Sentences with phrase «few women painters»

As one of few women painters to receive that level of exposure, Hartigan garnered significant press coverage and was featured in Life magazine in 1957 and Newsweek in 1959.

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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.

Yet, when Godwin moved to New York in 1953, few women had gained acceptance in the art world, particularly those who were abstract painters.

While painters like Louise Fishman — whose 1973 series «Angry Women» was among the first to bring gender and sexual identity to the forefront of abstraction — have long been interested «expressing» something beyond formalist discourse, it's certainly the case that even today much of the conversation around Abstract Expressionism surrounds a few select, machismo artists, like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko.

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.

Asked why he began collecting American Indian artifacts, Weisel, who has also collected postwar American art, said, pointing to a rare «first phase» chief's blanket, «Look at this in relation to a painter such as Barnett Newman - very simple, just a few lines - this is like an amazing painting, but made by a woman weaving on a loom on the Great Plains, outside.»

I walked around the National Gallery yesterday and noticed how it contains many paintings of nude women, such as Francesco Hayezs 1850 painting of Susanna at her Bath and Diego Velázquezs The Toilet of Venus, but noticeably fewer of the male nude and certainly none by female painters.

Frankenthaler — along with painter Joan Mitchell and Grace Hartigan — was one of the few women to make a name for herself among the Abstract Expressionists in mid-century New York.

Initially trained as an abstract painter, Corse (b. 1945) emerged in the mid-1960s as one of the few women associated with the West Coast Light and Space movement.

Initially trained as an abstract painter, Corse (b. 1945, Berkeley, CA) emerged in the mid-1960s as one of the few women associated with the West Coast Light and Space movement.

In 1897, Laura Coombs Hills became the first miniature painter elected to the Society of American Artists (and one of very few women).