Sentences with phrase «pioneers of abstract art»

In keeping with the museum's concept of conversations between works of art, the two exhibitions — each one complete in itself — juxtapose two pioneers of abstract art, working a century and an ocean apart.

The juxtaposition of masterpieces of the Russian Avant - Garde, including works by Kazimir Malevich, with Robert Kelly's intricate paintings will create an exciting dialogue between the Russian pioneers of abstract art and contemporary American geometric abstraction.

She was one of the pioneers of abstract art and she used to love playing with forms and shapes, with geometrical objects and different patterns.

But Assayas also refers specifically to Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944), a recently rediscovered Swedish pioneer of abstract art who claimed that her paintings were directly dictated by spirit forces, and to 19th - century French literary titan Victor Hugo, who practiced «table turning» sessions to contact the dead (Assayas fabricates an «extract» from an apocryphal French TV film of the 1960s, featuring actor - singer Benjamin Biolay as a solemn Hugo).

There has never been a better year to look at the work of Kazimir Malevich, a pioneer of abstract art often seen as the greatest Russian painter of the twentieth century.

Josef Albers (1888 — 1976) was both a pioneer of abstract art and an enormously influential teacher and theorist of art pedagogy.

A pioneer of the abstract art movement in the 1950s, Sandra Blow is best known for her monumental canvases experimenting with abstract form, rhythm, light, space, and texture.

The definitive monograph, created in close collaboration with the artist, a pioneer of abstract art, who influenced subsequent generations of artists such as Tauba Auerbach, Matt Connors and Alex Israel.

Li Yuan - chia (1929 - 94) was a pioneer of abstract art in 1950s Taiwan, and is now considered one of the first Chinese conceptual artists.

Hartung was a pioneer of abstract art.

Works from the 96 - year - old artist, who is a pioneer of abstract art in the Middle East, are on show for the first time in the UK.

Russian painter and designer Kasimir Malevich was born in Kiev in 1878 and became a leading pioneer of abstract art.

The Czech painter and pioneer of abstract art Frantisek Kupka trained at the fine arts academies of Prague and Vienna before arriving in Paris about 1896.

A pioneer of abstract art, the North Dakota - born American painter Clyfford Still was one of the leading figures in the New York School of avant - garde Abstract Expressionism, which took root in the 1940s and became the predominant style of painting until its replacement by Pop art during the mid-1960s.

As a pioneer of abstract art, the practice of Jean Arp was associated with Dada and Surrealism.

Pioneer of abstract art and eminent aesthetic theorist, Vasily Kandinsky (b. 1866, Moscow; d. 1944, Neuilly - sur - Seine, France) broke new ground in painting in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Neo-plasticism is a term adopted by the Dutch pioneer of abstract art, Piet Mondrian, for his own type of abstract...

Serpentine Galleries presented an exhibition of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862 — 1944), who is now regarded as a pioneer of abstract art.

Among the artists included in the exhibition is Stanton Macdonald - Wright, who was one of America's leading modernist painters and an early pioneer of abstract art.

The fun primary colour combination of the Edition Three design was inspired by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian: a pioneer of abstract art.

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The pioneering abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky (whose work is pictured) suggested that the emotional effects of abstract art are «objective, determined by the characteristics of the colours and their interactions».

The walls of the Sky Attics are adorned with lithographs from Finnish abstract art pioneers.

It features works by abstract and figurative painters and sculptors, as well as pioneers of installation and performance art.

Harold Cohen (1928 — 2016) Harold Cohen, an abstract painter best known as a pioneer of computer - generated art, has died at home in California aged 87.

Romberg's Dirty Geometry subverts the strict, systematic, straightforward qualities of geometric forms pioneered by Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian artist and art theorist credited for creating the first purely abstract paintings.

Brâncuși's impact, with his vocabulary of reduction and abstraction, is seen throughout the 1930s and 1940s, and exemplified by artists such as Gaston Lachaise, Sir Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Julio González, Pablo Serrano, Jacques Lipchitz [123] and by the 1940s abstract sculpture was impacted and expanded by Alexander Calder, Len Lye, Jean Tinguely, and Frederick Kiesler who were pioneers of Kinetic art.

