Sentences with phrase «pioneering figures who»

The gallery represents a diverse, international group of artists working in all mediums including pioneering figures who emerged in the mid-20th Century such as Robert Watts, Agnes Denes, Michelle Stuart and Kunié Sugiura, and established younger artists such as Amy Cutler, Laurel Nakadate, Malerie Marder, Dean Byington and Ian Davis.

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I did not know back then that the professor, who was affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching, is an eminent figure and one of the pioneers in the field.

The same researchers who pioneered the use of a quantum mechanical effect to convert heat into electricity have figured out how to make their technique work in a form more suitable to industry.

The Aviator is based on the life of one of the great pioneers of aviation in the 20th Century, Howard Hughes, who made quite a fortune, and a good share of fame, as one of the most prominent American figures in the 20s through the 40s, which is where John Logan's (The Last Samurai, Sinbad) script dedicates its focus on.

In early 2017, the Oscar nominee bought out a Hidden Figures screening in Los Angeles and invited families who couldn't afford to purchase tickets for the film about the pioneering black female mathematicians involved in NASA's earliest efforts.

Mark Watney isn't just a super hero of a character who figured out how to survive on the seemingly fatal terrain that is Mars, he's the embodiment of the pioneer himself from ages gone by.

The film's running time is a swift two hours; I wouldn't have minded an extra 30 minutes to learn more about the rest of the civil rights pioneers (all real historical figures) who march arm - in - arm on the front lines with King, including Wendell Pierce's Reverend Hosea Williams and Tessa Thompson's Diane Nash.

It's a pleasure, then, to see Ali and Henson pick up right where they left off in Hidden Figures, a rousing historical crowdpleaser in which Henson plays genius mathematician Katherine Johnson, one of the long - unrecognised black female pioneers who aided NASA in the Space Race during the 1960s.

The BMA has also acquired an outstanding example of an oil on canvas by Norman Lewis, an African - American pioneer of the Abstract Expressionist movement and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance, who can be seen as a predecessor to Bradford's approach to abstraction.

Charles Atlas is a pioneering figure in film and video who for decades has stretched the limits of his medium in collaborations with Marina Abramovic, Yvonne Rainer, Antony and the Johnsons, and Merce Cunningham.

In this photograph, Jack Pierson makes a dedication to two figures: Johnnie Ray, the 1950s musician who precursored rock and roll, and Jack Smith, the film director and pioneer of underground cinema.

Alongside names that will be familiar to most followers of contemporary art, the show features the work of many outsider artists and historical figures who might not even consider themselves artists per se, such as Austrian theorist and educator Rudolf Steiner, black magician Aleister Crowley, and pioneering psychoanalyst Carl Jung.

The natural successors to these pioneering figures are international contemporary practitioners who embrace abstraction in their continuing quest to engage with history and articulate experience.

The exhibition aims to reintroduce American audiences to the singular achievements of this pioneering Chinese - French artist, who melded eastern and western aesthetic sensibilities in his paintings as a key figure within post-World War II abstraction.

Note: In addition to Judy Chicago, other modern artists who became pioneers of Feminist ideas included: Miriam Schapiro (1923 - 2015) a leading figure in the Pattern and Decoration art movement; video - artist Doris Totten Chase (1923 - 2008); painter / printmaker Nancy Spero (1926 - 2009); «maintenance artist» Mierle Laderman Ukeles (b. 1939); and the performance artist Carolee Schneemann (b. 1939).

Richard Hamilton, a British painter and printmaker whose sly, trenchant take on consumer culture and advertising made him a pioneering figure in Pop Art, and who designed the cover of the Beatles» «White Album,» died on Tuesday at his home near Oxford.

American sculptor Alexander Calder was a radical figure who pioneered kinetic sculpture, bringing movement to static objects

An article in the Wall Street Journal from 1999 states that «Although Pollock was hardly a traditionalist in his own art, his taste in jazz was for the classic New Orleans pioneers, the quintessential swing bands, the blues bards and Billie Holiday,» adding that «he had no use for such legendary modern - jazz figures as Charlie Parker, who were accused by traditionalist critics of burying the melody, splintering the rhythms and creating dissonance within dissonance.»