Sentences with phrase «decade as a painter»

In With So Little To Be Sure Of, Williams draws on four decades as a painter and storyteller to bear witness to systems of oppression in our society, both historical and current.

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However, a redeeming feature of the descriptions is that missionaries such as H. Baker, Jr., and A. F. Painter, who were acquainted with the people and local language for several decades, had also an anthropological approach which makes a difference.

Renoir's Dancer by Catherine Hewitt As a female artist trying to make a name for herself a few decades before the subject of Hewitt's fascinating biography, Amy has a lot in common with Suzanne Valadon, a favorite model of Renoir who became an accomplished painter in her own right.

Something about the Camden Town Group painter Walter Sickert (1860 - 1942) has kept Cornwell going for close to two decades of research into what she says she believes is the artist's secret identity as the Ripper.

As the NY Times notes, «Battambang has produced some of the country's most famous artists: the 1960s chanteuse Ros Sereysothea, whose popularity persists decades after her death; the late painter Vann Nath; and Chhom Nimol, the frontwoman of the Los Angeles - based indie rock band Dengue Fever.»

Over the last decade, she's created countless hyperrealistic portraits of friends and family — using thread instead of paint.Her history as a painter gave her the necessary training to use cotton, silk, and wool to create depth and volume.

The exhibition is called «Mastry,» a play on the «Rhythm Mastr» series of comic strips Marshall has been working on for over a decade, and on his attainments as a painter.

Shaping Up: After seven decades as a little — known painter of pared — down abstractions, Carmen Herrera finds a place in the spotlight Ann Landi

When he returned to painting in the Bay Area in mid-1965 his resulting works summed up all that he had learned from his more than a decade as a leading figurative painter.

The exhibition brings together a selection of nine paintings on monochrome stone (slate and white marble) by Italian painters such as Sebastiano del Piombo, Titian, Daniele da Volterra and Leandro Bassano, which reflect the consolidation of a new approach to artistic techniques that emerged in the early decades of the 16th century.

At the same time, however, by recycling and affirming in 1967 his own words from nearly a decade earlier, Sylvester suggests that we can celebrate Bomberg for his genuine accomplishments as a painter and teacher while frankly acknowledging his important, if limited impact in the history of modern art — an impact which is still being assessed today.

Unlikely as it seems, this artist, known for many decades as a Pop painter whose canvases throng with violent, sensual imagery amid bright fields of color, began her career working exclusively as a sculptor.

Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY: In the spring of 1965, Joan Mitchell had her seventh and final exhibition at the historic Stable Gallery in New York where her career as a painter had been launched more than a decade earlier.

It's latest record million dollar sale price acknowledges what many have recognized for decades — Marshall is one of the great painters of his generation and his approach, «Blackness in the Extreme» (as he titled his Nov. 12 lecture at the Crystal Bridges Museum), resonates narratively and aesthetically.

De Keyser and Bishop seem to have chosen a kind of internal exile as painters, or maybe a better metaphor is that of the mole, in the espionage sense of the word: for decades quietly undermining the system they belong to with hardly anyone noticing.

That 1950s and»60s cadre of poets, painters, and dancers managed to continue with a small but loyal audience, as Warhol - derived pop art dominated the visual arts scene for the past three decades, and performance art for the decade before that.

Writing late in that decade, Lucy Lippard commented on his peculiar asynchronicity, describing him as a ««thirties painter» in the forties and a «sixties painter» in the fifties.»

We were amazed by Anderson's determination to finish as a legally blind artist a painting he had started two decades before, especially as he described how erratic his vision was and the problems this created for him as a painter.

Presenting artworks from each decade of Seliger's career, the retrospective offers a unique opportunity to trace his development as a painter.

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

Painter Emily Mason has followed her intuition into these lands for more than six decades, traveling through the looking glass to produce an original body of work that mesmerizes and excites its viewers as few American abstractionists have done before.

In any case, I feel like I'm coming full circle, after decades of exploring a wide variety of different types of picture making, both representational and non-objective, so that these newest paintings seem to be more fully realized in terms of how I am integrating my influences via my specific talents, proclivities and character as a painter.

Conceived as an adjunct to painting in the earliest years of its development in the first decades of the 19th century, when many painters discovered how useful photographs could be in composing their canvases, photography quickly assumed an artistic presence and legitimacy of its own (albeit one that often still took its cues from traditional painterly modes of representation).

A Decade of American Drawings Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY Young Americans — 35 Artists under 35 Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY 1964 Painters and Sculptors as Printmakers The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY 14th Annual Print Exhibition Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 1963 National Prints Exhibition Brooks Memorial Gallery Memphis, TN 19th Annual Print Exhibition Library of Congress Washington, D.C.

How helpful that a Chelsea gallery has staged a huge show of Picasso's last decade, with the painter posing as a dejected, recycled version of himself.

As is true of so many avant - gardes, the first decade or so of Australian Aboriginal forays into making portable, permanent, marketable artworks, the 1970s, was male - dominated, with men's Dreamings and ceremonies the only permissible subject matter — and men typically the only painters, though some women served in apprenticeships under men.

