Sentences with phrase «post-war era»

It was the post-war era and the fresh designs were in stark contrast to the austere times and rationing.

The post-war era in America saw a great migration out of cities and into the suburbs.

At this age the cohort was shown to be representative, in most respects, of the UK population born in the immediate post-war era.

From cotton machines and trains from the industrial era, through medicine bottles and items from hospitals for the post-war era, to Wright airplane engines and Colt firearms.

Federal investment in education, from the G.I. Bill to the National Defense Education Act, was vital for U.S. competitiveness in the post-war era, and it will be vital for competing in the burgeoning clean energy industry.

Fossil fuel use also increased in the post-War era (5 percent per year), boosting greenhouse gases.

Lichtenstein was among the very most important American artists of the post-war era, and this iconic sculpture sets a powerful art historical context for the more contemporary sculptures on display.

Academician Anthony Caro was the most influential British sculptor of the post-war era, famously taking sculpture off the plinth.

Alan Davie, who has died aged 93, was arguably Scotland's most respected painter of the post-war era, winning international acclaim from both critics and fellow artists, among them Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and David Hockney.

no. 139, illustrated (titled as Day Round) New York, Charles Egan Gallery, Jack Tworkov: Paintings and Drawings 1951 - 1954, March - April 1954 Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1945 - 1957: 146 Pictures Representing Outstanding Achievement Or Promise by American Artists of the Post-War Era, June - September 1957, cat.

Sir Anthony Caro, who has died aged 89, was a pre-eminent artist of the post-war era who created a new language for abstract sculpture in the 1960s with brightly coloured, horizontal assemblages of...

An influential artist, theorist and teacher in the 1960s and 1970s, Jiro Takamatsu (1936 - 98) is central to the development of sculpture in Japan and is considered to be one of the most important Japanese artists of the post-war era.

Caro's career spanned more than five decades, during which he has received numerous honors, critical acclaim and was considered the pre-eminent British sculptor of the Post-War era.

On view are drawings of Classic Modernism by Joseph Albers, Hans Arp, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Vassily Kandinsky, Käthe Kollwitz, Oskar Schlemmer and Kurt Schwitters; drawings and prints of major historical figures of the post-war era such as Georg Baselitz, Louise Bourgeois, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, Lucian Freud, and Richard Buckminster Fuller; and works by contemporary artists Erick Beltrán, Marina De Caro, Marlene Dumas, Jiří Kolář, David Koloane, Laura Lima, Anna Maria Maiolino, Gerhard Richter, Kara Walker and Jakub Julian Ziółkowski, among many others from around the world.

«At what moment, in the post-war era, did war surface as the political unconscious of postmodern and contemporary dance for dancers and choreographers?

He was the first painter to return to figuration in the post-War era and was quite pioneering in linking high art and images from popular culture, so that today many celebrate him as the trailblazer of postmodern, figurative painting.

Sol Lewitt was an American artist best known for helping to launch Conceptual Art and Minimalism of the Post-War era.

In the post-war era a new generation of artists emerged who, eschewing the gestural heroics of the Abstract Expressionists, began making work that challenged the eye through chromatic vibration, line interference and successive color contrasts.

Widely regarded as one of the most pivotal and influential active artists, Gerhard Richter is one of the key re-inventor of painting in the post-war era as well.

The painter Winfred Gaul, born in Düsseldorf in 1928, is one of the most important, though «silent» German painters of the post-war era.

Craig F. Starr Gallery will present Arrows and Boxes, Repeated an exhibition of work by Eva Hesse (1936 - 1970), one of the most influential artists of the post-war era and an early pioneer of Post-Minimalism.

In addition to the extensive collection of art from the Neue Sachlichkeit («New Objectivity») movement in Germany, the exhibition includes a large number of works by German artists from the post-war era for the first time in many years, such as Willi Müller - Hufschmid, Ernst Wilhelm Nay and Karl Hofer.

«Le Tableau,» a show organized by artist and critic Joe Fyfe, attempts to uncover the influence these painters had on contemporary practice, with a particular focus on the contribution of French abstraction from the post-war era.

In general these lists weren't much interested in the first two decades of the post-war era which is fine, but MAN's version of the rubric explicitly included them.

