Sentences with phrase «as a painter today»

I think contemporary abstraction possibly doesn't have the high ideals of Abstract Expressionism, as painters today seem a bit more down - to - earth, more material - led, and more interested in the connection between the body and the canvas.

The free event explores the state and shape of contemporary painting, asking the questions «How far have artists extended the boundaries of the medium in the twenty - first century, and what does it mean to be identified as a painter today?

How far have artists extended the boundaries of the medium in the 21st century, and what does it mean to be identified as a painter today?

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Bearing in mind also the analysis in today's Grauniad, and other posts like Anthony Painter's at LabourList, it looks as if the facts are now being separated from the Cameroonian factoids and myths.

This former painter and journalist crafted his film not as a historical flick but as a film that could be happening today.

As a showcase for the remarkable talents of Geoffrey Rush in the role of sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, the picture's thematic focus is on the vast personality differences that Giacometti had with a noted writer, James Lord (Armie Hammer), known today for his voluminous biography of the man he befriended.

The show pits «abstract» painters vs. «realist» painters in a tongue - in - cheek mock battle; a clash as obviously senseless as any taking place around the world today.

Gerhard Richter is widely recognized as one of the most significant painters working today, and he is certainly among the most influential.

Most important, it will serve as a reminder that many of the brightest and most gifted young painters working today have chosen this tradition, among all available options, to help define the future of visual arts.»

Personally, as a painter who's been making sculpture as a way back to painting, if that ever occurs, few painters today seem to add anything new to painting unless they admit to themselves, as I finally did, that painting is nothing more, and nothing less, than flattened sculpture, which in turn is a subset of drawing.

Alice Neel is today recognised as one of the greatest American figurative painters of the twentieth century.

And today artists as varied as Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons and even the 80 - year - old German painter Gerhard Richter are producing paintings with computers.

By encouraging the work of a diverse group of artists, the Foundation celebrates the unique legacy of Joan Mitchell as an American artist and seeks to illuminate the important contributions of painters and sculptors working today.

At the same time, however, by recycling and affirming in 1967 his own words from nearly a decade earlier, Sylvester suggests that we can celebrate Bomberg for his genuine accomplishments as a painter and teacher while frankly acknowledging his important, if limited impact in the history of modern art — an impact which is still being assessed today.

Katz was first exposed to the notion of plein air painting at Skowhegan, which would prove pivotal in his development as a painter and remains a staple of his practices today.

For Puder, his work is central to many of the leading Leipzig painters such as Matthias Weischer and today he is especially important to younger artists in Eastern and Central Europe.

Katherine Sophie Dreier is better remembered today as a propagandist for modernism, and a patron, co-conspirator, and possible intimate partner of Marcel Duchamp's; she was, however, a life - long painter whose pre-Armory experiences took her to Europe, where she was galvanized by the work of Vincent Van Gogh.

Today because of the quality of his paintings and not just his myth, Claude Monet is loved as a great Impressionist and as one of the first modernist painters.

In a disconcerting way, he remains relevant by being, like so many younger artists today, not necessarily a painter per se, but an artist who uses painting coincidentally, as one of many other potential mediums available at any time; a phenomenon which in itself would merit its own investigation.

Nevertheless she has not, until today, received as much attention in the international exhibition world as her only slightly older, Page 3 6 male, fellow painters Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and Willem de Kooning, a fate she shared with other women painters of her generation.

I have always been fascinated with photo - realistic drawings and paintings, and trompe l'oeil sculptures — from artists such as Bronzino and Jean - Étienne Liotard, to the Flemish painters and today's contemporary artists.

Camille Henrot told us about the thinking behind her unique alchemy of the Internet and myth, Margaret Lee explained how the aesthetics of Chinatown helped her crack the code on contemporary experience, Jordan Wolfson spoke about using «anger as a frequency» in his hypnotically engrossing videos, Amy Sillman was both hilarious and incisive on the subject of what it means to be a painter today, and Paul Chan offered up a text interview that was totally unexpected, amazing, and an artwork in its own right.

While living in Washington, D.C., Louis, along with Kenneth Noland and other Washington painters, formed an art movement that is known today as the Washington Color School.

She has become one of the most important painters working in America today, as the Nigerian - born painter has had such an impactful past few years.

While New York and the world were yet unfamiliar with the New York avant - garde by the late 1940s, most of the artists who have become household names today had their well - established patron critics: Clement Greenberg advocated Jackson Pollock and the color field painters like Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb and Hans Hofmann; Harold Rosenberg seemed to prefer the action painters such as Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, as well as the seminal paintings of Arshile Gorky; Thomas B. Hess, the managing editor of ARTnews, championed Willem de Kooning.

