Sentences with phrase «call him a history painter»

You could call him a history painter de nos jours.

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The Belgian Luc Tuymans is the most challenging painter in the recent history of the art, if recent painting can still be said to have a history, and not just a roll call.

The painter Lubaina Himid is here with canvases that present imaginary architecture by imaginary black women; part of a project from 1997 - 78 called Architects, Models, Plans they extend her practice of proposing moments when black women could alter history.

2 All these painters have been or can be classified as what Donald Kuspit calls the New Old Masters who, though working in Old Master techniques, are «neither traditional nor avant - garde, but a combination of the two,» carrying on the spirituality of the former and the critical consciousness of the latter.3 Both Cooper and Kuspit read in new wave history painting and New Old Master painting, respectively, a return to humanist and modern existentialist themes absent in most mainstream contemporary art.

In 1908, with Henri, Sloan, Glackens, and four other painters, Luks formed a group called The Eight, whose exhibition in New York that year marked a key event in the history of modern painting in the United States.