Sentences with phrase «for bullfight»

Francis Bacon Study for a Bullfight no. 1, 1971 Lithograph on Arches Signed in felt tip pen on recto, signature faded, numbered in pencil From the numbered edition of 150 Published by the Musée du Grand Palais Image: 50 x 45 inches; Sheet: 62.5 x 47 inches; Framed: 69 x 53 inches Estimate: $ 60,000 / $ 80,000

Marlborough Fine Art's stand at Frieze Masters is given over to a solo exhibition of Francis Bacon's prints and paintings, including the extraordinary Study for Bullfight no. 1 — a powerful vision of violence in a humming orange arena.

Study for Bullfight no. 1 is my favourite painting on display.

Catalonian support for bullfighting had long been dwindling, most bullrings nearly being put out of business.

The European Union currently spends around # 110 million per year to support farmers who rear bulls for bullfights

Written by aviator - turned - author John Monk Saunders (of Wings and The Dawn Patrol fame) and directed by German émigré William Dieterle, the film lacks a strong central personality and mostly meanders through the middle but that easy rhythm and directionless story defines their whole situation and sets up the devastating third act, where the group travels to Lisbon for the bullfights.

The island is known for its bullfighting, jovial locals and festivities, and for its historical and beautiful architecture.

It was once used for bullfighting and the tiny rooms were rented out to spectators.

The town is famous for its bullfighting history and has drawn many writers and artists to visit over the years, from Ernest Hemingway (who featured the town in

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Tickets for the Sunday bullfights range between $ 20 — $ 100.

The same goes for shows of fighting cocks and bullfights, which are legal entertainment in some countries.

So instead, I planned a month of traveling across Spain to visit the cradle of modern bullfighting in Ronda, watch the new young matadors clutching for Tomás's mantle in Madrid and Seville, and catch the tail end of San Fermín in Pamplona.

Seville is by far the most sensuous destination in Spain, but after giving birth to Joselito and Belmonte, it is renowned for having some of the harshest bullfighting critics.

I found an apartment down the hill from the town center and still had some time to visit the bullring and its bullfighting and duel museum (a legal means of resolving a dispute until the mid-19th century), then sniff around local restaurants for clues about the location of the ranch.

Over the course of nearly three hours, Tomás solidified his place in bullfighting history not just for the five bulls he killed, but for the one he saved, a behemoth named, ironically, Ungrateful.

Over the years Simont has illustrated a variety of subjects for us, including motor sports (I still happily remember the girl in the towering straw hat in his drawings of Nassau's race week), football, bullfighting, dog racing and golf, but the greatest part of his work for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED has been in and around baseball.

In San Francisco, aficionados of the ancient and bloody art of bullfighting who find themselves hankering for the sights and sounds of the bull ring can find satisfaction of a sort no farther away than Broadway, in the picturesque El Matador bar, which is owned and operated by sometime matador and eminently prolific writer on bullfighting lore Barnaby Conrad.

His highlights from that tenure included covering the death of Hugo Chavez and the unraveling that followed under President Maduro; a story on the busty mannequins manufactured in Venezuela to match the local obsession with plastic surgery; a story on the Yawar fiesta, an annual celebration in a few remote Andean towns in Peru where a condor is tied to the back of a bull for a ritual bullfight; and, ah yes, the great secret service prostitution scandal from President Obama's visit to Colombia, in which he was the only reporter to find and interview the two hookers at the center of the scandal.

Despite coming from a country where bullfighting and fur wearing are the norm, she agreed to feature in PETA's 2012 anti-fur campaign, appearing on huge billboards in New York City just in time for fashion week there.

The voice acting and visuals are spot - on, and director Carlos Saldanha and the screenwriters impart the brutality of bullfighting without becoming too intense for a PG - rated film.

John Cena lends his voice to the bull that is Ferdinand along with a cast of other animals voiced by many stars in which Ferdinand grows up on a bullfighting farm and is heckled for protecting flowers instead of being an aggressive bull.

Now he's competing with his childhood cohorts (Bobby Cannavale, Anthony Anderson and Peyton Manning, plus David Tennant as a Scottish Highland bull) for a spot in a big upcoming Madrid bullfight.

The 11 - page printable handles several things that Spain is famous for, including: - Bullfighting - Picasso - Flamenco - La Tomatina - Sagrada Familia Overview: Page 1/2: Introduction Page 3: Attractions Page 4/5: Bullfighting Page 6: Flamenco Page 7/8: La Tomatina Page 9: Picasso Page 10: Word Search Page 11: Revision The answers and an answer sheet are included.

All Units (14 Country Studies for Elementary Grades) European Countries Asian Countries Keywords: Spain, Madrid, Barcelona, Mosque of Cordoba, Sagrada Familia, Guggenheim Museum, Bullfighting, Matador, Flamenco, La Tomatina, Picasso

the world of bullfighting the official languages of Spain and their importance These cards have been created according to the new specifications in order to provide more opportunities for practice.

The Lamborghini Aventador LP700 - 4 was unveiled at the 2011 Geneva Auto Show to replace the aging Murciélago, the Aventador was a totally new Raging Bull, designed around a new engine it would become an instant success for Automobili Lamborghini SpA, and just as tradition dictates the Aventador name was taken from bullfighting.

