Sentences with phrase «really significant art»

Artlyst critic, Edward Lucie - Smith said of the prize; «Since its heyday in the 1990s, when it helped to establish the reputation of the last really significant art movement in Britain — or perhaps anywhere else — that of the so - called YBAs or Younger British Artists — the Turner Prize has been in decline.

Since its heyday in the 1990s, when it helped to establish the reputation of the last really significant art movement in Britain — or perhaps anywhere else — that of the so - called YBAs or Younger British Artists — the Turner Prize has been in decline.

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«This idea of having a museum — and it was his vision, at that time, that it be a contemporary - art venue — as part of public education at a higher institution is really a pretty amazing and significant contribution, and has been a lasting contribution to this campus, certainly,» said Corinna Ripps Schaming, curator and interim director.

«People generally think that the arts are nice and culturally significant and all that, but most people don't have much of a vision of why the arts are really important in people's personal, civic, and professional lives,» says Professor David Perkins, a founding member of Project Zero.

ZeZi: The Story So Far, which is free, looks like pretty much every bio-comic in the world, with passable full - color art and a story that picks out a few significant moments in the group's history without really tying them together.

«Mark and I really just shared a vision for bringing African art to the forefront of the contemporary art world, and we both felt that there was a need for a significant cultural institution on the African continent that would focus on contemporary African art.

What makes Marlene Dumas a really significant artist for us to show in relation to other art that is being made now and other art that has been made?

IF, SOMETIME in the next century, someone were to look back to see if anything really significant occurred in the visual arts in the Bay Area during this century, I'll bet that Crown Point Press would loom large in their vision.

There are no really significant female Fauves or Cubists, no female Italian Futurists (though a few Russian ones), and even among the core Surrealists, the Abstract Expressionists (though the AbEx show now a the R.A. makes some attempt to prove the contrary), or the Pop Art movement, women don't seem to have played an absolutely major role.