Sentences with phrase «as a sign painter»

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.

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.

He trained as a sign painter in New York and uses text as an art form, creating colourful slogans on banners and placards that challenge elitism and advocate the importance of creativity in politics and education.

Bob and Roberta Smith — the pseudonym of the artist Patrick Brill — spent time training as a sign painter in New York, and uses text as an art form, creating colourful slogans that challenge elitism and advocate the importance of creativity in politics and education.

It was while working in New York as a sign painter by day and an abstract painter by night that he had the idea to import the giant - scale, broadly painted representational pictures from outdoor advertising into the realm of fine art.

October: Following the Academy's suggestion that he work at a «people's owned» factory and then reapply, Richter takes a job as a sign painter at DEWAG in Zittau.

He trained as a sign painter in New York and uses text as an art form, creating colorful slogans on banners and placards that challenge elitism and advocate the importance of creativity in politics and education.

He believes that the artist himself needs not do the lettering itself, as long as the sign painter complies with the instructions dictated by the artist.

He later built upon this early training during his adolescence as a sign painter.

Not exact matches

The practice also developed of copying particular types — icon painters were to avoid the production of likenesses that might be recognizable as being made by them in particular, and were not to sign them.

To make ends meet, Sperry and Abshire have another business, Glorified House Painters, whose range of services include all manner of interior painting, from faux finishes to murals, as well as floor refinishing, signs, banners and displays.

A sign painter brushes the words «DIREKTOR» on the frosted glass of the door to Schindler's office, as he interviews many young female candidates seated before him for secretarial positions: «Filing, billing, keeping track of my appointments.

If Lady Bird is, as Gerwig asserts, a «love letter to Sacramento,» then this montage of everyday, easy - to - take - for - granted sights is the big S.W.A.K. on the envelope, an unmistakable declaration of affection; the static shots throughout the movie of old neon signs from Gunther's, the Tower Theatre and Club Raven could be considered the missive's heart - shaped punctuation marks; and the purposeful use of light, about which Gerwig was particularly exacting (she dutifully studied the Sacramento landscapes of renowned contemporary painters Gregory Kondos and Wayne Thiebaud to make sure the color and intensity were just right), is suitably analogous to the fine mist of perfume that will linger after the pages have been folded away.

«The title of the film is taken from the way van Gogh would sign his letters — especially to his brother — as «Your loving Vincent,»» says Kobiela, who like the Dutch painter has struggled with depression.

Recurrent throughout 8 Painters are stylings on past painterly marks and movements, not so much placed in quotations as absorbed into a work's facture... It's a hopeful sign that the artists in [the show] demonstrate a critical distillation of influences that inform their particular sensibilities, philosophical outlooks, and relationship to materials — not making any great claims, just proceeding in a personally deliberate way.»

Perrotin recently signed, along with emerging talents such as Argote, two defiantly noncommercial éminences grises — Claude Rutault and Pierre Soulages, both French abstract painters — prompting some to speculate that he's making a transparent play for gravitas.

Sculptors Sidney Geist and George Spaventa along with painters Charles Cajori and Esteban Vicente signed on as regular instructors.

Signed LL Theorodos Stamos is heralded as one of the few abstract painters who bridged the New York School's first and second generations.

Describing himself as an «American painter of signs,» Indiana has developed a bold, graphic style inspired by road signs and billboards, reflecting his interest in Americana.

Lund uses fabric wallpaper as backgrounds for the works, and their messages have been painted by a sign painter according to Lund's directions.

From 1993 - 1997, Alÿs collaborated with Juan Garcia, Enrique Huerta, and Emilio Rivera, all of whom work as rótulistas — professional street sign painters — in Mexico City.

Robert Indiana distinguished himself as the «American Painter of Signs» as a way to emphasize his interest in exploring American identity, personal history, and the power of abstraction and language.

Art Historian VR distinguishes Hodgson as the most gestural member of Painters 11,»... gutsy and aggressive, but finally lyrical and sensuous...» Signed and dated by the artist.

That includes more sign painting, such as Tips for Painters Who Want to Sell or a quote on «esthetic judgments» from Clement Greenberg.

Until 1935, when he was publicly supported as an artist on the Federal Art Project, de Kooning made a living as a sign - writer, house - painter and odd - job man.

