Sentences with phrase «paintings of modern»

The exhibition will include several paintings of modern and contemporary architectural landmarks.
One room brings together the paintings of modern European colorists (Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh) who forayed into abstraction, while another showcases their American counterparts (Milton Avery, Arthur Dove, Albert Pinkham Ryder), revealing the artists» similar preoccupation with color and light yet different sensibilities.
The monumental wall paintings of modern Mexican muralists, particularly David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco, and Diego Rivera, were also major influences on Pollock's concept of figuration.
The subject would turn out to be Monet's last confrontation with modernity, before he abandoned the painting of modern life, and started to pursue pure landscape painting.
T. J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life, 1985.
2007 The Painting of Modern Life, Hayward Gallery exhibition catalog.
During his tenure at the gallery, Ralph has also curated numerous group exhibitions including: Psycho Buildings: Artists Take On Architecture (2006); The Painting of Modern Life (2007), and the recent off - site exhibition The Infinite Mix (2016).
From his 1969 portrait of Bobby Seale in a Superman t - shirt to his new painting of a modern - day London dandy in a fitted pink suit, the artist Barkley L. Hendricks has painted figures that are spatially isolated yet sartorially and attitudinally in touch with vital issues of the day.
Like the curator's 2007 exhibition The Painting of Modern Life, at the Hayward Gallery, the London institution he directs, and after Baudelaire, this is an exhibition that spans from the grand themes to the intimacies of the everyday (in 2007 these were represented by — two examples from many — Gerhard Richter's portrait of the grieving Jacqueline Kennedy, Woman with Umbrella, 1964, and Malcolm Moreley's monumental painting of chatting cruise - liner passengers, On Deck, 1966).
«American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life» ran through July 24, 1994, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The revisionists are at it yet again, this time with «American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life.»
It is currently on show at Tate Britain's Lowry retrospective, The Painting of Modern Life.
Despite its half - century historical sweep, in essence «The Painting of Modern Life» felt like an intimate group show, presenting several works by each of the 22 featured painters, sequenced and hung with intelligence and restraint, never forcing the argument but letting the arrangement suggest its own rich conversation.
The show took its title not only from T.J. Clark's The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers (1985) but also from The Painter of Modern Life (1863), Charles Baudelaire's great call for art to embrace the changes of modernity while keeping its distance.
«The Painting of Modern Life» began exactly where Coke's show concluded, brazenly pushing photography's influence out into the open with a Warhol «Disaster» series screen print, Orange Car Crash (Orange Disaster)(5 Deaths 11 Times in Orange)(1963).
The Hayward Gallery's ambitious exhibition «The Painting of Modern Life», the first curated by its recently appointed director, Ralph Rugoff, gave us an account of how painters have made use of photography since that pivotal moment in the early 1960s when the canvas confronted the photograph in all its brute, beautiful ubiquity.
A former Director (2000 - 06) of CCA Wattis Institute, at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, he has curated numerous group shows at the Hayward Gallery over the past 11 years, including The Painting of Modern Life (2007), Psycho Buildings (2008), an exhibition that included interactive and immersive installations by artists such as Mike Nelson, Gelitin and Do - ho Suh; and The Infinite Mix (2016); he also has curated important retrospectives and solo exhibitions by Ed Ruschka, Jeremy Deller, Carsten Holler, Tracey Emin and George Condo.
Tate has received criticism over its neglect of the artist, and «Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life» inevitably carries a great deal of baggage, but one can not deny its positive outreach, with people across the UK travelling especially to attend.
A former Director (2000 - 06) of San Francisco's CCA Wattis Institute, he has curated numerous group shows at the Hayward Gallery over the past 11 years, including The Painting of Modern Life (2007), and Psycho Buildings (2008), an exhibition that included installations by artists such as Mike Nelson, Gelitin and Do - ho Suh.
The exhibition's title alone, taken from Clark's seminal book The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers (1985), sets up notions of how one should view Lowry's work, pulling up his northern roots and positioning him in a different context.
An artist of paradox, L. S. Lowry has always divided opinion, and the current show at Tate Britain, «Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life» has brought this to the fore.
But the exhibitions, at the Hayward Gallery and the newish BFI Gallery, easily won out over sleep: The former, «The Painting of Modern Life,» curated by Hayward director Ralph Rugoff, was recommended to me by many passersby in art - fair aisles; the latter, a presentation of three recent films by artist Mark Lewis, promised the perfect balm for harried eyes.
