Sentences with phrase «for draftsmanship»

Her work confirms a major sensibility, a preternatural gift for draftsmanship, a discerning eye for composition, and a genius for the architectonic arrangement of lines, angles, planes, circles, and negative and positive space, all enhanced by potent shadings of color and light.

In his formative stages as an artist, Alexander quickly gained notoriety for his draftsmanship but had an understanding that serious gallery work was generally reserved for loftier mediums.

Richter's mother, the daughter of a concert pianist, encouraged her son's early talent for draftsmanship.

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In recent years, Almquist has become known for his inspired draftsmanship and the eccentric drawings that stem from a remarkable sensitivity.

If he reminds me of anyone, it's R.B. Kitaj, the late School of London fixture and American expat with whom Doig shares a penchant for primitivist draftsmanship and thinly applied color — though not, thankfully, the same pretensions to creating a form of contemporary history painting.

The artist's studio practice is based on her feel for visual texture, a rich and adventurous palette, and a level of draftsmanship that takes full advantage of an expressive linear technique.

Noted for his deft draftsmanship, Martinez creates large - scale works that maintain the feeling of drawings.

On view will be new works by Tokyo - based Tomoo Gokita, who is acclaimed for his black and white gouache canvases that incorporate exceptional draftsmanship with surreal imagery.

The French artist is noted for his use of color and his fluid, brilliant draftsmanship.

Known for his narrative murals and outstanding draftsmanship, John Biggers dedicated his work to the depiction of the human condition.

Trawling libraries for de-accessioned publications — «those that are no longer morally in line with modern times,» she explains — Báez tears out the pages and adorns them with miniature drawings, paint, and cutouts, revealing her astounding technical skill and draftsmanship.

His multimedia installations for exhibitions and the theater combine outstanding draftsmanship with theatrical vitality.

These archival materials provide fascinating insights into Moore's life and work: the sketchbooks reveal his penchant for journaling and his extraordinary draftsmanship.

Other telling elements of the show, and of this moment, are a certain preference for densely layered, intricate draftsmanship and a shift to what Sussman terms «nonchromophobia,» the artists» embrace of color and scale in the service of a loose but detectable visual narrative, of the sort found in Lari Pittman's work.

«I discovered that I had both the instinctive eye and inventiveness for costume craft but, as an architect, was compelled to use my skills in architectural design and draftsmanship, turning to folding printed card as a medium instead of fabric.»

This is the first major museum survey of the L.A. - based artist, known for her painstaking draftsmanship and enigmatic drawings and paintings.

Tokyo - based Tomoo Gokita is acclaimed for his black and white gouache canvases that incorporate exceptional draftsmanship with surreal imagery.

Either way, he was certainly some kind of crackpot genius, and his cartoonish, sexually charged, mystically suggestive colored - pencil drawings from the 1950s, on view in «From Barefoot Prophet to Avant - Garde Artist «at Michael Werner Gallery, are as compelling for their beautiful draftsmanship as they are for their bizarre metaphysics and gleefully fierce satire.

Best known for her carved wooden heads wrapped in black leather affixed with zippers, glass eyes, enamel noses, spikes and straps, Nancy Grossman (b. 1940) is accomplished in draftsmanship, assemblage, and relief sculpture as well as carvings.

Howard Warshaw's first paintings are surreal featuring precise draftsmanship, a rare sense for shape, and a restricted palette.

Except for his characteristically brilliant draftsmanship and obsession with the figure, the pictures created in this late period of his life bear little superficial resemblance to his early paintings.

For gravitas, John Szoke Gallery from New York has brooding, tenebrous works on paper by Edvard Munch, including a devastating Death and the Maiden, as well as those web - like linear displays of virtuoso draftsmanship, the Picasso drypoint series, the best of which is Sculpture, Tete de Marie Therese of 1933.

For Making History: 2009, Wilner decided to utilise British newspapers for the entire year as source material for his appropriationist draftsmanship, primarily The Guardian, but also The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and even The SFor Making History: 2009, Wilner decided to utilise British newspapers for the entire year as source material for his appropriationist draftsmanship, primarily The Guardian, but also The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and even The Sfor the entire year as source material for his appropriationist draftsmanship, primarily The Guardian, but also The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and even The Sfor his appropriationist draftsmanship, primarily The Guardian, but also The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and even The Sun.

Collectively titled «Deadly Friends,» Lee's drawings go heads and shoulder above those types of virtuoso draftsmanship that are cold and detached, their clinical accuracy a sorry substitute for sympathetic engagement.

Known for his use of appropriation and meticulous draftsmanship, Karl Haendel works in «issues of artistic and cultural heritage and power.»

While a more recent touring exhibition of his work was entitled Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, this catalogue of works — created for his first exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery in London in 2014 — reveals Marshall's mastery of draftsmanship and painting and his exciting experimentation as he addresses these canonical limitations.

Well known for his outstanding draftsmanship as well as his meticulous studies of nature, Shishkin was also a skilled printmaker.

For Basquiat, the draftsmanship of drawing was never a means of studying or preparation but an artistic practice in its own right.

Art News applauded Tworkov's draftsmanship and noted that many members of Tworkov's generation and background, Willem de Kooning for example, «find their drawing skills somehow to be an artistic encumbrance or problematical.

Practically from the get - go (see Tea for Three, 1960), Marisol, as she is known, has melded representational sculpture with elements of abstract painting and exquisite draftsmanship, not to

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