Sentences with phrase «began as a sculptor»

The first three ground - floor rooms trace Rodin's beginnings as a sculptor, from an early portrait of his pinch - faced father Jean - Baptiste Rodin (1860)-- the first sculpture he kept — to a terracotta bust of a Young Girl with Flowers on her Hat (1870), a vision as pretty as a Fragonard from his period in Belgium as an ornamental sculptor.

Messengers of Modernism analyzes the output of American modernist jewelers, many of whom, such as Alexander Calder and Harry Bertoia, began as sculptors or painters.

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Actor Francis X. Bushman, who was a disciple of Sandow, started his career as a bodybuilder and sculptor's model before beginning his famous silent movie career.

In 1987 she moved to France where she worked as a sculptor and freelance journalist, and she began writing her first novel, Egg Dancing.

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.

After graduation, Hake moved to Turin, Italy and became an Italian citizen where he began his career as a professional sculptor and teacher.

William Scott began his artistic training as a sculptor but, in 1934, after three years at the Royal Academy schools in London, he switched to painting with the now famous grumble that he couldn't stack sculptures under his bed.

Mr Cragg, a graduate of the Royal College of Art who spent two years working as a lab technician before he became a full time artist, began as a junk sculptor, working with pieces of plastic rubbish found washed up on beaches.

We are an international research centre located in the vibrant city of Leeds, where Henry Moore began his training as a sculptor.

The 31 works on view at Blaffer Art Museum include documentation of Chin's major science - based projects, most famously Revival Field (begun in 1990), in which he worked with agronomist Rufus Chaney on monumental «sculptures» that used phytoremediation — the use of metal - accumulating plants to absorb toxins from contaminated soil — as a reductive technique, similar to the way a sculptor carves away marble.

A sculptor who began working during the postwar period in a classical figurative style, Alina Szapocznikow radically reconceptualized sculpture as an imprint not only of memory but also of her own body.

Beginning with her earliest works — drawings and paintings created in the 1940s while studying at Black Mountain College — this beautifully illustrated volume traces Asawa's trajectory as a pioneering modernist sculptor who is recognized nationally for her wire sculpture, public commissions, and activism in education and the arts.

Ferren began his career as a sculptor, but after seeing the works of Matisse, he shifted his focus to painting.

A leading Abstract Expressionist sculptor, Seymour Lipton began his career as a dentist, which provided not only a profitable day job but also the technical skills — acquired in fashioning fillings and braces — that he used in making his welded sculptures.

Produced over a quarter of a century beginning in 1964, the maquettes offer a unique view into the sculptor's creative process: some illustrate the origins of compositions for monumental works, while others document ideas not realized ultimately in large scale or provide fascinating examples of early sculptural ideas that underwent significant transformation as they emerged as full - scale sculptures in the exhibition chronicle Arneson's evolution as an artist and the development of his freewheeling creativity and prodigious imagination.

Hans Josephsohn's life began, as the sculptor describes in a recent documentary film by Matthias Kalin and Laurin Merz, on the day he left Germany in 1937, at the age of seventeen.

At an early age, she began expressing herself through drawing and painting, and as an adult, she became a sculptor and graphic designer.

She began her career as a sculptor during the 1960s, when she started to make the vaginal ceramic forms that would reappear throughout her work.

Since British sculptor Anthony Cragg (born 1949) began working in the 1970s and came to fame in the 1980s as part of the New British Sculpture generation, his work has undergone a number of permutations while consistently remaining motivated by a fundamental concern with the qualities of his materials — whether they be found objects, raw materials or manufactured compounds like fiberglass.

David Gerstein is an Israeli painter and sculptor who began as a figurative painter and illustrator of children books and was recipient of the Israel Museum Prize for illustration.

White, who began her career as a sculptor, comments «I started painting in the early to mid 90's.

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He began his working career as an assistant to Denis Mitchell and Barbara Hepworth in St. Ives, whilst setting himself up as a painter, jeweller, weaver, and later sculptor.

