Sentences with phrase «first painting lesson»

At the age of 14, performance artist Marina Abramović (b. 1946 in Belgrade) received her first painting lesson: the teacher created an explosion by setting fire to the painting, and this experience is at the root of her understanding of performance art as being about the process, not the result.

Not exact matches

Read about how the first cave paintings were nearly destroyed and what lessons were learned that help to save recent discoveries.

At the press opening, in the conservation studio that has a glorious floor to ceiling wall of glass on the Hudson (light, light, light), a kind and concerned professional explained: «We have put glass on many paintings for the first few months, because, having learned a lesson from the Tate Modern, we are expecting much larger and much different crowds from the old location, people who do not pay attention to their backpacks or care much about the art.»

Some nonpainting efforts come into focus with time, but the first impression is a telling lesson in why painting doesn't die; it is at the very least a good way for young artists to grasp the kind of density of expression that any art medium requires.

2003 Painting Lesson, Galleria Cardi & Co., Milan (catalogue) Conversations: Influence and Collaboration in Contemporary Art, Evergreen House, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (catalogue) A Notion of Time, Ingrao Gallery, New York Intersection... Art / Design / New Media, Jan Abrams Fine Art, New York Fall Colors: Group Show, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the DaimlerChrysler Collection, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI On: Inaugural Show, Galerie Xippas, Athens Unframed First Look, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York The DaimlerChrysler Collection, Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany The Past of the Present: Selections from the ABN AMRO Collection, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China; travelled to Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paolo Painting: from Rauschenberg to Murakami, 1964 — 2003, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice (catalogue) American Beauty, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Recent Screenprints, Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York New York Contemporaries, Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York White on White, Galerie Xippas, Paris

Far from ignoring the lessons of Duchamp, such a treatment of paint was derived from an understanding of his predecessor's artistic strategies, to which Rauschenberg had his first in - depth exposure in the spring of 1953 at Sidney Janis's exhibition, Dada 1916 — 1923.8 Throughout that year, he explored various precedents set by the older artist.

Painting with oils on canvas was love after the first lesson.

This will be the first exhibition to bring together all ten of the surviving anatomy lesson paintings produced in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, including Rembrandt's «The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaas Tulp&rlesson paintings produced in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, including Rembrandt's «The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaas Tulp&rLesson of Dr Nicolaas Tulp».

Born in San Juan in 1967, Enoc Perez first took painting lessons at the age of eight.

That's the first lesson of the lovely retrospective of abstract paintings by Agnes Martin (1912 - 2004) newly opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Medium: Painting, sculpture, installation Style: Psychedelic, feminist history lesson Birthday: 1939 Superpower: Chicago, who coined the term «feminist art» and started the first feminist art program in the United States, has worked in media ranging from the stereotypically feminine (needlework and textiles) to the stereotypically masculine (welding and pyrotechnics), erasing distinctions along the way.

Already in the first decade of the last century, Hartley had absorbed the chromatic and compositional lessons of symbolism and postimpressionism, even seemingly anticipating abstract painting in a few notable instances around 1908 — 09.

Born in Iowa, Spratt was the grandson of a house painter from whom he received his first lessons in painting.