Humane Canada is opposed to bloodless bullfighting, believing that bloodless bullfighting encourages disrespect for animals, and may be detrimental to the physical and psychological well - being of the animals.

Opposite the hostel is a typical village bar: the noisy one - armed bandit, the music and the bullfights on tv compete for attention.

Ronda is a 5 minute drive and is famous for its dramatic escarpments and views and is also the birthplace of modern bullfighting.

A necessary piece for those traveling through Spain, most especially for those planning on watching a bullfight.

Seville, capital of Andalusia, Roman city, Arabic, renaissance, baroque, American, Mary - devoted, flamenco, bullfighting, modern, festive, luminous, perfumed, seafaring, traditional, hospitable, gracious, cosmopolitan, religious... All these adjectives and many more that could be added to describe this city, that aside from personifying the typical «Spanish» and «andaluz», has so many attractive artistic, cultural, social and tourist qualities that has converted it into one of the most universal, well - known and most - visited cities in the world, cradle of inspiration for writers, painters and artists in general.

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EUROPEAN and AMERICAN paintings framed by Gill & Lagodich include (in alphabetical order): Milton Avery, Conversation in Studio, 1943; Jules Adolphe Breton, The Song of the Lark, 1884; Elbridge Ayer Burbank, six Native American portraits, Kah - Kap - Tee / Moqui, Wick - Ah - Te - Wah / Moqui, Ko - Pe - Ley / Moqui, Pah - Puh / Moqui, Shu - Pe - La / Moqui, Ho - Mo - Vi / Moqui, 1898; Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877; William Merritt Chase, North River Shad, c. 1910; Thomas Cole, New England Scenery, 1839; Jasper Cropsey, Blasted Tree, c. 1850; Gustave Courbet, Reverie (Portrait of Gabrielle Borreau), 1862; Thomas Doughty, Coming Squall (Nahant Beach with a Summer Shower), 1835; Thomas Eakins, Study for «William Rush Carving His Allegorical Statue of the Schuylkill River», c. 1876 - 77; DeScott Evans, The Irish Question, 1880s, Marsden Hartley, The Last of New England — The Beginning of New Mexico, 1918/19; George Hitchcock, Flower Girl in Holland, c. 1887; Winslow Homer, Peach Blossoms, c. 1878; Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942; George Inness, Crossing The Ford, 1848; George Inness, Summer in the Catskills, 1867, George Inness, The Mill Pond, 1889, George Inness, Early Morning, Tarpon Springs, 1892; George Inness, The Home of the Heron, 1893; George Inness, After A Summer Shower, 1894, Joshua Johnson, Mrs. Andrew Bedford Bankson and Son, Gunning Bedford Bankson, 1803/05; Otis Kaye, Heart of the Matter, 1963; Fernand Leger, Reclining Woman, 1922; Fernand Leger, Still Life, 1926; Edouard Manet, Still - Life with Carp, 1864; Edouard Manet, Bullfight, 1865/66; Julius Gari Melchers, Mother and Child, c. 1906; Jean - Francois Millet, In the Auvergne, 1866/69; Jean - Francois Millet, Bringing Home the Calf; Jean - Francois Millet, The Shepherdess; William Sidney Mount, Bar - Room Scene, 1835; Camille Pissarro, The Place du Havre, Paris, 1893; Severin Roesen, An Abundance of Fruit, 1860; Albert Pinkham Ryder, The Essex Canal, 1896; John Singer Sargent, Venetian Glass Workers, 1880/82; John Singer Sargent, Thistles, 1883/89; John Singer Sargent, The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy, 1907; Elihu Vedder, The Fates Gathering in the Stars, 1887; Charles Wilbert White, This, My Brother, 1942; Hale Woodruff, Twilight, 1926; and more...

Other paintings opt for the bright and brilliant, including Getchoff's The Beginning (1960), Elaine de Kooning's show - stopping Bullfight (1959), and Ethel Schwabacher's Autumn Leaves (1956), though this last piece carries its own unfortunate tale.

Though there may be a physical referent or memory on which an abstract painting is based — as for instance with Elaine de Kooning's Bullfight (1959), which is inspired by bullfights the artist saw in Mexico — the gestural and corporeal nature of abstraction ensures that the image is inextricably tied to the artist's hand, body, and mind.

Many paintings in this early field, including Elaine de Kooning's scrappy Bullfight, 1960, and Joan Mitchell's magisterial Ladybug, 1957, hint pointedly at these doyennes» fierce struggle for acceptance without any asterisk.

When Picasso returned to live in the Mediterranean after World War II, his work would continue to be steeped in mythology and bullfighting for the remainder of his life.

It is curious then that a new exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in Paris, just off the Champs - Elysées on the nightclub - laden rue Ponthieu, called «Picasso and Maya: Father and Daughter,» is full of heartfelt wood sculptures and paper cutouts Picasso made for his daughter Maya, loving and colorful portraits of his shy mistress Marie - Thérèse Walter, and a wall full of rarely seen family photographs: Picasso with his children at the beach, at Christmastime, at a bullfight; Picasso and Maya sitting together, looking at a camera; Picasso and Maya with their dog, Riki, on a Parisian balcony.