Sentences with phrase «as a painter of»

Most of us probably think of Rubens as a painter of women whose body shapes are now decidedly out of fashion.

A New York artist says her reputation has been ruined after she was wrongly pegged as the painter of a 1972 canvas by an online auctioneer who hawked the work on eBay with her name and biography.

There, she is approached by Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz), a real estate agent, who is pursuing his own muse as a painter of Parisian street scenes.

Oddworld Inhabitants» Lorne Lanning was classically trained as a painter of fine art, but came to realize that the mediums most influential on popular opinion were becoming electronic and mass - distributed.

As a painter of memories and experiences, many of the works capture the artist's sensory impressions of India, from fierce blazing sunsets to heavy oppressive rains, landscapes and cities he has visited, and portraits of the people he has befriended.

And it is tempting, just as one can write off Ryman as the painter of white on white — forgetting his range of materials from canvas and metal plates to the bolts holding them to the wall.

El Barrio's cheek - by - jowl living and its ethnic mix, with many of its newer inhabitants arriving from Puerto Rica, as well as Dominica, Cuba, and Mexico, chimed with Neel's artistic values as a painter of human life and coalesced with her political convictions.

A large picture is an immediate transaction; it takes you into it» meaning that you could walk into the paintings and be in them, surrounded by them, immersed in them; he also said — «the reason I paint large pictures is because I want to be very intimate and human» and as a painter of large works I agree with this.

A recent exhibition in Paris presented him as a painter of surprising complexity.

Working initially as a painter of surrealistic carnival scenes and cityscapes, he later came into contact with Abstract Expressionists like Willem de Kooning, which ushered in a dramatic shift in his practice towards purer abstraction.

Featuring some of the artist's most innovative works, Lichtenstein: Re-Figure aims not only to highlight the artist's engagement with the human figure — a central theme throughout his career — but also to «re-figure,» in the sense of reassessing, the common yet reductive view of Lichtenstein as the painter of pop culture images.

In his last years, Marsden Hartley tried to remake himself as the painter of Maine, and now the Whitney rehangs its collection as «Where We Are.»

Taylor McKimens has been known for years as a painter of «American Life», making large and narrative paintings that feature rural tableaux, economically marginalized people, overlooked and often beautiful details of the natural world and cultural debris.

Aho, whom I know of as a painter of fairly reductive Vermont landscapes, did some pink - hued, sweepingly gestural dunescapes of Truro (Edward Hopper country), the town just west of here whose spectacular bluffs face Cape Cod Bay.

Natalka Husar also emerged as a painter of prominence in the 1990s.

Was a revival of figurative expressionism necessary for Leon Golub to be suddenly recognized as a painter of importance?

As a painter of political ideas — and, often, the grotesque and cruel — Luc Tuymans is a historian of images that appear banal but reveal sinister workings: colored blobs are actually disembodied eyeballs; a bare room with flattened perspective is the site of uncountable murders; a limp cloth turns out to be the emblem of a growing nationalist movement.

The collage - like paintings from the 1960s, which clearly reflect Rosenquist's background as a painter of enormous billboards on Times Square, will be shown along with biographically motivated paintings from the 1970s and interpretations of cosmic phenomena in his later large - scale paintings.

In fact, Hartley began his career in 1909 at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery as a painter of Maine.

Scully is best known as a painter of monumental works in oil, although he is also a printmaker, producing woodcuts and etchings.

The seriousness of topics such as alcoholism, depression, and poverty was transferred on canvas with great softness and vigor, and therefore Fischl has quickly embraced the description of himself as a painter of the suburbs.

He was a pupil of Richard Wilson and was best known in his lifetime as a painter of Welsh and Italian landscapes in the style of his master.

As a painter of the Op Art movement, his first solo exhibition, «Optical Paintings,» opened on October 5, 1964 at the Terrain Gallery in New York, after which he exhibited a painting at the Museum of Modern Art's Responsive Eye show, which remains in MOMA's permanent collection.

Such inclusions would have aided the curators» attempt to dispel the stereotype of Lowry as a painter of matchstick men.

Denomie cheerfully admits that as a painter of «metaphorical surrealism,» he constantly pushes the boundaries as he finds and explores new and old subject matter.

Later in her career, she established herself as a painter of minimalist landscapes immersed in vibrant colors and modest geometric forms.

Although he achieved recognition as a painter of murals in the Social Realist style enforced by the then ruling Soviet regime he felt his work was unable to capture the tumultuous nature of life itself.

This was the period during which the Danish - born artist emerged as a painter of stature, having fallen in with Werner's circle in the late 1970s after a period experimenting with performance art.

ARC: At the same time, your images have been associated with a Romantic sublime tradition centred in England and Germany, but there are also suggestions of James Whistler, Edward Steichen and what I think of as painters of stillness, such as Edward Hopper and Giorgio Morandi.

Hodgkin, born in 1932, described himself as a painter of «representational pictures of emotional situations» though his very personal way of picture making mixes memory and mood to an essentially abstract end.

We typically think of Claude Monet as a painter of landscape, of the sea, and in his later years, of gardens — but until now there has never been an exhibition considering his work in terms of architecture.

Most people know Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) as the painter of the Mona Lisa, but he was so much more than that.

Previously known as a painter of still lifes, Nowinski has taken her time to arrive, and has done so with the help of a tight group of friends and some stellar mentors.

Katz is best known as a painter of people, and the wide cross section of his portraits featured in the show demonstrate the variety which he has brought to the genre.

Robert Ryman is known as the painter of white paintings.

Why: We all know Edgar Degas for his work as a painter of the ballet, but this MoMA show will focus on the artist's role as printmaker.

He is largely known as a painter of urban scenes.

Installed in the North, South and Irene Willett Galleries, the exhibition features over 80 watercolours and oil paintings to explore the idea of JMW Turner as a painter of the four elements.

Even though her mature works are all considered abstract, she often referred to herself as a painter of landscapes.

Best known as a painter of monumental works in oil, Sean Scully (b. 1945) has garnered international acclaim as one of the most prominent painters in the abstract tradition, fusing the conventions of European painting with the distinct character of American abstraction.

Giorgio Morandi (1890 - 1964) is best known as a painter of modest - sized still lifes, depicting earthen - hued bottles, boxes, vases, jugs, and cups.

Hoyland had arrived at the Schools as a painter of landscapes and cityscapes.

The great American artist Wayne Thiebaud is often too easily understood as the painter of iconic cakes, pies, and other heartland desserts, but his position in the history of his country's art is far more interesting.

Eisenman's skill as a painter of imaginative compositions is evidenced not only through the array of social types represented but also through the bold contrasts of color that inject the work with emotional and psychological intensity.

Best known as a painter of stories, she was born and brought up by the coast in Portugal and has had a fascination with the sea since her childhood.

Gainsborough, on the other hand, began life as a painter of small, stilted portraits later developing a more sophisticated style after his move to fashionable Bath.

In the exhibition catalogue, Stéphan Aquin describes Doig as a painter of «elsewhere» and if the artist has an abiding subject, that is surely it: the porous hinterland between the real and the heightened, between acute observation and deep, transformative imagination.

With a palette focused on the gradations between black and gray, Celmins has been known since then as a painter of refined representational images — including night skies, ocean waves and spider webs.

Karen Rosenberg: «The young Los Angeles artist Tomory Dodge emerged around 2004 as a painter of prismatic, quasi-abstract landscapes based on the California desert.

He first appeared as a painter of architecture in 1986 with paintings of Jeremy Dixon's proposals for The Royal Opera House.