Sentences with phrase «well as abstract expressionism»

Twombly's signature style of abstract art is a blend of drawing and painting, which combines elements of calligraphy and graffiti as well as abstract expressionism, with references to Antiquity and the Italian Renaissance.

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Pierre Soulages is a «proposal about post-war abstract expressionism» according to the exhibition organisers, as well as a formal call to reflect upon the opinions surrounding French art.

Pared - down aesthetics and the desire to move away from figuration in a manner reminiscent of minimalism, as well as spontaneous acts of expression and working with the physical limitations of materials as in abstract expressionism, coexist in Korean Monochrome.

By the end of the forties, he was well - known as one of the founders of abstract expressionism.

O'Hara, an art critic and curator as well as poet, helped set up The New American Painting, a 1958 touring exhibition that awed Europeans with abstract expressionism.

Kline was best known for his role as an «action painter» of abstract expressionism, a movement that was popular in New York during the 1940s and 1950s and introduced the world to artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.

It was from Parker that Isberg learned his classical drawing techniques as well as being influenced by his advocacy for the New York School of abstract expressionism.

MOCA's permanent collection is comprised of nearly 6,000 works of art created since 1940 in all visual media, including masterpieces of abstract expressionism and pop art as well as inspiring new works by artists from around the world.

Quiñones has put an interesting twist on work that otherwise could be viewed as a footnote to the long career of photographer Aaron Siskind, whose curling paint images posited him well within abstract expressionism.

With a room of her own, Gildersleeve produces expressive, color drenched work at once evoking abstract expressionism as well as more traditional landscape painting.

Examining Lewis's work in the light of «black» as a racial construct as well as an important color for abstract expressionism, Anfam reveals the aesthetic complexity and political engagement at work in Lewis's multifaceted painting.

Run by Hans Hofmann, whose reputation as an excellent teacher was well - established, the Hofmann School had become a vital space for nurturing and developing the talent and ideas that formed the foundation of abstract expressionism and the New York school of painting.

Referring as well to both abstract expressionism and the signature blue of Yves Klein, the work asks us to reconsider the relationship of abstract art to politics.

LEO CASTELLI: Well, as you know, they were not terribly involved in abstract expressionism.

I kept thinking of abstract expressionism as a topic, and all the roads in the beginning led back to Peggy Guggenheim, so I said, «Well, let me at it.»

His style draws on a number of influences, including European modern art and American abstract expressionism, as well as comic book illustrations.

Modern and contemporary styles represented in the collection include precisionism, surrealism, abstract expressionism, geometric abstraction, pop and op art, Fluxus, photo realism, and minimalism, as well as works that explore social and political issues.

In particular, stories of abstraction have been dominated by larger than life male artists — in the case of abstract expressionism it is hard not to focus on Jackson Pollock or Willem DeKooning, but there were several important women working during that time as well.

Drawing upon the language of abstract expressionism as well as pagan history and folklore, British artist Jessica Warboys makes use of the sea and its actions upon mineral pigments in the creation of her large - scale work.

As an artist, Terry has painted in various media and styles and is best known for his fluid, dynamic, and colorful large abstractions reflecting a rediscovery of his roots and interest in abstract expressionism.

I like using acrylics as the colours blend so well together, especially with abstract artworks and Abstract expressionism.

«These masterworks reflect MoMA's preeminent collection of abstract expressionism, and include not only the most important and well - known works, but also key works by lesser - known artists such as Norman Lewis and William Baziotes.

The French painter Georges Mathieu was a leading exponent of Art Informel (the French version of abstract expressionism), and is best - known for his spiky calligraphic - style abstract paintings characterized by sweeping gesturalist brushwork, as in Untitled (1959, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York).

A leading figure in modern art of the early 20th century, Ernst influenced an entire generation of contemporary Surrealists artists including Salvador Dali (1904 - 89) and Yves Tanguy (1900 - 55), as well as several members of the New York School of abstract expressionism.

One reason Gilliam, for instance, is not well known is that he belongs to the colour field movement, a style often dismissed as a soggy aftermath of abstract expressionism.

It includes works by painters such as George Abend and Felix Ruvolo — key figures in the The San Francisco Bay Area abstract expressionism movement, as well as works by Bay Area Figurative School artists, including Nathan Oliveira, David Park, Roland Petersen and Joan Savo.

Barnett Newman, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, who even became a close friend of Martin's, as well as the fields of abstract expressionism and color field painting, had some influence on her.

Essays by leading scholars of abstract expressionism will be included in the catalog, as well as an extensive compilation of artist biographies of women featured in the exhibition and some additional 30 artists whose work paralleled the movement.

Art historians have often highlighted John Chamberlain's ties to abstract expressionism as well as the influence of de Kooning on his work.

However, it has been a common discussion among those who believe in the concept of abstract expressionism, as well as the art critics in this era.

He was not only inspired by both major post-war movements in art, abstract expressionism (a la de Kooning and Pollock) as well as art...

His work took on a singular style, which defies categorization but shows the influences of the dominant movements of the 1950s, abstract expressionism and surrealism, as well as the dominant movements of the 1930s and early 1940s, social realism and the American Scene.

The New York Times art critic John Canaday was highly critical, but Clement Greenberg proclaimed abstract expressionism in general and Jackson Pollock in particular, as the epitome of aesthetic value, enthusiastically supporting Pollock's work on formalistic grounds as the best painting of its day and the heir to an art tradition - stretching back to the Cubism of Pablo Picasso, the cube - like pictures of Paul Cézanne and the Water Lily series of Claude Monet - whose defining characteristic is the making of marks on a flat surface.

His unique genius was his ability to capture the differing effect of light in a revolutionary style of proto - Impressionism verging on abstract expressionism, making him one of the first genuinely «modern» artists, revered by Claude Monet as well as 20th century expressionists.

ARC: Your work has often been compared with abstract expressionism, both in formal terms, as well as in the «action», performative aspect of your process.

Going beyond abstract expressionism, we will consider the text and ideas laden works of Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Peter Sacks and Ed Ruscha; Agnes Martin's and Robert Ryman's meditative canvases; the compilations of Markus Lupertz; Julie Mehretu's maps, as well as the work of Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown and Eva Hesse.

«gleam» deconstructs and reconstructs art history, from 19th - century Romanticism through to heroic realism, modernist sculpture, expressionism and abstract expressionism, presenting us with glints of the past as well as brilliant flashes of light, a time of transition and transformation.