Sentences with phrase «famous than the artists»

Today curators are sometimes more famous than the artists whose work they curate, and curatorship involves more than choosing objects for an exhibition.

Not exact matches

To mark its impending demise, the Messenger team is running a public contest to name five of Mercury's craters after any artist, composer, or writer who has been famous for more than 50 years and dead for more than three.

I, Tonya may be more of a pop - biographical exercise than a deep interrogation, but there's a resonance to the synergy between its star and its subject: one famous female artist reclaiming her professional narrative by playing another who never quite could.

-- Neil Printz, art historianNo artist of the second half of the twentieth century was more famous — or in the end more famously misunderstood — than Andy Warhol: at once the most accessible and enigmatic, straightforward and elusive, naive and savagely ironic artist of his time.

The artist called the most «Japanese» of Japanese directors, famous for the quiet restraint and rigorous simplicity of his sound films, was a voracious film buff more interested in Hollywood movies than his own national cinema early in his career and he thrived in a great variety of genres.

As a director (Franco has directed more than a dozen films), Franco has a keen sense of storytelling, and frames «The Disaster Artist» with appreciation for «The Room,» opening with a host of famous faces talking about the film and closing with recreations of key scenes paired side - by - side with the originals.

Yet at the same time Rosa Bonheur is forced to admit: «My trousers have been my great protectors... Many times I have congratulated myself for having dared to break with traditions which would have forced me to abstain from certain kinds of work, due to the obligation to drag my skirts everywhere...» Yet the famous artist again feels obliged to qualify her honest admission with an ill - assumed «femininity»: «Despite my metamorphoses of costume, there is not a daughter of Eve who appreciates the niceties more than I do; my brusque and even slightly unsociable nature has never prevented my heart from remaining completely feminine.»

Water and Shadow: Kawase Hasui and Japanese Landscape Prints presents more than 100 woodblock prints, rarely - seen screens, scroll and fan paintings, and preparatory materials that explore the dynamic early work of famous Japanese landscape artist Kawase Hasui.

Works by an impressive group of artists, that changed the course of British Art, are now being shown in a groundbreaking parallel with the most famous Brazilian Concrete artists of their time, FROM THE 1950s TO THE 1970s, in a large scale installation comprising more than eighty landmark works.

Advertising and television quickly emerged as rich new mediums for expression and artworks themselves were transformed into branded products while the artists standing behind them were viewed as celebrities much more alike today's famous personas than what traditional artists were viewed throughout history.

Famous as the world's largest open submission show, there are certain things the Summer Exhibition delivers on every single year: a panorama of art in all mediums, a remarkable mixture of emerging artists and household names, and more to see and explore than any other exhibition you're likely to visit this year.

He has had more than forty one - man shows both in Britain and overseas, and his work is represented in collections world - wide, and easily makes it into my favorite famous artists list!

For this month's Summer Session we're thinking about celebrity, and what better contemporary artist to embody this topic than Jeff Koons, for whom celebrity and consumerism are the hallmarks of his most famous pieces?

A foundation funded in part by the Abstract Expressionist's wife, will show more than 40 of the artist's most famous works, including «New Bride.»

Unsurprisingly, the gallery itself bases a large portion of their business on well - established or downright famous artists at least a generation older than Johnson.

Britain's famous artists believe that more openly than anyone.

The Times Square Show Revisited's main contributions, however, are those of the original Colab members, who have been keeping alive the history of those years and working in a similar independent way: the Ahearn brothers, Dickson, Fitzgibbon, Howland, Moore, Otterness, Rupp, and dozens of others for whom, sadly, there is never enough space in articles and reviews, which are published in magazines and journals still structured around an individualistic model and more interested in representative phenomena and their most distinctive features than they are in providing data or offering objective interpretations that also acknowledge artists who never became famous.

Combining these two disciplines with his own unique style, Ghadyanloo went on to become one of the most famous street artists in Iran, painting more than 100 wall murals in Tehran.

