Sentences with phrase «erudite artist»

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.

Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work, the solo exhibition by «the enigmatic, fantastically erudite artist,» as Peter Schjeldahl wrote in his review in The New Yorker, traveled to the Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht in The Netherlands following its critically acclaimed debut at the New Museum in New York.

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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.»

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.

These two artists are very different, but their basic message is that painting can be renewed in ways we haven't seen before, whether it is reshaped by Mr. Marshall's erudite meditation on black life in America, or exploded from within, as in Ms. Owens's worldly, encompassing formalism.

Outspoken and erudite New York - based, internationally - known artist Sean Scully will display works on paper culled from the artist's own collection.

Witty, erudite and principled, he spent more than half a century promoting the work of artists ranging from the St Ives School to American Abstract Expressionists, as well as Picasso, Matisse and the Pop artists.

Suave, erudite and faultlessly tailored, Mr. Emmerich presided over an extensive stable of American and European contemporary artists from 1954 to 1998, mounting elegant presentations in his pristine, understated uptown galleries, first on East 64th Street and then, from 1959 to 1998, in the Fuller Building on 57th Street.

Each of Ford's animal portraits doubles as a complex, symbolic system, which the artist layers with clues, jokes, and erudite lessons in colonial literature and folktales.

Personable yet erudite, Yevgeniy Fiks is a rare combination: a conceptual artist who makes approachable work.

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.

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The fourteen years covered by the show, as Rooney states in her erudite and far - ranging catalogue essay, represent a «procedural shift» in the artist's identity «from maker of objects to artistic philosopher.»

This rebellious, erudite, and primarily self - taught artist became one of Spain's most celebrated.

Long fascinated with nature's pull onto humanity, the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone's new mountain sculptures come via his erudite preoccupation with German Romanticism.

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.

In a review of the exhibition, Mark Wallinger, the Turner Prize — winning artist who was a close friend, said: «He addressed the world in many different registers — sardonic, caustic, erudite and celebratory, with instinct, intelligence, and wit.»

Charles, the most erudite of the artists of his generation, knew this.

The fashionable artists at CAA — like Walid Raad's Atlas Group — may be enjoying exhibitions at the erudite Paula Cooper Gallery, but they rarely produce the high - end hotcakes that pay for a dealer's booth.

The very talented, ceaselessly inventive artist Francis Upritchard is a sculptor who doesn't stand still, ranging across registers — from the comic to the pathetic, the utopian to the surreal — while maintaining a consistently arch yet erudite edge.