Sentences with phrase «famous works bears»

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It is hard to say just what Moby - Dick, Melville's greatest and most famous work, really is: a metaphysical Romantic tragedy about Captain Ahab's sexual obsession with an enormous white whale; an immense picaresque comedy about sailing; or a serio - comic grand opera that begins with the narrating Ishmael bored by the streaming crowds of New York and ends with him alone in the ocean, floating on the harpooner Queequeg's coffin.

Born and raised in Queens, New York, Gourdet started his culinary career with Jean - Georges Vongerichten in New York City, working in the famous chef's kitchen full time up to Sous Chef at Jean - Georges.

While the layperson may now be most familiar with Turing's work on Enigma and the later test that bears his name, Turing's most important mathematical contribution is his 1936 paper «On Computable Numbers,» which introduced the famous Turing machine.

Both men were born in Brooklyn, started as stand - up comedians, and became famous for writing distinctly Jewish comedies, works steeped in neuroses and observational human humor.

But whenever the laughs come, they come big, and the movie never bores, thanks to three stellar performances: Streep, mostly known for her dramatic work, proves to be an adept comedienne; Willis, famous for macho action roles, makes a surprisingly convincing geek; and Hawn continues to prove whe's one of the finest comic actresses in film today.

Screenwriter Mark L. Smith discusses adapting The Revenant from book to screen, working with Alejandro Iñárritu, and getting that famous bear attack right.

This famous photographer took one look at his work and pronounced, «Boring.»

Born in Alabama, Roger Brown first came to prominence as an artist when his work was included in the 1969 exhibition, «Don Baum Says: Chicago Needs Famous Artists,» at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.

Beginning with works from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the exhibition will show that much British art from this period was made by artists from abroad, including Antwerp - born Anthony Van Dyck, the court painter whose famous portraits such as Charles I 1636 (The Chequers Trust) have come to shape our perceptions of the British aristocracy of this time.

Architecture Opened in 1987, The Menil Collection is located in a 30 - acre campus which, along with the main building, it also encompasses a pavilion dedicated to the works of American artist Cy Twombly, the Richmond Hall, displaying major works by Dan Flavin, the Menil Drawing Institute, and the famous Rothko Chapel, built in 1971 to house a cycle of paintings commissioned to Russian - born American artist Mark Rothko.

German - born Tillmans, who has worked and exhibited in London in recent years, has smashed the boundary between commercial photography and art: much of his early work was for fashion magazines, including a famous image of four of his friends sitting in the branches of a tree, not wearing any clothes at all.

The exhibition will also feature a number of the Texas - born artist's most famous works, including a drawing by Willem de Kooning that Rauschenberg erased with a rubber and then framed in 1953, entitled Erased de Kooning Drawing.

There is a gem - like little show of work by Vik Muniz, the Brazilian - born artist famous for large - scale photographs of images composed out of non-traditional materials — chocolate, glitter, dust, trash — at Whitebox, the pocket gallery that rests at the heart of Whitespace, the innovative, West Palm Beach exhibition space.

Richard Long (born 1945 in Bristol, UK) is an English representative of Land Art, photography, and sculpture — one of his most famous early works being A Line Made By Walking (1967).

Alex lsrael's (born 1982) series of Self - Portraits were developed through the evolution of a logo based on the artist's profile — an iconic representation of facial features that calls to mind the famous silhouette of Alfred Hitchcock — originally created for the video piece As It Lays, a beguiling and campy work of talk show — style interviews for which Israel cast himself as host, presented at Reena Spaulings» New York gallery in March 2012.

• Anish Kapoor (b. 1954) India - born British abstract sculptor, winner of the Turner Prize, famous for his monumental works in rough hewn stone, cast metal and stainless steel.

The most famous award in art is given to an artist under 50, born, living or working in Britain, for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation in the twelve months before 28 April 2010.

Now the Paris - born, New York - based artist will be building on the promise of that success with «The Restless Earth,» a show at the New Museum that will be her first major survey in the United States, featuring her now - famous Grosse Fatigue along with earlier videos, works on paper, and an installation of books from her library transformed into ikebana flower arrangements.

Born in Newark, NJ in the mid 1940s, Barbara Kruger is a modern Pop Artist who efficiently worked her way through high level design positions with famous women's publications, such as Mademoiselle Magazine and House and Garden, prior to developing her own iconic brand.

Your works bear similarities to the now - famous «Conceptual Abstraction» show at Sidney Janis Gallery in 1991, which brought together works by Shirley Kaneda, Mary Heilmann, David Diao, Ross Bleckner, and Jonathan Lasker, among others.

In 1947, English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic George Orwell (born Eric Arthur Blair 1903 — 1950) and author of Animal Farm: A Fairy Story and Nineteen Eighty - Four, his most famous works, wrote an essay titled Politics and the English Language.