Sentences with phrase «formal art background»

Growing up I had a formal art background.

Damian J Kelly does have a formal art background and explains, «I attended Edinburgh Collage of Art to do Ceramics and Sculpture in the late 1990's, but oil painting has mainly been self taught, through experimentation.

Not exact matches

As Susan Stepney notes in the article «The real science of science fiction,» published on The Guardian, a lot of SF writers have arts and humanities backgrounds, and make up for a possible lack of formal technical training by doing research:

All entrants came from very different backgrounds but they were united by two stand - out facts: none of them had a formal arts education or degree but all of them showed incredible creative talent.

By negotiating between the formal problems of abstract painting and the art historical narrative, the project highlights the tensions between the perceived authenticity of abstraction and the viewers» awareness of its authorship and background, both real and imaginary.