Sentences with phrase «french artist named»

A French artist named Alexandre Ouairy revealed that he has been showing work under the name Tao Hongjing for the past ten years.

So, along with the Gober retrospective, MoMA is also opening a modest little display, oh nothing special, by a French artist named Henri Matisse.

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An interesting fact: Francisco was the name of a famous French artist so if the name is anything to go by, your son may grow up to be very creative and talented.

For Faces Places, she teamed up with a young French photographer / urban artist who goes by the name of JR..

It documents her tour of small and rural French towns in the company of a much younger artist (she's 89), named JR, during which they photographed working - class people and posted huge, blown - up images of them on local structures.

One is the shockingly simple slide - show technique shown off by Yves Bigerel (aka Balak01, also endearingly called «the French Guy» by comics artists who are unable to pronounce his name).

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For French artists Zim & Zou — featured previously — it seemed apt to name their latest project Douceur / Douleur, as it was inspired by the tragic condition of child soldiers used in different conflicts all over the world.

Her work as an artist has been featured internationally at many art galleries, museums and festivals, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Images Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, French Embassy Cultural Center, Art Basel Miami, Cannes Film Festival and the International Festival Photo Mode to name a few.

Rosenberg's essay on the emerging school of American Painters omitted particular names — because they'd have been unfamiliar to its original French audience — but it was nonetheless extraordinarily influential for the burgeoning scene of post-WWII American artists.

In further news: French artists and curators rally behind Jeff Koons; Tania Bruguera named for next Turbine Hall commission

The most curious and unusual sculpture of the fair was found at Dublin - based Kerlin Gallery's booth: a tiny, stunningly lifelike rendering of a crab whose front claws were molded from artist Dorothy Cross's own index fingers was painted silver, mounted on a small white plinth no more than two feet high (I'm not great with numbers, but as a reference, it's roughly as tall as my friend's art - going, Instagram - celebrity French Bulldog named Miss Pickle, if she sits upright).

At the very least, Henry Codax has firmly aligned himself — or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he has been firmly aligned — with a tradition of fictional and pseudonymous artists that includes French Dadaist Marcel Duchamp masquerading as a woman named Rrose Selavy and the artist Richard Prince and dealer Colin de Land reportedly making work under the name John Dogg.

Éric de Chassey, curator of the exhibition and director of the French Academy in Rome — Villa Medici, has selected around one hundred works of primal importance organised in ten sections, of which three are dedicated to some of the movement's greatest names: Pierre Soulages, Georges Mathieu, Hans Hartung, and Swiss artist Gérard Schneider.

This ad for the French brand of stationary has little more to do with Paris - based collective artist Claire Fontaine than the name.

He adopted the French spelling of his name and settled in La Ruche (The Beehive), a famous artist community near Montparnasse.

After her 2004 Grants to Artists award, Armitage was nominated for a Tony for her choreography of the Broadway musical Hair in 2009 and in the same year, she was named Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.

Perhaps not household - name Impressionists, but the subtitle of Tate Britain's exhibition, French Artists in Exile 1870 - 1904, makes things clearer: this is really an examination of cross-channel conversations occasioned by the drastic military and political crisis in France in 1870 - 1871 — the Franco - Prussian war, followed by the Commune.

Since 1968, when Turrell received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the artist has been the recipient of a total of 22 awards ranging from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1984) to being named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government (1991).

Claude Rutault is a French both minimalist and conceptual artist, best known for the original way of expression he created and named definition - method, which is basically a manual how to create his art piece.

Women House's 39 artists come from four continents; they span from historic figures such as Claude Cahun to a young generation: Mexican artist Pia Camil, Iranian Nazgol Ansarinia, Portuguese Joana Vasconcelos, German Isa Melsheimer or the French Laure Tixierand Elsa Sahal... Some of the names are already famous (Louise Bourgeois, Niki de Saint Phalle, Martha Rosler, Mona Hatoum, Cindy Sherman, Rachel Whiteread), others are the subject of recent rediscoveries connected to a rereading of the History of Art in terms of gender parity (Birgit Jürgenssen, Ana Vieira, Laetitia Parente, Heidi Bucher).

On December 4th, at Art Basel Miami Beach, some of the top names in the art world chose French born, NY - based artist Cam...

French artist Christophe Guinet, who also goes by the name of Monsieur Plant, has created an entire batman suit made out of tree bark.

Founded in 2004 Taking her name from a brand of French notebooks, Claire Fontaine is also a fictional persona created as part of a two - artist collaboration.

