Sentences with phrase «draughtsman in»

«Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented», de Kooning famously once remarked, but in fact, these works grew out of an extended period of innovation in which that artist had deliberately attempted to subvert his prodigious gifts as a draughtsman in favour of newer, unconsciously made, but more vital marks.

Richard Hamilton described Colin Self as «the best draughtsman in England since William Blake».

He was a painter and draughtsman in the tradition of Goya, Daumier and Kollwitz, and he infused everything he created with a fiercely active social and political awareness fueling an astounding body of work spanning seven decades — works that seem more relevant than ever before, given today's political climate.

A draughtsman in his own right, Francois - Xavier executes his work with precision strokes.

«I'm a qualified draughtsman in building construction and I can speak four languages — Swiss German, German, English and French.»

In 2010 - 2011, they organised the 1st Encounter of Artistic Draughtsmen in the indigenous land Huni Kuni of the Jordão River — originating the MAHKU — Artistic Movement of the Huni Kuin.

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Quickly making a name for itself as the latest desert hipster hangout, Arrive is home to two incredible restaurants (Reservoir and Draughtsman), a small coffee shop (Customs Coffee), and the best Ice Cream & Shop (pe) in Palm Springs.

Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush), sculptor, painter, draughtsman and print maker, has just left his exhibition opening in

This story of the fictitious Sabine De Barra (Kate Winslet), who supposedly designed the real - life Rocaille Grove for Louis XIV's Versailles in 1682, bears comparison to Peter Greenaway's twisted 17th - century puzzle - parable «The Draughtsman's Contract» (1982), with the latter's perversity a contrast to the former's complacency.

Accompanied by his former tutor, the accomplished French artist Charles - Louis Clérisseau (who specialised in ruins) and two draughtsmen, he managed to make a reasonable survey in a short time despite having insufficient permits and being thwarted by the Venetian authorities who regarded the group as spies.

David Hockney RA, has distinguished himself throughout his long and successful career as a gifted draughtsman; his confidence and strength of line characterises his work from single line portrait studies, to large scale paintings of LA in the 60s.

A supremely talented and diligent draughtsman, he became one of the youngest artists to be included in the stable of the prestigious ACA Gallery in 1936, and also showed with the Bombshell Group at the Riverside Museum in 1942.

Even as they engage in conflict or violence, their draughtsman - like stylization and sparse colors lend a austere gracefulness to the scenes.

Lanfranco Quadrio (Italy) and Marcel Rusu (Romania) work as traditional draughtsmen, yet both remain extremely contemporary in the formal strength and dynamism of their drawings.

The exhibition intends to feature both artists who clearly use traditional drawing methods to forge their artistic language, and artists — who although not traditional draughtsmen, have produced works which can be closely related to a vision of what does, in fact, constitute a drawing.

As a young man, Ball worked as an architectural draughtsman before moving to New York in -LSB-...]

Alberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman and printmaker who played the role of a key figure in the post-WWII modern art scene.

Born in London in 1914 Chadwick trained as a draughtsman and in 1937 joined an architectural practice, designing exhibition stands for trade fairs.

Scott joined the Army in July 1942, serving firstly with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and then as a lithographic draughtsman with the Royal Engineers.

Indeed, Grotjahn's early work established his capabilities as a skilled draughtsman, from the Sign Replacement Project that involved him making careful copies of shop signs and trading them for the originals, to his abstract experiments with multiple vanishing points in the late 1990s.

This great German artist and visionary, who locked himself in a cage with a coyote, planted trees for the future and talked to a dead hare was not only the most charismatic of performers but a master draughtsman.

«As he is in no sense a draughtsman, they must be appraised as doodlings for psychological rather than formal interest,» said Artnews, in March 1947.

While recuperating in hospital after being hit by a car, the young artist — already a keen draughtsman — pored over the diagrams on its pages.

German painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor Georg Baselitz was born in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony in 1938.

He volunteered for active duty in World War I and, after sustaining an injury, continued to help with the war effort as a cartographer and a medical draughtsman.

Born on October 25, 1881, in Málaga, Spain, Pablo Picasso (Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso) was a painter, sculptor, draughtsman, printmaker, decorative artist, and writer.

