Sentences with phrase «first painting teacher»

«Amy Sillman and Elizabeth Murray were two of my first painting teachers.

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That's almost 1 in 4 teachers statewide who aren't in the classroom, according to data made public by the state for the first time in the annual Illinois Report Card, a compilation of data that paints a broad picture of schools.»

Encouraged by his teacher, Joseph Solman, Stamos pursued his interest in painting, read surrealist literature and met among others Betty Parsons, who gave him his first solo exhibition in 1943 at the Wakefield Gallery in New York City.

A casual interest in learning to paint led Marsh, in 1921, to begin taking classes at the Art Students League of New York, where his first teacher was John Sloan.

Becoming a teacher, although it compromised his studio time, forced Hofmann to articulate and build upon his understanding of the advanced art that first inspired him, in order to formulate clear theories of what a painting could be and communicate them to his students.

Hans Hofmann was an Abstract Expressionist and a noted teacher; he is regarded as one of the first theorists of Color Field Painting, introducing it to his many students.

Winter was introduced to drawing and painting at an early age; her father was an engineer and her first drawing teacher.

The painting scene in San Francisco in the»40s centered around a small, tight - knit group of teachers and serious students at the California School of Fine Arts (renamed the San Francisco Art Institute in 1961), who were influenced by Clyfford Still (1904 - 1980), a major first - generation abstract expressionist painter, who taught at CSFA from 1946 until the early»50s when he moved to New York.

«There have been the singing nun and the flying nun, but the hippest of all is Los Angeles's painting nun,» noted Newsweek in its 1967 cover story on Sister Corita Kent, the artist, activist, and teacher, whose first career survey, as The Saratogian reports, opened at the Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore college this week.

St. Paul Art Crawl, St. Paul, MN 2003 Best in Show, Children of Eden, St. Cloud Civic Theater, St. Cloud, MN Publicity Winner, St. Paul Art Crawl, St. Paul, MN Purchase Award, Rolling Plains Exhibit, the Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2002 Award of Excellence, Bloomington Art Center, MN Fall 2002 Art Crawl Banner Winner, St Paul Art Collective, St Paul, MN 2001 Publicity / Poster / Postcard Winner, St Paul Art Collective, St Paul, MN Merit Award: Oil Painting Division, Minnesota State Fair, Minneapolis, MN 2000 Second Place Honors, Women Art Registry of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN First Honors: Oil Painting Division, Minnesota State Fair, Minneapolis, MN Tweed Museum, Purchase, Duluth, MN 1997 Weisman Museum, Purchase Award, U. of M., Minneapolis, MN 1996 Katherine Nash Scholarship, U. of M., Minneapolis, MN Department of Art Endowment, U. of M., Minneapolis, MN 1995 Department of Art Graduate School Fellowship, U. of M., Minneapolis, MN Merit Award: Watercolor Division, Minnesota State Fair, Minneapolis, MN 1994 First Honors: Watercolor Division, Minnesota State Fair, Minneapolis, MN 1991 Outstanding Overall in Show, NY State Teacher's Association Monticello, NY 1989 Honorable Mention, NY State Teacher's Association Conference, Catskills, NY 1986 First Merit Award, Invitational Exhibition and Competition, U. of IN.

In her first year, Ms. Crosby's studio practice saw a lot of experimentation, mostly grounded in drawing and painting the figure, along with a heavy dose of information about the sprawling world of Contemporary art, courtesy of her renowned teachers Catherine Murphy and Peter Halley.

In 1924, she graduated from Howard University with that school's very first fine art degree — she also earned a master's degree from Columbia Teacher's College and did graduate work in painting at American University.

Nordland speaks about his birthplace and childhood home; parent's occupations; interests as a child; beginning interest in art history; first visits to the Los Angeles County Museum; relationship with Lincoln Kirstein; move to Yale; his book on Gaston Lachaise; attending the University of Southern California; meeting Man Ray; German sculpture; being drafted; first meeting with Richard Diebenkorn and working with Diebenkorn on a book; getting out of the Army; first paintings purchased; writing for «Frontier» magazine; the invitation to work at the Chouinard Art Institute; Institute teachers such as Richard Ruben, Robert Irwin, Don Graham; the founding of the California Institute of Arts (CalArts); classes and professors at CalArts; move to San Francisco in 1966; shows curated by Nordland on Gaston Lachaise, Fred Sommer, Peter Voulkos, Richard Diebenkorn, Burri, Caro, «African Art in Motion,» Fritz Gardner, Jack Jefferson, Ed Moses, Controversial Public Art; meeting and marrying Paula Prokopoff; and other job offerings from Florida, Georgia, and California.

