Sentences with phrase «as a painter when»

Finally found life as a painter when I discovered your work.

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It was an issue when he was not playing, though for Painter I doubt it was ever an issue, but as Nojel's mins rose and the season wore on we didn't hear any more about it.

Examples of this «trick of the eye» art, or trompe l'oeil as it commonly known, date back to Graeco - Roman times, but it wasn't until the Renaissance, when painters mastered the art of perspective drawing, that the genre flourished.

Synopsis: When her father goes blind, Griet (Scarlett Johansson) must go to work as a maid for painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth).

In an attempt to bring a more human face to the slaughter, Saroyan brings in a historian, an Armenian woman named Ani (Khanjian, Irma Vep), to serve as an advisor to the film, since she is an expert on the life of painter Arshile Gorky (Abkarian, When the Cat's Away), reported to have eye witnessed the events, and who is to be featured in a supporting role.

The actor has a strong connection to the da Vinci project: he got his first name from the famous painter, as his pregnant mother was looking at a da Vinci painting in a museum in Italy when the future star kicked for the first time.

Logline: When a house painter inadvertently receives some penguins from a friend in Antarctica, he decides to train them as a circus act.

The Papillon became really popular when Tiziano Vicelli painted them in the 16th century, as a result of which many other renowned painters began to include the Papillon dog in their works.

Designed by New York - based firm Roman & Williams, the Ace has a truly unique design aesthetic: the lobby reflects the building's history with a mural of filmmaker and painter Harry Smith who lived in the building when it was the Breslin Hotel, while guest rooms have a more utilitarian feel, with repurposed pipes serving as everything from a makeshift closet to desk legs.

«In the future, I hope when people talk about me, it's not as an abstract painter, but that I came to abstraction through the study of very concrete objects,» Zhang said.

Paul Hickman: I started my career as a sign painter when I was 15 and after college continued for the next 16 years working with toxic and environmentally degrading materials.

Bailey came to international attention as a figure painter through controversy in 1982, when his breast - baring «Portrait of S» made the cover of the widely circulated Newsweek magazine.

That's always what interested me, even when I was a very young painter... I decided if I was going to talk about paintings in which you were seeing reality... talk about the act of observation, I had to get closer to how I observed rather than just use as a model how everyone else observed.

In an epoch when older painters tended to work for forty years exploring the same image, Wool blew willy - nilly through different images, often concurrently, challenging traditional notions about artist identity and branding and paint handling as well as the Modernist notion of progress.

When he returned to painting in the Bay Area in mid-1965 his resulting works summed up all that he had learned from his more than a decade as a leading figurative painter.

Stefan Szczesny September 13 — October 9, 2012 The exhibit explores the early 80s, when Szczesny emerged as one of the protagonists of a young generation of bold figurative painters in the German - speaking world who came to be known as «Neue Wilde.»

In the April 1999 issue of American Artist magazine the contemporary realist painter Jack Beal is quoted as saying about his commissioned portraits, «I tell my clients that when my portrait of them is finished, they will hate it — and their spouse will hate it even more.

As such, «Rower's pours come closer to the abstracting nature photos of Edward Weston than to the works of Pollock or de Kooning, painters who, even when most abstract, always left behind traces of the actions of their hands.»

From the «precursors» who developed Congo's first works on paper when it was still a Belgian colony to the 1970s «popular painters» who worked as sign painters and created comics, and a new generation of artists that emerged in the 2000s, this unique show offers an historic overview of Congo's artistic landscape.

Things become further complicated when that autonomy is itself called into question as it has, for example by abstract painters such Jonathan Lasker, Francis Baudevin, Ingrid Calame or Fiona Rae, to name only a few.

It can be as simple as this, that a painter is often getting into serious trouble with his work, and when that would happen, well, I'd say, «Well, the trouble is that I'm doing the wrong thing.

«The exhibition John Graham: Maverick Modernist at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, Long Island, is a unique opportunity to explore the work of an artist who has hovered on the margins of the Modernist narrative for more than a half - century, when he isn't forgotten altogether... Maverick Modernist takes a deep dive into Graham's background as an artist, a career he began in earnest when, at the age of 35, he enrolled in the class of the Ashcan School painter John Sloan at the Art Students League in New York City.»

But when it comes to viewing David Park's body of work, this book shines with superb color plates dispersed throughout, showing Park's development as a painter from his early days, his non-figurative period, his return to figurative painting, and his final figurative work in gouache.

Conceived as an adjunct to painting in the earliest years of its development in the first decades of the 19th century, when many painters discovered how useful photographs could be in composing their canvases, photography quickly assumed an artistic presence and legitimacy of its own (albeit one that often still took its cues from traditional painterly modes of representation).

But at a time when the art world was tilting toward abstraction and internationalism, Mr. Colville was also something of an outsider, dedicated to figurative painting and to his native Canada, where he was revered by many as «painter laureate.»

