Sentences with phrase «modern abstract sculpture»

Constantin Brancusi, original name Romanian Constantin Brîncuși, (born February 19, 1876, Hobița, Romania — died March 16, 1957, Paris, France), pioneer of modern abstract sculpture whose works in bronze and marble are characterized by a restrained, elegant use of pure form and exquisite finishing.

The exhibition George Sugarman: Painted Sculpture at Loretta Howard Gallery, reveals the confidence of execution that comes from the artist's decades - long exploration of the possibilities of modern abstract sculpture.

In the immediate post-war decades they entered into the discussion of British and Continental constructivism, infusing this cross-channel dialogue into their own practices as they developed their distinctive vocabularies of modern abstract sculpture.

This documentary introduces us to Henry Moore and gently explains the ethos of modern abstract sculpture.

Serra's work has played a very important role in a development of the modern abstract sculpture.

His work has played a major role in advancing the tradition of modern abstract sculpture in the aftermath of Minimalism.

Their invention would prove elemental to the Bauhaus in coming years, as well as inspiring the first modern abstract sculpture.

Not exact matches

A Key stage 3 project which starts with Figure drawing of class mates and then looks at the modern sculptures and uses them to simplify their figures into abstract shapes.

Nathan Carter's sculptures and drawings are certainly indebted to Alexander Calder but bring a modern twist to create colorful mobiles that reference abstract painting and and scatter sculptures all at once.

By showcasing current contemporary painting and sculpture, the exhibition explores both postmodern and modern concepts through the re-evaluation of historical work from varying mediums, styles and content by recalling abstract expressionism and minimalism.

The Soundsuit in the contemporary art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum — an encyclopedic museum — bridges numerous collections with its direct connection to African art, Modern abstract painting, performance art, contemporary sculpture, and costumes and textiles.

The entire show consists of six different chapters, each showing different relation between the body and the space, from a large 8x2 meter charcoal studies depicting football hooligans fighting, four paintings of the skaters in a modern art museum breaking a series of paintings by Ellsworth Kelly, six black paintings representing the infinite space beyond the surface of the abstract paintings, a cast resin sculpture and a drawing of Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now, all the way to the interactive app that allows viewers to interact with the works on view.

Plensa debuted the monumental sculpture Echo in Madison Square Park in 2011, and Rapaport was quoted in the New York Times article regarding the project, «When we think of great modern and contemporary public art, usually we think of work that uses an abstract visual language.

Small abstract sculpture in red and black, mid century modern style 15 x 7 x 8 inches black and red painted steel and wood This delightful, contemporary minimalist sculpture made o...

Though that abstract sculpture, by a now - forgotten artist named Joe Messina, sold for $ 125 to the collector and heiress Rachel Lambert Mellon, known as Bunny, who told Mr. Sandler to deliver the piece directly to the Museum of Modern Art, to which she donated.

Two terraced sculpture gardens comprising nearly three acres are home to 33 masterworks of modern and contemporary sculpture ranging from Auguste Rodin's striding bronze Balzac (1892) to Ellsworth Kelly's stainless - steel arc Untitled (1986)-- providing a 100 - year survey of sculpture from the figural to the abstract.

Here that also applies to the history of the Carnegie itself, with a particularly delightful aspect of the 56th International being a rehang of the Modern and contemporary galleries that include many participants of past shows, like Willem de Kooning, whose Woman VI (1953) hangs next to Phyllida Barlow's impressive untitled: upturnedhouse (2012), a strong tilted cube that waves between sculpture and painting — which in turn duets with Ken Price's compact abstract ceramics next door.

The National Portrait Gallery, meanwhile, looks at the origins of art photography via the work of four celebrated figures of the Victorian era, and Tate Modern takes things further with Shape of Light, which entwines the histories of photography and abstract art from the early 20th century to now and positions work by the likes of Man Ray and Thomas Ruff against abstract paintings, sculptures and installations.

He makes modern, minimalist, abstract sculptures from found metal objects.

The lines, planes, textures and colours he composes from the models recall Modern painting and sculpture, including Picasso's reliefs, as well as mid-20th century abstract painting.

These surreal and powerful abstract paintings and found object sculptures, so remarkably strong and of certain muscular type, are the result of various influences that shaped Martinez's unique style, most notably those of urban culture and modern masters.

His photographs and sculptures draw on the history of modern art as they turn the everyday into the abstract and back again.

The large - scale abstract sculpture Celeste (2013), a squiggly tube made of white powder - coated steel and installed outdoors in New York's High Line park, pares the forms of modern art down to their essentials — an attempt to create what Bove calls «generic sculpture.»

Although the abstract geometrical form might not closely resemble a crane, it does look very much like a modern sculpture.

