Sentences with phrase «from surrealism»

He has at some point been identified with nearly every style of the 20th century — from surrealism's free association and the gestures of abstract expressionism to the cerebral forms of minimalism and the brutish marks of graffiti.

The biomorphic forms and automatist elements came from surrealism and Picasso's work of the thirties.

Entitled 20IN15 this group show was organized with the intention to round up truly diverse names in contemporary art, ranging from figurative to street art, from surrealism to abstraction.

Not unlike his Melbourne contemporary Russell Drysdale (1912 - 81), Nolan's mature style borrows heavily from expressionism and (very occasionally) from surrealism.

Robin Jaffee Frank, Chief Curator and Krieble Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, will discuss Peter Blume's politically charged 1936 painting The Eternal City and make visual and thematic comparisons to other works in the collection, from surrealism to contemporary art.

WHAT WE CALL LOVE: FROM SURREALISM TO NOW Major exhibition and accompanying programme of events exploring the modern evolution of love

Stretching from surrealism's ideal of «amour fou» («crazy love»), through the cool - as - they - come pop art sexiness of the 60s to the self - conscious ironies (and inhibitions) of postmodernism, an array of big - name artists put on quite a show here.

In the post-war era, interest in and connections between the UK and Latin American art shifted away from surrealism and muralism towards abstract geometric, kinetic and op art movements and then towards forms of conceptualism.

Arising from his interest in philosophy and conceptual art, but nonetheless immensely formal, his work reveals him as an artist who has inherited as much from surrealism and minimalism as from Marcel Broodthaers and Joseph Beuys.

WHAT WE CALL LOVE: FROM SURREALISM TO NOW Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin, Irland Curated by Christine Macel and Rachael Thomas With (amongst others): Louise Bourgeois, Constantin Brancusi, Brassaï, André Breton, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Dupuy, Elmgreen and Dragset, Jean Genet, Alberto Giacometti, Felix Gonzalez - Torres, Henrik Olesen, Yoko Ono, Meret Oppenheim, Man Ray, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Pablo Picasso, Wolfgang Tillmans, Akram Zaatari September 12 — February 7 2015 www.imma.ie

Journey of a Young Man (1957 is a sententious work marking Ortman's transition from surrealism to purely geometric constructions.

For instance, during the 1930s the advertising industry was quick to take visual mannerisms from surrealism, but this does not mean that 1930s advertising photographs are truly surreal.

Opening: «Hedda Sterne: Machines 1947 - 1951» at Van Doren Waxter One of the few women in the New York School of artists and poets, a group of post-war American artists that included the Abstract Expressionist painters Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, Hedda Sterne was a Romanian - born painter and sculptor who made work that ranged from surrealism to expressionism between the 1940s and her death at 100 years old in 2011.

«Robert Motherwell: The East Hampton Years, 1944 - 1952» will reveal the explorations of Motherwell as he transitioned from surrealism and automatism to abstract expressionism, according to the museum, and reveal works that are lesser known.

Once again the direction from Ito is outstanding and visual creativity contains elements that borrow from surrealism and horror.

Not exact matches

He doesn't shy away from French surrealism, John Milton, and even ran an excellent profile of rising crime fiction talent J. Mark Bertrand.

But there is also a meticulously realistic modernism that carefully reproduces pieces of the world out there, but in such fashion as either to tell a story that is impossible in the world, as in surrealism, or to alienate the depicted reality altogether from our quest for coherence.

Blood, guts, and offbeat surrealism in another crackpot classick from «The Wizard of Gore» himself, director Herschell Gordon Lewis.

He has a gift for bumping realism into surrealism with a well - placed nudge, for writing dialogue that drives his actors into each other's faces (if not each other's souls), and for picking up and distilling eerie signals from the heartland — anxieties that blossom into conspiracy theories, conspiracy theories that explode into delusions.

A fable - like story about a young African girl banished from her village for alleged witchcraft, it blends deadpan humor with light surrealism, vivid visuals and left - field musical choices.

Adding to that impression are the bold stylistic shifts from realism to surrealism, from action to horror to lyricism to black comedy to allegory and back again.

But those very defects give the film a special mood, lucid in its nastiness, but not too far from black surrealism.

Moving the franchise away from Tim Burton's noir surrealism and Joel Schumacher's camp day glo was the right thing to do.

«Directed from Jon Raymond's fact - based script, this suggestively allegorical, discreetly trippy Western recalls Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man and even Werner Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God in its evocation of frontier surrealism and manifest - destiny madness; the Reichardt approach is, however, more stringent and pointed in its weirdness.»

Ignored by most audiences, this is a subtle, sublime work that merges the best of Villeneue's craft — his arch, noir tendencies from Prisoners, his level of detail exhibited with Polytechnique, his sense of complexity beautifullly realized in Incendies, and even some of the morose surrealism of Enemy.