One can see the first two as color and space, visual and tactile, systematic and unsettled, cosmopolitan Paris and open quarries, or the center of a movement and a painter apart, even when painting his wife.

«When my work was not censored outright, it was either mildly ridiculed, or described as folkloric, or just ignored,» she recalled to the art magazine Modern Painters.

The work addresses Pollock who was quoted as saying «When I paint, I am in my painting... this is when I feel akin to a Navajo sand painter.&raWhen I paint, I am in my painting... this is when I feel akin to a Navajo sand painter.&rawhen I feel akin to a Navajo sand painter.»

Budding photographer Arthur Tress, fresh from art school studying as a painter, was 23 when he came to San Francisco in 1964, up from San Miguel de Allende to visit and stay with his...

The departure was short - lived, however, ending when Hoptman returned to the city as a senior curator at the New Museum, bringing in works by painters like Elizabeth Peyton, George Condo, and Tomma Abts while also organizing seminal exhibitions including «Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century» — the influential show of provisional - looking sculpture that famously included a lot of paint — and «Younger than Jesus,» the first iteration of the museum's Triennial.

When he returned to New York he joined an advertising agency, setting the pattern for a career as a painter that was supported by his steady work as a graphic designer.

Neel challenged the artistic conventions of her time by pursuing a career as a figurative painter when her contemporaries favored abstraction.

Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920) is talking about the moment, some 60 years ago now, when he found his true idiom as a painter, and his signature subject: the point at which, you might say, he truly became an artist.

As part of Joan Mitchell Foundation's ongoing collaboration with Voices of Contemporary Art (VoCA), please join us on Thursday, October 12, when abstract painter and Yaqui Indian Mario Martinez will sit down with Steven O'Banion, Director of Conservation at Glenstone, to discuss his life, work, and personal philosophy.

I was reminded of one of my favorite abstract painters, the Californian John McLaughlin, who was born in 1898 and whose career as an artist also began when he was 50.

When I asked if any of our local museums had gotten onboard as well, however, the person behind the desk just blinked knowingly and shook her head as if to say, Of course not; they like their newer painters more predictable.

Works by artists such as Chuck Close, Petah Coyne, and Tom Friedman display the rich cross-fertilization that occurs when painters, sculptors and conceptual artists explore new ideas through photography.

Schapiro, born in 1923, studied art at the State University of Iowa and, with her husband, the painter and educator Paul Brach, lived in New York City in the 1950s — a time when its art world dominated as the center of postwar modernism.

A few years later, when I decided I want to become a painter, I got frustrated that in all of these years, she, or the other art teachers I had in high school or during my one year at the Bezalel Academy, didn't teach me what I viewed as «proper skills».

These works were difficult to categorize: though I thought of myself as a painter, as I had earlier when working with gouache on paper, in defiance of the rules left over from Greenbergian formalism in the New York School that made oil or acrylic on canvas the probative medium, these were not paintings.

The same period saw a bolder, more flourishing art as well, with witty, aggressive performances from such artists as Marina Abramovic before and after Ulay, Lynda Benglis, Ana Mendieta, Carolee Schneemann (when not a painter or video artist), Barbara Probst, and Yoko Ono.

Examining the development and artistic exploration of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, this unprecedented volume presents the works of American artist Mark Rothko from the 1940s, a time when his most essential development as a painter occurred, dramatically and in a very compact space of time.

And as it happened, the one - man debut of Gorky's friend the Dutchman De Kooning, celebrated that April evening in 1948, was to be eclipsed if not outclassed the following year when a still scowling Pollock posed for Life magazine in front of the tumbleweed whorls of Summertime (1948) and was awarded the headline: «Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?»

Jasper Johns (born 1930) made his major breakthrough as a painter in the mid-1950s when he started using iconic, popular images in his paintings — an explosive move at a moment when advanced painting was understood to be exclusively abstract.

Born in Dublin, Scully began his career as a figurative painter in London, in the years when Freud and Bacon still dominated Britain's art climate.

When British artists saw the first London exhibitions of American abstract painters such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko in the late Fifties, they were astonished by the improvisatory freedom of their works, in which paint appeared to have been hurled on to the canvas without any preconceived ideas, and by the sheer size of the paintings.

[1] When Marsh was two years old his family moved to Nutley, New Jersey, where his father acquired a studio home located on The Enclosure, a street that had been established as an artists» colony some decades earlier by the American painter Frank Fowler.

The exhibition, «I speak now from the aesthetic and artistic point of view when I say that life with Michelle Grabner is dull» brings together the work of four antithetical painters who Michelle Grabner, the Chicago - based artist, heralds as profoundly enabling to her own unvaried and unimaginative abstract investigations.

When Linda Nochlin asked Georgia O'Keeffe to take part in an all - women exhibition, she declined because she wanted to be seen solely as «one of the best painters.»

As a college DJ, I hung out with an abstract painter, and when I met his friends and mentor, my native shyness only grew.