Sentences with phrase «modern art movements helped»

Collecting priorities have included paintings and sculpture by nineteenth century artists who benefited from Jewish emancipation and work by Jewish artists whose pivotal involvement in avant - garde and modern art movements helped to shape the School of Paris and the New York School.

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«Klimt & Rodin: An Artistic Encounter» at the beautiful Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco celebrates these two artists who helped shape the modern art movement in the early 20th century.

A colorful character who was not only ahead of her time but helped to define it, Peggy Guggenheim was an heiress to her family fortune who became a central figure in the modern art movement.

Celebrate the women who helped forge Abstract Expressionism, the first fully American modern art movement.

When the first public exhibition of modern - style woodblock prints took place in Shanghai in June 1931, it heralded an explosive art movement that helped shape the course of modern Chinese art history in the 20th century and has remained a vital part of contemporary China» s artistic language.

It was in New York, that she helped to set the stage for the climax of the American modern art movement.

Emerging from her studies about the time of the Op Art movement and that seminal exhibition, The Responsive Eye, presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1965 and organized by William C. Seitz, Rector could not help but be influenced by the hard - edge structures, dizzying lines, geometric forms and high key and high contrast colors that created optical and illusory effects challenging visual perception.

The work of Monet, along with his closest disciple Camille Pissarro, the underestimated Alfred Sisley, the dedicated Degas, the virtuoso Renoir and the painstaking Cezanne, helped to create the first movement of Modern Art, and paved the way for Fauvism, Expressionism and the colour - sensitive compositions of Abstract Expressionism.

He was described as the inventor of modern jewelry by the French artist and designer Émile Gallé, and his luxurious naturalistic designs helped define the Art Nouveau movement.