Sentences with phrase «career as an abstract painter»

The collection documents Reinhardt's career as an abstract painter, cartoonist, and writer through biographical material, correspondence, writings, printed material, scrapbooks, and artwork.

Early in her career as an abstract painter, German artist Katharina Grosse made a risky shift in her work.

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.

After a distinguished early career as an abstract painter, Richard Diebenkorn (1922 — 1993) focused almost exclusively on the human figure from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s.

Hard to Picture: A Tribute to Ad Reinhardt at Mudam musuem in Luxembourg focused on the artist's largely unexamined work as a published illustrator which ran parallel to his career as an abstract painter from the 1930s to the 1960s.

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Though Flack has become an artist with an impressive career as a representational painter, and later a sculptor of public monuments, her early experiments in abstract painting — like those of Pat Passlof, shown at Elizabeth Harris last year — mirror and impersonate the classic AbEx look.

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.

Although Ms. Buchanan came to art as a second career, after a decade as a public health educator in East Orange, N.J., she sought out professional instruction and made many insider connections, taking classes with the abstract painter and activist Norman Lewis at the Art Students League of New York and finding another mentor in Lewis's friend Romare Bearden.

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.

Over the course of his prolific career, from early 1960s monochrome paintings to more recent work inspired by Chinese art and culture, Brice Marden has established himself as one of the most important abstract painters of our time.

Self - taught, he started his artistic career as a painter, making gestural, abstract works.

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.

Sally Yard, author of Willem de Kooning: The First Twenty - Six Years in New York, details the progress of de Kooning's career, from his brief stint as a WPA painter, to his first one - person exhibition of abstract work in 1948.

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

Lawson's long career as a painter has seen her explore a wide breath of subject matter through figurative and abstract painting, referencing a number of artistic movements.

She was a pioneering abstract painter in the»40s and»50s, but only recently found the recognition that eluded her for most of her career as she approaches her 100th birthday.

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.

[2] During this period Schapiro had a successful career as an abstract expressionist painter in the hard - edge style.

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

Although she started out as an abstract painter, Joan Semmel's career has come to be understood primarily in terms of the radical figurative paintings she has been creating since the 1970s.

Ayres has died at the age of 88 after a long, vibrant career as one of Britain's leading abstract painters