«Was the change as fundamental as some of the changes wrought by Picasso
with cubism or Duchamp?
They saw themselves engaged in a reckoning
with cubism, the style through which Picasso and Braque had revised painting's subservient relationship to the rest of reality.
The Los Angeles - based artist's large - scale works experiment
with cubism and abstraction from both microscopic and topographic viewpoints.
As Williams explains, Diller, born in 1906 in the Bronx, experimented
with cubism in the early»30s, as the earliest work in the exhibition, an untitled graphite drawing from 1930, makes clear.
At the close of the 1920s and into the 1930s he experimented
with cubism, eventually moving to surrealism.
Undoubtedly they represented the most civilized, polished and sophisticated taste in Europe, and they continued the stream of innovation that began
with cubism.
Not exact matches
The designers have now reinterpreted these four «eyes «as rectangles,
with a direct reference to the interesting geometrical shapes found in
cubism.
When Pablo Picasso said, «I'd like to live as a poor man
with lots of money,» many people probably wrote the statement off as a bit of verbal
cubism and forgot it.
... if one looks at oils like «The Homely Protestant» (1948) or even the ur - version of «Elegy to the Spanish Republic» (also 1948), one sees that he has learned to combine straight lines
with curves and rounded forms, not really surrealist but liberated from the strictures of
cubism.
The works begins
with his early realist, figurative abstractions, to a «proto - synthetic
cubism,» straight through the famous series of women that dominated the 1950s, ending in his increasingly «expansive,» looser renderings of the 1960s.
The use of bold colors places the work within the context of Synchromism, a style of
cubism that blends angularity and the deconstruction of forms
with brilliant color.
The first group of works in the exhibition offers a journey through modern art, beginning in the early twentieth century
with Picasso and the invention of
cubism and Duchamp and the questions surrounding the readymade.
«These black - and - white drawings inspire her bold - hued paintings
with touches of
cubism, color field, and strong lines... read more... «Amy Sillman's couple fixation»
These «Modernist» landmarks include the atonal ending of Arnold Schoenberg's Second String Quartet in 1908, the expressionist paintings of Wassily Kandinsky starting in 1903, and culminating
with his first abstract painting and the founding of the Blue Rider group in Munich in 1911, and the rise of fauvism and the inventions of
cubism from the studios of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and others, in the years between 1900 and 1910.
The tie to
cubism is unmistakable,
with each work pulsating between seamless cohesion and fracture, using forms familiar from modernist collage.
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Working on a wall - filling scale associated more
with painting than printmaking, Gueorguieva draws from several 20th - century styles, including
cubism and abstract expressionism.
Krasner, who studied
cubism at Cooper Union and then painted murals for the WPA, also studied
with Hans Hoffman.
Building on the history of portraiture, Hurzlmeier plays
with our perceived notions of what it is to look at a portrait (á la
cubism).
Americans, unless they could afford to travel abroad, had little contact
with European art, let alone
cubism, post-impressionism, and Fauvism.
Reminiscent of early forms of abstract modern art — a moment of convergence that did not actually occur in art history between
cubism, constructivism and neoplasticism — her paintings emerge through a process of layering and accrual,
with the finished work being «a concentrate of the many paintings underneath».
Highly engaged
with international art movements such as
cubism, abstract expressionism, arte povera, and conceptual art — but also having studied and lived in Europe and the United States — an older generation of the artists on view pioneered modern art in Cyprus, through a dialogue within local traditions.
The exhibition opens
with the origins of the Solomon R. Guggenheim collection that was begun in 1937 and focused on Non-Objective art including stunning examples of
cubism, abstract expressionism and surrealism.
As you enter the exhibition space located in a beautiful brick building, you find yourself confronted
with dark and delicate portraits mounted
with a sense of architectural narrative that highlights the already clear references to traditional modern painting, specially Braque's
cubism and Arcimboldo's surreal portraits of flowers and fruits.
Jamil Naqsh is a Pakistani contemporary artist whose paintings are a blend of
cubism, tempered
with fluidity and a subtle use of color.
Rigid and self centered, it sometimes failed to communicate
with the audience and is more interesting as an exercise in itself, a sort of a monologue, rather than a movement which could go further and reach the heights of
cubism or abstract expressionism.
Of the other four pictures in the show, one involves religion, one involves art appreciation and two are about the art movement «
cubism» mixed
with «surrealism» and «pop.»
