Sentences with phrase «modernist painters»

Among the artists included in the exhibition is Stanton Macdonald - Wright, who was one of America's leading modernist painters and an early pioneer of abstract art.

«Modernist painters tried to use pure color [as opposed to black shading] to communicate the «third dimension.»

Rhythm & Reaction: The Age of Jazz in Britain highlighted how the new jazz sound in post-War nightclubs and dancehalls provided exciting and dynamic material for British artists — displaying bold depictions of lively dancers by William Roberts and Frank Dobson, alongside the Harlem - inspired paintings for which Edward Burra, one of Britain's foremost Modernist painters, was well - known.

WILLIAM PEREHUDOFF was born in 1918 in Langham, Saskatchewan and is one of Canada's foremost modernist painters.

Biography: WILLIAM PEREHUDOFF was born in 1918 in Langham, Saskatchewan and is one of Canada's foremost modernist painters.

By the mid -»50s, de Kooning was recognized as one of the chief modernist painters in America, a leading light of the tendency fellow painter Robert Motherwell defined as the New York School.

Her bright, playful work is influenced by Modernist painters, cartoons and trash heaps.

One of the most influential art teachers of the first half of the twentieth century, Hans Hofmann came late to the brilliant abstractions that brought him fame as one of the country's leading modernist painters.

That wallpaper has its poetry, in any case, was already clear enough to modernist painters like Matisse, Vuillard, and Bonnard, for whom its rhythmic patterns had at once a formal raison d'être, functioning as an approximation of what Clement Greenberg would later call the «all - over picture,» «tightly covered, evenly and heavily textured,» which «tended — but only tended — to

The two modernist painters Piet Mondrian — one of world's most celebrated 20th century artists — , and our very own Ben Nicholson — a key figure in British art history — are an obvious pairing.

Punctuating these assemblages are allusions to Cuban modernist painters, as well as to artists who have shaped her thinking about the confluence of abstract forms: Laszlo Moholy - Nagy, Gego, and Jesus Rafael Soto.

It may be too neat a formulation, but just as in the works of the early 20th century, one can see modernist painters struggling to evolve abstract compositions from real scenes, with Doig it's the reverse — he is pulling real scenes out of an abstract surface.

The gallery's Survey presentation will focus on the work of Alfredo Volpi, one of the most influential Brazilian painters from the mid-20th century, linking the second generation of Modernist painters from the 1940s and the concrete Brazilian artists of the 1950s.

By setting «traditional painting» against conceptualist «modern» art, they ignore great modernist painters from Picasso to Cy Twombly.

As a variety of technical devices were employed by early modernist painters to intimate extension beyond the space defined by the picture plane, and by later artists to reveal and acknowledge the two - dimensional surface of illusion, the artists in this exhibition have utilized devices which indicate a contemporary view of time and space and the work of art.

Collectivism has been a major force in South African art pretty much since the New Group, a vanguard of white modernist painters, declared themselves, in 1938, «united against junk.»

Still abstract, these small - scale works are cover versions of some of her favorite modernist painters, including Kazimir Malevich, Philip Guston and Robert Ryman, while they equally flaunt the nurturing influence of her father, an abstract painter, and her mother, a textile designer, in their playful colors and forms.

One of the great American modernist painters was Fairfield Porter, and the Parrish is renowned for the depth and breadth of his works in the permanent collection.

The sale will include works by important Hudson River School artists, such as Alfred Thompson Bricher, Albert Bierstadt, George Inness, and William Trost Richards, as well as by American impressionist and modernist painters, including Thomas Hart Benton, Emil Carlsen, Max Keuhne, and Reginald Marsh.

Pollock, who became one of the pioneers of abstract expressionism, and Jorn who is still, to this day, considered one of the most important modernist painters in Danish art.

The one - way relationship between modernist painters and the CIA — only recently confirmed by former case officer Donald Jameson — supposedly enabled the agency to make the work of Soviet Socialist Realists appear, in Jameson's words, «even more stylized and more rigid and confined than it was.»

Curated by Matthew Burrows, Permeable Edge (19 October - 4 December 2016) continues the series of research exhibitions and symposia which have focused on the relationship between contemporary art and the work of British Modernist painters who feature prominently in the Bishop Otter Art Collection at the University.

