Sentences with phrase «as a draughtsman»

Joseph Beuys» works on paper are an often neglected part of his oeuvre, now a new collection of his drawings aims to put this straight and demonstrate his extraordinary skill as a draughtsman as well as visionary artist.

It got her to New York, no small feat for someone who grew up in suburban New Jersey, married at 19, gave birth at 20, and found herself, at 21, a single mother living in Newark, working as a draughtsman during the week and painting watercolours of Dutch shoes with trailing ivy at the weekends.

He studied philosophy and literature at the University of Bucharest, and trained as a draughtsman during the 1930s, in Milan.

The work makes light of Break Down's conceptual gravitas and makes clear Landy's prodigious talents as a draughtsman.

«Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented», de Kooning famously once remarked, but in fact, these works grew out of an extended period of innovation in which that artist had deliberately attempted to subvert his prodigious gifts as a draughtsman in favour of newer, unconsciously made, but more vital marks.

A fascinating new show at New York gallery Hirschl & Adler Modern reveals a decade's worth of works on paper from Pop master Andy Warhol's earliest years as a fine artist — proving his skill as a draughtsman as well as his eye for graphic design.

These works are a series of black enamel and oil paintings, they are presented alongside unique works on paper and prints from the same period, which are regarded as his most important and productive output as a draughtsman.

Pierre Bonnard is acknowledged to be one of the great masters of modern painting yet as a draughtsman he has been neglected.

A frequent collaborator with artists and poets, Rand has worked as draughtsman with Robert Creeley and John Ashbery and explored subjects as diverse as jazz, the Bible, and Jewish history.

Born in Dresden, Germany, in 1932 just as the Nazi Third Reich was coming to power, Gerhard Richter showed early promise as a draughtsman and left school to take up an apprenticeship as a set painter in a theater.

Waiting for the Fire, a large - scale drawing in Indian ink, illustrates his facility as a draughtsman, clearly evident in the animated charcoal drawings that first brought him to the world's attention.

Martin Wong grew up in San Francisco where he was active in the late 60s and early 70s in the art scene in San Francisco, first as a ceramic artist, then as a draughtsman and painter.

A turbulent yet transformative year, 1951 would prove to be «Pollock's most important and productive year as a draughtsman,» in which his drawings reached an unprecedented level of virtuosity and sophistication (E.V. Thaw, «1950 Introductory Text,» in F.V. O'Connor and E.V. Thaw, ed., Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works, Vol.

He was accepted into the Brera Academy (Accademia di Brera) in 1951, and there studied as a draughtsman until 1954 in the studio of Achille Funi.

For artist Paul Stafford, the challenge is to harness an artist's technical ability as a draughtsman and allow that person to develop his or her own language.

A selection of Magritte's best work in gouache accompanies these masterpieces, and the drawings demonstrate his brilliance as a draughtsman, offering a rare insight into this aspect of his artistic practice.

With open flowing lines, this work displayed Smith's formal training as welder, but also as a draughtsman and painter.

Albers's appreciation of complex tonal contrasts as a draughtsman, printmaker and photographer would go on to influence his own pupils including Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly and Kenneth Noland.

Born in London in 1914 Chadwick trained as a draughtsman and in 1937 joined an architectural practice, designing exhibition stands for trade fairs.

It's easy to dismiss Modigliani as twee, but a new exhibition reveals his supreme skill as a draughtsman and how he sought to perfect his art

These drawings emphasize the figurative and symbolic foundation of Ortman's art, demonstrating the mechanics of his abstraction and showcasing his extraordinary talent as a draughtsman — an interesting aside for a geometric abstractionist shared by others of his generation such as Ellsworth Kelly.

It «charts the powerful, straightforward story of an artist whose natural gift as draughtsman was second in the 20th century only to Picasso's», writes the Financial Times's critic Jackie Wullschlager.

The marks and techniques he employed during the etching process were a natural progression from his work as a draughtsman.

In these black pourings, figuration begins to return to Pollock's work — after years of bright abstraction — and the exhibition will also include unique works on paper and prints from the same period, illustrating his output as a draughtsman.

Vaughan's skill as a draughtsman is selfevident in the selected works which span the whole of the artist's career, so tragically halted in 1977.

Although initially recognized for his talent as a draughtsman and even recruited by Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and Heavy Metal Magazine, Drew knew he had to seek other ways of creating.

Carlos Garaicoa Manso (b. Havana, Cuba, 1967) studied thermodynamics before his mandatory military service, during which he worked as a draughtsman.

While he is an artist known for his painterly technique and his use of colour, with his new series of charcoals he reveals his skills as a draughtsman and introduces a new field for expression.

He trained as a draughtsman and, in parallel to a successful career as a designer and technical illustrator, he has developed his personal artistic practice, challenging the traditional approach to portraiture and to painting itself.

Its stylistic variety provides visual paraphrases of Joyce's own linguistic inventiveness and demonstrates Hamilton's skills as a draughtsman and printmaker.

Presented alongside the Black Pourings will be drawings from the same period, regarded as his most important and productive as a draughtsman, as well as a number of virtually unknown and rarely seen sculptures.

Curated by Dieter Buchhart, an Austrian expert on modern and contemporary art, the show offers a time capsule of desires, observations and current events from this period in the artist's life while also revealing Mr. Ruscha's amazing skill as a draughtsman — as well as his marvelous wit.

He trained as a draughtsman and in 1937 joined an architectural practice, designing exhibition stands for trade fairs.

While in the army he worked as a draughtsman, learning the skills the he would use later in his practice as an artist.

Both bodies of work illustrate his renowned skills as a draughtsman and painter.

The order and balance in Burkhardt's compositions derive from his training as a draughtsman and his belief in the importance of underpinning painting with strong drawing skills.