Sentences with phrase «artist at the height»

Satyajit Ray was ailing when he made them, but these three works from the great filmmaker's final years show an artist at the height of his powers.

A technically perfect movie in which the Coens deploy every cinematic element at their disposal — writing, cinematography, editing, sound, performances — with the virtuosity of artists at the height of their powers.

The exhibition presents an artist at the height of his powers.

After opening with an exhibition of an artist at the height of his fame, Georges Mathieu, subsequent exhibitions were devoted to work by Frank Auerbach, R.B. Kitaj and Joe Tilson, as well as Kenneth Armitage, Lynn Chadwick, Ben Nicholson, Victor Pasmore, John Piper, Georges Vantogerloo and others.

These culminate with Still's groundbreaking wartime abstractions and monumental late paintings that show the artist at the height of his powers.

Featuring new sculptures in her trademark cedar and presenting work in bronze for the first time at Galerie Lelong, this body of work demonstrates von Rydingsvard as an artist at the height of her career and in full command of the artistic and physical demands of her technique.

Join Dr. Eugenie Tsai for an in - depth look at the special exhibition Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, a retrospective of the contemporary artist at the height of his career.

That particular text discussed his recent solo exhibition at Lennon, Weinberg Gallery, a stunning show that presented the artist at the height of his talent and made clear that many of his late works can be counted among his most accomplished.

Call Her Applebroog offers a universal and touching story of filial bonds as well as a deeply rewarding portrait of two artists at the height of their craft.

Additional highlights of the evening included Mark Rothko's No. 17, one of the artist's rare «blue» canvases, sold for $ 32,645,000, along with Clyfford Still's PH - 234 (1948), an iconic example of the artist at the height of his career, and one of the rare instances in which one of his works has come to market — sold for $ 28,165,000.

Created just months before his death in September 1962, Number 36 bears witness to the artist at the height of his powers.

Alexander Calder, Large - Scale Sculpture, and the Public Sphere In the 1970s, Wichita put itself firmly on the map of the art world when it commissioned Joan Miró and Alexander Calder — two living artists at the height... Continue reading Calder Lecture at the Wichita Art Museum

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Mr. Turner hits the traditional biopic beats more routinely than the latter, but at least it refuses to truck with that most irksome generic sawhorse, the emotionally tidy rise - and - fall arc, by a simple expedient: opening at the height of its subject's popularity, and then dwelling with Leigh's characteristically misanthropic relish on the artist's latter - day sufferings and setbacks.

Feher began making work during»80s, and his practice matured at the height of the AIDS crisis; the artist himself was HIV positive.

At the height of the art market, Saatchi sold five Scully paintings for $ 400,000 each, which was «just above the record price» at the time, and «a very nice business deal» given that he had purchased the works a few years earlier for $ 20,000 each, according to Mary Sabbatino, vice president of Galerie Lelong, New York, which represents the artisAt the height of the art market, Saatchi sold five Scully paintings for $ 400,000 each, which was «just above the record price» at the time, and «a very nice business deal» given that he had purchased the works a few years earlier for $ 20,000 each, according to Mary Sabbatino, vice president of Galerie Lelong, New York, which represents the artisat the time, and «a very nice business deal» given that he had purchased the works a few years earlier for $ 20,000 each, according to Mary Sabbatino, vice president of Galerie Lelong, New York, which represents the artist.

Dodd speaks about starting the artist run Tanager Gallery, her choice to be an observational painter at the height of Abstract Expressionism and her «minimal» approach.

The exhibition also includes the debut of the Museum's new acquisition of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's Light of Life, a mirrored hexagonal box measuring more than seven feet square and seven feet tall, with three portholes at varying heights to allow the viewer to look inside of the enclosed «infinity room.»

that features the work of Joan Semmel, Anita Steckel, Betty Tompkins and Cosey Fanni Tutti — artists who embraced t» he «pornographic» at the height of anti-sex second - wave feminism.

Weakened by a heavy reliance on booze and butts — images of which litter the artist's late self - portraits, along with cholesterol - heavy French fries — Guston died of a heart attack at the same age as Rothko, sixty - seven, yet was still at the height of his powers and on the eve of the unprecedented fame that resulted from his traveling retrospective of 1980 - 1981.

At the bottom, next to his own copyright claim, Basquiat signs the canvas «peso neto» («net weight»): a signature phrase for an artist who — even at the height of his success — delighted in questioning the value and nature of arAt the bottom, next to his own copyright claim, Basquiat signs the canvas «peso neto» («net weight»): a signature phrase for an artist who — even at the height of his success — delighted in questioning the value and nature of arat the height of his success — delighted in questioning the value and nature of art.

As the artist states: «The scale of the paintings (at times over two metres in height) gives the works the presence of large screens or banners.

Artists generally tend to be a little elusive, but it requires an especially strong sense of character to walk away from the art world and stop exhibiting altogether at the height of one's career.

Much of the work in the exhibition deals with the 18th and 19th century, at the height of Victorian splendor — something the artist critiques throughout his work.

