Sentences with phrase «modernist sculptural languages»

«In many ways, Dimitri's sculpture, like his life, straddled dual cultures, still believing in the vitality and worth of post-Cubist art, insisting that this European legacy did not have to be forestalled by the War, as it had been in America, that there was still something to say in modernist sculptural languages that had their origins in Paris.

Not exact matches

Houseago has long been fascinated with classical and modernist sculptural techniques and references, and is well known for his ability to synthesize different time periods and cultures into a highly distinctive sculptural language that is completely his own.

The strategy of the post-modern Memphis studio was to challenge and subvert Modernist conventions of good taste, with a visual language dominated by flamboyant pattern, bold colour, graphic sculptural form and, frequently, humour.

From his early Cubist and Surrealist assemblages to later ceramic and cut sheet - metal works, this major exhibition from the quintessential Modernist master is bound to elevate this «painter's» brilliant and unique sculptural language.

Peters» sculptural language draws from diverse iconographic influences which include Assyrian antiquities, Greco - Roman tragedy masks, Egyptian funerary figures and Cypriotic portraits, as well as the work of Elie Nadelman, early American folk art, Constantin Brâncusi, and early modernist figuration.