Sentences with phrase «while mobile sculpture»

Other 20th century sculptors were exploring new forms of organic abstraction, while mobile sculpture and kinetic motion was pioneered on both sides of the Atlantic.

Not exact matches

Across the show, the first at Almine Rech's New York space, Calder mobiles and Picasso portraits, among other rare and never - before - seen paintings and sculptures, reveal visual and emotional resonances between the two famous artists, while reminding us why their work was so revolutionary in the process.

Drawing upon social - sculpture practice where other strategies have failed, Saro - Wiwa advances different ways of knowing about the Niger Delta and its global implications while prompting a reconsideration of the parameters of contemporary «Afropolitan» identities — a term coined in 2005 by writer Taiye Selasi to describe the transnational experience of a new generation of globally mobile Africans.

While not typically compared to Dalí or Picasso, Curry's brightly colored biomorphic sculptures, disorienting wall - paper, and three - dimensional paintings are often described as contemporary kin to the work of Jean Dubuffet and mobile master Alexander Calder.

Other modern sculptors like Jean Arp (1886 - 1966) as well as Henry Moore (1898 - 1986) and Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 75)- leaders of modern British sculpture - were experimenting with new forms of biomorphic / organic abstraction, while the American Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) was pioneering mobile sculpture and kinetic art, and David Smith (1906 - 65) was developing abstract metal sculpture.