Beginning in 1953, participants in these discussions included Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning and Richard Lippold.10 Other artist groups that met there included the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors.11 The space even occasionally hosted public cultural events, such as a 1955 musical performance presented by the Inter-Arts Committee and the League of Present Day Artists.12 «That house was used very well for art», Nevelson later recalled.

He began his career as a sculptor, but gradually became more interested in photographic reproductions of his sculptures and eventually turned his attention exclusively to photography.

She began her career as a painter and sculptor, and negative film has offered a robust visual corollary to these media.

Beginning as an abstract painter and figurative sculptor, his motivation grew from an interest in chroma and psychophysical effects of these stimuli acting upon his five known senses.

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

It was also around this time that the Russian - American experimental sculptor Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988) began producing her famous assemblages known as «sculptured walls», and only a few years since Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 85) had begun his own form of junk art which had an important impact on junk sculpture practised by Arman and others.

The British sculptor Anish Kapoor fresh from his walk of solidarity with artist / dissident Ai Weiwei in London, has stated that he will begin to transform his vandalised sculpture Dirty Corner today, as part of a new «artistic intervention».

Cofounded in 2012 by the painter Noah Davis, a rising L.A. art star, and his wife, Karon, a sculptor, the Underground Museum began as a row of storefront spaces that doubled as the couple's studio and home.

1998, Melbourne): Having begun his career as a cartoonist — he worked for a time at the Walt Disney Studios — Riverón went on to become a painter and sculptor who traveled and exhibited widely in Europe, the United States and Latin America.

In the 1940s Jouve, who had trained as a sculptor at Paris's prestigious École Boulle, and who, having escaped from a German prison camp, learnt local potter's techniques in the South of France, began producing rustic semi-figurative, decorative work inspired by the religious figurines of the locality.

We are an international research centre located in the vibrant city of Leeds, where Henry Moore began histraining as a sculptor.

Pistoletto began his work as a sculptor, first working in hard - edged polyurethane and then transferring it into marble form.

Irish artist Bernadette Doolan began as a ceramic sculptor.

He began to make his paintings more complex in structure, colour and shape, and then brought them off the wall, welding, shaping, doing what a sculptor does, but still - in fact more recognisably than with the Black Paintings - seeing as a painter.

The painter and sculptor Lars - Gunnar Nordström was a self - taught artist who began his career as a kind of cubist primitivist but soon moved on to a severe form of Concrete art.

He began his career as a painter and a sculptor in the 1950s, and today still produces drawings, paintings, sculptures, and site - specific installations.

And in the years following the release of their magnum opus, Henderson began working on a biography of Edmonia Lewis, the first African American woman to receive national and international acclaim for her work as a sculptor.

Trained originally as a sculptor, in the early 1990's Demand began to use photography to record his elaborate and ephemeral, life - sized paper and cardboard constructions of existing or formerly existing environments and interior spaces, and soon started to create constructions for the sole purpose of photographing them.

Practically every door was opened with an aggressive kick, and a new generation of artists began seeing themselves not as painters or sculptors but simply as artists, who regarded all materials and subjects as potential art.

In his recent exhibition at the Pace Gallery in Chelsea, Sala Longhi & Related Works, Fred Wilson, a sculptor and conceptual artist, extended themes begun in Venice nearly a decade ago when the artist represented the United States at the 50th Venice Biennale with the exhibition Speak of Me as I Am.

He is regarded as one of the most versatile sculptors of the beginning of the 20th century.

Since the beginning of their collaboration, in the late 1960s, British sculptors Gilbert & George have aimed to become the work of art — elevating their daily activities to expressions of creativity and casting themselves as «living sculptures.»

He studied history and the history of art at the University of Cambridge (1982 - 85) and began working as a sculptor in 1984.

Jeff: I began my career as a sculptor and object - maker.

Though widely recognized as an influential dealer through her eponymous gallery, Parsons was first and foremost an artist, having begun her career after moving to Paris in 1923 where she trained as a painter and sculptor under Antoine Bourdelle and Alexander Archipenko.

Following her formal training as a sculptor and landscape watercolorist, Parsons made a stylistic departure in 1947 when she began to work abstractly to capture what she called «sheer energy» and «the new spirit.»

The sculptor Robert Smithson began his career as a painter.