Sentences with phrase «as a commercial artist»

He worked as a commercial artist, painting signs and creating graphic designs.

Commercial Artist Resume Create Resume Objective: To get a position as Commercial Artist and to gain further experience in this field.

For the first 10 years of his artistic career he worked as a commercial artist, focusing primarily on poster art and optical illusion.

Tanning, who was largely self - taught, began her career as a commercial artist in Chicago in 1930 and a few years later she moved to New York.

This exhibition presents Warhol's book work, from early student - work illustrations of the late 1940s, through to his careers as a commercial artist in the 1950s, Pop fine artist and underground filmmaker in the 1960s, and photographer and Pop culture icon of the 1970s — 80s.

Georgina Davis worked as a commercial artist for over thirty years, at a time when few women were able to pursue independent careers in the arts.

I spoke to Laura Collinson about Pursuing your dreams as a commercial artist over at Creative Boom.

Born in Warrnambool in 1893, and invalided out from Second Bullecourt in 1917, Battarbee trained as a commercial artist during a decade - long convalescence from his wartime injuries.

After graduating from Chouinard, Ruscha took a job as a commercial artist at an advertising agency, but quit after a few months.

Born to Slovakian immigrants in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol's career as the foremost proponent of Pop Art began during his days as a commercial artist for newspapers and magazines.

Fuka, 55, said he hasn't yet reached a goal to bring the sale of his award - winning pastel artwork to a level where it replaces his income as a commercial artist, but that fact hasn't diminished...

Jack Bush was raised in London, Ontario and Montréal, Québec where he worked initially as a commercial artist in his father's Montréal firm, Rapid Electro Type Company.

Like the other members of the group, Bush pursued abstraction as best he could, «abstracting» from nature in a manner derived from the illustrations becoming available in international magazines as well as from his practice as a commercial artist.

Luis Martínez Pedro (1910 — 1989) worked primarily as a commercial artist throughout his artistic career, which undoubtedly informed his vibrantly graphic compositions.

Georgina Davis worked actively as a commercial artist for over thirty years, at a time when few women were able to pursue independent careers in the arts.

Kellner had begun working as a commercial artist when the U.S. entered World War I.

In 1927, he came to New York, where he attended night classes at the Art Students League and worked as a commercial artist by day.

But Johns's Flag — not in this exhibition — had become notorious for its commentary on the cult of «flatness» in the mid-1950s when Warhol was still plodding along as a commercial artist, and it is the linear history of art that counts here, not birth order.

At nineteen, Barbara Kruger (b. 1945) worked as a commercial artist designing for Conde Nast.

During the 1950's Warhol led a successful career as a commercial artist.

Pertinent to Rosenquist's previous experience as a commercial artist and billboard painter, Judd writes of the earlier work, «There is never any possibility of Rosenquist's paintings being mistaken for billboards, however, as Lichtenstein's paintings are mistaken for comics.

He married Dorothy KNOWLES in 1952 and they returned to western Canada, where he earned his living as a commercial artist.

Trained as a commercial artist, she received her BA degree from Texas Technological College (currently, Texas Tech) in 1950 and worked professionally in that field until 1964.

After a period of working as a commercial artist in Chicago, she returned to painting in 1912 and read the first translation of the abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky's «Concerning the Spiritual in Art.»

Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920) and Robert Mallary (1917 - 1997) met while working as commercial artists for Rexall Drug Company, in the 1940s.

From 1908 - 1910, O'keeffe worked as a commercial artist in Chicago for a few years and then moved to Charlottesville in 1910 with her family, where she studied drawing at the University of Virginia.

People saw me as a commercial artist trying to get into the art world, and the work was dismissed as shallow or somehow lightweight.

During the 1950's she supported herself as a commercial artist, designing brochures for art galleries.

According to the biography in «Baltimore County Women, 1930 - 1975» listed below, Jane had previously been working as a commercial artist «for department stores and advertising agencies», but she «gave up her career in commercial art for marriage and a family» (p. 16).

Thomas began her career as a commercial artist, art director and illustrator, and switched to painting full time in the early 1980s, inspired by her move to the East End of Long Island.

He continued to work as a commercial artist in Toronto until his retirement in 1968, from 1942 on in partnership with Leslie Wookey and William Winter.

After he moved to New York in 1958, he found work as a commercial artist and illustrator.

When understood as a kind of provincial or «outsider» strain of Pop art, his career as a commercial artist and its considerable blurring of fine art with graphic design (and even children's illustration) acquires greater legitimacy.

He also began to draw on his experience as a commercial artist, creating eye - catching works with a directness and economy of means that are indebted to his advertising work.

Having grown up within the early days of snowboarding lifestyle, Parillo began painting in the 1990s while working as a commercial artist in the action sports industry.

After graduating from art school with a degree in pictorial design, Warhol moved to New York City to pursue a career as a commercial artist, and he dropped the final «a» in Warhola.

In the early 1920s, he returned to New York working as a commercial artist and illustrator to support himself, but always pursuing his personal art, primarily with woodcuts and painting.

Over the next several years Okada spent long periods in Kyoto and Paris, funded by Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships, interspersed with periods of working as a commercial artist for the Boeing company in Seattle.

It crops up in designs which he made when he was working as a commercial artist in Paris in the thirties.

As a commercial artist I was asked every week to paint an endless variety of different images, from a beautiful landscape, to a bottle of Corona beer, to Disney characters and everything in between.

His early career included work as a commercial artist in advertising, and eventually he taught and became head of the art department at Chestnut Hill Academy.

As a commercial artist, Rosenquist paints billboards in Manhattan and Brooklyn, including signs in Times Square for the Astor Theatre, Victoria Theater, and Morosco Theatre, all located at Broadway and Forty - fifth Street.

In addition, using his experience as a commercial artist, he also designed theatrical sets and costumes for Serge Lifar's ballet Icarus, which opened in Sydney, in 1940.

Like fellow artist Andy Warhol, Lichtenstein began his career as a commercial artist.

After the war he continued his career as a commercial artist and became a faculty member at Agnes Scott College.

In 1916 he left school to work as a commercial artist, and he enrolled in evening classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in his native city, where he studied for eight years.