Sentences with phrase «century painter best»

Oscar - winning Redgrave will play the role of Elizabeth opposite Spall as Lowry, the 20th century painter best known for his matchstick human figures within scenes of life in the industrial North.

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The room design is a contemporary take on Philadelphia's historic interiors with a fresh interpretation of the city's 18th century of furniture makers, as well as art from local Philadelphia painters and photographers.

Twentieth - century painters have experimented not only with abstract forms but with abstract substances as well.

Juliette Binoche stars in the former as an eminently well - respected actress wrestling with her past life, while Timothy Spall grunts and groans as he paints masterpieces in his turn as the eccentric 19th century British painter J.M.W. Turner.

With a wonderful performance by Yolande Moreau at its centre, Séraphine is an almost brilliant portrayal of the life of a minor French painter from the early 20th Century — Séraphine Louis — and the winner of seven César awards in 2009 including Best Film and Best Actress.

Then his usual collaborator Mike Leigh asked him to play the iconic 19th century painter J.M.W. Turner in the biopic «Mr. Turner», and Spall went home with the Best Actor award from this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Where was Mr Turner, the Mike Leigh - directed biopic of Britain's groundbreaking 19th - century painter, that had won so many accolades after premiering at Cannes and winning Timothy Spall the festival's best actor award.

In one masterfully conceived shot, Leigh evocatively situates us within the milieu of a Turner canvas, while almost subliminally shading in one of the film's foremost themes: the once celebrated painter's progressive sidelining by the tumultuous forces of 19th - century history as well as the fickle tide of public opinion.

Applying old - fashioned as well as modern forensic techniques to a century old crime, Patricia Cornwell's research led to the publication of Portrait of a Killer, in which she identified the renowned British painter Walter Sickert as the Ripper.

From the legendary sculptor, Sabina von Steinbach, in the 13th century, who, according to local tradition, was responsible for South Portal groups on the Cathedral of Strasbourg, down to Rosa Bonheur, the most renowned animal painter of the 19th century, and including such eminent women artists as Marietta Robusti, daughter of Tintoretto, Lavinia Fontana, Artemisia Gentileschi, Elizabeth Chéron, Mme. Vigée - Lebrun and Angelica Kauffmann — all, without exception, were the daughters of artists; in the 19th century, Berthe Morisot was closely associated with Manet, later marrying his brother, and Mary Cassatt based a good deal of her work on the style of her close friend Degas.

One of the foremost American figurative painters of the twentieth century, Neel is known for her portraits of family, friends, and neighbors as well as the writers, poets, and other cultural and political figures she encountered in a career spanning the 1920s to the 1980s.

She had another piece as well and that embraced 19th century and early 20th century French painters.

A day after the opening of the current Luc Tuymans exhibition in London, DAMN ° had the chance to sit down with the Belgian artist and discuss his work, as well as how it is being a painter in the early 21st century.

Each canvas is a faithful replica of a well - known 19th - century New York area landscape painting, recreated by Simeon Lagodich, a contemporary American realist painter who resides in New York City and the Hudson Valley.

These lectures enthusiastically commend less visually appealing works almost as if they will be good for us, cod - liver oil for the eyes — but twentieth - century figurative painters Alice Neel, Sylvia Sleigh, and Philip Pearlstein simply do not paint as beautifully as Courbet or Renoir.

Not every painter is feted with a show at the premier museum of twentieth - century art, as well as concurrent exhibitions at prestigious galleries like Michael Werner and Knoedler & Company.

But few American painters have followed in the footsteps of Raphaelle Peale, who in the early decades of the nineteenth century produced some hundred exquisite pictures of fruit, cakes and wine (as well as a trompe - l'oeil, Venus Rising from the Sea — A Deception

There has never been a better year to look at the work of Kazimir Malevich, a pioneer of abstract art often seen as the greatest Russian painter of the twentieth century.

In this context, Opera will discuss his own work and the concerns that have fed his development over the past five years, as well as the work of other contemporaries and painters that intuitively have investigated surface since the mid 20th century, such as Morris Louis.

SAN ANTONIO — Well - represented in museum collections, the 19th - century Philadelphia portrait painter Thomas Sully (1783 - 1872) isn't exactly...

Morris Louis (1912 — 1962) is the best - known artist of the Washington Color School, a group of mid-20th century painters who explored the language of abstraction using new materials and a focus on color.

In this respect the very best painters of the 19th century have been my mentors.»

Other strengths of the twentieth - century collection include: sixty works by members of the Ash Can School; significant representation by early modernists such as Alfred Maurer, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Max Weber; important examples by the Precisionists Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Preston Dickinson and Ralston Crawford; a good showing by the American Scene painters Charles Burchfield and Edward Hopper; a broad spectrum of work by the Social Realists Ben Shahn, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Jack Levine; and ambitious examples of Regionalist painting by Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, notably the latter's celebrated five - panel mural, The Arts of Life in America (1932).

In 1945 Greenberg called Pollock «the strongest painter of his generation» (in 1948 he upgraded that to «the greatest American painter of the twentieth century»), yet Pollock seems to best fit Rosenberg's «action» model of painting.

One of the foremost American figurative painters of the twentieth century, Neel is known for her portraits of family, friends, neighbors, and locals as well as writers, poets, and other cultural and political figures.

Banewl recalls the work of seventeenth — century Dutch painter Aelbert Cuyp, known for his moody, open scenes of cows, as well as that of John Constable and the eighteenth — and nineteenth — century British pastoral landscape tradition.

Featuring large - scale installations, lush colorful paintings, video works, and sculptures from the 21st century as well as an accompanying exhibition of works by Francis Newton Souza, one of the most important 20th century Indian painters, these exhibitions showcase two significant Columbus - based collections, offering an unprecedented look at modern and contemporary art from India.

