Sentences with phrase «1950s as a billboard»

Born in 1933, James Rosenquist began his career in the 1950s as a billboard painter.

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These include Joe Wright's Darkest Hour, which portrays Winston Churchill scheming in darkened chambers during the same Battle of Dunkirk that Nolan depicts; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which features a scorched - earth performance by Frances McDormand as a mother grappling with her daughter's murder; Phantom Thread, director Paul Thomas Anderson's largely unseen drama about a 1950s fashion designer played by Daniel Day - Lewis, in his final performance on screen; and The Post, which is directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep as Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and publisher Kay Graham during the battle to print the Pentagon Papers.

Known for his candid portraits of his abstract expressionist friends like Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, as well as his everyday photographs of memorable New York landmarks and street scenes, Burckhardt's photographs of hand - painted billboards are considered as magnanimous contributions to the New York art scene during the 1940s and 1950s.

In Ruscha's work, language and architecture are used to build pictures that radiate with the optimism of 1950s highway billboards — heavenly roadside visions as tempting and fleeting as a mirage.

The inspiration for his compositional style and scale came from Rosenquist's experience as a billboard painter in the American Midwest and in New York City in the 1950s.

Rosenquist worked as a commercial artist and sign - painter in the late 1950s and put this training to use in vast, billboard - style canvases which appropriated images from advertising.