Sentences with phrase «far as painters»

Before that there was Lee Knasner, and before that there was nobody, as far as painters.

A; though everything in the book is not historically accurate, as the author herself agrees, it is well researched as far as painters and techniques are concerned.

As far as painters» biographies goes, «The Last Family» ranks right up there with Robert Altman's «Vincent & Theo» (1990), Maurice Pialat's «Van Gogh» (1991) and Mike Leigh's «Mr. Turner» (2014) in that's it's a deeply personal, original work that goes way beyond mere recreation and instead offers you insight into the world as seen through the eyes of its protagonists.

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The painters used materials such as a red lead that came from as far away as Spain, iron - earth pigment from Greece, and wood substrates — onto which the portraits were painted — from central Europe, he said.

I will share that the amount of time to complete what I have done so far is relative to your experience as a painter.

The film's animation alternates between black - and - white flashbacks and present - day color sequences to recreate some of Van Gogh's most famous canvases, going so far as to emulate the Dutch painter's groundbreaking thick - brushstroke impasto style.

Starring Franco Nero as a successful painter looking to get away from it all and Vanessa Redgrave as his girlfriend who follows him to a country house where his mental faculties soon deteriorate, I would go so far as to say that A Quiet Place in the Country's overtly avant - garde execution makes it one of the more unsettling films on the subject matter at hand.

After all, there are few areas that are really «denied» to men, if the level of operations demanded be transcendent, responsible or rewarding enough: men who have a need for «feminine» involvement with babies or children gain status as pediatricians or child psychologists, with a nurse (female) to do the more routine work; those who feel the urge for kitchen creativity may gain fame as master chefs; and, of course, men who yearn to fulfill themselves through what are often termed «feminine» artistic interests can find themselves as painters or sculptors, rather than as volunteer museum aides or part time ceramists, as their female counterparts so often end up doing; as far as scholarship is concerned, how many men would be willing to change their jobs as teachers and researchers for those of unpaid, part - time research assistants and typists as well as full - time nannies and domestic workers?

This is far indeed from Courbet's unified and unselfconscious vision of art and society — and his own direct and unambiguous relation to both — the the 1855 the Painter's Studio: A Real Allegory of Seven Ywears of My Life as an Artist.

The conspiracy was, as far as I can see, that he recognized that they were the best painters around and deserved to be publicized.

Things become further complicated when that autonomy is itself called into question as it has, for example by abstract painters such Jonathan Lasker, Francis Baudevin, Ingrid Calame or Fiona Rae, to name only a few.

Collage, popular culture, or the mere appearance of both in paint has played a similar role for excluded voices, such as African Americans after Romare Bearden, and it is no coincidence that every painter that I have mentioned thus far is a woman.

In the 1930s, she lived in France with the legendary English writer Ford Madox Ford; her brother Jack Tworkov was far better - known as a painter; in New York in the 1940s, she was in the heart of the Abstract Expressionist scene (she's the woman in the white blouse between Bradley Walker Tomlin and Robert Goodnough in a much - reproduced photograph of the «Studio 35 Artists» Session» of 1950), but never gained much recognition for her own paintings.

The introduction of brooding forms can now be understood as harbingers of a new figuration, wherein titles such as «Painter» (1959) go so far as to suggest the pictorial presence of Guston, the painter hPainter» (1959) go so far as to suggest the pictorial presence of Guston, the painter hpainter himself.

I'm keenly interested in Martha Armstrong's paintings especially as a means to further explore the range of possibilities for painters to use observed nature as either as a point of departure or as a reason in and of itself.

A great artist, educator and collaborator, Adkins was a member of the Foundation's inaugural Painters & Sculptors Grant Recipient group in 1994, and has since further enriched our community as a grant nominator and juror.

I use to say that it didn't really affect me as a painter or my career, however, the further I get into my career, that more grateful I am for those women who fought for the right to make work that they wanted and to show the significance of being female.

David Hockney, the British painter, claims that artists as far back as Jan van Eyck and Hubert van Eyck have depended on lenses and mirrors.

Here, however, the irregularities trivialize things further, as if the painter cared so little for his images that he could create and erase them at will or at random.

For painters, the tradition of painting images of food undoubtedly extends as far back as cave painting.

His appearance in Life magazine, as well as an article titled, «Diebenkorn Paints a Picture» in ARTnews magazine, both published in 1957, further expanded the painter's influence.

Whitcomb's artistic career was advanced further when he moved back to Colorado and became acquainted with the Denver group, a loosely - affiliated but highly energetic group of traditional painters, draftsmen, and sculptors» instrumental in helping Whitcomb become established as an artist.

Past recipients of the J. Paul Getty Medal have included Harold Williams and Nancy Englander, who were honored for their leadership in creating today's Getty; Lord Jacob Rothschild, for his leadership in the preservation of built cultural heritage; Frank Gehry, for transforming the built landscape with buildings such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall; Yo - Yo Ma, for his efforts to further understanding of the world's diverse cultures; Ellsworth Kelly, for paintings and sculptures of the highest quality and originality; Anselm Kiefer, painter and sculptor noted for his powerful work and complex subject matter; and Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, college professor and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.

