Sentences with phrase «for the generations of artists who»

Noland's provocative exploration of the more nefarious aspects of American culture paved the way for a generation of artists who also use methods of appropriation in their critique of culture, including Anne Collier, Leslie Hewitt, and Lorna Simpson.

Portraying worlds that are full of mythology and bursting with possibility, Owens is a model for a generation of artists who embrace the constant reinvention of the medium of painting.

This exhibition demonstrates how, with razor - sharp humor and intelligence, Rauschenberg broke down boundaries between disciplines, anticipated many of the defining cultural and social issues of our time, and redefined what art could be for the generations of artists who followed.

The exhibition demonstrates how, with razor - sharp humor and intelligence, Rauschenberg broke down boundaries between disciplines, anticipated many of the defining cultural and social issues of our time, and redefined what art could be for the generations of artists who followed.

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«Bowie represented, to my generation, in a way that is hard to explain, this kind of model for what it meant to be an artist or creative person,» says Evan Ziporyn, who will also present a novel arrangement of Satie's Gymnopédies.

The vast technical background necessary for creating cinematic stories, illuminating interviews with the greatest living filmmakers, in - depth analyses of high quality movies... The material provided by Cahiers du Cinéma, Sight & Sound, Cinemagic, Cinefantastique and many others has inspired thousands of people to dedicate their lives to filmmaking, and thanks to the wonders of modern technology, these priceless cultural beams of historic value and prime educational significance continue to inspire, astonish and enlighten us, bringing up a new generation of artists who might persevere and thrive to one day fill the shoes of the likes of Orson Welles, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Jean - Pierre Melville, Agnes Varda, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher and dozens of others whose work continually delight and move us in every way possible.

Calligraphy, miniature painting, Sufi mysticism, and other traditions are the starting point for a new generation of artists from the Islamic world who are using the language of contemporary art to inflect their work with multiple layers of meaning.

1951 was also a critical year for constructivism in Brazil, with the first São Paulo Biennale, which asserted its modern foundations in concrete art and concrete poetry, and with the figure of the Swiss artist, Max Bill, who was to exert great influence on this new generation of artists.

Hero to a generation of younger artists, Joan Jonas is a pioneer of performance and video who has pushed the boundaries of art for the last five

It was there that she found her artistic home, associating with a group of artists — including Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, and Sherrie Levine — who became known as «the Pictures Generation» for their habit of appropriating images from advertising and popular media and questioning their embedded assumptions about desire and happiness.

Smith, who is director of the museum, has commissioned «My Generation: Young Chinese Artists,» a special exhibition that would assemble a large group of emerging Chinese artists in a U.S. museum for the firsArtists,» a special exhibition that would assemble a large group of emerging Chinese artists in a U.S. museum for the firsartists in a U.S. museum for the first time.

I think many of those so - called Second Generation artists were first rate but were shortchanged; they were judged more for who influenced them and classified by which year their work was made than how good their work was.

The artist who redefined the meaning of sculpture for his contemporaries and future generations with his unique vision and innovative techniques, Brancusi was the first one who created a sculpture that moved away from strictly representational.

While there is now a generation of artists who prepare works specifically for a fair, most artists still want to create art for a gallery space or a museum space.

In this obscure and fascinating tale of how an Italian artistic dynasty intertwined with Hollywood history and influenced the imaginary of different generations and distant cultural environments, the real statue featured in the movie was executed in 1933 by Salvatore Cartaino Scarpitta, the first Italian artist who officially worked for Hollywood studios.

This summer The Venice Biennale will showcase an emerging generation of young British artists who, according to the Biennale's curator, Massimiliano Gioni — noting an «exciting time for art in London over the past year» — are «dealing with media culture in an innovative and unusual way».

«Beyond his commitment to educating the next generation of artists, Snyder is a practicing artist who demonstrates a passion for creating a unique and interdisciplinary educational culture that will help our students extend the boundaries of their creativity.»

«I feel like a lackey of the contemporary art establishment forced to repeatedly apologise to my board for failing to beat the Chisenhale Gallery in showcasing an entire younger generation of post-Internet artists who jokily yet unnervingly use a cut - and - paste, horizontally - dispersed aesthetic in a dilettante fashion.»

This exhibition showcased works from the leading artists of a generation, who have used the city walls as a channel for their creative energies.

There's an entire generation of people — some of whom are now 10 years into their gallery histories — who have galleries on the Lower East Side, and I think that that should be a place for them to show their generation of artists.

I think that that argument, that line, might very well have led to Wade and lots of other smart artists who are making paintings for reasons that are really quite different than the artists of my generation.

The late conceptual photographer was a member of what critic Douglass Crimp called the «Pictures Generation» — a group of artists in the late»70s who rejected the predominant values of object - based Minimalism in favor for a return to imagery, or more specifically, commercial imagery related to advertisements and film / television.

Neel, the grand dame of 20th - century portraiture, has influenced generations of artists, including Dumas, who wrote an essay for the catalogue.

This effectively removed from the artist's studio any hands - on art making, a shift that would hold great importance for the then - rising generation of Conceptual artists, who held that ideas themselves, exempt from any materialization, can exist as art.

Internationally recognized, Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962) is often linked to the first generation of visual artists who established the critical benchmarks for the inclusion of time - based media as a collection category within museums and galleries in the United States and Europe.

