Sentences with phrase «early artistic life»

To understand what makes Herrera's art significant, it helps to consider two major influences on her early artistic life: her friendship with Barnett Newman and her exposure to debates regarding abstraction in postwar Paris.

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This is not something the atheists of earlier ages would have been very likely to say, if only because they still lived in a culture whose every dimension (artistic, philosophical, ethical, social, cosmological) was shaped by a religious vision of the world.

Artistic expression has all the earmarks of a genetically evolved capacity: It appears early in life, is enjoyable for its own sake, exists across all cultures, and is mediated by ancient neural pathways in the brain.

With a wide range of live music, theatre pieces and all manner of artistic endeavour, Unity Works is a venue that is better suited to people with an artistic flair, but in the early days of dating, it is always best to show a more rounded and cultural side, making this venue an excellent choice for couples who are keen to impress each other.

Set in the early part of the 21st century, «Lady Bird» tracks an artistic 17 - year - old (Ronan) who hates her life in, of all places, Sacramento, California.

Later in his artistic life De Chirico changed into a more «classical» painting style, inspired by the painters of early Renaissance, Giottto and Ucello.

Considered by many critics to be an artistic cyberpunk masterpiece, the game combines intrigue, deep storytelling, a living environment full of townies and unique enemies to explore, and an iconic soundtrack that interlaces ambiance, drum and bass, and gorgeous string arrangements — grounding the player in an adventure that is amongst the most atmospheric games of the early 16 - bit era.

It is true that some of those artists who are discovered have found their unique artistic voice early in life.

For a comprehensive account of Saint Phalle's personal and artistic formation from the 1950s to firing at paintings in the 1960s, see Jo Ortel's «Separation and Rupture: The Shooting Paintings and the Avant - Garde,» chapter 2 of her dissertation, Re-creation, Self - creation: A Feminist Analysis of the Early Art and Life of Niki de Saint Phalle (PhD Diss, Stanford University, 1992).

From the early twentieth century, through the post-war years until today, downtown Manhattan, specifically Greenwich Village, was at the heart of bohemian life, vibrant intellectual discussion, and the gathering place for the artistic community.

Nigerian - born, Berlin - based Otobong Nkanga's early training in the converging traditions of live arts and performance lend a decidedly wayward, playful charge to her research - heavy artistic practice, steering her work away from the dour academicism that so often cripples art projects invested in the production and dissemination of knowledge.

In celebration of the exhibition, Painter of the Fields is the first major overview of Warren Rohrer's work held in Lancaster County and will examine the various stages of his career; including works from his early days of drawing to his fully realized abstract artistic language based on the fields of Lancaster County where he lived.

Jewish Museum Members are invited to an early Members - only viewing of Chaim Soutine: Flesh, featuring Soutine's remarkable paintings depicting hanging fowl, beef carcasses, and rayfish, imbued with the unique visual conceptions and painterly energy that the artist brought to the tradition of still - life, considered among his greatest artistic achievements.

Students discovered that although Still later rejected institutional organizations, many of his artistic theoretical beliefs evolved from his early life as a student and professor.

From the early 1950s, Robert Duncan and Jess established a nexus of literary and artistic life at their home in San Francisco

This exhibition of remarkable drawings, ranging in style, discipline and medium, documents 50 years of his artistic life from the early fifties at Black Mountain College through his late years in New York and Maine.

After a welcome and introduction by Pratt Institute Provost Kirk E. Pillow, the speakers began by discussing their early creative lives and first artistic influences, before Greenman shifted the conversation toward the topic of artistic collaboration.

With the early Arts and Crafts movement and the Bauhaus vision of art integrated with everyday life as its historical point of departure, the Art and Craft department seeks to elaborate on the relationship between art and life, on matters of materiality (production, sustainability, globalisation), on design and architecture, and on artistic practice in social and political contexts in a contemporary perspective.

David Claerbout's paintings on paper are fundamental to his film practice; Ilse D'Hollander's intimate canvases are sensual explorations of the physical act of painting; Jose Dávila interrogates how the modernist movement has been translated, appropriated, and reinvented; Laurent Grasso's meticulous appropriations of classical paintings integrate impossible phenomena, blurring the line between the historical and contemporary; Rebecca Horn's large - scale gestural paintings evoke her early performance work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze - frame.

Mr. Twombly, a native of Lexington, Va., spent most of his adult life in Italy, where he forged an original artistic path in spite of early criticism and outright mockery.

