Sentences with phrase «reaction against»

Howard Kanovitz, a pioneer of the Photo Realism style of painting, which emerged in the 1960s as a reaction against abstraction in general and Abstract Expressionism in particular, died last Monday in Manhattan.

Palladian style English architectural style, from c. 1715, in imitation of the style of Andrea Palladio; a reaction against the Baroque in favor of the Classical.

HB The violence towards these idols or images from a heathen past is, in my opinion, a violent reaction against what the Western media and Western heritage foundations consider valuable as opposed to cities and villages with human life.

Cubism Artistic movement c.1907 - 1915 initiated by Picasso and Braque as a reaction against Impressionism.

That being said, it remains indisputably the case that the art and artists that defined modernity (an era that ended somewhere between 1970 and 1979) did follow a definite progression — the artists knew one another's work, considered themselves in competition with, or in reaction against, both their contemporaries and their predecessors, setting out in new directions accordingly.

«Starting in the 1970s, there was a terrific reaction against Color Field painting and abstract art in general, which was in turn a rejection of Clement Greenberg,» said the art historian and critic Michael Fried, who organized the exhibition «Three American Painters: Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Frank Stella» at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard in 1965.

Cubism (1908 - 14) was a reaction against the decorative prettiness of Impressionism.

I think artists have always been the voices of reaction against social issues.

Neo-Expressionism, the last of the truly famous movements to sweep the art world, arose in the late 1970s as a reaction against the austere, cerebral cool of Minimalism and Conceptual art, combining richly applied paint and attention - grabbing artistic gestures in an attempt to revive the hotter heroics of painters like van Gogh and the Abstract Expressionists.

In part a reaction against the austerity of minimalism, Neo-Expressionism was mainly a figurative movement which emerged from the early 1980s onwards.

This activity was essentially a reaction against commercial aesthetics.

«But my work is not a reaction against it — no such thing is possible.

Curator Helen Molesworth tried to locate such a different relationship in an essay on New York painter Amy Sillman in which she discussed unknowability as a feminist virtue, a reaction against authority and mastery.

An entire generation of American painters has had their work suppressed for decades partially as a reaction against Greenbergian formalism.

The reaction against painting is a way to keep this secret.

In this interview with Garage Museum chief curator Kate Fowle, excerpted from Phaidon's just - released monograph Sterling Ruby, the artist delves into his idea of autobiography — how his work stems from his life experiences of a rural upbringing and reaction against being taught Conceptualism in school.

Pier 54 was recently conceived as a tribute to and a reaction against Pier 18.

The Conceptual and Minimalist art of the 1960s could be seen as a reaction against painters like Rothko and Pollock.

So you could see the shimmering beauty of Richard Wright's gold - leaf masterpiece simply as a reaction against the boorish antics of the YBAs.

Color Field painting had gained support among many Abstract Expressionists, and Minimalism was actively dominating the art scene as a reaction against the emotion and drama of the previous generation.

It was a clear reaction against the closed intellectualism of Abstract Expressionism, from which Pop artists sought to distance themselves by adopting simple, easily recognized imagery (from TV, cartoons, comic strips and the like), as well as modern technology like screen printing.

pop art, movement that restored realism to avant - garde art; it first emerged in Great Britain at the end of the 1950s as a reaction against the seriousness of abstract expressionism.

This was the result of the reaction against the Armory Show (1913) and European hypermodernism, as well as a response to changing social conditions across the country.

And one can understand Beckett or Ionesco and their brevity, and their moving toward almost incoherence as a reaction against the color of French academic eloquence.

A reaction against abstract expressionism, pop art paid homage to mass media, advertising, and consumer goods.

New York artist Lichtenstein began making paintings inspired by consumer culture as a reaction against the emotional involvement of Abstract Expressionism.

Rauschenberg played a critical role in the reaction against Abstract Expressionism.

Minimalism in Music In music, the minimalist movement was, like minimal art, a reaction against a then - current form, with composers rejecting many of the dry intellectual complexities and the emotional sterility of serial music and other modern forms.

Altermodern, a portmanteau word defined by Nicolas Bourriaud, is an attempt at contextualizing art made in today's global context as a reaction against standardisation and commercialism.

Part of it as you indicate in the book was a reaction against the kind of aggressive, tough raw painting that you experienced in de Kooning's work that you felt attracted to but at one point began to realize that it wasn't of your nature.

The destruction of the multi-building artwork in Kreuzberg, Berlin was reportedly a reaction against the neighborhood's rapid gentrification.

Born in 1942, during the American occupation of the Philippines, Tahimik is best known for this remarkable, uncategorizable, and entirely unique film, a semi-autobiographical fable that tells the story of his awakening to, and reaction against, American cultural colonialism.

Founding member of what are regarded as three of the country's most influential photographic groups, Giuseppe Cavalli was the recipient of numerous international awards for his work, the constant gentle theme of which developed out of a reaction against the overblown imagery of Fascist era Italy.

Showcased in 1925 at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts held in Paris, Art Deco was essentially a reaction against Art Nouveau: replacing the latter's flowing curvilinear shapes with Cubist and Precisionist - inspired geometric forms.

In part a reaction against the pretty pictures of Impressionism, a style which held no intellectual interest for Picasso, Cubism refocused attention on the essential 2 - D nature of the flat canvas, overturning conventional systems of perspective and ways of perceiving form, in the process.

In part, they are absent because Kertess felt they had nothing new to say and have had a minimal impact on younger artists lately, but also because, although he is too diplomatic to put it this way, he has a visceral reaction against the cult of chic celebrity that surrounds them.

Of course, there are a few artists that have been with the gallery who have been loosely School of New York, but did you feel at the time that you opened the gallery that there was a reaction against Abstract Expressionism?

«There was a reaction against the monumentalism of the Serra,» which led to «a more integrated approach,» says Finkelpearl.

The work, partly a reaction against a professor's criticism that she «did not paint» as an MFA student at Yale, is painful for the artist, and for the audience.

In a reaction against the large, brash paintings that became popular in the «80s, artists became increasingly introspective as they looked to everyday objects and the people in their immediate social circles as subjects for their art.

Therefore, the emergence of Pop Art in both America and the UK has been always described as a reaction against Abstract Expressionist painting.

At the Academy and as an artist for the Philadelphia Press, he became friends with fellow artists Robert Henri, George Luks, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan, the core of the group that would later form The Eight as a reaction against the National Academy of Design's hidebound exhibition policies.

Along with fellow Neo-Expressionists David Salle, Eric Fischl, and Sigmar Polke, Schnabel's art can be seen as a reaction against the cold compositions of Minimalism and Conceptualism, in its rough texture and violently expressive return to addressing the human condition in painting.

Most remarkably, in reaction against the taboos about left and right that he encountered on his travels, Twombly began to draw «as if with his left hand».

Loudon sees the growing interest in such objects as a sign of the public's boredom with the inflated scale of so much contemporary art, «a reaction against Jeff Koons, if you will.

In abstract painting during the 1950s and 1960s several new directions like Hard - edge painting and other forms of Geometric abstraction like the work of Frank Stella popped up, as a reaction against the subjectivism of Abstract expressionism began to appear in artist studios and in radical avant - garde circles.

Minimalism was also a reaction against the painterly subjectivity of Abstract Expressionism that had been dominant in the New York School during the 1940s and 1950s.

Which is not to imply that these paintings are created as a reaction against some notion of dominant taste.

The reaction against the commercial model included the formation of 112 Workshop (precursor to White Columns), the Kitchen, Artists Space and Creative Time.

In an interview with the Observer the same year, Caulfield said his interest in interiors developed in art school as a reaction against social realism.