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.

Gifted even as an infant, he dated his first interest in drawing and painting to his kindergarten years, recalling that when he was three his teacher's weather diagrams revealed to him that forms could be symbolic.

«Alma Thomas's story has an aura of art - world legend: a middle - school teacher dedicates herself to painting after she retires at 69 and becomes the first African - American woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney.

The first art Ms. Schutz remembers seeing was by her mother, a junior high school art teacher whose Abstract Expressionist paintings of Lake Michigan hung on the walls of their home.

They included: the Irish - born George Frederick Folingsby (1828 — 91), who arrived in Australia in 1879 and became Master of the School of Painting at the NGS in 1882; the Swiss artist Abram Louis Buvelot (1814 — 88) who arrived in 1865 and taught at the Carlton School of Design in Melbourne; the English - born art teacher Julian Ashton (1851 — 1942) who settled in Sydney where he ran one of the best art schools in New South Wales; the English - born plein - air specialist A.J.Daplyn (1844 — 1926) who arrived in Australia in 1882 and shared his experience of Fontainebleau and the Barbizon School of landscape painting, before later writing a book entitled Landscape Painting from Nature in Australia (1902); the Italian - born painter Girolamo Pieri Ballati Nerli (1860 — 1926), influenced by the Macchiaioli group, who first lived in Melbourne before moving to Sydney in 1886; the Portuguese - born plein - air artist and Symbolist painter Arthur Jose De Souza Loureiro (1853 &mdashPainting at the NGS in 1882; the Swiss artist Abram Louis Buvelot (1814 — 88) who arrived in 1865 and taught at the Carlton School of Design in Melbourne; the English - born art teacher Julian Ashton (1851 — 1942) who settled in Sydney where he ran one of the best art schools in New South Wales; the English - born plein - air specialist A.J.Daplyn (1844 — 1926) who arrived in Australia in 1882 and shared his experience of Fontainebleau and the Barbizon School of landscape painting, before later writing a book entitled Landscape Painting from Nature in Australia (1902); the Italian - born painter Girolamo Pieri Ballati Nerli (1860 — 1926), influenced by the Macchiaioli group, who first lived in Melbourne before moving to Sydney in 1886; the Portuguese - born plein - air artist and Symbolist painter Arthur Jose De Souza Loureiro (1853 &mdashpainting, before later writing a book entitled Landscape Painting from Nature in Australia (1902); the Italian - born painter Girolamo Pieri Ballati Nerli (1860 — 1926), influenced by the Macchiaioli group, who first lived in Melbourne before moving to Sydney in 1886; the Portuguese - born plein - air artist and Symbolist painter Arthur Jose De Souza Loureiro (1853 &mdashPainting from Nature in Australia (1902); the Italian - born painter Girolamo Pieri Ballati Nerli (1860 — 1926), influenced by the Macchiaioli group, who first lived in Melbourne before moving to Sydney in 1886; the Portuguese - born plein - air artist and Symbolist painter Arthur Jose De Souza Loureiro (1853 — 1932).

Greatly influenced by music — «music is the ultimate teacher,» he once averred — Kandinsky painted his first abstract compositions during his Bavarian period (1906 - 1914), and these riotously musical canvases, with their intense symphonies of color and wildly jostling forms, have influenced successive generations of abstract artists to the present day.

Although Buthe, who made vast installations, paintings, and drawings, was a central figure in German art of the»70s and»80s and exercised great influence as a teacher, this exhibition is the first large solo show of his work since his death.

A solitary, intensely self - critical man, Louis had by the early 1950s arrived at modest success as a painter and teacher in Washington D.C. Through a visit to Helen Frankenthaler's studio Louis was first exposed to her stained paintings, whose influence on his working methods and conception of painting was profoundly significant.

He was the best art teacher of his generation, and the director of the Shinnecock Hills Summer School on Long Island, the first school to offer classes in plein air painting - that is, outdoor landscape painting.