The phrase
"modernist movement" refers to a period in history when artists, writers, and thinkers rejected traditional ideas and techniques in favor of exploring new, innovative ways of expressing themselves. This movement, which occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, emphasized originality, individualism, and experimentation. It led to significant changes in art, literature, architecture, music, and other fields.
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Murray's work builds on the legacy of early twentieth -
century Modernist movements such as Cubism and Expressionism, funneling them into her own language that is equally concerned with psychology and the quotidian.
Hans Hofmann had firsthand knowledge of the advent of Fauvism, Cubism and other important
European Modernist movements and with his unique ability to teach what he knew he had much to offer to young American artists.
Owens borrows where she pleases —
from modernist movements past such as Color Field, Op Art, and Pattern and Decoration, from European painters like Rousseau and Toulouse - Lautrec, from anonymous mediums such as textile and embroidery.
«Something of that magic makes its way into the «shield paintings,» executed on hide stretched over ironing boards... Their sharply angular compositions allude to European
early Modernist movements, like Orphism and Rayism, but the curved contours of the boards foster all sorts of other associations: the surf - inspired art of 1960s Los Angeles, or the early shaped canvases of Frank Stella, or, as the titles suggest, heraldic armor.
Born from the same artistic milieu as their painting peers, these sculptors were inspired
by modernist movements such as Constructivism and Surrealism to experiment with new methods, materials, and proportions.
The Sackner material, grounded in the early 20th - century European avant - garde, brings together examples of
modernist movements like Italian Futurism, Dada, Russian Constructivism and Surrealism.
Associated with painters such as Frank Stella, minimalism in painting and sculpture, as opposed to other areas, is a
late modernist movement and depending on the context can be construed as a precursor to the post modern movement.
Franz Ackermann is a contemporary artist whose work can be traced to
many Modernist movements with its vibrant use of color and juxtaposition.
Forming part of his Tsukumogami series (meaning a type of Japanese spirit), his radical designs are greatly inspired by the early experiments of the Russian and
Italian Modernist movements, as well as Dada inspired concepts of perceived realities.
Standalone works and smaller ensembles of superb quality give visitors an insight into the
important modernist movements of the early 20th century.
Born in the northern Italian town of Asti where he still lives and works, Diego Perrone finds inspiration in
various Modernist movements of his origins, such as Futurism and Arte Povera.
If so, this included protecting the state's heritage, distinct identity and culture with Cultural Bolshevism having been designed as propaganda to
reject modernist movements.
The timeframe is a modifier for the
larger modernist movement, which has roots in the Industrial Revolution at the end of the 19th century and also in the post-World War I period.
Abstract paintings emerged from the late 19th century and early 20th century
modernist movements against traditional academic painting in Europe.
Many painters who emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s continued to contribute to this dynamic, and artists who had been at the forefront of
post-1950 modernist movements were still active.
Through the remaining years of the century, in defiance of the
prevalent modernist movements such as Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, many women adopted feminine imagery, materials, colors and techniques, such as sewing.
Spanning the
major Modernist movements of the 20th century, including Abstract Expressionism, Cubism and Surrealism, the museum features seminal works by artists including Duchamp, Picasso, Kandinsky, Mondrian and Giacometti.
The expatriate American poets T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound were so European embedded they helped initiate a
poetic modernist movement in Europe that was to influence North American literature as though from a foreign source.
After World War II, America gave birth to some of the most
influential Modernist movements of the Century, including Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism and Post Expressionism.
The early years of the 20th century witnessed a revolution in sculpture, thanks to pioneer 20th century sculptors like Brancusi, Picasso, Boccioni and Naum Gabo, and
new modernist movements like Cubism, Dada and Surrealism.
Sharon Horvath's vivid colored abstractions suggest influences of the Pattern and Decoration and
modernist movements touched by Rajput painting; and Adrian Nivola's exquisite wood - and - wire sculptures of musical instruments evoke Calder's circus studies and mad - science confections.
Organized by Wadsworth Atheneum Director and CEO Susan Talbott, this selection of nearly 50 works examined social history, identity and race, as well as nostalgia for the traditional portraits that once defined photography, and outlines the transformation of photographic portraiture
throughout modernist movements such as Dadaism and Surrealism.
Only one room functioned as a commercial gallery, while the other three were non-commercial spaces showing works which
illustrated modernist movements like Cubism, Surrealism and Kinetic art.
Recent geometric works that take their cues from
historic modernist movements, the art and crafts of indigenous cultures, and folk art, by Martha Clippinger, Gianna Commito, Diena Georgetti, Jeffrey Gibson, Eamon Ore - Giron, and Clare Rojas.
The gallery's stand is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the founding of De Stijl, the
Dutch Modernist movement that included painters and designers such as Mondrian and Rietveld.
Through the presentation of 45 works on paper from private collections, including calligraphy, gouache, oil and ink, the exhibition will explore the diversity of Chu Teh - Chun's practice and his iconic aesthetic which contributed significantly to the
Chinese modernist movement in France.
The second world war interrupted their association with the
international modernist movement, but Nicholson continued to develop his work, and introduced color to his reliefs and revisted landscape themes.
These travels exposed him to
different modernist movements including Constructivism, Cubism and Neo-Plasticism, while he was living in Paris and New York.
Through the 1930s and»40s indigenous
Indian modernist movements proliferated, in cities like Baroda, Madras, New Delhi and Bombay (now Mumbai).
Abstraction has occupied a difficult position in art during the 21st century, weighed down by its association with an
outdated modernist movement and paralysing, self - reflexive ideologies.
With parallel interests in art history stemming from Kurt Schwitters and
early Modernist movements, their creative kinship developed over years before the artistic collaborations began in 2010.
Never has the AAA published a manifesto, laid down the law, identified an enemy, nor expelled anyone for breaching its orthodoxies in the manner of so
many modernist movements.
This month, at Sprüth Magers, he will present new works that demonstrate his near infallibility as an experimentalist: a suite of Calder-esque mobiles (he calls them «Scales») made from colorful tin cans and all kinds of other fun detritus that recall a number of heady
European modernist movements but somehow still manage to wear their intelligence lightly, like a tie - dyed bandana.
Crittall windows have been associated with Art Deco and
Modernist movements in early 20th century architecture and many notable buildings across the UK, including the Houses of Parliament and Tower of London.
In general, Pop Art and Minimalism began
as modernist movements: a paradigm shift and philosophical split between formalism and anti-formalism in the early 1970s caused those movements to be viewed by some as precursors or transitional postmodern art.
Whether Yamasaki's humanist modernism was successful (or even possible) remains an open question, but Gyure helpfully puts
the modernist movement in a broader context.