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No wave was an avant-garde music genre and visual art scene that emerged in the late 1970s in Downtown New York City. The term was a pun based on the rejection of commercial new wave music.
Feb 6, 2023 · The term “no wave” was first used as a tongue-in-cheek pun on the then-popular “New Wave” movement, but it quickly came to symbolize a form of resistance against being pigeonholed or categorized, allowing musicians and artists and filmmakers to have a greater freedom of expression.
In 1920, Constructivist artists Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner used the term "Kinetic art" in their Realistic Manifesto; the same year, Gabo completed his Kinetic Construction, a free-standing metal rod set in motion by an electric motor which articulates a delicate wave-pattern in the air, the first work of modern art primarily concerned with ...
The term "no wave" was a pun based on the rejection of commercial new wave music. The movement would last a relatively short time but profoundly influenced the development of independent film, fashion and visual art.
Mar 22, 2023 · Sometimes referred to as Gestural Abstraction and later it was subsumed into the broad movement of Abstract Expressionism, but it was The New Yorker art critic, Harold Rosenberg who coined the term Action Painting back in 1952.
Jun 11, 2018 · Katsushika Hokusai was one of two Japanese artists directly mentioned by Van Gogh: his most famous work is Under the Wave of Kanagawa, 1829-1833 (Credit: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
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Jan 14, 2008 · In the late 1970s, a loose collective of New York bands created a radical reaction to New Wave and Punk that came to be known as No Wave.
