Sentences with phrase «pioneering modernist»

Lawren Harris (1885 — 1970) was a pioneering modernist whose visionary paintings have virtually defined 20th - century Canadian art.

In tonality, motion and experiment, the present work echoes the Abstract Expressionist's pioneering modernist and erratic compositions.

Born in Alabama in 1939, Whitten is a pioneering modernist abstract painter who is also African American, a rarity among the white straight male club of the New York School.

Picabia, a pioneering modernist, has long been known as an early cubist and a leader of the anarchic Dada movement, while his later work has gone mostly ignored.

Pace Gallery is pleased to present the first exhibition in the U.S. since 2001 dedicated to the work of pioneering modernist sculptor Barbara Hepworth.

Pioneering modernist sculptor Saloua Raouda Choucair was given a retrospective (9/27 — 11/13), and «Art in Iraq Today» (11/23 — 12/18), co-curated by artist Dia al - Azzawi and Dubai gallerist Charles Pocock, shed light on the impact of exile on contemporary Iraqi creative production.

Perl writes: «Picasso as he emerges at the Pace and Gagosian galleries and at the Musée Picasso is less the pioneering modernist of Cubism than a figure unto himself, certainly alert to history in all its forms, but intent on shaping those experiences through the particulars of his own experience, which is inevitably a personal history.

The Pompidou may largely be closed but it's not idle: Among recent undertakings, it has organized this exhibition of roughly a hundred paintings and drawings, charting the early development of the pioneering modernist, who conceived of abstraction in purely visual terms, quite distinct from the spiritual motivations of early nonobjective artists such as Kandinsky and Mondrian.

It includes more than 60 works and photographs by the pioneering modernist designer, and also features a selection of her personal letters, furniture and ephemera.

Beginning with her earliest works — drawings and paintings created in the 1940s while studying at Black Mountain College — this beautifully illustrated volume traces Asawa's trajectory as a pioneering modernist sculptor who is recognized nationally for her wire sculpture, public commissions, and activism in education and the arts.

What / Why: «Lawren Harris (1885 — 1970) was a pioneering modernist whose visionary paintings have virtually defined 20th - century Canadian art.

Lawren Harris (1885 - 1970) was a renown Canadian artist and pioneering modernist who profoundly influenced the history of painting in Canada.

Her essays on this topic have examined the art of pioneering modernists Ernest Mancoba and Gerard Sekoto, as well as Dumile Feni, Gavin Jantjes and George Hallett.

The retrospective» Fahrelnissa Zeid «introduces one of Turkey's most important pioneering modernists to an international audience.

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This was because, first, it was out of Protestantism that the pioneers of Enlightenment thinking emerged, and secondly, because Protestantism did not have the organisational unity and central authority to crush it in the way the Vatican dealt with its Modernists.

Sheila Roberts: «Filmmaker Stephanie Di Giusto's fascinating feature debut about pioneering Belle Epoque dancer Loie Fuller explores Fuller's creative passion for acting and modern dance, her technological innovation and contributions to modernist performance, and her complex relationship with protégé Isadora Duncan.

Set in a Midcentury Modern bank designed by E. Stewart Williams — a pioneer of the area's Desert Modern style (a retrospective of his work, «An Eloquent Modernist,» was the center's opening exhibition in fall 2014)-- the striking glass - and - steel structure houses a trove of inspiration for aspiring architects.

A pioneer of the Korean avant - garde and part of the first generation of experimental artists to embrace innovation and modernist influences after the end of the Korean War in 1953, Seung - taek Lee has continuously engaged political and cultural themes over the course of his six - decade career.

One of the 20th century's most eminent designers, Louis Kahn was a Modernist pioneer, as much artist as architect.

The catalogue raisonné of pioneering American modernist Manierre Dawson was published in 2011.

Towards the end of his career, Chimes would reflect that French symbolist thinker and «pataphysician Alfred Jarry, pioneering conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp, and modernist Irish author James Joyce, were the most influential on his artistic output.

With approximately 2,400 paintings, sculpture and works on paper, the collection features images by many of the modernist pioneers of Europe and North America.

It was here that he made friends with Edgar Degas, who encouraged him to adopt the modernist approach to painting that Sickert would famously pioneer on his return to London (to 4 October).

O'Keeffe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach: Women Modernists in New York examines the art and careers of four pioneering artists and their contributions to American modernism in parallel for the first time.

Other works in the exhibition include Jorge Pardo's handcrafted wooden palette and modernist designed furniture that question the nature of the aesthetic experience; pioneering conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth's discourse on aesthetics in neon, An Object Self - Defined, 1966; Rachel Lachowicz's 1992 row of urinals cast in red lipstick, which delivers a feminist critique of Duchamp's readymade; Richard Pettibone's paintings of photographs of Fountain; Richard Phillips» recent paintings based on Gerhard Richter's highly valued work; Miami artist Tom Scicluna's neon sign, «Interest in Aesthetics,» a critique of the use of aesthetics in Fort Lauderdale's ordinance on homelessness; the French collaborative Claire Fontaine's lightbox highlighting Duchamp's critical comments about art juries; Corey Arcangel's video Apple Garage Band Auto Tune Demonstration, 2007, which tweaks the concept of aesthetics in the digital age; Bernd and Hilla Becher's photographs, Four Water Towers, 1980, that reveal the potential for aesthetic choices within the same typological structures; and works by Elad Lassry and Steven Baldi, who explore the aesthetic history of photography.

