Massachusetts. Born 1940
Modernist-leaning landscape
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1932 Detroit, Michigan - 1997 Gizeh/Cairo, Egypt. Known for: Sculptor-conceptual, drawing, performance art.
Neo-Dadaist, performance and conceptual artist James Lee Byars was born April 10, 1932, in Detroit, Michigan. He studied art and philosophy at Wayne State University, and attended the Merrill Palmer... Read full biography
Neo-Dadaist, performance and conceptual artist James Lee Byars was born April 10, 1932, in Detroit, Michigan. He studied art and philosophy at Wayne State University, and attended the Merrill Palmer School for Human Development, both in Detroit, 1948-1956. For a one-day thesis exhibition in 1955,... Read full biography
Neo-Dadaist, performance and conceptual artist James Lee Byars was born April 10, 1932, in Detroit, Michigan. He studied art and philosophy at Wayne State University, and attended the Merrill Palmer School for Human Development, both in Detroit, 1948-1956. For a one-day thesis exhibition in 1955, Byars displayed large, spherical stones in his family's house, from which he removed all furniture, windows and doors. In 1956, Byars rented a sod farm to exhibit his abstract figure sculptures at... Read full biography
Neo-Dadaist, performance and conceptual artist James Lee Byars was born April 10, 1932, in Detroit, Michigan. He studied art and philosophy at Wayne State University, and attended the Merrill Palmer School for Human Development, both in Detroit, 1948-1956. For a one-day thesis exhibition in 1955, Byars displayed large, spherical stones in his family's house, from which he removed all furniture, windows and doors. In 1956, Byars rented a sod farm to exhibit his abstract figure sculptures at midnight under a full moon. The sculptures were viewed from sleds pulled over the snow. In 1957, Byars received a one-year travel stipend from neighbors who admired a garden he designed for his Detroit patron. Byars used the stipend to visit Japan,... Read full biography
Neo-Dadaist, performance and conceptual artist James Lee Byars was born April 10, 1932, in Detroit, Michigan. He studied art and philosophy at Wayne State University, and attended the Merrill Palmer School for Human Development, both in Detroit, 1948-1956. For a one-day thesis exhibition in 1955, Byars displayed large, spherical stones in his family's house, from which he removed all furniture, windows and doors. In 1956, Byars rented a sod farm to exhibit his abstract figure sculptures at midnight under a full moon. The sculptures were viewed from sleds pulled over the snow. In 1957, Byars received a one-year travel stipend from neighbors who admired a garden he designed for his Detroit patron. Byars used the stipend to visit Japan, living in Kyoto. He met artist Morris Graves there, himself strongly influenced by Oriental culture. Byars suppor... Read full biography
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Slide 1 of 3: The Figure of Death, 1986 (10 pieces)
The Figure of Death, 1986 (10 pieces)
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Eros, 1992 (2 pieces)
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THE FIGURE OF THE FIRST QUESTION
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Germany, England. Born 1938
Painting and sculpture
Switzerland. 1930 - 2008
Found object painting, mail art and sculpture
New York / Denmark. 1938 - 2018
Semi-abstract painting, scultpure, drawing, printmaking, outdoor installations
New York / Switzerland. Born 1964
Installation sculpture, video
France. Born 1961
Painting and sculpture
New York / Austria. Born 1954
Social themed sculpture, photography, installation, drawing
France. Born 1939
Commemorative artwork from earthenware tiles, conceptual, installation art
Belgium. 1940 - 2019
Painting and sculpture
France. 1926 - 2016
Abstract painting, sculpture, installation, multi media, drawing
Germany. Born 1961
Sculpture
France. 1957 - 2026
Painting and sculpture
France. 1943 - 2022
Painting and sculpture
France. 1902 - 1959
Elongated, symbolic figurative sculpture
France, Germany. 1934 - 2015
Red monochrome paintings, fire-based performance art
Germany. Born 1954
Conceptual sculpture, installation, drawing, photographs
Austria, Italy. 1936 - 2012
Architecture-'dream drawings', painting, sculpture, illustration
Holland. Born 1931
Painting and sculpture
France, Italy. 1935 - 2024
Fluxus-Art, Performance, mail-art, text based painting
France. Born 1936
Abstract painting, part of Supports/Surfaces movement
New York / Ukraine. 1933 - 2023
Conceptual art, children's book illustration, painting, drawing, installation
France, United Kingdom. 1926 - 2022
Painting, collage
France. 1944 - 2021
Sculpture-conceptual, photography, installation, painting
Italy. 1903 - 1978
Abstract paintings
Germany. Born 1940
Minimalism, geometric abstract painting and sculpture
New York / United Kingdom. Born 1945
Sculpture, Land Artist, Natural Material Abstraction
New York, Ontario / Canada. 1936 - 2021
Minimalist installation sculpture, environment themes, geometric forms
Switzerland, France. 1917 - 2016
Geometric abstract painting, sculpture, design, graphics, commercial art
Germany. 1930 - 2002
Painting and sculpture
New York / Switzerland. Born 1948
Furniture as sculpture, performance and installation
New York / Germany. 1892 - 1965
Abstract urban imagery
Europe. 1927 - 2004
Mod sculpture, installation