Sentences with phrase «generation artists figured»

By contrast, Pretty Raw positions Frankenthaler as central to an alternative account of second - generation artists figured as more «feminine,» not only for the contributions of Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Jane Freilicher, and other women, but also for the gay artists who presented a counterpoint to the previous generation's macho posturing.

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Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world.

That theme of redefining mainstream narratives of history and representation holds throughout Figuring History, an exhibition of 26 works by three successive generations of African - American artists: Colescott, Kerry James Marshall and Mickalene Thomas.

His groundbreaking images of black figures influenced a new generation, including artists Amy Sherald, Rashid Johnson, and Kehinde Wiley.

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.

Ironically (from an Owens perspective), the roster of figures Foster discusses — Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, Gretchen Bender and, working as a team, Jenny Holzer and Peter Nadin — includes two (Sherman and Prince) who are among the most celebrated artists of their generation, another who recently enjoyed a retrospective at the Whitney (Levine), and a fourth whose work has long been ubiquitous in museums and public spaces (Holzer).

Gianfranco Foschino is a key figure in a new generation of artists from Chile.

In much the same way the Pictures Generation had to deal with figures like Warhol, said Hal Foster, a critic and Princeton professor: «Wade's generation has to deal with Pictures Generation artists like Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince and JGeneration had to deal with figures like Warhol, said Hal Foster, a critic and Princeton professor: «Wade's generation has to deal with Pictures Generation artists like Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince and Jgeneration has to deal with Pictures Generation artists like Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince and JGeneration artists like Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince and Jeff Koons.

The activities of that era provided a path for the increasingly influential voices and innovative practices of new generations of contemporary artists working today, figures such as Nina Chanel Abney, Mark Bradford, and Adam Pendleton, whose recent publications are also among the best of 2017.

He returned to Europe in the mid-60s and was a key figure in the first generation of British conceptual artists.

One of the most iconic figures that emerged from the post-World War II American art, Frank Stella is a painter and a printmaker whose influential work is considered to be crucial to the generations of artists that moved beyond Abstract Expressionism.

Painters such as Noel Mahaffey, John Moore, Elizabeth Osborne and Warren Rohrer tackled traditional subjects such as the landscape, the figure or interiors with new expressive energy - stirred by Pop, and influences from an older generation of artists such as George Segal, Agnes Martin, Alice Neel and Alex Katz.

It features key examples of the technique by artists from various periods and regions, from historical figures like the Czech surrealists Jindřich Štýrský and Toyen, to post — World War II artists such as Alighiero Boetti and Roy Lichtenstein, to contemporary artists of different generations, including Anna Barriball, Jennifer Bornstein, Morgan Fisher, Simryn Gill, Matt Mullican, Ruben Ochoa, Gabriel Orozco, and Jack Whitten.

A leading figure in the generation of 1960s German artists (along with Gerhard Richter and Blinky Palermo), his output was as varied as it was experimental - encompassing paintings, films, sculptures, notebooks, slide projections and photocopies.

Historic modernist figures including Sonia Delaunay, Louise Bourgeois, Anni Albers and Hannah Ryggen are included alongside a new generation of artist makers.

Their extravagantly installed exhibitions, the artists» free - wheeling individual approaches, and their varied and compelling work have all had a wide - ranging and profound influence on several generations of their students and on many younger artists since then, including such well - known figures as Chris Ware (SAIC 1991 — 93), Sue Williams, Gary Panter, and Amy Sillman — as has been documented in the recent film Hairy Who & the Chicago Imagists.

Sarah Lucas rose to fame in the early 1990s as a key figure in a generation of «Young British Artists».

He is part of a generation of artists who gained prominence when abstract expressionism's specter remained strong; several of its leading figures — like Still, De Kooning, and Motherwell — were alive and making important work.

Canadian artist Kelly Richardson is one of the leading representatives of a new generation of artists working with digital technologies to create hyper - real, highly charged landscapes, alongside figures such as John Gerrard and Saskia Olde Wolbers.

Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice will be the first exhibition since 1956 to explore the drawing practice of this major figure of the Venetian Renaissance and will offer an entirely new perspective on Tintoretto's evolution as a draftsman, his individuality as an artist, and his influence on a generation of painters in northern Italy.

But this divide is often exaggerated: I can imagine painters like Mr. Schnabel and Mr. Fischl thinking, if the Conceptual and performance artists, and their Pictures Generation progeny, can use figures and tell stories, we can, too.

An influential and pioneering figure, German artist Thomas Bayrle (b. 1937 lives and works in Frankfurt) has been an important reference for several generations of artists, both through his

Chen Wei is a prominent figure in a new generation of internationally minded artists working within the realm of photography in China.

Yet in conjunction with the country's recent economic boom, the international art market has begun to sit up and pay attention: Brazilian galleries have multiplied, institutional attention has intensified and a whole generation of younger artists, along with overlooked figures from a previous generation, has come to wider attention and secured representation, critical coverage and collectors from abroad.

Painting walls, floor and most of seven sculptural tableaux a medium gray, Pictures Generation artist Barbara Bloom transforms David Lewis into a monochrome stage set, echoing the vintage black - and - white photographs of actors and literary figures that constitute the starting point for each of her works.

Alongside Gerhard Richter and Blinky Palermo, Polke was a key figure in the generation of German artists who first emerged in the 1960s.

As an important figure in the second generation of Southern California ceramicists to deny the boundaries of traditional crafts, Shire has led the way for a surge of interest in ceramics among younger contemporary artists.

