Sentences with phrase «history of great painters»

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Did Vincent Van Gogh — one of, if not the, greatest painter in history — paint Doctor's Who» s preferred method of transportation into one of his impressionistic landscapes?

As great filmmakers have inspired modern painters, so to have great painters influenced the mise en scène of directors and cinematographers throughout the history of cinema.

Two of the greatest painters in European art history are Dutch.

It is instructive to examine in greater detail one of the most successful and accomplished women painters of all time, Rosa Bonheur (1822 - 1899), whose work, despite the ravages wrought upon its estimation by changes of taste and a certain admitted lack of variety, still stands as an impressive achievement to anyone interested in the art of the 19th century and in the history of taste generally.

It is instructive to examine in greater detail one of the most successful and accomplished women painters of all time, Rosa Bonheur (1822 — 1899), whose work, despite the ravages wrought upon its estimation by changes of taste and a certain admitted lack of variety, still stands as an impressive achievement to anyone interested in the art of the 19th century and in the history of taste generally.

Mr. Marshall has absorbed enough personal history, American history, African - American history and art history to become one of the great history painters of our time.

Yes, this is critical, and yes, this is long overdue but Marshall, who grew up in Birmingham Ala. 1955 during the Civil Rights Movement and then moved to Los Angeles in 1965 when Watts went up in flames, has absorbed both American history and African American history to become one of the greatest history painters of our time.

Noticeably inspired by western art history and the great painters of the modern era, Orchard's works take cues from the past while also steadfastly looking to contemporary painting.

TRIBECA & SOHO & NOHO & EAST VILLAGE & MURRAY HILL 100 Painters of Tomorrow / 23 Warren / thru 12/6 Material Way curated by Kathleen Kucka / BMCC — CUNY / 81 Barclay / thru 12/1 Carey Denniston / Kansas / 59 Franklin / thru 12/20 Anton Perich / Postmasters / 54 Franklin (new location) / thru 11/22 Terry Winters / The National Exemplar / 381 Broadway @ White — suite 206 / thru 12/31 Bianculli's Personal Theory of TV Evolution organized by David Bianculli / Apexart / 291 Church / thru 12/20 Seokmin Ko; Elena Berriolo / API / 434 Greenwich / thru 12/20 Basim Magdy; Daphne Fitzpatrick; Will Yackulic / Art in General / 79 Walker / thru 1/10 Mohammed Kazem / Grahne / 157 Hudson / thru 12/20 MFA Thesis Exhibition (Part I) / Hunter / 205 Hudson (on Canal) / thru 11/22 Ariel Orozco / Brownstone / 3 Wooster / thru 11/22 Design Series / Swiss Institute / 18 Wooster / thru 11/23 Classical Nudes / Leslie - Lohman Museum / 26 Wooster / thru 1/4 Roy Lichtenstein / Feldman / 31 Mercer / thru 12/20 Opening 11/22 Pedro Cabrita Reis / Freeman / 140 Grand / thru 12/20 Sam Samore / Team / 83 Grand / thru 12/21 Opening 11/23 Tim Noble & Sue Webster / Geiss / 76 Grand / thru 12/20 Chris Domenick / Recess Activities / 41 Grand / thru 12/20 Smoothie Social: 11/22 (3 - 6 PM) Performance: 12/18 (6 - 8 PM) Prime Matter / Senaspace / 229 Centre / thru 12/6 Thread Lines; Xanti Schawinsky / Drawing Center / 35 Wooster / thru 12/14 Open Sessions 2 / Drawing Center: The Lab / 35 Wooster / thru 12/14 Opening 11/21 Andreas Schulze / Team / 47 Wooster / thru 12/21 Opening 11/23 Phillip Chen, etc. / Museum of Chinese in America / 215 Centre / thru 3/1 Nadja Frank; Jessica Segall / Denny / 261 Broome / thru 12/7 Paul Cowan / Clifton Benevento / 515 Broadway / thru 12/20 Mitsuko Miwa / Longhouse / 285 Spring / thru 12/6 Reuven Israel / Fridman / 287 Spring / thru 12/20 Plasmatik: K.K.Thoen, G.Kroenert, S.A.March, T.Francke, S.Tufnell; curated by N.Kates / Melissa / 102 Greene / Opening 11/20 (7 - 9 PM) Social Photography IV / Carriage Trade @ Harvey Foundation / 537 Broadway / Closing Reception 11/22 (6 - 9 PM) The Right Amount of Wrong curated by Lovina Purple / ISE Foundation / 555 Broadway / thru 12/19 Ernesto Burgos / Werble / 83 Van Dam / thru 12/20 Suzatte Bross / Geary / 185 Varick / thru 12/6 Amy O'Neill / Karma / 39 Great Jones / thru 12/6 Alex Kwartler; LeRoy Stevens / Karg / 41 Great Jones / thru 11/26 Learn to Read Art: A Surviving History of Printed Matter / 80WSE / NYU / 80 Washington Square East / thru 2/14 Opening 12/2 Reception 12/12 Ernest Cole / NYU Grey Art Gallery / 100 Wash..

