Sentences with phrase «great career as an artist»

I have an interest in art work and wish to acquire as much expertise and experience as possible in the said field to progress a great career as an artist over a period of time.

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The always - great Toni Collette does possibly the best work of her career as Annie Graham, an artist (she designs miniature models that often replicate her own home life, which is clearly a reference to a filmmaker producing a film that he's admitted comes from his own personal life) and mother of two.

The story is about their relationship — how a washed - up old comedian takes a despairing young performer under his wing and gives her the confidence to become a great artist, even as his own career fades into irrelevance.

Founded in 2001 by composer Elmer Bernstein, the Film Music Foundation has supported the Film Music Program since 2013, which aims to foster greater appreciation for film composition and greater diversity among artists who are pursuing film composition as a viable, sustainable career path and an opportunity to reach wide audiences.

There were great performances across the board by Christian Bale (whose combover alone deserves some kind of award) and Amy Adams as the con artists, Bradley Cooper as the fed who is as tightly coiled as his perm and Jeremy Renner as a politician who falls into their trap out of a genuine desire to help his constituents but the whole thing was stolen outright by Jennifer Lawrence as Bale's wife, a live wire whose innately direct nature is enough to blow the entire deal in an instant, in what may be the best performance to date of her already incredible career.

On this list I would include Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour, Richard Gere in one of the best roles of his career as Norman, Diane Kruger magnificent in In the Fade, Annette Bening and Jamie Bell equally great in for Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool, as are both Michelle Williams and Christopher Plummer (in a last - minute miracle of a save) in All The Money In The World, Timothee Chalamet in Call Me By Your Name, James Franco directing himself to a career best in The Disaster Artist, Margot Robbie and Allison Janney in I, Tonya, and Daniel Day - Lewis in what he says is his farewell in The Phantom Thread (say it ain't so).

Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film, THE MASTER — which resurrected 70 mm film and the career of Joaquin Phoenix in one masterful swoop — confirmed his position yet again as one of our country's greatest artists.

That achievement in the arts, as in any field of endeavor, demands struggle and sacrifice, no one would deny; that this has certainly been true after the middle of the 19th century, when the traditional institutions of artistic support and patronage no longer fulfilled their customary obligations, is undeniable: one has only to think of Delacroix, Courbet, Degas, van Gogh and Toulouse - Lautrec as examples of great artists who gave up the distractions and obligations of family life, at least in part, so that they could pursue their artistic careers more singlemindedly.

London — Robert Rauschenberg, who died four years ago after a career as big - spirited and optimistic as any great postwar artist, is featured in the first exhibition in the UK of his Jammers series, which will go on show at Gagosian in London from 16 February — 28 March 2013.

Her great success opened the way for larger numbers of women to pursue serious careers as artists.

Helen Frankenthaler (1928 - 2011), whose career spanned six decades, has long been recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century.

It's a great foundation for beginning artists early on in their career to help establish a reputation for their work just as well for the established artist that is ready to start investing in their business and monetizing on their growing fanbase.

Richter (b. 1932, Dresden, Germany, and lives in Cologne, Germany) is often lauded as the greatest artist working today with a prolific career spanning six decades.

A woman whose career as an artist began at age sixty - seven and rose quickly to great heights, Alma Thomas still soars, decades after her death in 1978.

Organized in partnership with the Tom Wesselmann Estate, the exhibition examines Wesselmann's role as the great innovator of the American Pop generation and will include a dozen significant works spanning the artist's career from 1961 - 2004.

Spotlight Picture: Paul Nash, Sketch Design for Act II of the Lady from the Sea, 1922 In the years following his service in the Great War, Paul Nash was determined to continue his career as an artist but struggled with periodic bouts of depression.

In 1941, von Wiegand met and interviewed the great Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian who encouraged her to abandon writing in pursuit of a career as a visual artist.

on view from May 29 - September 30, 2015, charts the artist's beginnings in a small Mississippi farming town during the Great Depression to his journey to New York's avant - garde art scene and his career as a influential teacher at Yale Universiy and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

One of the greatest practitioners of genre painting in Britain, and, along with J. M. W. Turner and John Constable, one of the most influential British artists of the 19th century, the Scottish - born Wilkie made his career in London, where his list of patrons included the top members of British society, such as the Duke of Wellington, and John Julius Angerstein, whose collection founded the National Gallery, London.

The current exhibition well documents Rothko's career and achievements, but not all of the selections in this show are masterpieces and it is only when one sees how many great «classic» works there are that one is truly impressed with Rothko's achievement as an artist.

