Sentences with phrase «story of modern art»

His work has been included in exhibitions such as dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, 2012, Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain, Dak» Art, Dakar, 2008 and «Seven Stories of Modern Art in Africa `, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1995.

«The whole story of modern art looks very different when told from the West Coast,» says the Getty Research Institute's deputy director Andrew Perchuk, who is codirector of «Pacific Standard Time» and cocurator of «Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950 — 1970,» one of the Getty Center's related shows.

«Thought - provoking... [Falconer] writes well, cites many a worthwhile quotation, and includes lots of good reproduction... Useful primer... Enjoyable... A huge achievement, somewhat akin to Norbert Lynton's The Story of Modern Art.»

Inner Worlds Outside, at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, displays the work of «outsider» artists alongside that of established masters to suggest they are two sides of the same story of modern art.

The friendship between Norman Rockwell and Grandma Moses remains one of the most intriguing and charming stories of modern art history.

It tries to tell one among many stories of modern art, in a limited space, and is no worse for bringing less well known artists and works to the foreground, while ignoring others.

Through the works of Motherwell and his colleagues, as well as the archival materials assembled here, the exhibition makes clear how intricately woven the history of Hunter's art department is through the story of modern art in New York.

This is a much - needed retrospective for the man who painted Cuba into the story of modern art.

While the first part of the exhibition focuses on local involvement and the story of modern art in Europe up to the Second World War, the later part deals with the huge shifts in society after 1950 and wider global influences that came into play.

But it is also, in another sense, the story of Modern Art Oxford — a place where so many people had their first glimpse of international artists in solo shows before they became too big for this world.

«A must - read... Brilliantly conceived and beautifully executed... retells the story of modern art in a wholly original way... Suitably for its subject, this chronicle of exhibitions is stunning in its presentation.

Tate Modern includes modern British art where it contributes to the story of modern art, so major modern British artists may be found at both Tate Modern and Tate Britain.

And yet I would advance that anyone who relentlessly attacks the story of modern art without a trace of nostalgia (Peter Saul) or thoroughly undermines its unspoken assumptions (Sven Lukin) deserves not only a second look, but a third and fourth.

His rendering of a photographic aesthetic in paint is startling and provocative so early in the story of modern art.

As a counterpoint to the story of modern art, and starting with the series of independent movements and individual geniuses who went their own way, the new collection display contextualises the various artistic highlights of the history and material culture of the 20th and 21st centuries.

This exhibition made use of every inch of those grand walls to offer an encyclopedic history of one of the most ambitious, courageous, liberating adventures in the story of modern art.

Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France November 4, 2017 — January 28, 2018 Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France tells the story of modern art as it evolved during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, through 150 works representing transformative movements such as Impressionism and Cubism.

The first was held in 1970; the second, in 1987; and together they seemed to guarantee him an exalted and unshakable place in the story of modern art.

Further reading Mignon Nixon, Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London 2005.

Establishing colour as a central theme in the story of modern art, this is an indispensable handbook to the definitions and debates around its history, meaning and use.

It is a work that displays and references a story of modern art's beginnings through one of the first gathering places for burgeoning young artists such as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Stein herself.

I was happy to use my work as a way to retell the story of modern art.

Frances was jointly responsible for the initial presentation of the opening collection displays at Tate Modern in 2000, which radically transformed the way museums present the story of modern art.

The views of this show have tended to emphasise the absence of the murals by Riviera, Orozco and Siqueiros which have come to define Mexico's place in the story of modern art.