Sentences with phrase «became celebrated artists»

Despite Hockney's reservations, the practice of artists employing production lines is ancient: as the National Gallery exhibition shows, Leonardo da Vinci used many assistants, some of whom became celebrated artists in their own right.

Here is an ordinary man who has overcome a minor disability to become a celebrated artist.

Although she did not win the prize, she became a celebrated artist, with Charles Saatchi initially acquiring the work, which was recently sold for # 2.54 million at Christie's, acquired by a German businessman who has since lent it to the Tate, where the bed now sleeps.

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Hayek concluded her remarks by calling for more «equality, diversity, inclusion and intersectionality,» which were celebrated throughout the evening, from the visibility of Latino projects («The Shape of Water,» «Coco» and «A Fantastic Woman») and transgender artists (the actress Daniela Vega and the documentarian Yance Ford) to glorious appearances from such veterans Eva Marie Saint, Rita Moreno and screenwriter James Ivory, who became the oldest Oscar winner in history when he won the award for best adapted screenplay.

2 in Las Vegas, will have a new look this year featuring the artwork of Alex Carmona, who will become part of a tradition that was established by celebrated automotive artists Max Grundy and Ed Tillrock.

Macklemore is the first indie group (an artist or group without the backing of a major record label) in nearly two decades to top the Billboard charts with «Thrift Shop» and «Can't Hold Us»; another hit, «Same Love» celebrates same - sex marriage, becoming a standard protest / civil rights anthem.

In the Classroom: Family Pictures / Cuadros de familia is the story of author and illustrator Carmen Lomas Garza's girlhood in Kingsville, Texas: celebrating birthdays, making tamales, picking cactus, and confiding to her sister her dreams of becoming an artist.

People Who Work Here became a recurring opportunity to celebrate the dedicated team that supports the gallery's artists and programming.

PAFA celebrated the gift with an exhibition composed entirely of works from the Alter Collection: The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World became PAFA's principal 2012 - 13 exhibition, presented from November to April in both the Fisher Brooks and Annenberg Galleries of PAFA's Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building.

This new publication marks the first comprehensive survey of a seminal body of work that helped make Fred Sandback into the internationally celebrated artist he has become known as today.

But insofar as his grand present reputation has depended, in large part, upon his being identified as a minor, marginalized artist, what will happen now, so I wonder, that he has become so much celebrated and so generally admired?

Issues of legacy and personal narrative animate many of the artists» encounters in Atlanta — an inquiry into what becomes documented, celebrated, and spoken about, and conversely what is not.

Gormley is one of Britain's most celebrated artists, known for sculptures, installations and public artworks that explore the body «as a place of becoming... a possible space where something that we might call identity or meaning can arise.»

At the Prada Foundation, celebrated curator Germano Celant (best known for ushering Arte Povera to international renown) has organized a fascinating show together with artist Thomas Demand and architect Rem Koolhaas that lovers of art history can't miss: an artwork - by - artwork restaging of curator Harald Szeemann's legendary 1969 show «When Attitudes Become Form» at the Bern Kunsthalle, which redefined the possibilities of what curating can and should be.

NO DEAD ARTISTS has become an exhibition that has time and again discovered new and emerging talent and is one of the most celebrated art exhibitions in the South.

After studying with Hans Hoffman, Blaine would become the youngest member inducted into the American Abstract Artists group in 1944, celebrated for her hard edge abstractions.

«In 1982, Louise Bourgeois became the first woman to be celebrated by a retrospective at the MoMA, and now at the age of 96, is clearly one of the most significant artists, gender notwithstanding,...

Hirst was among the select group of artists included in the show who became famous as the YBAs (Young British Artists), celebrated for their brazen honesty, their boldness in pushing art into unexplored territories, and their talent for delivering complex ideas with a powerful visualartists included in the show who became famous as the YBAs (Young British Artists), celebrated for their brazen honesty, their boldness in pushing art into unexplored territories, and their talent for delivering complex ideas with a powerful visualArtists), celebrated for their brazen honesty, their boldness in pushing art into unexplored territories, and their talent for delivering complex ideas with a powerful visual punch.

While Juliana Huxtable's genre - and gender - defying practice moves fluidly between performance, poetry, pop music, and photography; it's no wonder that the artist has become a figurehead for a millennial, internet - savvy generation that celebrates gender and identity nonconformism.

In 1995, he became the first Asian artist to receive an individual award at the Venice Biennale, propelling him to become one of Japan's most celebrated artists.»

About the artist: Beijing - based Zheng Xuewu (b. 1964) has become celebrated for creating an art of unorthodox methods that is in unique dialogue with quotidian Chinese imagery and language.

All four paintings have become some of the most celebrated in Freud's oeuvre and were selected in recent years for the 2012 critically acclaimed retrospective of the artist's portraits organized by London's National Portrait Gallery.

By the 1980s however Scully began to experiment with the formal constraints of painting, creating sculptural works where the stripe expanded to become a building block, ultimately paving the way to the artist's celebrated Wall of Light paintings of the 1990s.

