Romare Bearden, «Rectangular Structure in My Montage Paintings,» Leonardo 2 (January 1969), quoted in Alexandra Anderson - Spivy, «Romare Bearden:
Modern Classicist,» Romare Bearden: The Human Condition (New York: ACA Galleries, 1991), n. p.
Modern classicists have long argued back and forth about the authorship of his Oath and the other writings in the Hippocratic corpus.
An American painting movement which depicted urban / industrial landscapes often in a Cubist / Futurist manner, its members were known by a variety of labels such as «Cubist - Realists», «Immaculates», «Sterilists» or «
modern classicists».
Not exact matches
Burckhardt was a defector from the
classicist exaltation of the Greeks — and further, from the neo-humanist tradition that exalted
moderns who appropriated the Greeks» legacy.
In a 1984 Artforum review, Thomas McEvilley, a
classicist new to the world of contemporary art, made the case that the Museum of
Modern Art in New York served as an exclusionary temple to certain high - minded Modernists — namely, Picasso, Matisse, and Pollock — who, in fact, took many of their innovations from native cultures.
Frederick Hammersley was a Southern California abstract painter who appeared in an important exhibition in 1959 called Four Abstract
Classicists, curated by the art critic Jules Langsner at the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art.
Four of these artists — Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley, and John McLaughlin — gained prominence when they were featured in the 1959 exhibition Four Abstract
Classicists at the Los Angeles Museum of Art (now the Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and the San Francisco Museum of Art (now the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art).
A critical member of the «Abstract
Classicists,» he was part of a group of artists that championed geometric abstraction and arts cultivation in LA, setting the city on the path to becoming the
modern arts destination that it is today.
Trends may come and go, but if you're a
classicist who wants to add something
modern to their kitchen style, then this idea is for you.