Sentences with phrase «influence of surrealism»

One clear thread is the influence of surrealism, an unsurprising reference point for an exhibition focused on fantastical imagery.

Joseph Cornell, the American artist in assemblage and collage, began showing at Julien Levy's gallery with the surrealists, and from his first collages of 1931 Cornell demonstrates the influence of surrealism - although, as he wrote in 1936 to Alfred Barr (the Director of the Museum of Modern Art who organized «Dada, Surrealism, and Fantastic Art»), «I do not share in the subconscious and dream theories of the surrealists.»

Bringing together women surrealist painters from the 1930s and women under the influence of surrealism today, Dreamers Awake gets down and dirty with the mystical and the erotic, the spectre of identity and sexual politics.

After a brief viewing of Surrealism: The Conjured Life, Curator Lynne Warren engages the artists in a conversation about their work and the influence of surrealism.

Dzama is one of the only artists I can think of for whom a heavy influence of surrealism doesn't pull the work into a cliched territory and this is reflected throughout his display.

(New York City, March 10, 2010)-- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to present Unconscious Unbound: Surrealism in America, the gallery's first exhibition in over a decade dedicated to the influence of surrealism on American figural and abstract art.

Her sculptural stoneware and porcelain vessels display the influence of surrealism and her respect for natural organic forms, in contrast to the machine aesthetic prevalent in the pre-war era.

The Pyes» artistic output spans photography, film, performance, video, and installation while acknowledging the profound influences of surrealism in film, narrative conventions in painting, 19th and early 20th century portraiture, and conceptual approaches to subject matter.

This was clearly a period of great growth for Sommer, who further drifted toward the pursuit of the avant - garde, and whose work bridged the influences of surrealism and abstract expressionism.

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The sense of disconnection is what's at play in The Big Lebowski — the total failure of communication, the feeling of being stuck in time, and an analysis of The Big Sleep that suggests that it's had its major influence not on the mainstream detective thriller, but on surrealism and post-modernism.

We already mentioned that surrealism influenced the emergence of Action Painting.

During her school days, talented young Trockel has already shown an undeniable interest is the grotesque and the unusual and majority of her early artworks were influenced by the later forms of surrealism.

Like Pablo Picasso's innovative reinventions of painting and sculpture near the turn of the century via Cubism and constructed sculpture, with influences as disparate as Navaho sand paintings, surrealism, Jungian analysis, and Mexican mural art, [26] Pollock redefined what it was to produce art.

Micheal Bracewell discusses the pervading influence of folklore, mythology, mysticism and the occult in the development of modernism and surrealism...

Recommended reading In the London Review of Books, T.J. Clark visits Tate Britain's Paul Nash retrospective, observing that «surrealism, if an artist is to be influenced by it, is best taken in operatic overdoses for a very short time».

This fantasy of a direct projection of thought not only had a decisive impact on the birth of abstraction but also influenced surrealism and its obsession with the collective sharing of creation and, in the post war period, it gave rise to numerous visual and sound installations inspired by the revolution in information technology, leading to the declaration of «the dematerialisation of art» in conceptual practices...

Featuring artists such as Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Man Ray Kay Sage, and Dorothea Tanning, Surrealism in America showed the pervasive influence of European surrealism in America while demonstrating artists» diverse responses to it.

Merging in most successful way surrealism and Japanese influences, geometrical and organic forms his creations in stone are some of the most exquisite examples.

Influenced by surrealism, the studies of Freud and Jung, African art, and Pacific Northwest Native American art, Pousette - Dart pursued the transcendental not only in abstract forms, but also in the very way in which he applied paint.

Operating between documentary and fantasy — especially in the form of science fiction — his practice is influenced by both conceptualism and surrealism.

His body of work The Matriarch's Rhapsody utilizes his mother's drawings and music recordings as a primary resource, influenced by consumer culture, medicine, fashion, surrealism, math, sex, astrology, philosophy, and matrilineal concerns.

So I think to some degree, the influence of Jason's playfulness, or of Ahndraya's surrealism, for example, has shown up in my own work, much to the work's benefit I think.

Arp influenced many artistic developments of the 20th century from abstraction and surrealism, to constructivism.

After viewing the «Colin Goldberg: Techspressionism» exhibition at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller in East Hampton, I was reminded of how much less attention has been paid to the influence of Japanese sensibilities on the evolution of surrealism, abstract expressionism and other non-objective approaches in the west since the early years of the 20th century.

