New York.

These include: JMW Turner (a painter arguably 50 years ahead of his time); Claude Monet (the first revolutionary of modern painting); Ilya Repin (the first painter to capture the authentic detail of life in Russia); Picasso (for his mastery of figurative and abstract art in almost all media); Marcel Duchamp (the pioneer of Dada and Object Art, from which Conceptual Art emerged); the husband and wife team Christo and Jeanne - Claude (empaquetage, or packaging); Andy Warhol (the first and arguably greatest postmodernist); Gilbert & George (living sculptures); Damien Hirst (art's greatest self - publicist) and of course the graffiti terrorist Bankart in almost all media); Marcel Duchamp (the pioneer of Dada and Object Art, from which Conceptual Art emerged); the husband and wife team Christo and Jeanne - Claude (empaquetage, or packaging); Andy Warhol (the first and arguably greatest postmodernist); Gilbert & George (living sculptures); Damien Hirst (art's greatest self - publicist) and of course the graffiti terrorist BankArt, from which Conceptual Art emerged); the husband and wife team Christo and Jeanne - Claude (empaquetage, or packaging); Andy Warhol (the first and arguably greatest postmodernist); Gilbert & George (living sculptures); Damien Hirst (art's greatest self - publicist) and of course the graffiti terrorist BankArt emerged); the husband and wife team Christo and Jeanne - Claude (empaquetage, or packaging); Andy Warhol (the first and arguably greatest postmodernist); Gilbert & George (living sculptures); Damien Hirst (art's greatest self - publicist) and of course the graffiti terrorist Bankart's greatest self - publicist) and of course the graffiti terrorist Banksy.