Sentences with phrase «modernist canons»

The intent of this «retrospective» exhibition at Almine Rech Gallery is to present the different facets of his oeuvre, which reactivates — all the while questioning the relevance of — modernist canons through painting, photography and sculpture.

Tempting to see it as one more contribution to the modernist canon dealing with the relativity of perspective, the anxiety of representing a Self.

She clearly is committed to dislodging male dominance of the modernist canon.

Like Levine, Bidlo works from reproductions, the means through which the modernist canon has been broadcast and maintained, but his reliance on hand facture produces a certain slippage between the appearance of the original and that of the re-creation.

Apparently, Newman is captivated within the modernist canon of the everlasting reduction and purification of the image, yet her gestures and the way she accesses to material suggests more open and tame approach.

One can argue that the older collection can and should expand only slowly, given MoMA's role in creating a modernist canon.

American painter Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943) entered the modernist canon as a result of the abstract paintings he created in Germany in 1914 - 1915.

Bidlo's «homages» challenge the art market's authenticating role and question the modernist canon — which places originality and exclusivity supreme — by validating appropriation as a unique form of art making.

Many of her works are explicitly appropriated from artworks within the modernist canon, while others are more general in their references, assimilating art historical interests and concerns rather than specific objects.

Lapthisophon achieves this not by looking at the present, but by acknowledging artists in the modernist canon who inspired him through their grappling with similar concerns about challenging dominant attitudes about lived experience in modernity.

Many of her works are explicitly appropriated from the modernist canon, while others are more general in their references, assimilating art historical interests and concerns rather than specific objects.

This catalog collects 27 full - color illustrations of these paintings, along with generous examples of Slutzky's earlier work, to critically examine how the painter's manipulation of color and transparency have transgressed the modernist canon of flatness.

The paintings frequently employ painted details of other paintings, from the modernist canon (Matisse, Cézanne, Picabia, Picasso, and Braque, among others) to less canonical and contemporary figures (including Alma Thomas, Dana Schutz, Alex Katz, Jane Freilicher, Mimi Gross, and my own past paintings).

Offering a fresh reappraisal of modernist architecture, the survey can alternatively be seen in both the iconic structures of the modernist canon and in the portfolios of some of the best contemporary architects of this century, including Arne Jacobsen, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Breuer, and Walter Gropius, and contemporary architects such as Snøhetta, David Adjaye, Sou Fujimoto, Tadao Ando, and John Pawson.

Though this body of work is strictly abstract and thus linked to the modernist canon, nature remains its major source of inspiration.

He opened in San Francisco in 1979 and over the years has assembled a stable that approximates the Modernist canon: Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Lee Friedlander (shared with Janet Borden in New York) and Richard Misrach (with Pace / MacGill), among others.

Following up her earlier work critiquing mid-century modernism, i.e., abstract painting, in which she redid Kenneth Noland stripe paintings as awnings, Morris Louis stain paintings as tie - dyes and even Barnett Newman «zips» as monochromes divided with real zippers, Dunphy is now taking on the entire modernist canon in the form of miniature embroideries.

But thick commentary has long since grown up around it and museums have corralled once - intractable works safely into the modernist canon.

Employing found Google images, her own pictures and the paintings of masters from art's classical and modernist canon, Gorczynski has created eight unique, yet related, digital paintings and an accompanying video piece for Never Forever.

Abstraction is also employed as a referent to the Modernist canon as a way to drive his personal narrative as in Reimagining the Square Trying to Make It Round Like a Circle (2015) or the back of Dominoes and Impermanence with Love (2015), which harkens back to Mondrian's geometric portrayal of Manhattan streets.

By this means she restores to abstraction something of the critical edge that it lost as the modernist canon incorporated it.

As an artist critically aware of her role in the art world as an African - American woman, Jones calls upon her training and her identity to construct a revisionist history, one which acknowledges abstract work by black artists left out of art history's Modernist canon.

Not exact matches

The solution they advocate, therefore, can be said to be «modernist»: it believes in essential structures, and proposes that we recover the old and proper integrity of the undergraduate curriculum by reaffirming the centrality, and hence the authority, of those essential structures of understanding that have been defined by the traditional educational canon.

An educational canon, properly understood, marries modernists and post-modernists.

Even that most encrusted of modernists, the deaconal canon of the canonicists, Leo Strauss, notes the need for a continuing reinterpretation of the works of great minds:

An educational canon, properly understood, marries modernists and post-modernists, shows their current dispute to leave them trapped in an ideological isolation of partial truths, and invites them instead to exchange rings in celebration of a vow to share in the adventure toward a better American culture and a better world, an adventure that requires them both.

Since the 1980s, Koether has engaged in an intimate «battle» against painterly tradition, developing a defiant artistic practice able to sketch out a counterhistory of the modernist, male - dominated and heteronormative canon.

The Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam presents A Sign of Autumn — Vincent Vulsma a solo - exhibition on view 15 October — 27 November 2011, By employing strategies of spatio - temporal montage, Vulsma brings together objects and patterns taken from their contexts in ethnographic collections and the canons of modernist design and photography, deliberately moving back and forth along the lines between what is classified as commodity, art or ethnographic object.

Verheyen's works are considered an important part of Belgium's canon of Modernist Abstraction.

Awad's new body of work is distinguished by stunning color fields and subtle compositional arrangements that speak to a profound canon of painting, ranging from Classical sculpture to Modernist Abstraction.

It was a time when the loose canon unlimbered by Pollock and the Abstract Expressionists (and the trajectory of a particularly American cannonball across the high modernist bow), was being methodically re-aimed in successive barrages by young gunnies like Stella, Andre, Judd, and Morris.

Inhabiting a peculiar space between a clown - like portrait and ceremonial statue that concretizes the legacy of modernist abstraction, in Untitled (Free Standing Large Garden Sculpture Mask M24.g) Grotjahn makes a truly irreverent addition to the canon of bronze sculpture.