For the following two decades, de Kooning moved easily between pure abstraction and loose figuration developing a reputation as one of America's leading painters of the 20th century.

They are also rooted in the artist's early training as a painter and printmaker at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an education that spanned two decades during which she raised three children while completing her BFA in 1971 and MFA in 1978.

Spanning 6 decades, Richard Artschwager's diverse output as sculptor, painter, furniture - maker, printmaker, and draftsman eludes easy categorization.

As a painter, Fairfield Porter remains a powerful and important influence decades after his death.

In the next decade 3 of the Five left Regina to pursue their careers as painters and teachers.

As well as being the first woman and the first painter to win the prize in almost a decade, after years of artists with personas as feverishly worked upon as their art, here was someone about whom we knew practically nothing: 38 years old, from Kiel in Germany but resident in London for the past 12 years, and (rumour had it) the former girlfriend of Chris Ofili - that's pretty much iAs well as being the first woman and the first painter to win the prize in almost a decade, after years of artists with personas as feverishly worked upon as their art, here was someone about whom we knew practically nothing: 38 years old, from Kiel in Germany but resident in London for the past 12 years, and (rumour had it) the former girlfriend of Chris Ofili - that's pretty much ias being the first woman and the first painter to win the prize in almost a decade, after years of artists with personas as feverishly worked upon as their art, here was someone about whom we knew practically nothing: 38 years old, from Kiel in Germany but resident in London for the past 12 years, and (rumour had it) the former girlfriend of Chris Ofili - that's pretty much ias feverishly worked upon as their art, here was someone about whom we knew practically nothing: 38 years old, from Kiel in Germany but resident in London for the past 12 years, and (rumour had it) the former girlfriend of Chris Ofili - that's pretty much ias their art, here was someone about whom we knew practically nothing: 38 years old, from Kiel in Germany but resident in London for the past 12 years, and (rumour had it) the former girlfriend of Chris Ofili - that's pretty much it.

Commenting upon the decade explored in «Philip Guston: Painter, 1957 — 1967» Paul Schimmel said, «If there was one way in which Guston was consistent as an artist, it was in his unwillingness to be pinned down or to rest on his own considerable accomplishments and influence.

Although Ms. Buchanan came to art as a second career, after a decade as a public health educator in East Orange, N.J., she sought out professional instruction and made many insider connections, taking classes with the abstract painter and activist Norman Lewis at the Art Students League of New York and finding another mentor in Lewis's friend Romare Bearden.

[1] When Marsh was two years old his family moved to Nutley, New Jersey, where his father acquired a studio home located on The Enclosure, a street that had been established as an artists» colony some decades earlier by the American painter Frank Fowler.

For the past decade, Moyer's writing has appeared in publications such as Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, and Modern Painters.

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In the world of art, in the first decade of the 20th century, young painters such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse were causing a shock with their rejection of traditional perspective as the means of structuring paintings, [47][48] though the impressionist Monet had already been innovative in his use of perspective.

In the following decade, while raising a family and rapidly developing as a serious painter, the young mother also illustrated three children's books.

There's nothing quite so treacherous as the posthumous retrospective of a long - lived painter whose chief contribution to art came decades before his death.

Jackson, who had begun as a landscape painter, returned to color at the end of the decade, generating a series of vibrant, deeply hued paintings throughout the «70s that play with flat, often - veil like forms, offbeat arrangements, and, often, a sense of lateral or even forward movement, as if projecting off the canvas.

The first step, which took place at the Cini Foundation for the 56th Venice Biennale, was the first major European institutional exhibition to fully explore Liu Xiaodong's unique practice, as one of China's most influential painters of the last two decades.

Many of these young poets and artists had moved to New York in the late 1940s to learn from older downtown painters such as de Kooning, Pollock and Kline, who had worked for decades in isolation and penury.

Entitled Drip, Drape, Draft, the show presents works by Robert Davis, a close friend of Johnson for more than a decade; Angel Otero, who he has known for some six years; and Sam Gilliam, an older artist from what Johnson refers to as «an almost lost generation of black abstract painters», with whom he recently struck up a mutually significant friendship.

Their experimental mode of production, use of alternative materials and visceral facticity align the artist with other European and American painters working in this decade such as Alberto Burri, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Cy Twombly, Jay DeFeo and Hassel Smith.

You started as a painter and then made sculpture for a decade or more.

«I can think of no other painters whose commitment to art and their artistic community was as strong as that of James Brooks and Charlotte Park in the decades that they lived on the East End,» stated Alicia G. Longwell, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator at the Parrish.

2013 Texas Artist of the Year: Rachel Hecker Art League Houston couldn't have made a better choice than to honor Hecker, a powerful and poetic painter and University of Houston professor who also served as assistant director of the Core Program during its pivotal first decade.

She maintained her practice as an abstract painter and sculptor spanning six decades, often painting over weekends in her Long Island studio.

But since a major exhibition at Stockholm's Modern Museum in 2013, she's been hailed as the first abstract painter, whose mysterious spirit - guided compositions predate the efforts of male modernist titans such as Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky by a good decade.