The former, Queen's Bitter, seems to «nostalgically» evoke the post-war era by including photographs of his cross-dressing alter - ego, Claire, in a 1950ish outfit with headscarf.

In the post-war era, interest in and connections between the UK and Latin American art shifted away from surrealism and muralism towards abstract geometric, kinetic and op art movements and then towards forms of conceptualism.

The exhibition takes as its point of departure a moment in the abstract movement of the post-war era, when dominant international vocabularies became entangled with traditional Asian painting in the work of a few artists, working independently and in disparate contexts.

The CAFA Museum will present the works of 17 artists in the most extensive display in the group; the Red Brick Art Museum will focus on abstract art from the Germany's post-war era; the Minsheng Art Museum will host German contemporary photography, focusing on works from the Becher School in Dusseldorf, but also by Katharina Sieverding and Andreas Mühe; the Today Art Museum will present video and media art; the White Box Art Center will show select examples of very recent art; and the Yuan Art Museum will juxtapose works by teachers with those of their art students.

Today he is known for transforming the «useless» forms of everyday life into a language and aesthetic that engaged the turmoil of the post-war era.

Mit Roter Fahne (With Red Flag), 1965, from the artist's ground - breaking «Heroes» series, is a painting that cemented the artist's reputation as one of the most provocative and compelling voices of the post-war era.

Lucian Freud can lay claim to being one of the most influential figurative painters of the post-war era.

Over the course of their marriage and collaborative working relationship, Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz became widely recognised for their assemblage works and large - scale tableaux that distinguished them amongst the most important artists of the post-war era.

Together, these artists and movement represent the astounding burst of artistic genius that emerged in Italy during the post-war era, a microcosm of the wider reach of the global art world.

Hyperrealistic and anthropomorphic figuration from the post-war era up to the present day is represented by works of Duane Hanson (WAR) and George Segal, A.D. Christian, Franz Bernhard, A.R. Penck and Magdalena Jetelovà.

During the mid-century and post-war era,...

An important exponent of the abstract art of the post-war era, Ellsworth Kelly created works of startling visual intensity.

Albers worked in a discipline traditionally viewed as feminine, she was a student and ardent admirer of South American weaving, thought of as a niche interest in the US («I will be accused of crass one - sidedness in my feeling of awe for the textile arts of Peru») and she was married to Josef Albers, who achieved great fame as a painter in the post-war era ---- all these things perhaps contributed to her relative neglect towards the end of the twentieth century.

Alan Davie (born in 1920, Grangemouth, Scotland — died 5 April 2014, Hertfordshire) is one of Britain's most internationally acclaimed artists of the post-war era.

Alan Davie, who sadly passed away on 5 April 2014 (born in 1920, Grangemouth, Scotland) is one of Britain's most internationally acclaimed artists of the post-war era.

Andre Volten was a Dutch artist born in 1925, known as one of the most important constructivist sculptors of the Dutch post-war era.

The artist's work manifested in the biomorphic sculptures and assemblages that Kudo produced from 1963, in which he sought to expose the limitations of the modernist and humanist values that defined the post-war era.

Painting XVIII typifies the shift that occurred in Thurloe Conolly's art in the immediate post-war era.

There is no major U.S. artist of the post-war era with a more complex legacy than Ad Reinhardt's.

For it had been seized by the Nazis, then wrongly kept in the gallery through the post-war era until a court awarded it to Bloch - Bauer's heirs, who sold it.

The exhibition begins in the immediate post-war era with the historically important predecessors Ruth Asawa, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, Claire Falkenstein, and Louise Nevelson.

There were two of his paintings which marked the post-war era in a way, and they will both be featured in this article.

The most influential and original figurative painter of the second half of 20th century, Francis Bacon's distorted abstract forms capture the traumatized post-war era.

They're seizing the movement's moment in the sun to talk about Korea, Korean - ness, the post-war era in their home and the future of art and politics (to name just a few minor subjects).

The innovative, modernist artworks he created for mass - appeal women's magazines and their advertisers profoundly influenced the values and aspirations of American women and their families during the post-war era.

Regina, for some reason, didn't produce modernist - oriented landscape painters in the post-war era, an exception being Ted Godwin, who turned to landscape painting in the late 1970s and continued after retiring to Calgary in the 1980s.