Strong chemistry between Mendelsohn and Reynolds ease the more predictable elements from taking hold and directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck «s ability to slam the occasional magical surrealism into his pragmatic sentiment makes Mississippi Grind a well - played victory, if not a chip - sweeping royal flush.

Whereas in Haneke's film the shot has some naturalistic grounding, Carax ventures into dreamy surrealism right from the start, and doubles down on the meta by making his a film - going audience.

They share a background in comedy, but cite everything from punk to surrealism and the occult as influences on Tunley's...

It's all portrayed in the game's unforgettable visuals, a dreamlike diorama of cardboard and sponge that blends the home - made aesthetic of Michel Gondry music videos with the heady surrealism and humour of stop - motion children's TV from decades ago, shows like The Clangers or The Magic Roundabout.

Double Fine's modern re-imagining of classic adventure gaming logically involves a talking cave, but we're perfectly fine with a spot of surrealism from the mind who brought us the Monkey Island series.

There's a strong element of surrealism with Broken Age that we've come to expect from Double Fine games, but it's taken even further through brilliant art design and excellent fully voiced dialogue.

From steampunk to surrealism, Star Wars to country cottages and futuristic cities to wildernesses, these aesthetics impress

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Motherwell took the haptic magic of the best of dada / surrealism and the cool hedonism of late Matisse and mixed it up with the high velocity and headstrong lunge for originality that he had absorbed from his New York painter peers of the 1940s.

In futile attempts to run away from the insane real world, they bump into the surrealism of their inner lives, and realise being an essential part of occurrence.»

FANTASTICAL WORLDS: From majestic depictions of imaginary realms to inventive works of abstraction, expressionism, and surrealism, we seek works that put a fantastical spin on the world around us.

Aaron Curry melds pop culture, surrealism, and modernism, creating a futuristic vision from historical styles of abstract art.

Anachronistically frozen in space, his mythological taxidermy hybrids insinuate elements of surrealism, drawing from an ancient register that collides with futuristic settings.

The works in Surrealism USA are borrowed from public and private collections in the United States and abroad, and all aspects of the Surrealist movement in America are represented: the figurative depictions of a fantasy world by Peter Blume, Dorothea Tanning, and Helen Lundberg; the social surrealism of O. Louis Guglielmi, James Guy and Walter Quirt; the imaginary landscapes of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy; Joseph Cornell's enigmatic and poetic constructions; the lyrical abstractions of Arshile Gorky and William Baziotes; the automatic experiments of Jackson Pollock and Gerome Kamrowski.

The 1940s in New York City heralded the triumph of American abstract expressionism, a Modernist movement that combined lessons learned from Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, surrealism, Joan Miró, cubism, Fauvism, and early modernism via great teachers in America like Hans Hofmann and John D. Graham.

With «Hernan Bas: The Dance of the Machine Gun & other forms of unpopular expression» at Lehmann Maupin's Lower East Side space, Bas's contemporary waifs have once again been transported to the aesthetic utopianism of German Romanticism, but this time they are shaped by a newfound interest in modernist theater, from Marinetti and the Futurists to the absurdist surrealism of Alfred Jarry's «Ubu Roi» (1896).

An exhibition of works drawn from the museum's permanent collection considers the work of Chicago artist Frederick D. Jones Jr. in relation to the art movement known as social surrealism.

Arshile Gorky's portrait of someone who might be Willem de Kooning is an example of the evolution of abstract expressionism from the context of figure painting, cubism and surrealism.

Since the 1950s, artist Maria Lassnig has incorporated painting techniques from various art - historical periods into her practice — realism, surrealism, and expressionism alike — in an effort to develop a distinct style of painting that blends figuration with abstraction.

Direct connections with French surrealism were maintained through Riopelle, the most prodigious of the young painters, who moved to Paris in 1946, and Leduc, who lived there from 1947 to 1953.

Hueller's work, while almost abstract, plays with three - dimensionality, figurative elements and shapes and forms derived from such diverse influences as surrealism and die Brücke.

Saul's garish personages emerge from a place where cartoon culture meets surrealism.

Her confrontational sculptures straddle surrealism, sexual politics and morbid humour, creating raw physical forms from found objects, industrial materials and food.

In «Color (less)», presented in the upper - story townhouse space of Van Doren Waxter, a single room of drawings reveals decades of studio secrets ranging from abstract expressionism and surrealism through minimalism.

Focusing on personal poetics from multiple perspectives and through various mediums, Seldon Yuan's work extends across a spectrum that plays on optical effects, absurdity, surrealism, language, familiar objects and spaces that are often in service of a personal narrative.