He died in 1964, on the eve of the Pop explosion that sent mid-century modernist painters spinning, but Stuart Davis's work, which mixes American advertising style with the movements (cubist, dada, Abstract Expressionism) that he grew up with, presages the Pop era in both tone and content.

The Modernist painters from the 1930's and 40's and the transcendental painters from Santa Fe NM influence her.

He soon began exhibiting the work of his artist friends, the generation of Catalan modernist painters, Elisha Meifrén, Ramon Casas, and Isidre Nonell.

In 1935, Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb joined with eight other modernist painters in New York to form the Ten.

The professor's character evokes the great Modernist painters — in particular Willem de Kooning, with his Dutch - American accent — even though Mr. Akita happens to be a dog.

Studying at the avant - garde Academie La Palette, Chagall met experimental poets like Apollinaire and modernist painters like Modigliani and Delaunay.

In New York City a new generation of young and exciting Modernist painters led by Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, and others were just beginning to come of age.

Of the many British modernist painters currently enjoying a revival, Winifred Knights is amongst the most deserving, having been completely forgotten about in spite of her painting The Deluge, 1920, one of the most memorable images associated with the First World War.

Avery was one of the most important homegrown modernist painters in America before modernism was widely accepted.

Today because of the quality of his paintings and not just his myth, Claude Monet is loved as a great Impressionist and as one of the first modernist painters.

I have noticed that whenever the «D' word is used in relation to abstract art it is usually the late modernist painters, championed by Clement Greenberg, that we have in mind.

As an American modernist painter Hartley felt strongly connected to European Expressionism, however the word itself he could not stand any more, rejecting all intellectual talk about creating art....

In her author's note in The Golden Day, Ursula Dubosarsky writes that Charles Blackman, an acclaimed Australian modernist painter, was a particularly keen influence on the novel:» [My] greatest debt is to Charles Blackman's many astonishing, lush depictions of schoolgirls — enchanting, disturbing, and endlessly evocative.»

The Monastery preserves the fingerprint of the different epochs that has lived, from the origins in the 10th century as Benedictine abbey up to being acquired by the family of the modernist painter Ramon Casas.

Held in connection with the Brooklyn Museum's show focused on how O'Keeffe defined her image through clothing, photographs, and social connections, the event should shed some light on the modernist painter's use of color and geometry.

Within a week of MoMA's reinstall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art unveiled «Open Access»: a shift toward becoming an ostensible museum without borders, wherein the digitized catalogue of all public domain artworks from its collection, totaling more than 375,000 images — from Japanese woodblock prints, to studies by American modernist painter Arthur Dove, to Eugène Atget's gelatin silver prints of a Haussmann - izing Paris — are now accessible and downloadable to anyone with an Internet connection, anywhere, at any time.

I intended to contrast both Haynes and my fictional / composite Modernist painter with Kassey, but perhaps that wasn't very clear.

In the late 1920s, he was introduced to the modernist painter Milton Avery, who had a decisive influence on the young artist.

An initial question intrigued me on visiting the American modernist painter Beauford Delaney's Parisian show Resonance of Form and Vibration of Color: How did a black gay painter remain so full of light and joy during the struggle against racial and sexual bigotry taking place in the 1960s?

This exhibition features the work of influential American modernist painter Marsden Hartley (1877 — 1943).

Arthur Dove: A Reassessment offers a fresh look at the art, life and literature of seminal American modernist painter Arthur Dove (1880 — 1946).

Beauford Delaney was an American modernist painter, best known for his work with the Harlem Renaissance and his later works in abstract expressionism.

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts offers a comprehensive retrospective of the career of Norman Lewis, the first such exhibition to be devoted to this African - American Modernist painter and one that invites viewers to consider Mr. Lewis's place in the history of the country's art.

The three inaugurating exhibitions include «Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible,» 140 works from the Renaissance to the present that consider when an artwork is completed; a retrospective of the Indian modernist painter Nasreen Mohamedi (1937 - 1990); and performances by the Met's current artist in residence, Vijay Iyer.

In 1939 Krasner joined the American Abstract Artists (AAA), which afforded her more opportunities to exhibit her work as a burgeoning young modernist painter.

This is an «A» work by noted American modernist painter Rolph Scarlett.

Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892 — June 24, 1964), was an early American modernist painter.

Women, from contemporary artist Lisa Yuskavage to modernist painter Frances Strain, are on show at Jeffrey Deitch's recreation of the late feminist artist Florine Stettheimer's studio.