Castellon's paintings of 1933 and 1934 offer an exciting, unique vision as he synthesized formal elements of geometric abstraction and
cubism with a surrealist vocabulary.
I've heard it expressed by some artists that as a consequence Picasso (through
cubism) ends up being more a sculptor than a painter and Matisse (through flatness) more a painter than a sculptor simply because one (Picasso) chose to deal
with dimension more than the other even though both worked in the two mediums.
Cunningly playing
with perspective, the image reads as an homage to the happenstantial
cubism of urban life.
Essentially, the figures are composed of the flat planes of synthetic
cubism,
with secondary planes linking them to one another and to their surrounding space.
Pollock's art during these years reveals his effort to come to grips
with advanced European developments, particularly
cubism and surrealism.
His work feels very contemporary
with a strong foundation in modernism,
cubism and surrealism.
The first solo museum exhibition for Seattle - based artist Whiting Tennis, the exhibition included collaged paintings and found - material sculptures, evoking shelter and home
with references to
cubism and the regional Northwest landscape.
He integrates pattern and decoration,
cubism and abstract expressionism
with apparent ease, incorporating a little of each while finding his own rhythm and distinctive language.
In the early fifties planar abstractionists, like Newman and Rothko, stuck
with their hard or soft geometry formats, working beyond the constructive devices of
cubism and setting the agenda for the next generation of American painters, the sixties high modernists.
He experimented
with futurism, impressionism and
cubism, and during one of his several trips to Paris, movement leader Andre Breton exposed him to the world of Surrealism.
Playing on the classic minimal box so much in evidence in the mid-1960s, Artschwager «fills» it
with a depiction of two interlocked pianos, referencing both synthetic
cubism (the wood graining) and surrealism (the mustache / bracket, one of his favorite devices).
Smaller works are related to the landscapes of South America —
with its Pueblos and its horizon lines — and to
cubism
Featuring paintings from the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum by artists such as Constantin Brancusi, Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, Vasily Kandinsky, Fernand Leger, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Piet Mondrian and Pablo Picasso, among others, the exhibition chronologically traced the achievements of these tumultuous years as artists experimented
with new ways to create art while launching such movements as expressionism, futurism and
cubism.
But 50 years ago,
with his friends and near contemporaries Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Clyfford Still and Barnett Newman, de Kooning radically modified our idea of art by transforming our expectations of painting, and thus changed forever our habitual sense of what a painting should look like - a climactic moment, universally experienced, in the evolution of art in this century, comparable to the arrival of
cubism in Paris 40 years earlier.
Though the exhibition looks to the future of textile work, McIntosh selected work that was in conversation
with the art - historical influences like
cubism, surrealism, dada, abstract expressionism, color field, and minimalism.
His privileged background might also be said to dovetail
with his genre - bouncing «in his early career, from impressionism to
cubism «but there is little dilettantism to Picabia.
The gallery's autumn show will be dedicated to Klee, a pivotal figure in 20th century art, who taught at the Bauhaus school and whose intense, radiant paintings, replete
with symbolism and references to the unconscious, draw on
cubism, surrealism and primitive art.
Beginning and ending in a classical mode, this period encompasses some of the most important steps in his career: his traditional academic training, his early encounters
with works by modern and Old Master artists, his creative interaction
with pre-classical and tribal art, his invention
with Georges Braque of
cubism and papier collé, and his postwar alternation between
cubism and classicism — the groundwork for all the developments in his later career.
Most scholarship has viewed Smith's early work as developing in a linear fashion, from the European influences of Picasso and
cubism in the 1930s; to a figuratively based, highly detailed, American surrealism in the 1940s; to a lyrically abstract, expressionist expansiveness in the 1950s; culminating
with the seemingly disconnected breakthrough embodied in the reduced, geometric monumentality of his final works.
Influenced by
cubism and by the work of Henry Matisse, in the early 1930s he produced abstract works
with geometric motifs and collages that sought inspiration in these two sources.
In the 1931, she travelled to Munich to study
with painter Hans Hofman, where she found the element of
cubism that would become her guiding light: the structuring of abstract compositional elements within a geometric grid, bringing order to seeming chaos.
«These black - and - white drawings inspire her bold - hued paintings
with touches of
cubism, color field, and strong lines that keep the eye darting around the canvas.
In works from the late 1970s and 1980s, he employed a brightly hued palette and fractured
cubism to change perspective, and his interest in the works of Picasso and his experiments
with Polaroid photography are mirrored in his work of this period.