Sentences with phrase «of twentieth century art»

He is internationally recognized as one of the most important scholars of twentieth century art.

Performa is a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization established by RoseLee Goldberg in 2004, dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty - first century.

Barnaby Wright, Daniel Katz Curator of Twentieth Century Art at the Courtauld, said that when he was first sent an image of Houghton's work he took it to be «a piece of psychedelic op art from the 1960s.

De Kooning remains a paramount figure of twentieth century art - making, rewriting the conventions of paintings in ways that continue to be relevant.

Tuchman, senior curator emeritus of twentieth century art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has been a Soutine enthusiast and scholar since he curated a touring retrospective of the artist's work in 1968, and recently deplored the Museum of Modern Art ’s

Interspersed with shows by gallery artists, we have presented several special exhibitions of twentieth century art that have particular significance within the context of the gallery's program: Frank Stella, Mark di Suvero, Hamish Fulton, Josef Albers, Sean Scully, Tom Wesselmann, John Wesley, Yves Klein, and Sonia & Robert Delaunay.

Describing abstraction as a «revolution of twentieth century art», Hoyland began making early enquiries into how rational thought and visual perception could be used as the sole basis for pictorial composition.

So, it's absolutely right that British artists are represented in the narrative that Tate Modern offers of twentieth century art, and it would be impossible to tell a story of six centuries of British art at Tate Britain without representing the contributions of foreign - born artists, which to begin with are largely artists from Flanders and the Dutch republic.

Recent scholarship has placed these artists within the mainstream continuum of twentieth century art history, and their works add depth and richness to the landscape of American art history: BRUCE CONNER WALLACE BERMAN JOE GOODE ED RUSCHA TONY BERLANT LITA ALBUQUERQUE RICHARD PETTIBONE

«Collage and Assembly are two of the most important innovations of twentieth century art.

Previously, Nancy served as the Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum and Curator of Twentieth Century Art for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors and is the series editor of The Documents of Twentieth Century Art, published by the University of California Press, as well as an advisory board member of Source: Notes in the History of Art.

Peter Shire (born 1947, Los Angeles, California) does not reject the rich heritage of twentieth century art, and references to Bauhaus, Futurism, Art Nouveau or Art Deco are to be ground throughout his work.

Living legend and one of the founders of Minimal Art, the radical works of Carl Andre (Quincy, Massachusetts, 1935) revolutionised the concept of sculpture and profoundly influenced the course of twentieth century art.

According to the important American poet John Ashbery, «To read Fairfield Porter is to rediscover art through the eyes of someone whose intuitive love and understanding of it has been matched by few contemporaries,» while fellow New York School poet Barbara Guest wrote, «Blunt, intuitive, scholarly, inspired — I believe no other critic has so tackled the meaning of twentieth century art, has tightened our vision of it.»

Catalog from the exhibition, «Signposts of Twentieth Century Art,» October 28 — December 7, 1959, held at the Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts.

In 1968, a 23 - year - old Piacentino walked out on the then nascent Arte Povera movement, a group of Turin - based artists who were soon to be written large in the annals of twentieth century art.

Here, the artist summons the viewer to imagine and reinterpret distinguished forms of twentieth century art, with no control in the final resolve.

In this conference, key questions will be addressed: How do artists of African and Asian descent in Britain feature in the story of twentieth century art?

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, A Selection of Twentieth Century Art of Three Generations, Nov. 24 — Dec. 26.

She is the editor of Inside the Visible: An Elliptical Traverse of Twentieth Century Art in, of, and from the Feminine (MIT Press, 1996).

Aspects of Twentieth Century Art I. Picasso and Cubism II.

A giant of twentieth century art, today Henry Moore is considered as the catalyst of the British sculptural renaissance that followed his rise to fame in his own lifetime.

This richly illustrated survey spans the artist's prolific career from the early Flag and Target paintings — which were central to establishing his reputation as a major young artist in the mid 1950s, and have since become icons of twentieth century art — to the compelling compositions of the recent «Catenary» series - works that testify to Johns's continuing artistic ambition at the start of the twenty first century.

«Our move to Chelsea is motivated in part by expanding needs, including a more flexible exhibition space to accommodate large - scale works that make up a significant portion of twentieth century art,» said gallery founder and co-owner Michael Rosenfeld.

Great figures of twentieth century art — Bacon, O'Keeffe, Rauschenberg, Nash — among highlights of Tate's 2016 exhibition programme.

Of the latter two, which are included in the exhibition, Smoke is a study for a much larger version that was shown in the atrium of the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, D.C., and eventually became part of a triology of large - scale public sculptures that included Smog (1969 - 70), and Smug (1973)-- three of the most profound and alluring works of public sculpture made in the history of twentieth century art.

DOCUMENTA: Documenta is held every 5 years, and dates back to 1955 when the Kassel painter and professor Arnold Bode hoped to reintroduce Germany to the international art scene through an exhibition of twentieth century art.

It was originally shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where it was organized by Stephanie Barron, curator of twentieth century art, but it has been augmented in Berkeley by woodcuts lent by Steven Leiber, San Francisco.

The exhibition aims to question the problematic distinction between Insider and Outsider Art by exploring the parallels between them as well as the impact of some Outsider artists on major figures of twentieth century art.

Similarly, the 1960s was an equally important and influential decade in the history of twentieth century art, with the rise of Pop art, Op art, Minimalism, Performance art, Conceptual art, and a host of other movements and styles that would ultimately lead to the emergence of post-modern art in the mid-1970s and beyond.

In the history of twentieth century art, large scale abstract painting is often thought to be organic and psychological, presenting both the marks of active painting and giving some suggested access into an artist's mental state.