Sentences with phrase «of dadaist»

The history of the world by Zipora Fried would probably look something like the black and white avant - garde films of the Dadaist canon: morphing, jagged, and driven by a language that is neither recognizable nor familiar, emphasizing everyday objects as agents of intellect rather than simple extensions of the hand.

I realized then that Reinhardt had come out of the European geometric tradition, and that the black paintings to which his constructivist trajectory had led were not manifestations of Dadaist nihilism or even Abstract Expressionist anxiety, but the logical conclusion of that purist tradition.

Tate Britain will on Wednesday open the first major exhibition examining the later work of a Dadaist artist now regarded as one of the true greats of 20th - century modernist art, whose abstract collages and concrete poetry were an enormous influence on later generations of artists.

A decade later she designed a puppet production of the play at Marionetteatern, Stockholm, where the characters morphed into disturbing life sized puppets carrying wooden flat cut - out «body - masks», reminiscent of Dadaist costume.

The objects found within her assemblage works offer a direct nod to artists such as Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp and much of the Dadaist movement.

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.

At first I thought it must be some kind of Dadaist event, an exhibition devoted to Arp and his notional family — because to a German - speaker, the word «Artschwager «could be construed as a bilingual neologism, a combination of the English word «art» and the German word «Schwager `, or in - laws.

Etel Adnan (b. 1925 in Beirut, Lebanon, and lives between California and France) is an award - winning author, playwright, poet, and visual artist, who, in the tradition of the Dadaists and Surrealists, moves fluidly between writing and art making.

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...

He is influenced by the notion of «tensegrity», proposed by Kenneth Snelson, the paintings and prints of Terry Winters, methods of unifying conscious and subconscious thought such as through Surrealist Automatism, and the approach of Dadaists to question the meaning of symbols.

«Through Leger, Matter met and began working for Swiss graphic designer and photographer Herbert Matter, who, as an artist for Condé Nast publications, was largely responsible for translating the photomontage innovations of the dadaists into the visual vocabulary of the cultural mainstream.

He might equally well have asked how the anti-art subversive pranks of the Dadaists and Surrealists were transformed to become fertile material for the imaginations of true painters like Arshile Gorky.

His breakthrough came in 1924 when, under the influence of Dadaists and Surrealist writers André Breton and Louis Aragon, he freed his work from the restraints of realistic representation.

Working in the lineage of the Dadaists and the Nouveau Réalisme movement, Bradford has honed a refined technique of décollage, a process defined by cutting, tearing away or otherwise removing, pieces of an original image.

Gordon's photosculptures exist somewhere between two and three dimensions, visually interrupted by his disjunctive cuts which recall the photomontages of the Dadaists.

So now — in a sort of reversal of fortune gleefully predicted half a century ago by none other than Salvador Dalí — Sigmar Polke, though championed as an inheritor of the avant - garde strategies of the Dadaists and the Abstract Expressionists, turns out to be the new pompier.

In 1936, on the verge of arrest, he fled Germany for Switzerland where he received his second MD and befriended many of the Dadaists.

Not exact matches

Park City will also play host to the premiere of the bizarrely enticing Manifesto, in which Cate Blanchett does «reenactments» in «an homage to the twentieth century's most impassioned artistic statements and innovators, from Futurists and Dadaists to Pop Art, Fluxus, Lars von Trier and Jim Jarmusch.»

Also, to Ms. Taymor's credit, she intelligently provides at times inspired touches such as — stop motion action shots, color tinting in brightly exotic desert shades, finely textured black - and - white sequences, shots of Diego in New York to do the Rockefeller commissioned mural against a lively Dadaist collage of the New York setting, Frida's dream of her hubby as King Kong, a puppet show in the hospital (with the help of the gifted Quay brothers animations of skeletons in the post-accident emergency room — the skeletons were copied from one of Frida's paintings).

Now Rosefeldt is releasing his project as a single 90 - minute feature, described on his website as «a series of striking monologues -LSB-...] created by editing and reassembling a collage of artists» manifestos, from declarations penned by the Futurists, Dadaists and Situationists, to the musings of individual artists, architects, dancers and filmmakers such as Sol LeWitt, Yvonne Rainer and Jim Jarmusch.»

FRANK How can you resist the idea of Michael Fassbender as a brilliant, Dadaist rock «n» roll mastermind who wears a giant papier - maché head everywhere he goes?

Throughout, Rosefeldt pays homage to the tradition of artist manifestos, drawing on the writings of Futurists, Dadaists, Fluxus artists, Suprematists, Situationists and other artist groups.

This is when Will Ferrell transformed the multiplex into a deliriously Dadaist screaming match; when Edgar Wright and David Wain perfected the art of the spoof, even as the Epic Movie crowd...

