Sentences with phrase «significant art objects»
In the ensuing two centuries, American collectors seeking high culture and artistic achievement initiated what became perhaps the greatest transfer of significant art objects from one continent to another in history.
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Frieze Masters offers a unique contemporary perspective on historical art, from collectible objects to significant masterpieces.
One of the most significant American artists of the post-war period, Donald Judd's oeuvre has come to define what has been referred to as Minimalist art — a label the artist strongly objected to.
The work of Donald Judd (1928 - 1994), one of the most significant American artists of the post-war period, has come to define what has been referred to as Minimalist art — a label to which the artist strongly objected on the grounds of its generality.
But these are his most significant years, and Prima Materia does tell a story, one less involved with the alchemical interests the show's title suggests, or the ethnographic influences implied by the accompanying selection of objects (Hopi kachina dolls, Yup» ik masks), and more concerning the effect on an established practitioner of the turn from abstract Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism in postwar American art.
Explorations of confined spaces, safety and the creation of interactive and participatory art objects are a significant aspect of her body of work.
British Folk Art: The House That Jack Built is the first significant exhibition of British folk art at a national gallery, and includes nearly 200 paintings, sculptures, textiles and other objects, spanning the 17th to 20th centuriArt: The House That Jack Built is the first significant exhibition of British folk art at a national gallery, and includes nearly 200 paintings, sculptures, textiles and other objects, spanning the 17th to 20th centuriart at a national gallery, and includes nearly 200 paintings, sculptures, textiles and other objects, spanning the 17th to 20th centuries.
Mal Lawal is a unique showcase of private collections, blending heritage, culture and contemporary art to celebrate historically and socially significant objects and antiques.
During the past thirty years, Jones» work has been featured in significant group exhibitions, including Disparities & Deformations: Our Grotesque, Site Santa Fe (2004); Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998); Mapping at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1994); and Choices at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1986).
The work of Donald Judd (1928 — 1994), one of the most significant American artists of the postwar period, has come to define what has been referred to as minimalist art — a label to which the artist strongly objected on the grounds of its generality.
In its accumulative nature and its presentation of seemingly random objects, Shelf Lifedraws significant inspiration from a number of Oldenburg's most iconic exhibitions, particularly The Mouse Museumoriginally created for documenta 5 (1972) and the pioneering Pop art exhibition The Store (1961).
But if you're able to snag a few moments at these stations, you'll see the objects on view in the aesthetic and cultural context of significant artworks, monuments, and movements: Marcel Duchamp's 1913 readymade Roue de bicyclette [Bicycle Wheel]; the Crystal Palace at the 1851 World's Fair; Pop Art's embrace of mass - media messaging.
Instead of being fascinated by Zittel's personal story, we see our own shifting relationship between the use object and the art object; our unique need and obsession around each; our relationship to genuinely significant value structures and the shift and slippage when use objects become art objects.
Imagery aside, avaf tackled a very significant formal issue of the dematerialization of the art object.
The work of Donald Judd (1928 — 94), one of the most significant American artists of the postwar period, has come to define Minimalist art, a label to which the artist strongly objected.
Significant traveling exhibitions of his work include «Felix Gonzalez - Torres: Traveling» at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Illinois; and «Felix Gonzalez - Torres: Specific Objects without Specific Form,» organized by Wiels, Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, with ongoing, adaptive installations at the Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland; and the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany.
The work of Donald Judd, one of the most significant American artists of the postwar period, has come to define Minimalist art, a label to which the artist strongly objected.
Schimmel has organized major one - person retrospectives for artists Chris Burden, Willem De Kooning, Takashi Murakami, Laura Owens, Sigmar Polke, Charles Ray, and Robert Rauschenberg, and significant thematic exhibitions such as The Interpretive Link: Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper, 1938 - 1948 (1987), The Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism (1988), Hand - Painted Pop: American Art in Transition 1955 — 62 (1992), Helter Skelter: LA Art in the 1990s (1992), Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949 - 1979 (1999), Ecstasy: In and About Altered States (2006), and Collection: MOCA's First 30 Years (2010).
His repeated use of familiar and personally significant objects, such as a robe, hands, tools, and hearts, is a signature of his art.»
Among the most significant over the past several decades include The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art (2013), Lucian Freud Drawings (2012), Georges Braque: Pioneer of Modernism (2011), Robert and Ethel Scull: Portrait of a Collection (2010), Picasso's Marie - Thérèse (2008), Manolo Millares (2006), James Rosenquist: Monochromes (2005), Lucian Freud: Recent Paintings & Etchings (2004), Cézanne Watercolors (1999), Alberto Giacometti (1994), Robert Rauschenberg Drawings: 1958 - 1968 (1986), Lyonel Feininger (1985 - 1986; this exhibition traveled to The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.), Edgar Degas (1978), Claude Monet (1976), Henri Matisse (1973) and many others.
When all's said and done, though, those contributors made possible a fine new building and assured that it was filled with some of recent art history's most significant and visually rewarding objects.
It bothers me that when one calls an artist «great,» the comment almost always refers to the art and not the person: object stands for subject, the latter less significant than the former.
In its accumulative nature and its presentation of seemingly random objects, Shelf Lifedraws significant inspiration from a number of Oldenburg's most iconic exhibitions, particularlyThe Mouse Museumoriginally created for documenta 5 (1972) and the pioneering Pop art exhibitionThe Store (1961).
Adam Pendleton has been included in significant exhibitions in America and Europe including the Palais de Tokyo's La Triennale (2012), where his video installation BAND was presented following its premiere at The Kitchen, New York (2010); Ecstatic Alphabets / Heaps of Language, MoMA, New York (2012); Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York (2010); The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York (2010); Afro - Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool (2010); Manifesta 7, Trentino - South Tyrol, Italy (2008); After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy, High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2008); Object, The Undeniable Success of Operations, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2008); Manifesto Marathon, The Serpentine Gallery, London (2008); Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2007); Performa 07, New York (2007); Talk Show, ICA, London (2007); Resistance Is, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007); Frequency, Studio Museum of Harlem (2005 - 06); and Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since the 1970s, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2005).
Through the Eyes of Texas will tell the fascinating stories of these objects and their owners, as well as provide unique learning opportunities and a chance for visitors to experience significant works that span the history of art.
At the same time, we see through each artist's work, that viewing objects in space is still a significant way to understand art and culture that can not be replaced by the Internet experience.
Allan McCollum's Visible Markers is from the acclaimed conceptual artist's ongoing series of object multiples designed to express gratitude, exemplifying McCollum's notion that the art object becomes significant not merely through its making but, more importantly, through the process of exchange.
Credited as Minimalism's principal spokesman, Judd wrote what is considered to be one of the most significant texts of the movement, «Specific Objects» (1965; published first in Arts Yearbook 8 and later in the exhibition catalog Donald Judd: 1955 — 1968, 2002).
Pendleton has been included in significant exhibitions in America and Europe, including Love Story — The Anne & Wolfgang Titze Collection, Winter Palace and 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna (2014); La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); Ecstatic Alphabets / Heaps of Language, MoMA, New York (2012); Greater New York 2010, MoMA PS1, New York (2010); The Generational: Younger than Jesus, New Museum, New York (2010); Afro - Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool (2010); Manifesta 7, Trentino - South Tyrol, Italy (2008); After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy, High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2008); Object, The Undeniable Success of Operations, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2008); Manifesto Marathon, The Serpentine Gallery, London (2008); Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2007); Performa 07, New York (2007); Talk Show, ICA, London (2007); Resistance Is, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007); Frequency, The Studio Museum of Harlem (2005 — 06); and Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since the 1970s, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2005).
In an art context, appropriation refers to the use of pre-existing or previously defined images or objects, without significant changes in the concept or physical form.
In 2002, through a significant gift from the Chase family of Connecticut, the Wadsworth Atheneum began an in - depth provenance research project on its permanent collection of approximately 50,000 objects of art.