Sentences with phrase «befriending artists»

That was extremely unusual for museum Directors at that point, and he made a point of befriending artists and allowing them to lead the way.

Bourgeois joined the New York Students Art League, befriending artists who became leading figures of the abstract expressionist school, including Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell.

Dorfman became the most well - regarded user of the Polaroid 20x24 camera, taking a range of intimate portraits and during her career she befriended artists and poets as she assembled an incredible portfolio.

He befriended artist great and minor, and was purposefully «inclusive,» even in his writing, but he came to develop his own personal «pantheon» of favorites.

He was awarded a Prix de Rome and Fulbright Fellowship and, while in Italy, he befriended the artist Giorgio Morandi.

There, she befriended the artist Sheila Hicks and studied with Josef Albers, Phillip Johnson, Paul Rand, Alvin Eisenman, and Louis Kahn, among others.

They befriended artists like Milton Avery, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and became insiders in the avant - garde abstract expressionist social circle.

It was in New York that she variously befriended artists such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol.

Performance and theater artist Rachel Rosenthal was an early member of Merce Cunningham's New York dance company and befriended artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.

At Hampton, Biggers also met and befriended artists Charles White and Elizabeth Catlett.

He befriended artists such as Jean - Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf, as well as musicians and graffiti writers and began having exhibitions and performances at venues like Club 57, reflecting the mix of art, nightlife, fashion, performance, and music that characterized the artistic climate of the time.

Tanning was introduced to the Surrealist group when she befriended the artists in exile in New York during WWII.

He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Princeton University, where he befriended artist Frank Stella and critic and art historian Michael Fried.

The Horwich family amassed a significant Calder collection, befriending the artist and ultimately acquiring more than two dozen of his artworks.

In 1891, Dermod O'Brien attended the Academie Julian in Paris where he befriended the artist William Rothenstein.

During this period, de Creeft befriended the artist Mateo Hernandez.

Immersed in the social and artistic milieu of Peggy Guggenheim in the mid-1930s, Henderson befriended artists like Marcel Duchamp and Alberto Giacometti.

Crichton - who died of cancer in November 2008 at the age of 66 - was a knowledgeable art aficionado who often befriended the artists he collected.

Buoyed, he entered the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, where he befriended the artists David Salle, James Welling, Troy Brauntuch and Jack Goldstein and enrolled in Mr. Baldessari's fabled «Post-Studio Art» course.

In 1943, he befriended artist Jimmy Ernst and was quickly drawn into the circle of avant - garde artists championed by Howard

Befriend artists: While some collectors feel they can't make objective decisions if they get too close to the artists themselves, Ms. Westreich Wagner and Mr. Wagner find such connections valuable: Getting to know artists can help you assess their process and whether they're exploring new ground — a key factor in their ultimate significance — and also point you toward other emerging talents.

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But Thomas has to fight the battle clandestinely, because the young man also falls for beautiful local artist Bea (Rose Byrne), who lives in a small house next door and has befriended the rabbits, particularly Peter.

The story of a factory owner who meets an actress who is a friend of a waitress who meets a bodyguard who works with a chauffeur who drives for an interior decorator who is the wife of the factory owner who would like to befriend with some artists who... (Offline Releasing)

On her first job Jesse is befriended by a make - up artist named Ruby (Jena Malone).

Social castes are flayed bare with a frankness unheard of in polite entertainment as the hero penguin — flawed (retarded, even) in his ability to communicate through song but gifted with funk and that loping, soulful gait of Glover's (an artist who by himself reshaped his medium)-- befriends a quintet of «amigos» in the Antarctic barrio.

Make - up artist Ruby (Jena Malone, pictured with Fanning, right), whose morgue day - job specialty is rejuvenating dead girls for cremation and burial, befriends Jessie to get into her bed.

She befriends Ruby (Jena Malone), a makeup artist who invites her to come along to a party.

While her artist husband disapproves of her new venture (even though she's paying their rent), Catrin finds a safe haven in the filmmaking division of the Ministry of Information, befriending snarky head writer «Tom Buckley,» (Sam Claflin) and a crew both humorous and likable talent.

Leaving her husband, Ellis (Jack Huston), an artist and wounded Spanish Civil War veteran, at home, Catrin plunges into the world of women's work, propaganda and showbiz, befriending a cynical colleague named Buckley (Sam Claflin).

With few allies when everyone's aiming to get ahead, Jesse befriends a makeup artist named Ruby (Jena Malone) while also gaining support from a talent agent (Drive alum, Christina Hendricks).

Ruby (Jena Malone), the sexually repressed make - up artist who befriends Jesse in the hopes of being able to sleep with her.

While staying at a motel in Pasadena managed by a one of the sleaziest men ever put on film (Keanu Reeves), she befriends makeup artist Ruby (Jena Malone, ever the scene - stealer), who introduces her to fellow models Gigi (Bella Heathcote, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) and Sarah (Abbey Lee, Mad Max: Fury Road).

Letters From the Big Man / U.S.A. (Director & Screenwriter: Christopher Munch)-- An artist and government hydrologist surveying a remote part of southwestern Oregon befriends a sasquatch man and must take bold steps to protect his privacy, as well as her own.

«While We're Young» Synopsis: A middle - aged New York couple befriend a spontaneous, hip younger duo of artists, giving them a way back to their youth.

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.

I would love to get to know and possibly befriend other artists.

A lot of my buyers / collectors are friends, either people I knew before I was an artist, or people I have befriended because they bought my art.

He participated in the WPA where he befriended many artists that would later become the most influential in Post-World War II America.

Although known for his early championing of the Abstract Expressionists, he befriended a younger generation of artists that reacted against the rhetoric of gestural abstraction, the leading style of Tenth Street.

In 1943, he befriended Jimmy Ernst and was quickly drawn into the circle of avant - garde artists championed by Howard Putzel and Peggy Guggenheim.

While training at the police school back in his native Nice, he befriended with French artist Yves Klein and French composer Claude Pascal.

Soon after his arrival, Johns befriended a fellow artist Robert Rauschenberg — the duo had huge ambitions and started off by designing windows for all sorts of clientele, namely for stores like Tiffany's.

Amaki spoke to me by phone about Long, the art collection, and his culturally rich life and the many artists he befriended along the way.

Living downtown and frequenting the Cedar Bar, Goldberg befriended many of the artists of the New York School.

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.

In the city, he met and befriended Amiri Baraka (then, LeRoi Jones) as well as leading artists and writers of the Beat generation.

He subsequently befriended the avant - garde artist Lucio Fontana, with whom he exchanged watches for paintings now worth millions of pounds.

Immersing himself in New York's downtown culture, he quickly became a fixture on the artistic scene, befriending other artists such as Jean - Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf, as well as many of the most innovative cultural figures of the period.

Namely, the artist moved to New York in 1958, at age 21, and soon met and befriended Barnett Newman, who's work inspired him greatly.

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.