Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thus through its progressive ideas in teaching, that the Bauhaus leaves its greatest mark. It trained not only the artist but also the craftsman, engineer, industrial designer, and architect. Through a preliminary design course, and the program of basic workshops the Bauhaus led its students to work together in solving practical problems...
...craft) prepares you for thinking in three-dimensional terms, which no drafting board does, or does only in a very theoretical way." "He had the feeling (that later on was corroborated by Herbert Read) that new ideas, new feelings for new developments altogether, came first to the practicing artist, not to the philosopher or scientist; they usually get the message a little later. Instinctive reaction, you know--Picasso or all these early people did things that later on were explained by Einstein and lots of other scientists or philosophers, but you almost always find a practicing three-dimensional artist...
...took 40 years' work in comparative obscurity before Alice Neel-now 64-won some recent recognition as one of the few artists capable of preserving the expressionist portrait as a live form (as in The Family, 1971). If an artist like Georgia O'Keeffe, Helen Frankenthaler or Louise Nevelson manages, by prolonged and single-minded concentration on work, to annul the prejudice against women, it is assumed that she has "transcended the limits" of her sexual class. Thus Nevelson's austere and formidable constructions like Black Crescent, in the very act of "escaping" the stereotype, may confirm...
Fatuous. The truth seems to be that there is no way, iconographic, stylistic or other, to tell the sex of an artist by looking at her or his work. Who was more "feminine" in paint handling, Renoir or Sonia Delaunay? In terms of the stereotype, the answer would have to be Renoir. It is easy, once one has seen the name of Joan Snyder affixed to her recent painting Smashed Strokes Hope, 1972, to attribute a feminine sensibility to those glowing, flecked, dispersed blotches and runs of green, gold and crimson. But when this painting is set alongside other recent...
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS. In its 43-year history, the Museum of Modern Art has mounted 1.000 one-artist exhibits. Only five were by women. At the Whitney, eight out of 129 one-artist shows in the last decade were by women, and at the Corcoran, there were four women out of 80. Of 52 such shows at the Los Angeles County Museum, none has been by a woman...