Sentences with phrase «few of our living artists»

«Quite a few of our living artists use cochineal,» says curator Nicolasa Chavez, «and she [the director] thought it would be an exciting exhibit, seeing that we're an international museum with an international collection.

Not exact matches

The terms of his exit barred Cohl from competing against Live Nation in concert promotion, but he bought an exemption letting him work with a few artists — including the Rolling Stones, the deal's «crown jewel.»

When I lived out west I knew a few artists who sold their work on a sort of an unofficial, unsponsored circuit of art and crafts fairs.

There were few shout outs for God from the artists, the oddest being from Sean Carter (Jay - Z): «I want to thank God — I mean a little bit for this award — but mostly for all the universe for conspiring and putting that beautiful light of a young lady in my life,» Jay - Z said, looking at Beyoncé.

After a few years of living in the shadow of names like Flying Lotus and Kendrick Lamar, Stephen Bruner finally emerged as a wonderfully odd, prodigiously gifted artist in 2017, crafting an album so stuffed with wonder, weirdness, humor and sadness that it defied genre.

Here's a few Mormon factoids (dem darn facts is really painful) 1) J. Smith was a convicted con - artist on numerous times (non-post Mormon cult creation) 2) He said God is 6» 2» living on the planet Kalob on the other side of the galaxy (at the time the extent of The Universe was believed to be the Milky Way Galaxy — and oh, how convienient it could not be proven otherwise at the time) 3) Science proved since E. Hubble there are billions of galaxies (did Smith's personal conversations with Jesus and God limit to a narrow Universe?)

Almost 50 years ago Polly Murray, an artist and mother from Lyme, Conn., noticed a strange increase of juvenile arthritis, a rare and sometimes disabling condition, among children living within a few blocks of her house.

***** I'm a professional makeup artist and there's a few staples I've found I cant live without and one of those is an amazing wand concealer.

Pellington and screenwriter Alex Ross Perry make their point within the film's first few minutes and keep making it — establishing that, yes, certain objects obviously do matter to us as harbingers of the narratives we assemble out of the incidents in our lives — as if they're the first artists to broach the subject.

Based on the tell - all book «The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made» co-written by Sestero and Tom Bissell, «The Disaster Artist» is one of those stranger - than - fiction stories that very few people would believe if it hadn't actually happened, but here we are.

It's been an eventful past few months for Wiseau, the star, director and sole financier of the infamous 2003 big screen disaster The Room, which found an amazing new life as the focus of star and director James Franco's The Disaster Artist.

Just a few years back, a whopping three Cannes titles ended up with best picture nominations, «Midnight in Paris,» «The Tree of Life» and «The Artist» — the latter winning.

who becomes the victim of a female con - artist who lives in Florida, «the worst place in America» (one of the film's few and funny throwaway lines).

These three artists and a few longtime friends from their tough, south LA neighborhood, decide the way to escape lives of poverty, violence and drugs is through their music — and the film follows their rise from local stars to international superstars, who change the industry forever, unapologetically exercising their First Amendment rights with controversial lyrics.

Though the title and Heinzerling's few prior credits may lead you to expect a sports film, Cutie actually tells the story of a married couple of Japanese - American artists who have lived in New York together for over forty years.

Actress Letitia Wright wonderfully brought the Wakandan princess to life in Ryan Coogler's record - breaking hit Black Panther, and now one of the film's artists has shared some Shuri concept art that shows off a few early designs for the tech - savvy genius.

The brainchild of two filmmakers who have worked in animation, special effects, and live action, the film breaks new ground, while being visually stunning and driving a story about the last few weeks in the life an artist who died penniless but is now one...

Cahiers du cinéma editors de Baecque and Toubiana leave few stones unturned in this compelling account of the film artist who breathed life into the term auteur through his writing and his work, from The 400 Blows to The Last Metro.

Few Singaporeans would consider leaving their day jobs for the unorthodox, unpredictable life of a comic book artist.

I remember when the Painting A Day trend started... a lot of artists thought it was crazy — but I've read about a few who, at least at the time, made a living income from it.

There are thousands of artists that read this blog, and every day I get emails telling me how difficult life is for an artist, how no one recognizes their talent and how they need to sell «just a few more pieces of art» to make a living.

I sell a lot of work each month, mostly prints, tried etsy but its easy to get lost there among the thousands of artists, and a few other free sites, I get most of my sales through promoting on facebook and instagram, and use pay pal for payment, I bring in between $ 500 to $ 1000 a month (the $ 1000 being around the holidays) Its not enough to make a living but its great supplemental income!

I often create an «about me» page detailing my journey and life as an artist too then in a few months erase it because it's too personal... I will try to incorporate more stories on the postings of my pieces though.

Although Giacometti and Klein, were artists born a generation apart and couldn't be more different the two artists lived and worked within a mile of each other, in Montparnasse, Paris, but there are few clues in their work to suggest that they shared the same artistic milieu.

Over the last few months, I've gotten a chance to directly interact with these artists and get a deeper understanding of where their work stems from; highly influenced by their individual place in society, each living and breathing different aspects of life that surrounds us.

This monumental bronze was created by the Belgian artist during the last year of his life and there are very few casts.

