Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Robert Janz (Belfast December 25, 1932 - New York City October 26, 2021), was a New York-based visual artist whose work often dealt with ephemeral phenomena. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His work has been described as having a "nomadic aspect", exploring "change and transience" and the temporary quality of life.
Beginning in 1952, he embarked on a mission to combine the visual ideas found in fine art with the responsibility of journalist. At the time, many practitioners of illustration were expected to paint and draw for advertising and magazine assignments with artwork that was conservative, idealized and saccharine, while other illustrators such as Ronald Searle, Arthur Szyk, George Grosz, Kathe ...
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty in 2004, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah. Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 – July 20, 1973) was an American artist known for sculpture and land art who often used drawing and photography in relation to the spatial arts. His work has been internationally exhibited in galleries and museums and is held in public ...
Robert Morrison (October 20, 1941 – December 16, 2018) was an American artist and teacher. His practice spanned a broad range of media including steel , bronze , wood , watercolor , ink , paper , graphite drawings , acrylic paintings , glass and ceramics .
The term is most closely associated with the artwork of American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) who coined the phrase Combine [4] to describe his own artworks that explore the boundary between art and the everyday world. By placing them in the context of art, he endowed a new significance to ordinary objects. These cross-medium ...
Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. . Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artworks which incorporated everyday objects as art materials and which blurred the distinctions between painting and s
His Turkish Bath installation at Artists Space in 1976 has been recognized an early example of post-conceptual art. Morgan frequently wrote art criticism for the Brooklyn Rail . His books and collected critical essays published include commentaries on conceptual art , post-conceptual art , and the new media arts (Umbrella Associates, 1992).
Robert Whitman (May 23, 1935 – January 19, 2024) was an American artist best known for his seminal theater pieces of the early 1960s combining visual and sound images, actors, film, slides, and evocative props in environments of his own making.