As you'd expect from a foundation that has built its reputation on forging networks between China and the international art scene, as well as developing the careers of young artists within the Greater China region, the works on show span creations by 1980s Neo-Geo stars Ashley Bickerton and Peter Halley through to new commissions by the current generation of Chinese artists, including Shanghai - based sculptor Zhang Ruyi and Guangzhou - based twin - sister duo Mountain River JumAs you'd expect from a foundation that has built its reputation on forging networks between China and the international art scene, as well as developing the careers of young artists within the Greater China region, the works on show span creations by 1980s Neo-Geo stars Ashley Bickerton and Peter Halley through to new commissions by the current generation of Chinese artists, including Shanghai - based sculptor Zhang Ruyi and Guangzhou - based twin - sister duo Mountain River Jumas well as developing the careers of young artists within the Greater China region, the works on show span creations by 1980s Neo-Geo stars Ashley Bickerton and Peter Halley through to new commissions by the current generation of Chinese artists, including Shanghai - based sculptor Zhang Ruyi and Guangzhou - based twin - sister duo Mountain River Jumas developing the careers of young artists within the Greater China region, the works on show span creations by 1980s Neo-Geo stars Ashley Bickerton and Peter Halley through to new commissions by the current generation of Chinese artists, including Shanghai - based sculptor Zhang Ruyi and Guangzhou - based twin - sister duo Mountain River Jump!

With the exception of Jack Shainman — a dealer of great American artists, including Nick Cave, Hank Willis Thomas, and Carrie Mae Weems — whose brief appearance on this show is, as far as I can tell, a low point in his career, I've never heard of most of the «chicest» galleries nor of almost any of the «hottest» artists.

Lichtenstein's long career and large body of work brought him appreciation as one of America's greatest living artists.

By re-examining Motherwell's origins and his engagement with this technique, which he described in 1944 as «the greatest of our [art] discoveries,» the exhibition will investigate the artist's work during a pivotal decade in his career.

While at MoMA PS1 and Clocktower, Mount worked with international scope of curators, artists, and institutions, and on seminal exhibitions such as the first Greater New York in 2000; the retrospective of painter John Wesley, covering his entire career from 1961 - 2000; Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties, Disasters of War: Francisco de Goya, Henry Darger, Jake and Dinos Chapman; Body Works: Bruce Nauman, Valie Export, Gabriel Orozco, Joan Jonas, and Louis Bourgouis; Sol LeWitt: Concrete Block; Min Tanaka presents Subject: Heuristic Ecdysis, Santiago Sierra, Person remunerated for a period of 360 consecutive hours, 2000, among others.

Among artists there is a greater sense of possibility and joie de vivre, and as a result it feels livelier than it has at other points in my career.

A great many British artists, including numerous Members of the Royal Academy, have worked at some point in their careers as book illustrators and / or designers.

A great many British artists, including numerous Royal Academicians, have worked at some point in their careers as book illustrators and / or designers.

In a career as an artist and activist spanning more than 30 years, Ms. Himid has tried to bring black history to greater attention.

The invention of photography in the nineteenth century had three effects on art: portrait and scenic artists were deemed inferior to the photograph and many turned to photography as careers; within nineteenth - and twentieth - century art movements it is well documented that artists used the photograph as source material and as an aid — however, they went to great lengths to deny the fact fearing that their work would be misunderstood as imitations; [8] and through the photograph's invention artists were open to a great deal of new experimentation.

The exhibition, Follow the Heart: The Art of Sean Scully 1964 - 2014, revisits the British / American artist's career over the past 50 years in over 100 works including some of his most iconic and important pieces, such as Night and Day (279 x 812 cm), some of his great 1980s paintings, which overturned the orthodoxies of minimalism, and many of the famous Wall of Light paintings.

By this I mean: she «made it» as a woman artist when almost no one else did, forged a highly chronicled six - decade career, maneuvered the art world with great skill, and remained true to her particular artistic vision.

A biennial focused on the art made here undoubtedly offers a way of propelling the careers of many emerging local artists, as well as giving greater visibility to established ones — but won't much the same be true of the California - Pacific Triennial, being launched next year at the Orange County Museum of Art?

MADISON, WI — Throughout his long and prodigious career, Frank Stella has been a major force in the art world, internationally hailed as one of America's greatest artists.

Through the physical gallery in Miracle Mile as well as lectures from exhibiting and visiting artists, TAG Gallery has become a valuable resource for launching the careers of both emerging and mid-career artists based in the greater Los Angeles area.

In addition to extending the comprehensive documentation of Morgan's output as a painter, this volume includes additions that start to bring the artist's notoriety and career into greater focus.

ABOUT HELEN FRANKENTHALER AND THE HELEN FRANKENTHALER FOUNDATION Helen Frankenthaler (1928 - 2011), whose career spanned six decades, has long been recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century.

Revered as one of the great post-war masters in his native United States, Richard Diebenkorn is an artist whose staunchly independent career takes us from abstraction to figuration and back again.

The 60 - year - plus career of this great American color painter ended with the artist absorbed in deep meditation on the nature of paint as a carrier of transcendental light.

Contrary to popular belief that Pollock was a solitary genius, the artist — whom Life magazine posed as the «greatest living painter in the United States» in 1948 — was keenly aware of what other artists were doing and was influenced by those he befriended and worked with throughout his abbreviated career.