Sentences with phrase «of cubist»

After all, the original maquette was more to the scale of a Cubist collage, and the association of paper... I don't think it's a question of bronze but of making it 80 inches high, which is the height of an ordinary door, and allowing these planes to expand and take on more substance because of their size.

He studied at the academy of Cubist Fernand Leger (1881 — 1955) and worked with Swiss designer Le Corbusier (1887 - 1965) on a mural for the 1937 International Exhibition.

Under the influence of the Cubist painter Albert Gleizes (1881 - 1953), during a painting trip to Bermuda with Hartley, Demuth introduced the first signs of architectonic structure into his compositions - inspired also, no doubt, by his previous Parisian studies of Cezanne.

It is characterized by figurative works executed in a raw objective style, without the distortions of Cubist or Expressionist interpretation.

During these years her style changed from Surrealist - inspired paintings of the early - mid 1930s to abstract figural and still - life compositions that reveal an understanding of Cubist and Fauvist principles.

Since then, thanks to additional gifts (including Raoul La Roche's magnificent collection of Cubist works, as well as donations from the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation and the Im Obersteg Foundation), the museum has managed to assemble a highly distinguished and extensive sample of modern works.

The adoption of the Cubist aesthetic by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier is reflected in the shapes of the houses he designed during the 1920s.

Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) One of the most innovative artists of the 20th century, painter / sculptor, member of Cubist Section d'Or group, noted for «readymades», along with works like Nude Descending a Staircase (1911 - 12), and the urinal entitled Fountain (1917).

In addition to painting, he experimented with abstract sculpture and was the author of Cubist Poems (1913), Essays on Art (1916), and Primitives (1926).

The Russian - American sculptor and teacher Alexan der Archipenko (1887 - 1964) was an innovator in translating the elements of cubist painting into sculptural form.

This drawing class explores still life inspired by the ideas and techniques of Cubist artists Ardengo Soffici and Gino Severini.

The bold, simplified forms of the matchbox, safety razor, and fountain pen showcase Gerald Murphy's training in mechanical drawing, as well as his interest in the flattened space of cubist painting.

Dutch artists were increasingly aware of the radical work of Paul Cézanne and of the Cubist painters.

Cinquecento also shows elements of the artist's employment of cubist - like structural elements that more and more become counterpoints to her stains in pictures of the mid-1980s onwards.

Rayonism Development of Abstract art bv the Russian artists Mikhail Larionov and Natalya Goncharova, c. 1913, which was an offshoot of Cubist and in some respects the forerunner of Futurism.

The buoyant impact of Calder's creatures has spread far and wide, in the likes of Chris Burden, Mark di Suvero, George Rickey, Pae White, Tim Hawkinson, Niki de Saint Phalle, Nick Cave, Andy Goldsworthy, Olafur Eliasson, Dale Chihuly, and others — where would contemporary art be without his discovery that animation was an essential expansion of Cubist collage, Futurism's frozen dynamism, and the Constructivist expansion into space?

When de Chirico declared in 1919 that «symbols of superior reality are to be seen in geometric forms,» it was meant to repudiate the formal restrictions that were set to accommodate innovative trajectories of the Cubist, Futurist, and Constructivist artists.

The painter and sculptor Lars - Gunnar Nordström was a self - taught artist who began his career as a kind of cubist primitivist but soon moved on to a severe form of Concrete art.

A number of Cubist paintings and drawings, including works by Braque and Picasso, were exceeded by Magritte's surrealist painting entitled «Mesdemoiselles de L'Isle Adam,» which went for $ 4.9 million.

Tola's work has traces of cubist inspiration and explores the beauty of simple child - like forms.

Previously, Lichtenstein had reinterpreted source material using personal variations of Cubist or Constructivist techniques; he now drew from comic strips both subject matter and style.

Robert Delaunay (1885 - 1941) French painter, founder of Orphism, a type of Cubist - inspired colourism.

He started to exploit this staining technique, moving beyond the more rigid format of his Cubist - inspired compositions.

He was impressed by the strong structure of Cubist painting, but declared that it lacked life when compared to Futurist art.

He describes his work as such, «My early paintings have traces of cubist inspiration.

