Sentences with phrase «important modern art movements»

A sub-variant of the wider Art Informel style - one of the most important modern art movements in Europe during the post-World War II period - Tachisme was a blotchy form of gestural painting, a European variant of «action - painting.»

The French abstract sculptor, engraver, collagist and poet, Jean (Hans) Arp, was a prominent member of numerous important modern art movements of the 20th century, including the Moderne Bund, the Blue Rider Expressionist Group, Dadaism and Surrealism, as well as the sculptural artist - groups Cercle et Carre and Abstract - Creation.

The European equivalent of American Abstract expressionism, Art Informel was one of the most important modern art movements in Europe during the post-World War II period (1940s, 1950s).

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Surrealism, the modern French art movement started in France in the 1920's There is the founder and leader André Breton who only wrote, and the surrealist important artists Hans / Jean Arp, Joan Miro, Marcel Duchamp.

The National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) is Barcelona's and Catalonia's most important art museum which holds impressive collections from the Romanesque period all the way to the 20th century modern art and the avant - garde movemeArt Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) is Barcelona's and Catalonia's most important art museum which holds impressive collections from the Romanesque period all the way to the 20th century modern art and the avant - garde movemeart museum which holds impressive collections from the Romanesque period all the way to the 20th century modern art and the avant - garde movemeart and the avant - garde movement.

By 1911 Cubism attracted a long list of adherents and became the important international measuring stick against which all the modern art movements and important avant garde ideas were weighed.

Be sure to check out booths by Galerie Ernst Hilger from Vienna, representing the works of artists such as Erró and Mel Ramos, along with exponents of Austrian modernism from the 1960s onward and the main exponents of the most important international art movements of the 20th century; Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer from Vienna, representing emerging and mid career artists; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac from London, Paris and Salzburg, specialised in international, contemporary art representing around 60 artists and a number of renowned estates; SUPPAN FINE ARTS from Vienna, focusing on international and modern as well as representatives of art after 1945; and PIFO Gallery from Beijing, representing a selection of Chinese and international artists with a core focus on minimalism and abstraction; among others.

To celebrate the opening of Tate Modern's Richard Hamilton retrospective, we've profiled the five most important figures in the British Pop art movement, from elder statesmen to artists who died before their time.

Industrial structures and elements become an essential part of their imagery that also draws some inspiration from important movements from the history of modern art and design such as De Stijl and Constructivism.

An important influence on modern art painting in the United States, Precisionism was an American movement (also referred to as Cubist Realism) whose focus was modern industry and urban landscapes, characterized by the realistic depiction of objects but in a manner which also highlighted their geometric form.

«The exhibition will contribute to a more complete understanding of this important mid-20th century movement by presenting artists beyond the handful of painters who have previously defined the whole in textbook accounts,» said Gwen Chanzit, the curator of modern art at the DAM, in a statement.

Visitors will have the opportunity to explore the cultural and artistic riches of a country whose contributions to art not only have enriched the most important international artistic movements, but also have influenced the currents of the modern age through a vision that incorporated inherently Mexican elements.

• What are the Most Important Movements of Modern Art?

Throughout the 1930s she wrote about and taught art - the latter in both Dublin and Cork - playing an important role in the history of Irish painting, as an early proponent of abstraction in art and as a champion of the modern movement.

To Pollock and others of his generation, Cubism and Surrealism were the most important of the European modern art movements, and in many ways Pollock's works of 1942 - 46 are products of these two influences.

As one of the most important movements of the 20th century art, Surrealism was highly influential on a number of avant - gardes and a variety of modern and contemporary techniques, styles and artists.

Abstract Expressionism remains the most important and quintessential American art movement to date and was instrumental in shifting the gravitational center of the modern art world from Paris to New York in the mid-twentieth century.

(Suprematism, Constructivism, and De Stijl, the early avant - garde movements that were Minimalism's point of departure, had a conceptual dimension, as the theoretical writings of their artists make clear, but it was their rejection of representation in favour of pure abstraction that gave them their important place in the history of modern art, in the eyes of Greenberg.

His artworks have been included in many important group shows such as the seminal exhibitions in 1965 that established the perceptual art movement, Vibrations Eleven, at the Martha Jackson Gallery, New York and The Responsive Eye, at the Museum of Modern Art, New Yoart movement, Vibrations Eleven, at the Martha Jackson Gallery, New York and The Responsive Eye, at the Museum of Modern Art, New YoArt, New York.

The least strident sub-variant of the wider Art Informel style - itself one of the most important European modern art movements of the post-World War II period - Lyrical Abstraction (or «Abstraction Lyrique») was a French style of 20th century painting in the manner of American Abstract ExpressioniArt Informel style - itself one of the most important European modern art movements of the post-World War II period - Lyrical Abstraction (or «Abstraction Lyrique») was a French style of 20th century painting in the manner of American Abstract Expressioniart movements of the post-World War II period - Lyrical Abstraction (or «Abstraction Lyrique») was a French style of 20th century painting in the manner of American Abstract Expressionism.

In doing so I risk perhaps being unjust to important works or to aspects of art which are generally not comprised within the so - called modern movement.