Throughout the 80s, Mapplethorpe produced a bevy of images that simultaneously challenge and adhere to classical aesthetic standards: stylized compositions of male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes, and studio portraits of artists and celebrities, to name a few of his preferred genres.

Outside of the queer, art and HIV / AIDS communities one might imagine that with the deaths of Robert Mapplethorpe, Felix Gonzalez - Torres, Keith Haring, David Wonarowicz, and a very few others, artists stopped living with, or making art influenced by HIV.

These are just a few of the artists I have interested me over the years, though my inspirations always depends on what I am currently working on and which aspect of an artist interests me at a certain point in my life.

She has been living in and traveling around Greece for the past few months as a part of an amazing artist residency... Continue reading →

The inclusion of a few classic Bearden collages, installed in the same gallery space as the undated Untitled (multicolor stripes), complete the story of a painter who arrives at his signature work through the slow meandering that defines most artist's lives.

It's one of very few galleries dedicated to a living artist.

Frieze London is one of the few fairs to focus only on contemporary art and living artists.

Under new curator Clara M. Kim, a few trends have emerged among the 15 participating galleries: firstly, reappraisals of African - American artists later in life, among them abstract painter Jack Whitten (Alexander Gray Associates); secondly, «Global Pop», a nod to Tate Modern's autumn show «The World Goes Pop» (17 September — 24 January 2016), with Brazilian and Japanese Pop artists, such as Keiichi Tanaami at the stand of Tokyo - based Nanzuka.

Sixty dealers signed on for New York Gallery Week, actually a three - day, fraternal rush of living artists and more than a few — namely Keith Haring, Jack Smith, Martin Kippenberger, Robert Mapplethorpe, Donald Judd, and Salvatore Scarpitta — who have left their bodies but not the market, ravenous as ever for the new, the tried, and occasionally the true.

Even more important, the critic wrote, was the fact that the participating artists chose their own works to contribute — mainly still lifes and landscapes, with a few paintings of everyday figures — rather than conforming to any theme.

Schoony remains one of the few artists working within the life - cast discipline.

By some fortuitous coincidence just a few steps separate «Joan Mitchell: The Last Paintings» at Cheim & Read from «Matta: A Centennial Celebration» at Pace Gallery and each show explosively refutes any notion of youthfulness being the province of the young while giving new life to the phenomenon known as «old age style» — used to distinguish formal characteristic of late works by Titian, Rembrandt, or Cézanne, where the artist just wants to get to the heart of the matter and sloughs off all the fine finish he had needed to impress his audience in earlier years.

Hailing from Chester in the North West of England, Perry lives the life of a nomadic artist, having lived for brief periods in Los Angeles, Montreal, Istanbul, Las Vegas and London over the last few years; however, her work (in particular, the sculptures) pays homage to the working class aesthetic of northern England, using aluminium and crushed car parts from an auto body shop to reimagine a world of adolescent joyriding in pimped - out speedsters.

Besides their emergent status, the represented artists are united by the challenges they face navigating the Hong Kong art scene: lack of space, high cost of living and few galleries that actively seek out new, or local, talent.

Sometimes I think Yayoi Kusama might be the greatest artist to come out of the 1960s and one of the few, thanks in part to her long life, still making work that feels of the moment.

After a few proposals, Solomon goes on to ultimately answer her own question with, «Mr. Stella has done more than any other living artist to carry abstract art, the house style of modernism, into the postmodern era.»

Getting to exhibit at the O'Keeffe Museum as a woman artist has been limited to a very select few who first fit into a Living Artists of Distinction category.

(If I have mentioned a few Midwest and West Coast artists here, it is not only to remind New York - centric readers of their existence but also to underscore the fact that Murray's artistic life began in contrarian Chicago and shifted to the anarchistic Bay Area scene long before taking shape and flourishing in downtown Manhattan.)

«We know that some of the most memorable writings on art have taken the form of letters, including, to name a few examples, Vincent van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, Rainer Maria Rilke's Cézanne - inspired missives to Clara Westhoff, and the letters Samuel Beckett sent to Georges Duthuit in the late 1940s about the paintings of Bram van Velde... The theme for this edition of ARTSEEN is, thus, not a theme but a form: the letter — a letter addressed perhaps to an artist, living or dead, but, just as plausibly, to anyone else.

In his generation of Cuban - born artists, he's one of a few to live and work chiefly in New York.

Ms. Holt, who lived and worked for many years in Galisteo, N.M., was one of the few women to pursue monumental sculpture in the American West, a place whose wide - open spaces drew a generation of restless artists like Michael Heizer, Walter De Maria, James Turrell and Robert Smithson, whom Ms. Holt married in 1963.

In addition to their extensive collection of plein air landscapes, still lifes and portraits, the Wurdemans have a few examples of Social Realist art, which, during the Soviet era, was the Surikov Institute - trained artists» bread and butter.

The patronage provided by the East London Group's famed supporters — Sir Joseph Duveen, Samuel Courtauld and Arnold Bennett to name a few — led them to great heights, with their achievements contextualised in the press by the artists» means of earning a living, a «window - cleaner», «shop assistant» and «pipe inspector».

He is a virtuoso artist, with a heightened level of skill and talent that very few living artists today possess.