Dumas is widely regarded as one of the most influential painters working today.

The subtle, teasing and at times unnerving nature of the juxtapositions at play in Quinn's work situate him as one of the foremost painters working today.

Portugese - born painter Paula Rego was made a Dame Commander by the Queen today, and described the honour as a «wonderful experience».

John Biggers, a leading artist in America today, is internationally known as a painter, muralist, illustrator, sculptor and educator.

Though Michelle Grabner identifies first and foremost as a painter, today she occupyies one of the most prominent curatorial perches in the world as a co-curator of the 2014 Whitney Biennial.

At several places in the building, the Hamburger Bahnhof currently exhibits an artist whose work and life can not be separated from one another — a painter, an actor, a writer, a musician, a drunkard, a dancer, a traveller, a charmer, an enfant terrible and self - producer — in short, an «exhibitionist» as he called himself and an artist who today is considered one of the most significant of his generation.

At Mitchell - Innes & Nash, meanwhile, Ferris continues to stake out her position as one of today's finest abstract painter with ever larger, ever more exuberantly colored pieces, where shifting blurs compete with crisp, thick pointillist passages.

The best portrait painters working today introduce something new into art not through stylistic innovations, but by whom they choose as subjects.

Fairfield Porter wrote in ArtNews (1955) that «the most studied and successful paintings... have a solid weight of color and light in the right place and proportion, making them both heavy and sparkling, miraculously not paradoxical, and more French than Expressionist, with qualities few painters today seem to understand as well as he does.»

Past recipients of the J. Paul Getty Medal have included Harold Williams and Nancy Englander, who were honored for their leadership in creating today's Getty; Lord Jacob Rothschild, for his leadership in the preservation of built cultural heritage; Frank Gehry, for transforming the built landscape with buildings such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall; Yo - Yo Ma, for his efforts to further understanding of the world's diverse cultures; Ellsworth Kelly, for paintings and sculptures of the highest quality and originality; Anselm Kiefer, painter and sculptor noted for his powerful work and complex subject matter; and Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, college professor and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Weischer is considered as one of the most important painters working in Germany today.

Guston not only effected key artists from a generation of (predominantly German) expressionist painters in the 1990s, but continues to have far reaching influence today, including younger artists in the gallery's own stable, such as Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Volker Hüller and Eddie Martinez.

Seeing his first daguerreotype, the French painter Paul Delaroche declared, «As from today, painting is dead!»

Castelli had included Rauschenberg in Today's Self - Styled School of New York (commonly known as the «Ninth Street Show»), a seminal exhibition in the development of Abstract Expressionism that he organized with painter Jack Tworkov (1900 — 1982) in 1951.

Today, most painters who keep the practice current benefit from either appealing to mass media — as is the case with Kenny Scharf — or to reimagining the Western canon through alternative cultural narratives — as was the case with Basquiat.

It includes works by distinguished artists such as Robert Henri, William Merritt Chase, John Twachtman, and John Singer Sargent, along with those of painters admired in their own time but less well - known today — including George Hitchcock, Gari Melchers, George Boughton, Elizabeth Nourse, Anna Stanley, and Walter MacEwen.

Few painters of his generation in America are more highly esteemed today - esteemed, that is, as painters - than the late Richard Diebenkorn (1922 - 1993).

A legendary American artist widely considered the finest painter living today (take that, Gerhard), Jasper Johns also «ranks with Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya, Munch, and Picasso as one of the greatest printmakers of any era,» in the words of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Austin is one of our favorite painters working today, as he is able to create works with a digital aesthetic but with acrylic finish.

Ellsworth Kelly»44 is regarded as one of the most important abstract painters, sculptors, and printmakers working today.

At Skowhegan Katz was first exposed to plein - air painting, which would prove pivotal in his development as a painter and remains a staple of his practice today.

Strange Meetings is the first monograph on UK abstractionist Clare Woods (born 1972), internationally regarded as one of the most significant painters working today.

Every movement had its famous painters, ones that still stand strong and undefeated as the ultimate creators of new ideas and that inspire generation after generation of talented individuals who embraced their legacy and continued their contribution to the evolution of contemporary art today.

Franz Ackermann is today among the most important as well as the most influential painters of the present day.

Though often a put - down today, the term had an entirely different meaning to fin - de-siécle painters such as Paul Gauguin or Henri Matisse.