Sentences with phrase «career of the abstract painter»

An exhibition tracing the career of the abstract painter.

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Even though Neel spent most of her career painting people she had the sensibilities of an abstract painter.

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.

To reduce the 40 - year career of our most flamboyant non-figurative painter — he insists on «non-figurative» in preference to «abstract» — to 22 canvases is like limiting Gary Sobers to that one over when he hit every ball for six; but in the confinement of the Sackler Gallery it works.

To reduce the 40 - year career of our most flamboyant non-figurative painter — he insists on «non-figurative» in preference to «abstract» — to 22...

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.

In celebration of the exhibition, Painter of the Fields is the first major overview of Warren Rohrer's work held in Lancaster County and will examine the various stages of his career; including works from his early days of drawing to his fully realized abstract artistic language based on the fields of Lancaster County where he lived.

Landscape painters from the 19th century, modern abstract artists and conceptual artists from the 1960's — all of them, at some point of their careers, somehow touched upon this complicated topic.

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.

The Whitney Museum of American Art kicks off its fall season with the much anticipated career retrospective of Cuban - born New York abstract painter Carmen Herrera.

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.

These abstract pieces continued to reveal the presence of human forms within them for the entirety of the painter's career.

Joan Mitchell was a famous American painter and important member of the American abstract expressionism, despite the fact that much of her career took place in France.

The gallery, active in both primary and secondary markets, strives to cultivate the careers of exceptional painters and sculptors, both figurative and abstract, who have earned their place in the contemporary art market.

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.

Adrian Falkner, Sowat and Jan Kolata have all dedicated their careers to composing works of abstraction in their own fashion, experimenting with both controlled techniques and the completely unleashed abstract visuals that reveal the fullest impulsive potential of a painter.

Jonathan Lasker: Early Works at Cheim & Read highlighted the early output of this New York - based abstract painter's career.

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.

The 78 - year - old painter and printmaker combined minimalism with abstract expressionism in his pieces over the course of his career, making the artist a legend in his own right.

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.

Michael Grandage's Tony Award winning Red brings abstract expressionism to the stage, envisioning a period of contemplation and transition in American painter Mark Rothko's (Alfred Molina) career.

His visits to New York City in the 1950s exposed him to the works of abstract expressionist painters like Jackson Pollock, and later, to the flag and target paintings of Jasper Johns which influenced his choice to move to New York and begin his career in art.

One of the most eminent abstract painters of post-war Europe, and a key figure in post-war Spanish painting, Antoni Tapies has been involved in various art movements during his long artistic career, and is one of the best known Spanish painters to emerge in Europe since the Second World War.

After his striking group show featuring three mature abstract painters organized around a theme of Barnett Newman minimalism, Barry Whistler turns the gallery over to three digitally inspired painters who are earlier in their careers.

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.

Agnes Martin was one of America's foremost abstract painters, with a career that spanned nearly five decades.

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

Rivers, early in his career, moved among the abstract painters and still speaks highly of them.

Not terribly long ago I saw a late career retrospective of an elderly Chicago artist who basically spent his whole life imitating the work of other abstract painters.

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.

Exhibition curator, Karen Wilkin, and art historian, Roald Nasgaard, offer insight into the career of renowned Canadian abstract painter William...

An examination of the career of the painter Sam Feinstein (1915 - 2003) through his abstract expressionist works from the 1950s.

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