Sentences with phrase «among young painters»

The Obamas» choices come at a time when figurative painting and portraiture are growing in popularity among young painters interested in exploring race, gender and identity or in simply correcting the historic lack of nonwhites in Western painting.

Among younger painters, for instance Robert Christie, there is a substantial interest in colour field abstraction.

Among my young painter friends he has a reputation for being open, generous, and extremely smart, but I was still a little nervous.

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Jack Whitten is a painter — a rarity among young artists being exhibited today.

Most important, it will serve as a reminder that many of the brightest and most gifted young painters working today have chosen this tradition, among all available options, to help define the future of visual arts.»

The organizer, the American painter and art dealer William Copley, conceived of it as an intermedia and intergenerational publication, presenting works by an impressive array of artists, both well - known and emerging, including the Dada and Surrealist luminaries Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Meret Oppenheim; Pop artists Richard Hamilton and Roy Lichtenstein; composers Terry Riley and La Monte Young; and an up - and - coming generation of conceptual and post-studio artists represented by Joseph Kosuth and Bruce Nauman, among others.

He was among the young British painters influenced by the scale and energy of New York -LSB-...]

Among the hundreds of artists I consider each year while publishing New American Paintings, I have noticed a considerable uptick in the number of young painters working with recognizable imagery, some in, dare I say it, almost traditional modes.

With them he promptly takes his place among a group of recent talented young painters who also make witchy figurative work with vivid color and wobbly compositions charged with psychological spirituality.

Critics and commentators had placed him among the group of young painters called the «Second Generation New York School,» a name that both indicated their debt to the original New York Abstract Expressionists and their new openness to representation.

In 1953 a group of young artists, Mead among them, formed Painters Eleven.

In 1953, following successful solo exhibitions at the Frumkin Gallery in Chicago and the Stable Gallery in New York, Burri was included alongside Karel Appel and Pierre Soulages, among others, in James Johnson Sweeney's «Younger European Painters» at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

The Misfits sculpture is the most arresting exhibit among 13 works chosen by painter Gary Hume, the RA's youngest academician.

[3] Polish Romantic painting is exemplified in the work of Artur Grottger, Henryk Rodakowski, or the equestrian master artist Piotr Michałowski (now at Sukiennice), and Jan Nepomucen Głowacki considered the father of Polish school of landscape painting, as well as the renowned historical painter Leopold Loeffler invited to Kraków by Matejko to teach the future luminaries of the Young Poland movement including Wyspiański, Tetmajer, Malczewski and Weiss among others.

«There's such excitement in the district, especially among younger people and this gallery may inspire a new generation, not just of painters and sculptors but architects.»

Yet, even at a time when some Europeans considered him America's foremost living painter, Tobey was comparatively neglected at home, his reputation overshadowed by the younger, more muscular practitioners of Abstract Expressionism — Pollock, Kline and de Kooning foremost among them.

Among this group was the young British abstract painter Ben Nicholson.

Wang Guangle (b. 1976, Songxi, Fujian province) trained at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, where he graduated in 2000 and was awarded first prize in the annual academy contest for his thesis piece, 3 to 5 p.m. Regarded as a leader among China's younger generation of painters, he is a member of N12, a group of twelve graduates of the Central Academy of Fine Arts who began staging exhibitions together in 2003.

Elsewhere, a breezy painting by the mid-career German artist Michael Krebber, who has steadily gained a cult following among young artists over the past two decades, features a reproduction of the text of a blog post by another artist about painter Alistair Frost.

And Sanya Kantarovsky has brought together a group of young painters at Tanya Leighton in a poised presentation that speaks, if anything, to the level of sensitivity and sophistication among emerging artists.

Among those honored, Clintel Steed receives the John Koch Award, which is given to «a young painter of figurative work.»

The younger German painter is known for collaborating with more folks than a Vichy bureaucrat (having partnered with, among others, Martin Kippenberger and Jonathan Meese).

Among the first seven commissions set to debut in the spring of 2019 are a live performance / exhibition by the painter Gerhard Richter, in collaboration with composer Steve Reich, called Reich Richter Pärt; exhibitions by artists Trisha Donnelly and Agnes Denes; and work from the Shed's Open Call program, a large - scale commission for young artists living and working in New York City.

More recently, we have the arresting neo-expressionism of Chinese painters like Zhang Xiaogang (b. 1958) and Yue Minjun (b. 1962), landscapes by Peter Doig (b. 1959) and the Ukrainian artist Dmitry Kolujny, the extraordinary «egg» pictures of Alexander Vlasenko, as well as numerous portraits by a range of young painters, including the Irishmen David Nolan (b. 1966) and Conor Walton (b. 1970), among many others.

Also among his fellow prisoners was the German Expressionist painter Michael Fingesten, whose work young Alcalay had long admired and who offered to instruct him in portrait painting.

Organized as part of the Shiseido Art Egg Prize for artists in their 20s and 30s, Shunsuke Imai «s exhibition of colorful, hard - edged abstractions at the Shiseido Art Gallery achieved a spatial resonance that is exceedingly rare among young Japanese painters, distorting the atmosphere of the gallery itself through dizzying combinations of eye - popping yellows, pinks, blues, whites and blacks arranged in billowing, flag - like stripe patterns that grudgingly squeezed into the two - dimensional plane of the canvas.

In the early 1980s, Winters was among several young painters who arrived at a more painterly style in reaction to the minimalism and conceptualism of the 1970s.

In the fall of 1955, Grillo was among one of the youngest artists to be chosen for the Walker Art Center's exhibition, Vanguard 1955: A Painter ’s

At that time, in the early years of the war, many European artists whose reputation to the young Americans was almost legendary had sought refuge in New York, among them such legendary 20th century painters as Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944), Max Ernst (1891 - 1976), and Andre Masson (1896 - 1987).

As the many shows of mature painters this weekend evidence, the surge of interest in this traditional medium among younger artists didn't come out of nowhere — it has just been lying dormant while we rode out the various «post -» s.

Although he counted the younger «cooler» painters such as Noland, Larry Poons and Jules Olitski among his friends there, it was always the brave and visionary older generation painters with whom he felt most sympathy.

Although he was to live and work in New York in the early 1970s, counting the younger, «cooler» painters such as Kenneth Noland, Larry Poons and Jules Olitski among his friends there, it was always the brave and visionary older generation painters with whom he felt most sympathy.