Sentences with phrase «by other craftsmen»

Although I'm greatly inspired by other craftsmen and women, my biggest influence comes from my customers who are always pushing me to create new and different pieces.

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String instruments created by the Italian master craftsmen of the late 17th and 18th centuries are believed by many experts to sound more beautiful than all others.

Like those other films, Gallery is divided into a series of segments highlighting different aspects of the institution: the tour guides explaining a work or an artist; the craftsmen and women building frames, gallery spaces, designing and testing lighting; restorers at work fixing paintings damaged by time; and administrators debating the best ways to persevere the museums brand and grow its audience.

Thus, as the economist Friedrich von Hayek (1975) put it in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, governments (and one might say the same of philanthropists, leaders of charter school management organizations, technology entrepreneurs, and others) should behave not like craftsmen but like gardeners — «not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment.»

Continuing a strategy regularly employed by the artist, the artworks themselves will be fabricated by others: studio assistants, classical Chinese craftsmen, and volunteer citizens, adding a participatory element to the project that is characteristic of Ai's work.

It was like Maskerdam, built by Chinese craftsman in Chinese ornamental style, had, like Maskerdam itself, carved Chinese door and windows and was adorned with Chinese statues, paintings and other Chinese artifacts.

The variety of bars is outstanding, including Saasil by the lobby, with indoor and outdoor seating and great ocean views; Juana Margarita, where you can taste Mexico's favorite libation — tequila - in a number of local varieties; and my fave, Tres Cervezas, a microbrewery serving superbly spicy wings and beer brewed on site by brewmaster Juan Jose Garcias, a delightful craftsman who is more than happy to talk beer at length, and who creates custom brews for the resort's many weddings and other events.

The Argentinian owners are true craftsman creating works of art from fossils, polished sea glass, colorful stones, seashells and other beautiful articles discarded by the sea.

Contributors to the Marrakech Biennale include curator Omar Berrada, who will present a specific show within the larger exhibition on the body of work and the archive of the late Moroccan critic and filmmaker Ahmed Bouanani; artists Yto Barrada and Mona Hatoum; a small survey of the art movement initiated by the Casablanca School; and architect Khaled Malas with documentation of his ongoing collaboration with a collective of artists and craftsmen in Ghouta and other areas of Syria to build windmills out of found materials to generate electrical power for hospitals.

She points out that most people associate mosaics with representational art in churches, on ancient Roman floors, and in other public spaces created by tradesmen or craftsmen — a perception that she and other modern mosaicists delight in challenging.

No other style of home broke 29 percent, although contemporary came close with 28 percent, followed by Craftsman and Colonial styles.