Sentences with phrase «less familiar»

This show offers a compelling new look at Mapplethorpe's distinctive practice: rather than focusing on a specific time or subject, it explores less familiar images and themes that highlight the innovation of his work, still astonishing almost three decades after his death.

Besides impressive works by less familiar African artists, it has Kendell Geers» Postpopfuck and his ultraviolet deadly sins, a tangled thread painting by Ghada Amer, Chris Ofili's stamp - sized wigged head, Yinka Shonibare's dueling dandies, Andy Warhol's sketches of Mohammed Ali and Paul Miller's (aka DJ Spooky) wall - size visual remix, accompanied by «non-cliche» remixes of African music — including a car horn orchestra, national anthems, and the words of Idi Amin, Nelson Mandela, and Malcolm X.

Far less familiar to American audiences are his other series, which this exhibition represents in depth: Catrami (tars), Muffe (molds), Gobbi (hunchbacks), Bianchi (whites), Legni (woods), Ferri (irons), Combustioni plastiche (plastic combustions), Cretti, and Cellotex works.

Among the less familiar names selected for the upcoming 2010 Whitney Biennial, none surprised art - world cognoscenti more than that of its associate curator, Gary Carrion - Murayari.

This summer, the National Galleries of Scotland has mounted a show in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum and the Ateneum Art Museum Finnish National Gallery to organize a big exhibition of Symbolist landscape paintings from the turn of the 20th century, featuring work by Van Gogh, Mondrian, Munch and Kandinsky as well as «a number of less familiar but brilliantly inventive artists» from Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.

What is terrific about the relatively modest installations downstairs is the fluidity with which the curators, Jodi Hauptman and Sarah Suzuki, juxtapose more and less familiar works to generate fresh (and in some instances even quirky) insights and associations.

The show assembles key works by leading artists such as Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Max Ernst, Oskar Kokoschka, and Alfred Kubin, and artists less familiar to audiences in the United States including Friedl Dicker - Brandeis, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Karl Hubbuch, Richard Oelze, Franz Sedlacek, Josef Scharl, and Rudolf Wacker, who will each be represented by small groups of significant works.

The checklist of artists range from chestnuts like Kazimir Malevich and Vasily Kandinsky to those less familiar such as Heléne Aylon, Lorser Feitelson, Larry Thomas and Janine Antoni.

This collection of works illustrate places many viewers will recognise, the specific pubs, street corners, rows of garages, trees and shops, but less familiar is the unsettling resonance that Shaw brings to the work.

This less familiar Tàpies seems to be engaged in the more Postmodern project of questioning: what does painting do, what might painting have the capacity to record?

But we are less familiar with his earlier works, those of t...

Others, like the sculptor Tang Da Wu, from Singapore, and the painter Aung Myint, Myanmar, both born in 1940s, are less familiar.

What is less familiar is the reason why so many British artists have gravitated towards the Groucho in recent decades.

Her name, though, became less and less familiar as the art world moved on — until recently, when Abstract Expressionism and female artists both began to be rediscovered.

The show, entitled Orla Barry: Portable Stones and Other Works, also presents a number of the artist's other well known works, alongside some less familiar pieces.

Well - known artists like Winslow Homer, Ralph Blakelock and Louise Nevelson are well represented, but less familiar figures like Joseph Frank Currier, Louis Bouché and Chaim Gross contribute equally to its excellence.

Featuring reproductions of early, less familiar paintings, as well as of Rothko's signature abstract canvases, and including essays by art historians, a chronology, and selected interviews.

This monograph maps out a route through the whole of Albert Oehlen's production, from his best - known works to less familiar ones and from the 1980s to the present day, with reproductions of paintings in the Pinault Collection and other major private collections and international museums.

Joining the great Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke are Konrad Lueg, Manfred Kuttner, Lothar Fischer and a line - up of less familiar names.

While I'm less familiar with his earlier work, to see the way selections from his two most recent New York exhibitions — Proper (2005) and Forever: The Management of Magic (2008)-- bleed together at the end of the exhibition clearly demonstrate how much the installation defeats any thematic elucidations.

Highlighting lesser - known works by prominent artists and key works by some less familiar names, The Long Run provides another view of the history of art over the last half century.

It will also showcase the less familiar: photographs by Dalí, paintings by Duchamp, correspondence and collaborations between the two artists.

The selection will alternate between acknowledged masterpieces and less familiar but nevertheless highly significant artworks.

Featuring more than 200 renowned masterpieces and less familiar, but highly significant works.

While the works of these artists will be the definite highlight of the show, Being Modern: MoMA in Paris will alternate between acknowledged masterpieces and less familiar but nevertheless highly significant pieces of other artists.

As witnessed in this compelling book, they often transcend traditional European romantic notions to create representations of love in less familiar manifestations.