-- Alfonso Ossorio, 1968 Oral history interview, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Celebrating Alfonso Ossorio's centennial birthday, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to present Alfonso Ossorio — Congregations: The First Decade, 1959 - 1969, an exhibition of twenty - four of the mixed - media assemblages coined by the artist as «congregations» that have become emblematic of Ossorio's vision and capacity for innovation.

Generally the more the artists celebrate identity, like Cox's Yo Mamadonna or Smith's video of hip - hop in a park, the less convincing they become.

Throughout his long and celebrated career, Richard Tuttle has become one of the most significant artists in the world today.

She has since become one of the most celebrated British artists of the past twenty years, during which period Dean has produced over forty 16 mm films and a rich body of drawings, photographs, and writing.

Frieze New York has become an unmissable moment in the calendar for collectors, artists, curators, students and art enthusiasts, not to mention the best moment in the year to celebrate the great city that hosts the fair.»

On a global level, influential British stencil artist Banksy and American graphic artist Shepard Fairey have become celebrated in both fine art and pop culture for their characteristic street art styles.

The Heroic Ai Weiwei Does It Again — The celebrated Chinese artist was walking down the street in Beijing when he witnessed a bloody brawl between two ethnic groups — one woman was lying bleeding on the street, other men were furiously pummeling each other without resistance from «meek» cops who were present — and filmed it, posting the footage online where it became a sensation.

Over the course of the six - decade career that followed, she became one of the country's most celebrated artists, elected a Royal Academician in 1991 and made a CBE in 2011.

Damien Hirst has become a major patron, in addition to being a celebrated artist.

In this work, and into the current work, memorial and persona became sources for content, as works paid homage to celebrated figures and close friends of the artist.

Alongside his celebrated abstractions, early black - and - white paintings and the photorealist depictions of candles, skulls and clouds that have become indisputable icons of modern painting, Panorama includes nearly 30 new paintings made over the past ten years, extensive comparative works, studio photographs, archival images and a substantial interview with the artist conducted by Nicholas Serota.

(New York — August 30, 2016) Celebrating Alfonso Ossorio's centennial birthday, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to present Alfonso Ossorio — Congregations: The First Decade, 1959 - 1969, an exhibition of twenty - four of the mixed - media assemblages coined by the artist as «congregations» that have become emblematic of Ossorio's vision and capacity for innovation.

While artists from at least fifteen African countries were represented, the top prices were reserved for the best pieces by the Nigerian Masters, which seems appropriate for a country celebrating their centenary and that recently became Africa's largest economy».

A pioneer in the Los Angeles 1960s Pop and Conceptual Art scenes, Ruscha has become one of the most respected and influential artists in the world, recognized and celebrated by international museums and collections.

She also became identified with Minimalism, but unlike the severe manufactured forms that characterize works by Donald Judd and Carl André, Martin celebrates the artist's hand.

As a Grand Prize winner at the Venice Biennale in 1988, the subject of a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1997, and the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011, he has become one of the most beloved and celebrated modern American artists.

In this work, and into the current work, memorial and personae became sources for content, as works paid homage to celebrated figures and close friends of the artist, such as the painting E-Stamp II (The Black Butterfly: For Bobby Short)(2007).

Since 2000 Jeppe Hein has become one of Denmark's most celebrated contemporary artists.

The forthcoming Norton Museum of Art exhibition Spotlight: Recent Acquisitions celebrates Black History Month through showcasing artwork by contemporary black artists that became part of the Norton collection during the past year.

The things in question are paintings, drawings, collages and etchings that he produced in the 1970s, before he became in the 1980s a celebrated neo-conceptual artist known for appropriating — and offering commentaries on — images from advertising and elsewhere.

Artists like Jean - Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel and David Salle became superstars, celebrated for their Neo-Expressionist portraits.

Widely exhibited and extensively cited in the scholarly literature about the artist, Breasted Woman has become one of Bourgeois most well - known and celebrated forms.

Following this success, Rawnsley became determined to recruit even more celebrated artists for her project, including Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and Henry Moore.

While running that gallery, he published his own artist book (Points of Departure: Roadside Memorial Polaroids, The Jargon Society, 2012) and became the inaugural director of the now - prominent Souls Grown Deep Foundation, an organization created by the pioneering Southern collector Bill Arnett to preserve the work of self - taught African - American artists — an undertaking soon to be celebrated in an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In the last five years Etel Adnan has risen from near obscurity to become one of the most celebrated and adored artists of the 21st century.

It is as though what has always been our primary work method — encounter and dialogue — has now become the theme of the Exhibition, because this year's Biennale is dedicated to celebrating, and almost giving thanks for, the very existence of art and artists, whose worlds expand our perspective and the space of our existence.»

Fischli focused on the creative processes of two characteristic representatives of Swiss art: one a celebrated and pivotal master of the transition to Modernism, the other an artist from the post-war generation who brought new ideas to bear following the end of a Modernism become classical.