Sentences with phrase «about gifted artists»

The establishment of elephant art academies in Thailand and India have provided a forum for the cynical New York artists to mock the mainstream art industry by challenging traditional notions about gifted artists and natural abilities.

Terri from Dimples and Dragonflies, talk about a gifted artist, I just love all her paintings and she's as sweet as she is talented.

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Each gift has a story about the artist who made it just for you.

Paper flower artist Helen Wilde from Paper Bea Company is interviewed by illustrator Amanda Hartley from Hofficraft about her gorgeous paper wedding flowers and wild flower gifts for gardeners, inspired by her cottage garden in Derbyshire

We love supporting local artists, especially this time of year as we begin thinking about gift giving.

Each gift has a story about the artist who made it just for you.

This association of the feminine with weakness or vulnerability may be objectionable in a cultural climate where criticasters monotonously beat the drum for the Strong Female Character, but Denis is an artist, not a sloganeer, and as such she has always been gifted with the only kind of strength that matters — the guts to speak hard home truths and not give a fuck about how they might be received.

• «Exit Through the Gift Shop», an inventive puzzle of a documentary about street art directed by the artist known as Bansky, won the Best First Feature prize in addition to the Allan King Documentary Award.

What I personally find most impressive about Velvet Goldmine is the film's examination of artists and their gifts.

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The installation features a strong female protagonist named Cassandra, a figure of Greek mythology whose prophecies — first gifted and later cursed by the spurned Apollo — were disbelieved by the fated Agamemnon; and is inspired by East German writer and critic Christa Wolf's 1984 novel Cassandra, about a struggling female artist and visionary.

HWT: I'm really excited about an exhibition that I'm curating at the Goodman Gallery in South Africa called To Be Young Gifted and Black, which features a number of artists including Adam Pendleton, Omar Victor Diop and Derrick Adams, Zoe Buckman.

[38] In 2013, New York - based art collectors Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner announced their intention to donate about 300 works by 27 European and international artists to the Centre Pompidou, thereby making one of the largest gifts in the institution's history.

The Americans for the Arts Action Fund will use the funds to educate the US Congress and other decision makers about the value of the arts and arts education to all Americans in every part of our nation and urge them to fully fund the NEA for fiscal year 2018, plus all the other federal cultural agencies and efforts such as the Artist Museum Partnership Act which would allow artists the same tax benefits for donations of their own art as a collector currently gets when gifting a similar work to a museum or educational institution.»

When he asked about this omission, Bowling was told that the country was «not yet ready for a gifted artist of colour.»

Golding writes that «It says a lot about the nature of abstraction that it was the vision of these artists and not their natural gifts that enabled them to turn themselves into great artists.»

Yet because Stieglitz selected when, where, and how to photograph O'Keeffe, his composite portrait says as much — if not more — about his understanding of who O'Keeffe was (the gifted artist, the femme fatale, the child in need of protection) than it does about her true personality.

A pen pot — a gift from the artist Paula Rego, who said: «This is what it's all about.

About 50 works of art by African American artists are among the acquisitions, notable in terms of broadening the diversity of the museum's collection, but nominal considering the group represents about five percent of the new purchases and gAbout 50 works of art by African American artists are among the acquisitions, notable in terms of broadening the diversity of the museum's collection, but nominal considering the group represents about five percent of the new purchases and gabout five percent of the new purchases and gifts.

Richard Armstrong, director of the Carnegie Museum of Art, credited Hoptman with empathy for contemporary artists and a gift for writing and speaking about their work.

Artist Statement When I think about the word Abundance, I think about the landscape of America and how it provides us with endless gifts: delicious food, hiking trails, inspiring scenery...

While the donation included such notable names as Robert Mapplethorpe and Raymond Pettibon, as Hudson explained in his correspondence about the gift, the art «was collected for display in a small apartment» and the works had been selected by him based on his «regard for the individual work, not for its integration into a collection or the artist's career.»

Still's resolute refusal to «explain» his work, for example, has frequently been interpreted as uncommunicativeness, although it could be argued that no other artist in recent times has been more concerned about communication; one need only look at Still's recent and important gift of 28 paintings, spanning 40 years of his career, to the newly redesignated San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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