Wall described the act of creating these complex and astounding photographs as «the painting of modern life,» a reference to the Charles Baudelaire essay entitled «The Painter of Modern Life.»
Black in current Painting», Hanover, Germany Carnegie Museum of Art, «55th Carnegie International», Pittsburgh PA Castello di Rivoli, «The Painting of Modern Life», Turin, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) LIFE, «SONIC YOUTH etc.: SENSATIONAL FIX», St. Nazaire, France (Travelling Exhibition) Museion, «SONIC YOUTH etc.: SENSATIONAL FIX», Bolzano, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) 5th Berlin Biennial of Contemporary Art, «When Things Cast no Shadow», Berlin, Germany MARTa, «Ad Absurdum.
The Painting of Modern Life, Hayward Gallery, London, UK Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, curated by Jens Hoffmann Hunky Dory, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow
A former Director (2000 - 06) of CCA Wattis Institute, at the California College of Arts in San Francisco, he has curated numerous group shows at the Hayward Gallery over the past 11 years, including The Painting of Modern Life (2007), Psycho Buildings (2008), an exhibition that included interactive and immersive installations by artists such as Mike Nelson, Gelitin and Do - ho Suh; and The Infinite Mix (2016); he also has curated important retrospectives and solo exhibitions by Ed Ruscha, Jeremy Deller, Carsten Holler, Tracey Emin, and George Condo.
Beginning in the early 60s, with seminal works by the aforementioned artists, The Painting of Modern Life charts the 45 - year evolution of the translation of photographic images to paint — revealing an extraordinary breadth of stylistic and thematic diversity.
Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life, a major exhibition of urban landscapes by the artist opens at the Tate Britain this week.
Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life, a major exhibition of urban landscapes by the artist at Tate Britain this week.
«Published exhibition visitor figures for the last five years include five of the most popular exhibitions ever staged at Tate Britain: Francis Bacon, Turner and the Masters, Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant - Garde and Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life.»
If you are an American coming over to London for your summer vacation this year, then I must recommend one exhibition to you: Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life at Tate Britain.
- Pasiphae (1943) Good example of mythological painting of the modern era.
On this BSL tour explore the Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life exhibition with Chisato Miniamora.
The first major museum survey of its kind, The Painting of Modern Life re-examines what has been arguably the most influential development in the history of contemporary painting: the use and translation of photographic imagery.
Like Brice and other artists driven by a psychologically charged vision coupled with a growing sense of political urgency, Celeste Dupuy - Spencer can be said to update Charles Baudelaire's call for a «painting of modern life».
No one had told Henri, though, who preached the Baudelairean ideals of the painting of modern life as though Post-Impressionism had never happened.
There are 100 prizes of a pair of tickets to the Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life exhibition Independent reader evening on Monday 15 July 2013 at Tate Britain.
«Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life» is an opportunity to take his reputation out of the pending tray and make up our minds.
Since his appointment in 2006, he has curated numerous acclaimed exhibitions including, Psycho Buildings: Artists Take On Architecture, The Painting of Modern Life and most recently, Jeremy Deller: Joy in People.
For a discussion of this phenomenon, see H. Barbara Weinberg, Doreen Bolger, and David Park Curry, American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885 — 1915 (New York, 1994), 180 — 199.
The accompanying book, Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life is available from amazon.co.uk and can be found from their home page.
An exclusive chance to see Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life — a major exhibition of landscapes by the much - loved British painter L.S. Lowry — the first of its kind held by a public institution in London since the artist's death.
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Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life demonstrates Lowry's connections and debts to French painting of the later 19th century and its determination to make art out of the realities of the emerging modern city.
Panel discussion around the exhibition Lowry: The Painting of Modern Life at Tate Britain 10 October 2013
Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life reveals how Lowry developed his structure of the city based on his personal relationship to social space.
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Not exact matches

Instead of investing in highways, ports, high - speed rail projects, and modern utilities, the U.S. has for decades continued putting new coats of paint on the same cracked wall.
On a visit to Fortune's office Wednesday, the health system executive painted a mostly rosy picture of the modern, efficient health system he sees in America's future — though he did note a few pain points that stand in the way.
Modern times is collapsing, and all we have left are ironic juxtapositions: looters with cellular telephones, Van Gogh paintings in insurance company boardrooms, crucifixes in vials of urine.
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