Sentences with phrase «day as an art critic»

Her husband John Ruskin — famous to this day as an art critic, a writer on sundry subjects, and a watercolor painter — refused to consummate the marriage throughout its six years» time.

Not exact matches

It may not have sounded like much on the surface (another reason why it probably didn't do very well with audiences or most critics) but legendary director Hill (the man behind such classics as «The Warriors,» «48 HRS» and «Streets of Fire») brought both his impeccable technical gifts and a genuine sense of personal style to the proceedings that elevated the material to something that came far closer to what one might refer to as «art» than one might rightly expect from a genre picture these days.

Former and current Nashvillians including author and owner of Parnassus Books, Ann Patchett (Commonwealth), novelist and respected wine critic Jay McInerney (Bright, Precious Days: A Novel), fantasy writer Sherrilyn Kenyon (DragonMark) musician Kix Brooks (Cookin» It With Kix: The Art of Celebrating and the Fun of Outdoor Cooking), and Anne Byrn, nationally famous as The Cake Mix Doctor (American Cake: From Colonial Gingerbread to Classic Layer, the Stories and Recipes Behind More Than 125 of Our Best - Loved Cakes).

In contrast to other prominent midcentury art critics — like the New York Times's John Canaday, who warned him against fraternizing with artists for fear of impairing his critical distance — Sandler purposefully immersed himself in his subjects» milieu, first in his days as a young reviewer for Artnews and later as an art historian.

Critics these days often see art as rather less liberating than painters like to think.

Often characterized by contemporary critics as a sort of modern - day Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Tamara de Lempicka was the lone traditional easel painter in the entirety of the Art Deco style.

There is more gathering than hunting in an art critic's work day and, as one can not see everything, missed opportunities are at least as typical as chance encounters.

Under the leadership of Mary Ellen Goeke, Executive Director of FotoFocus; Raphaela Platow, Director of Contemporary Arts Center; and curated by Kevin Moore, Artistic Director of FotoFocus, the program will include an international roster of curators, critics, artists, and art world professionals who will meet for a two - day event on October 23 and 24, 2015, at the CAC, to discuss the significance and implications of the exhibition and Mapplethorpe's career and legacy as these have evolved over the past 25 years.

Curated by Cristina Vives, an art critic and independent curator based in Havana, NKAME showcases more than forty prints from Ayón's early days as a student to the last works she produced.

Since his early days as LA Weekly's art critic, Ralph Rugoff has championed this wide - angled view of art — one that embraces self - taught practices, undiscovered artists, and numerous mediums, from sound to elephantine installation to micro-miniature sculpture.

With a remarkable roster of participating venues, the event promises a thorough and extensive showcase of artworks, as well as four days of rich program featuring exhibitions, film screenings, lectures and performances by artists, curators, critics and art world professionals, to take place during the month of October 2016.

The painters were championed or chided (often both) by critics of the day such as Clement Greenberg, who had both unparalleled influence and art - historical clout, unlike critics of our current age.

[16] In December 2005, Village Voice art critic Jerry Saltz described «Day is Done» as a pioneering example of «clusterfuck aesthetics,» the tendency towards overloaded multimedia environments in contemporary art.

The New York Times art critic John Canaday was highly critical, but Clement Greenberg proclaimed abstract expressionism in general and Jackson Pollock in particular, as the epitome of aesthetic value, enthusiastically supporting Pollock's work on formalistic grounds as the best painting of its day and the heir to an art tradition - stretching back to the Cubism of Pablo Picasso, the cube - like pictures of Paul Cézanne and the Water Lily series of Claude Monet - whose defining characteristic is the making of marks on a flat surface.