Sentences with phrase «surrealist movement»

Inspired by the American pop surrealist movement, the intense gaze of the subjects pierce through the images and delve into your very core.

This iconic painter and sculptor was perhaps the biggest figure within the surrealist movement, and his works encompassed paintings, film and writing.

Initially inspired by the surrealist movement, the artist made works featuring mythical symbols and forms which he eventually abandoned in favor of an increasingly abstract style.

Through the members of the surrealist movement, Motherwell later met Chilean painter Roberto Matta, who is credited with teaching the American artist the technique of «automatic» drawing, a process of freely rendering lines and forms by tapping into one's unconscious.

This Cuban painter moved in avant - garde circles in pre-second world war Paris, joined the surrealist movement, then returned home to paint his masterpiece The Jungle (1943) in which masked dancers move in a dreamlike space.

As feminist art sought visual form for the depiction of female sexual desire, the surrealist movement provided important models.

The surrealist movement has continued to exercise an important influence on feminist art and theory because, although the surrealist artists themselves may have been unregenerate in their views about femininity: placing irrationality and madness in the feminine, at least they prized those states of being.

Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas and Mona Hatoum are among the artists of today whose work is linked with the surrealist movement of the 1920s and 30s by this exhibition; one of the first modern art movements to involve a significant number of women.

After having evoked the development of the two artists and the artworks from their youth to their modernist creations, the exhibition shows the correspondences between their artworks, like the influence from non-Western art or the surrealist movement to the return of realism during the period after the war.

Like De Kooning, Gorky was heavily influenced by the surrealist movement that had been created by André Breton in Paris.

«The show breaks new art historical ground by demonstrating the fundamental importance of drawing to the surrealist movement on the worldwide stage.»

White Cube's latest exhibition reveals how there is a vast and raging female presence amongst those associated with the surrealist movement.

This exhibition traced the relationship between the emerging generation of avant - garde movements in 1950s France and the surrealist movement, re-established in Paris after the war.

This fascinating exhibition contains over 100 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures by major European historic artists from the surrealist movement: Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, Georgio de Chirico, Joan Miro, Dorothea Tanning, Hans Bellmer, Jacques Herold, Oskar Fischinger, and Frederick Kann.

Arp settled in Paris in 1922, where he joined the surrealist movement.

Delvaux was not a formal member of the surrealist movement and did not participate in group activities.

By uniting them, new juxtapositions emerge along with a fuller and richer picture of the surrealist movement as a whole.

Feb 1: Dorothea Tanning (1910 - 2012) Dorothea Tanning, who was one of the few female artists involved in the surrealist movement, died this week at her home in New York, aged 101.

Amazingly, André Breton, leader of the surrealist movement, left Lewis Carroll out of the list of the movement's predecessors in his 1924 manifesto, but other modernists were more grateful.

Matta began to teach some of the American painters about the surrealist movement and the ideas he shared instigated a new movement of art in America, abstract expressionism.

Dorothea Tanning has been associated with the surrealist movement since it came to NYC in the»40s.

Leonora Carrington explores the fantastical world of the painter and internationally celebrated member of the surrealist movement.

In 1947 her work was included in an international exhibition of surrealism in New York, where she was the only female British artist featured, establishing her pivotal role within the surrealist movement.