Sentences with phrase «befriended painters»

He met and befriended painters Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning in the 1930s and Marsden Hartley and Marcel Duchamp in the 1940s.

She befriending painters Willem de Kooning and critic Harold Rosenberg among others.

Prior to his father's death Mel befriended the painter Joseph Stella who became his artistic guide and mentor, introducing him to the avant - garde styles of cubism and surrealism and encouraging the younger painter to experiment.

She befriended painter Clyfford Still, whose commitment to abstraction fit their Bauhaus - inflected idea of art as a potentially universal language.

Upon her return to New York in 1939 following Ford's death, Biala was in the thick of a milieu of the New York School, befriending painter Willem de Kooning, and critic Harold Rosenberg among many others.

Befriends the painter John Roy and the sculptor Keith Hollingworth, two faculty members he will subsequently portray.

Katz had his first one - man show at the Roko Gallery in New York in 1946, and was soon immersed in the city's vibrant art and intellectual scene, befriending the painters Larry Rivers and Fairfield Porter, the photographer Rudolph Burckhardt, and the poets John Ashbery, Edwin Denby, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler.

Not exact matches

As a showcase for the remarkable talents of Geoffrey Rush in the role of sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, the picture's thematic focus is on the vast personality differences that Giacometti had with a noted writer, James Lord (Armie Hammer), known today for his voluminous biography of the man he befriended.

As a painter of memories and experiences, many of the works capture the artist's sensory impressions of India, from fierce blazing sunsets to heavy oppressive rains, landscapes and cities he has visited, and portraits of the people he has befriended.

That same summer, Thompson also met and befriended a group of artists who were taking a divergent path from that of the New York School painters, including Emilio Cruz and Gandy Brodie.

While at the University of Alabama he was befriended by the American football quarterback Joe Namath, met visiting artist Theodoros Stamos, and primarily studied painting with Melville Price, a painter who had shown in New York City with Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning and had been a member of The Club at the Cedar Tavern.

In 1942, Porter's father died, and Porter returned to New York, where he met and befriended New York School poets and painters John Ashberry, Robert Dash, Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Alex Katz, Frank O'Hara, Neil Welliver, and Jane Wilson.

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

The first exhibition, due to open in spring 2018, will feature works by the painter Celia Paul, who befriended Als when he worked on the catalogue for her 2014 solo exhibition at Victoria Miro gallery in London.

A friend of Amedeo Modigliani, Soutine also painted portraits and still lifes with stylistic and compositional allusions to painters he befriended and / or admired, including Modigliani, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne, Jean - Baptiste - Siméon Chardin, Francisco Goya, and Rembrandt.

In the early 1950, he taught night classes at the Washington Workshop Center for the Arts where he befriended an American painter Morris Louis.

On the Art World Old and New — The esteemed British art historian Sir John Richardson discusses his lengthy career in the arts with the Financial Times's Jackie Wullschlager, including his early years as an aspiring artist in France when he befriended Pablo Picasso's wife, and later, the painter himself.

After graduating from high school, Elaine Marie Fried briefly attended Hunter College in New York City where she befriended a group of abstract and Social Realist painters.

Like virtually every serious painter at the time, he started out under the potent influence of Abstract Expressionism and set out to be an abstract painter, encouraged and advised by Willem De Kooning, whom he befriended in Provincetown.

While living in D.C., Noland met and befriended fellow painter Morris Louis.

He studied with Impressionist painter Willi Schwartz and befriended fellow students such as Jules Pascin.

New York photographer Alfred Stieglitz (1864 — 1946) befriended and championed several of the most visionary modern painters to emerge in early twentieth - century America.

Also on the Visual Arts Advisory Committee was Robert Motherwell, who quickly befriended the young journalist and introduced him to «the small group of eccentric painters we now know as the New York Abstract Expressionist School».

At a coffee shop in 1997, he befriended then - emerging painter Cecily Brown, who had been discovered by Jeffrey Deitch, and she introduced Loeb to the dealer.

During the years she lived on 10th Street, she got drunk on 15 cent beer at the Cedar Bar, participated in the heated discussions at The Club, befriended Franz Kline and many of the major Abstract Expressionist painters, and participated in the group's promiscuity, which she described as «musical beds.»

Contrary to popular belief that Pollock was a solitary genius, the artist — whom Life magazine posed as the «greatest living painter in the United States» in 1948 — was keenly aware of what other artists were doing and was influenced by those he befriended and worked with throughout his abbreviated career.

In the novel Life on Sandpaper (Dalkey Archive Press, 2011), the Israeli novelist and painter Yoram Kaniuk writes about the time he and Gandy hung out together in New York, befriending Lenny Tristano and Charlie Parker, as well as Willem de Kooning and Tennessee Williams.

He also befriended Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis, Nilas de Stael and the poet / painter Henri Michaux, with whom he collaborated on a brilliant suite of prints.