1996 African - American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, III, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY The Countee Cullen Art Collection from the Hampton University Museum, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA Three Generations of African American Women Sculptors: A Study in Paradox, Afro - American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, PA; The Equitable Gallery, New York, NY; Museum of African American Life and Culture, Dallas, TX; California Afro - American Museum Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of the National Center of Afro - American Artists, Boston, MA; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; Center for the Study of African American Life and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Woman's Work: A Century of Achievement in American Art, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA The Figure in American Sculpture: A Question of Modernity, National Academy of Design, New York, NY

Current Exhibitions Forthcoming Exhibitions Past Exhibitions Publications The Museum's temporary exhibition programme regularly juxtaposes the work of leading, well - established figures with that of younger - generation artists to create a debate about the nature and function of art.

Showcasing over 280 artists in alphabetical order, it place established figures like Jeff Wall, Marlene Dumas and Maurizio Cattelan alongside the rising stars of the next generation such as Camille Henrot and Haroon Mirza.

He became a rising figure within a generation of young artists in Japan and in the international Pop art movement.

A key figure in the first generation of British conceptual artists, he was a professor at Goldsmith's College, where he trained many of the YBA (Young British Artists), such as Damien Hirst and Garartists, he was a professor at Goldsmith's College, where he trained many of the YBA (Young British Artists), such as Damien Hirst and GarArtists), such as Damien Hirst and Gary Hume.

A crucial figure in post-war California art, Berman is known for his series of poetic and sepia - toned Verifax collages that articulated the voices of poets, musicians, and visual artists from America's underground Beat generation.

This sale brought together some of the most in - demand artists and provided us with the opportunity to display classic German painters such as Albert Oehlen, Martin Kippenberger and Gerhard Richter alongside the major contemporary figures such as Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, Jonas Wood, Amy Sillman and Charline von Heyl who are forming the next generation of painters.

Stan Douglas, born in Vancouver in 1960, is among a younger generation of artists that has come of age artistically around figures like Jeff Wall and Rodney Graham.

Mitchell was a leading figure in the group of artists known as the second generation of abstract expressionists.

In the case of the New York School, that self - described Greatest Generation of midcentury artists, newer histories have moved past the singular, heroic - figure narrative to emphasize the era's inherent collectivism and internationalism, and the presence of women — and not just as wives or lovers.

In addition to more familiar figures such as artists Christian Boltanski, Daniel Buren, Yves Klein and Annette Messager, architects Le Corbusier, Jean Nouvel and Renzo Piano, and designer Philippe Starck, Premises introduces a younger generation of French artists and architects, including Absalon, Thomas Hirschhorn, Pierre Huyghe, Patrick Berger, Frederic Boerl, Anne Lacaton and Jean Philippe Vassal, who had not yet become widely known outside France at the time of publication.

Donald Rodney (1961 — 1998, Birmingham, UK) was a leading figure in Britain's BLK Art Group of the 1980s and became recognised as one of the most innovative artists of his generation.

While her legendary status and influence on artists of all generations means Schneemann (born in 1939) continues to be a central canonical figure, it is shocking that «Water Light / Water Needle» — a modest collection of photographs, drawings, and a single video work currently on view at Hales Gallery — is her first solo exhibition in London.

One of Britain's most original and inventive sculptors, Penelope Curtis, former director of Tate Britain, has described Flanagan as «a maverick figure but a maverick who was absolutely central to the artistic conversation of the 1960s and 70s».2 One of the influential generation of artists studying at St Martin's School of Art in the early to mid-1960s, Flanagan reacted against the formal rigidity of sculpture at that time, challenging the nature of the medium and contributing to a new understanding of the practice.

The show covers the last twenty or so years in the career of this leading figure in painting here and across Canada, and is the latest in the MAC's series of monographic exhibitions devoted to artists of Dorion's generation.

I think she's a seminal figure for a younger generation of artists — especially British ones — that work in the field of performance art; paradoxically, her work has had almost no exposure in London over the last few years.

One of the leading figures of Italian Arte Povera (an art movement that flourished during the 60's, which literally means poor art) proves to be an ever inspiring creative and one of the most prominent artists of his generation.

Overall, Painting / Light / Space shifts the conversation around Pousette - Dart away from his canonization as major figure of the New York School towards an investigation of his role as a maverick and a mentor for new generations of artists.

Version No. 2 of Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe, 1968, by Francis Bacon (estimate on request), The Garage, 1929, by Sir Stanley Spencer (estimate: # 1.5 - 2.5 million), offered from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, and Industrial Scene, 1951, by L.S. Lowry, each define a high point in the artists» careers at moments when their invention established them as innovative geniuses of their generation.

Jonas (b. 1936, New York) is regarded as a pre-eminent figure in contemporary performance who continues to influence a younger generation of artists.

As a towering figure of 20th century American conceptual art and as one of the most influential teachers of a generation of artists, Baldessari's new works ultimately questions the very nature of the artist's place within the canon of art history itself.

Like many artists of her generation, including Larry Rivers, Nell Blaine and her close friend, Robert De Niro Sr., Ms. Tabachnick was familiar with the gestural techniques of Abstract Expressionism, but, looking to Matisse, preferred to used them in portraits, landscapes and figure paintings.

Operating for nearly four decades in Houston, Texas, McClain Gallery represents works by important figures of modern and contemporary art while also supporting younger generations of artists, particularly those based in Texas.