Sentences with phrase «folk artist who»

Catherine Holman is an amazing folk artist who not only paints wonderful scenes and cottages, but teaches others to paint as well.

He includes a self - taught folk artist who died last year at the age of 65, Bessie Harvey, and mature artists who have been neglected by the art world, or at least not celebrated, like John O'Reilly, Milton Resnick and Harriet Korman.

And pair her up with Ethan Hawke as her abusive husband, and you have a Hawke - Hawkins treat which serves to illuminate the life of a folk artist who is doubtless better known in her native Canada than here in New York.

Based on a true story, Maudie charts the unlikely romance between Maud Lewis, a folk artist who blossoms in later life, and the curmudgeonly recluse, Everett.

Then again, last year's winner, Searching for Sugar Man, told the story of Rodriguez, a folk artist who, contrary to rumors, wasn't as short - lived as his American career.

Not exact matches

Chen's crowdfunding pioneer, Kickstarter, enables quirky entrepreneurs and artists — the kind of folks who wouldn't normally qualify for venture capital — to raise money.

The Magic Gardens is a three dimensional, immersive piece of installation art and a museum gallery space in Philly created by mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar, who were inspired by materials like used bottles, bike wheels and folk arts.

I'm an aspiring artist who is not yet professional, who is studying anatomy and other principles pertaining to common themes in illustration (light, texture, etc) in the hopes of one day doing commissions for folks.

WHAT: A week in the life of struggling folk musician Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac), who's trying to make it as a solo artist after his former partner commits suicide.

The (probably) most pessimistic signal is that in the re-telling of the evening we see that Llewyn is followed on stage by a young Bob Dylan — the artist who, arguably more than any other, swept away the classic folk tradition by writing and performing his own songs.

«What's moving to me about the story is that at the start it's this guy who just wants someone to pick up after him,» says Ethan Hawke of his cantankerous Everett character in Maudie, which also stars Sally Hawkins as legendary real - life folk artist Maud Lewis.

The movie does a terrific job of mimicking the sound and styles of the folk music era, attesting to the talent of the art directors, makeup artists, and songwriters / cast - members who created all of the original tunes featured in the film.

In the lead role, Hawkins stars as famous Nova Scotian folk artist Maud Lewis who grew in notoriety while maintaining a humble lifestyle in the tiny home she shared with her husband.

Sheila Roberts: Sally Hawkins shines opposite Ethan Hawke in «Maudie,» Irish filmmaker Aisling Walsh's intimate indie bio-drama directed from a screenplay by Sherry White who crafted an absorbing romantic story around the life of prolific Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis.

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July 19, 2016 • The Newport Folk Festival puts a high value on artists who speak truth to power.

«And the 6th was once the tattoo artist, who gave it to 5 folks, the person who opted out being Mark Ruffalo.

Sally Hawkins stars in Maudie, the true story of Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis, who painted cheerful scenes on whatever materials she could find.

That true story: Well into his career, the folk songwriter Steve Tilston received a letter written to him decades earlier by John Lennon, who urged him to follow his heart whether he hit the big time or remained a starving artist.

I've had numerous folks ask me who my cover artist is.

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N: The reason for the «Skies of Arcadia» characters appearing had to do with staff like Chief Director Tanaka and Chief Artist Kanazawa and other folks who had worked on «Arcadia» as well.

You may not ever know who these artists are — unassuming, plain clothed folk, who are creating the Abundant Artist lifestyle that they want.

New Geometries presents artists who use the idioms of historical modernism to speak to ideas of the present, including the parallel modernisms of indigenous cultures; art and utility; and modernism as folk art.

LOS ANGELES — The Craft & Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) presents Paperworks, an exhibition that examines the range of work by fifteen contemporary artists with strong ties to Los Angeles who use paper as their primary medium.

A folk art «memory vessel» in the show began as a humble pot whose function was nullified and its meaning elevated by an anonymous artist who encrusted it with objects of personal significance.

Folk, naïve, vernacular, visionary, outsider, self - taught — over the past century, a range of terms has emerged to describe artists who rose to prominence despite a lack of formal training.

This is not the search for a folk artist or an outsider art, but for someone who can turn recent history inside - out — or, like the Guggenheim's hopes for Group Zero in Germany, reset the count.

