Sentences with phrase «of abstract expressionism in»

Robert Rauschenberg, along with Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly, broke the stylistic and conceptual dominance of abstract expressionism in the 1950s and expanded the horizons of art.

The United States Information Agency (USIA) even organized exhibitions of abstract expressionism in response to accusations of American «philistinism.»

The history of abstract expressionism in America (1940 - 60) was one of assimilation of the devices and aesthetic criteria of European avant - garde art, and then a growing independence from them.

From 1943 to 1945, Peggy Guggenheim exhibited many early works of abstract expressionism in her Art of This Century Gallery.

Which was very different from the composition of the makers of abstract expressionism in the United States.

Another artist who was known to present qualities of abstract expressionism in his artworks was Mark Tobey.

He was an important representative of abstract expressionism in post-war Germany.

This sweeping survey exhibition seeks to exhume from historical misappropriation non-objective painting as a movement of European abstraction re-homed in the vertiginous violence of WWII to the streets of Manhattan and as a historical event in the history of art whose legacy singularly influenced the rise of abstract expressionism in the following generation.

Hugo Consuegra (b. 1929, Havana - d. 2003, Rego Park, N.Y.): An architecture graduate from the University of Havana and the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, Consuegra was one of the leading exponents of abstract expressionism in Cuba in the 1950s.

Taken together they provide an extraordinary overview of abstract expressionism in New York and a unique insight into one of the most important American art movements of the 20th century.»

Winning numerous awards during his lifetime, Emil Schumacher was an important representative painter of abstract expressionism in post-war Germany.

Conversations with Satoru Abe and Harry Tsuchidana about the beginnings of abstract expressionism in its Hawai'i form.

The exhibition begins with John Sloan's Ashcan School etchings of everyday urban experience in the 1900s and concludes with Jackson Pollock and the triumph of abstract expressionism in the 1950s.

Hagit Lalo was one of the forerunners of abstract expressionism in Israel.

Sam Middleton was an American artist who often employed the ideas of abstract expressionism in his work.

With its vast vibrant canvases, the Royal Academy's latest exhibition — the first survey of abstract expressionism in Europe in more than 50 years — sheds fresh light on the movement's origins

He established himself in New York's art community by becoming a member (and later president) of The Club, an informal group of artists who represented the social and intellectual center of abstract expressionism in New York.

The fact that there has been no exhibition of abstract expressionism in Europe since the groundbreaking touring show of 1959 might suggest that it was, as a movement, a historical failure.

This is a thoughtful and blessedly jargon - free trip back to the days when American women began to think, act and express themselves in ways which were very different from their mothers, Having some of the work to see along with the words sends home the message that these paintings remain intriguing, challenging and vital to the understanding of abstract expressionism in the US.

But the acclaim faded, done in by a combination of Senator Joseph McCarthy's wave of repression, by Sharrer's adherence to figural art in the face of the dominance of abstract expressionism in the 1950s and «60s, and by the fact that the artist was a woman.

As the show's title expresses, the predominance of abstract expressionism in midcentury American modernism eclipsed the work of Porter and other artists like him who chose to work in a figurative vein.

An important figure in the New York School, Paul Jenkins contributed to the development of abstract expressionism in New York and abroad with his intuitive, chance - based approach to painting.

Hans Hofmann in particular as teacher, mentor, and artist was both important and influential to the development and success of abstract expressionism in the United States.

Published by the Royal Academy of Arts, this lavishly illustrated book accompanies the first major showing of abstract expressionism in Britain since 1959.

He began his career in the arts studying painting in the late 1940s and early 50s, the heyday of abstract expressionism in New York, first at the Art Students League with Morris Kantor and then at Cooper Union with Steve Wheeler.

Not exact matches

In 1953 Blackman was co — founder of the Melbourne Contemporary Art Society and he was also one of seven artists responsible for the Antipodean Manifesto; these artists protested the dominance and rejected the rise of abstract expressionism and non — figurative art.

Einspruch also notes that the murals «were worked up from sketches in gouache on colored paper [that] reveal a kind of premeditation that we don't always associate with the giants of abstract expressionism.»

Just less than half of the 37 artists in the show are abstract expressionism's A-listers (white, male and of European heritage), most of whom lived and worked in New York.

