Sentences with phrase «few older painters»

Not exact matches

It seems to happen every couple of years: An older painter with a sterling record, who has nonetheless escaped notice for a few decades, is suddenly taken up again.

Hume is a twenty - nine year old British painter and one of a small number of provocative young artists who began to exhibit their work in London in the past few years.

Only a few years out of RISD, the 31 - year - old painter Ted Gahl performs a captivating tightrope - walk between abstraction and figuration, creating canvases that seem to harness stylistic elements of artists as diverse as de Kooning, Diebenkorn, El Greco, and Matisse.

The list of Painters to Watch in 2014 is made up of some new discoveries, a few artists who, in my mind, presented breakout work this year, and a few old favorites who deserve wider attention.

Opening: «Hedda Sterne: Machines 1947 - 1951» at Van Doren Waxter One of the few women in the New York School of artists and poets, a group of post-war American artists that included the Abstract Expressionist painters Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, Hedda Sterne was a Romanian - born painter and sculptor who made work that ranged from surrealism to expressionism between the 1940s and her death at 100 years old in 2011.

Still largely hidden — with the exception of a few exhibitions including «Steven Assael: New Paintings and Drawings» at the Forum Gallery — are the painters who choose to struggle with the many variations possible within older motifs, the so - called representational painters.

Rather than simply stretching a few old rags (or floor tarps, as many painters have done), however, Wayne painstakingly creates objects that reference the paint - soaked cloths.

Over the last few years, and particularly in recent months, the home studio where the 83 - year - old painter Rose Wylie has lived and worked for decades in Kent, England has undergone what amounts to a décor change.

The renowned painter and filmmaker decided to add a few floors of a pink, Venetian - style palazzo to an old stable in the far West Village, outraging some and delighting others.

They may have found a few of AbEx's old clothes at the bottom of modern art's steamer trunk, but where a postwar painter would flood the surface with angst - ridden waves of paint, Bradford employs colored paper, starbursts, and swathes of patterned spots that kick the proceedings into into a postmodernist / process domain and collapse the specter of disease into the exuberance of the clubs and the dynamism the streets.

And while it could be argued that the dazzling boom and bust of a few 26 - year - old white male skateboarders - cum - abstract - painters isn't representative of thousands of other emerging artists, the spectacular market failure of that one, tiny group had a much broader cooling effect on the market: With collectors suddenly questioning the value of their not - insignificant investments (no matter how rich you are, watching your $ 100,000 painting go to $ 20,000 in a few months has to be unpleasant), a crisis of confidence resulted in some very good galleries going under.

Yet in the last few years the art world has taken notice — and deemed the 41 - year - old painter to be a rising star.

She works principally in oils, and draws inspiration from a relatively wide selection of artists, including Old Masters like Caravaggio (1571 - 1610), Rubens (1577 - 1640) and Rembrandt (1606 - 69), and as well as modern expressionist figurative painters like the Viennese - born Lucien Freud (b. 1922), the mercurial Francis Bacon (1909 - 92), and the Portugese - born fantasy - artist Paula Rego (b. 1935), to name but a few.

In the big warehouse space of Chris Ofili's studio, there are a few curiosities: a box of women's legs carefully cut out of porn magazines, a ping - pong table, a little Catalan model of a pooing peasant, a few of the varnished balls of elephant dung that have come to be seen as the 33 - year - old painter's signature.

(10) It would be better for Britain to support living artists than raise millions to save Old Master paintings from going abroad; (11) In general, buy art for pleasure, not as an investment; (12) Few video artists have improved on works by the great pioneers of video art, namely: Bruce Nauman, Andy Warhol, Vito Acconci, Joan Jonas etc; (13) Blue Electric Chair is Any Warhol's best painting; (14) His favourite non-blockbuster art show was Clyfford Still's retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, NY, (Nov 1979 - Feb 1980); (15) The fact that only 5 of the last 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters, says more about curators than about the state of painting today.