Sentences with word «classicist»

Each group in the exhibition achieves this through their own distinct technique: the Abstract Classicists of Los Angeles worked in oil; the Washington Color School stained acrylic into their unprimed canvases; and the New York Op artists built up their acrylic on primed canvases.

Comparisons to the renown Abstract Classicists of the midcentury are inevitable.

Four of these artists — Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley, and John McLaughlin — gained prominence when they were featured in the 1959 exhibition Four Abstract Classicists at the Los Angeles Museum of Art (now the Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and the San Francisco Museum of Art (now the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art).

Then the psychedelic path will lead over the bridge of cybernation; and with Herbert Marcuse as guru emeritus, Norman O. Brown as classicist in residence, and William F. Buckley, Jr., as anti-utopian court jester, we will establish the new - consciousness Camelot, telling the little ones tales of old Greenwich Village, the Haight, Millbrook, the Peanut Butter Conspiracy, of all the lotus - eating cadres of the leisure class....

Often called neo-reactionaries but better understood as classicists, a third group of French thinkers refuses both nihilism and Islamism.

; Ryan De La Hoz whose highly techno - graphical meets classicist style has been a long time favourite of ours, and Yulia Brodskaya — creator of the multi-coloured rolled paper sculptural pieces, all of which are cut to the same roll depth and beautifully presented in simple white frames.

The oil on canvas composition is by the renowned California abstract classicist Karl Benjamin (1925 - 2012).

Having curated more than fifty exhibitions, he has been the primary or sole author of numerous exhibition catalogues, including Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875 - 1907; Edgar Payne: The Scenic Journey (Pomegranate); A Touch of Blue: Landscapes by Gregory Kondos; Armin Hansen: The Artful Voyage (Pomegranate); David Ligare: California Classicist; and E. Charlton Fortune: The Colorful Spirit (forthcoming from Pomegranate).

They favor redistribution and therefore a strong national state; this is a point of contact with classicists like Zemmour.

Coleman is an erudite Oxford - educated classicist who was a respected senior adviser to Livingstone in City Hall.

Moralioglu, a self - confessed classicist known for the rich narratives behind his collections, bought the portrait at an auction last month, and it couldn't be more indicative of the space he has carved out as a go - to for old - world elegance in a market that is increasingly crowded with an athletic, hyper - branded aesthetic.

She moved, specifically, from classicist drawings of hands to textile works — a self - defined style of «drawing with a sewing machine» in which she sometimes used materials bequeathed by her mother, and explored the Greek myth of Medea, the mother who killed her children after her husband betrayed her — to, later, collage works, or «drawing with scissors».

A modern classicist Degas lived and worked in Paris.

This quieter style of painting was greatly admired by the highly intellectual French classicist painter, Nicolas Poussin (1594 - 1665).

His death came just a few days after an exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery placed his work alongside the French classicist Nicolas Poussin, an indication of the esteem to which his abstract style is held by even those with more traditional tastes.

Early classicists made much of the Greeks» supposed cultural and racial purity.

Along with Colville he is one of the greatest classicists of contemporary Canadian PAINTING.

With all the Abstract Classicist paintings, the balanced geometric forms appear spare and refined, enriched by vivid colors of oil paint.

On the other hand, renderings of traditional church designs by contemporary classicists including Matthew Enquist, Dino Marcantonio, and Duncan Stroik make for an encouraging conclusion to this informative and eminently readable book.

[13][14] He has shown with avant - garde favorites and reactionary classicists including Lisa Yuskavage and Walton Ford.

... As Victor Hanson and John Heath write, «Not one of the multicultural classicists really wishes to live under indigenous pre «Colombian ideas of government, Arabic protocols for female behavior, Chinese canons of medical ethics, Islamic traditions of church and state, African approaches to science, Japanese ideas of race, Indian social castes, or Native American notions of private property.»

