Sentences with phrase «high modernism»

These artists used images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work, while retaining the abstraction and painterly gestures of high modernism.

He engages ink or chlorine and manual resist - dyeing techniques to produce abstract patterns that feel like faint memories of Western High Modernism in that they allow for doubt, failure and chance.

Suspended between the sublime, or sublimated, and the visceral, Jukkala playfully combines devices of high modernism with elemental images, exploring the world generated by his primitive visual logic.

That first showing of his late figurative paintings had been assailed by critics and admirers of high Modernism as an act of heresy, a fully - fledged betrayal of abstract painting.

Abstraction finally crystalized into the picture plane in high modernism when the German Bauhaus school and Dutch artist group De Stijl, and individuals auch as Piet Mondrian, Kasimir Malewitsch and Sophie Tauber - Arp, developed distinct styles using destilled geometric shapes in their compositions and designs.

The critics of high modernism celebrated the painter's mark upon the canvas, especially the first one - that initial splatter, spray, drip, zip.

Technological media, beginning with print, was the driving force behind virtually all things modern from high modernism located in formalism, new criticism, and differentiation, and in even the avant - garde; [xxv] to the rigid structure of Newtonian mechanics and Fordist supply - side capitalism.

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As such, the exhibit proffers an eccentric set of forms linked more by materiality, scale, and a delicately refined craft that feels inspired by high modernism while combatting it.

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HOW CAN AN ARTIST keep high modernism alive when rumors of its death abound?

One sees an emphasis on European art that may surprise visitors expecting a paean to American high Modernism.

In the 1940s, however, she tried to work her way through high Modernism, and it meant playing around with European painting.

Nostalgia for the Concourse came to mind while taking in Christian Maychack's latest exhibit at Jeff Bailey, being that so much of his work, to my eye, playfully sends up or gently skewers high modernism.

And it sets a precedent for the red square in Piet Mondrian's Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red (1937 - 42), which sits at the heart of this exhibition, upholding high modernism and geometric abstraction at their most sophisticated.

Saddest of all, the multinational institution of high Modernism comes off as a dead end.

Rebecca Warren's (b. 1965, UK) striding high - heeled legs fuse high Modernism with the lowly comic book in an expression of pure eros.

However, high modernism began to merge with consumer culture after World War II, especially during the 1960s.

Her intricate looped and tied wire sculptures sit comfortably between the biomorphic high modernism of Brancusi, Arp, and Noguchi, and the wider world of engineering, design, and craft.

From 4m to 40 cm in width, the range rendered US high Modernism as a cartoon film reel, a flick - book sequence.

She is being positioned within high modernism in Brazil.

Appropriately, for an artist whose career has taken him from Scotland to England, from England to the Netherlands and Belgium, and then to California, where he is now, these works capture simultaneously something of the weighty confidence of European high Modernism, northern English phlegm and late - twentieth - century West Coast lassitude.

In comparison, the exhibition catalogue (MIT Press, 2004) focuses more on the theoretical than on the political implications of this transitional period between high modernism and postmodernism, when the United States overthrew the shackles of European dominance and became a world - class art power.

Bush was fully immersed in up - to - the - minute high modernism, being good friends with Noland, Olitski, Caro, etc..

On the other wall from Lasker's works hang those of Swiss - born Olivier Mosset, who practises an ironical and exhausted high modernism, painting flat and uninflected grids and cruciform shapes vaguely reminiscent of paintings by Mondrian or Malevich.

If the «Awning» series evokes Color Field Painting (as well as the work of Daniel Buren and aspects of Supports / Surfaces), the central dialogue in most of her black - and - white work is with figures from high modernism: Moholy - Nagy, Mondrian, Brancusi, Man Ray.

Disregarding the flat picture plane so celebrated by high Modernism, Held deliberately constructed the illusion of deep space, and then populated it with an unpredictable, animated interplay of edges, forms, volumes and, ultimately, ideas.

The critics of high modernism celebrated the painter's mark upon the canvas, especially the first one - that initial spla...

Koetje includes many references to high modernism in her paintings, from uninflected geometric forms to collage - like compositions that evoke the colorful and hard - edged arrangements of Stuart Davis» jazz - infused paintings.

Samplers and blanket chests take up residence next to luminous paintings from the Hudson River School and works of high Modernism by the likes of Georgia O'Keeffe.

Perhaps you thought that the classic works of high modernism - works like Ulysses or The Waste Land - were important because they had something pertinent to say about the spiritual conundrums of modern life.

This critic - created infrastructure comes to life when set against the persistent catchphrases and metaphors of High Modernism.

Back then, abstract painting investigations were still rooted in aesthetic considerations coming on the heels of high modernism.

If feminism, postmodern cynicism, and Greenberg's high Modernism can agree on anything, self - assertion demands more than charm.

He reviews approaches to Classicism, such as that of Joseph Anton Koch, the Romanticism of Carl Blechen or Carl Rottmann, and the High Modernism of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, for instance, in his searching for a contemporary means of addressing Nature.

In the process, he firmly established himself as a master of high modernism.

She sticks to a bastion of high Modernism, abstract painting, in bright waves of color.

After that, though, any resemblance to high Modernism and its subtle geometry was purely incidental.

Both used images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work, while retaining the abstraction and painterly gestures of high Modernism.

While some scholars see modernism continuing into the twenty first century others see it evolving into late modernism or high modernism, [18] which is then superseded by postmodernism.

His biomorphic curves could oppose nature and local traditions to high Modernism.