Exhibitions during the anniversary celebration include Opener 29: Arturo Herrera (through August 23, 2015), featuring new works from the Berlin - based artist's recent body of abstract paintings for which he manipulated small books found at flea markets; Machine Project — The Platinum Collection (Live by Special Request), (September 19, 2015 — January 3, 2016), which will feature a series of interventions, performances, and happenings created for the Tang by Skidmore alumnus Mark Allen in collaboration with his Los Angeles - based collective Machine Project; Affinity Atlas (September 5, 2015 — January 3, 2016), inspired by the work of pioneering cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg, charts an exploratory path built upon idiosyncratic treasures and contemporary art culled from the Tang's and Skidmore's collections; and Alma Thomas: A Retrospective (February 6 — June 5, 2016), which will explore the work of this influential but sometimes overlooked artist in the first museum survey of her work since 2001.

As abstract art pioneer Sandra Blow RA is celebrated by two Cornwall shows, Jonathan Grimble and Denny Long from her Estate give us a tour of her atmospheric studio space in St Ives.

Hoyland gained the attention of the London art scene in 1960, when he took part in «Situation», a pioneering show of British abstract painting at the RBA Galleries, London.

An early red and green splashy abstract Micropainting by John Baldessari, who is now known as a pioneer of Conceptual art; an bold yellow abstract painting called Lucky U, after a Mexican restaurant where a beer cost 10 cents, is by Robert Irwin, now known for his work with light.

The addition of motion and sound brought new dimensions to the abstract art pioneered by Wassily Kandinsky and other avant - garde painters of the early twentieth century.

The Blanton Museum of Art has received a gift of seven works by pioneering abstract artist Leon Polk Smith.

Stella is considered to be a pioneer within the minimalist art movement and one of the most influential painters of his generation, a generation moving from abstract expressionism towards minimalism.

Wit and eccentricity were the key motivators of these «pioneers» who combined various materials and media to produce the «more social type of art» in contrast to the abstract expressionism which was viewed as elitist by some of the artists and theorists.

Highly engaged with international art movements such as cubism, abstract expressionism, arte povera, and conceptual art — but also having studied and lived in Europe and the United States — an older generation of the artists on view pioneered modern art in Cyprus, through a dialogue within local traditions.

Josef Albers was a renowned German abstract painter and color theorist, one of the most prominent and influential pioneers of 20th - century modernism, who dedicated a great deal of his life to art — either teaching it or producing it.

Shape of Light will place moments of radical innovation in photography within the wider context of abstract art, such as Alvin Langdon Coburn's pioneering «vortographs» from 1917.

Atsuko Tanaka was a pioneering Japanese avant - garde artist, whose abstract works rejected conventional ideas of how art should appear or «perform.»

The pioneering abstract painter Gillian Ayres RA began studying art in earnest at just 16, when she won a place at Camberwell School of Aart in earnest at just 16, when she won a place at Camberwell School of ArtArt.

He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases of the abstract art movement and Orphic Cubism (Orphism).

White Hawk has a determination and motivation in which she challenges herself to inventively create and develop pioneering techniques and methods that transform the experience of abstract contemporary art for artists, collectors and viewers.

Macdonald - Wright, 1890 - 1973, was a pioneer of American abstract art who, with painter Morgan Russel, founded «Synchronism,» an avant - garde painting movement meaning «with color,» according to writings.

Although Kazuo Nakamura is best known for his pioneering abstract paintings of the 1950s, his long career in art is currently being re-evaluated.

• ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM (GESTURALISM) Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966) German - American expressionist, art teacher; pioneer of action painting.

SAN FRANCISCO, October 30, 2017 — The San Francisco Arts Commission's latest commission for San Francisco International Airport Gate Room 100 imagines a meeting between revolutionary artists: The Beatles and an early pioneer of abstract painting, Piet Mondrian.

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.

His colorful, expressive and bold style Carly's works pioneers a new direction in abstract art, his works are illustrated by multilayers of shapes, bold strokes and sketches that pull the viewer into a vortex of dynamism and color.»

Feng Lianghong discovered his penchant for abstract painting early in his career in the 1980s where he was part of a group of artists who pioneered abstract art in Shanghai.

Philip Guston (1913 — 1980) was the first abstract painter to return to figuration in the postwar era and was pioneering in his mixing of high art and popular culture.

Several galleries, including Goodman Fine Art, present work by pioneering Scottish abstract painter Alan Davie RA whilst Gilden's Arts Gallery displays an original 1940s Picasso portrait of Dora Maar.