Sentences with phrase «of early modernism»

But before this, he was experimenting with the angular forms and industrial rhythms of early modernism.
One can see the influence of early Modernism in titles like Bernard Klevickas's Red Assembly, Michael Post's Muse, or Martin Springetti's fazeframe.
Elizabeth Price's films give household objects a surreal and monumental beauty redolent of early Modernism.
Like many younger artists, black and white, he might have leaped straight from the clarity of an earlier Modernism to American Pop Art and the graphic novel.
Childish cites the masters of early modernism as collaborators.
But it is the pulse of the paintings themselves that recalls the heady atmosphere of early modernism.
In particular, these large, vertical cardboard - on - canvas works appear to feast on the painting and sculpture of early Modernism, when abstraction and representation were not seen as mutually exclusive.
The sculpture shows off his clout, requiring removing the museum's doors for the first time ever just to get it inside, and it follows Claes Oldenburg by representing the everyday while alluding to tradition — here the tight weave of Lynda Benglis and the abstract volumes of early Modernism.
Curator Leah Dickerman should be applauded for guiding the viewers towards so many lesser - known artists and skillfully demonstrating that beyond the super stars of early Modernism (Moholy - Nagy, Kandinsky, Larionov, Delauney, Malevich, Kupka, Hartley, Leger, Mondrian, Picasso, van Doesburg, etc.) stood many others who defined, developed and promoted the innovations of the first decades of the 20th century.
One of the most liberating and poetic artists of the last 100 years, Robert Rauschenberg showed the way forward for art after the dream of early modernism was exhausted.
However, their strong central axis and scientific pretensions come squarely out of early Modernism.
And again the change colors revisionist views of early Modernism, like that of Pablo Picasso as the outsider from Barcelona.
One can still pick up the pieces of early Modernism, he seems to say, and make them one's own — as both a place in the world and an act of the imagination.
One, in a 1944 painting at the Met and not in the exhibition, plumps herself down amid what look like knock - offs of early Modernism.
Mladen Stilinovic even calls echoes of early Modernism Exploitation of the Dead.
It even has a display of early Modernism, thanks to Ji Lee, with a tiny Piet Mondrian nestling above the elevators.
It emphasizes that Smith surpassed Pollock in another way as well, with his easy absorption of early Modernism.
One can always marvel at how much of early Modernism is still out there, as with a booth just for Giorgio Morandi, but has one then succumbed entirely to the market?
When these faces and streets press insistently forward, they press within the shallow space of early Modernism.
They turned back to Pop Art, the unfinished figurative styles of early Modernism, or non-Western art, among other sources.
His contribution to the show, The Disquieting Duck, is a reproduction of The Birthday, a 1915 Chagall in MoMA's collection that's one of the romantic touchstones of early modernism.
At her best, Schjerfbeck holds vulnerability and measure in wiry equilibrium... The innovations of early Modernism liberated these painters [Schjerfbeck, Sigrid Schauman, Ellen Thesleff, and Elga Sesemann] in ways that retain a modicum of edge, of newness and excitement.»
In a process of re-imaging Smart has dismantled and reconstructed found images of The Ballets Russes» costumes and theatre backdrops (designed by visual artists of early modernism like Matisse, Delaunay, Goncharova and Larionov) by digitally cutting them up and reconstructing them into sewn assemblage works and embroideries.
Icons of MoMA's holdings in Post-Impressionism and Cubism, the canon of early modernism, reside on the fifth floor.
And we must not forget the rich tradition of early modernism that preceded WWII — the lifeblood of the avant - garde that would not submit to the ashes of war.
Joyce explores some of the classic tropes of early modernism, autonomous form, light as material, and the vertiginous and optimistic rhetoric of colour put forward in manifestos by artists and composers in the modernist period.
Mark Grotjahn's paintings have long pitted two important strands of early modernism — abstraction and masklike Expressionist faces — against each other and also against African art, to which both are so indebted.
The restless career of one of the great provocateurs of early modernism finally gets its due from MoMA, healthfully perturbing that institution's emphasis on linear progress and creative genius with radically shifting styles and tones.
It will examine the development of early Modernism, Surrealism and Neo-Romanticism in the UK, as well as the reappearance of esoteric and arcane references in a significant strand of contemporary art practice.
Each section can take hours to explore and is a treasure trove for geeky cognoscenti of early Modernism.
«At first glance, Dimitri Kozyrev's work is grounded in a combination of traditional landscape painting and the analytic cubism of early Modernism.
However, Bluemner's paintings fit less neatly into narratives of early modernism than those of his peers.
In both bodies of work, Allen is deliberately colliding diverse aspects of early modernism together.
It was basically tied to the history of early Modernism — how colors relate to each other, how the image relates to the picture plane, what the picture plane means.
Dodd's Shaker - flavored New England simplicity is a quality of early Modernism we see in her precedents such as Edward Hopper or Marsden Hartley.
Foster explains his connection to the project: «Carlos is a great dancer, who is inspiring the regeneration of an iconic ruin of early modernism outside Havana.»
It is a lesson in an aspect of AbEx that often gets lost in its hagiography: with all the influence of early modernism, the AbEx painters succeeded by grasping the universal notion that painting is an improvisational art that can not be exhausted as long as there are artists willing to risk thinking for themselves.
The German artist's small objects at Metro Pictures resemble wooden constructions, redolent of early Modernism.
This exhibition was drawn from the Smart Museum's rich holdings of bronzes as well as sculptures in other materials by these leading European masters of early modernism.
Private collections of early modernism have traditionally been studied and exhibited with an emphasis on the contemplation of the works on display, neglecting the economic, social and political implications inherent to the activity of collecting in a context like that of Europe in the first decades of the 20th century.
It has to do with the impossibility right now of clearly distinct art movements like those of early Modernism, leaving what Jerry Saltz has called a superparadigm.
And surely one of the most startling art historical sights in all of New York right now is on offer at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery: Vladimir Tatlin's wacky, visionary «Monument to the Third International» — one of early Modernism's most ambitious and best - known works of unrealized architecture, as embodied by one of its biggest architectural models.
The flat bronze recalls African art and the «primitivism» of early Modernism, and the single eye more reasonable in a profile connects to Cubism as well.
The Chelsea show echoes formal concerns similar to those of early modernism, while the Beacon show seems to touch upon that period's infatuation with spirituality, a phenomenon that was itself a revival of a much older aesthetic.»
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