With quite a clutch of good new exhibitions all clamouring for attention, I feel I should start with one which puts straight into the top league a young painter whose career so far has been watched with considerable interest, as they say, but who hasn't really hit the headlines.

Through Two Painters from the Southern Highlands, All We Art hopes to further their mission to serve as a multidisciplinary space dedicating to promoting international cultural exchange through exhibitions, cultural programs and related services.

Guston not only effected key artists from a generation of (predominantly German) expressionist painters in the 1990s, but continues to have far reaching influence today, including younger artists in the gallery's own stable, such as Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Volker Hüller and Eddie Martinez.

The north - west of England seems to have produced a host of oddball painters during the dreary post-second world war years; one thinks first and foremost of Salford's LS Lowry, a painter best known for his depictions of matchstick men in industrial districts, but whose less familiar late seascapes and almost perverse girlie fantasies are now recognised as far from provincial.

After further study at the League and the Hofmann school, he set up shop as a painter, eventually occupying Rothko's Bowery loft.

«The discourse is about them as painters and to a far lesser extent printmakers.»

While the marketing of desire, seduction and sexual gratification is the ostensible subject of Tal R's latest depictions of sexshop facades, the Copenhagen - based painter's interest in the shops themselves goes no further than their surface and status as signs.

In fact Auerbach is very different from Freud as an artist and has far more in common with the American abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning or the Swiss existentialist Alberto Giacometti.

Japanese Zen Buddhist painters investigated splashing ink as far back as the 15th - century, while various authors from the Dada and Surrealist movements also used this expressive and highly experimental process.

I write at such length and so warmly because Hoyland is a terrific artist and people don't seem to know what's authentic and what isn't right now or the difference between what's academic and what adds an authentic inch or two to a great tradition, as the American painter Morris Louis did with his translucent painted veils and neurasthenic draft of speed and movement, and as Hoyland's work, very differently, does now — only he goes much further.

The free event explores the state and shape of contemporary painting, asking the questions «How far have artists extended the boundaries of the medium in the twenty - first century, and what does it mean to be identified as a painter today?

Freilicher's foundational valuation of transformational solitude is a further departure from the high - octane, expressionistic New York School poetry, as well as from the work of many of its leading painters.

At least as far back as the Renaissance, the arts have been populated by eccentrics with strange and sometimes alarming personal habits — the Mannerist painter Il Rosso, for instance, reportedly lived with an ape as his domestic companion.

And while her paintings look far different than those of Kahn, contemporary Abstract Expressionist painter Francine Tint also cites Hofmann as one of the most important influences on her use of color.

Kitaj defined himself as a Jewish painter perpetually in exile, whose work could be understood through exegesis, which is a far cry from the literalness and «what you see is what you see» attitude that has long been prevalent in the American art world.

On a typical Torpedo Factory day, you'll see painters, potters, and metalworkers bringing vivid visions to life — but our associate artists who've moved far from Alexandria are hard at work as well.

Further alluding to art history, the colorful background and abstract forms in Hothouse, as in many of Abney's works, recalls the pop - cubist style of the American modernist painter Stuart Davis.

During the 1910s, their travels took them as far as California and Old Lyme, Connecticut, site of a colony of impressionist landscape painters.

Peggy Meckling, «Homage to the Sunbird» (collagraph) On a typical Torpedo Factory day, you'll see painters, potters, and metalworkers bringing vivid visions to life — but our associate artists who've moved far from Alexandria are hard at work as well.

The great American artist Wayne Thiebaud is often too easily understood as the painter of iconic cakes, pies, and other heartland desserts, but his position in the history of his country's art is far more interesting.

Nozkowski, yes, a completely underrated but first rate painter, perhaps the best of his generation and former art director of Mad Magazine was my first thought as far as parental unit.

Further major series of paintings include 64 «Beside the Sea» canvases (1962 — 1968), in which Motherwell mirrored the spray of the sea by splashing oil paint onto rag paper with great force; and «Open» (1967 — 1972), his response to the colour - field painters of the 1960s, described by him as «a painted plane beautifully divided by minimal means, the essence of line drawing».

How far have artists extended the boundaries of the medium in the 21st century, and what does it mean to be identified as a painter today?

By the late 1950s, American painter Allan Kaprow — formally trained in the era of Abstract Expressionism — began to view the action of Action Painting as far more important than painting itself.

Later, Rosenberg published further collections of essays, including Discovering the Present (1973), and Art on the Edge (1975), as well as several individual studies of abstract painters like his friend Saul Steinberg (1978).

Cole's significance as an artist lay in his exploration of the Sublime element (an aesthetic idea associated with notions of awe and vastness) in the American landscape, something no other American painter had so far attempted.

Further reading Mahendra Desai, A Man Labelled Bhupen Khakhar Branded as Painter, Baroda 1983.