Sentences with phrase «as an icon painter»

Born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in Crete, he traveled to Spain and worked as an icon painter.

In addition to making futuristic sculpture and architecture, he trained as an icon painter and taught woodworking and ceramics.

(Flavin — who had trained as a priest before going into the air force and then turning to art — had a well - documented obsession with Russian art and later dedicated a group of fluorescent light «monuments» to the Constructivist Vladimir Tatlin, who had trained as an icon painter.)

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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.

A painter's painter, a printmaker's printmaker and a reluctant icon of Pop Art, Jim Dine appears as singular as ever in Jim Dine 80 at Alan Avery Art Company through March 21.

A renowned painter, draftsman, poet, musician, and graffiti artist, as well as an all - around arts icon, Jean - Michel Basquiat was at the forefront of New York's downtown avant - garde in the late 1970s and 80s.

This exhibition presents portraits of designer, muse, collector, and icon Diane von Furstenberg by some of the most celebrated artists of the past four decades, along with a retrospective of DVF fashion spanning the last forty years.Diane von Fustenberg: Journey of a Dress features works by artists including Francesco Clemente, Chuck Close, Helmut Newton, Julian Opie, and Andy Warhol, as well as new portraits of von Furstenberg by four leading figures in Chinese contemporary art: conceptual artist Zhang Huan, photographer Hai Bo, painter Li Songsong, and multimedia artist Yi Zhou.

The «mother of American modernism» and the world's most - expensive woman artist, this pioneering feminist painter is a true American icon, as famous for her lifestyle in the rugged New Mexican desert, as for the large paintings of flowers that are her best - known works.

He's included older painters like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, icons of black contemporary art like David Hammons, as well as underappreciated figures like Beauford Delaney.

Since Pollock's death in 1956, precisely as he became an American cultural icon, Krasner continued to be seen as his widow first, and as a painter second.

Described by New York Times art critic Holland Cotter as «a classic artist's artist and one of our few important practicing history painters» Saul is best known for his paintings depicting exaggerated, provocative images of pop culture ranging from well - known art references to political icons.

His comparative lack of success abroad made no difference to his reputation in his native country, where he was seen as an icon of modern art and the foremost painter of the remote Australian landscape.

Here, the artist lists American «revolutionaries» noted for liberating gay art and homoerotica, citing painters such as Charles Demuth and Paul Cadmus, filmmaker Jack Smith, and the music and dance icons John Cage and Merce Cunningham.

Two Coats of Paint suggests that Murray was a neo-feminist icon: «Unlike earlier painters such as Joan Mitchell and Lee Krasner, who felt childrearing would dilute their focus and diminish their ability to paint, Murray opted to have kids.