Sentences with phrase «machismo artists»

While painters like Louise Fishman — whose 1973 series «Angry Women» was among the first to bring gender and sexual identity to the forefront of abstraction — have long been interested «expressing» something beyond formalist discourse, it's certainly the case that even today much of the conversation around Abstract Expressionism surrounds a few select, machismo artists, like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko.

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And shouldn't we want the artist formerly known as Cliffy B, who gave us Marcus Fenix and a whole army of men with arms the size of an average man's legs, to build a world that's a little crazy and over-the-top in its machismo?

Jennifer Sullivan, a New York based interdisciplinary artist, looks at what it is like to be a woman both critically and lovingly while occasionally skewering the machismo and overconfidence of early»80s male painters.

The luridly colored spray paint conjures the machismo and brio of the best street artists, while the abstract gestures recall Abstract Expressionists like Mark Rothko and Richard Pousette - Dart.

Within this series, titled Bubbleissimo, (perhaps making a play on the word «machismo»), the artist distorts the notion of masculinity through a comedic display of the growing obsession with groomed facial hair.

In his recent adult life, the artist noted an obvious machismo in the books» character - based narratives, including images of buff male superheroes and hyper - sexualized women.

23 As Jones and Jonathan D. Katz have convincingly argued, silence emerged as Cage's primary means of countering the fervently expressive, highly individualistic machismo associated with Abstract Expressionism.24 It was a construct that gave him room to act independently as an artist in a world dominated by the abstract expressionist paradigm and to create space for himself as a gay man in the atmosphere of homophobia that permeated postwar American culture.

For over forty years, New York - based artist Judith Bernstein has created expressive drawings and paintings that boldly critique militarism and machismo in a manner that is at once humorous and threatening.

In the face of the so - called «irascible» machismo, these twelve artists, as well as the thirty others included in the show's dazzling catalogue, demonstrate that men aren't the only ones who can rage and roar.

The artist sops up the machismo of Abstract Expressionism only to wring it out as one would a wet washcloth.

That unabashed bombast has made Wiley a walking superlative: the most successful black artist since Basquiat, possibly the wealthiest painter of his generation, certainly the one who made his name earliest (he was 26 for his first major solo show), a gay man who has become the great painter of machismo for the swag era, a bootstrapper from South Central who talks like a Yale professor (much of the time), a genius self - promoter who's managed to have it both ways in an art world that loves having its critical cake and eating the spectacle of it, too, and a crossover phenomenon who is at once the hip - hop world's favorite fine artist (Spike Lee and LL Cool J own pieces) and the gallery world's most popular hip - hop ambassador.

Despite the idea that a woman artist could literally have invented abstract painting, over the course of art history Klint's name has been all but scrapped from the record of abstract art, which has been cast, however falsely, as a genre driven by machismo and muscle.

She lampooned both the machismo of the art world and the way artists were expected to promote themselves in a market - driven system by exposing herself, with a dildo between her legs, in a 1974 Artforum advertisement that she paid for, earning her as many fans as detractors.

Undeniably, African women artists remain shy of the spotlight — they suffer from a context of social conservatism and machismo.

Three gallery shows that exemplify the trend — and a fourth farther uptown — are of work by artists who share elements of the same profile: the bad - boy avant - gardist with machismo to spare, rebelling against aesthetic conventions, social norms or both.

(Today, it's unrepentant machismo relates to the politically incorrect work of the 1990's by artists like Kara Walker and Sue Williams.)

On meeting, Goldberg revealed himself to be the quintessential mixture of machismo and sensitivity — the tough guy with a heart of gold, which was the signature style of artists of his generation.

It takes the phallic form of the fruit and emasculates it, the limp, spent peel critiquing the brutality of Minimalism and in particular Carl Andre, who, according to the artist, is the ultimate perpetrator of Modernist machismo and its sins.

«Soul of a Nation» ends in 1983, with performance art, depicted in videos and photographs, and the show makes a persuasive case for artists like Lorraine O'Grady and Senga Nengudi, who were making complex and transgressive works at a time when the art world was favoring the commercial gestures of machismo by artists like Julian Schnabel.

And yet, when joined by three smaller, quieter works that were made a couple of years later, not long after his difficult return from Germany to the United States, the machismo Marsden of the Iron Cross suddenly becomes a different and far more vulnerable artist.

Cy Twombly was one of the most important western artists to emerge from the machismo of 1950s Abstract Expressionism.

The Los Angeles artist Paul McCarthy, who has known Mr. Burden since the early»70s, said of the performances: «He wasn't someone who gave off a sense of machismo.

Performance artist Astrid Hadad takes a hard look at Mexican hypocrisy, machismo, and corruption at the Hammer this week in ASTRID HADAD --(DE) CONSTRUCTING MEXICANIDAD.

This goal manifested itself in the artist's deviation from the mass - media iconography popularized by Pop Art, the mythic emotionalism of Abstract Expressionism, and the machismo detachment of Minimalism.