Sentences with phrase «become painters»

- Richard Shiff, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art of Europe and America, University of Texas at Austin «The great number of young artists who set out each year to become painters should long ago have put to rest conversations about the so - called death of painting.

Instead I became a painter - provocateur, an antiestablishment painter.»

Leto, who was interested in becoming a painter, enrolled in Philadelphia's University of the Arts, but then discovered acting and transferred to the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

If you are spatially intelligent and oriented toward the arts, you are more likely to become a painter or a sculptor or an architect than, say, a musician or a writer.

Most recently, I've returned to my YA roots with Passion Blue and Color Song, a pair of historical novels set in fifteenth century Padua and Venice, about a talented girl's struggle to become a painter in defiance of the rigid social conventions of her time.

There are no obstacles in the way of a woman becoming a painter or sculptor other than the usual obstacles that any artist has to face.

Anyway, what I was trying to do in all those years was to become a painter and to learn how to read I was also making some plans about getting the hell out of Cincinnati.»

Paul Gauguin was a stockbroker for 11 years before he decided to become a painter.

What are some of the biggest influences that led you to become the painter you are today?

Larry Groff: What lead you to become a painter and what were your early years like as a student and young artist?

Larry Groff: What led you to decide to become a painter?

In the early 1950s, stimulated by his interest in art history, Thiebaud decided to become a painter.

In September 1940, Motherwell moved to New York and began studying art history at Columbia University with Meyer Schapiro, who encouraged him to become a painter, according to the Guggenheim Museum.

With sculptor Masnyj she discusses her path of becoming a painter of her peer group.

Maro Gorky became a painter, and married the British sculptor and writer Matthew Spender, son of the poet Sir Stephen Spender.

Jones now calls listening a «conceptual practice,» but didn't realize it was her forte until after she'd gone through the rigors of art school to become a painter.

A member of the Works Progress Administration Programme in the 1930s she became a painter with a strong social conscience and equally strong left - wing beliefs.

I still remember quite well when you went from being an art historian to becoming a painter... your studios, first in Ocean Park and then in Venice.

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Early Work or How I Became A Painter, organized by Mike McGee at the Nicholas and Lee Begovich Gallery at California State University, Fullerton and on view from September 12 - December 12, 2015.

Was there anything about your childhood that inspired you to become a painter?

Larry Groff: How did you become a painter?

A few years later, when I decided I want to become a painter, I got frustrated that in all of these years, she, or the other art teachers I had in high school or during my one year at the Bezalel Academy, didn't teach me what I viewed as «proper skills».

I realized when I opened the door and met Tworkov's stern eyes that I would either become a painter or not.

How did you become a painter in the first place?

«I didn't know I would become a painter; I didn't go to art school.

It shows him becoming the painter of light, from Paris to the shores of America, but also as a young magazine illustrator of trash fiction and inner lives.

At age 16, she knew she wanted to become a painter, and signed up for a summer program at Black Mountain College in located nearby in upstate New York.

By the time he left the Academy in summer of 1964, Richter had finally accepted his destiny of becoming a painter, and his true career could begin.

After becoming a painter, he was introduced to Pollock by the art dealer Betty Parsons.

Wehr, an undergraduate at the time, happily accepted the opportunity to serve as a stand - in music composition tutor for Tobey and over time became friends with him and his circle of artists, becoming a painter himself, as well as a chronicler of the group.

«I wasn't bad at etching when I was young... but I'm better now that I've become a painter.»

Upon moving to East Hamptons, New York, he befriended many in the art world, becoming a painter amongst painters and a collector / patron.

He worked as a Visual Effects Artist on projects such as Pirates of the Caribbean 3 and Super Bowl Commercials for Nike, Visa, Pepsi and many others before deciding to move to San Francisco to become a painter.

But she longed to become a painter in her own right, so in 1865 she began formal lessons under the tutelage of Ford Madox Brown.

Part of the Ashcan school, a term he despised, John Sloan was first a newspaper artist before becoming a painter.

On a trip to Cooper Union's Green Camp in rural New Jersey to paint landscapes, he realized that he could actually become a painter, and make a career of it.

Ayres decided to become a painter at the age of fourteen and studied at Camberwell School of Art from 1946 - 50, before running the AIA Gallery with painter Henry Mundy whom she later married.

He first achieved success as an Abstract Expressionist painter, but changed course in the early 1960s and became a painter of...

As a child, Pamuk dreamed of becoming a painter, and the dream endured even after he won the Nobel prize.

He enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1965, aiming to become a painter.

In this video Loretta Howard, founder and owner of Loretta Howard Gallery in New York talks about Edward Dugmore's path to becoming a painter, his connection to the San Francisco and New York schools and his relationships with the mega stars of Abstract Expressionism like Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning and the fact that all these artists produced their works during the same time, working with the same underlying theories.

Adams» talents as an artist were recognised early on but he had to constantly battle the apartheid regime to become a painter... [at the Slade he won a] scholarship to the University of Munich and worked with the Austrian expressionist Oskar Kokoschka, who admired and influenced his work.

The degrees gave me the confidence and the ambition to become a painter.

Becoming a painter takes time.

As a young girl she was a champion figure skater, and though she lacked balance and coordination, accomplished one athletic triumph after another, until giving up competitive skating to become a painter.

She soon made the radical move to become a painter (right when painting was declared dead), but her work is always object - like and idea - based.

So, I decided to become a painter.

Cecil King gave up a successful career as a business - man to become a painter.

Unbelievably, France has never before held a retrospective for Le Brun, who rose from a relatively modest background to become a painter at the court of Marie Antoinette.

Although he has always considered himself an artist first and foremost, he points out, «when I'm painting I become a painter.