«At that time in China, if you could do a great drawing you could become a famous artist,» says Liu Wei, who was more interested then in partying and arguing than studying.

Other artworks in the apartment are small enough to walk off with: a beautiful wall - mounted Donald Judd no larger than a bread box; a tabletop set of Richard Pettibone miniatures of paintings by other famous artists; a Cy Twombly drawing on a chrome stand by the window.

This becomes breathtakingly clear to anyone who tours the Joyner - Giuffrida house in San Francisco's Presidio Heights neighborhood, where the 150 - odd works on display run the gamut from Whitten's The Eighth Furrow, a squeegee painting executed more than a decade before Gerhard Richter made the technique famous, to Kara Walker's epic Terrible Vacation, a reimagining in gouache of J.M.W. Turner's Slave Ship, to the young Brooklyn - based artist Jayson Musson's Anticyclonic, which is made from the scraps of innumerable Coogi sweaters.

1900 - 1980 at Michael Werner Gallery introduces more than thirty paintings and drawings the artist created throughout his career, including the MoMA loan of his most famous painting.

More an event than an exhibition, the subtitle for the Swiss artist's most famous work says it all.

This elegant and beautifully designed spiralbound volume presents 50 of the artist's most famous and endearing photographs, drawn from an archive of more than 200 gelatin silver prints in the collection of the Fundación Cultural Televisa in Mexico City.

The artist did not acknowledge the brand's theft of her iconic typography, even as it became increasingly famous (perhaps more so than her own work), until 2013, when Supreme sued Married to the Mob for $ 10 million for selling items emblazoned with the phrase «Supreme Bitch.»

Most of the canvases measure 10 inches square — slightly smaller than a copy of Artforum — and almost all represent ads from the magazine for famous artists, including Andy Warhol, Chris Ofili and Damien Hirst.

In his self - promotion and general efforts to publicize his painting, sculpture and installations, the truth is that Hirst is doing no more than many other famous artists, from Rubens to Salvador Dali.

Art history is replete with romantic mythologies, few more potent than the artist as obsessive maker, working round the clock in his studio or in the landscape, as was the case with one of modern art's most famous obsessives, Paul Cezanne, around whom Magnus Quaife's solo show is framed.

It is still difficult to start to introduce Hedda Sterne other than with the clichés that described her either as the only female in the Abstract Expressionist group the Irascible 18 or the wife of the famous artist Saul Steinberg.

Alexander Calder is one of those artists who is so famous and so widely adored that serious art lovers can easily make the mistake of thinking they know his work, when in fact his oeuvre is far more surprising, diverse, and radical than one might think.

The gallery is displaying more than 40 drawings from the estate of the artist, one of the largest West Coast presentations of the famous ceramicist's work on paper.

It shows us the world's most famous living painter, who turned 80 in February, at work with greater intimacy than any other film portrait of a contemporary artist provides.

The exhibition will also include five large - scale photographs (each more than 6 x 4 ft.) and three «composites» (12 - 20 photographs arranged by the artist together in a single frame) which capture the narrative spirit of Goldin's famous slide shows.

The shark installation was reportedly sold to the hedge - fund tycoon Steve Cohen for $ 8.3 m.) Notwithstanding these concerns, one thing is for sure: without his huge investments, a number of young British artists and Turner Prize Winners would be much poorer and a lot less famous than they are today.

This solo exhibition of Li Songsong will include more than 30 works of the artist made since 2001, including several pieces of the important collectors in private collection, such as the famous German collector Sammlung Goetz and the famous Swiss collector Uli Sigg.

iGoogle has introduced themes by a whole bunch of famous designers, artists and charity figures — Jeff Koons, Michael Graves (pictured above), Robert Mankoff (pictured below), Akira Isogawa and more than five dozen others, so you're bound to find something that appeals.

Models that had a strong portfolio and worked for famous designers and publishers of high - end glamour magazines earned more than those who posed for schools or artists.