After the war, he continued his art training in Paris with French modernist pioneers André Lhote and Jacques Villon, who directly influenced Gray's early work.

Hicks studied at Yale, where she worked with legendary modernist Josef Albers and was a pioneer of textile art in the 1960s; now 83, the Nebraska - born, Paris - based artist is finally the subject of a major solo exhibition, at Paris's Centre Pompidou.

Trained as a realist painter, he became a pioneering abstract artist after seeing works by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso, and other European modernists at the Armory Show in New York in 1913.

The painter and the modernist pioneer Josef Albers designed this set of accent tables as the study in modern design.

A pioneering sculptor fusing political engagement with abstraction, Melvin Edwards draws inspiration from his African heritage, while referencing modernist steel sculpture.

Additionally in the late 19th century in Eastern Europe mysticism and early modernist religious philosophy as expressed by theosophist Mme. Blavatsky had a profound impact on pioneer geometric artists like Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky.

Located in the suburbs of Melbourne, The Heide Museum of Modern Art presents the exhibition Making Modernism that brings together for the first time the iconic art of Georgia O'Keeffe alongside modernist masterpieces by pioneering Australian artists Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, pioneering French modernists from Monet to Matisse admired the intense chromatic freedom and atmospheric uncertainties of this British master.

Included are a wide sweep of pioneering artists of the modernist era including Matisse, Monet, Renoir, Dali, Léger, Chagall, Miró, Toulouse - Lautrec and others.

«Widely recognized for his elegant and spare modernist sculptures, Elie Nadelman is less known for his role as a pioneering American folk art collector.

During this same period, pioneering Texas art institutions began to expose Texans to modernist abstraction.

Trix & Robert Haussmann have been pioneers in breaking with the canonical premises of modernist design, playfully reinterpreting the linguistic dogmas of its architectural theories.

Famous Neo-Dadaists included Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008), Jasper Johns (b. 1930), Larry Rivers (1923 - 2002), the modernist composer John Cage (1912 - 92), the metal sculptor John Chamberlain (b. 1927), the Performance artist Allan Kaprow (1927 - 2006), the «Happenings» pioneer Jim Dine (b. 1935), the Nouveau Realiste Yves Klein (1928 - 62), the Fluxus leader George Maciunas (1931 - 78), the Pop sculptor Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929), the collage artist and father of mail art Ray Johnson (1927 - 95), the Japanese concept artist Yoko Ono (b. 1933), the video artists Nam June Paik (1932 - 2011), and Wolf Vostell (1932 - 98), and the installation artist Joseph Beuys (1921 - 86).

We are pleased to have been instrumental in reviving an interest in this great artist's legacy and we used Agha as our starting point since she is widely acknowledged as the pioneer of modernist painting in Pakistan.

Multi-generational in scope, Thread Lines brings together those pioneers who — challenging entrenched modernist hierarchies — first unraveled the distinction between textile and art with a new wave of contemporary practitioners who have inherited and expanded upon their groundbreaking gestures.

June 21 - September 27, 2009 The first comprehensive exhibition in the United States of this Latin American pioneering artist, the show examines the rise of modernist abstraction in Latin America — underscoring both the similarities and differences between Europe and South America — and chronicles Matto's early work made as a student...

Pollock, who became one of the pioneers of abstract expressionism, and Jorn who is still, to this day, considered one of the most important modernist painters in Danish art.

At CCP, he initiated the 13 Artists Award, loosely patterned after the influential survey «Sixteen Americans» at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and also in honor of the pioneering 13 Modernists in Philippine art history.

Global / Local is the first major museum exhibition in the U.S. to include both pioneering Iranian modernists and emerging artists working in Tehran and abroad.

Though Gauguin is best known as a pioneer of modernist painting, this exhibition showcases a lesser - known but arguably even more innovative aspect of his practice.

Opening: «Global / Local 1960 — 2015: Six Artists from Iran» at the Grey Art Gallery at NYU Mixing work by pioneering Iranian modernists with emerging artists living in Tehran and elsewhere, this comprehensive exhibition offers a scholarly look at work by three generations of Iranian artists.

After arriving in London in 1964 from Pakistan, he encountered the fascinating modernist sculpture of Anthony Caro; which led him in 1965 to his pioneering Minimalist sculpture.

Paintings by the early Australian modernist Roy De Maistre, for example, share a space with a series of pieces by the young Dutch artist Riet Wijnen, whose interest in «the impossibility» of pure abstraction has led her to create a fictional dialogue between Grace Crowley (also a pioneering early Australian modernist), and the British constructivist Marlow Moss.

Young American artists experimented with the achievements of pioneering European modernists and sought to create new visual languages.

Even as the market has finally arrived for pioneering black modernists, locally, some credit for a re-examination of Young's career in particular has to go to Jack Rasmussen, the tireless, affable director of the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center.