The most remarkable thing about his career is how clearly it divides into three distinct phases: he started as an abstract artist in the late 1940s and early «50s, was enormously celebrated even in his twenties, and at the height of his success he then moved into figuration in 1955 following a move to Berkeley, California.

Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte will bring together eight historical works by the Brazilian modernist Cícero Dias (b. 1907, d. 2003), which represent the height of his abstract creations and were produced following his move to Paris, where he became associated with other prominent artists at the time including Alexander Calder, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso.

At the height of the controversy, which raised Ofili's international profile, the artist told the New York Times: «I don't feel as though I have to defend it.

The Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo's work emerged at the height of Cold War paranoia.

The first, of the artist in his 30s, comes from the Frick Collection in New York and joins the second, finished around 20 years later when Murillo was at the height of his fame.

Focusing its energies on the mounting of exhibitions onsite and off - space, and on the publishing of artist books, La Salle de Bains is working towards new exhibition formats and methods of mediation, such as the 2012 show Tell the Children / Abstraction pour Enfants (an echo of Andy Warhol's Painting for Children Pop art show at Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich, in 1983), which introduced children (and adults) to very contemporary abstract paintings by artists including Claudia Comte, Lisa Beck and Olivier Mosset — all hung at children's eye height, on vividly patterned wallpaper.

Executed during the same period as her celebrated Sunflower paintings, together these paintings stand as «audacious, masterful works in which the artist adroitly juggles emptiness and fullness, balance and unbalance, lightness and weight» (P. Albers, Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter, New York, 2011, p. 315) and as act as works which show Mitchell at the height of her artistic prowess.

One of the most important painters of our time, Richter shows no signs of slowing down: the new paintings, characterized by vibrant colors and layered compositions, reveal an artist still at the height of his powers.

Hosted at the height of Aspen's summer season, the Recognition Dinner brings together art world luminaries and supporters to enjoy a festive evening of celebration and fundraising, including cocktails, dinner and a live auction, featuring works by leading contemporary artists.

In 1963, at the height of his internationally acclaimed career, the artist donated nearly fifty paintings to UC Berkeley in recognition of the University's important role in his early career.

In the 1970s, at the height of Warhol's extraordinary fame as an artist and filmmaker, he bought two automatic cameras that he carried with him everywhere.

A woman whose career as an artist began at age sixty - seven and rose quickly to great heights, Alma Thomas still soars, decades after her death in 1978.

Continuous., Micah and Whitney Stansell's collaboration currently on view at Whitespace Gallery, demonstrates how two artists can support, respect, and inspire one another while still pushing and challenging each other to new creative heights.

This was partly because he emerged from art school at the height of the conceptualist Young British Artists era.

With a focus on pieces from the 1970s & 80s, the exhibition succinctly captures the power, uniqueness and historical import of these post-war modern artists working at the height of their careers.

An interview captures Deschenes's voice and point of view and a series of critical essays rounds out this unparalleled exploration of an exciting, boundary - pushing artist working at the height of her powers.

The artist specified that it should be installed at shoulder height, so we based our measurements on the shoulder of one of the installation crew members.»

This abstract portrayal is a playful nod to Brancusi's «Endless Column», teetering at the artist's head height and defying gravity.

Historically, artists and writers alike saw that as a challenge: at the height of abstract expressionism and the old New York intelligentsia, theorists and critics were coming up with new terms as quickly as artists could defy them.

«On view at the Luggage Store Gallery through July, «Rehistoricizing Abstract Expressionism in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1950s - 1960s» attempts to compensate for the fact that some artists, due to their race or gender, weren't given the recognition they deserved at the movement's height on the West Coast.

Chadwick's Viral Landscapes (1989 - 90), made at the height of the Aids epidemic, connect the changes in her body with those of the wave - shattered shoreline, superimposing outsize photographs with magnified images of the artist's cellular tissue in a sweeping panorama of time and tide.

Exquisite one - of - a-kind doors designed by Gaudí in 1904 for Casa Batlló at almost ten feet in height held everyone's gaze with their lustrous wood and exquisite craftsmanship, and a collection of Dalí furniture, including a gold chair and table with high - heeled feet, reminded everyone of the artist's surreal genius.

A standout presentation at The Armory Show can launch an artist's career to new heights.

In the 1950's and 1960's with Fluxus and Concrete Poetry, artists creating poetry as their work instead of merely being influenced by it was at its height.

What we are seeing is the success of a generation of artists, now mid-career, who were educated at Glasgow at the height of its powers (some, but not all, coming from the environmental art department which had such effect on those who passed through it).

Painted in 1992, at what is widely considered to be the height of the artist's abstract period, this particular example is distinguished by a series of prominent vertical striations, that act as a translucent gateway, simultaneously tempting and taunting us with what might lie at the heart of Richter's exposed canvas.

At a recent exhibition in Amsterdam, the artist installed twisting forms, standing at average human heighAt a recent exhibition in Amsterdam, the artist installed twisting forms, standing at average human heighat average human height.