On the less familiar side are some recent M.F.A. graduates, like Devin Kenny (U.C.L.A.), Jibade - Khalil Huffman (U.S.C.) and Danielle Dean (California Institute of the Arts).

These experiences shift in meaning by their juxtaposition with the less familiar, or what I may imagine is manifest in the most commonplace occurrence.

Masterworks such as Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon and Cezanne's Bather are presented without undue fanfare, surrounded by less familiar paintings that may not be as critical but are nonetheless extraordinary.

The exhibition brings these new commissions, such as Grannan's stirring untitled portrait of a father embracing his young daughter (2011) and Beshty's dynamic abstract photographs created by sending unprotected exposed film through airport X-ray machines, together with famed and less familiar WPA images.

The six interpretations were drawn from Marilyn's most famous movies: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and I Just Want to be Wonderful as well as a prestigious and rare collection of photography stills, test shots and outtakes from her less familiar films like Sounds Dreamy to Me and How to Marry a Millionaire, both of which are definitely worth a watch.

A second, less familiar metaphor evokes another realm: that of architecture and, secondarily urban space.

The exhibition will feature more than 60 paintings by more than 30 artists, including renowned figures such as Paul Cézanne, Gustave Courbet, Eugène Delacroix, Vincent van Gogh and Edouard Manet, along with less familiar contemporaries such as Simon Saint - Jean and Henri Fantin - Latour.

Spread over two locations, the show features works by Bertold Mathes, Cheryl Donegan, Christopher Williams, Claudia Kugler, David Reed, David Lamelas, Elizabeth Cooper, François J. Chabrillat, Franz - Erhard Walther, Gary Stephan, Jack Goldstein, Jack Whitten, Jasmine Justice, Jonathan Lasker, Jos van Merendonk, Ketty La Rocca, Klaus Merkel, Louise Fishman, Marieta Chirulescu, Michael Ballou, Wolfgang Betke, Paul Klee, and others less familiar to a U.S. audience.

To such hallmarks of art history he added a less familiar influence: skateboarding.

Less familiar are the series of pet portraits began by Figge Wise nearly three years ago.

This conspicuous placement demonstrates the exhibition's willingness to tell a less familiar story, highlighting aspects of Minimalist art that are sometimes obscured.

Featuring some canonically queer works — from Francis Bacon, David Hockney and Andy Warhol to James Richards and Zanele Muholi - the show also boasted less familiar ones; emerging practitioners Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings, whose massive drawing The Dudes (2017), the centre - piece of whose show at Arcadia Missa in September, invoked all the thrill and strangeness of a gay community witnessed from a distance — in a language equal parts Paul Cadmus, Pierre Klossowski and Donna Huddleston — was for me one of the most exciting works of the year.

Highlighting lesser - known works by prominent artists and key works by some less familiar names, Artists at Mid to Late Career provides another view of the history of art over the last half century.

Far less familiar to American audiences are other series which are represented in depth in the exhibition.

Considerably less familiar is her work as a Conceptual artist in...

New and older film and video works are displayed alongside a less familiar part of Toomik's artistic output: his paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptural pieces.

Assembling many of the foundation's most iconic works along with treasures by artists less familiar, this celebratory exhibition explores avant - garde innovations of the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, as well as the groundbreaking activities of six pioneering arts patrons who brought to light some of the most significant artists of their day and established the Guggenheim Foundation's identity as a forward - looking institution.

Familiar names — Louise Bourgeois, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Andy Warhol, among others — are represented through less familiar works.

Weetwood Hall plays host to an art conference offering eight speakers the chance to explore the less familiar side of art and examine the difference between artist intent and audience reception.

The north - west of England seems to have produced a host of oddball painters during the dreary post-second world war years; one thinks first and foremost of Salford's LS Lowry, a painter best known for his depictions of matchstick men in industrial districts, but whose less familiar late seascapes and almost perverse girlie fantasies are now recognised as far from provincial.

«Multiple Kilimniks, Murakamis and Picabias take up space that might have been given to less familiar fare.

The curators, Andrea Barnwell Brownlee and Karen Comer Lowe, assembled a list of artists with recognizable names — Cindy Sherman and Lorna Simpson, among others — and also artists perhaps less familiar such as Nandipha Mntambo, Berni Searle and Magdalene Odundo.

By placing photography alongside it's aesthetic peers, «America is Hard To See» finds new dimensions in often - exhibited work, and invites further investigation of the less familiar.

The exhibition will feature 65 paintings by more than 30 artists, including renowned figures such as Paul Cézanne, Gustave Courbet, Eugène Delacroix, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, and Edouard Manet, along with less familiar but equally accomplished contemporaries such as Gérard van Spaendonck, Adèle Riché, and Simon Saint - Jean.