The gallery continues, «In his essay for the exhibition catalogue, William Agee describes Hofmann as going against the grain of the artistic canon of the day; «His art was too big, too bold, to be encapsulated in a few years after 1945, the years we generally identify as the heyday of abstract expressionism.&raquIn his essay for the exhibition catalogue, William Agee describes Hofmann as going against the grain of the artistic canon of the day; «His art was too big, too bold, to be encapsulated in a few years after 1945, the years we generally identify as the heyday of abstract expressionism.&raquin a few years after 1945, the years we generally identify as the heyday of abstract expressionism.»

Through his ties to the Willard Gallery, his work was often viewed alongside and studied in the context of abstract expressionism.

Some of the new styles and movements that appeared in the early 1960s as responses to abstract expressionism were called: Washington Color School, Hard - edge painting, Geometric abstraction, Minimalism, and Color Field.

Although these masters of abstract expressionism seem ubiquitous, they are not often shown in Hawaii in full force.

In 1968, Guston drastically changed his artistic style from a lyrical form of abstract expressionism to a kind of cartoony figuration.

Barnett Newman is considered one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.

In advance of his representation of the United States at the Venice Biennale, Mark Bradford is collaborating with two institutions in Denver, Colo., presenting exhibitions that pair his work with that of Clyfford Still (1904 - 1980), a 20th century master of abstract expressionisIn advance of his representation of the United States at the Venice Biennale, Mark Bradford is collaborating with two institutions in Denver, Colo., presenting exhibitions that pair his work with that of Clyfford Still (1904 - 1980), a 20th century master of abstract expressionisin Denver, Colo., presenting exhibitions that pair his work with that of Clyfford Still (1904 - 1980), a 20th century master of abstract expressionism.

In the sixties and early seventies it became an abstract expressionism which then evolved into an abstraction more inferential of nature.

Held in high regard in his home country of France, and throughout much of continental Europe, the work of Pierre Soulages has never really achieved the same stature in the United States, despite his formal ties to the particularly American strains abstract expressionism and minimalism that have populated his work over the past sixty years.

In 1959, a year out of Princeton, he was included in Sixteen Americans — a landmark show at New York's Museum of Modern Art that pulled the plug once and for all on abstract expressionism and set the stage for the multifarious art of the 1960In 1959, a year out of Princeton, he was included in Sixteen Americans — a landmark show at New York's Museum of Modern Art that pulled the plug once and for all on abstract expressionism and set the stage for the multifarious art of the 1960in Sixteen Americans — a landmark show at New York's Museum of Modern Art that pulled the plug once and for all on abstract expressionism and set the stage for the multifarious art of the 1960s.

There, she met Franz Kline and Willem De Kooning, who initiated her to variations of abstract expressionism and participated in the effervescence of New York artistic life.

In fact, the dominance of the term «abstract expressionism» over «action painting,» which seemed more applicable to Pollock and Willem de Kooning than any other members of the New York School, is emblematic of the influence of formalist discourse.

The justification for the term, «abstract expressionist,» lies in the fact that most of the painters covered by it took their lead from German, Russian, or Jewish expressionism in breaking away from late Cubist abstract art.

Like other young artists trying to define themselves in the wake of abstract expressionism, Martin first experimented with found assemblages of detritus from the lower Manhattan docks.

MoMA's newest exhibit, Abstract Expressionist New York presents a good overview of the NY school of abstract expressionism during its heyday in the 40's and 50's.

Farouk Hosny's gestural, vibrant palette speaks the universal language of formalist abstraction in a cultural response to Western abstract expressionism.

Steeped in Hofmann's modernist theories, Kahn nonetheless developed a style of landscape painting that owes as much to the impressionists as it does to abstract expressionism.

Now that's something that's in abstract expressionism, too, of course.

And against fashion: she remained a figurative artist when the rest of the New York art establishment was in the grip of abstract expressionism.

The way the paint was applied to the canvas, or dripped on it, gave his abstract expressionism a level of distinctiveness in the similar way his personal life was different from other artists.

Currently the official story of avant - garde abstract painting and sculpture in America that is on view at the Whitney Museum, denies works of scores of artists that demonstrate that American painters and sculptors by the late sixties went beyond minimalism creating a new expressionism.

In 1954, he held his first exhibition at Galleria La Bussola in Turin, where he exhibited works clearly influenced by his knowledge of informal art and American abstract expressionisIn 1954, he held his first exhibition at Galleria La Bussola in Turin, where he exhibited works clearly influenced by his knowledge of informal art and American abstract expressionisin Turin, where he exhibited works clearly influenced by his knowledge of informal art and American abstract expressionism.