Sentences with phrase «like cubism»

Though the exhibition looks to the future of textile work, McIntosh selected work that was in conversation with the art - historical influences like cubism, surrealism, dada, abstract expressionism, color field, and minimalism.

Not exact matches

When Pablo Picasso said, «I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money,» many people probably wrote the statement off as a bit of verbal cubism and forgot it.

Mario is classic, iconic, the platform genre as a whole was basically invented by the small mustached man and his red cap; now, Nintendo is literally offering you potentially infinite Mario stages, and more importantly, the ability to create them yourself, like Picasso taking cubism to strange new places.

... if one looks at oils like «The Homely Protestant» (1948) or even the ur - version of «Elegy to the Spanish Republic» (also 1948), one sees that he has learned to combine straight lines with curves and rounded forms, not really surrealist but liberated from the strictures of cubism.

Even though I thought that his idea of absoluteness of modern art which gave a logical view of how cubism should be concluded was completely untenable, and I didn't want to paint like him, I still liked the way he painted.

Europe was the home of surrealism, modernism, cubism and any other - ism you like.

The 1940s in New York City heralded the triumph of American abstract expressionism, a Modernist movement that combined lessons learned from Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, surrealism, Joan Miró, cubism, Fauvism, and early modernism via great teachers in America like Hans Hofmann and John D. Graham.

Like Rufino Tamayo, he brought George Braques style of organic cubism into his own vocabulary and background.

In the early fifties planar abstractionists, like Newman and Rothko, stuck with their hard or soft geometry formats, working beyond the constructive devices of cubism and setting the agenda for the next generation of American painters, the sixties high modernists.

Burchfield, who like Hopper painted as if cubism never happened, is van Gogh by way of Caspar David Friedrich, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, calendar art, and Sunday painting.

But 50 years ago, with his friends and near contemporaries Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Clyfford Still and Barnett Newman, de Kooning radically modified our idea of art by transforming our expectations of painting, and thus changed forever our habitual sense of what a painting should look like - a climactic moment, universally experienced, in the evolution of art in this century, comparable to the arrival of cubism in Paris 40 years earlier.

Like nearly all the advanced American painters who matured during the 1940s, Rothko's early work was founded on the tenets of both cubism and surrealism.

Greenberg - writing chiefly for the Nation and Partisan Review - liked Hofmann's «laws» and attacked surrealism for reversing the anti-pictorial trend of cubism and abstract art.

A Fishtown native who's studio is in the Crane Arts Center, Browning obviously takes full advantage of the large work space to create massive paintings, this color field of speeding urban images, like you see out of the corner of your eye as you zoom down the Expressway, is abstract expressionist yet a kind of contemporary cubism with obtuse angles and cracked spacial warps.

And they act like it's all about cubism turning into abstract painting and that's what's important.