We take a look at the ten most surprising and productive artist friendships, many of which proved to be crucial moments
in modern art history.
We can see the passage
of modern art history in these works, constructed from the foundation of the past.
In keeping
with Modern art history, the works selected stand up to a fine art lens: composition, color, texture, surface combine in purposeful ways as part of the artist's intent.
In her catalogue essay, Lauf wrote that the show «proposes that carpets function in a continuum of
modern art history as a discrete form that is accelerating in use and application.»
In his third solo exhibition «Into the BLACK», Joburg based Burundian artist Serge Alain Nitegeka delves
into modern art history's fascination with the colour black.
Matilde is a PhD Candidate in
Modern Art History at The Graduate Center, CUNY focusing on twentieth - century European art, media, and architecture, with an emphasis on the return to realism in the interwar years.
FINALLY CONQUER that embarrassing IGNORANCE of
modern art history by understanding which artistic movement was «the last stand of the isolated artistic self in a climate of conformity and increasing objectification created by techniques of mass control.»
Inspired by 20th century European masters, Miles distills his respect
for modern art history into his own spare contemporary language embodying meditation and tranquility.
At a glance, it felt like perusing a chapter of a book
on modern art history: primary colors, geometric shapes (or almost)-- everything was there.
Comprised of hundreds of individual dyed fabric pieces, Apfelbaum \'s installations
reference modern art history — the 1950s poured works of Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler, and Lynda Benglis \'s latex floor pieces.
With a vision to spearhead ground - breaking exhibitions and support the careers of then unrecognised talent, Denise René ascertained her place in
modern art history books with the 1955 exhibition Le Mouvement by featuring younger artists and showcasing them alongside already established ones such as Alexander Calder and Marcel Duchamp.
Russian artists such as Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitzky, and especially Alexander Rodchenko emerge as much more influential and interesting in this storyline than they do in
standard modern art histories, in which they're often more mourned as political victims than celebrated as art theorists.
And if you go beyond the art world gossip and look at the art, as Brett Gorvy does, «' You can see the whole of
modern art history unfolding,» he said.
Picking up the theme of appropriation from a different angle, the artist Melissa Gordon has in recent years been blowing up examples of
textbook Modern art history onto canvases that explore the nooks and crannies of classic geometric abstraction.
One work which the artist made from the same materials a tarp is normally made of, takes us back
through Modern Art History by referencing a tradition of sculpture.
The show will be focusing on new works by the 78 - year old American artist Susan Weil, a respected figure in
modern art history whose life story is truly extraordinary.
The exhibition consists of three parts: the artworks, the archival materials, and a lexicon of over five thousand artists born between 1880 and 1980, essentially documenting one hundred years of
Chinese modern art history, which was discovered on his computer.
While completing graduate studies in France, I
taught Modern Art History: From Impressionism to Abstraction at the Lacoste Institute's School For the Arts in France (1991) in Lacoste a small village 40 miles south of Avignon, famous for the Marquis de Sade's chateaux and for being a haven for the Surrealists during the second world war.
He graduated in modern literature at the University of Milan with a thesis on the Medieval and
Modern Art History about painting in fifteenth century in Lombardia.
Spectacles without Objects explores — through text, images and sound recordings — specific occurrences of utopian performances in the past, way before the XXth century, before the moment
Modern Art History usually assigns to the beginnings of performance art.
In a process of reconstructing and reassembling, Crowner has
mined modern art history and other artist's experiments in painting, sculpture, craft, textiles and performance.
Between his memberships within social avant - garde revolutionary movements and his ground - breaking painting practice, there is really no discussing
Danish modern art history without at least mentioning the name of Asger Jorn.
Featuring over 50 masterpieces of modern Japanese art from the Tokyo National Museum, the exhibition includes six objects designated «Important Cultural Properties of Japan,» including Dancing Lady Maiko Girl by Kuroda Seiki and the iconic Portrait of Reiko by Kishida Ryusei as well as other important works in
Japanese modern art history such as Mount Fuji Rising above Clouds by Yokoyama Taikan and Spring Rain by Shimomura Kanzan.
Wrapping up the exhibit in front of masters like Helen Frankenthaler, Richard Diebenkorn, Louis Morris and Mark Rothko was humbling and heart - wrenching — these works have a visual power that is difficult to describe, but so satisfying and evocative — as
if modern art history was simplified yet thoroughly examined in one building, in one exhibit, and offered to me personally.
The course consisted of six lectures where the knowledgeable art experts at the museum introduced basic concepts and artistic styles
from modern art history, such as readymade, pop art, conceptual art, performance art, video art and appropriation art.
«The cultural history of Santa Fe for the past 100 years is closely entwined
with modern art history,» notes the project's director David Eichholtz.
In many ways, it became a trademark of Abstract Expressionism, a movement that marked the
American modern art history and made New York City a valid rival of Paris in terms of artistic influence.
Content: A facsimile of a drawing by Tal R. Texts by David Neuman, Director of Magasin 3, John C. Welchman, Professor of
Modern Art History at University of California, San Diego, and interviews with curators Richard Julin and Sara Källström.
Unlike exhibitions that examine artist carpets through an ethnographic lens detached from the world of art, Wall to Wall proposes that these carpets function in a continuum of
modern art history as a critical form that is accelerating in use and application.
When the art world was desperately searching for new ideas, Johns stood up and ventured outside the comfort of the established abstract style, introducing his flags and maps that ultimately altered the course
of modern art history.
The Russian Avant Garde was an important moment
in Modern Art history for Schapiro to reflect on because women were seen as equals.
I collected - being a Dutch artist myself - for some years many sourced quotes of the famous and important artists and painters in
modern art history, mainly in the 19th and 20th century.
She received dual Masters degrees in
Modern Art History, Theory and Criticism and Arts Administration and Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Bachelor of Fine Art Photography with a co-Major in Urban Studies from Wayne State University in Detroit.
Coventry noticed that the yellow and red of the company's visual identity align with aesthetic elements in
modern art history.
But the images depict raw materials that have the potential for making other artworks and the story that she tells is
modern art history itself.
Benedict's work often engages in dialogue with acknowledged masters of
modern art history.
Focusing on the thirty - three paintings that Philip Guston exhibited at the Marlborough Gallery in 1970, this in - depth account reconsiders the history of postwar American art and the conception of figuration in
modern art history.