Sentences with phrase «several generations of painters»

He was among the first to incorporate the ideas of modernism into a system of teaching; his methods influenced several generations of painters.

This lack of attention is strange, given how insanely influential the artist was to several generations of painters.

Not exact matches

Taking issue with Harold Rosenberg (another important champion of Abstract Expressionism), who wrote of the virtues of action painting in his article «American Action Painters» published in the December 1952 issue of ARTnews, [3] Greenberg observed another tendency toward all - over color or Color Field in the works of several of the so - called «first generation» Abstract Expressionists.

The exhibition showcased several artists representing two generations of Color Field painters.

Paul Kasmin Gallery represents several generations of internationally recognized modern and contemporary painters, sculptors, photographers, and filmmakers.

I thought it would be interesting to put them in a context with several other generations of contemporary figurative painters, who are continuing to do vital work and are changing with the times.

Antonio Saura was a Spanish artist and writer, one of the major post-war painters in the fifties whose work has marked several generations of artists.

Claimed as a Fauvist, a Surrealist, Expressionist, and a Magical Realist, the Spanish painter and sculptor Joan Miró has had an enormous influence on the work of several generations of succeeding artists.

At several places in the building, the Hamburger Bahnhof currently exhibits an artist whose work and life can not be separated from one another — a painter, an actor, a writer, a musician, a drunkard, a dancer, a traveller, a charmer, an enfant terrible and self - producer — in short, an «exhibitionist» as he called himself and an artist who today is considered one of the most significant of his generation.

The anachronism implies a continuity between the myths of hard - drinking artists from different eras: as if the beer - swilling painters of the Dutch Golden Age, the absinthe - addled wretches of 19th - century Paris, the tough guys of the New York School, liquored - up and rowdy at the Cedar Tavern, and several generations of British artists, stumbling out drunk in the late afternoon from Soho's Colony Room Club, could all be imagined in some timeless bar - room.

By 1994 Saville's increasing profile enabled her to exhibit in several notable group shows: Young British Artists III, Saatchi Gallery, London (1994), Contemporary British Art» 96, Museum of Kalmar, Stockholm (1996) and the iconic Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London (1997), positioning Saville as one of the foremost painters of her generation.

Meanwhile, a new generation of painters, including several of the pre-Raphaelites, pointedly ignored expectations about what watercolour could and couldn't do.

Having exhibited her work for over six decades (early 1950s until 2011), she spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever - changing new work.

The term Norwich School refers to several generations of Romantic artists, mostly landscape painters, associated with the Norwich Society of Artists which was established in 1803.

In the hands of southern California artists such as Robert Irwin, James Turrell, and Doug Wheeler — not to mention a host of sculptors, painters, and object makers whose tradition now extends into several generations in whose work the immaterial becomes material, material dematerializes, light becomes object and being becomes (incredibly) light.

Several of the New York School painters who first made American art a cultural force in the world were in rebellion against an earlier generation committed to social activism in art and communism in politics.

Stephen Ellis» recent abstractions recall the work of several other painters of his generation, most strikingly that of David Reed, whose vaguely futuristic color fields are also composed of alkyd and oil, and, like Ellis», stage lavish quotations of AbEx gestural moves in the form of serpentine swaths of color.