Sentences with phrase «french painters»

It is a modern «idea,» understood by the «line» of French painters Alan is so attached to, and by Constable (are those «finished» six - footers really finished?)

Other leading members of this plein air painting movement included members of the school of English landscape painting, such as John Constable (1776 - 1837) and Richard Parkes Bonington (1802 - 28), as well as French painters like Theodore Rousseau (1812 - 67), Camille Corot (1796 - 1875), Narcisse Diaz de la Pena (1808 - 1876), Charles - Francois Daubigny (1817 - 1878), Jules Dupre (1811 - 1889), Joseph Harpignies (1819 - 1916), Constant Troyon (1810 - 1865), Charles - Emile Jacque (1813 - 1894), Antoine - Louis Barye (1796 - 1875), Albert Charpin, Felix Ziem and Alexandre De Faux.

One of the best landscape artists in France during the mid-19th century, Theodore Rousseau is famous as the driving force behind the group of French painters known collectively as the Barbizon School of landscape painting, after a village by the forest of Fontainebleau, near Paris.

Specifically, it triggered sale rumours concerning paintings by the English artists William Hogarth and Sir Joshua Reynolds, as well as pictures by French painters Gustave Courbet, Honore Daumier, Jacques - Louis David and Eugene Delacroix.

Initially inspired by the French painters Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954) and Georges Braque (1882 - 1963), he turned to abstraction in his mid-30s, under the influence of Abstract Expressionism, in particular the Colour Field Painting style popularized by Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman.

That made the Abstract Expressionists, the natural heirs of the great French painters, the great Italian painters, and so on.

It all began when four French painters such as Pierre - Auguste Renoir, Frederic Bazille, Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley met and got together while they took art studies under Charles Gleyre, in the 1860s.

Behind these stylistic experiments in small - scale garden buildings lay a growing interest in the art of landscape gardening, fired by admiration for the work of Andre Le Notre (1613 - 1700) and others at Versailles Palace, as well as the Italianate landscapes of the French painters Nicolas Poussin (1594 - 1665) and Claude Lorrain (1600 - 82).

The French painters Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard played an important part in integrating fine arts painting with decoration.

Though Lowry's images of matchstick - style workers in industrial landscapes are some of the most famous in British art, the exhibition promises to reveal how he was influenced by 19th - century French painters such as Camille Pissarro and Maurice Utrillo.

«French painters, he would continue, may have seen a rainbow.

French painters who prepared the way for Impressionism include the Romantic colourist Eugène Delacroix, the leader of the realists Gustave Courbet, and painters of the Barbizon school such as Théodore Rousseau.

Sadly he died in 1931, but his ideas were continued not only by students of the Bauhaus design school (where he had lectured), but also by the Abstraction - Creation group - led by the Belgian artist Georges Vantongerloo (1886 - 1965) and the French painters Jean Helion (1904 - 87) and Auguste Herbin (1882 - 1960).

Sadly, Van Doesburg passed away a year after issuing his manifesto, but his ideas were continued and developed by the Abstraction - Creation group - led by the Belgian artist Georges Vantongerloo (1886 - 1965) and the French painters Jean Helion (1904 - 87) and Auguste Herbin (1882 - 1960)- whose members included the cream of European abstract sculptors, such as Jean Arp (1886 - 1966), Naum Gabo (1890 - 1977), El Lissitzky (1890 - 1941), Antoine Pevsner (1886 - 1962), Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975) and Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982).

And then this head of the L.A. County Museum came to teach at Newcomb, and he showed us all the contemporary works of the French painters — you know, Soulages and — the American painters and the Italian painters.

The EY Exhibition: Impressionists in London looks at French painters» keen observations of British culture and social life, which were notably different to the café culture found in Paris.

Since joining the Clark's curatorial team in 1997, Rand has been responsible for a number of major exhibitions studying the works of noted French painters, including Fragonard, Jacques - Louis David, and Claude Lorrain.

Using a phrase coined by second generation American Abstract Expressionist painters, they assembled works by American artists living in the US (among them Philip Guston) or France (Francis, Joan Mitchell, Norman Bluhm), French painters (de Staël, Pierre Tal - Coat) and British artists (Heron, Lanyon, Richard Smith), with the addition of a Canadian living in Paris (Riopelle).

Because of its industrial appearance, steaming locomotives, and teeming crowds, it was a frequent subject for 19th - century French painters — including Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, and Gustave Caillebotte — who used it to express the vitality of modern life.

The ranks of the stronger French painters and sculptors have been badly cut into by the war, and many of those who escaped death are in the hospitals, recovering from their wounds.

Henri Matisse led a revolutionary group of young French painters who focused on the expressive power of pure color.

Francisco Oller and His Transatlantic World at the Brooklyn Museum For most of us Impressionism calls to mind French painters such as Claude Monet and Edgar Degas.

«One must be of one's time» was the rallying cry for progressive French painters in the 19th century.

The more advanced French painters accepted him, and before Canadian galleries were acquiring his paintings on any scale, Morrice's work was moving into the great European public collections.

