Sentences with phrase «reaction against the movement»

However, Kelley was clear that his work should be interpreted as a reaction against the movement: «I liked the goopy, slightly disgusting surfaces of Abstract Expressionism and I thought such surfaces could be used to great advantage in combination with various kinds of more loaded images, images that didn't lend themselves so easily to abstract equivalency» (M. Kelly in José Lebrero Stals, ed., Mike Kelley 1986 - 1996 exh.

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Later still, there is a reaction against this destructive movement and enlightened people seek to revive science, although they have largely forgotten what it was.

The Wahhabi movement in Arabia was a reaction against the worship of saints, but it made use of force rather than arguments, and failed to establish a general reform.

It is not always understood by the American section of the Christian revolt that a considerable section of the so - called German Christian movement, in which the confusion of gospel and nationalism prevails, had sources in just such a reaction as its own against an individualistic, profit - loving and capitalistic civilization, and against the church in alliance with that civilization.

The quality that architects call «honesty» has been one of the touchstones of the modern movement in architecture in its reaction against the artifices of the 19th century.

Towards the end of the century an extreme reaction against any accomodation to higher criticism gave rise to the beginnings of Fundamentalism — stressing what its adherents believed were the basic tenets of the Gospel — a movement which was to assume larger dimensions after 1914.

As participants played the game against each other on video Skype, reactions were recorded and encoded using emotion - tracking software that captures muscle movements in the face including cheek, lip and chin raises, dimples, and the compression and separation of lips.

This movement may be a reaction against a longstanding school climate within which families and community members — some more than others — have been viewed as outsiders, not as true members of the school community.

It constitutes a reaction against and a rejection of modern Western society, but it is not a monolithic movement.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Partly a reaction against the gestural excesses of Abstract Expressionism, the new movement hymned such banal American subjects as diners, house trailers, shops, and chrome - laden automobiles.

In an interview with Whitewall Magazine in 2010, Seery described the rise of his chosen movement as follows «Many at the time thought Lyrical Abstraction was reaction against some previous form of painting, but in reality it was an affirmation of painting.