Sentences with phrase «american painter friends»

Even after he returned to London, Caro traveled frequently to Vermont to make sculpture, stimulated by the proximity of his American painter friends.

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«Final Portrait» concerns a few fraught, peculiar days in September 1964 in Paris, when the Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti asked his American friend, James Lord, to sit for him.

Final Portrait (R for profanity, sexual references and nudity) Buddy biopic, set in 1964, chronicling the reunion in Paris of Swiss painter Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush) and his good friend, American art critic James Lord (Armie Hammer).

Twin painters of isolation and suspension, Wenders and Hopper — since long about The American Friend — have been on a mission to redraw the psychic divorce of one American from another in minor chords and long, drawn - out tremolos.

His closest artist - friend was the American painter - artist Frank Stella, also a famous representative of American Minimalism during the 1960's.

One of the foremost American figurative painters of the twentieth century, Neel is known for her portraits of family, friends, and neighbors as well as the writers, poets, and other cultural and political figures she encountered in a career spanning the 1920s to the 1980s.

In 1948, he moved to Paris, where he met Jean Dubuffet, Alberto Giacometti, Hans Hartung, and the poet Henri Michaux — travelling widely to look at painting across Europe — and later visited and worked in New York, as well, where he became friends with Abstract Expressionist painters such as Franz Kline and Hans Hofmann and gained the support of important American dealers, collectors, and museums.

Biala (b. 1903; d. September 24, 2000) was a Polish born American painter well regarded in France and the United States for her paintings of intimate interiors, portraits of famous friends, and the places she traveled.

Regarded as one of the most important American portrait painters of the 20th century, Neel's subjects were people she knew from her everyday life — family, friends, neighbors, activists and creatives.

Henry Taylor is a painter known for his intimate depictions of people, capturing a wide range of subjects that span from his close friends and family, to strangers whose appearances strike him, to celebrities within the African American community.

1960 Neue Malerei: Form, Struktur, Bedeutung, Städtische Galerie in Lenbachpalais, Munich (June 10 — August 28) 16 Salon de Mai, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (May 8 — 20) Sixty American Painters, 1960: Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (April 3 — May 8) Business Buys American Art: Third Loan Exhibition by the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (March 17 — April 24) Some Younger American Artists, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois (February 1 - 28, 1960).

In 1994 the American painter Rebecca Morris (b. Honolulu 1969, lives and works in Los Angeles), gained notoriety with a manifesto published in Artforum, titled: «For Abstractionists and Friends of the Non-Objective».

PF Looking at American pop art around 1968, it was really hard for me and my friends to accept that these painters would glorify consumer goods.

The story goes that in 1909 the minor American painter Max Weber, a friend of Gertrude and Leo Stein in Paris, brought in his suitcase the first Picasso — a small, modest Cubist still life — to America.

Kiki Smith's large - scale sculpture Near, a gift of Dorothy and George Saxe and the Friends of New Art, reinterprets David, Joanna, and Abigail Mason (1670), attributed to the Freake - Gibbs Painter, a holding of the de Young's American Paintings Collection.

Kiki Smith's large - scale sculpture, a gift of Dorothy and George Saxe and the Friends of New Art, reinterprets David, Joanna, and Abigail Mason (1670) attributed to the Freake - Gibbs Painter from the de Young's American Paintings Collection.

It's also tempting to tie Altoon's interest to De Kooning's own passionate admiration for the work of another troubled young Armenian American painter — De Kooning's friend Arshile Gorky, who committed suicide in 1948 at 44.

One of the foremost American figurative painters of the twentieth century, Neel is known for her portraits of family, friends, neighbors, and locals as well as writers, poets, and other cultural and political figures.

(The American painter Morris Louis had died of lung cancer in 1962; his friend, Kenneth Noland, described his studio as «a furnace of turpentine.»)

In Paris, Riopelle was close to a number of American expatriate painters, among them Sam Francis, who remained a close friend for the rest of his life.

Chase was an American painter active throughout Europe during the turn of the 20th century, and a contemporary and friend of John Singer Sargent.