Some sixty works by seven artists are presented, including French surrealist Pierre Roy (1880 - 1950), a major influence on Cornell (1903 - 1972); Leo Rabkin (b. 1919), one of the few survivors of native surrealism; and several contemporary artists, such as Lucas Samaras (b. 1936), Elspeth Halvorsen (b. 1929), Maureen McCabe (b. 1947), and Ted Victoria (b. 1944).

2/3 - 12/5/2018 SURREALISM: A CONVERSATION The exhibition will cover the period between 1923 and the early 1960s, and will seek to reaffirm the overarching influence of the Surrealist movement.

Initially inspired by philosophy, Motherwell's commitment to painting was cemented following his move to New York in 1940, where he was influenced by the principles of surrealism and his friendship with Roberto Matta; among the highlights here is Mexican Window (1974) which references a trip Motherwell and Matta took to Mexico in 1941.

These works were both influenced by surrealism and a harbinger of Pop Art and, as such, form an art historic bridge between movements.

In the late «80s and «90s, Lichtenstein's work reflected an increasing influence of cubism and surrealism, often taking the form of abstract geometrical figures.

A central figure in the history of feminist art, Christina Ramberg explored traditional notions of beauty and their relationship to our bodies in her paintings from the 1960s and 70s exhibiting a wide range of influences including costume history, surrealism, outsider art, Pop art, and comics.

Bringing together over 150 works, the exhibition also reveals the profound influence surrealism has had on a host of contemporary artists, filmmakers and architects.

Citing American painters Wayne Thiebaud and Robert Bechtle as primary influences, Townsend's work is a mixture of pop, photo - realism, surrealism and representational interpretations of largely mid-century subject matter.

Influenced in his use of colour, like Rothko, by the abstract artist Milton Avery (1885 - 1965) known as the «American Matisse», Gottlieb's surrealism received a boost in 1940 with the arrival in America of European Surrealists fleeing the German Occupation of Paris.

Though the exhibition looks to the future of textile work, McIntosh selected work that was in conversation with the art - historical influences like cubism, surrealism, dada, abstract expressionism, color field, and minimalism.

Identified as part of the California hard - edge painters, after she left surrealism - influenced work behind, Windblown has an unmistakable lightness and seems to foreshadow later works that more closely incorporate references to the landscape into her geometric abstract paintings.

Influenced by automatic drawing that he picked up from European surrealism and pushing boundaries withlarge fields of flat colour.

Most scholarship has viewed Smith's early work as developing in a linear fashion, from the European influences of Picasso and cubism in the 1930s; to a figuratively based, highly detailed, American surrealism in the 1940s; to a lyrically abstract, expressionist expansiveness in the 1950s; culminating with the seemingly disconnected breakthrough embodied in the reduced, geometric monumentality of his final works.

Ernst's art is influenced by Japanese woodblock, the motion of jazz improvisation, Asian aesthetics, geometric art, abstract expressionism and surrealism.

Despite its conservative style illusionistic surrealism continued the movement's radical exploration of the content and workings of the unconscious mind, although it was the abstract wing of the surrealist movement that influenced members of the New York School in the forties.

Michel Remy, professor of art history at the University of Nice and author of Surrealism in Britain, describes her influence as «of the same importance to British surrealism as the arrival of Dalí in the ranks of the French surrealists».

His work took on a singular style, which defies categorization but shows the influences of the dominant movements of the 1950s, abstract expressionism and surrealism, as well as the dominant movements of the 1930s and early 1940s, social realism and the American Scene.

Initially influenced by surrealism and cubism, abstract expressionists rejected the social realism, regionalism, and geometric abstraction so popular with American painters of the 1930s.

His work reflects the influence of socialist realism, and owes a debt to Surrealists Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, although Rauch hesitates to align himself with surrealism.

Each of these artists combined the predominant avant - garde influences of cubism and surrealism (imported to New York by European exiles from World War II) as well as the writings of Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Jean - Paul Sartre with their own personal concerns to create the distinctive works for which they are best known.

By 1933, the young artist had settled in the French capital, where he was surrounded by a number of painters devoted to surrealism, and although he claimed little affinity with this style, his landscape work sometimes hints at the influence of surrealist masters such as Giorgio de Chirico.