Sentences with phrase «leading figure in painting»

The show covers the last twenty or so years in the career of this leading figure in painting here and across Canada, and is the latest in the MAC's series of monographic exhibitions devoted to artists of Dorion's generation.

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NYCHA figured this out in spring 2016 and has since pushed hard to check 4,200 apartments presumed to have lead paint where children 6 and under live.

In the highlands of Scotland, a scientific expedition led by Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and her significant other Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall - Green) discover a long - lost cave where an over -30,000-year-old painting shows a tall human - like figure pointing toward a specific set of stars.

A leading figure of his generation, Colen pursues an art deeply rooted in the history of painting.

«Through his ties with leading modernists on both side of the Atlantic, Hoyland is a pivotal figure in 20th - century abstraction and the stain paintings from this period, many of which have never been publicly exhibited outside of London, are ripe for rediscovery and new understanding.»

In turn, they would give rise to his fetishistic furniture sculptures of female figures, paintings of women in rubber and exaggeratedly high heels, and their subject matter would lead him on to explore novel techniques of relief printmaking in the later 60'In turn, they would give rise to his fetishistic furniture sculptures of female figures, paintings of women in rubber and exaggeratedly high heels, and their subject matter would lead him on to explore novel techniques of relief printmaking in the later 60'in rubber and exaggeratedly high heels, and their subject matter would lead him on to explore novel techniques of relief printmaking in the later 60'in the later 60's.

A leading figure in the generation of 1960s German artists (along with Gerhard Richter and Blinky Palermo), his output was as varied as it was experimental - encompassing paintings, films, sculptures, notebooks, slide projections and photocopies.

A leading figure of the Korean Tansaekhwa, or «monochrome painting» group, Chung is recognized for the innovative painting method he developed in the early 1970s, which the critic Kwang Suh Oh describes as «taking off / removing» and «re-painting.»

The American artist Daniel Garber was a leading figure in the Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting, also known as the Pennsylvania Impressionists, a group centered around the village of New Hope in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Towards the end of the 1970s Clemente and other Italian Neo-Expressionists largely led the way in reviving figure painting.

She spent seven and a half years in Spain (1963 - 1970), where her work «gradually developed from broad gestural and spatially referenced painting to compositions of a somewhat surreal figure / ground composition... (her) highly saturated brilliant color separated (her) paintings from the leading Spanish artists whose work was darker, grayer and Goyaesque.»

On view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) from February 18 through June 17, 2012, and at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) from February 18 through May 27, 2012, in its only West Coast presentation, Mark Bradford is the first major museum survey of paintings, sculptures, and multimedia works by this leading figure in contemporary American art.

So, as we pass through this collection of around 40 drawings and paintings, we're supposed to look for clues and hints of the later brilliance and construct a narrative or timeline that leads to its blossoming (which, here, comes in the form of At the Edge of Town (1986 - 8), a painting showing a figure emerging onto the kind of semiabstracted landscape for which Doig is best known).

Executed in 1961, Helen Frankenthaler's Untitled coincided with the development of her unique Colour Field technique, solidifying her position as a leading figure of post-war New York painting.

Led by a Sigmar Polke raster dot painting with a $ 20m estimate that would make it only the second Polke work to sell for eight - figures, Christie's has secured the Emily and Jerry Spiegel collection for the May sales in New York.

Bringing together major works from MoMA's extraordinary collection, the exhibition features breakthrough projects in painting, drawing, sculpture, prints, book and graphic design, film, photography, and architecture by leading figures such as Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lyubov Popova, Alexandr Rodchenko, Olga Rozanova, Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg, and Dziga Vertov, among others.

The Figure in Modern British Art, an exhibition curated by Pallant House's artistic director Simon Martin, will bring together paintings and drawings by some of Britain's leading 20th - century painters, including Walter Sickert and Frank Auerbach.

Bob and Roberta Smith creates brightly coloured text - based paintings with powerful social messages; Yinka Shonibare clads figures in colourful batik to create politically loaded sculptural or photographic tableaux; Thomas Heatherwick is one of the world's leading designers, whose Olympic Cauldron fired the imagination of viewers in the opening ceremony in 2012; Rebecca Warren fuses everything from the ideas of conceptual artist Joseph Beuys to the cartoons of Robert Crumb, creating vitrines and lumpy sculptural figures; Conrad Shawcross brings engineering and sculpture into collisions of mechanics, sound, light and space; and Louisa Hutton, of architects Sauerbruch Hutton, designs buildings with a flair for colour and material richness.

Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 8 March will be led by Untitled (One Eyed Man or Xerox Face), one of Jean - Michel Basquiat's finest full - length male figures from his series of grand - scale paintings that took the art world by storm in the early 1980s.

A leading figure in kinetic and technology - based art, Piene employs the use of light and the surrounding environment in his Light Ballet and Fire Paintings, and demonstrates the connection between art, nature, and science.

A leading figure in the contemporary revival of classical painting, Jacob Collins was born and received his formal training in...

As a leading member of the Abstract Expressionists, de Kooning startled much of the art world with the introduction in 1953 of his Women paintings, that «bore clearly recognizable images of females figures, and thus rejected the commitment to non-objectivity that previously characterized his own work and Abstract Expressionism more generally.

The press release states that Pedersen «was among other things a leading figure in the European artist group Cobra, and whose hallmark was a boundless imagination and an inexhaustible joy in creation... Besides the artist's well known pictorial universe, ARKEN's exhibition also demonstrates the variety of Carl - Henning Pedersen's art: war pictures typified by wildness and horror, the eruption of energy in the Cobra years, and later examples of a more texturally oriented surface painting.

The studio of the artist Sidney Nolan — one of the leading figures of 20th - century art, best known for his iconic paintings of Ned Kelly — was recently revealed to the public for the first time since his death in 1992.

In these particular paintings, the motivating kind of force was the idea of Salomé, which led to a certain kind of figure, primarily a female figure.

An important figure in early 20th century American art, the painter and photographer Charles Sheeler was - along with Charles Demuth (1883 - 1935)- the leading exponent of Precisionism, a style of architectural painting that combined the hi - tech aesthetics of Futurism with the sharp geometrics of Analytical Cubism in the depiction of factories, power stations, warehouses and other industrial plant, of the new technological age.

Bringing together major works from MoMA's extraordinary collection, the exhibition features breakthrough projects in painting, drawing, sculpture, prints, book and graphic design, film, photography, and architecture by leading figures such as Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Dziga Vertov, among others.

Painter, sculptor, poet, and musician Larry Rivers was an established figure in the New York School, recognized for creating large paintings merging abstract and narrative elements, as in Washington Crossing the Delaware (1953), where the general leads his men through a space defined by murky oil washes and broad gestural brushwork.

«He developed his own painting philosophy, and in the 1950's, his introduction to Zen Buddhism led him to understand the artist as a figure that embodies both» the intuitive creator and the intellectual spectator».

In «Café Dolly» the powerful paintings of the mature Willumsen can be experienced along with paintings by two of the 20th and 21 century's most significant artists: The Franco - Spanish Francis Picabia, who was Willumsens's contemporary and one of the leading figures in the Parisian avant - garde, and the living American Julian Schnabel (b. 1951), a headliner in the 1980s new painting and a successful film directoIn «Café Dolly» the powerful paintings of the mature Willumsen can be experienced along with paintings by two of the 20th and 21 century's most significant artists: The Franco - Spanish Francis Picabia, who was Willumsens's contemporary and one of the leading figures in the Parisian avant - garde, and the living American Julian Schnabel (b. 1951), a headliner in the 1980s new painting and a successful film directoin the Parisian avant - garde, and the living American Julian Schnabel (b. 1951), a headliner in the 1980s new painting and a successful film directoin the 1980s new painting and a successful film director.

Located in the imposing Palazzo Falier on the Grand Canal, Land Sea will feature a broad selection of new works, many monumental in scale and conceived specifically for this exhibition, offering compelling insight into Sean Scully's recent practice and reaffirming his position as one of the leading figures of abstract painting.

Francesco Clemente has, since the 1980s, been a leading artist in the international revival of expressionist figure painting and sculpture.

A leading figure in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s and an important American abstract painter, Walter Darby Bannard (better known as Darby Bannard) was committed to color - based and expressionist abstraction for over six decades.

