Sentences with phrase «notorious early paintings»

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Mitchell met de Kooning early on — inspired by his painting, she sought out an introduction — and was a rare female participant in artistic debates at the notorious Cedar Tavern.

This exhibition of nearly 140 works — including the notorious rock paintings; the «Bloody Head» series, 1973 — 2011; and numerous rarely seen early drawings — and its accompanying catalogue will explore that beautiful paradox.

By the late forties and early fifties, de Kooning and his New York contemporaries, including Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko, became notorious for rejecting the accepted stylistic norms such as Regionalism, Surrealism and Cubism by dissolving the relationship between foreground and background and using paint to create emotive, abstract gestures.

In the first of the two extended conversations that comprise How I Became a Painter, Winkfield (born 1944) reminisces about his student days in Leeds and London in the 1960s, and his early activities as an artist, writer, editor and translator; the second conversation focuses on Winkfield's life after he moved to New York City in 1969, including his decisive return to painting (prompted by the notorious survey of Richard Tuttle's work at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1975) and his various collaborations with poets of the New York School.

Leading off with early paintings, the Serpentine will feature Metzger's notable metaphors for our ineluctable journey on the Oblivion Express — his notorious «auto - destructive» pieces (disintegrating sculptures, acid - splashed canvases) begun in the late»50s — in addition to his presciently eco-minded critiques of consumerist excess via accumulations of used materials.