Considered a pioneer of socially engaged art, these drawings belie Beuys» more rebellious streak, but they show the artist as a great draughtsman and someone who has a true interest in human nature.

An accomplished painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, Georg Baselitz is well known for his prominent role in the development of the German Neo-Expressionist movement.

While the Scot was fascinated by Panzers, the German visionary sculptor, draughtsman, performer and radical politician was haunted by a Stuka crash in the second world war that nearly killed him.

A skilled draughtsman with an experienced painterly hand, he easily convinces us of the impossible — logic collapses in the narratives, beckoning various interpretations.

In conjunction with the exhibition architect and draughtsman, Benedict O'Looney is running sketching tours of buildings by Shaw and his followers local to the RA — so you can learn about Shaw's architecture while trying out some of his stunning techniques!

By then Grace Hartigan had returned home and had taken a job as a mechanical instrument draughtsman at an aircraft engineers; she also took evening classes in art, though she admitted that her output then showed «absolutely no talent».

James Boswell was a New Zealand - born British painter, draughtsman and socialist who enjoyed a lot of fame in the United Kingdom.

Born in Dresden, Germany, in 1932 just as the Nazi Third Reich was coming to power, Gerhard Richter showed early promise as a draughtsman and left school to take up an apprenticeship as a set painter in a theater.

Waiting for the Fire, a large - scale drawing in Indian ink, illustrates his facility as a draughtsman, clearly evident in the animated charcoal drawings that first brought him to the world's attention.

De Kooning was a skilled draughtsman with a graceful touch that resulted in sinuous lines suggestive of volume as well as shape.

Born on December 8, 1922, in Berlin, Germany, Lucian Michael Freud was a British painter and draughtsman and considered to be the leading figurative painter of his time.

Artist, draughtsman, stage designer and photographer, he began his artistic search as an important contributor to the Pop art movement in the mid-1960's.

Be it as a painter, stage designer, draughtsman, sculptor, architect, designer, catalogue and book designer, poet or author of theoretical works, Zobernig pursues this question in the widest possible variety of roles and thereby questions the traditional image of the artist.

Thomas Schütte is a German sculptor and draughtsman born in 1954 in Oldenburg, Germany.

Henri Gaudier - Brzeska (1891 - 1915) Avant - garde French sculptor and draughtsman, active in London.

Robert Ballagh was born in Dublin in 1943, he originally studied architecture and worked as an engineering draughtsman, a musician and a postman before dedicating himself to painting in 1967.

Martin Wong grew up in San Francisco where he was active in the late 60s and early 70s in the art scene in San Francisco, first as a ceramic artist, then as a draughtsman and painter.

Born in 1878 — well before WWI during which he was a war artist — master - draughtsman, Augustus John's, David at the Table portrays the somewhat idealised image of a haggard though handsome, wild - eyed young man in work clothes sat slumped at a plain table on which one senses there is no food and might not have been for some time.

An inveterate draughtsman, he chose a path that was in keeping with his personal vision, a desire to record the radiant color and light of the world around him.

Leading contemporary sculptor and draughtsman Rachel Whiteread (born 1963 in Essex, UK) is one of the original YBAs or Young British Artists exhibited and collected by well - known patron Charles Saatchi.

Many historians cite John Wilde (1919 — 2006)-- painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of fantastic imagery — as one of the pioneers of magic realism in Wisconsin.

Numerous live acts animate The Grand Opening in collaboration with science fiction writer Nina Allan, Anja Dietmann and pianist Fion Pellacini, Pierre Huyghe, dance artist Carlos Maria Romero, live draughtsman Isobel Williams, pole dance by Ayumi LaNoire, go go dancers and more.

A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought painting must have careful drawing as its basis: He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered, fleshy surfaces in oil.

Highlights from an outstanding selection of exhibitions include Master Draughtsmen of the Venetian Settecento: Drawings by Tiepolo at Stephen Ongpin Fine Art; a «once in a lifetime» exhibition of 22 drawings by the great 18th century Venetian masters, Giambattista and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, including studies for Giambattista's renowned ceiling frescos.