Sentences with phrase «more dadaist»

Moreover, the French avant - garde - perhaps due to its entrenched Communist Party - had a more political flavour and thus took a more Dadaist line encouraging audience participation in their preferred Performance, Happenings and Conceptual art under the umbrella term of Nouveau Realisme (c.1960 - 70).

Mr. Castellani was working in Milan, where he was close to Piero Manzoni, an artist with a more Dadaist approach.

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Mr. Oehlen's contemporaries tended to take a more adversarial, Dadaist approach, which he did not fully absorb.

The Dadaists first borrowed collage from the Cubists and used it to serve as a «low» material in protest against the «high» status of the more expensive oil painting that represented bourgeois society in Germany and other parts of Europe.

At the very least, Henry Codax has firmly aligned himself — or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he has been firmly aligned — with a tradition of fictional and pseudonymous artists that includes French Dadaist Marcel Duchamp masquerading as a woman named Rrose Selavy and the artist Richard Prince and dealer Colin de Land reportedly making work under the name John Dogg.

This attitude - reflected not only in Saret's wire pieces, but also in Lynda Benglis» poured latex works, Robert Morris» scattered and draped felt and Richard Serra's splashed lead - may be seen as an extension of the chance procedures of the Dadaists and, more recently, the contemporary composer John...

That show marked a shift from the idea of a constructivist, analytical and technological Colombo, attributed to him over the years by various Italian critics, to one that placed more emphasis on his dadaist - surrealist links, which were formulated by the artist himself as a part of a thesis on Max Ernst and Dadaism, completed as part of his diploma at Milan's Accademia di Brera in 1959.

From its Futurist and Dadaist origins to the body art of the 1970s and more recent developments in the genre, the history of Performance art is oriented around a fairly consistent set of elements: movements, speech, the body, impermanence, audience participation.

When they hang a Currin on the wall, they are given permission — more than that, they are given the right — to appreciate this oilcloth horror as a painterly painting as exquisite as a Velázquez, or to enjoy it as an incompetent high - kitsch send - up of classical painting, or to assess its value as social commentary, or to laugh at it as a piece of Dadaist stupidity - for - stupidity's - sake.

They're more in keeping with Duchamp and Kurt Schwitters» brand of subversion and the radical dismantling of traditional art - making by the Dadaists than the superficial antics of Pop.

Third, again like Dadaists, he believed that the idea behind a work of art was more important than the work itself - a belief he held in common with the growing Conceptual art movement.

VanDerBeek's ironic compositions were created very much in the spirit of the surreal and dadaist collages of Max Ernst, but with a wild, rough informality more akin to the expressionism of the Beat Generation.