Sentences with phrase «eccentric artists like»

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The real Tommy Wiseau is so eccentric and off - kilt, he's like a movie character come to life, so the risk with something like The Disaster Artist is that Tommy's portrayal devolves into caricature.

Of the six features on this set, all but Playtime make their respective American Blu - ray debuts and two appear on disc for the first time in the U.S.. From his debut feature Jour de Fête (1949) to the birth of both M. Hulot and the distinctive Tati directorial approach in his brilliant and loving Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) through the sublime Playtime (1967) to his post-script feature Parade (1974), this set presents the development of an artist who took comedy seriously and sculpted his films like works of kinetic art driven by eccentric engines of personality.

Like most artists, he was rather eccentric, with an iconic fluffy hairstyle and a restlessness with his work.

Auriti's plan was never carried out, of course, but the dream of universal, all - embracing knowledge crops up throughout history, as one that eccentrics like Auriti share with many other artists, writers, scientists, and prophets who have tried — often in vain — to fashion an image of the world that will capture its infinite variety and richness.»

In 1966, Lucy Lippard included Bourgeois's work in the seminal exhibition Eccentric Abstraction, together with a younger generation of artists like Eva Hesse and Bruce Nauman.

In his 2003 biography of Goya, Robert Hughes characterized the artist's eccentric late paintings as «seem [ing] like freakish, vivid precursors of modernity» because, as Hughes suggests, Goya chose to «bypass explicit symbolism» — in other words, he predicted modernism by choosing to bypass the chief characteristic of academic art: identifiable narrative.

Independent - minded, somewhat eccentric and seemingly unaffected by the shifting trends of the art world in the latter half of the 20th century, Mr. Davie was an early European admirer of postwar American abstract artists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning, whom he first encountered at the 1948 Venice Biennale as well as in the collection of Peggy Guggenheim (who bought two of Mr. Davie's works).

Houston artist Trenton Doyle Hancock is a painter and drawer, who, like Copley, has crafted his own eccentric, fantastical visual universe.

The relationship between visual art and science is at the heart of Fryer's eccentric but highly engaging body of works: «An artist like P.A. Fryer is as much a throwback to the enlightenment of the 18th century as he is prescient of the new.»

Among the many artists invoked by critics in relation to her work are Gauguin and van Gogh; the Belgian eccentric James Ensor; midcentury painters like Francis Bacon and Philip Guston; and the contemporary artists Cecily Brown and Barnaby Furnas.

His eccentric and sublime drawing, mordant wit and Surrealist admixture of mutant shapes and scrawls can put you in mind of works by various contemporaries, among them Cy Twombly, Terry Winters, Carroll Dunham and even younger artists like Christian Schumann and Matthew Barney.

At the present moment, however — at a time of increased interest in such European and American artists as Kozan's near contemporary, Biloxi potter George E. Ohr, whose work was rediscovered in the 1970s; in 1960s ceramic artists like Ron Nagle and Ken Price; in outsider artist and ceramicist Eugene Von Bruenchenhein; and in contemporary artists working in clay like Kathy Butterly, Andrew Lord, and Arlene Shechet — it is Kozan's more eccentric sculpted works that resonate.