Sentences with phrase «as an abstract painter before»

William Klein, Gun 1, New York, 1954 Klein had originally studied painting in Paris with Fernand Léger, enjoying some early success in Europe as an abstract painter before switching to photography.

Irwin began as an abstract painter before becoming deeply engaged in pushing the boundaries of art as the experience of perception itself.

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Behind the black gate was a world of color, hundreds of abstract works created and hidden away by Mr. Bates, who had a promising start as a painter in the 1970s before renouncing the art world and retreating to his storefront to paint.

As an emerging Abstract Expressionist painter, Melinda happily acknowledges that abstract painting was in her blood long before she studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City under Frank Roth.

Though Mitchell abstracted nature, gleaning only its essence, her advocacy for the natural world as a subject finds precedence in the plein air and Impressionist painters a century before.

It's not hard to believe that before he ventured into the medium of collage Daniel Biddy began as an abstract painter.

Mary Nelson Sinclair grew up in Dallas, Texas before moving to New York City where she currently resides working as an abstract painter.

While Jackson Pollock is considered as the most well - known painter who created his abstract pieces by dripping paint onto a flat canvas, many before him experimented with this method as well.

Before becoming one of the most eminent abstract painters of her generation, Mary Heilmann arrived in New York as a sculptor in 1968.

When an abstract painter has an idea, certain choices must be made before it can manifest as a painting.

Looking at this, as at the absent Women, it seems perverse if not actually impossible to think of De Kooning how he was once seen, as an abstract painter: he was as embedded in the experience of landscape and mutable light as the American «luminist» Martin Johnson Heade had been out there among the dunes a century before.

Barnett Newman, best known as an abstract painter, conceived of Broken Obelisk years before King's death.

Inspired by American postwar painters, such as Barnett Newman, Robert Rauschenberg, Ellsworth Kelly, and Mark Rothko, Gursky's recent works, most of which have never before been seen in the US, slip between the recognizable and the abstract.