Sentences with phrase «subsequent generations of painters»

«By inaugurating the new gallery with a joint exhibition of historical works by Cindy Sherman and David Salle,» Montagu explains, «we hope to give a renewed perspective in which to consider the importance of the artists» earlier works, and their influence on subsequent generations of painters and photographers.»

This is part of what Pop art achieved and what subsequent generations of painters do when they work from photography: they estrange it enough to make its deepest impact thinkable.

They were quite important, though, to subsequent generations of painters, and they have become treasured for their seminal influence.

Coinciding with Frieze Masters, the exhibition of these important series will provide a renewed perspective in which to consider the significance of the artists» earlier works and their influence on subsequent generations of painters and photographers.

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Joan Semmel's Erotic Series (or «fuck paintings») of the 1970s, subsequent nude self - portraits, and recent unflinching depictions of her aging body establish her as one of the most important feminist painters of her generation.

The enormous success of 17th - century Dutch painting overpowered the work of subsequent generations, and no Dutch painter of the 18th century — nor, arguably, a 19th - century one before Van Gogh — is well known outside the Netherlands.

Famed for his self portraits, which rival Rembrandt and Picasso for intensity of conception and scrutiny, Max Beckmann (1884 - 1950) towers over German painting of the first half of the twentieth century, providing German modernism with one of its most personal visions and also inspiring a subsequent generation of American painters (Philip Guston, Nathan Oliveira).

Miro's work has influenced numerous generations of subsequent artists including the Abstract Expressionists (Motherwell, Calder, Gorky, Rothko) and Color Field Painters (Frankenthaler, Olitski and Louis).

Selected by British painter Daniel Sturgis, it considers how the languages of abstraction have remained urgent, relevant and critical as they have been revisited and reinvented by subsequent generations of artists over the last 50 years.