A leading figure in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s and an important American abstract painter, Walter Darby Bannard (better known as Darby Bannard) has been...

McNeil speaks of why he became interested in art; his early influences; becoming interested in modern art after attending lectures by Vaclav Vytlacil; meeting Arshile Gorky; the leading figures in modern art during the 1930s; his interest in Cézanne; studying with Jan Matulka and Hans Hofmann; his experiences with the WPA; the modern artists within the WPA; the American Abstract Artists (A.A.A.); a group of painters oriented to Paris called The Ten; how there was an anti-surrealism attitude, and a surrealist would not have been permitted in A.A.A; what the A.A.A. constituted as abstract art; a grouping within the A.A.A. called the Concretionists; his memories of Léger; how he assesses the period of the 1930s; the importance of Cubism; what he thinks caused the decline of A.A.A.; how he assesses the period of the 1940s; his stance on form and the plastic values in art; his thoughts on various artists; the importance of The Club; the antipathy to the School of Paris after the war; how Impressionism was considered in the 40s and 50s; slides of his paintings from 1937 to 1962, and shows how he developed as an artist; the problems of abstract expressionism; organic and geometric form; the schisms in different art groups due to politics; his teaching techniques; why he feels modern painting declined after 1912; the quality of A.A.A. works; stretching his canvases, and the sizes he uses; his recent works, and his approaches to painting.

Biography: An artist who mixed the hot colors of Pop Art with the cool, more analytical qualities of Color Field painting, Edward Avedisian was among the leading figures to emerge in the New York art world in the 1960s.

Biography: A leading figure in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s and an important American abstract painter, Walter Darby Bannard (better known as Darby Bannard) has been committed to color - based and expressionist abstraction for over five decades.

Her early paintings, dating from the late 1930s, established her as a leading figure in the Icelandic avant - garde community (many of whom met together in a house in Reykjavík called Unuhús).

A leading figure in the «Neo-Realist» movement that emerged in China during the 1990s, Xiadong paints from life — often in plein air settings — and has an eye for narrative details, mannerisms, and subtle human interactions.

By then he was a leading figure of the Munich avant - garde and, together with German painter Franz Marc, he would found the hugely influential Expressionist «Blue Rider» movement in 1911, named for his painting, Der Blaue Reiter (1903).

The most substantial monograph ever devoted to Albert Oehlen.Albert Oehlen has established himself as one of the leading figures in contemporary painting thanks to a continually evolving practice that focuses more...

A pioneer of abstract art, the North Dakota - born American painter Clyfford Still was one of the leading figures in the New York School of avant - garde Abstract Expressionism, which took root in the 1940s and became the predominant style of painting until its replacement by Pop art during the mid-1960s.

A leading figure in the museum field, he has organized dozens of acclaimed exhibitions around the world and authored significant companion publications, primarily in the areas of contemporary art and 19th - century European painting.

Albert Oehlen has established himself as one of the leading figures in contemporary painting thanks to a continually evolving practice that focuses more on overcoming formal limitations and on experimentation than on the subject of the work.

But above all, Claude remained a painter of nature, which was why the great John Constable (1776 - 1837)- one of the leading figures in the English School of Landscape painting - described Claude Lorrain as «the most perfect landscape painter the world ever saw».

The artist Kim MacConnel is a leading figure in the pattern and decoration movement of the 1970s, known for his paintings and fabric collages.

These paintings positioned Tàpies as a leading figure in Europe's avant - garde and signaled the beginning of a lifelong investigation of materials and forms that made him one of the most influential postwar artists.

The first major retrospective of the paintings of George Bellows to be seen in thirty years, this exhibition afforded a welcome opportunity to reassess the work of a leading figure in early 20th - century American art.

Rothko's first important one - man show in 1945 at the Art of This Century Gallery in New York City established him as a leading figure in postwar American painting.

At the time of the painting's acquisition, the unsigned work carried the title of In the Woods and was believed to be by the hand of Asher B. Durand, a leading figure of the first generation of the Hudson River school painters in the mid-19th centurIn the Woods and was believed to be by the hand of Asher B. Durand, a leading figure of the first generation of the Hudson River school painters in the mid-19th centurin the mid-19th century.