Francis Picabia Biography and Paintings of Cubist / Surrealist Artist.

I doubt Folk Artists were aware that they were making «the surface the subject» whereas I quite agree with Richardson, that a large number of cubist painters consciously constructed their paintings with this intent.

It wasn't possible to have a really significant second generation of Cubist painters.

The exhibition proceeds into the visual art revolutions in which the artist figured heavily, including landmark pieces of the Cubist era and onward.

Schanker spent 1931 and 1932 attending classes at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, painting and traveling in Paris, Italy and Spain and returned as something of a Cubist.

The union of the Telefónica Cubist Collection and the cubist holdings at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia supports this plural conception of the cubist experience.

Her style owes something to the «tubism» of Fernand Leger (1881 - 1955), a variant of Cubist painting which emphasizes cylindrical shapes, yet it retains a distinctive streamlined and modern elegance.

After that she worked as a curator at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn., and the Douglas Cooper collection, a private collection of cubist work.

Louis Marcoussis (Ludwig Markus)(1878 - 1941) Polish - French painter, printmaker, member of Cubist avant - garde in Paris.

The experienced viewer will also recognize the interweaving or blending of cubist with expressionistic elements as they follow the beaded stepping stones though my pieces.

He was strongly influenced by the singular structures and figurative canvases of cubist painters such as Picasso and Cezanne.

Readily accepted as a colleague by André Breton, the pope of Surrealism, Picasso developed aspects of his Cubist sculptures that related to the tenets of the latest art - world sensation.

After two decades of making representational art, Vaughn relinquished recognizable manifestations of reality and embraced an array of cubist, abstract, and postmodern influences.

He picks up a picture of one such tattoo — over a woman's entire neck — and holds it against a reproduction of a cubist painting by Juan Gris.

This understanding of Cubist artworks was put forward by the critic Clement Greenberg who defined the images as constructions of various parts that both represent and are new understandings of reality.

Elements of Cubist fragmentation permeate this practice, elevating the content of the work from scenes of shock and awe to poignant, multi-faceted depictions of the physical and psychological chaos of war.

Other highlights include exemplary Impressionist paintings, a selection of modern sculpture and classic examples of cubist compositions.

The presence of Cubist, Abstract, and Surrealist art made the Pavilion the most coherent survey of Modernism yet to have been presented in Italy.

Inviting a gaggle of artists to design these may seem a superficial bit of outmoded British art boosting, but in reality it is a romantic restatement of the Olympic ideal, inviting artists to imagine the forces of human effort and natural capacity that have always made sport a theme for modern art (think of cubist portraits of cyclists and Picasso's beach ball scenes).

Prior to the First World War, Bomberg's work was heavily influenced by the geometrical abstractions of the Cubist, Futurist and Vorticist movements.

The obsession of his art with the quotidian recalled the use of banal objects, such as tram tickets, in the work of Cubist painters, while his later pieces made explicit confession of his debt to Leger, Matisse and Seurat.

The unstable expanses implied by these physical differences, reinforced by rich chromatic relationships ranging from abrupt to nuanced, remind us that Frankenthaler frequently described herself as «a spacemaker» and always insisted that the most fundamental aspect of her work was the understanding of Cubist structure instilled in her by her earliest teachers, who included Paul Feeley, at Bennington, and an Australian Cubist, Wallace Harrison.

Using clay in unorthodox and experimental ways, she combined modeling, carving, incising, and assembling in sculpture that suggests the shifting planes of cubist figures, the mythology of Greek gods and goddesses, and a largely feminine sensuality and corporeality that seems to have morphed and merged organically into place.

The very foundation of Ross's work is within the reality of where her art comes into being: the studio, and in particular the studio floor, on which her work is initially composed like a map unfolding in various directions, fitted together from any number of pieces and sewn into place, a sort of cubist quilting.

In a dazzlingly researched, often eloquent catalog essay, Emily Braun, an art historian who oversaw the Guggenheim show, «Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting» (and is also curator of the Leonard A. Lauder Collection of Cubist Art), argues that Burri's art is a crucial, underacknowledged link in the development of collage and assemblage and helped set the stage for a host of postwar art movements — Neo-Dada, Process Art, Arte Povera and more.