Sentences with phrase «first studied painting»

McLaughlin first studied painting in Japan while serving as an intelligence officer during World War II, and he later settled in California.

For the Hong Kong - based Ocula, Anna Dickie talks with Julien about his interactions in Singapore, the fact that he first studied painting and how the medium figures in his films, and his recent book «Isaac Julien: Riot.»

He first studied painting in East Berlin at the Academy of Visual and Applied Art and then later in West Berlin at the Academy of Visual Arts, where he became a master student of Hann Trier.

An acclaimed author who counted Cole Porter, H.L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan, and Monty Wooley among his closest friends, Shaw first studied painting in 1926 under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League in New York and privately with George Luks.

He went to school in New York City, first studying painting as an undergraduate at the School of Visual Arts, and then later in the MFA program at Hunter College.

Not exact matches

At first I painted needlepoint canvases, then I fell in love with counted work on a study - trip in London.

At first I painted needlepoint canvases, then I fell in love with counted work on a study - trip in London.

Study results revealed that women with painted lids were 139 percent more likely to receive first messages than those who did not.

The Romantic - era «painter of light» was a bit of prodigy, with his first painting exhibited after only one year of study.

During the first semester of the study, we showed all 3rd - through 12th - grade students a painting they had not previously seen, Bo Bartlett's The Box.

First shown as a design study at the last Tokyo Show, the V - Special comes with the classic British sports car specs of wood - rim steering wheel, shift lever and brake lever grip - not to mention a British racing green paint finish.

After studying painting at Sarah Lawrence College, marrying and divorcing her first husband, and having the first of many struggles...

Kessler writes that the exhibition «is not only about a group of Mark Rothko paintings done at the peak of his career, but it's also about an ingenious restoration technique — a way to restore the color of these faded murals via non-invasive digital projections... The exhibition features a much - damaged five - panel mural that Rothko was commissioned to make in 1961 - 62 for the penthouse dining room of Harvard University's Holyoke Center... 38 studies for the murals... And, presented here for the first time, a sixth [undamaged] mural which was painted for the commission and held in reserve until Rothko decided which five paintings he wanted for the final installation.»

Manister learned what it meant to paint and to be a painter in the latter half of the 1970s, first while studying at the New York Studio School (1974 - 1976) and then through private guidance from Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof.

It tracks Elaine de Kooning's development as a first - rate, innovative portraitist through variously sized drawings, figure studies, trial sketches and small paintings across five decades, with each room dramatically highlighting the best of her large - scale oil paintings, some never exhibited publicly until now.

By the mid-fifties the studies and huge Water Lily paintings that had languished at Giverny for thirty years were exhibited for the first time causing a sensation.

Womanhouse was conceived by a member of Chicago and Schapiro's program staff, art historian Paula Harper, who The New York Times celebrated as «the first [of] art historians to bring a feminist perspective to the study of painting and sculpture.»

For an abstract painter today experiencing for the first time, Monet's large scale paintings in the room called: Studies: Water Lilies, Weeping Willows, and Irises 1914 - 1919, beginning the second half of the exhibition there can only be a profound shock of recognition.

In 1983 for the first time in fifteen years, Riley returned to Venice to once again study the paintings that form the basis of European colourism.

Marrinon studied painting and sculpture at the Victorian College of the Arts from 1979 to 1982, and held her first solo exhibition in 1983 at the George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne.

The exhibition opens with Self - Portrait, 1923, painted during Graham's first year of formal art study at the Art Students League.

The éclat of these paintings is at first almost uncomfortable, as though one had emerged from shade into bright daylight (the transition from the adjacent room, hung with Martin's beautiful 1980s studies in the middle greys, is particularly powerful).

Throughout these demonstrations we are able to observe Scott mix with a sizable trowel, the paint he will need for each study, figuring out on the palette first the approximate colors of the light, stressing value, and how they change and relate to one another, so that he can paint faster once he starts only needing to quickly adjust his mixtures with additional touches of more color or white, using a brush, as each painting progresses.

Whitten moved to New York in 1960 and remained there following graduation from Cooper Union in 1964, studying the collection of African art owned by his first art dealer, Allan Stone, and embedding himself both in the downtown NYC painting scene, and in the uptown circles of Black artists like Romare Bearden.

However, his first formal training was at the Art Students League in 1988, studying with the portrait painter David Leffel who taught him the technique of painting dark to light in the manner of old masters.