Women House's 39 artists come from four continents; they span from historic figures such as Claude Cahun to a young generation: Mexican artist Pia Camil, Iranian Nazgol Ansarinia, Portuguese Joana Vasconcelos, German Isa Melsheimer or the French Laure Tixier and Elsa Sahal... Some of the names are already famous (Louise Bourgeois, Niki de Saint Phalle, Martha Rosler, Mona Hatoum, Cindy Sherman, Rachel Whiteread), others are the subject of recent rediscoveries connected to a rereading of the History of Art in terms of gender parity (Birgit Jürgenssen, Ana Vieira, Laetitia Parente, Heidi Bucher).

The title of a 1957 painting, Napoleon's Chest at Moscow (now destroyed), even showed a will to rival the French artist's somewhat ironical relationship with history, while another work from the same year was titled Patricia Owens, the name of a Canadian actress who had just left British cinema for Hollywood.

Though ostensibly about an obscure French «sound poet» named Henri Chopin, who died in 2008, the piece is not so much about what the artist says as about how he says it.

On December 4th, at Art Basel Miami Beach, some of the top names in the art world chose French born, NY - based artist Camille Henrot as recipient of the inaugural «Edward Munch Art Award.»

Named after the artist's only appearance at the Biennale, in the French Pavilion's 1956 show Femme de Venise, it explores concepts of national identity and cultural policy.

Name: Misty Morning (Le brouillard, Voisins)(1874) Artist: Alfred Sisley (1839 - 1899) Medium: Oil painting on canvas Genre: Landscape painting Movement: French Impressionism Location: Musee d'Orsay, Paris

This rare original lithograph print limited release mural poster by the world famous French Born and Los Angeles based» Mr. Brainwash» is a name used by the street artist Thierry Guetta.

Name: Chemin de la Machine, Louveciennes (The Road to Sevres)(1873) Artist: Alfred Sisley (1839 - 1899) Medium: Oil painting on canvas Genre: Landscape painting Movement: French Impressionism Location: Musee d'Orsay, Paris

Name: Path Leading Through Tall Grass (1877) Artist: Pierre - Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919) Medium: Oil painting on canvas Genre: Impressionist landscape painting Movement: French Impressionism Location: Musee d'Orsay

Name: The Red Roofs (1877)(Toits rouges, Coin d'un Village, Hiver) Artist: Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903) Medium: Oil painting on canvas Genre: Landscape painting Movement: French Impressionism Location: Musee d'Orsay

Name: Boulevard Montmartre (1897 - 8) Artist: Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903) Medium: Oil painting on canvas Genre: Urban landscape painting Movement: French Impressionism Location: Various art museums around the world

Named in honor of the French Surrealist artist Marcel Duchamp, the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize is awarded annually to a young French visual artist by the Association pour la Diffusion Internationale de l'Art Français (Association for the International Diffusion of French Art.)

«This is our romance,» state artist duo and new gallery owners / curators Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski in reference to the name of French Riviera 1988 that opened in February in East London.

Now based at 3 Great Denmark Street, Dublin 1, the Olivier Cornet Gallery first opened its doors at The Wooden Building in Temple Bar in January 2012 when the independent curator, fine art consultant and artists» agent French - born Olivier Cornet decided to go for a permanent space (having organised and curated exhibitions of Irish - based visual art in various locations under the name Olliart since 2004).

She was the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre in 1964, and in 1975 was named an officer of the French Legion of Honor.

Name: Vegetable Garden with Trees in Blossom, Spring, Pontoise French Name: Potager, Arbres en Fleurs, Printemps, Pontoise Artist: Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903) Medium: Oil painting on canvas Genre: Landscape painting Movement: French Impressionism Location: Musee d'Orsay

Named after Gance's film, this striking installation is the centrepiece of an exhibition by the French - Algerian artist Kader Attia at Frankfurt's Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK).

«More than ever contemporary collectors are buying outsider art,» he posited, naming the «blue chip» artists as Darger, Martin Ramirez, Grandma Moses, and James Castle, adding Augustin Lesage, a French artist from the late 1920s, a work of whose sold for $ 519,238 last year at auction, according to Artnet.

In keeping with the essential artist after whom it is named, this prize wishes to bring together the most innovative artists of their generation on the French scene and encourage all of the new artistic forms, thereby stimulating creation.

Frank Stella named a work after him, in 1992 he posed for the French artist Klaus Guingand who immortalized his shadow, and a sculpture by Robert Morris, Leo, places a brain at the center of a target.