Sentences with phrase «first painters»

Krasner was one of the first painters in wartime Manhattan to learn the lessons of the European surrealists exiled there; one of the first to study Jung; one of the first to discover abstraction.

In a different way to the idealised scenes of Sean Keating, Charles Lamb was one of the first painters to paint a type of heroic Western peasant, thus marking the difference both between the rural and the urban, and between Irish culture and one with English, European and American influence.

Even before I began my art education, Pieter Bruegel the Elder was one of the first painters I fell in love with, even though I did not know what it was that attracted me to his work.

In this respect he was one of the first painters to embrace cyberspace and postmodern information theory.

One of the first painters to be specifically linked with Minimalism was (the former Abstract Expressionist) Frank Stella.

He was also one of the first painters to experiment with photography.

Kazimir Malevich (1878 — 1935) was one of the first painters to engage fully in geometric abstraction.

These include, for Stair Sainty Matthiesen Gallery: The First Painters of the King: French Royal Taste from Louis XIV to the Revolution, which also travelled to the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Columbus Museum of Art (1985 - 1986), and François Boucher: His Circle and Influence (1987).

In the late 1950s, Stella was one of the first painters to reign the dynamism of Abstract Expressionism into angular compositions and flat planes of color.

He was an intense, wry and gentle artist with a canny sensibility, one of the first painters to give acute visual form to the Canadian landscape as he discovered it in Algonquin Park, a section of northern Ontario that had been set aside as a conservation area in 1893.

In the early years of the Twentieth Century, Old Lyme was a popular summer colony for artists; Hassam was one of the first painters to work there.

One of the first painters to be specifically linked with Minimalism was Frank Stella.

While Arshile Gorky is considered to be one of the founding fathers of abstract expressionism and a surrealist, he was also one of the first painters of the New York School who used the technique of staining.

Frank Auerbach: «Rembrandt is a miraculous draftsman of life in motion and one of the first painters who really moved me.

While Arshile Gorky is considered to be one of the founding fathers of Abstract Expressionism and a Surrealist, he was also one of the first painters of the New York School who used the technique of «staining».

Starting in 1994 with its first Painters and Sculptor's grants, the Foundation has continued to support artists most recently with the launch this year of its new Emerging Artist Grant Program.

These works gained him international recognition as one of the first painters to develop a new style of postwar abstraction, and he was eventually associated — despite his rejection of labels — with such movements as tachisme, art informel, and action painting.

Richly colored, large acrylic paint and paper collage pictures illustrate the life of Vasily Kandinsky, one of the first painters of abstract art.

Vincent Van Gogh was one of the first painters I learned about it school.

Richly colored acrylic paint - and - paper collages illustrate the life of Vasily Kadinsky, a first painter of abstract art, who as a boy, felt he could hear the colors he painted.

In 1954, Latham was the first painter in England to use spray paint, a method that signified a least event on canvas (representing nothingness).

«Mondrian was perhaps the first painter ever to be purely concerned with the formal qualities of the brushstroke, and with the optical» — Benno Tempel

[3] Gilliam's conviction that painting could be three - dimensional led him to innovate with draping and suspending canvases; in 1965 he became the first painter to introduce the unsupported canvas.

As well as being the first woman and the first painter to win the prize in almost a decade, after years of artists with personas as feverishly worked upon as their art, here was someone about whom we knew practically nothing: 38 years old, from Kiel in Germany but resident in London for the past 12 years, and (rumour had it) the former girlfriend of Chris Ofili - that's pretty much it.

British - born Ofili, who currently lives and works in Trinidad, was the first black artist to be selected for the prize and was the first painter chosen since 1985.

In 1965, Gilliam became the first painter to introduce the unsupported canvas and in 1975 he began to create geometric collages influenced by jazz.

In 2007, together with Iris Müller - Westermann, McElheny co-curated a groundbreaking display of the very first painter of geometric abstraction, the visionary Hilma af Klint, at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and in 2011 McElheny's highly researched interpretations of Blinky Palermo's «lost» wall paintings of 1970 - 1972 were exhibited at the Hessel Museum of Art at CCS Bard College as part of his large scale collaborative curatorial project with curator Lynne Cooke and CCS director Tom Eccles.