The exhibition will also feature other documents, including photographs and archives, which will shed light on a little - known aspect of this artist's life and work, that being the influence of the South of France and French painters (such as Paul Cézanne and Jean Lurçat), gleaned during Nash's various journeys to France in the 1920s and 1930s, including a short stay in Arles.

Although the landscape of Vétheuil provided much of the inspiration for the present work, Mitchell also took her cue from other great French painters such as Monet, Van Gogh and Cézanne.

Or do you want to be one of the French painters, like Matisse or Cézanne, with light and color?»

French painters represented in that exhibit included Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Bonnard.

The official story that the Europeans: German, Italian and French painters in the late sixties, early seventies, rebelled against American Minimalism and produced Neo-Expressionism, influencing American painting in the late seventies is clearly false.

She had another piece as well and that embraced 19th century and early 20th century French painters.

Her obituary appears in The New York Times written by Roberta Smith: «[her art] spanned two art capitals and several generations -LSB-...] belonging to a trans - Atlantic tradition that included French painters like Matisse, Bonnard and Marquet, as well as Milton Avery and Edward Hopper.

In his catalogue essay for the Hodler retrospective that was held at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1973, Peter Selz describes the artist's hardscrabble roots, far removed from the comfortably bourgeois childhood homes of Édouard Manet (1832 — 1883) and Paul Cézanne (1839 — 1906), the revolutionary French painters of the previous generation:

After all, what do chic French painters, brooding British poets, and their muses all have in common (apart from their drool - worthy studio apartments)?

David and Goliath is so compelling because the points are made through the incredible true stories of real - life underdogs and «giants»: the man whose emotionally stunted single - mindedness enabled breakthroughs in leukaemia treatment; the French painters who chose to go outside the established art system that rejected them, and ended up launching the Impressionist movement.

Millet, the French painter, was often hard put to it to finance his household, and he had to make commercial signs for a milliner, a livery stable, a hotel.

Entire chapters are devoted to the French painter Georges Rouault, to Charles Péguy, to the philosopher Henri Bergson, and to her beloved Léon Bloy.

An example of this type of painting might be one of the famous clowns of Georges Rouault, the recent contemporary French painter.

Famous people with the name Francois include French painter Francois Gerome, French photographer Francois Robineau and ice hockey player Francois Rozenthal.

Bisson, a French painter and philosopher, invited me to come on this trip when he and I attended a Chernobyl conference in Budapest.

In 1838, after continuing the work of his associate, Niépce, the French painter and inventor Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre took an image of the Moon at the request of the French astronomer Dominique François Jean Arago.

The Tritonic Flat Loafers are among the must - have luxury footwear in men's closet of the season, these shoes are featuring embroidered artwork inspired by French painter Jean Mayodon in burgundy suede.

It took French painter Jacques Majorelle forty years of passion and dedication...

24 star Kiefer Sutherland stars as celebrated French painter Paul Gauguin in director Mario Andreacchio's slice of life biopic.

True, it still may be best known in «film circles,» but considering it has been seen by more people than Julia and The Maid combined (two films considerably more «buzzed about» in advance by the awards season soothsayers), for the purposes of this discussion, it's a veritable blockbuster — the Avatar of French painter bio-pics.

With a wonderful performance by Yolande Moreau at its centre, Séraphine is an almost brilliant portrayal of the life of a minor French painter from the early 20th Century — Séraphine Louis — and the winner of seven César awards in 2009 including Best Film and Best Actress.

Playbill recently announced that one of our very favorite Oscar nominees / hunks / great actors, Jake Gyllenhaal, will reprise his four - day stint from October as French painter George Seurat in Steven Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George for an official ten - week Broadway run.

uuu Living in Paris as American ambassador, Thomas Jefferson observes France's growing revolutionary fervor while striking up two romantic relationships: one with the wife of a foppish French painter, the other with the African - American nursemaid of his youngest daughter.

Andrea Bocelli -(born September 22, 1958) opera singer Dr. Jacob Bolotin -(1888 - 1924) First blind doctor Ray Charles -(September 23, 1930 - June 10, 2004) American pianist and musician Jose Feliciano (born 1945) American singer Thomas Gore (December 10, 1870 - March 16, 1949) American senator Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) American author, activist, and lecturer David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954) New York governor Marla Runyan (born January 4, 1969) marathon runner James Thurber (December 8, 1894 - November 2, 1961) American cartoonist Erik Weihenmayer (born September 23, 1968) mountain climber Stevie Wonder (born May 13, 1950) American singer - songwriter Others who became visually impaired: W.C. Handy (1873 - 1958) Blues composer - went blind in middle age Galileo Galilei (February 15, 1564 - January 8, 1642) Astronomer Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926) French painter Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945) American president Harriet Tubman (c.1820 - March 10, 1913) American slave and slave freer

The walls of several inner rooms of the palace were decorated with frescos attributed to French painter Jean Pillement and his followers.

French painter and LA - based contemporary artist, Ugo Nonis will be having an opening solo show titled «America» on October 20th from 7pm - 10 pm at The Castelli Art space.