Sentences with phrase «leading figure painter»

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William Scott: Divided Figure celebrates the centenary of the birth of Scott, one of the leading and most influential British painters of the 20th century and a central figure in European and AmericaFigure celebrates the centenary of the birth of Scott, one of the leading and most influential British painters of the 20th century and a central figure in European and Americafigure in European and American art.

Willem de Kooning was a Dutch - American Abstract Expressionist painter and a leading figure within the so - called New York group of American modernists, which included Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko.

For nearly 50 years the beloved landscape painter, a leading figure in contemporary American art, has spent summers on a hillside farm in West Brattleboro.

It took her from being a painter and leading figure in the Brazilian neo-concretist movement, an offshoot of European constructivism, to becoming a maker of abstract sculptures that were as much propositions as fixed objects.

He is not only a fabulous painter who has sold work in major NYC galleries but continues to be a leading figure «in democratizing the art world, using the Internet to change the making and selling of -LSB-...]

Piet Mondrian was a Dutch abstract painter and a leading figure of De Stijl, along with Theo van Doesburg.

In the 1990s Drapell was widely exhibited in the United States and Europe, where he was recognized by American critic Kenworth Moffett and Parisian gallery owner Gérald Piltzer as a leading figure among the «new new painters,» a grouping of abstract artists in Canada and the northeastern United States whose work is characterized by high - keyed, glossy colour and built - up surfaces.

As a small, nervy group in 1936 — led by such figures as painter George L. K. Morris, muralists and WPA leaders Ilya Bolotowsky and Balcomb Greene, and sculptor Wilfred Zogbaum — they challenged Alfred Barr and The Museum of Modern Art to include Americans as well as Europeans in MoMA's first major survey of abstract art.

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.

He was a printmaker and painter, one of the leading figures of the color woodcut revival in America.

Francis Picabia was a celebrated French avant - garde painter, poet and typographist who was one of the leading figures of the Dada movement both in Paris and New York.

The leading figures of the generation of painters that came to maturity after 1945 include Gerhard Richter (born 1932), Georg Baselitz (1938), Sigmar Polke (1941), and Anselm Kiefer (1945).

The exhibition will feature new portraits of Diane von Furstenberg by four leading figures in Chinese contemporary artists — conceptual artist Zhang Huan, photographer Hai Bo, painter Li Songsong, and multimedia artist Yi Zhou — resulting in a dialogue that brings the narrative of Diane's ongoing collaborations with visual artists into the global age of the twenty - first century.

Maurice de Vlaminck was a French painter and a leading figure in the Fauvism art movement, famous for his vivid pure colors and expressive landscapes.

Carlo Carra was an Italian painter whose avant - garde artwork established him as the leading figure of the dynamic and radical Futurist movement.

This exhibition presents portraits of designer, muse, collector, and icon Diane von Furstenberg by some of the most celebrated artists of the past four decades, along with a retrospective of DVF fashion spanning the last forty years.Diane von Fustenberg: Journey of a Dress features works by artists including Francesco Clemente, Chuck Close, Helmut Newton, Julian Opie, and Andy Warhol, as well as new portraits of von Furstenberg by four leading figures in Chinese contemporary art: conceptual artist Zhang Huan, photographer Hai Bo, painter Li Songsong, and multimedia artist Yi Zhou.

Kenneth Martin was a British painter and sculptor who was a leading figure in the revival of Constructivism in Britain and America in the 1940s.

German painter, Max Beckmann began his artistic career as a traditional painter before becoming a leading figure in the Expressionist movement.

Fernando Botero (b. 1932) Columbian artist, leading South American painter noted for obese figures.

Its main aim is the promotion of Chinese and international contemporary art through a variety of exhibitions featuring both established and emerging contemporary Chinese painters, as well as retrospectives for leading figures in the visual arts world.

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.

«It's such an exciting thing to share with other people,» said Liu, a leading figure among Chinese Neo-Realist painters and professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

The style was exemplified by the plein air painting of Monet, Sisley, Renoir and Camille Pissarro, although other painters were also part of the Impressionist group, including Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Frederic Bazille, Gustave Caillebotte, as well as Mary Cassatt, one of the leading figures of the American Impressionism movement (c.1880 - 1900).

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.

The exhibition presents the work of leading painters who, since World War II and up to the present day, worked in London and depicted the city's human figure, landscape and everyday reality, with their own distinctive and personal vision.

Rivers was a leading figure in the New York School, a loose - knit group of painters, writers, dancers, and musicians who formed the core of the East Coast avant - garde in the 1950s and «60s.

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: 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.

Note: In addition to Judy Chicago, other modern artists who became pioneers of Feminist ideas included: Miriam Schapiro (1923 - 2015) a leading figure in the Pattern and Decoration art movement; video - artist Doris Totten Chase (1923 - 2008); painter / printmaker Nancy Spero (1926 - 2009); «maintenance artist» Mierle Laderman Ukeles (b. 1939); and the performance artist Carolee Schneemann (b. 1939).

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).

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.

The American painter, sculptor and printmaker Roy Fox Lichtenstein, along with Andy Warhol, was one of the leading figures in the Pop - art movement during the 1960s.

American painter, Robert Henri was one of the leading figures of the Ashcan School of Art in New York.

One of the leading Abstract Expressionist figure painters was Willem de Kooning (1904 - 97), whose Woman series - begun by works like Seated Woman (1944, Metropolitan Museum of Art)- included Marilyn Monroe (1954).

The classically trained French painter, printmaker and designer Andre Masson was one of the leading figures within the Surrealism movement, which dominated modern art in Europe during the interwar years.

Robert Henri (1865 - 1929) American urban realist painter; leading figure of the Ashcan School of Art.

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».

It explores how modern and contemporary artists respond to the human figure with world - renowned works by one of the world's greatest realist painters Lucian Freud, leading sculpture Ron Mueck and American photographer Spencer Tunick.

The friendship of Caro and Noland had first begun in 1959 when Caro found his ideas sharpened by his encounters with the American artist, who was a leading figure among the post-painterly abstraction painters that critic Clement Greenberg was at that time championing.

An influential figure in American art of the late 1950s and early 60s, Helen Frankenthaler is a leading abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and printmaker.

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 century.

The large group show, organized by painter Resa Blatman, has a strong roster of artists, led by Anne Harris, who handles translucency and skin tone with such delicacy her creepy figures shimmer.

Leading Pop artist James Rosenquist — who came to prominence among New York School figures like Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Willem de Kooning — is well known for his large - scale, fragmented works that bring the visual language of commercial painting onto canvas (notably, from 1957 - 60, Rosenquist earned his living as a billboard painter).

Parafin presents the British painter Justin Mortimer, widely regarded as one of the leading figurative painters working today, and an emblematic figure for a younger generation of artists.

One of the most innovative figures in abstract art in America during the mid-20th century, the Latvian - born, Jewish - American painter, Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkowitz) was the leading pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, a movement triggered by the collapse in moral values following World War II.

Julian Stanczak, a Polish - born American abstract painter who rose to fame as a leading figure of the popular Op Art movement but slipped into obscurity when its reputation flagged, died on March 25 at his home in Seven Hills, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb.

An influential figure in American art of the late 1950s and early 1960s, Helen Frankenthaler is a leading abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and print - maker.

The CED also houses various monographs on contemporary artists and others whom the painter considered to be leading figures.