Sentences with phrase «references early modernists»

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From her early collections of mock burial artefacts, to primate - like figures constructed from discarded fur coats, and her more recent enigmatic gurus, Upritchard has developed a highly idiosyncratic language of sculpture that frequently borrows from craft practices and a broad range of references from the deep recesses of museum collections, folklore and counter-cultures to high modernist design.

They recall the early modernist visages of Alexej von Jawlensky, but on a contemporary scale and with references to our political present: a raised (white) fist here, collages of African sculpture elsewhere.

From her investigation into the notion of artificial beauty to references of futuristic architectural ideas from the early 20th century, Korean artist Lee Bul has, over the past two decades, garnered international renown with a diverse and intellectually challenging body of work that includes sculptures, performances and installations, while always maintaining an intriguing relationship with modernist ideals.

The show displays a selection of pieces displayed salon style as both a reference to early modernist salons but also to the clutter and natural chaos of her own workspace.The show includes photographs, collages, drawings, and large - scale Polaroids, displaying for us a more personal, introspective viewpoint that we haven't seen yet from the artist.

Rather, these are studio creations, more indebted to American Modernist landscape paintings than Mother Nature... Referencing the pictorial language of late - 19th and early - 20th century landscape painting might seem a convoluted way to create imagery that purports to be urgently personal.

At Marian Goodman, Jeff Wall's mammoth photographs reference history painting in their size and early Modernist painting in their content, and indeed the press materials suggest Wall wants to «paint modern life.»

Curry may work in acidic colors and surfaces but his forms always referenced the sculpture of early modernists like Noguchi, Miro, Calder.

Boyce, 43, creates sculptural installations that often reference the modernist design of the early 20th century.

The two series are among his earliest projects, which broke with mainstream photographic traditions to reveal pronounced modernist references.

Although each awning could cover up to nine square meters at full extension, they are displayed with the material completely rolled up and compactly displayed as vertical, columnar shapes, recalling Wermers earlier Kusine series and referencing the Modernist legacy of Brancusi's Endless Column.

The works reference the original containers, frequently used to transport black - market petrol, while also calling to mind the tribal masks which influenced the early Modernists such as Picasso and Braque.