While
she describes herself as a painter and has won international recognition for her abstract canvases embroidered with erotic motifs, Ghada Amer is a multimedia artist whose entire body of work is infused with the same ideological and aesthetic concerns.
Grade II * - listed building in Twickenham,
described as painter's only 3D work of art, now open to the public
Hodgkin, born in 1932,
described himself as a painter of «representational pictures of emotional situations» though his very personal way of picture making mixes memory and mood to an essentially abstract end.
Though working through multiple mediums, Torkwase Dyson
describes herself as a painter who uses distilled geometric abstraction to create an idiosyncratic language that is both diagrammatic and expressive.
Not exact matches
Gillette and
Painter had a close personal and business relationship, and Adams
described them
as «kindred inventive spirits.»
I pose to the reader, or any person, the following dilemma: Imagine Alan in two possible worlds: one world like the one just
described in which he thought he was a great
painter and felt completely happy about this, and died, but was deceived and another world in which he really was a good
painter and his paintings sold for a high price because he was being recognized
as such and was not deceived, and again dies happily.
Often
described as the «
painter of light,» Turner was part of the Romantic school of
painters, whose work eventually led, on visual art's slowly unfolding timeline, to the Impressionists.
As painter - artist Munch
described also his revolutionary use of bright colors by rejecting the dark and brown colors.
1935 Maserati sports - racer (part 2)-- Ken
Painter condudes the history of the resurrection of his 4C5 / Bay to Birdwood Run — A report from Dennis Harrison on this huge Australian biennial pilgrimage / Australian All - Veteran Rally — This colourful event is
described for us by Ross McGown / The 1920s Windsor — Michael Worthington - Williams tells the story of this high quality London - made light car / 1934 Triumph sports - tourer — On this month's «Excursion'the Editor experiences a car once
described as «an enthusiast's ideal» / Hill - climbs in the North — A.B. Demaus continues his series of articles on pre.war hill - climb locations / Hershey Meet USA — The biggest old - car meet in the world was wet this year!
In the book (at least in the uncorrected proof), the
painter of her coronation portrait is called Hayden; the TV version corrects this — it was Hayter — but their version of the portrait itself has Victoria's head turned way too much to the right, apparently trying to fit the novel, which
describes her pose (p. 142)
as «standing and looking back over her shoulder.»
She
describes herself
as «a reader, a
painter, an inventor of solitary projects, the quiet child in a fairly boisterous family».
They opened their second store last summer, about five miles away from the first, in Coyoacán, which is,
as described by Garcilita, «a beautiful southern colonial neighborhood in Mexico City, where
painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera lived.»
Describing himself
as a «recovering lawyer», Stein is a full - time
painter from New York.
Fine Art I would
describe myself
as a colourist
painter.
Our early still - life
painters worked from one of two imperatives: a scientific approach to
describing discrete natural elements
as faithfully
as possible, or the more painterly approach of rendering entire scenes illusionistically.
«the domination of the object to be looked at, always saying that a certain line should go in this direction or that, a red had to be here and a blue there because that was the way it was on the model, began to be limiting...» (p. 75) Goodnough never accepted limits in his painting, embracing in his own work what he
describes as the «feeling in the best work of American
painters of the «wild» which has been the heritage of this country.»
Despite the pronounced effect on his work of the hugely influential Russian - born French
painter Nicolas de Stael,
described by the art critic Marco Livingstone
as, a godsend to Kinley, the young British
painter apparently, trod a solitary path that has made him difficult to place in the pantheon of Modern British art.
In the Spring 1998 issue of Modern
Painters, the
painter Trevor Winkfield
described Abstract Expressionism «
as a monolith» that has been «accorded a reverential deference which... seems a mite slavish, if not downright unhealthy.»
AWARD / HONOR
Describing Kerry James Marshall
as «The Modern Master,» Chicago magazine names the
painter among its Chicagoans of the Year.
An artist
described as the «prince of
painters», this first major overview of his work and legacy will explore his influence on artists
as diverse
as Van Dyck and Gainsborough to Cézanne and Picasso.
Another
painter based in L.A., Lecia Dole - Recio earnestly focused on the importance of Jasper Johns's catenary works to her practice and the related process by which she constructs her «queer formalist» paintings,
as she
describes them.
Storr has been
described as «an artist who's logged enough studio time to have a special regard for
painters»
painters... and a gifted writer who can make us appreciate them, too.»
Yves Klein (1928 — 1962), was a conceptual artist par excellence, a radical, utopian dreamer
described by the French critic, Pierre Restany
as «a
painter, but also infinitely more: a believer living in his own sense of the divine», whose diverse practice included ephemeral works in his quest for immateriality.
The
painter Catherine Murphy has
described the mid-century brushstroke
as a macho imperative she chose to reject.