The exhibition «Painting Paintings (David Reed) 1975» was cocurated by Katy Siegel, an art historian drawn to renovating the reputations of American figures of the 1970s — see her 2006 show «High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967 — 1975» — and Christopher Wool, an old friend of David Reed's and a painter of considerable note.

Our friend Jeroen Smeets over at The Jaunt recently launched a series of prints with the American abstract painter Hense.

Not only is Fischl one of the celebrated American painters of the 1980s, but by most accounts he is a generous friend, a devoted husband, and a serious artist.

Three years later, in 1908, the museum acquired its first original piece of art, Afternoon Sky, Harney Desert by American impressionist painter Childe Hassam, who frequented Malheur and Harney counties in Eastern Oregon with his friend, C.E.S. Wood.

In our telephone conversation Marshall pointed out the support he received from family and teachers (the late distinguished African American artist Charles White was both a professor and later a close friend), but he was quick to emphasize his own dogged, single - minded fascination with developing himself into a serious painter.

While in Paris on a modeling assignment in 1954, Saint Phalle was introduced to the American - French painter Hugh Weiss (fr), who became both her friend and artistic mentor.

Read our interview with legendary French painter Claude Rutault and his friend the equally legendary American conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner in Purple.

Her social life is limited to having friends over to lunch, and sometimes going at night to one of the Montparnasse bars frequented by American painters.

Elaine de Kooning's gestural portraits of friends and family were much admired during her lifetime, and included such well - known Americans as poets Frank O'Hara and Allen Ginsberg, critic Harold Rosenberg, choreographer Merce Cunningham and painters Willem de Kooning and Fairfield Porter.

Auder became a friend of the American painter Alice Neel in 1975.

American artist Chuck Close rose as a prominent Photorealist painter, who made his name with huge, billboard - sized paintings of himself and his friends, reproduced from photographs in painstaking detail, seen in the minutely detailed texture of the skin and hair of his subjects.

American painter Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 — October 13, 1984) focused her practice from the 20s to the 80s on portraits of friends, family, lovers, neighbors and the artists, misfits and creative types that surrounded her from Havana, Cuba

I'm good friends with (video - maker) Stan Douglas, and with an older generation of American painters, such as Alex Katz, Chuck Close, Brice Marden, Ellsworth Kelly.

Fellow African - American abstractionists like the painter's friend Stanley Whitney — who has a show of his wavy grids currently up at the Studio Museum in Harlem — and Jack Whitten — who showed his lush abstract paintings at Alexander Gray Associates in 2013 to raves — are also being rediscovered one by one as personal and painterly alternatives to Identity Art are sought.

The sculptor Alexander Calder became a friend, as did the young American painter Jack Youngerman.

• Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitszky)(1890 - 1976) American painter, photographer, film - maker and sculptor, born in Philadelphia and a lifelong friend of Marcel Duchamp with whom he founded the Societe Anonyme in 1920.

A close friend of Twachtman, he became President of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors.

At his death Twombly, whose work befuddled many American collectors and critics in the 1960s and»70s with its graffitilike scribbles and enigmatic Classical references, was considered among the most significant post-Abstract-Expressionist painters, along with his friends Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.

Hughes collaborated with a number of visual artists including Mexican painter Miguel Covarrubias, who illustrated «The Weary Blues,» Hughes's first books, a collection of poems published in 1926; photographer Roy DeCarava on «The Sweet Flypaper of Life»; German - American artist Winold Reiss; and artist Aaron Douglas, his friend and Harlem Renaissance peer.

Later American Impressionist painters included: the Pittsburgh artist Mary Cassatt (1844 - 1926); the Bostonian Childe Hassam (1859 - 1935) best known for his «flag paintings»; the Munich - trained portraitist William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916); J. Alden Weir (1852 - 1919) who excelled at landscape, still lifes and flower paintings; Theodore Robinson (1852 - 96), a close friend of Claude Monet; the Cincinnati artist John H Twachtman (1853 - 1902); Thomas Dewing (1851 - 1938) the interior and landscape painter, and follower of Aestheticism; and John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925).