The art quotes describe the revolting attitude of several famous Dadaist artists in and around Dada, like Hans / Jean Arp, Kurt Schwitters and Theo van Doesburg.

His quotes describe in essential the meaning, goals, and characteristics of Dadaism, including the Dadaist artists of this critical art movement.

Though it's an act of vandalism, graffiti is also regarded as an artistic style, as much a contemporary statement as the early Dadaists painting on urinals to make bold statements against World War I.

An 11th grader compared surrealist, cubist, and Dadaist art through essays and illustrations that showed understanding of each style.

Innes has been steeped in the Dadaists of late, so much so that two nights previously he had a dream entirely within one of their paintings.

It's that dadaist streak of alt - history, frenetic editing, and flights of fancy that are at the core of how Chung operates as a storyteller and game designer.

British artist Linder is possibly best known for a record sleeve she designed for the Buzzcock's single Orgasm Addict in 1977 - an iconic image, of a naked woman with an iron for a head and grinning mouths instead of nipples, has become a symbol, not only of a defining era of punk culture and feminism, but also a microcosm for her expansive body of work, which operates on a deeply contextual level with issues of gender, feminism, stereotyping and sexualisation, echoing the work of Hannah Hoch, the German Dadaist for whom this edition was created in homage.

And his detractors were not wrong when they said that he could be bombastic, a man whose understandable impatience with bland formalist abstraction and the art world's ever - growing anti-art Dadaist shenanigans led him to sentimentalize the virtues of a return to representational painting, as if some particular style could save the day.

A curious fact of history: at the same time that Lenin, living in exile in Zurich, was preparing plans for a revolutionary Russia, just down the street, Dadaists were leading a nightly art revolt at the Cabaret Voltaire.

Most of the artists of the sixties and seventies that the Whitney features were influenced by and created derivative variations of the work of Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Dubuffet, and various other European Dadaists and Surrealists.

Maturing into painting coagulates a background in Cinema and Stage Art with a love for writing, combined with years of study and experimental research into territories of human thought and metaphysics, and on the overall an auto - didactic and Dadaist approach to life.

In the beginning of the»60s, Arman was still under a tremendous impression by the exhibition German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters held in 1954.

His automatic paintings and use of color inspired the surrealists, abstract expressionists, Dadaists, and color field painters.

Interest in Dada followed in the wake of documentary publications, such as Robert Motherwell's The Dada Painters and Poets (1951)[3] and German language publications from 1957 and later, to which some former Dadaists contributed.

Known by his nom de plume CPLY, he was a self - taught artist pushing the limits of art - world decorum, as well as a collector, gallerist and connector of some of the most important artists of the 20th century, in particular European Surrealists and Dadaists such as Max Ernst, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp, and American Pop artists.

[4] However, several of the original Dadaists denounced the label Neo-Dada, especially in its U.S. manifestations, on the grounds that the work was derivative rather than making fresh discoveries; that aesthetic pleasure was found in what were originally protests against bourgeois aesthetic concepts; and because it pandered to commercialism.

«Personally, as a spectator, I'm little bummed that we won't get to see the dadaist theater of a lawyers, experts, and a judge calculating the infringiness of these last five Prince paintings, which were supposedly so different from the 25 others that they were declared fair use,» Allen notes.

The recent exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World (6 October 2017 — 7 January 2018), opened with numerous works by Huang dated to his early Dadaist years.

Mixed in with the works of Willumsen are rarely seen works by the better known Dadaist Francis Picabia (1879 — 1953) and newer work by the suddenly resurgent Julian Schnabel (b. 1951), who — as might be expected — is the main draw.

Early in his career, he was an impressionist in the style of Alfred Sisley; then be became bored and morphed into a cubist, then a dadaist, later a surrealist, and eventually, finally, with a late group of naturalistic paintings, a seeming anti-modernist altogether.

Rauschenberg and his close friend Jasper Johns are referred to as Neo Dadaists; this category of artists continued the earlier Dada movement in which artists questioned the very definition of a work of art.

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.

Using found domestic objects such as shoes or irons as a means of mark making or as sculptural elements, Willie Cole adopts dadaist strategies of appropriation and assemblage to political representations of marginalized identities.

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.

A loose generational cohort of artists rather than a stylistically cohesive movement like the Minimalists or Dadaists, the Young British Artists burst on the London scene in the 1990s with intensely attitudinal artworks that injected brainy, Duchamp - influenced Neo-Conceptualism with a liberal helping of grit, sex, and death.

He associated with Dadaists and Surrealists, who were contemptuous of the constrictions of bourgeois society and its art, and sought radically new forms of representation.

(9 pm, BBC4) is part of a season on conceptual art that has ranged from Vic Reeves on the Dadaists to a survey by James Fox.