Horace Pippin, who died in 1946, was a self - taught artist who admired Modernism and folk art alike.

I'm not thinking so much about folk art or thrift store art, but about art made by disabled people, by people with tragic biographies, by artists such as Bess or Henry Darger who expressed intense personal anguish through their art.

Saya Woolfalk is a multi-disciplinary artists who often works in the tradition of the fable or folk story, mapping the desires and ideas of people while creating contemporary narratives.

Richard Nickel is a local ceramic artist who addresses themes of love, power and absurdity through folk - art inspired pieces.

With less pressure to hit sales targets, more established gallerists, curators, and artists circulate booze - fueled openings to celebrate and let loose with a post-grad generation of art folks who are just getting their start — and the resulting frisson can be infectious.

«Do you agree with [the poet W.S.] Merwin,» asked the narrator at the end of a 2009 episode of the PBS television program Bill Moyer's Journal, «that political art is «almost always propaganda,» or with folk - musicoligist Irwin Silber that any artist who «tries to deal honestly with reality in this world» is bound to be political?»

This piece, a beautifully lyrical scene steeped in the religious and folk traditions of her adopted Mexico, is an exceptional opportunity to collect work by the artist, who passed away in 2011.

But the grand scale of their endeavors shouldn't obscure the work of lesser - known artists with fewer resources — the folks I consider the backbone of the art world, the 99 % if you will — who make compelling art as they continue working underpaid day jobs and garnering less mainstream media attention.

A magical, silver - haired desert queen who looks like she stepped out of one of her folk - inspired futuristic fairy - fueled paintings, Reiss has the unique perspective of a woman who has truly tread the world as an artist in every sense of the world for the last several decades.

Borrowing its title from Greil Marcus» 1997 book The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes, this publication is produced in conjunction with an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, which considers the work of 16 artists who explore American folk imagery and history from the time of European settlement to the 1960s.

Robson started acquiring pieces by self - taught artists in the 1980s when, according to Leslie Umberger, the museum's curator of folk and self - taught art, «few grasped the inherent value of work that was often made amid challenging circumstances and by those who lacked the agency of the mainstream art world.»

Marisol, the Venezuelan - American artist who created assemblages combining folk and Pop Art has died in Manhattan.

He didn't care who created the artworks: alongside Odilon Redon, James Thurber, Edvard Munch, Balthus, Edouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard are works by unidentified folk artists.

Elena Polenova was part of the generation of artists who rediscovered the folk traditions of the Moscow region — its wooden architecture, furniture and children's toys; its icons and peasant decorations; and its vibrant tradition of folk stories and fairytales.

It's the day reserved for folk with privileged passes — curators, artists, and collectors like Beth Swofford, who gave support money and somehow toured the entire biennial before lunchtime.

Post Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980-2016 features artists such as Ronald Lockett, who created more than 350 works before dying from HIV / AIDS related pneumonia.

Marshall reminds us that artists of color have historically endured a conditional access that reinforces the narrative of their own exclusion: «So it's like all of the black folks who achieve this sort of mythic status as artists are always people who were working as naives, untrained, kind of natural artists.»

The Chrysler Museum of Art and Old Dominion University partnered to present an exhibition that aimed to critically reassess self - taught and folk art as a marginal aspect of fine art by exploring the work of crossover artists, or those who have received academic or art world recognition.

Artist Faheem Majeed curated the exhibition Post Black Folk Art in America 1930 — 1980 — 2016 for Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago, which consists of 110 objects by modern and contemporary African American artists who have had no academic training.

Luisa Rivera is an artist and illustrator who loves to craft illustrations with a strong focus on folk culture, history and mythologies to create compelling narrative.

Michelada Think Tank is a group of socially conscious artists who are interested in hosting conversations, creating safe place, opening opportunity to connect and build with other people of color (PoC) and allies who are socially engaged / community artists and grassroots activist type folks interested in creative ways of making change happen.

David Zwirner, who was showing intriguing Milton Avery paintings from the 1930s (they looked almost like they could have belonged to the folk artist Bill Traylor), said the purpose of these solo booths was as much for everybody's sanity as anything else.