Sentences with phrase «champion of living artists»

«David is that rare and remarkable combination of a scholarly curator and sensitive champion of living artists,» said the Whitney's deputy director for programmes Scott Rothkopf.

Not exact matches

There is perhaps no other tribe more obsessed with others» personal routines and rituals than creatives — a visceral desire to peek into the lives of great artists and to borrow any or all ideas that champion creativity.

At this free - to - attend event, fans will get the chance to meet some of the Premier League's former stars, including Premier League champion and all - time top scorer Alan Shearer, and enjoy live music from top local artists and DJs.

Kara Hui and real - life martial artist and former Peking Opera student Sharon Yeung Pan-pan are a pair of cops hunting fugitive triad leader Kenneth Tsang, who's come back to Hong Kong from Japan to shake up the underworld, bringing with him a tough and muscular female bodyguard (real - life powerlifting champion and «Girls With Guns» superstar Michiko Nishiwaki).

This section at Frieze ultimately seeks to celebrate Hudson, his life, and the work of the artists who he championed - often at the very outset of their careers.

Her dissertation explores how modern artists worked across boundaries of fine art and design to champion modern art's relevance to everyday life in the early twentieth century.

«The BMA is pioneering the way for institutions to become more inclusive by championing contemporary artists from all walks of life.

«The Whitney Museum has long championed artists such as Edward Hopper and Reginald Marsh who captured the everyday life of the city in their works.

A champion of rising artists, Beckwith has shown early support for artists such as Rashid Johnson, Jimmy Robert, Keren Cytter, The Propeller Group, and Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, and believes working with living artists to be the greatest advantage of studying contemporary art.

Artes Mundi champions leading contemporary artists, from across the world, whose work relates to every aspect of our personal lives in a global society.

Taken together, the show assembles work by a group of artists who have made it their life's work to champion both the centrality and importance of female perspectives in creative production.

Belonging to the generation that produced Abstract Expressionism (he was arguably the first champion of Jackson Pollock), Greenberg saw in that artist's personal tragedy a metaphor for the disasters of American life and art, in which people were alienated from real culture, were being forced to live off kitsch culture («one of faked sensations»... «because it was turned out mechanically») and he was resigned to the fact that at the other extreme, the so called avant - garde had taken off in another direction which was producing art for art's sake for themselves and the cultural elite.

As a country that was still living in the traumatic experiences that were caused by the political pressures of that time, the artists of Stars Group championed individuality and freedom of speech.

For three months from the end of January, you can rest your eyes on Berthe Morisot, Zola and Mallarmé, Georges Clemenceau and the long - suffering Mrs Manet, all painted by clever Edouard as actors in that drama of everyday life championed by his friend, Baudelaire, as the proper subject for a modern artist.

Cubism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism were the most important of these movements, and attracted a number of indigenous American artists, including: the New Jersey Cubist / Expressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - American artist.

These include the major public installation «Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads» which opened in New York on 2 May and will open at Somerset House in London on 12 May, the day of the fountain event, Lisson Gallery hope to open of one of the most significant living artists, cultural figures, and champions of human rights in China's solo exhibition.

'» Although Peggy Guggenheim and Betty Parsons championed her, although major museums acquired her work, although Clement Greenberg praised her «nice flatness» and «delicacy» and Hilton Kramer mentioned her «first - class graphic gift,» and although she has had one of the longest exhibition histories of any living artist (seventy years), she is hardly well known.

It was very quiet, there, too, so I returned to writing for a bit, but reverted to speech with the arrival of Simon Draper, a champion of living small through his Habitat for Artists project (six - by - six - foot freestanding studios).