Sentences with phrase «headed as a young artist»

As I understand it, you had to be somewhat bull - headed as a young artist in the nineteen fifties in order to pursue your interest in working from life.

Not exact matches

In this issue we feature Encounters with our cover artists, as well as Lubaina Himid, Ian Davenport, Anne Collier and Kehinde Wiley, and have two Paper Galleries — one dedicated to the work of celebrated Leviathan creator Shazeed Dawood, the other to young painters who are turning the world on its head.

«Without a doubt, what's driving the high prices in recent years — as with many renaissance markets for certain artists — is the inspiration she's providing to a younger generation,» says Francis Outred, the head of postwar and contemporary art for Christie's Europe.

In one notable image, Ceylan reframes the neoclassical master as an art - historical cross-dresser, transposing the image of his head from his self - portrait as a young artist onto the satin - swathed body of the Princesse de Broglie, the subject of Ingres's 1851 — 53 portrait of the same name.

The first room creates a physical experience, pushing the view to the periphery with an imposing bulbous sculpture, while the second creates safe places for the artist as a young boy, evoking Bradford's mother's hair salon in large paintings created from purple - black end papers used for permanent waves and a paper sculpture representing Medusa's head as a hiding place.

«Blom... recounts how, as a young artist living in South Africa, his grasp on Modernism has been mediated, thus compounding his estrangement from this once avant - garde movement that turned the visual arts on its head at the turn of the last century.