Sentences with phrase «as leading figures»

Staging the theatrics within the space of a tennis match, Lerma casts four iconic tennis players from the 1980s as the leading figures of the play.

Follow our live coverage of a historic day in parliament, as leading figures in the phone - hacking scandal face questions from MPs.

In comments released as leading figures attend the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos this week, Dr Rowan Williams said there is «little or nothing» to suggest rising gross domestic product (GDP) eases poverty levels.

Plaudits from foreign leaders like President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore, as well as leading figures of the economic and diplomatic world, have helped to cement this image.

There's also a whole host of views from anchors Geoff Cutmore, Steve Sedgwick and Karen Tso, as well as leading figures from business and finance.

How they reconcile this is anybody's guess, but as a leading figure in Ukip, Woolfe is no stranger to internal squabbles.

He entered the contest as a leading figure of his generation.

But he implied that Gove was being blamed by pro-EU sources in a bid to undermine his credibility as a leading figure in the Leave campaign.

Author, newspaper columnist, and television personality El - Naggar is also a geologist whom many Egyptians, including a number of his fellow scientists, regard as a leading figure in their community.

He was born in 1942, before the likes of Fassbinder and Wenders, yet he now stands as the leading figure in contemporary European cinema.

With the Roland Barthes - inspired 1964 group show «Mythologies Quotidiennes,» he emerged as a leading figure of the «Narrative Figuration» movement.

Haring is regarded as a leading figure in New York's East Village Art scene in the 1970s and 1980s.

His precisely made cubic and rectilinear works were instrumental in setting a new course for American sculpture and eventually established him as a leading figure in the Minimal Art movement.

In the 1990s Drapell was widely exhibited in the United States and Europe, where he was recognized by American critic Kenworth Moffett and Parisian gallery owner Gérald Piltzer as a leading figure among the «new new painters,» a grouping of abstract artists in Canada and the northeastern United States whose work is characterized by high - keyed, glossy colour and built - up surfaces.

Executed in 1961, Helen Frankenthaler's Untitled coincided with the development of her unique Colour Field technique, solidifying her position as a leading figure of post-war New York painting.

In the 1960s, he emerged as a leading figure of Pop Art.

During the past two decades Tom Burr has earned a critical reputation as a leading figure in American contemporary art.

He is recognized worldwide as a leading figure of the Arte Povera movement.

Carlo Carra was an Italian painter whose avant - garde artwork established him as the leading figure of the dynamic and radical Futurist movement.

Organized in collaboration with The Estate of Tom Wesselmann, the exhibition will present over 30 works produced between 1959 and 1964 — a significant period spanning the artist's early career and his emergence as a leading figure of Pop Art.

«Everything: Part 1,» on view at Adam Baumgold Gallery through July 11, surveys Barry's 35 - year career as a leading figure in the post-punk, alternative - comics scene.

He is a purveyor of doodles and is often credited and referenced as the leading figure in the popular «Doodle» art style.

Since the debut of her seminal Untitled Film Stills in New York City in 1978 and her early days as a leading figure of the Pictures Generation, Sherman has played the role of both photographer and her camera's own exclusive subject.

The exhibition will reexamine Augusta Savage's place in the history of American sculpture, positioning her as a leading figure who broke down the barriers she and her students encountered within the art world.

These shows clearly established Pollock as the leading figure of the new American painting.

created between 1959 and 1964, by the late Pop artist Tom Wesselmann, works that mark a significant point in the artist's career as a leading figure of the Pop art movement, just at the point where he was transitioning from brusque abstraction to an interest in the commodity formats and spatial confines of the canvas.

The fully illustrated companion catalogue will present the most up - to - date scholarly research, reexamining Savage's place in the history of American sculpture and positioning her as a leading figure who broke down the barriers she and her students encountered while seeking to participate fully in the art world.

This Milan exhibition — which is opened together with the MiArt 2011 edition — is one of the largest anthological exhibitions dedicated to the renowned American artist, who is considered by the critics worldwide as a leading figure in recent history of video art, and is referred to as the initiator of video sculpture.

Her early paintings, dating from the late 1930s, established her as a leading figure in the Icelandic avant - garde community (many of whom met together in a house in Reykjavík called Unuhús).

While working in this mode, he produced powerful and compelling images of the Machine Age: skyscrapers, factories, and power plants, images that established his reputation as a leading figure in American art.

Fifty years on, Alexander Kluge is best known as a leading figure of the New German Cinema, born of the 1962 Oberhausen Manifesto.

These paintings positioned Tàpies as a leading figure in Europe's avant - garde and signaled the beginning of a lifelong investigation of materials and forms that made him one of the most influential postwar artists.

Finally, Belgian Surrealism emerged as an important movement in the country, with René Magritte as the leading figure of this group of artists.

Largely recognised as the leading figure of the group was Samuel Peploe.

Rothko's first important one - man show in 1945 at the Art of This Century Gallery in New York City established him as a leading figure in postwar American painting.

As a leading figure of conceptual and post-minimal art movements during the 1960s, Bochner experimented in complicating the interface between reading and seeing.

Julian Stanczak, a Polish - born American abstract painter who rose to fame as a leading figure of the popular Op Art movement but slipped into obscurity when its reputation flagged, died on March 25 at his home in Seven Hills, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb.

In 1966, immediately on graduating from St Martins, Flanagan was offered a solo exhibition at the Rowan Gallery, London, rapidly establishing his reputation as a leading figure of the Avant - garde.

He's often been characterized as a leading figure in so - called abject art — work that plumbs the depths of mortification and abasement, made by artists as diverse as Paul McCarthy, Annette Messager, John Miller and Tony Oursler.

Although he was initially labeled a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting.His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half - century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.

In 1944 MoMA bought one of his paintings for their permanent collection and his reputation, as a leading figure in America's avant - garde art movement, began to take hold.

She's won numerous grants and awards and over the past decade has been lauded as a leading figure in the art world.

Woody Mosten has been on the cutting edge of the law for over four decades as a leading figure in legal clinics, unbundled legal services, mediation, and collaborative law.

He has considerable international experience and is widely regarded as a leading figure in the field.

As a leading figure in the legal practice of Islamic finance, Neil was invited to become a member of the UK Treasury committee of Islamic finance experts.

A former Lincolns Solicitors partner, he has over 15 years» international financial services experience, and is known as a leading figure in Ireland's legal market.

Andy Warhol, an American artist best known as the leading figure of the pop art movement in the 20th century, was an avid cookie jar collector.

Despite flourishes, including a softly lit image, that are sympathetic to Hearn, the piece includes the most exposition on the block size debate, elaborating on Maxwell's own difficulties as a leading figure in the bitcoin community and detailing former Bitcoin Core lead maintainer Gavin Andresen's thoughts on the debate.

Woody Mosten has been on the cutting edge of the law for over four decades as a leading figure in legal clinics, unbundled legal services, mediation, and collaborative law.

With its strong, graphic expression, advanced elements, and complex design, the Wishbone Chair quickly gained iconic status, and has been instrumental in cementing Wegner's position as a leading figure in Danish furniture design history.