Sentences with phrase «french painter»

The French painter Nicolas Poussin complained of his contemporary Caravaggio, «This man has come to murder art!»

Born in Sète, France, Hervé Di Rosa is a French painter who brings to life unique characters who populate his work through the making of paintings, sculptures, installations, animation movies, editions, portraying these unique individuals.

Mothers dipped their infants into the river, «and sometimes these poor victims slip out of their hands and drown,» wrote another visiting French painter, Élisabeth Vigée - Le Brun, but the little ones became instant angels, so it wasn't considered a tragedy.

I have a writing deadline this week so posting will be scant, but I came across an interesting 2003 Bomb Magazine interview between Joe Fyfe and French painter Bernard Piffaretti that I had to share.

The Phillips Collection dives into American abstract expressionism to reveal a little - known but captivating story that focuses on the relationship among three of the movement's seminal players: American painter Jackson Pollock (1912 — 1956), American artist and patron Alfonso Ossorio (1916 — 1990), and French painter Jean Dubuffet (1901 — 1985).

Despite the immense reputation enjoyed by French painter Hubert Robert during his lifetime, there has been no comprehensive American exhibition of his work — apart from a 1978 National Gallery show of his drawings.

Although her subjects vary from French painter Henri Matisse to American critic Dave Hickey, Fendrich views her essays collectively as «a polemic to defend painting against hostile forces.

Pace is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by French painter Bernard Frize.

Historically, the question of whether or not the act of painting is dead is a recurring trope among artists and critics, ever since it was first declared by the French painter Paul Delaroche in 1839.

This exhibition reveals a rare cross-cultural artistic dialogue between American painter Jackson Pollock (1912 — 1956), American artist and patron of European and American postwar art Alfonso Ossorio (1916 — 1990), and French painter Jean Dubuffet (1901 — 1985).

9 In a 1974 interview, Martin Barré, a French painter whose work was often fiercely provisional, approvingly quotes Jean Cocteau: «The work must erase the work; people must be able to say, I could have done that.»

The deliberate vulgarity of these paintings contrasts with the French painter Jean Dubuffet's no less harsh Corps de Dame series of 1950, in which the female, formed with a rich topography of earth colours, relates more directly to universal symbols.

The actual term «Abstraction Lyrique» was coined by the French painter and exhibition co-organizer Georges Mathieu (1921 - 2012), while his fellow curator Jose - Jean - Marchand wrote that some of the works on show displayed «a lyricism disengaged from all servitude...» - meaning that the paintings were not derivative or weighed down by intellectual theory.

Nicolas de Stael (1914 - 1955) Russian - French painter; colourist, exponent of Lyrical Abstraction.

LONDON, England (CNN)-- Before his death in 1947, French painter Pierre Bonnard toiled for four years on a single painting of his wife, laboring over every detail as he tried to maintain a style he had spent a lifetime perfecting.

French painter, draughtsman and etcher, active in Rome, who is regarded by many art historians as the greatest painter of idyllic landscapes in the history of art.

One of my favourite artists is the early 18th - century French painter Jean - Antoine Watteau, who only ever painted luscious idylls of love and nature.

On the occasion of Lisson Gallery London's summer exhibition, «A still life by Chardin», Maxwell Graham, founder of Essex Street, New York and organiser of the exhibition, and Chris McCormack, Associate Editor of Art Monthly, discuss the influence of 18th - Century French painter Jean - Baptiste - Siméon Chardin on contemporary artists.

Influenced by numerous artists including the Hungarian Sandor Bortnyik (1893 - 1976), the Russian Wassily Kandinsky (1866 — 1944) and the French painter Auguste Herbin (1921 - 60), Vasarely's work was innovative but limited, and was excelled in some respects by his younger contemporary Bridget Riley (b. 1931).

Elsa Dax (born 14 May 1972) is a French painter and a member of the Stuckists art movement.

-- died May 12, 1985, Paris), French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, best known for his development of art brut (q.v.; «raw art»).

Camille Corot, French painter, noted primarily for his landscapes, who inspired and to some extent anticipated the landscape painting of the Impressionists.

Isabelle Monod - Fontaine, and Alfred Pacquement * At the time of his death, Hungarian - born French painter Simon Hantai...

Jean Dubuffet, French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, best known for his development of art brut (q.v.; «raw art»).

He is particularly critical of the nouveau realist French painter Yves Klein, known best for his monochromes and the invention of a particular hue, International Klein Blue.

Georges Mathieu was a French painter in the style of Tachisme and / or Lyrical Abstraction.

Pierre - Auguste Renoir, French painter originally associated with the Impressionist movement.

In 1936 Jorn worked with the French painter Fernand Léger, and in 1937 with the Swiss architect Le Corbusier at the Paris International Exposition.

«Un Autre Monde» presents a new collection of work by French painter Philippe Charles Jacquet.

And I think I knew what I had done, and that I didn't have any French painter, or American painter in Paris, that I owed anything to.»

Paul Cézanne was French painter active within the Post-Impressionism whose work set the basics of the modern artistic education.

Expect to find a memorial exhibition for Tony Fehr and new paintings by French painter Philippe Charles Jacquet among our picks for new shows to note in New York City through November 20, 2016.

His style is influenced by María Izquierdo (1902 - 1955) and French painter Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985).

Jacques Villon was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Cubist movement, and was also noted for his realist and abstract works...

French painter Bernard Piffaretti, whose work was just exhibited at Cherry and Martin in Los Angeles, similarly employs a single, initiating mark down the center of the canvas, reminiscent of Barnett Newman, and bold colors and graphic marks like the abstract expressionists; however, the similarities end there.

Raoul Dufy (1877 - 1953) French painter best - known for colourful, decorative paintings.

It pays tribute to Marie Laurencin, a French painter of women who favored pastel colors and aimed for a female aesthetic.

The reclusive, short - tempered French painter Camille Pissarro was one of the core members of the French Impressionism movement.

Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec was a famed 19th - century French painter and poster artist known for works like «The Streetwalker» and «At the Moulin Rouge.»

Its modernist, metallic structure went on to inspire numerous artists, not least of whom was French painter Robert Delaunay (1885 — 1941).

Jules Bastien - Lepage (1848 - 84) French painter famous for his genre painting of rural life.

French painter Sylvain Lefebvre sees himself as an explorer of his own personal universe, an «imaginary wanderer in search of new lands».

Jean - Baptiste - Camille Corot (1796 - 1875) Romantic French painter, member of the Barbizon School.

Klein, Yves (1928 - 62) French painter, first authentic postmodernist conceptual and performance artist; patented his own colour pigment - International Klein Blue (IKB).

Jacques Bodin is a French painter who lives and works in Paris.

Jean Fautrier was a French painter, illustrator, printmaker, and sculptor, considered as one of the most important practitioners of Tachisme, a French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s and 1950s.

From Edvard Munch to Chris Ofili, French painter Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903) has exerted a profound influence on artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Jean - Michel Atlan was a self - taught French painter, poet and political activist.

It is the first to explore the relationship between the American Abstract Expressionism painter, the Philippines - born artist and art patron, and the French painter and sculptor.

Pick up a survey of modern art, start scanning the 1930s, and you may come across a paragraph or two on the French painter Jean Hélion (1904 — 1987).