Sentences with phrase «influential painting style»

In this brief essay from Phaidon's Art in Time: A World History of Styles and Movements, we learn about the historical developments and key artists that paved away for this highly influential painting style.

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Paul Jackson Pollock born 1912 in Cody, Wyoming was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement well known for his unique style of drip painting.

Inokuma, 1902 — 1993, along with artists such as Kenzo Okada, Yayoi Kusama, Minoru Kawabata, and Atsuko Tanaka — currently exhibiting at the Grey Art Gallery — who showed extensively in the United States and Europe, synthesized the flat, decorative, and suggestive style of traditional Japanese painting with Western abstraction in ways which were recognized at the time as international, innovative, and influential.

In this brief essay fromPhaidon's Art in Time: A World History of Styles and Movements, we learn about the historical developments and key artists that paved away for this highly influential American painting style.

The ambitious animation aims to tell the story of Vincent Van Gogh's influential but troubled life, using 12 hand - made oil paintings per second that were created in the style of the legendary painter.

Grimes writes: «Although Ms. Freilicher... studied with Hans Hofmann, the influential teacher and theorist of abstraction, she put her expressionist style of paint - handling and all - over approach to the canvas at the service of recognizable images, a course that made her an outsider in an era dominated by abstraction.

This retrospective, the most comprehensive examination of Wool's career to date, goes beyond these now - iconic word paintings to present nearly 90 paintings, photographs, and works on paper that showcase the wide range of styles and painterly techniques the artist has employed throughout his influential career.

Since his first solo exhibition in 1985, Belgian artist Luc Tuymans (born in 1958) has established himself as one of the most influential painters working today, known for his distinctive painting style as well as for his choice of historically and emotionally charged subject matter.

One of the most influential American art critics in the field of modern art, during the 1960s and 70s, Harold Rosenberg coined the term «Action Painting» in 1952 for a particular style of Abstract Expressionism.

Curated by the National's Jeffrey Weiss, the show traces Rothko's development from his early figurative expressionism through his mythographical explorations of the»40s and the floating zones of deep color that characterize his mature style — work that made him one of the most celebrated and influential forces in the midcentury triumph of American painting.

After Cole's death in 1848, Asher B. Durand (1796 — 1886), President of the highly influential National Academy of Design, took over as leader of the Hudson River School, and in the late 1850s published a series of «Letters on Landscape Painting» outlining the attributes of the School's signature style of idealized naturalism.

Originally starting out as a painter concentrating on narrative themes, Martin eventually developed her signature influential style of hand - painted grids on canvas, with muted backgrounds.

An early exponent of Symbolism, and an influential figure in French painting of the 19th century, the artist Gustave Moreau was known for his visionary style of mythological painting and imaginative history painting.

Cubism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism were the most important of these movements, and attracted a number of indigenous American artists, including: the New Jersey Cubist / Expressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - American artist.

Cynical Realism - a term first coined by the highly influential art critic and curator Li Xianting (b. 1949) as a deliberate play on the officially sanctioned style of Socialist Realism - describes a style of painting adopted by a number of Beijing artists in the post-1989 gloom following the suppression of the Tiananmen Square demonstration.

Although Ms. Freilicher (pronounced FRY - licker) studied with Hans Hofmann, the influential teacher and theorist of abstraction, she put her expressionist style of paint - handling and allover approach to the canvas at the service of recognizable images, a course that made her an outsider in an era dominated by abstraction.

His unique style of painting was influential in the international revival of large - scale, figurative painting that characterized much of the artistic production of this decade.