Suffocated by his image
as the «elephant dung YBA»,
painter Chris Ofili left 12 years ago to live and work in Trinidad... Here he
describes the island's strange hold on him, now revealed in the extraordinary tapestry The Caged Bird's Song
The British artist who lives in Trinidad, is
described as a «visionary
painter» and among other artists «at the forefront of creativity.»
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.
It should be noted that while the overall effect of Murray's work is one of abstraction, and the artist
described herself
as an abstract
painter in an interview included in the 1987 catalogue, there are many representational elements and references in her paintings, in a stylized style emerging from cartoons, comics, and graffiti
as well
as from pop artists like Claes Oldenburg: works are shaped like shoes or cups and contains stylized abstracted but identifiable figuration and still - life imagery.
CIMA's first two - person exhibition pairs the Metaphysical
painter Giorgio de Chirico with the contemporary conceptual artist Giulio Paolini, who has
described de Chirico
as an «illustrious model» and has incorporated overt and coded images and references to de Chirico in his work for years.
«When my work was not censored outright, it was either mildly ridiculed, or
described as folkloric, or just ignored,» she recalled to the art magazine Modern
Painters.
Tal R is has been
described as a «
painter's
painter» due to the ease and exuberance of his approach to the medium.
Describing himself
as an «American
painter of signs,» Indiana has developed a bold, graphic style inspired by road signs and billboards, reflecting his interest in Americana.
Painter Arshile Gorky, who committed suicide in 1947, is
described as the last of the surrealists and first of the abstract expressionists.
Describing himself
as a «cyclical
painter,» Rackcliffe returned to a number of these subjects repeatedly over the course of his career.
The original common use refers to the tendency attributed to paintings in Europe during the post-1945 period and
as a way of
describing several artists (mostly in France) with
painters like Wols, Gérard Schneider and Hans Hartung from Germany or Georges Mathieu, etc., whose works related to characteristics of contemporary American abstract expressionism.
Reflecting about this idea, the critic Klaus Kertess,
described the
painter as «literally and figuratively a pilot of planes — performing real and imagined representations of agression upon the plane of painting».
With what has been
describes as a furious and fearless working process,
painter Karen Schwartz illustrates from an unlikely inspiration combo of both generations of German Expressionists and Post-Modern Neo-Expressionists, with a sense of color and light that recalls the likes of Matisse.
The tension between the actual volume and what it
describes, and our ability
as painters to contradict between the two, is something Stanly used to talk about all the time.
Dana Miller, the show's curator,
describes the effect
as being less like paint on canvas than «like cuts in space,» an innovation Ms. Herrera shares with
painters like Frank Stella and Ellsworth Kelly (though they became famous for their versions 40 years before hers began to enter important public collections).
Artist Bruce Nauman
described this quest
as follows: «If you see yourself
as an artist and you function in a studio and you're not a
painter, if you don't start out with some canvas, you do all kinds of things — you sit in a chair or pace around.
In 2004, the Swedish
painter Mamma Andersson was included in a show at LA's Hammer Museum called «The Undiscovered Country,» which explored a postmodern take on representation
described by curator Russell Ferguson
as a strategy of «painterly ambiguity.»
«I am not what you would
describe as a strictly «abstract»
painter, I am looking at organic forms, repeating and conjuring the minute parts of nature again and again.»
Sotheby's is hoping for a # 6.5 million - plus auction record this week for German artist, Georg Baselitz,
described by Sir Norman Rosenthal
as the greatest living
painter.
In the 1952 essay, «The American Action
Painters,» Rosenberg described Abstract Expressionist painters like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning as creating «not a picture but an event,» using the canvas as «an arena in which to act
Painters,» Rosenberg
described Abstract Expressionist
painters like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning as creating «not a picture but an event,» using the canvas as «an arena in which to act
painters like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning
as creating «not a picture but an event,» using the canvas
as «an arena in which to act.»
The monograph, designed by Takaaki Matsumoto and authored by philosopher and art critic David Carrier, is the first to trace Rohrer's trajectory over 40 years,
describing the highly unorthodox arc of his life — from Mennonite stock in rural Pennsylvania to prominence
as an exceptional abstract
painter of the late 20th century.
Portugese - born
painter Paula Rego was made a Dame Commander by the Queen today, and
described the honour
as a «wonderful experience».
Richard Smith (1931 — 2016) has been
described as «one of the most original
painters of his generation», who enjoyed huge critical and commercial success in both Britain and the United States in the 1960s and 70s.
In a 1951 essay, the artist and art critic Elaine de Kooning
described Aaron Siskind
as a «
painter's photographer.»
You could imagine that Mr. Resnick, the irascible «
painter's
painter» Roberta Smith
described as «the last Abstract Expressionist» in the obituary she wrote for The New York Times when the artist died almost eight years ago, had just wandered out for coffee.