Sentences with phrase «succeeding generations of painters»

Hoptman notes that their experimental strategies and systematic distillation of painting practice eventually resulted in «abstraction's death by a thousand irrelevancies,» leading succeeding generations of painters to repudiate formalism and conclude that the age of content without subject matter was long gone.

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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.

Succeeding generations of artists have generally given him (or Tom Thomson) the highest acclaim among Canadian painters (see Painting).

Homer never taught in a school or privately, as did Thomas Eakins, but his works strongly influenced succeeding generations of American painters for their direct and energetic interpretation of man's stoic relationship to an often neutral and sometimes harsh wilderness.

Some went back to the exploration of perceptual stimulation after working in others (if related) styles... And succeeding generations of artists — notably but not exclusively painters, and notably but not exclusively Americans — have referred to op mannerisms or even return to op practices, interested all over again in what can be done to stimulate the eye beyond the expected, beyond the quotidian, beyond the prosaic.

Together with Kenneth Noland (b. 1924) and Frank Stella (b. 1936), he is considered to be one of the leaders of the generation of American painters that succeeded the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, except that his development differs markedly from the others because, from the beginning, he rejected the influence of US abstract expressionist painting and turned directly to a personal re-examination of European, and especially French, sources of postmodernist art.