Sentences with phrase «erudite art»

John Russell, who contributed elegant, erudite art criticism for more than a half - century to The Sunday Times of London and The New York Times, where he was chief art critic from 1982 to 1990, and who helped bring a generation of postwar British artists to international attention, died Saturday.

Adrian Searle: Leckey's erudite art makes him the perfect Turner prize winner, but leaves me cold.

Our most erudite art critics describe an «almost irresistible invitation to submit» to the cult of Koons.

Not exact matches

In an erudite collection of essays on art that sparkle with his sardonic wit, the English novelist Julian Barnes wisely observes: «An artist's career... is more likely to be a matter of obsessional overlap, of ferrying back and forth, of process rather than result, journey rather than arrival.»

They have become experts in English Language Arts, but not erudite readers of English literary tradition.

Their erudite commentary on architecture, history, and art, whether standing among Roman ruins or modern art museums, along with the ability to make themselves understood in Italian, were a testament to Orangeburg, New York's Tappan Zee High School.

Reading poetry, declares award - winning poet Hirsch in this passionate and erudite celebration, is a spiritual act not only because it engenders rapture but also because poetry is an art of deep moral significance, a point he proves with many soul - stirring examples of great poetry from Ovid to the present.

In this novel, erudite citations are side by side with references to comic books or the movies, and not just art house movies but commercial blockbusters.

In real life Leckey is a professor in Germany, and all his art is a kind of erudite demonstration, in one form or another.

Twombly's early art has less in common with his later erudite sources such as Homer or the historian Edward Gibbon than it does with Allen Ginsberg's Beat poem Howl.

He also wrote some of the most lucid, erudite, poetic, penetrating books, catalogues and essays on the subject of art and artists and curated several crucial international exhibitions.

Dodge's is a sophisticated, erudite work of art, but I couldn't really say why it belongs in the show.

A case in point is «the enigmatic, fantastically erudite artist Raymond Pettibon,» as Peter Schjeldahl called him in a recent New Yorker review, whose work embraces a wide spectrum of American high and low culture, from the deviations of marginal youth to art history, literature, sports, religion, politics, and sexuality.

VIDEOART U.S.A. was born out of a grand - scale erudite and historical study of international contemporary video art.

-- He concluded his talk «False Starts, Loose Ends» at the 2002 College Art Association conference in Philadelphia with some erudite self - deprecation: «You may be amused to learn that more writing is planned, for which I already have some adequate titles, such as «Flotsam & Then Some.»

Twenty - five - year - old Robert Motherwell arrived in Manhattan in 1940, an erudite West Coast transplant who planned to study art history at Columbia University.

Taking inspiration from multitasking aesthetes such as Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann, and yes, Klimt, they are orchestrating erudite and sophisticated mixes of art, architecture and design.

«For Mac Adams the reintroduction of narrative represented a reaction to the erudite austerities of Minimal and Conceptual Art.»

Entertaining, erudite and at times a little neurotic, Twombly was almost as intriguing in interviews as in his art.

To head up a list of the art world's most influential people with such an erudite, politically committed figure sends a clear message that the 2017 Power 100 is more about ideas than money.

She could be powerfully combative or touchingly gentle, one minute engaging in rough street talk and five minutes later exposing a remarkably erudite persona through her knowledge of art history and literature, particularly poetry.

Mr. Rayne's taking apart of art conventions is erudite, visually effective and of a piece: the installation looks like a cross between a paneled library and a spreading bruise.

Through scholarship and interaction with art historians, curators, and gallerists, the Mandelbaums became known as passionate, erudite collectors.

Down - to - earth Pop - art was also a welcome counterpoint to the more erudite Abstract Expressionism, which was already started to fade.

Bronstein's erudite drawings, performances, furniture and public art relate to both the past and the present in unsettlingly paradoxical, sometime humorous ways.

«Unfussy but remarkably erudite, her pottery comfortably foregrounds ceramics» conventions and place within (or outside of) this erstwhile art - historical canon,» said Suzanne Hudson of Woodman's show at LA's David Kordansky Gallery for the April 2015 issue of Artforum.

Relying on personal correspondence and conversation, exclusive proprietary research, and a command of the historic and cultural contexts of the sculpture, art historian Patricia Stratton tells the story of the Chicago Picasso in a lively, informative, yet erudite style that will appeal both to historians of the twentieth century's most important artist, and to Chicago natives and tourists alike.

Both erudite and innovative, Schimmel won the hearts of artists, collectors and the general public for his unique ability to see through the eyes of artists with a creative vision of exciting new ways to present art in monumentally bigger spaces, as well as create new site - specific works.

Last year's disgruntled surprise at the lack of controversy in the shortlist — a position that has retroactively reduced Chris Ofili's gorgeous and intricate work to «elephant dung paintings» and Mark Leckey's esoteric and erudite film work to «a video about cartoon characters» (according to Rachel Helyer Donaldson at The First Post)-- has given way to an across - the - board sense that Young British Art has finally grown up.

Proving conclusively that a discussion of art with Steve Martin can be funny and entertaining, Stephen Colbert devoted a portion of his «Colbert Report» on Wednesday night to an erudite exercise with Mr. Martin, the art collector, «Object of Beauty» author and occasional adversary of the 92nd Street Y.