Sentences with phrase «final decade of his life»

In the final decades of his life, his hands too unsteady to wield the brush and chisel, he exercised his mind by raising the soaring vaults and dome of St. Peter's in a final tribute to his God.

In the final decade of his life Constable collaborated with engraver David Lucas to produce a series of mezzotints of his paintings — a bold move that would help to secure his legacy after death.

In the final decades of his life, Hofmann was much more prolific as an artist.

During the final decades of his life, Burchfield felt that he was moving away from ordinary perception into something deeper, more personal.

In 2012, art advisor Heidi Lee Komaromi curated, «Sol LeWitt: Works on Paper 1983 - 2003», an exhibition revealing the variety of techniques LeWitt employed on paper during the final decades of his life.

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To put it bluntly, the question is whether we, living in the final decade of the twentieth century, have the patience and the readiness to hear the nineteenth - century Dane out; and hear him out in the way he deemed crucial: to think along and make the content of what he has to say not only the content of our thought, but the content of our lives as well.

And if the Wenger fan base think the criticism is off the back of the league cup final they must of been sleeping for the last decade the problems lay much much deeper than one game and if you guys are happy to live off sentiment then by all means but accept the fact arsenal will never challenge for top honours.

After running for a decade beyond its planned life, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) is nearly out of fuel and will soon make its final science run, NASA announced late yesterday.

Apart from several live recordings of older classics, which feel unnecessary on an album that highlights Clark's late - career work, this collection is a testament to the spectacular consistency of quality and depth in Clark's songwriting genius even as he struggled through declining health in his final decade.

Supposedly Steven Soderbergh's final film (for a while at least), Behind the Candelabra is a dramatisation of the final decade or so of the life of Liberace, played by Michael Douglas.

Director Derek Cianfrance took twelve years to stew on what he wanted to say about love and marriage in his film Blue Valentine, the principle actors, Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, had over half a decade to think about how they would bring Cindy and Dean to life — this rare gift to the creative process paid off astoundingly as the final product is second only to Ingmar Bergmans» Scenes from a Marriage in its capacity to lay bare the wounds of love after the veil of the honeymoon phase has been lifted.

Film Stars is based on the 1987 memoir by British actor Peter Turner, who was several decades Grahame's junior, and who became her romantic partner and caretaker in the final years of her life.

It is also the final year of the International Decade for Action «Water for Life» and of the Millennium Development Goals.

The final product of all that waiting, Kid Icarus: Uprising, not only lives up the decades - old anticipation, its one of the largest, deepest and most entertaining games Nintendo has produced in quite some time.

Manfred has earned his living exploiting not only Ultima Online and WildStar, but also Lineage 2, Shadowbane, Dark Age of Camelot, Lord of The Rings Online, Final Fantasy XI, RIFT, Age of Conan, Star Wars New Republic, Guild Wars 2, and others over the last two decades.

Painted in 1986, Untitled VII belongs to a remarkable series of paintings that Willem de Kooning created in his final decade — a last great creative flourish that became the culmination of his life's work.

This exhibition focuses on the lesser known materials that Judd introduced in the final two decades of his life.

After nearly two decades of making paintings and drawings depicting heads, hands, and torsos, she rigorously pursued quiltmaking, and then created a final group of architectonic abstract paintings a decade before her life was cut short by a debilitating neurodegenerative disease.

The Jazz Museum at the Old Mint held a sampling of the sometimes naughty, little - known collages that jazz great Louis Armstrong made in the final two decades of his life, as well as Satch Hoyt's tambourines linked into chains attached to mirrors to form endless columns, or halved and assembled into crosses reminiscent of the city's famous ironwork; and there were two installations by Dario Robleto, one featuring preserved, mounted butterflies with antennae made of audio tape delicately perched on the edges of the fossilized inner - ear bones of whales, and the other a collaboration with the record label Dust - to - Digital to preserve early gospel music.

There's a recurring narrative about late style in painting: from Rembrandt to de Kooning to, in our own era, Agnes Martin and Cy Twombly, the trajectory of the long - lived painter in the final decade or two reaches toward a greater openness and a simplifying of form, along with efficiency of execution.

Longtime Gagosian Gallery artist Cy Twombly was fairly productive in the last decade of his life, and his dealer has staged many a show of his brilliant final works.

Opening: «Cy Twombly» at Gagosian Gallery Longtime Gagosian Gallery artist Cy Twombly was fairly productive in the last decade of his life, and his dealer has staged many a show of his brilliant final works.

Featuring thirteen wall and floor pieces from 1978 through 1992, this exhibition focuses on the lesser known materials that Judd introduced in the final two decades of his life.

The paintings of Louisa's final three decades include Icelandic landscapes, a series of self - portraits, and tabletop still - life arrangements.

held at the respected Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA; while Damien Hirst's pickled shark (The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living) became a worldwide symbol of avant - garde British art in the final decade of the 20th century.

In every decade, from her drawings of this subject in the late 1950s through to the final paintings of her life in the early 2000s, Tanaka re-examined this motif with the same compulsive sense of discovery as Agnes Martin or Tanaka's her more celebrated Japanese peer, Yayoi Kusama.

I got to know Ted Kheel over the final decade of his remarkable life, which ended at age 96 on Sunday.