As a young Oxford classicist, Lewis moved from determined atheism to Hegelian idealism to a belief in a personal divine power before allowing himself to consider whether the Christian version of the myth of the dying god might be true.

Two major pressures combined to bring the collapse of this clerically controlled classicist education by the end of the nineteenth century.

Its central proposition — that consciousness arose only some time after the Iliad stories were first told — caused outrage among classicists when it was first published in 1977.

Alternatively, tour Frieze Sculpture with curator Clare Lilley's audio guide, provided by ArtFund — then pop back to Frieze London for another view of sculpture in the form of Hauser & Wirth's anarchic «Age of Bronze» presentation, curated by Cambridge classicist Mary Beard.

The party in question is a small, select soiree held in a book - lined London townhouse owned by Janet, a politician played by Kristin Scott Thomas, and her academic classicist husband Bill (Timothy Spall).

Of particular interest in the exhibition is Childe Hassam's Adam and Eve Walking Out on Montauk in Early Spring (oil on wood panel, 1924), which succinctly reflects the artist's desire to replicate the Greek Classicist ideal translated to painting, and historically is considered one of Hassam's most ambitious landscape works.

The exhibition also presents works in the Ateneum collection by artists who represent the realist and classicist modernism of the 1920s and 1930s, such as Ragnar Ekelund, Greta Hällfors - Sipilä, Olli Miettinen, Yrjö Ollila, Martti Ranttila, Juho Salminen and Ilmari Vuori.

In 2000, Tobey C. Moss curated Four Abstract Classicists Plus One at her gallery in Los Angeles.

Based on a series of lectures turned into a slim volume, classicist Mary Beard presents a witty case but does not pretend to have all the answers.

This original oil on canvas composition includes blue, purple, red, orange and pink colors in interacting geometric shapes and is by the renowned California abstract classicist Karl...

Here she encountered pressure to choose: the literary classicists understood their task to be «philological and to some extent aesthetic» rather than philosophical, while the ethical theories she encountered in studying philosophy were in different ways and for different reasons «hostile to literature.»

Because the Abstract Classicists formed their style in the 1950s, the artists all paint in oil on primed canvas resulting in rich, luminous colors.

Drawing inspiration in part from the American photographs of 19th century classicist and art historian Aby Warburg, his work also helps inform a new poster by Abraham Cruzvillegas, created during his recent residency in Washington D.C..

The comparison is perfectly calibrated to grab and hold this failed Classicist's attention, and I found myself puzzling over it as I read.

The Landmark Julius Caesar, a collaboration between Strassler and classicist Kurt Raaflaub, marks the series's first foray into Latin, and does not disappoint.

(Wiebe's term for this misfortune, borrowed from classicist Gilbert Murray, is «the failure of nerve» in the academic study of religion.)

As a schoolboy classicist, brightest of his peers, he graded ancient authors as if competitors with him for academic prizes: Thucydides «desperately dull and tedious,» Plato and Horace «charming,» Homer a «giant.»

Such a question faces not merely classicists, but all who think of Western culture as a continuous history, all who think the Greeks can, somehow, help us.

Otherwise, my present classicist trajectory might, on superficial glance, seem to be an unexplained reversal of the previous direction.

Peter Jones, distinguished classicist and «Ancient and Modern» columnist for The Spectator has published (just in time for Christmas in the UK, at least) an entertaining new book on ancient Rome: Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything you ever wanted to know about the Romans but were afraid to ask.

The greater force bringing an end to the old classicist colleges was the demand that led to the establishment of universities and graduate education in the decades following the Civil War.

She's a proper classicist I guess).

On the other hand, the series of Italian renaissances was furthered by the French and German classicist movement, and by the nostalgic passion for Greece among the German and English romantic poets, not to speak of the more recent attempts by Nietzsche, and into our time, Heidegger, Leo Strauss, and others.

As they reveal a more dynamic and accurate view of Greece and its place in the ancient world, cutting - edge classicists are showing that we have debts to worlds older than and other than Greece.