Sentences with phrase «classical painters like»

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My mother had a ton of books on classical painters, like Caravaggio, and the greats of the Renaissance, whom I loved, but no books on contemporary art.

Just like the classical Chinese painter Paul Beumer does not want to borrow you his eyes.

In terms of content, these painters are all over the board, ranging from more classical subjects like landscapes and portraiture to «pure» abstraction without any clear real - world referent.

PIERRE Banchereau — I like the classical Flemish painters of the 17th century, such as Jan van Huysum, the flower photos of Hans - Peter Feldmann, the opulent décor of the Villa Boscogrande in Luchino Visconti's The Leopard, or the work of the German visual artist Gerhard Richter.

It emphasized the lyrical turn of the painter's late work, in which graffiti - like passages thicken into vine - like forms or give way altogether to inspiration by passages of classical literature or mythology.

An heiress of pathbreaking abstractionists like Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell, the British painter Cecily Brown updates the idiom of Ab - Ex painting by reaching back farther into history, summoning such figurative touchstones as the harrowing caricatures of Goya and the classical reposes of Poussin and Ingres.

The Bay Area artist Roy De Forest has said he thinks of himself as a «classical American painter with some correspondence to American primitive art and people like George Caleb Bingham and Edward Hicks.»

Given my involvement as a geometric abstract painter over the years, I have indelibly respected and admired Ortman's block - like paintings, each built in a hybrid manner related to a kind of folk constructivism — a way of working that recalls some strains of classical music, such as Bartók and Dvorak, and to a lesser extent, the folk - style sculpture of H. C. Westermann and the faux - systemic paintings of Alfred Jensen recently shown at Pace.

They have been cast, like Burton and Taylor, in a variety of showy roles: as painters interested in reviving aspects of the art form in its most staid and classical modes; as Marxist or Marcuseian critics of commodity culture and its discontents; as leering champions of youth movements and counter-culture stylings; as strict, detached, ironic appropriationists; and, finally, as sincere and romantic poets attendant on the tragedy of age's advancing degenerations of the body and of the melancholy states of nostalgia associated primarily with the waning of youthful beauty.

Thomasos's training as a classical abstract painter, as an MFA student at Yale and then in her apprentice years in Philadelphia, where she taught at Tyler alongside the established abstractionists Dona Nelson and Stanley Whitney, gave her a fluid confidence with paint, an ability to make a convincing mark, generally a straight, fast line, that could convey decisiveness and sensuality all at once, like the handwriting on a novelist's love - letter.