Sentences with phrase «began as a painter»

«Robert Bresson began as a painter and, while he would rarely practice the art, it was a guiding force in the development of his unique film style.»

If Tony Smith, who began as a painter, had brought his late sculpture to canvas, it might have had this depth of black.

Dan Flavin began as a painter, and he brought a vision of light and color to a space between material objects and immaterial space.

Many pioneer artists of the period, like Robert Irwin and Larry Bell, began as painters, but later transitioned into more complex media and environmental installations; DeFrance stayed largely committed to examining the phenomenology of painting throughout his career.

Before he transitioned to work in three dimensions, Judd began as a painter and an art critic, having studied philosophy and art history at Columbia University and painting at the Art Students League.

Kusama, who was born to an affluent family in Japan in 1929, began as a painter but shifted her focus to installation and sculpture in the mid-1960s.

Judd began as a painter.

Indeed having begun as a painter and graphic designer after studying with Willem de Kooning and Josef Albers at Parsons School of Art and Design in New York, it was not until later in his life that he started to explore moving images.

Although Thek began as a painter, he became known later in life for his sculptures and installations.

What began as a painter's solo endeavor has evolved into a multi-faceted paint company that is material - focused and artist - driven.

James Scott began as a painter and theater designer, but transitioned into film while at the Slade School of Art in the early 1960's.

Storr began as a painter and exhibited his work in some of New York's finest galleries.

Hailing from Palm Springs, Frank Selby began as a painter before migrating to drawing distinctive photorealistic images sourced from historical photographs (in his drawings, Selby takes protests, riots, and wars as theme, reworking the original photos to create chaotic monochromatic stills of conflict that seek to fill in the linguistic blanks of purely journalistic images).

Lou recalls: «I began as a painter and I walked into a bead store and it was just like a flash in my mind.

Although her move to New York in 1994 greatly widened her approach to painting, she still took with her significant impulses from the Rhineland art scene around Martin Kippenberg: «I began as a painter in an environment in which painting was cool and also aggressive, and I never actually lost my belief in the radical potential of painting.»

The line also speaks about connections and relationships, as Shiota expresses: «From beginning as a painter I liked making just one line, but it's very difficult to tell everything with just one line.

Hill began as a painter but two years after he made his first relief in 1954, he abandoned painting completely.

Based out of Eastsound, Washington, Howe began as a painter, but has been working with kinetic sculptures for the last two decades.

Not exact matches

Trained as a painter, in the late 70's, I fell in love with the Hudson River Valley, and began living and working here.

London - born artist Caroline Gold began her career as a TV producer, but quit to pursue her dream to be a full - time painter.

Right from the beginning Sally Hawkins is given fantastic on - screen partners in Richard Jenkins and Octavia Spencer that jive well with her phenomenal performance built solely on hand gestures and body language (Jenkins makes a fine best friend working on his career as a painter, while Spencer's motormouth skills and sassy banter make conversations amusing and easily involving), but as she notices the creature being housed in isolation inside a large rectangular pool (referred to as The Asset) at the laboratory, things get complex and become transfixing.

And of course Mrs. Cole is married — to a struggling painter (Jack Huston) whose brittle support for her work starts to crack as she begins to see it as a career.

English character actor Timothy Spall plays the painter over the last 25 years of his life as his work began to grow more abstract.

The character, played by Eddie Redmayne, begins as Einar, a successful painter of landscapes (In something of a metaphor, he is repeatedly working on the same landscape, remembered from his childhood, trying to get the details just right).

Even as Maud begins to become a successful painter, the two still choose to live on the edge of society and do things their way.

But if Lili Elbe begins life as a series of fantasy portraits, does that make The Danish Girl a movie about a painter who becomes a living painting, dropping art to work as a shop girl in Copenhagen?

Named after the only book by film critic, painter, and teacher Manny Farber — a 1971 collection reprinted in an expanded edition in 1998 — Petit's video wrestles with American landscape and culture, irony, memory, Las Vegas, the beginning of a new millennium, death, desert, film versus video, J.M.W. Turner's painting, several movies (including Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep, Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past, and Roberto Rossellini's Voyage to Italy), as well as two critics, Farber and Dave Hickey.

Alicia Vikander stars as a Dutch woman married to a rich and powerful merchant, played by Christoph Waltz, who begins an affair with a painter, played by Dane DeHaan.

Alicia Vikander stars as a Dutch woman married to a rich and powerful merchant, played by Christoph Waltz, who begins an affair with a young painter, played by Dane DeHaan.

Long Lost begins as Kate and John Tomasetti are on a much - needed vacation at a bed - and - breakfast an hour outside Painters Mill.

As the title implies, it provides 41 rejected attempts at beginning a profile of the artist David Salle, a megastar painter in the 1980s whose reputation had started to wane by the time Malcolm began interviewing him in the early 1990s.

The Papillon became really popular when Tiziano Vicelli painted them in the 16th century, as a result of which many other renowned painters began to include the Papillon dog in their works.

«the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act - rather than as a space in which to reproduce, redesign, analyse or «express» an object, actual or imagined.

Stunned that he had never heard of these artists, Odita began a project to interview abstract painters from the 1970s and 1980s, such as Pindell, Loving, Edward Clark, Frank Bowling, and Stanley Whitney.

As part of Henri Art Magazine's series on Romanticism, painter George Hofmann recounts his personal experiences as a painter beginning in the 1960'As part of Henri Art Magazine's series on Romanticism, painter George Hofmann recounts his personal experiences as a painter beginning in the 1960'as a painter beginning in the 1960's.

«the domination of the object to be looked at, always saying that a certain line should go in this direction or that, a red had to be here and a blue there because that was the way it was on the model, began to be limiting...» (p. 75) Goodnough never accepted limits in his painting, embracing in his own work what he describes as the «feeling in the best work of American painters of the «wild» which has been the heritage of this country.»

Soon, North Carolina country life began to seem small and he left for New York to make it as a painter.

That is where his practice as a painter begins.

His early career as a painter began after he was inspired by an 1883 exhibition in Boston of works by European impressionists.

I began as an abstract expressionist painter.

Unlikely as it seems, this artist, known for many decades as a Pop painter whose canvases throng with violent, sensual imagery amid bright fields of color, began her career working exclusively as a sculptor.

Ronald Davis had begun at the San Francisco Art Institute as a talented young Abstract Expressionist painter.

Judd began his practice as a painter in the late 1940s; however, he soon introduced three - dimensional elements into the surface of his work.

Already established as a painter, over the course of the 1990s Marrinon began to make diminutive terracotta sculptures of landmark buildings, figures and squat busts incised with cartoon - like simplifications.

Beginning in Austin, Texas as Trans - Avant Garde Gallery, the gallery, owned by Jack Hanley, who is also a painter and musician, had a focus on young and emerging artists.

Beginning his career as a figurative, expressionist painter, Segal soon transitioned to figurative sculpture.

During the same period of the late 1960s, and early 1970s in Europe, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer [49] and several other painters also began producing works of intense expression, merging abstraction with images, incorporating landscape imagery, and figuration that by the late 1970s was referred to as Neo-expressionism.

In the late 1940s, Donald Judd began to practice as a painter.

Yet the story of Martin's evolution as a painter begins in the second room, full of found sculptures and mesmerising little paintings of lines and dots and marks.

What on earth does that mean, except nothing... In the early»70s Jules Olitski, whose work I do admire — but Jules began as a Tachist painter in Paris after the war.