Sentences with phrase «folks such as robert»

It was a time when current events — war, social unrest and creeping gentrification — found their way onto canvas, and folks such as Robert Rauschenberg, Yoko Ono and Robert Mapplethorpe were thinking way out of the box.

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Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott was in enemy territory recently, telling the folks at Massachusetts's Pioneer Institute (including some who favor Romney, such as myself [full disclosure]-RRB- about the virtues of the Texas education system, a topic of national significance now that Rick Perry's chariot has leaped to lead position in the Republican presidential nomination race.

But a look at the broad changes wrought by technology and the advance of the knowledge - based economy more than prove the ridiculousness of the assertions made by Gardner (and pushed by folks such as Harvard's Ronald Ferguson and Robert Schwartz in their Pathways to Prosperity report released earlier this year) shows that this is not anything close to reality.

These city paintings, many of them of the city's main bridges, share commonalities with the funky return to representation and figuration via a meld of loose abstract expressionist brush strokes and paint application — lots of scumbling and blobs of paint — and a sort of ecstatic folk primitivism adopted by his contemporary and friends in New York in the mid to late 50s, such as Red Grooms, Robert Beauchamp, Gandy Brodie, Mimi Gross, Jan Müller, and Claes Oldenburg (with Eva Hesse picking up the tradition in the mid-60s).