He received his first artistic training, beginning in 1959, as a glass painter, and in 1961 he enrolled at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf to study painting.

Then with the encouragement of his son, who was always an enthusiastic admirer of his father's paintings, Noel returned to art school (at the Studio School) to study once again, this time devoting his full attention to his first love.

In 1983 for the first time in fifteen years, Riley returned to Venice to once again study the paintings that form the basis of European colorism.

He began his career in the arts studying painting in the late 1940s and early 50s, the heyday of abstract expressionism in New York, first at the Art Students League with Morris Kantor and then at Cooper Union with Steve Wheeler.

When I started making collages — and they were so small at first — people used to say: «Oh, these would be great as studies for a big painting.»

The subject of the 2002 retrospective, Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting organized by the Museum of Modern Art, Richter was born in Dresden, Germany, and first studied art under the social and political disciplines of the East German communist government.

His process of working ideas out first on paper parallels my practice of using watercolor studies as a springboard into painting.

As a mere bud of an artist, I was unprepared for the depth and length of concentration that the workshop demanded: For the first half of June, it lasted two weeks at 12 hours per day of drawing and critique, with studies of master paintings during the weekend in between.

She went on to study art at Berkeley, where she won a fellowship that prompted a trip to Europe and her first important series, a group of abstract paintings that fused her interests in Abstract Expressionism, Italian architecture, and prehistoric art.

This, the first of Turner's paintings of the castle, was created during the artist's studies for his diploma at the Royal Academy, and is currently on show as part of the Welsh Landscapes exhibition at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.

He showed an early talent for painting, studying at Black Mountain College in North Carolina — one of the first American colleges to hire major modern artists as faculty members.

The first works by the late African American artist Jack Whitten to enter the museum's collection are the painting on paper Form (3rd Set) 2 (1965) and the drawing Study for Greek Alphabet Series # 2 (1978).

From the bad boys of BritArt to the grand - daddies of modern painting, many daubed their first canvas as a student while studying at Central Saint Martins; Lucian Freud completed his course in 1939, Gilbert & George met and studied fine art there, while England's best - known sculptor Antony Gormley is a 1974 graduate.

The notable mural has been housed at Indiana University since 1942, and though it has been lauded by scholars as a key work in the history of 20th - century American painting, this exhibition marks the first time the mural will be studied in context.

MJ: I studied painting and drawing at Randolph - Macon College in Virginia and Ray Berry first showed me images of Chardin and Morandi.

«Figure Study II is one of the greatest acquisitions the Contemporary Art Society has ever made and the first painting by Francis Bacon to enter a public collection in this country... Its display with Figure Study I offers a rare opportunity to understand the artist's thinking across two works from a critical moment of Bacon's career».

He first studied art in high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA and continued painting at Princeton University where he graduated with a degree in history.

Similar mark - making partitions works on paper, exhibited for the first time as studies for sculptures likeUntitled Draped Figure, in which a mannequin head and torso are bound to wooden architecture with ropes of fiberglass and enamel paint.

Also on display are watercolours — including landscapes and studies for paintings — from the artist's sketchbooks, which are exhibited for the first time.

Because I Could Not Stop for Death — Anthony Panzera, Memento Mori Paintings marks the first pedagogically based presentation of the artist's studio practice, displaying each painting alongside the preparatory drawings and studies that facilitated its making.

By bringing together the Museum's entire collection of modèles, the first and only set of bronzes cast from the artist's original wax and plaster statuettes, and related pastels, drawings and paintings, Taking Shape offers viewers the opportunity to study Degas's artistic process across media.

Click to purchase on Amazon In this first book - length study of Robert Ryman, Suzanne Hudson traces the artist's production from his first paintings in the early 1950s, many of which have never been exhibited or reproduced, to his more recent gallery shows.

They continued to travel, study, and paint until 1972 when, along with their first child, Anna, they moved to New Jersey.

Executed in 1991 - 92, this work displays of the hallmarks of Saville's practice and is the study for the larger painting Branded from 1992 which would come to define Saville's career as the first work of many to enter the Saatchi collection, and the work which broke her world record price twice, first in 2001, and again in 2011.

The studies and small paintings were created in preparation for her first solo exhibition at the Art Factory gallery (South Brisbane, Qld)(26 - 30 August).