Speaking of hope, one of the great developments of the past half - decade has been a broad effort among curators to look back into history and recuperate artists, often painters, who had been left out of the official narrative due to their race, gender, sexuality, nationality, or otherwise outsider status.

In the museum's Great Hall, NMWA Associate Curator Virginia Treanor drew attendees into the history of women artists through a discussion about 17th - century painter Louise Moillon.

He's one of our great narrative painters in the history of painting.»

Hodgkin is «one of the very greatest painters of the last 50 years,» Graham - Dixon says, but his work «can't easily be slotted into any of the neat, convenient pigeonholes of art history.»

He was beginning to assess his own legacy, finding his place among the great painters of art history.

«By looking at the greatest German Impressionist painters — presenting their works to the American public for the first time — we are able to better understand an important chapter of art history and the complex relationship between the art world and world events.»

That larger story is told with panoramic subtly in the exhibition «Kerry James Marshall: Mastry,» * a traveling survey devoted to one of our great contemporary history painters.

Caulfield was a painter's painter, an artist whose work revealed great depths when contemplated, and to those with an understanding of art, its history and possibilities, his work could resonate on a grand scale.

Belgian painter Luc Tuymans (born 1958), one of the key figures in the 1990s revival of figurative painting, is also one of contemporary art's great history painters, tackling historical traumas and their representations in a restrained — though resolutely painterly — style and pale, muted palette.

Through composition, colour, character and motif, Mosley draws from a rich history of notable great painters to create enigmatic compositions where past and present merge.

Landmark surveys of major figures in the history of art will include the largest display of work by Canaletto ever to be shown in Scotland, an exploration of the extraordinary impact of Rembrandt's work in Britain, only to be seen in Edinburgh, and a retrospective of the great German Expressionist painter, Emil Nolde.

In a group of paintings by Tong Hongsheng, the artist applies the techniques of Vermeer — universally acclaimed as one of the greatest painters in Western art history — to traditional Tibetan Buddhist subjects, an intriguing twist considering that whole political can of worms.

The competition between the British painters John Constable and William Turner has gone down in history as one of the greatest - ever artistic rivalries.

The exhibition shed new light on two of the greatest painters in history.

Anselm Kiefer The great contemporary painter of myth and history shows up in a Welsh seaside town with an exhibition of works on paper.

In 2007 the Museum of Modern Art in New York organised an exhibition with great impact, titled The Painter's Etchings, Freud's place in postwar art history admitted through a side - door rather than placed in the canon.

The great American artist Wayne Thiebaud is often too easily understood as the painter of iconic cakes, pies, and other heartland desserts, but his position in the history of his country's art is far more interesting.

In this gallery, he playfully and skillfully re-creates work by some of art history's greatest painters, harnessing a diverse set of materials to interpret compositions by Leonardo da Vinci, Claude Monet, and Andy Warhol.

One of America's greatest living painters, Kerry James Marshall is an artist who is consciously pushing the constraints of art history, subsequently redefining its past, present and future.

The featured work for 2017 - 18 is Femme en Extase, a portrait of the Italian dancer Giulia Leonardi by the great Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler, on loan from the Museum of Art and History in Geneva.

Joe Goode, who was born in Oklahoma City towards the end of the great depression has played a role in art history as a Los Angeles painter, adjacent to, but somewhat outside of the Ferus Gallery school, which defined the city's turn towards a major art center in the 1960s.

Roy Lichtenstein's Frolic, 1977, (estimate: $ 4 - 7 million), was inspired by his own 1962 painting, Girl with Ball, by ads and comic books, and by one of the greatest painters in art history — Pablo Picasso.

The two great and uniquely American contributions to cultural history are Jazz and Abstract Expressionism, of which Mr. de Kooning is a founder; he was the hands - down greatest American painter in modern art history.

One of the greatest living 20th century painters, the German artist Anselm Kiefer is most famous for his exploration of taboo themes from German history, notably the Holocaust, in order to come to terms with the country's Nazi past.

The collection of American art includes works by the great 18th century history painter John Singleton Copley; the Francophile Mary Cassatt, a leading figure in the American Impressionism movement; the portraitist Gilbert Stuart; the painter of the cowboy west Frederic Remington; the wonderful 19th century realists Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins; the post-Impressionist Whistler; the virtuoso society portrait painter John Singer Sargent; the Pop - Artists Jasper Johns, Edward Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein; co-inventors of «Action - Painting» Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner; and the Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko, to name but a few.

One of the great exponents of Romanticism, the 19th century English painter, illustrator and mezzotint engraver John Martin, achieved huge popular acclaim with his history painting (more accurately, historical landscape painting) featuring melodramatic scenes of apocalyptic events taken from the Bible and other mythological sources.

French painter, draughtsman and etcher, active in Rome, who is regarded by many art historians as the greatest painter of idyllic landscapes in the history of art.

As institutions devoted to the history and continued development of contemporary art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Whitney Museum of American Art are honored to present this tribute to one of the great abstract painters of our time.»

«Some Notes on Women and Abstraction and a Curious Case HIstory: Alice Neel as a Great Abstract Painter», Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol.