Sentences with phrase «significant avant»

There he became a significant avant - garde figure, before turning from abstract to figurative painting in the mid-1960s, partly as a result of seeing an exhibition of Caravaggio at the Louvre.

Tsuyoshi Maekawa was a Japanese artist, a member of the Gutai Art Association, Japan's most significant avant - garde collective of the postwar era.

The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) announce the first West Coast survey exhibition of Gutai (1954 - 1972)-- a significant avant - garde artist collective in postwar Japan whose overriding directive was: «Do something no one's ever done before.»

The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) is proud to present the first West Coast survey exhibition of Gutai (1954 — 1972), a significant avant - garde artist collective in postwar Japan whose overriding directive was: «Do something no one's ever done before.»

Tsuyoshi Maekawa (b. 1936) was a member of the Gutai Art Association, Japan's most significant avant - garde collective of the postwar era, founded in 1954.

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Barney's work has been hailed as one of the most significant contributions to contemporary avant - garde cinema.

His personal involvement with a significant number of early avant - garde movements — from Catalan Noucentismo to Cubism, Ultraism - Vibrationism, and Neo-Plasticism — makes him an unparalleled figure whose work is ripe for a fresh critical reappraisal in the U.S.

Instead of resting on top of the canvas, the paint in this image stained the canvas — a significant feat in an era when avant - garde artists were fascinated with the flatness of painting.

The exhibition also includes some of his most significant works, including The Wasteland and Many Times, making this an important opportunity to grasp the work of a great artist who reinterpreted the tradition of classic sculpture on the basis of 20th century avant - gardes.

One of only two women initially involved with the «Club,» an association of New York School artists and writers, she exhibited in numerous significant early exhibitions of New York's postwar avant - garde, including the groundbreaking «9th Street Art Exhibition» in 1951.

Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim will explore not only avant - garde innovations from the late 19th through mid-20th centuries, but also the radical activities of six patrons who brought to light some of the most significant artists of their day.

He has organized or contributed to some of the most significant exhibitions in this area including, Degas (1988); Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams, 1840 — 1916 (1994); Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist (1994); Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South (2001); Manet and the Sea (2003); Seurat and the Making of La Grande Jatte (2004); Toulouse - Lautrec and Montmartre (2005); Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant - Garde (2006); and, in contemporary art, Jasper Johns: Gray (2007).

The Arte Povera (Poor Art or Proletarian Art) flourished during the period 1967 - 1972 and took place in cities throughout Italy: Turin, Milan, Rome, Genoa, Venice, Naples and Bologna, was the most significant and influential Avant - Garde movement to emerge in Europe in the»60s.

Beijing - based Song Dong (b. 1966, Beijing, China) has emerged from a strong Chinese avant - garde performing arts community and developed into a significant contemporary art figure in the progression of Chinese conceptual art.

Copiously illustrated, the book offers a timely re-evaluation of Takamatsu's practice following a significant resurgence of appreciation for the Japanese avant - garde, and features essays by Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Curator of the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Jordan Carter, Curatorial Fellow for the Visual Arts, Walker Art Center, and the late Takamatsu.

Upon his return to New York, Hendler, who is considered a first generation action painter, played a significant role in the movement, both in New York, where he was a friend of Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, and in Philadelphia, where he ran the city's first avant - garde gallery between 1952 and 1954.

Wilke has also participated in a large number of significant group exhibitions including the forthcoming exhibition Virginia Woolf: an exhibition based on her writing, Tate St Ives (2018); Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950 - 1980, Met Breuer, New York (2017); Body Talk, Rose Art Museum, Waltham (2017); Feminist Avant - Garde of the 1970s, ZKM, Karlsruhe (2017), travelling to Stavanger Art Museum, Norway and The Brno House of Arts, Brno (2018); I Remember Not Remembering, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (2017); The Beguiling Siren is Thy Crest, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2017); Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London (2016); Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 - 2016, Hauser & Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles (2016); Americana: Formalizing Craft, Perez Art Museum, Miami (2013); Aquatopia: The Imaginary of the Ocean Deep, Nottingham Contemporary (2013); Human Nature, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2012); Naked Before the Camera, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2012); Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Seattle Art Museum (2012); The Body as Protest, Albertina Museum, Vienna (2012); Ourselves, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2012); The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, MoMA, New York and elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010).

At its origins the avant - garde myth had held the artist to be a precursor; the significant work is the one that prepares the future.

Recogninzing the importance of performance in 20th century avant - garde art, this catalogue traces the careers of three artists who have each made a significant contribution to that history.

Assembling many of the foundation's most iconic works along with treasures by artists less familiar, this celebratory exhibition explores avant - garde innovations of the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, as well as the groundbreaking activities of six pioneering arts patrons who brought to light some of the most significant artists of their day and established the Guggenheim Foundation's identity as a forward - looking institution.

Burgoyne Diller, among the most significant American abstract artists of the twentieth century, is regarded as a leader of the avant - garde in the 1930s and a forefather of the 1960s Minimalist movement.

Despite spending the majority of his life in Delft, Holland, Schoonhoven worked in dialogue with and had a significant impact upon an international group of avant garde artists.

These works are significant because they stress the importance of the Futurists by emphasising their multidisciplinary interests, which laid the groundwork for later avant - garde movements like Dada.

This exhibition offers a timely re-evaluation of his practice following significant recent re-appraisals of Japanese avant - garde art across the world.

Though it operated for only 24 years, this pioneering school played a significant role in fostering avant - garde art, music, dance, and poetry, and an astonishing number of important artists taught or studied there.

My most significant publications include Jamaican Art (Kingston Publishers, 1990), Fifty Years - Fifty Artists (Ian Randle Publishers, 2000), and Negrophilia: Avant Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s (Thames & Hudson, 2000) and Back to Black, 2005, co-authored with Richard Powell and David Bailey.

In «Café Dolly» the powerful paintings of the mature Willumsen can be experienced along with paintings by two of the 20th and 21 century's most significant artists: The Franco - Spanish Francis Picabia, who was Willumsens's contemporary and one of the leading figures in the Parisian avant - garde, and the living American Julian Schnabel (b. 1951), a headliner in the 1980s new painting and a successful film director.

Sumi Kang formulates a theory that failure is at the heart of the development of the human worldview and civilization, which connects to the notion of failure as one of the most significant forces in the history of avant - garde art.

Under the curatorial directorship of Gabriele Schor, the collection includes significant bodies of work by some of the key feminist avant - garde artists of the 1970s (as well as by many male artists, it should be pointed out).

Neue Galerie Graz honors one of the most significant painters to have emerged in Austria after 1945, Wolfgang Hollegha, who as a member of the avant - garde painters» group around the Galerie nächst St. Stephan in Vienna, he achieved early international success.

Just Light and Colour», focuses on the significant oeuvre of German artist Heinz Mack, who is among the founders of the mid-20th Century Avant - Garde Art network, the ZERO movement.

In the years that followed, he played a significant role in the movement, both in New York, where he was a friend of Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock, and in Philadelphia, where he ran an avant - garde gallery between 1952 and 1954.

The town rapidly became a centre for abstract avant - garde landscape painting, and attracted a new generation of creative practitioners like Terry Frost, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Peter Lanyon, John Wells and Bryan Wynter, who had a significant influence on the evolution of fine art painting in the UK during the second half of the 20th century.

Nevertheless, it had a significant impact on British avant garde art of the mid-1930s, for which see also the St Ives School (c.1939 - 75).

In 2015 - 16 seventeen paintings have been included in the exhibition «The Shadow of the Avant Garde» at the Folkwang Museum, Essen; and Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York has staged a significant Eilshemius show.

She has worked at some of the most significant cultural settings of her generation including North Carolina's avant - garde Black Mountain College and Gate Hill Cooperative in Stony Point, NY in the 1950s.

Davie returned to Britain to take up a fellowship at Leeds University, and an exhibition at the Wakefield Art Gallery transferred to the Whitechapel in London in 1958, launching him as a significant figure in the British avant - garde, a position he shared with William Gear, who was associated with the European COBRA group.

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