Sentences with phrase «giants of abstract art»

The giants of abstract art, who tended to be white men, listened while they painted to the modern, experimental jazz of blacks.

Bridget Riley A giant of abstract art, a national treasure.

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The blank stare of a giant Homer Simpson; a gurning Mickey Mouse; a half - erased Batman cowl: this is the vocabulary of Joyce Pensato (b1941), the born - and - bred Brooklyn artist who for the past 30 years has been creating eerie and explosive large - scale portraits of cartoon characters and cultural icons, marrying pop art sensibilities with abstract expressionist - inspired execution.

A giant of modern British art, Howard Hodgkin (1932 — 2017) made a name with his luscious abstract paintings smeared with radiant colour to recreate intimate memories of loved ones and encounters in time.

It was while working in New York as a sign painter by day and an abstract painter by night that he had the idea to import the giant - scale, broadly painted representational pictures from outdoor advertising into the realm of fine art.

The key developments in the history of abstract art, from relatively unknown artists such as Hilma af Klint to giants of the movement like Mondrian, Klee and Kandinsky

Upstairs, Lévy has assembled a knockout exhibition of works by postwar giants Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and Cy Twombly, kindred spirits whose mostly abstract art evokes poetry, silence, and the infinite.

A giant of 20th century American art who occupied the area between abstract art and representationalism, the Dutch - born artist Willem de Kooning was the most consistent and longest - living contributor to the postwar Abstract Expressionism movement, and an iconic figure in avant - garde art.

His notable works include Double Negative (1969 - 70), a pair of trenches in the desert near Overton, Nevada, created by displacing 240,000 tons of rock, and City, an ongoing project in Lincoln County, Nevada, described by critic Michael Kimmelman as «a suite of giant, variously shaped abstract sculptures over an area that covers more than a mile end to end — modern art turned into monumental abstract architecture, with ancient ruins as the model.»

Now ranked among the giants of modern American art, Rothko is regarded as one of the greatest abstract painters of the 20th century.

To draw people in and make the kind of East - West, ancient - contemporary connections that the museum is increasingly exploring, Knight, the senior curator of Chinese art, has integrated works by three Asian - influenced American abstract artists into the gallery where Zhang Ruitu's giant scroll hangs: Franz Kline, Brice Marden and Mark Tobey.

The story of abstract art in America has long focused on the male stars of the New York School, the giants of abstract expressionism including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, who sought to convey emotion rather than form.

Jones stands amongst those twentieth century giants of British abstract art such as John Hoyland, Bert Irvin, John McLean and Terry Frost, to name but a few, and whose influence is noticeable in works such as No Pasaran and Duality.