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One of the most successful postmodernist artists of his generation, he is best known for his site - specific abstract sculpture, like Cloud Gate (2004, Stainless steel, Millennium Park, Chicago) and Marsyas (2002, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern).

Works of abstract sculpture by any of these modern artists should give you plenty to think about.

The exhibit, which will run through Jan. 3 and was co-curated by grad student Sequoia Miller, is all about artists» relationships, experimentation and juxtaposition — shapely ceramic art pieces backed by modern art's paintings, drawings and even welded - steel sculptures of abstract expressionism.

Matthai will exhibit abstract photography, Kveton will show contemporary metal sculptures, and Heurtaux will show modern abstract paintings.

Inescapably modern, it is a pioneering example of abstract sculpture, and was Belling's first real success.

«Richard gives work away all the time,» and two recent instances — a large - scale sculpture and an abstract painting on paper — were 2013 gifts to the Museum of Modern Art.

Note About Sculpture Appreciation To learn how to evaluate postmodernist abstract sculptors like Donald Judd, see: How to Appreciate Modern Sculpture.

The Tate Modern show features Ms. Choucair's early abstract paintings and her sculptures — created in wood, metal, stone and fiberglass — from the 1950s to the 1980s.

For the exhibition, which first opens at Yorkshire Sculpture Park before touring to other venues around the UK, Gander has selected works from 30 different artists featured in the Collection, pairing figurative sculptures with other artworks containing the colour blue, which to Gander represents the abstract ideas often found in modern and contemporary art.

Note About Sculpture Appreciation To learn how to evaluate modernist abstract sculptors like Naum Gabo, see: How to Appreciate Modern Sculpture.

Note About Sculpture Appreciation To learn how to evaluate modernist abstract sculptors like Anthony Caro, see: How to Appreciate Modern Sculpture.

Note About Sculpture Appreciation To learn how to evaluate contemporary abstract sculptors like Mark Di Suvero, see: How to Appreciate Modern Sculpture.

He haunts the secret parts of modern culture, where memory and emotion linger by a rusting abstract sculpture.

His notable works include Double Negative (1969 - 70), a pair of trenches in the desert near Overton, Nevada, created by displacing 240,000 tons of rock, and City, an ongoing project in Lincoln County, Nevada, described by critic Michael Kimmelman as «a suite of giant, variously shaped abstract sculptures over an area that covers more than a mile end to end — modern art turned into monumental abstract architecture, with ancient ruins as the model.»

Katy Siegel, Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Endowed Chair in Modern American Art, Stony Brook University Dr. Siegel's focus is on the celebrated African - American abstract painter's previously unknown sculpture, which is the subject of an exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art that will come to the Metropolitan Museum of Art this fall.

With innovative concepts of form, content materials and techniques, analytical handling of the environment and different visions and approaches to what art is, abstract sculpture authors from our list have blown a breath of fresh air into the soul of the 20th - century sculpture completely changed the course of modern art.

Three huge abstract oils, «Untitled (Bacchus)», made in 2006 - 08, and five bronze sculptures from 1979 - 91 have been gifted to Tate by the Twombly Foundation, following the wishes of the great American artist / Cy Twombly at Tate Modern

The exhibition «Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927 - 1944», which opened at the Carnegie Institute in 1983 and travelled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, was a watershed show which re-evaluated the importance and influence of this group of abstract artists.

The first was «Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors,» a show of new abstract sculpture at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan in 1966, during a hiatus from the Modern.

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Note About Sculpture Appreciation To learn how to evaluate modernist abstract sculptors like David Smith, see: How to Appreciate Modern Sculpture.

Other modern sculptors like Jean Arp (1886 - 1966) as well as Henry Moore (1898 - 1986) and Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 75)- leaders of modern British sculpture - were experimenting with new forms of biomorphic / organic abstraction, while the American Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) was pioneering mobile sculpture and kinetic art, and David Smith (1906 - 65) was developing abstract metal sculpture.

Known as the «pope of modern art», Read became Britain's leading interpreter of abstract paintings and abstract sculpture during the three decades 1930 - 1960, championing a number of modern artists like the painter Paul Nash (1889 - 1946) and the leaders of modern British sculpture like Jacob Epstein (1880 — 1959), Henry Moore (1898 - 1986), Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982), Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975) and Anthony Caro (1924 - 2013).

Barnett Newman (1905 - 70) Abstract expressionist painter who also produced some exceptional abstract sculptures, such as Broken Obelisk (1969, Museum of Modern Art, New York).

Note About Sculpture Appreciation To learn how to evaluate postmodernist abstract sculptors like Richard Serra, see: How to Appreciate Modern Sculpture.