[7] Just as these painters had attacked the canvas with swirls, drips, splashes, and smears, Noffke would attack the surface of his metal objects with obsessive and intricate detail consisting of stars, letterforms, arrows, crosses, dollar signs, eyes, and other obscure symbols.

While the marketing of desire, seduction and sexual gratification is the ostensible subject of Tal R's latest depictions of sexshop facades, the Copenhagen - based painter's interest in the shops themselves goes no further than their surface and status as signs.

He was a great painter who produced a significant body of work over six decades, until his death in 1980, but his often vitriolic personality and self - imposed outsider status — he mostly refused to sign with a gallery — meant that he has always been seen as a secondary figure.

Countless painters have emulated the fluency of pictures such as «No Title,» «The Commuter» (1971 - 72) and «Woman on a Sign II» (1967).

During that time he retrained as a professional sign - painter: indirectly it was the «matter - of - factness» of sign - painting that showed the way to the apparently simple, abstract wall paintings he started to make in the early 1990s.

During this period he also worked as a freelance sign painter and typesetter.

Time Machine / Hippie Dandy at Meliksetian Briggs is comprised of Gray's new photo - based sculptural work, an installation of the original paintings made by the Ghanaian sign painters, as well as, ephemera from the artist's year long performance piece, Ray.

Renaissance painting, [especially early Renaissance northern Italian painters, specifies Stonehouse], contemporary painters like Leon Golub and Anselm Kiefer, magic realist writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Day of the Dead imagery, movie posters from Ghana, West African barber shop signs...»

Although he has received some beaux - arts training, his first career was as a self - taught sign - painter.

As an avid collector of Pop, Op and Abstract Expressionists — including works by fellow artist (and sign painter) Robert Indiana, Frank Stella, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Motherwell, Gerald Laing and others — Gallery Director is a role that fits Bill Pugsley like a vintage Zoot Suit.

In 1960, Rosenquist, a former sign - painter (as was Warhol and backdrop painter Gerhard Richter), was making neo-Dada semi-abstraction.

For several years, she signed her early paintings «George Hartigan,» as a tribute to 19th century female novelists George Eliot and George Sand, and her reputation exceeded those of such renowned female painters as Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell and Lee Krasner.

Medium: Oil painting on linen Image size: 5.75 x 4 inches Frame size: 14 x 12 x 2 inches Signed at lower right: AVS A noted contemporary figurative painter, Stevovich grew up in Washington, D.C., and as a young child spent time roaming the halls of the National Gallery of Art, where he was particularly drawn to the Renaissance paintings that would come to inform his work.

With a razor sharp style that reveals her training as a professional sign painter, Auerbach makes works on panel and paper that are a refreshing spin on the traditions of Conceptual art and Concrete poetry.

It has been more than 20 years since Robert Indiana has had a show in New York, but in early February the «American painter of signs,» as he once called himself, will find his work all over Manhattan.

Self - described as an «American painter of signs,» Robert Indiana (born 1928) has interpreted the postwar American semiotic landscape through a unique merging of Pop's graphic snap with American modernist painting's codes of sexuality and use of advertising designs.

Mr. Tàpies (pronounced TAH - pee - ess) came to prominence in the late 1940s with richly symbolic paintings strongly influenced by Surrealist painters like Miró and Klee, a style he abandoned by the mid-1950s as he turned to what became his signature work: the heavily built - up surfaces that were often scratched, pitted and gouged and incised with letters, numbers and signs.

They borrow as much technique and style from sign painters as they do from the history of twentieth - century art.

His work references his early creative career as a sign and billboard painter, and the media soaked images of popular culture.

From 1939 to 1949 Thiebaud worked as a cartoonist, sign painter, and illustrator.

In the late 1980s, however, he became disillusioned with his working methods and abandoned his own art for two years to train as a professional sign painter.

Rosenquist worked as a commercial artist and sign - painter in the late 1950s and put this training to use in vast, billboard - style canvases which appropriated images from advertising.

It was his work as a professional sign painter that would profoundly shape both his approach to art and his artistic persona.

Murphy's experience as a professional sign painter (working at Steve Powers» ICY Signs) also shines through in a group of color vinyl abstractions adhered to opaque plastic, conjuring the low - budget advertising of bygone eras.

Thus, just as portrait painters attempt to establish a likeness through the features or a look in the eyes (where character is revealed), taking far fewer pains with the rest, I must be allowed to devote myself mainly to the signs of the psyche.»