A classically trained artist who studied at age eleven in the Leonardo da Vinci Art School, the same atelier that Isamu Noguchi attended, which was created for New York's working poor in Alphabet City, Carone went on to become a member of the first generation of Abstract Expressionists.

Thus they spread the way for a new generation of artists who combine virtual reality with other media in a seemingly effortless manner, the Internet as their ubiquitous and inexhaustible source of inspiration.

Their endeavors have the potential to reshape the art market for black artists and help generate critical scholarship, institutional attention, documentation and sales, both for past generations of black artists who were passed over by white curators, and today's contemporary black artists.

Golden's catalogue essay for the show introduced the concept of «post black,» a term coined by Golden that «identified a generation of black artists who felt free to abandon or confront the label of «black artist,» preferring to be understood as individuals with complex investigations of blackness in their work.»

This summarizes the life path of Gerhard Richter, one of the most famous contemporary artists, who's been an inspiration for generations of artists.

EW: There will always be good artists of a younger generation, as Vicky Usle who was in my Anniversary Show «Silver Lining» recently, or Willa Schwabsky, the very young daughter of critic Barry Schwabsky and artist Carol Szymanski, whom I showed for many years.

Entitled Drip, Drape, Draft, the show presents works by Robert Davis, a close friend of Johnson for more than a decade; Angel Otero, who he has known for some six years; and Sam Gilliam, an older artist from what Johnson refers to as «an almost lost generation of black abstract painters», with whom he recently struck up a mutually significant friendship.

According to Helen Molesworth, chief curator at ICA Boston, who organized «This Will Have Been,» a shift took place in the 1980s, which changed the notions of love and desire for a new generation of artists.

«They're conceptual pieces in the sense that I gave them a set of instructions, you know, à la Sol LeWitt,» she explains, invoking the conceptual artist who famously left directions for future generations to recreate his oeuvre.

Since then, there have been many artists who've used photo collage, like Pictures Generation artists John Baldessari and Barbara Kruger, as a means for expressing the ubiquity of images and bold feminist statements, respectively.

Feminism in the art world resulted in a much larger presence for women artists in the 1970s and 1980s, and the «Pictures» generation — those who arrived on the New York City art scene in the late 1970s (many from California Institute of the Arts or Buffalo State College) and experimented radically with using borrowed images — may be the first group of artists associated with a particular movement in which there are as many (or more) high - profile women as there are men.

This combination of gravitas and up - to - date engagement gave Steinberg a privileged position in the dialogue around the newest art, and he emerged as not only a witness but an important instigator in the transition from Abstract Expressionism (and Greenberg - ian strictures) to the next generation of artists, who were leaving behind painterly theatrics for the icier criticality of Pop.

Edgar Orlaineta is a Mexican artist who has developed several functions in his environment, not only as an artist but also as a cultural and contemporary art promoter, for example, during 1996 to 1998 he ran a project space called Art Deposit where a lot of artists from his generation had a chance to exhibit their work for the first time.

A video offers a behind - the - scenes look at a photoshoot for T Magazine featuring 17 of the artists who made up the Pictures Generation.

The New Museum Triennial is the only recurring international exhibition in New York City devoted to emerging artists from around the world, providing an important platform for a new generation of artists who are shaping the current discourse of contemporary art and the future of culture.

The artists selected for show are the voice of a new generation, who are responding directly to the outside world, to the vanity of social media and to the socio - political backdrop that informs our culture today.

Featuring more than 40 works by modern artists ranging from Mary Cassatt to Georgia O'Keeffe who paved the way for future generations of professional women artists, Modern Women at PAFA presents paintings and sculptures by over 20 female artists whose works explore the following themes: motherhood and beauty; the natural landscape; self - portraiture; women in their community; women illustrators; and modern women in motion.

In the process of knowing him, I began to sort things out and realized there was a generation of artists born after the end of World War II who could not be fairly held responsible for what took place before their birth and were very aware of their past and wanted to make amends.

The exhibition traces the impact of the work of 20th Century pioneers of textiles, fashion and handcrafted practice, such as Anni Albers, Louise Bourgeois, Sonia Delaunay, Eva Hesse and Hannah Ryggen, on younger generations of artists who incorporate similar materials and processes into their work, as well as bringing together 8 new works, created especially for the show.

It is the only recurring international exhibition in New York City devoted to emerging artists from around the world, providing an important platform for a new generation of artists who are shaping the current discourse of contemporary art and the future of culture.

We like to think of the Academy of Fine Art as a unique collective: artists from a variety of backgrounds, countries, fields, genders and generations who have come together to create what they consider an ideal space for the development of their artistic practices.

Ms. Bloom studied at CalArts and belongs to that generation of artists that includes Louise Lawler, Richard Prince and Sherrie Levine, artists who are known for combining found imagery and text to make art that reflects on contemporary culture.

Ms. Holt, who lived and worked for many years in Galisteo, N.M., was one of the few women to pursue monumental sculpture in the American West, a place whose wide - open spaces drew a generation of restless artists like Michael Heizer, Walter De Maria, James Turrell and Robert Smithson, whom Ms. Holt married in 1963.

Known primarily for her photo - and video - based work, Shirreff is part of a generation of young artists whose reflections on photography have revitalized the medium, but who eschew thinking of themselves as photographers in the classical sense.

This monolithic dead end is, however, only a sculptural starting point for Alice Konitz, who, since graduating from CalArts in 1999 (after arriving from Germany), has gradually and rather quietly emerged as one of the most important Los Angeles - based artists of her generation.