Sentences with phrase «less significant an art»

Basquiat considered drawing a key means of expression in its own right and no less significant an art form than painting; his works on paper are notable for their remarkable range, incorporating oilstick, crayon, acrylic, pen, pencil and watercolour.

The writings that followed Judd's early reviews are no less significant art - historically, but have been relegated to smaller publications and have remained largely unavailable until now.

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The source material here is a novel by David Ebershoff, which plunks The Danish Girl somewhere between biopic and literary adaptation; among other things, the movie de-queers its 1920s art world milieu, with Gerda portrayed as more or less straight here, despite the fact that her real - life equivalent had a significant sideline drawing lesbian erotica.

Why less is more - read about Minimalism as one of the most influential and significant art movements of the 20th century and the famous Minimal artists.

The Ackland Art Museum is well known for its extensive collection of works on paper and in particular, its outstanding collection of drawings, making it a natural venue in which to explore this less - known but highly significant portion of Dial's oeuvre.

In today's overheated art market smaller and less significant works are increasingly being auctioned to a growing audience.

But these are his most significant years, and Prima Materia does tell a story, one less involved with the alchemical interests the show's title suggests, or the ethnographic influences implied by the accompanying selection of objects (Hopi kachina dolls, Yup» ik masks), and more concerning the effect on an established practitioner of the turn from abstract Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism in postwar American art.

The less significant choices of art exhibitions have been left out.

Recognizing recent legacies of process - based art that highlight myriad ways in which the means might be seen as more significant than the end, Don't blame anyone is also interested in highlighting the role of the ordinary and the pointless as deep - seated, if less recognized, elements of process itself.

The 20th - century hang presents a fresh and open account of British art, highlighting significant figures such as Walter Sickert (1860 - 1942), Gwen John (1876 - 1939), Stanley Spencer (1891 — 1959), Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), David Hockney (b 1937), Tracey Emin (b 1963) and Damien Hirst (b 1965), as well as many other less well known names.

Philippe de Montebello is leaving the Met after significant renovations — and after far too many shows, as for Rembrandt's birthday, focused less on the art than the museum.

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.

The name Floriano Vecchi is less than familiar these days, yet he played an intriguing and significant role in the evolution of Abstract Expressionism and, even more unexpectedly, in that of Pop art as well.

On View June 22 - October 14, 2012 at the New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans, LA — Ralston Crawford and Jazz explores the profound impact of New Orleans» culture, and in particular the city's jazz scene, on artist Ralston Crawford's artistic output in the years after World War II - a significant but lesser known body of... Read More

In less than five years Chinese from the mainland and the diaspora have gone from a limited interest in local contemporary art and a speculative attitude to a deeper involvement in collecting, bolstered by significant acquisitions in art from the West.

Although less than 25 percent of the lots are by women artists, some significant works by women are for sale: «Roots,» a poignant color screen print by Catlett that the gallery says has not been seen at auction in 20 years (shown above); «March on Washington,» 1964 (oil on canvas), a beautifully rendered painting by Alma Thomas (1891 - 1978); Faith Ringgold's 1974 «Night: Window of the Wedding 8,» touted as the first of her fabric paintings to be offered at auction (shown below); and «Still Life with Grapefruit,» 1928, described on the frame backing as Lois Mailou Jones's first painting, completed a year after she graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

It bothers me that when one calls an artist «great,» the comment almost always refers to the art and not the person: object stands for subject, the latter less significant than the former.

Artist abandoned the conventions of brush and easel and played with new materials and methods of artistic gesture: commercial paints and housepainter's brushes, working on unstretched and unprimed canvases, moving the canvas to the floor, and applying paint with hands.This essential introduction spans the international breadth, conceptual depth, and seismic impact of Abstract art with a thorough survey not only of the big names such as Picasso, Klee, Kline, Rothko, and Pollock, but also lesser - known figures who made equally significant abstract contributions, including Antoni Tàs; pies, K.O. Götz, Ad Reinhardt, and Sophie Taeuber - Arp.

An exhibition of both iconic and lesser - known works from some of the most significant and compelling artists of the last 50 years, Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne traced a number of intertwined narratives in the history of recent aArt from the Collection of Blake Byrne traced a number of intertwined narratives in the history of recent artart.

Greenberg played a significant role in the ascendancy of color - field: he hailed it as the most important art of the 1960s, and his disciple Michael Fried declared that it was no less than the discovery «in which painting itself broke through to its future.»