Sentences with phrase «interests in surrealism»

In the late 1930s, through a friendship with artist John Graham, Gottlieb became interested in surrealism and the theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.

But Stezaker was a student too at a time when a wholesale critique of the pop - cultural image was being launched by such thinkers as Guy Debord; the Situtationists» scurrilous repurposing of media imagery became an exemplary strategy for him, alongside his abiding, and then unfashionable, interest in surrealism.

While neither expressed much interest in surrealism, Diebenkorn's automatism and Matisse's fields of color both find in art a sense of dreamlike suspension.

Any young artist interested in surrealism could simply drop by and attach himself to the group.

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Rudolph's underrated and visually inventive comedy Investigating Sex (2001)-- loosely inspired by José Pierre's study of the relationship between surrealism and sex — returns the director to a more salient concern with the connection between human desire and art; as its characters discuss their thoughts on sex, they sit among paintings and sculptures that would likely have also piqued the interest of Hilly Blue in Trouble in Mind.

This interest in the juxtaposition of divergent aesthetics has its roots in surrealism, [iii] and Gottlieb's passion for large - scale abstraction and mythology's potential to be a living form of expression placed him in the vanguard of American painting.

With «Hernan Bas: The Dance of the Machine Gun & other forms of unpopular expression» at Lehmann Maupin's Lower East Side space, Bas's contemporary waifs have once again been transported to the aesthetic utopianism of German Romanticism, but this time they are shaped by a newfound interest in modernist theater, from Marinetti and the Futurists to the absurdist surrealism of Alfred Jarry's «Ubu Roi» (1896).

Unconscious Unbound: Surrealism in America is part of this renewed interest in American surrealism; its scope challenges the traditional parameters of what constitutes surrealist art while maintaining a spotlight on surrealism's masters.

These shows and their accompanying catalogues have helped sustain existing interest in American surrealists and have sparked new interest in American surrealism on a global scale.

In their work we see a sustained interest in the advancement of abstract painting, responses to the landscape connected to environmental issues, a continued engagement with surrealism and the development of a new kind of non-specific representational narrative paintinIn their work we see a sustained interest in the advancement of abstract painting, responses to the landscape connected to environmental issues, a continued engagement with surrealism and the development of a new kind of non-specific representational narrative paintinin the advancement of abstract painting, responses to the landscape connected to environmental issues, a continued engagement with surrealism and the development of a new kind of non-specific representational narrative painting.

Arising from his interest in philosophy and conceptual art, but nonetheless immensely formal, his work reveals him as an artist who has inherited as much from surrealism and minimalism as from Marcel Broodthaers and Joseph Beuys.

Relating to surrealism and the 20th century mescaline experiments by Henri Michaux, it continues Koester's interest in both physical journeys and psychological exploration.

Open to both undergraduate and graduate students, HAVC courses are rich and varied, taught by faculty scholars with fabulously diverse interests ranging from ethnomusicology to landscape in American film, the role of femme fatales in Western art, contemporary African artists, French surrealism and much more.

Elvic Steele was an Essex - based artist, inspired by Cedric Morris and with an interest in botany and surrealism which infused her work.

Bringing together Oursler's ongoing interest in mysticism, psychedelia, popular culture, and media history, the work employs macabre humor and theatrical surrealism to reflect on the irrational relationship between belief systems and the authenticity of images.

In the post-war era, interest in and connections between the UK and Latin American art shifted away from surrealism and muralism towards abstract geometric, kinetic and op art movements and then towards forms of conceptualisIn the post-war era, interest in and connections between the UK and Latin American art shifted away from surrealism and muralism towards abstract geometric, kinetic and op art movements and then towards forms of conceptualisin and connections between the UK and Latin American art shifted away from surrealism and muralism towards abstract geometric, kinetic and op art movements and then towards forms of conceptualism.

Although Baziotes shared their interest in primitive art and automatism, his work consistently displayed stronger affinities with European surrealism.

Deren's interest in trance, dance and Haitian voodoo, led her to develop a specific body of work defined as «ethnographic surrealism,» aiming at blurring the boundaries between performance, ritual and the real world, and incorporating the primitive and magic worldview within the very film process.