Sentences with phrase «mid twentieth century art»

Paired together for the first time, David Park and Milton Avery both notably shirked the trend of pure abstraction so central to mid twentieth century art, though they came to this mode of expression in different artistic communities on the two different American coasts.

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Born in Chicago, Golub (1922 — 2004) occupies a singular position in the history of mid to late twentieth - century art.

Inspired by early twentieth century art, Tadeusz finds inspiration from abstract expressionism of the mid 1940's.

Movements in the mid twentieth century such as Pattern & Decoration (P&D), Op - art, and the local Criss Cross movement played a role in the creation of many of the works in the exhibition.

Charles Gaines's new original master composition for the Art Biennale is derived from his most recent body of work, Notes on Social Justice, a series of large - scale drawings of musical scores from songs, some borrowed from as early as the American Civil War (1860 — 1865) and others dating from the mid twentieth century.

This richly illustrated survey spans the artist's prolific career from the early Flag and Target paintings — which were central to establishing his reputation as a major young artist in the mid 1950s, and have since become icons of twentieth century art — to the compelling compositions of the recent «Catenary» series - works that testify to Johns's continuing artistic ambition at the start of the twenty first century.

Sarmento's moving image and performance works are rooted in a history of performance and conceptual art from the mid to late twentieth century, that uses the body as both a site of action and a tool — by the likes of Marina Abramović, Bruce Nauman, and Carolee Schneemann.

However else the original Surrealist Revolution failed for being so successfully subsumed into and sublimated by the mainstream media, it directly and positively was the foundation on which all subsequent aesthetic theories and formal strategies of mid - to late - twentieth century art were elaborated.

He became a cultural hero because of his influential writings as an art critic, his work as an arts organizer, and his role as spokesman for African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance and mid - twentieth century.