Sentences with phrase «murals painting movement»

Good examples of twentieth century history painting include: the Mexican murals painting movement (1920s), embodied in the work of Diego Rivera (1886 - 1957), Jose Clemente Orozco (1883 - 1949) and David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896 - 1974); Guernica with its juxtaposition of modern and traditional images, by Pablo Piccaso (1881 - 1973).

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The company has also sponsored a mural movement for school children in Haiti to paint the walls of their schools, and has sponsored college students exploring sustainable paints at artists» retreats.

Until she managed to help launch a movement in 1995 to locate and restore a neglected trove of historic art at Chicago Public Schools (CPS) campuses, as many as 440 murals and smaller paintings had been gathering dust in school hallways, libraries, and auditoriums, often crumbling, obscured by grit, stuffed in closets, or forgotten in boiler rooms.

He discusses Pop Art's place in art history; his initial feelings about being considered a Pop artist; the influence of Los Angeles and its environment on his work; his feelings about English awareness of America; a discussion of his use of words as images; a discussion of the Standard Station as an American icon; a discussion of the notion of freedom as it is perceived as a Southern California phenomenon; how he sees himself in relation to the Los Angeles mural movement (L.A. Fine Arts Squad); the importance of communication to him; his relationship with the entertainment world in Los Angeles and its misinterpretation of him; his books; collaboration with Mason Williams on «Crackers;» his approach toward conceiving an idea for paintings; personal feelings about the books that he has done; the importance of motion in his work; a discussion of the movies «Miracle» and «Premium;» his friendship with Joe Goode; his return from Europe and his studio in Glassell Park; his move to Hollywood in 1965; the problems of balancing the domestic life and the artistic life; his stain paintings and what he hopes to learn from using stains; a disscussion of bicentemial exhibition at the L.A. County Museum: «Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties,» 1981; a discussion of the origin of L.A. Pop as an off shoot from the American realist tradition; his feelings about being considered a realist; the importance for him of elevating humble objects onto the canvas; a discussion on how he chooses the words he uses in his paintings; and his feelings about the future direction of his work.

The exhibition uses archive photographs and documentary material to illustrate the mural movement, including the «Wall of Respect» in Chicago and the «Smokehouse» wall paintings in Harlem.

Curated by Juan Camilo Sierra, the fifty - plus - work show gives Colombian audiences the opportunity to confront firsthand the work of paradigmatic figures like Mikhail Larionov, Vladimir Tatlin, Alexander Rodchenko, and Liuvov Popova, as it explores the influence of Russian Constructivism as manifested in a host of Latin American movements, including Mexican mural painting.

American Regionalism is an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting realistic scenes of rural and small - town America primarily in the Midwest and Deep South.