Sentences with phrase «of avant»

The Russian avant - garde reached its creative and popular height in the period between the Russian Revolution of 1917 and 1932, at which point the ideas of the avant - garde clashed with the newly emerged state - sponsored direction of Socialist Realism.

Burgoyne Diller, among the most significant American abstract artists of the twentieth century, is regarded as a leader of the avant - garde in the 1930s and a forefather of the 1960s Minimalist movement.

Donefer is known for her imaginative designs, captivating personality, and melding of Avant - garde fashion and contemporary art.

He also has lectured on and curated showings of avant - garde films throughout the world.

We might look to the entangled genealogies of Op art as an example of mass adoption of avant - garde tropes: the perceptual and formal rigour of Bridget Riley became quickly adopted by the Mod generation, who were keen to express their radicalism through bold styling.

Afterward, Bulawsky and Reed will lead guests on brief tours of the current Teaching Gallery exhibition they curated, The New York Collection for Stockholm Portfolio, which showcases prints by a distinguished cross-section of avant - garde American artists of the 1960s, and of Island Press: Recent Prints, which presents artworks created in the last decade by over a dozen visiting artists to Island Press, Washington University's collaborative printmaking workshop.

IF ONLY IN THE SPIRIT of rhetorical gamesmanship, it seems entirely worthwhile to ask whether the concept of the avant - garde, or neo-avant-garde, is not totally irrelevant when it comes to discussions of artistic production today — even if considered...

In 1937 an exhibition of degenerate art, «Entartete Kunst» contained all types of avant - garde art disapproved of by the Nazi party.

Abstraction, in its various forms, already appeared to be the ne plus ultra of avant - garde art by the middle of the 20th century.

A pioneer of avant - garde performance, Foreman took his early cues from the filmmaker / performance artist Jack Smith and the musician LaMonte Young.

A founding member of the avant - garde group Fluxus, Alison Knowles creates works across a variety of media, from silkscreens to books to soundwork.

He served in the army during the Korean War and, on returning to New York, met a small group of avant - garde artists involved with the famous Black Mountain College: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, and others.

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BLACK AND WHITE: JAPANESE MODERN ART The austere aesthetic of traditional Zen ink painting intersects with the influence of Western modernists in a grouping of avant - garde Japanese works centered on Inoue Yuichi's large calligraphy of a character meaning «filial piety.»

Monochromatic painting has been an important component of avant - garde visual art throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century.

The status of the avant - garde is controversial: many institutions argue being visionary, forward - looking, cutting - edge, and progressive are crucial to the mission of art in the present, and therefore postmodern art contradicts the value of «art of our times».

At the heart of the Museum's modern European collection is a world - renowned group of works by Piet Mondrian, as well as paintings and sculpture by Constantin Brancusi, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fernand Léger, Kazimir Severinovich Malevich and other masters of the avant - garde.

Painters of the Ecole de Paris, the centre of the avant garde, were still using easels, skirting around the edges of the condition humaine with a modest form of existentialism, or otherwise just copying Picasso.

He thus lifted the decade out of context in another way — the context of the avant - garde before it and the artist's recovery of painting after it.

The road to understanding what formalism in art really is about takes us from philosophical ideas of Plato, Aristotle and Immanuel Kant, through the experiments of the avant - garde, all the way to contemporary ideal of socially - engaged and conceptual art.

While Informel is often regarded as the European equivalent of Abstract Expressionism, it is distinguished from its American counterpart, by a loss of faith in progress and the collective possibilities of an avant garde.

In the early 20th century, following Henri Matisse and André Derain's impact as Fauvist painters and Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque's monumental innovations and the worldwide success of Cubism and the emboldening of the avant - garde, Marcel Duchamp exhibited a urinal as a sculpture.

Artists were quoting «The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction,» by Walter Benjamin, and Rosalind E. Krauss was moving toward her own criticism of the «originality of the avant - garde.»

When she managed to establish a name of an avant - garde and progressive artist, Yayoi Kusama became one of the prominent female figures of the New York scene.