His best criticism was collected in The Changing Forms of Art; long out of print when the Tate published another collection, Painter As Critic, to make available again some of the most perceptive and trenchant English criticisms of 20th century modernism.

Peter Doig One of the best painters of this century, and on cracking form.

The first drawing by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in the collection, Chronos Devouring his Child (Fig. 4), was purchased in 1934 from A. Everett «Chick» Austin, Jr., director of the Wadsworth Athenaeum at Hartford and a fellow Harvard graduate student with Professor of Art Agnes Rindge; Austin evidently bought the sheet from the Savile Gallery in London.21 The brown ink and wash drawing with traces of black chalk is a variation of a work in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and is related to a drawing in The Pierpont Morgan Library that is very close in concept to a portion of the ceiling of the Palazzo Clerici in Milan.22 Other gifts of drawings came in the 1930s, mostly contemporary American art, as well as nineteenth - century sketchbooks by Sanford Robinson Gifford, which complemented the four paintings by this Hudson River School painter that were already in the Magoon collection.

Frankenthaler looked closely at landscapes by nineteenth - century painters and was influenced by their depictions of nature as sublime and often terrifying, as well as beautiful.

«High and Low Life in the Netherlands of the 17th Century,» at Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts, is a generous — maybe too generous — mélange of still lifes, genre painting, landscapes, religious and historical works whose best - known artists include the still - life specialist Pieter Claesz, the fantasy landscapist Joos de Momper and the genre painter Dirck Hals, brother of the celebrated Frans.

A virtual Rorschach test for American culture during the better part of the last century, Wyeth split public opinion as vigorously as, and probably even more so than, any other American painter including the other modern Andy, Warhol, whose milieu was as urban as Wyeth's was rural.

As well as Francis Bacon, other 20th century artist's work to be displayed includes Walter Sickert, Lucian Freud and David Hockney, alongside contemporary painters including Ken Currie, George Shaw, Caroline Walker, and many others.

Twentieth - century European painters, all children of the Renaissance, were notoriously resistant to dropping the figure as well as the perspectival illusion of space that the figure inhabits.

In 1944 — the year Clyfford Still completed 1944 - N No. 2, Jackson Pollock — probably the best - known American Abstract Expressionist painter of the 20th century, was still searching for his signature style and was a year or so away from creating his first drip painting.

«Stuart Davis has been called one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century and the best American artist of his generation, his art hailed as a precursor of the rival styles of pop and geometric color abstraction,» remarks Barbara Haskell.

Each of these painters interpreted the Matunuck landscape in a personal way, yet among them they encompass most of the major trends defining American painting of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries — the Barbizon School, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Tonalism and plein - air painting — as well as the creation of the era's predominant artistic institution: a summer school.

Inspired by Giorgio de Chirico, Andre Breton and other 20th century surrealist painters, Weldon's dream - like and fantastical narratives playfully coax the viewer to consider the role of social media in our everyday lives - the absurdity of time spent scrolling through photographs and feeds, as well as the the withdrawn insularity of choosing social media over genuine social interactions.

• 2005 - The Triumph of Painting (3 - part series) Featured some outstanding late 20th century paintings, by a number of European painters such as Jorg Immendorff, Peter Doig, Martin Kippenberger, and Luc Tuymans, as well as younger painters from America, Germany and Britain.

One of the most popular 20th century painters from the North of England, paintings by L.S. Lowry now hang in some of the best art museums in the UK.

Includes Old Master paintings (14th century - present), as well as a wide collection of works by Irish artists James Barry, Augustus Nicholas Burke, Gerard Dillon, Paul Henry, Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Mainie Jellett, Sean Keating, Louis le Brocquy, William John Leech, Daniel Maclise, Roderic O'Conor, Sarah Purser and Jack B. Yeats, as well as many other Irish painters and sculptors.

Harvard Art Museum This encompasses three centres: the Fogg Art Museum, concentrating on Western Art of the Middle Ages to the present (notably early Renaissance, British pre-Raphaelite, 19th - century Impressionist and post-Impressionist works, and an important collection of Picasso's works); the Busch - Reisinger Museum, specializing in fine art from Central and Northern Europe (notably 20th century German Expressionist painters); and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, which focuses on ancient, Islamic and Asian art (notably archaic Chinese jades and Japanese surimono, as well as drawings, paintings and calligraphy from Iran, India, and Turkey, along with Greek and Roman sculpture).

Lawrence is one of the best known 20th - century African - American painters, along with Romare Bearden.

The Tantric Way highlights the parallels between Tantric art and the early twentieth - century modernist abstractions of Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian, Constantin Brancusi and Robert Delaunay, as well as the affinities between the post-war American painters Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman and the work of Indian artist Biren De.22 The latter was one of the leading members of a group of «neo-Tantric» artists newly promoted by New Delhi gallerist Virendra Kumar Jain, the older brother of Tantra Art's publisher, Ravi Kumar.23

Intended as a manual for the aspiring landscape painter, this ambitious undertaking was praised by John Ruskin and studied by John Constable as well as other artists of the day, helping to raise the status of landscape painting in the early 19th century.

The drip paintings of the Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock are among the best - known paintings of the 20th century.

• AMERICAN SCENE PAINTING (Regionalism)(c.1925 - 45) Edward Hopper (1882 - 1967) American realist, one of the best genre painters of the 20th century.

New York — Renowned for his portraiture and depictions of rural landscapes, the eighteenth - century British artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788) is best known as a painter.

At three locations in Basel — the Kunstmuseum and the Museum für Gegenwartskunst as well as the Kunsthalle — the show traced a long arc from the early twentieth to the dawn of the twenty - first century and invited audiences to experience the different ways painters had explored and scrutinized their world.