Sentences with phrase «influenced several generations of artists»

As a pioneering conceptual artist, performance artist, film - maker, poet, musician, writer and peace activist for over five decades, Yoko Ono (born 1933) has influenced several generations of artists, musicians and cultural workers across the globe.

In this installation, explore a sampling of his work — from neon signs and video to fiberglass sculpture — which has influenced several generations of artists across the world.

Over a decade after her death, Mitchell's distinctive work continues to influence several generations of artists.

Not exact matches

This exhibition explores the influence of Michael Jackson on some of the leading names in contemporary art, spanning several generations of artists across all media.

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.

Claimed as a Fauvist, a Surrealist, Expressionist, and a Magical Realist, the Spanish painter and sculptor Joan Miró has had an enormous influence on the work of several generations of succeeding artists.

The exhibition presents works by fourteen artists of European and American provenance over several generations who operate in terms of both form and contents between a conceptual reception of painting and an investigation of influences from the mass media.

«These efforts countered the persona of the humble, oblivious naïf by detailing his assured single - mindedness and tracked the extensive influence his work exerted on several generations of vanguard artists,» critic Roberta Smith wrote in a review of a later exhibition.

This show explores the influence of his depictions of ruddy - cheeked, sturdy - limbed, pleasure - seeking peasants and mysterious landscape paintings on the several generations of Bruegels who followed in his footsteps and other contemporary artists.

A leading figure in modern art of the early 20th century, Ernst influenced an entire generation of contemporary Surrealists artists including Salvador Dali (1904 - 89) and Yves Tanguy (1900 - 55), as well as several members of the New York School of abstract expressionism.

Indeed, Schanbel, a nearly household - name artist who has been a vast influence on young artists today (you could argue he's spawned a generation of acolytes and copycats), has only cracked $ 1 million at auction once; in contrast, Cecily Brown has several times.

Gilbert & George Artforum International; January 1, 2007; Gilligan, Melanie; 312 words LONDON Gilbert & George TATE MODERN February 15 - May 7 Curated by Jan Debbaut Gilbert & George claim that «Most people who saw our last retrospective [in the UK] are dead,» but their influence on several generations of younger British artists is clear.

Spearheaded by a generation of American artists - strongly influenced by European expatriates - who had grown up during the Depression and were influenced both by World War II and its Cold War aftermath, abstract expressionist painting was neither wholly abstract nor expressionist and encompassed several quite different styles.