Sentences with phrase «as draughtsman»

Albers's appreciation of complex tonal contrasts as a draughtsman, printmaker and photographer would go on to influence his own pupils including Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly and Kenneth Noland.

He did not attend Art School but began his career in an architect's office as a draughtsman.

With open flowing lines, this work displayed Smith's formal training as welder, but also as a draughtsman and painter.

«Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented», de Kooning famously once remarked, but in fact, these works grew out of an extended period of innovation in which that artist had deliberately attempted to subvert his prodigious gifts as a draughtsman in favour of newer, unconsciously made, but more vital marks.

A selection of Magritte's best work in gouache accompanies these masterpieces, and the drawings demonstrate his brilliance as a draughtsman, offering a rare insight into this aspect of his artistic practice.

For artist Paul Stafford, the challenge is to harness an artist's technical ability as a draughtsman and allow that person to develop his or her own language.

It «charts the powerful, straightforward story of an artist whose natural gift as draughtsman was second in the 20th century only to Picasso's», writes the Financial Times's critic Jackie Wullschlager.

He was accepted into the Brera Academy (Accademia di Brera) in 1951, and there studied as a draughtsman until 1954 in the studio of Achille Funi.

Joseph Beuys» works on paper are an often neglected part of his oeuvre, now a new collection of his drawings aims to put this straight and demonstrate his extraordinary skill as a draughtsman as well as visionary artist.

He studied philosophy and literature at the University of Bucharest, and trained as a draughtsman during the 1930s, in Milan.

A turbulent yet transformative year, 1951 would prove to be «Pollock's most important and productive year as a draughtsman,» in which his drawings reached an unprecedented level of virtuosity and sophistication (E.V. Thaw, «1950 Introductory Text,» in F.V. O'Connor and E.V. Thaw, ed., Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works, Vol.

He trained as a draughtsman and in 1937 joined an architectural practice, designing exhibition stands for trade fairs.

Martin Wong grew up in San Francisco where he was active in the late 60s and early 70s in the art scene in San Francisco, first as a ceramic artist, then as a draughtsman and painter.

Presented alongside the Black Pourings will be drawings from the same period, regarded as his most important and productive as a draughtsman, as well as a number of virtually unknown and rarely seen sculptures.

Waiting for the Fire, a large - scale drawing in Indian ink, illustrates his facility as a draughtsman, clearly evident in the animated charcoal drawings that first brought him to the world's attention.

Born in Dresden, Germany, in 1932 just as the Nazi Third Reich was coming to power, Gerhard Richter showed early promise as a draughtsman and left school to take up an apprenticeship as a set painter in a theater.

While he is an artist known for his painterly technique and his use of colour, with his new series of charcoals he reveals his skills as a draughtsman and introduces a new field for expression.

These works are a series of black enamel and oil paintings, they are presented alongside unique works on paper and prints from the same period, which are regarded as his most important and productive output as a draughtsman.

These drawings emphasize the figurative and symbolic foundation of Ortman's art, demonstrating the mechanics of his abstraction and showcasing his extraordinary talent as a draughtsman — an interesting aside for a geometric abstractionist shared by others of his generation such as Ellsworth Kelly.

Carlos Garaicoa Manso (b. Havana, Cuba, 1967) studied thermodynamics before his mandatory military service, during which he worked as a draughtsman.

Although initially recognized for his talent as a draughtsman and even recruited by Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and Heavy Metal Magazine, Drew knew he had to seek other ways of creating.

A fascinating new show at New York gallery Hirschl & Adler Modern reveals a decade's worth of works on paper from Pop master Andy Warhol's earliest years as a fine artist — proving his skill as a draughtsman as well as his eye for graphic design.

The marks and techniques he employed during the etching process were a natural progression from his work as a draughtsman.

Born in London in 1914 Chadwick trained as a draughtsman and in 1937 joined an architectural practice, designing exhibition stands for trade fairs.

A frequent collaborator with artists and poets, Rand has worked as draughtsman with Robert Creeley and John Ashbery and explored subjects as diverse as jazz, the Bible, and Jewish history.

Pierre Bonnard is acknowledged to be one of the great masters of modern painting yet as a draughtsman he has been neglected.

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He trained as an architect, learning the skills he needed to become a fine draughtsman.

This ocean - front event will include famous names from the beer world like Ballast Point, Firestone Walker Brewing, Lagunitas and Stone Brewing, as well as a top - notch lineup of Santa Barbara County breweries including Brass Bear, The Brewhouse, Captain Fatty's, Draughtsmen, Figueroa Mountain, Hollister Brewing, M. Special, Pure Order, Rincon Brewery, Third Window and Topa Topa.

Accompanied by his former tutor, the accomplished French artist Charles - Louis Clérisseau (who specialised in ruins) and two draughtsmen, he managed to make a reasonable survey in a short time despite having insufficient permits and being thwarted by the Venetian authorities who regarded the group as spies.

David Hockney RA, has distinguished himself throughout his long and successful career as a gifted draughtsman; his confidence and strength of line characterises his work from single line portrait studies, to large scale paintings of LA in the 60s.

Even as they engage in conflict or violence, their draughtsman - like stylization and sparse colors lend a austere gracefulness to the scenes.

Lanfranco Quadrio (Italy) and Marcel Rusu (Romania) work as traditional draughtsmen, yet both remain extremely contemporary in the formal strength and dynamism of their drawings.

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Scott joined the Army in July 1942, serving firstly with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and then as a lithographic draughtsman with the Royal Engineers.

Indeed, Grotjahn's early work established his capabilities as a skilled draughtsman, from the Sign Replacement Project that involved him making careful copies of shop signs and trading them for the originals, to his abstract experiments with multiple vanishing points in the late 1990s.

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They provide an insight into Hockney's remarkable versatility, from fax machine drawings to the iPad, and confirms his gift as a true draughtsman while Abstract Expressionism was king.

As Gottlieb recalled, «Avery was a wonderful draughtsman.

He volunteered for active duty in World War I and, after sustaining an injury, continued to help with the war effort as a cartographer and a medical draughtsman.

During the war Scott served for a time with the Royal Engineers as a lithographic draughtsman and afterwards Scott took up a teaching post at the Bath Academy of Art (1946 - 56).

Considered a pioneer of socially engaged art, these drawings belie Beuys» more rebellious streak, but they show the artist as a great draughtsman and someone who has a true interest in human nature.

Chadwick started to work as a trainee draughtsman for architects such as Donald Hamilton, Eugen Carl Kauffman, and Rodney Thomas.

By then Grace Hartigan had returned home and had taken a job as a mechanical instrument draughtsman at an aircraft engineers; she also took evening classes in art, though she admitted that her output then showed «absolutely no talent».

De Kooning was a skilled draughtsman with a graceful touch that resulted in sinuous lines suggestive of volume as well as shape.

Artist, draughtsman, stage designer and photographer, he began his artistic search as an important contributor to the Pop art movement in the mid-1960's.

Be it as a painter, stage designer, draughtsman, sculptor, architect, designer, catalogue and book designer, poet or author of theoretical works, Zobernig pursues this question in the widest possible variety of roles and thereby questions the traditional image of the artist.

Robert Ballagh was born in Dublin in 1943, he originally studied architecture and worked as an engineering draughtsman, a musician and a postman before dedicating himself to painting in 1967.

For LeWitt, each installation has its own value, so long as the concept is understood and respected by the draughtsmen and - women, and the execution does not affect the artistic quality of the work.

Many historians cite John Wilde (1919 — 2006)-- painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of fantastic imagery — as one of the pioneers of magic realism in Wisconsin.