Dirty Looks Curator on the Hollywood Stars of Avant - Garde Cinema, lmagazine.com.

Senga Nengudi is one of the seminal conceptual and performance artists of our time, she emerged as part of a group of avant - garde African - American artists active in Los Angeles and New York in the 1970s and 1980s.

Inspired by the recent show at Friedman Benda gallery And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music, the latest installment of The Avant / Garde Diaries takes an intimate look at two artists in the show: Bill Beckley and Agathe Snow.

Could the death of the avant - garde allow for multiplicity?

- David Zwirner on art dealing in an interview with the FT's Jackie Wullschlager to inaugurate his new London gallery - MUST READ - «Horsemeat Is Off the Menu at the Dinette» - The proprietors of the avant - garde M. Wells restaurant have issued a statement responding to the outcry over its play to serve the flesh of steeds, saying, «We took it off because it upset so many people, which truly surprised us.

Her research interests have consistently moved between the history of the avant - gardes and the work of contemporary artists, including Gabriel Orozco, Roni Horn, David Batchelor and Tacita Dean.

While it was widely panned at the time, it was the show that confirmed his status as the «leader of the avant - garde, at the forefront of the progressive art movement,» said Nancy Ireson, who will co-curate the Tate exhibition.

Having enough trouble deciding whether America «stole the idea of the avant - garde» or started over?

This is how Process art fit perfectly into the concepts of the avant - garde movements of the 20th century, changing the way we perceive artworks by drawing our attention away from them and pointing it towards the action of their formation.

The most famous attack, How New York Stole the Idea of the Avant - Garde, begins by stressing that liberalism valued dissidence.

Michael Stevenson, a New Zealand artist based in Berlin, has been described as an «anthropologist of the avant - garde».

A lot of avant - garde artists ended up going there and I think some of the theatricality you see — certainly in Eric Fischl's paintings or David Salle's — comes out of this dialogue with performing arts people at Cal Arts.

After leaving Paris in 1938, she settled in London, materializing her accumulated appreciation and knowledge of the avant - garde for the first time.

After the Deng Xiaoping's policy of Opening and Reform in 1978, the People's Republic of China has gone through a liberalization of culture which led to numerous forms of avant - garde, experimental, and museum - based art.

Long after Pablo Picasso and Adolph Gottlieb's alchemy, can one still take «the primitive» or the shock of the avant - garde seriously?

That confusion only adds to its assault on the «originality of the avant - garde» — and who more than Robert Rauschenberg led the assault?

Re-launching the tradition of the avant - garde artist engaged with many cultural disciplines, his work attracts large audiences of different backgrounds and interests.

Rosalind E. Krauss, the well - known critic, has tried to deflate the «originality of the avant - garde.»

ArtDependence: How is the Museum Ludwig addressing the issue of authenticity in your art collection of the avant - garde period?

In these early galleries, perfunctory sketches alternate with paintings like «Modern Art» — a brief anthology of enervated abstract marks against a black ground — that skewer a half - century of avant - garde rhetoric in one mid-size canvas.

Alan Antliff is Canada Research Chair in Art History, University of Victoria, Canada, where he teaches courses in the history of avant - garde visual art of the 20th century.

Born in Leeds, England, in 1944, and a New Yorker since 1969, Winkfield stopped painting temporarily after getting a master's degree from the Royal Academy of Art and developed his current style after a stint as an independent publisher of avant - garde books.

Rather than resist the flotsam and jetsam floating around inside their minds in search of some pure, uncontaminated language that might wash it away, as so many of their avant - garde forebears from Kandinsky to the Surrealists to the Color Field painters had done, the Pop artists accepted it.

During these sessions, members asked questions specific to each work and discussed their impressions of the avant - garde exhibition.

The Shadow of the Avant - Garde: Rousseau and the Forgotten Masters Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany October 2, 2015 — January 10, 2016

A key precedent in this respect is the 1991 exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ««Degenerate Art»: The Fate of the Avant - Garde in Nazi Germany».