Sentences with phrase «began as an abstract painter»

Mr. Downes, who began as an abstract painter and found his own way, smiles at that.

He began as an abstract painter, though a visit to an exhibition of Andrew Wyeth's work at Buffalo, New York, in 1962 confirmed his disenchantment with abstraction.

It's not hard to believe that before he ventured into the medium of collage Daniel Biddy began as an abstract painter.

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.

Beginning as an abstract painter, Ik's political awakening in the 1980s, as Korea fought repression and isolation, informed his work and his life.

Irwin began as an abstract painter before becoming deeply engaged in pushing the boundaries of art as the experience of perception itself.

One could argue that this exhibition, one that pairs luminous, warm abstractions and coldly machined industrial fixtures, provides a liminal art historical space between Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, recalling Flavin's beginnings as an abstract painter identified within the locus of Brooks's generation.

We remember, too, that he began as an abstract painter and deliberately chose to work in a way deemed outmoded and «impossible» for someone of his gener - ation.

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

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.

I began as an abstract expressionist painter.

I was reminded of one of my favorite abstract painters, the Californian John McLaughlin, who was born in 1898 and whose career as an artist also began when he was 50.

As the MCA Chicago preps for its 50th birthday in 2017, Beckwith is in the beginning stages of planning a project with abstract painter Howardena Pindell, who — like the MCA, as Beckwith points out — has been working with art for 50 yearAs the MCA Chicago preps for its 50th birthday in 2017, Beckwith is in the beginning stages of planning a project with abstract painter Howardena Pindell, who — like the MCA, as Beckwith points out — has been working with art for 50 yearas Beckwith points out — has been working with art for 50 years.

Irwin began his career in the 1950s as an abstract painter; however, he turned his attention to sculptural installations by the early 1970s.

He began his career as a painter, drawing on the work of the abstract Expressionists, but as time went on he became increasingly dissatisfied with painting, a medium that he came to believe was a thing of the past.

But you seem to have begun, back in the Fifties, straight off as a fully - fledged abstract painter.

He began as a restless abstract painter but soon left canvases for works that used light, shadows, reflections, transparency and often the sparest of materials to try, as he once wrote, to invoke a state of «perceiving yourself perceiving.»

After beginning as a figurative painter with socio - political themes, he won an international reputation as an abstract artist.

This work is not abstracted from reality in the way that some abstract painters start with particular objects or landscapes; rather, Egan refuses to begin with a plan, relying instead on, in his words, «an unconscious recognition of my surroundings, digesting and transferring this complexity into a cascade of recognizable but irrational space» in a process that begins with marks as a record of «natural movements.»

Like Salvador Dali's villa in Spain, the home of abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956) began as a fisherman's hut.

They represent a crucial development in the legendary abstract painter's career as he began experimenting with new materials and processes, culminating in his seminal 1986 exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London.

Condo started making «drawing - paintings», where you can't distinguish e.g. paint from pastel, or a line made with a paintbrush or a line drawn in from and thus making the two mediums equal: «There's no real difference between figurative painting or abstract painting, «cause it's all painting to begin with... You don't» have to follow any rules as a painter.

Along the same lines, Akris's current spring / summer ready - to - wear collection of colorful prints and elongated graphics is directly inspired by the abstract expressionist painter Carmen Herrera, who only began gaining recognition as a nonagenarian.

Distinguished for his abstract colour fields, Frank Bowling began his career as a figurative painter.

Now seen as one of the most original abstract painters - indeed one of the most innovative of all 20th century painters - his style of concrete art, unfortunately, did not begin to be properly understood until a retrospective of his career was staged at the Musee National d'Art Moderne in Paris in 1958 a year after his death.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art because it was abstract, not figurative.

Jellett had precocious talent as a painter, and while starting out as a follower of Impressionism she began - as a result of her association with the Parisian abstract painter and teacher Albert Gleizes - to develop a greater interest in modern abstract art like Cubism.

In this connection, it's worth recalling that De Niro began his adult career as an abstract painter who, at the age of 24, won high praise from Clement Greenberg.

Around 1960, the traditional pictorial rectangle began to be seen as arbitrary, enough so that certain abstract painters worked to make each new picture's exterior profile an active ingredient rather than a rote decision.

Kounellis began his career as a painter, inspired in part by the work of American abstract artists of the 1950s.

He included works by Stella, along with works by abstract painters like Kenneth Noland (b. 1924), Al Held (b. 1928), Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923), and Jack Youngerman (b. 1926), all of whom were beginning to be associated with the new Hard Edge Painting, a non-gestural variant of the broader trend known as Post-Painterly Abstraction (PPA).

Following separate experiments by other abstract painters like Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966) and Lee Krasner (1908 - 84), Pollock himself began employing his splash / drip method in 1947, partly as a result of the surrealists» experience, and also (reportedly) after seeing how Navajo Indians in New Mexico made their sand paintings by sprinkling earth onto the ground to form intricate patterns.