He is the first painter I know of to have got something positive from the muddiness of color that so profoundly characterizes a great deal of American painting.»

Chris Ofili was the first painter to win the award in twelve years in 1998, with two controversial pieces.

Greenberg described Pollock as «the first painter I know of to have got something positive from the muddiness of color that so profoundly characterizes a great deal of American painting.»

Turner Contemporary, Margate, 12 January — 31 March Turner Contemporary begins its 2016 programme with an exhibition of work by painter Rose Wylie RA, who will be the first painter to exhibit in the institution's stunning Sunley Gallery.

Whilst Ofili was the first painter to win in twelve years (the prize has famously championed innovative methods and conceptual art) his work still attracted media hype due to his use of resin covered elephant dung.

You're the first painter I know, Dorothea, who has used it to this degree and with such success.

[29] On February 15, 2011 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, becoming the first painter or sculptor to receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom since Alexander Calder in 1977.

> Christopher Le Brun, first painter in 20 years elected President of the Royal Academy royalacademy.org

Up and down the country museum collections help to define cities: the Kurt Schwitters Merzbau at the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle is a case in point; Birmingham is famous for its world class collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Derby for the work of the first painter of the spirit of the industrial revolution, Joseph Wright of Derby; the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has collected many outstanding works through its John Moores painting prize, the SNGMA in Edinburgh is notable for its collection of British and European Surrealism.

Abts is the first painter to get the award, famous for the wacky work of some of its recipients, in eight years.

Ofili received the Turner Prize, the United Kingdom's most prestigious art award, for his work No Woman No Cry in 1998, and was the first painter to receive the award since Howard Hodgkin in 1985.

He was the first painter to return to figuration in the post-War era and was quite pioneering in linking high art and images from popular culture, so that today many celebrate him as the trailblazer of postmodern, figurative painting.

Ofili, aged 30, from Manchester, the front - runner of the four - strong shortlist, is the first painter to win the prize for at least 12 years.

Mr Ofili, 30, from Manchester, the front - runner of the four - strong shortlist, is the first painter to win the prize since Howard Hodgkin in 1985.

His suggestion that Velazquez was «an ass» and that Picasso was the first painter since Goya to understand Spanish colour will no doubt have found favour at the Villa Californie.

These include: JMW Turner (a painter arguably 50 years ahead of his time); Claude Monet (the first revolutionary of modern painting); Ilya Repin (the first painter to capture the authentic detail of life in Russia); Picasso (for his mastery of figurative and abstract art in almost all media); Marcel Duchamp (the pioneer of Dada and Object Art, from which Conceptual Art emerged); the husband and wife team Christo and Jeanne - Claude (empaquetage, or packaging); Andy Warhol (the first and arguably greatest postmodernist); Gilbert & George (living sculptures); Damien Hirst (art's greatest self - publicist) and of course the graffiti terrorist Banksy.

Not exact matches

Now let's say a mother was looking for a professional painter to paint her new baby - to - be's nursery but was first doing some research into color schemes.

Ok... first off, the Church (Roman Catholic), during the Middle Ages, as Christianity rolled across Europe, commissioned famous painters to depict Jesus as a White person, taking images of several Celtic & Norse gods to draw from.

friends had been lawyers like myself, painters like my first sponsor, warehousemen like his sponsor, teachers like my room mate, or «consultants» (a handy AA.

Before beginning their work, icon painters would first purify themselves by fasting and prayer, confession and communion.

The first Christian painters were decorators and illustrators; they did not create a new style to express the radical new faith.

With Kerry Collins and Curtis Painter under center for the first 11 weeks of the season, Indianapolis went winless and posted a dismal 2 - 9 record against the spread (ATS).

At 6 - 6 on the season, Matt Painter's Purdue program finds itself in a rebuilding year in its first season after the dawn of the Robbie Hummel era.