Sentences with phrase «greatest living painter»

Does your area art museum own a painting by America's greatest living painter?
Contrary to popular belief that Pollock was a solitary genius, the artist — whom Life magazine posed as the «greatest living painter in the United States» in 1948 — was keenly aware of what other artists were doing and was influenced by those he befriended and worked with throughout his abbreviated career.
At his best Auerbach is without doubt our greatest living painter because he captures the soul, **** The Times
It happened almost overnight as a result of a 4 - page spread in Life magazine (August 8, 1949) that posed the question, «Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?»
As his London gallery opens what is reputed to be the last of the iPad drawings in the Arrival of Spring series, Britain's greatest living painter returns to his spiritual home to paint in a new direction.
Rockets to widespread fame in 1949 following a four - page spread in LIFE magazine that asked, «Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?»
Frank Auerbach may well lay claim to being Britain's greatest living painter, and even at 84 he is still badgering away creating new works.
Gerhard Richter is now celebrated as the world greatest living painter.
When the August 1949 issue of LIFE magazine rhetorically asked the American public whether Jackson Pollock was «the greatest living painter in the United States,» simple, all - American machismo was the hook, selling the American public on the idea that Abstract Expressionism embodied the triumph of the individual male spirit.
In August 1949, Life magazine published a two and a half page spread on Pollock that asked, «Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?»
In the early part of 1958, along with Philip Johnson, who had recently been told by Alfred Barr that Rothko was «the greatest living painter,» Lambert commissioned Rothko to produce a series of paintings for the smaller of two planned dining rooms at the Four Seasons Restaurant.»
Within that medium his scope and output have been prodigious and as a result Richter is seen by many as the greatest living painter.
It never wants one to forget that, till 1997, the old guy with Alzheimer's stood as America's greatest living painter.
In 1985 the Tate Gallery, London again held a major retrospective, with the director's statement that the artist was the «greatest living painter».
It wasn't until after Life magazine ran a profile of Pollock in the August 8 issue — with the rhetorical subhead, «Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?»
The style caused him to become the face of American painting when in 1949, Life magazine posed the question: «Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?»
«Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?»
Sotheby's is hoping for a # 6.5 million - plus auction record this week for German artist, Georg Baselitz, described by Sir Norman Rosenthal as the greatest living painter.
The artist had just been thrust into the spotlight following an explosive Time magazine spread that asked, «Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?»
And as it happened, the one - man debut of Gorky's friend the Dutchman De Kooning, celebrated that April evening in 1948, was to be eclipsed if not outclassed the following year when a still scowling Pollock posed for Life magazine in front of the tumbleweed whorls of Summertime (1948) and was awarded the headline: «Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?»
From a scene - stealing source of beauty at the Venice Biennale to America's greatest living painter of flat people, these are the artists we'll all be talking about this month.
He's saying that Bridget Riley is Britain's greatest living painter, not David Hockney or Frank Auerbach.
(Two years earlier, Life had displayed Jackson Pollock at work and cemented his reputation with the headline: «Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?»)
Unlike many of his contemporaries, such as the garrulous populist David Hockney, with whom he arguably now vies for the unofficial title of Britain's greatest living painter, Auerbach refuses to court celebrity — Alastair Sooke, Daily Telegraph, 07/10/15
At his best, Frank Auerbach is without doubt Britain's greatest living painter.
As Sir Howard Hodgkin CBE, Turner prize - winning artist and arguably Britain's greatest living painter, celebrates his 80th birthday next month, it's worth reflecting on how much poorer the world would be had he jumped.
Sit back and relax as you listen to Dana and Duncan get schooled by the greatest living painter to ever grace this lowly little podcast, an artist who literally needs zero introduction, Alex Katz.
René Ricard, another genius of bohemia, called Rice the «greatest living painter of the city, and in his painting there is no other city than New York, black New York.»
A suitable portrait of one of Britain's greatest living painters, this artful documentary offers wonderful access to David Hockney, his family, friends, colleagues and of course his artwork.
The death of Cy Twombly today is a shock, not only because he was one of the greatest living painters but because he was a contemporary - continuing, until the last, to make and show new work.
Rounding off a fine season of modern American art, which has seen stellar exhibitions at the Royal Academy and the British Museum, White Cube presents a retrospective of the works of Wayne Thiebaud, considered one of the US's greatest living painters and whose work has been shown all - too infrequently this side of the Atlantic in recent decades.
This long - awaited volume celebrates the work of Kerry James Marshall, one of America's greatest living painters.
Thiebaud is one of the world's greatest living painters.
He achieved so much and was honored as one of the greatest living painters.
In the spring of 2016, the MCA is presenting the first major museum survey of Kerry James Marshall one of America's greatest living painters.
«I hate painting,» says Howard Hodgkin, one of the world's greatest living painters.
One of America's greatest living painters, Kerry James Marshall is an artist who is consciously pushing the constraints of art history, subsequently redefining its past, present and future.
Though Matta was voted one of the 10 greatest living painters by a jury of 100 art - world luminaries back in the 1970s, panelists complained that his star has since dimmed in comparison to many of his contemporaries.
Today, calling Marshall «one of the greatest living painters in America,» the museum made it official and publicized the acquisition.
At age 80, Hockney is considered one of the world's greatest living painters, even as he continues to expand his techniques and approaches to the medium.
Including illustrations of comparative works, archival photographs and studio views, The Cage Paintings is essential reading for anyone interested in the life and work of one of the world's greatest living painters.
Sooner or later, everyone who writes about John Marin gets around to mentioning the 1948 Look magazine poll of 68 critics, curators and museum directors who, when asked to name America's greatest living painters, put him at the top of the list.

Not exact matches

As we swing back and forth with Turner's way of life, we follow wherever his inner compass leads us; the Academy of fellow painters, most of whom revere his work; the cliffs and hillsides overlooking the greatest object of his eye's desire, the tumultuous seas; and a quaint little place he keeps finding inspiration in called Margate.
In 1961, even before he had finished his first feature film Ivan's Childhood (1962), he submitted a proposal to the studio for a film on the life of Russia's greatest icon painter, Andrei Rublev.
Nothing in his approach to the subject suggests, «Yes, we all know that Turner was a great painter, but you need to know about his life — his personal life should matter to you — and here's why!»
How many great painters, writers and musicians were failures during their lives, but wildly successful in the years and centuries following their deaths?
In 1550, Michelangelo's younger friend and colleague Giorgio Vasari published the first edition of his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (usually shortened to Lives of the Artists), a magisterial collective biography of the greatest Italian masters of the last three centuries.
BB: Jake Berthot was a great painter, and it seems that his pursuit of inspiration you mention is at the root of his adoption of landscape and still life subject matter.
The painter Jane Freilicher, whose airy, radiantly colored still lifes and landscapes made her a leading light of the 1950s New York School and one the great representational artists of postwar America, died on Tuesday in New York.
Charles Hawthorne, Henry Hensche and Edwin Dickinson lived and taught there and Hans Hofmann had his School of Fine Art established there in the 30's they all continue to have great influence with many outdoor painters.
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