Sentences with phrase «artists feel compelled»

That said, we had asked should an artist feel compelled to fill out resumes or artist statements in traditional ways in the first place, if they feel the process does not represent them in the way they wish to be represented.

This phenomenon occurred all over the world, and Target Practice documents how and why artists felt compelled to shoot, rip, tear, burn, erase, nail, unzip and deconstruct painting in order to usher in new ways of thinking about their art.

Not exact matches

Jena Malone (The Rusted), as the makeup artist who takes young Jesse under her wing, manages to make the combination of passion and lethargy feel compelling.

And so, partnering with David Hellman, most notably the artist behind Jon Blow's Braid, the two took to Kickstarter to help restore that sense of wonder as best they could with Second Quest, an upcoming, hard - bound graphic novella «for those who love videogames but want more compelling worlds and a sense of real discovery» and «anyone who's felt the pull of distant landscapes and longed to explore a world full of mystery.»

It is somewhat pathetic that this highly successful artist, unsparing of herself in the painstaking study of animal anatomy, diligently pursuing her bovine or equine subjects in the most unpleasant surroundings, industriously producing popular canvases throughout the course of a lengthy career, firm, assured and incontrovertably masculine in her style, winner of a first medal in the Paris Salon, Officer of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic and the Order of Leopold of Belgium, friend of Queen Victoria — that this world - renowned artist should feel compelled late in life to justify and qualify her perfectly reasonable assumption of masculine ways, for any reason whatsoever, and to feel compelled to attack her less modest trouser - wearing sisters at the same time, in order to satisfy the demands of her own conscience.

I have never been able to completely release myself from my experiences as a child in South Africa; thus, as an artist, I have felt compelled to constantly return in an attempt to articulate what I feel.»

I received an email not too long ago from a fellow artist who had come across my website and felt compelled to write me asking me for advice on how to proceed in her journey as an artist.

It is somewhat pathetic that this highly successful artist, unsparing of herself in the painstaking study of animal anatomy, diligently pursuing her bovine or equine subjects in the most unpleasant surroundings, industriously producing popular canvases throughout the course of a lengthy career, firm, assured and incontrovertibly masculine in her style, winner of a first medal in the Paris Salon, Officer of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic and the Order of Leopold of Belgium, friend of Queen Victoria — that this world - renowned artist should feel compelled late in life to justify and qualify her perfectly reasonable assumption of masculine ways, for any reason whatsoever, and to feel compelled to attack her less modest trouser - wearing sisters at the same time, in order to satisfy the demands of her own conscience.

It's this paradox of unfeeling and feeling that makes Alice Neel the person and the artist, and now the film, so compelling.

Visitors feel compelled to use the outdoor path, but by locating the carpets indoors, in a gallery, the artist has presented viewers with another set of choices.

Death had, after all, been the defining experience of his life, and one feels that of all the Hollywood artist biopics to ever hit the screen, Gorky's life would probably make the most compelling (and after three biographies written over the course of the last decade, we duly await studio interest).

While travel and study in Europe remained a priority, many American artists also felt newly compelled by their national surroundings.

As a self - taught artist, I have approached my art with abandoned intuition and as my painting continues to evolve, it is still in pursuit of the same goal... to capture that feeling of mystery and awe that compels me to paint.

Over the past few years, relative to a series of studio visits with artists working in various parts of China, I have felt increasingly compelled to reflect on the development of ink painting.

In interacting with the work over a significant period of time, we felt that that the most compelling way to structure the exhibition was to expose the common threads that run throughout this material: formal constructs such as grids / fields, verticality, pictorial imagery, and repetitive sequences; content such as color as subject, element as subject, interest in early American history (particularly that of Massachusetts), discourse about other artists and art; and relationships to the history of poetry.

In 1992, journeying to Uluru through the Red Desert in central Australia, British artist Bruce Munro felt a compelling connection to the energy, heat and brightness of the desert landscape, which he recorded in his ever present sketchbooks.

By transforming nudity from a classical ideal into something decidedly personal, contemporary, and idiosyncratic, these artists compel us to confront the complex and often contradictory feelings elicited by the human body: fascination and repulsion, shame and pleasure, inhibition and freedom.

Having been part of the movement, she felt compelled to use the material to honor the Feminist Art Movement and the struggles it went through.1 While the documentary was released in 2010, it is still as relevant as it has ever been, with current research still showing disparities between the representation and sale of male and female artists.2

Among the artists who paved the way of the democratization, Kerry James Marshall more than anyone else felt compelled to redress the total absence of black subjects from the tradition of Western Art.

Over thirty years later, in vastly more liberated times, female artists no longer feel compelled to defiantly spurn domesticity or femininity for their art.

This artist creates works because he is born, but also because she says there's a voice inside that compels him to make him happy and obey that call, it feels good to be a subject of creativity, as well maintains an obsession with beauty.

In the introduction of the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, Kosinski felt compelled to state: «We insist upon Ossorio as artist and refuse to allow his artistic practice to be obscured by his roles as friend, author, patron and collector, though inevitably those activities figure importantly in this story.»

The appetite for visual stimulation in our contemporary culture — precipitated by internet technology and globalization that has produced infinite numbers of artists of all sorts in the last decade or two, while disempowering the monopoly of the few in mainstream media by giving rise to endless writers and critics who feel an urgent need to respond to such vast production — has paid greater attention to its temporal condition than any art of the past; I would argue that in the end it's the great work of art and thoughtful writing that compels multiple viewings and readings, hence rendering both immortal.

I love artist - curated shows, and this one's particular conflation of the political, the poetic, and the formal, as filtered through Ligon's sensibility, felt richly complex and compelling even at a distance.

Alongside these images, a forty - five - minute documentary presents a compelling, if slightly romantic, image of the artist creating the piece: young, good with a chainsaw, and hugely optimistic about the power of his practice to change the way people feel about space.

Many of John Marin's contemporaries often felt compelled to focus on the artist's powerful deployment of his tools and materials when they spoke or wrote of his art.

Whether that was Arthur Jafa's «Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death», or the Obama portraits, and I was wondering the extent to which you feel compelled in the current political climate to change your program, to be political, or respond to the artist if they're being political.

Feeling compelled, like so much of the art world, to throw aside ordinary business and respond to the recent election, Petzel collected work by 40 artists, as well as a hundred - odd videos submitted by the public, for a compelling group show whose success is well encapsulated in its title.

Like Robert Motherwell, Reginato does feel not compelled to overthrow his predecessors, which includes early modernists such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Joan Miró, as well as the Abstract Expressionists and Color Field artists.

I felt compelled to document the scene and in March called Robert with an idea to photograph groups of East Village artists, dealers, critics, and collectors.

Though we feel the limited multitasking features of iOS compromise its usefulness as a task - for - task laptop replacement, the Pencil stylus makes the iPad Pro a compelling choice for digital artists or those who prefer to take notes or mark up documents by hand.