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New York School
New York School. Term applied to the innovatory painters, especially the Abstract Expressionists, who worked in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and whose critical and financial success helped the city to replace Paris as the world's leading centre of avant-garde art. An exhibition staged by the Los... Read more |
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American Abstract Artists
American Abstract Artists (AAA). An association of abstract painters and sculptors formed in New York in 1936 with the aim of promoting members' work and fostering public understanding of it. The group held annual exhibitions (the first in 1937) and disseminated information by lectures and... Read more |
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Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning , 1904-97, American painter, b. Netherlands; studied Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts and Techniques. De Kooning immigrated to the United States, arriving as a stowaway in 1926 and settling in New York City, where he worked on the Federal Arts Project (1935). He began experiments... Read more |
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Salon de la Rose + Croix
Salon de la Rose + Croix. Art exhibition held annually in Paris from 1892 to 1897. It was organized by the Rosicrucians, an esoteric brotherhood (allegedly founded in the 15th century by one Christian Rosenkreuz) that in the late 19th century had close connections with the Symbolist movement. The... Read more |
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Grace Hartigan
Hartigan, Grace (1922– ). American painter, born at Newark, New Jersey. During the Second World War she worked as an industrial draughtswoman whilst studying art at night. Later in the 1940s she travelled in Europe and lived for a while in Mexico before settling in New York. In the 1950s she... Read more |
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Neo-Geo
Neo-Geo. Term (short for Neo-Geometric Conceptualism) applied to the work of a group of American artists active in New York in the mid-1980s who employed a variety of styles and media but were linked by the fact that their paintings, sculpture, or other products were predominantly cool and... Read more |
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Narcisse Diaz de la Pena
Diaz de la Peña, Narcisse (b Bordeaux, 21 Aug. 1807; d Menton, 18 Nov. 1876). French painter, born of Spanish parents who had settled in France as political refugees. He began his career (c.1823) as a colourist in a porcelain factory and took up painting in the late 1820s, first exhibiting at... Read more |
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zoological garden
zoological garden or zoo, public or private park where living animals are kept for exhibition and study. The menageries and aviaries of China, Egypt, and Rome were famous in ancient times. From the late medieval period many rulers had private menageries, some of which later formed the nucleus... Read more |
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Walker will lend its `Blue Horses' to Art Institute; The loan of the Walker's...
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Seasonal mood disorder at the Walters; Shifting lights, odd music mar Courbet...
...Gustave Courbet exhibition at Baltimore...technique: ever-shifting...beautiful paintings," she says...muscular paintings by this influential...garde in his later years. Courbet...academic painting, he wielded...for its ... |
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Manhattan comes to Monaco Show celebrates 50-year run for New York as world...
...2006 The late Princess...the first exhibition of its kind...connections between painting, sculpture...art, the exhibition will trace...Our exhibition 'SuperWarhol...audience. Past exhibitions have included...summer before ... |
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State artist George Morrison dies; He was a pioneer "who followed his path...
...abstract paintings called the...Impressionist paintings of the Seine...lake's ever-changing...period he later said allowed...Vanderlip Traveling Scholarship...Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz...taught ... |