Sentences with phrase «world as abstract expressionism»

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But by the 1940s and»50s, abstract expressionism emphasized pure form and feeling; art was, as Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko put it in a letter to the art editor of The Times: «an adventure into an unknown world.

Back in the 1990s, when many in the art world had turned their back on painting as a «dead» medium, Amy Sillman was one of the leaders of an underground revival, combining cartoonish imagery, a draughtsmanlike line, and jazzy color combinations to give new life to the legacy of abstract expressionism.

Coming of age as an artist during the 1960s, on the heels of abstract expressionism during a period when the art - world was dominated by men, she succeeded in expressing her unique artistic vision and voice and continues to do so to this day.

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.

Only later, after Picasso's death, when the rest of the art world had moved on from abstract expressionism, did the critical community come to see that Picasso had already discovered neo-expressionism and was, as so often before, ahead of his time.»

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

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.

CV: Peter, your influence as a world class, world renowned art historian, art critic as art writer spans over sixty years and so in terms of re-historicizing abstract expressionism I know that you have been around... Read more»

Therefore, the prevalent view is to understand the worlds of Asian artists with Oriental lyricism, though different in technique, as a branch that absorbed the influence of abstract expressionism.

«I define modern art as going up through abstract expressionism,» he explains, «then with Warhol and Lichtenstein and the pop artists, Johns and Rauschenberg, there is a return to the visible world in one way or another.

[59][60] Only later, after Picasso's death, when the rest of the art world had moved on from abstract expressionism, did the critical community come to see the late works of Picasso as prefiguring Neo-Expressionism.

From her an exile in America, through to her struggle to develop as an artist during the post second world war dominated by surrealism, abstract expressionism, and men.

Postwar Modern Art and the Rejection of Modernism The development of a new American art movement was held in abeyance until after World War II, when the United States took the lead in the formation of a vigorous new art known as abstract expressionism with the impetus of such artists as Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning.

Greenberg is often considered one of the most — if not the most — influential art critics of the 20th century, whose promotion of abstract expressionism and artists such as Jackson Pollock helped to define art of post-war America (and the world).

We will study the shift from Paris to New York as the center of the art world after 1945, and critically view works from the following styles that were created and / or exhibited in NYC: abstract expressionism, color field, conceptual art, site - specific, installation and minimalism.

As New York became the centre of the 1960s and 70s art world with abstract expressionism and pop, artists on the east coast had different adventures, represented here by Larry Bell's Cube # 15 (Amber)-- a translucent plastic box full of thin air — and Robert Irwin, whose white disc nearly disappears into the gallery wall.

For twenty years Trenton Doyle Hancock has gained international renown for his paintings, which fuse cartoon - style drawing and abstract expressionism, creating a fantastical world populated by strange creatures known as the Mounds, their nemeses the Vegans, and Hancock's alter ego, Torpedo Boy, who reflects his lifelong love of comic books and plastic action figures.

As abstract expressionism dominated the American art world, Bloom became disenchanted with it, calling it «emotional catharsis, with no intellectual basis.»

This trend strengthened further after World War II, as abstract expressionism took hold in New York - the new capital of worldWorld War II, as abstract expressionism took hold in New York - the new capital of worldworld art.

Beginning with abstract expressionism in the mid-forties, America's position as the center of the art world remained virtually unchallenged until the latter part of the 20th C and the emergence of contemporary art as a dynamic international pursuit.