Q: In my reading about your life, you've said your father's early drawings were a source of artistic inspiration.

Extending over two and a half metres in length, Michelangelo Pistoletto's Donna nuda che avvita una lampadina (Nude woman affixing a light bulb)(1968) is an important early mirror painting depicting the nude figure of Maria Pioppi, his life - long artistic collaborator and companion.

While probing the lives and relations of such individuals the artist holds dearest (her five distinctive sisters, her post-adolescent son, her ensemble of cherished wordsmiths), the film draws a kind of coda to two of the artist's earlier essay films, Hemlock Forest (2016) and Les Goddesses (2011), each of which organize around similar concerns relating to the dynamics of longing, loss, and artistic creation.

• Introduction • Early Life & Training • Artistic Career 1955 - 1959 • Nouveau Realisme (New Realism) • Accumulations • Moves to the United States • Exhibitions of Works by Arman • Public Collections in America

The primary objectives of the founders as stated in an early exhibition catalogue were: «to unite sculptors of all progressive aesthetic tendencies into a vital organization in order to further the artistic integrity of sculpture and give it its rightful place in the cultural life of this country.»

This archival material provides rare insight into the artistic life of Basquiat before he was recognized as a prominent painter in the early 1980s.

He has worked in New York since 1975, and since the early 2000s his life and artistic output have been inextricably linked to New York and Munich.

Drawing from a variety of sources throughout his life, including early Dada movement inspirations, to his kitsch portraits of women in the 1930s and 1940s, Francis Picabia intentionally escaped being identified as part of any one artistic trend of his time.

The relationship between art and life has been the focus of various artistic avant - gardes since the early 20th century.

Susan Hiller (b. 1940, Tallahassee, FL; lives in London) is an influential pioneer of multimedia installation art recognized for her early adoption of video as an artistic medium and for her ability to transform conventional gallery spaces into haunting, immersive environments.

The creative duo and American - Swiss couple Hubbard and Birchler draw on their own relationship and collaborative artistic activity for inspiration, while shedding new light on Giacometti's early life.

Giacometti's and Mayo's relationship and their ensuing portrait busts reflect the creative energy generated by their collaborative artistic activity and also shed light on Alberto Giacometti's early life.

From this country's earliest years, American artists have used still - life painting to express cultural, political and social values, elevating the subject to a significant artistic language.

Now living and working in New York City, Buck is originally from Baltimore and credits her early artistic and intellectual development to her encounters with the legendary Abstract Expressionist painter Clyfford Still.

Though her early artistic endeavors took her to Rome and Venice, she was often drawn back to the customs and histories of the island, and in particular to the lives and voices of the women who lived there.

During the early 1960s Rivers lived in the Hotel Chelsea, notable for its artistic residents such as Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Arthur C. Clarke, Dylan Thomas, Sid Vicious and multiple people associated with Andy Warhol's Factory and where he brought several of his French nouveau réalistes friends like Yves Klein who wrote there in April 1961 his Manifeste de l'hôtel Chelsea, Arman, Martial Raysse, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint - Phalle, Christo, Daniel Spoerri or Alain Jacquet, several of whom left, like him, some pieces of art in the lobby of the hotel: for payment of their rooms.

• Biography • Early Life • Pop Art • Instantly Recognizable Subjects • Experimental Artist • Artistic Achievements and Awards • Most Expensive Paintings

Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, Emil Nolde and Nicolas de Staël had all been deeply admired by Hoyland from early in his artistic life.

The two centers of my artistic life in the early 70's were my co-op gallery, and the Alliance of Figurative Artists.

The exhibition celebrates the artistic achievements of individual artists who, early in their careers, received a vote of confidence in the form of an invitation from The Fine Arts Work Center: to live and work in Provincetown, MA for seven months, in the company of peers, with a sole responsibility to their work.

Like many African - American artists living in the United States during the early twentieth century, Beauford Delaney moved to Europe, and specifically Paris, to pursue his artistic career.

Twenty years or so earlier, the Abstract Expressionist Philip Guston dramatically abandoned the abstraction his reputation rested on, but Guston had been a representational painter in his youth, before he embraced abstraction, and he was able to signal the continuity of his artistic quest across this late - life rupture by including images and themes from his youthful work.

This contrasting artistic image of an early Martian environment with a thicker atmosphere (left) and the cold, dry Mars of today (right) shows how atmospheric changes affect a planet's ability to hold life.