Sentences with phrase «ambition of the great painters»

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art because it was abstract, not figurative.

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Over a period of approximately ten or twelve years, between the early 1960s and the early 1970s he produced work of tremendous ambition and audacity, with an impact that is almost palpable, and that should finally prompt a posthumous recognition that he is a modern British master — one of the great abstract painters of the 20th century.