Sentences with phrase «painting after the second world war»

Thibaut de Reimpré belongs to the second generation of the French School of abstract painting after the second World War.

Contrast them with another American icon, one painted after a second world war.

The angry provocateur who helped to forge a new identity for German painting after the Second World War is still taking risks; the painter who saw works from his first solo exhibition in 1963 confiscated by the authorities for their grotesque sexual imagery is still challenging the viewer.

Since his death, Pollock's reputation - founded on his position as the most representative of the Action painters and the symbol of the triumph of American painting after the Second World War - has never ceased to grow.

Not exact matches

The castle which gave its name to the city after the Second World War is 17th century (built on the site of a 14th century one) and is surrounded by classic wood - beamed, white - painted German houses.

In reaction to the silence enveloping Austria after the Second World War, Nitsch has been performing his Painting Actions since 1960.

In 1962 Auerbach, who has been painting London for 60 years, depicted the rebuilding of this West End cinema after its ruin in the second world war.

After the second world war his paintings attained a more somber and elegiac style.

Thus, these paintings illustrate the optimistic fresh start made after the Second World War and can be understood as a counterpoint to the townscapes that are reminiscent of bombed - out cities.

Few European countries had Picassos in their public collections until after the second world war; the Netherlands, for example, with stronger modernist credentials than Britain, publicly owned no Picasso painting until the 50s.

At the beginning, he worked with photography, but during and after the Second World War, he turned to painting and drawing.

Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, this exhibition is the second stop on a three city tour.More than one hundred pieces, from paintings to sculptures are included in this exhibition of the career and life of the artist Henry O. Tanner (1859 - 1937)- including Tanner's upbringing in Philadelphia in the years after the Civil War, the artist's success as an American expatriate artist at the highest levels of the International art world at the turn of the 20th century; Tanner's role as a leader of an artist's colony in the rural France and his unique contributions in aid of American servicemen to the Red Cross efforts in WWI France and his modernist invigoration of religious painting deeply rooted in his own faith.

He didn't take up painting until he was 29, after the Second World War.