Sentences with phrase «while modern abstraction»

The 19th century genius JMW Turner (1775 - 1851) was arguably the first abstract expressionist, while modern abstraction is commonly attributed to Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906) who employed geometric solids in some of his fin de siecle landscapes.

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While Johnson's works are grounded in a dialogue with modern and contemporary art history, specifically abstraction and appropriation, they also give voice to an Afro - futurist narrative in which the artist commingles references to experimental musician Sun Ra, jazz great Miles Davis, and rap group Public Enemy, to name just a few, with various symbols including that of Sigma Pi Phi (also known as the Boulé), the first African American Greek - letter organization, and writings by civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, among others.

McElheny's installation uses translucent projection cloth, mirrors and film to present a very contemporary take on abstraction, while Rodriguez's depiction of a tongue, with an acupuncturist's diagnoses scrawled over the image, explores society's obsession with health, and the competing claims of traditional and modern medicine.

Arman began to work on paintings that only resembled gestural abstractions, while he was actually producing concrete artistic forms, using an already existing object, the products of the modern time and its society.

The exhibition combines a chronological display with a thematic approach, structured in a series of major chapters in the artist's career, with emphasis on two key moments: the period from 1923 to 1933, when Torres - García participated in various European early modern avant - garde movements while establishing his own signature pictographic / Constructivist style; and 1935 to 1943, when, having returned to Uruguay, he produced one of the most striking repertoires of synthetic abstraction.

With the development of his pliage method firmly solidifying Hantaï's position as a celebrated leader in European abstraction, he went on to exhibit widely across Europe while American museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, acquired his work.

Vierkant follows a late modern tradition, in which abstraction is not necessarily the spiritual, as it was for Wassily Kandinsky, but exactly what it is — a literalism that invites words while defying one to use them.

Organic shapes are blasted apart by bright, unnatural tones of hot pink and acid green, while forms that reveal Wirsum's education in the vocabulary of modern abstraction are disengaged from the history of oil painting through the smooth, manufactured qualities of the painted surface.

Bhabha looks back to the biomorphic abstraction of Hesse or Louise Bourgeois, while avoiding the breasts and curves that once obliged modern sculpture to confront a woman's experience.

An exhibition at the former, «Matisse and American Art,» (through June 18) explores Matisse's influence on American modern art from 1907 to the present, while one at the latter «Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction,» (through August 13) displays female abstract artists» accomplishments between 1945 and 1968.

Clement Greenberg, the most influential of apologists for modern painting of the period, placed particular stress on the formal elements of abstraction, while artists» more otherworldly ideals tended to be played down.

One room brings together the paintings of modern European colorists (Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh) who forayed into abstraction, while another showcases their American counterparts (Milton Avery, Arthur Dove, Albert Pinkham Ryder), revealing the artists» similar preoccupation with color and light yet different sensibilities.

[7] At the time the Museum of Modern Art had a policy of featuring European abstraction while endorsing American regionalism and scene painting.

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Today, the abstract works of Mark Rothko and Pablo Picasso sell for tens of millions, while famous examples of geometric and organic abstraction can be seen in museums of modern art across the world.

While completing graduate studies in France, I taught Modern Art History: From Impressionism to Abstraction at the Lacoste Institute's School For the Arts in France (1991) in Lacoste a small village 40 miles south of Avignon, famous for the Marquis de Sade's chateaux and for being a haven for the Surrealists during the second world war.

In his Democratic Grids, Willats depicts social models as quasi window like cut - outs from an infinitely large structure, while the drawings of his Ideological Towers series play with the abstractions of architecture and modern paraphernalia as symbols of societal ambiance and individual self - identification.

Blending abstraction and figuration, Romanticism and psychedelia, von Wulffen's large - scale paintings wryly revisit and reprocess tactics and tropes of modern painting from German Expressionism onward, while recent series of drawings have tweaked the conventions of the children's book, the comic strip, and the storyboard, turning these formats into vehicles for her own psychologically charged narratives.

Borders of concentric lines frame these works, representing containment and control while also referring to the margins of Persian miniature paintings and illuminated manuscripts or to modern geometric abstraction.

In their accompanying essays, Cesar Paternosto focuses on the emergence of an abstraction rooted on the indigenous arts of the Americas; Lucy R. Lippard writes on her experiences while researching the rock art of New Mexico; Mary Frame discusses the cultural resonance of textile structural forms in the ancient Andes; Cecilia de Torres narrates the story of the pioneering trecks to pre-Columbian sites by Torres - Garcia's disciples; and Valentin Ferdinan discusses the formative aspects of modern culture in Latin America.

Two key moments are emphasized: the period from 1923 to 1933, when Torres - García participated in various European early - modern avant - garde movements while establishing his own signature pictographic - constructivist style; and 1935 to 1943, when, having returned to Uruguay, he produced one of the most striking repertoires of synthetic abstraction.

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.

Behjat Sadr's geometric abstractions reference the process of painting and modern industrial materials, such as Levelor blinds and aluminum, while Mohsen Vaziri - Moqaddam produced geometric sand paintings and monumental sculptures with movable parts.