Sentences with phrase «for radical experimentation»

Once associated with young women and amateur «Sunday painters,» the medium became, in the hands of Winslow Homer and John Marin, a theater for radical experimentation.

In my most recent work, I hope to live in the tradition of landscape painting, experiencing it for what it has always been: an occasion for radical experimentation and confrontation with the world, in the broadest sense of the term, that sustains us.

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What is clear is that a radical programme for British and continental European social democracy is unlikely to emerge from «ivory tower» blueprints, rather through a constant process of «bold, persistent experimentation», in FDR's memorable phrase.

«Through their pieces, the artists featured in this exhibition investigate alternative frameworks for perception, often occupying its margins — responding to conditions of invisibility as well as what can not be represented — through radical experimentation.»

Renowned for his technical experimentation, Degas (French, 1834 — 1917) exhibited just one sculpture during his lifetime, the controversial Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen, which startled visitors to the 1881 Impressionist exhibition with its unidealized physiognomy and radical use of real materials such as silk slippers and a wig made from human hair.

The exhibition will include key works from 1963 to the early 1970s, encompassing a period of radical experimentation for the artist and presenting the range of variation he was able to achieve in his constructions.