Sentences with phrase «important than the artist»

(1) Perhaps even more important than the artist's technical innovations is her unique sense of «place.»

Kelly went on to praise the idea that artworks are «more important than the artist's personality», perhaps suggesting a concern that any emphasis on the painter's own involvement might detract from viewers» attention to the objects themselves (Kelly 1980, p. 32).

Not exact matches

In putting together a sidebar for that story about the most important FPS games in the history of the medium, I noticed a fascinating trend that seems to say something poignant about the times we're living in: brand has become a stronger selling feature than the artist, at least in games.

It is important for Merleau - Ponty that we understand how the artist's expressive act emerges out of the world, rather than its emerging from the private chamber of the mind.

It is important to note that more than 90 % of Visitors to the Toronto Christmas Market will be immersed in a unique atmosphere that brings the best and most unique craftspeople, artists and artisans

For me it is more important to bring out the best parts for the artist than to be selfish for myself and try and be heard.

Inevitably, The Last Kiss will be about either learning that what's really important is a stale monogamous existence (My Best Friend's Wedding) or learning that the fiancée is a bitch / whore much better off with an accountant than with our architect / ad exec / artist hero, thus freeing the latter to commit adultery as he pleases (or, more likely, retroactively excusing his infedility).

Today, there are more Native filmmakers working than ever before, and the Institute is bringing forward a fourth generation of Native filmmakers and solidifying a pipeline of artists whose voices will have an important impact on American and global cinema and culture.

«It is more important than ever to celebrate artists both in front of and behind the camera who have the unique ability to share different viewpoints to inspire, challenge, and entertain us,» said Tribeca Film Festival's executive chair and co-founder Jane Rosenthal in a statement.

But for artists they are no more important than imagination, spatial awareness, and intuition.

Emblazoned across the cover of Canadian artist and writer Patrick Bonneville's Timeless Earth: 400 of the World's Most Important Places are Kofi Annan's wise words: «We should emphasize what unites us much more than what divides us.»

And viewed from this perspective, the social role of the artist, especially the writer of fiction, becomes far more important — and far more culturally potent — than most people ever appreciate.

The inside of the museum is even more impressive and houses the most important modern art museum in Europe with more than 50,000 works of art from 5,000 artists, as well as a library, cinema and various performance spaces.

While a website is still more important than a blog to an artist, I also run several blogs about my art in addition to my website.

With these paintings, the skeleton of the stories the Bostwana - born, New York — based artist presents are more important than his characters — Mokgosi is getting at something deeper than just tales about history.

According to this thinking, Art is re-creation rather than imitation, according to Plotinus, and «all that matters is the relation of the finished product to the idea in the artist's mind; in fact, the finished product is always much less important than the idea.»

Now I consider de Kooning a far more important artist than Rauschenberg.

Second, if you are just getting started as an artist, I think it's more important to get a site up and running than it is to have a perfect website.

With some notable exceptions (like Warhol and Courbet, who churned out work like machines), the most fascinating and important artists in history exemplify this approach by remaining true to what drove them to create, rather than caving to external responses.

«Usually an artist's older work is more valuable because it is theoretically harder to get an important early work than a more recent work.

With a career extended across more than half a century, Stella both holds an important place in the history of American art and maintains contemporary relevance as his work continues to influence younger generations of artists.

American Dada is elevated to a more important position than it held, while dozens of artists whose works created the art of the thirties and forties are omitted.

More than a visual artist, Cave has come to see himself as a messenger, endeavoring to coalesce discussions around important issues.

The show features more than eighty works that have been added to the Thaw collection since 2002, many of them important modern drawings by artists such as Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe, Robert Motherwell, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Jim Dine, and David Smith.

Marlow said Dean was «one of the most important artists of her generation anywhere in the world» and one who deserved to be even better recognised than she is.

Rather than a comprehensive survey, this richly illustrated book presents examples of ambitious and important work by more than 160 African artists since the last 30 years.

Through the generous gift of SCAD Savannah Board of Visitors member Dr. Walter Evans and his wife Linda, the SCAD Museum of Art is now home to more than 60 important works of art by renowned African American artists such as Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Robert Scott Duncanson, Richard Hunt and Jacob Lawrence.

The artist recalls being mesmerized by the mobiles of Alexander Calder and the sculpture of Michael Steiner, whose name is less - known now than it was in the»60s and»70s when such powerhouse critics as Clement Greenberg and Karen Wilkin hailed him as an important figure.

His important new book «Black Artists in British Art» surveys more than a half century of contributions, bringing welcome attention to the likes of Ronald Moody, Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling and contemporary figures such as Sonia Boyce, Sokari Douglas Camp, Steve McQueen, Chris Ofili, Yinka Shonibare and Lynette Yiadom - Boakye.

L&M Arts is pleased to present THE COMPLEXITY OF THE SIMPLE, an exhibition of more than twenty important works by twenty artists of international renown.

Because it features more than 80 works from important private collections, including the artist's own, this monograph provides a unique contextualization of the artist's incredibly influential career, which, spanning more than 40 years, mirrors not only the history of postwar Germany, but also the medium of painting.

It's very important that artists are cultivated and helped in the middle portion of their career by galleries other than just huge galleries.

Given his spotlight - stealing video piece Re'Search Wait»S at the New Museum's 2009 inaugural «Younger Than Jesus» Triennial and his widespread critical acceptance as one of the most important artists of his generation, Ryan Trecartin seems to be a prudent choice for co-curating this year's Triennial «Surround Audience» alongside the Museum's in - house curator Lauren Cornell.

This important book traces the longer, subtler history of the development of modernism in relation to American artists than is typically described in art history.

Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 25 June — 26 September 2015 The practice of artists drawing from ancient sculptures and plaster casts has played an important educational and inspirational role in Western art for more than 400 years.

Even more important, the critic wrote, was the fact that the participating artists chose their own works to contribute — mainly still lifes and landscapes, with a few paintings of everyday figures — rather than conforming to any theme.

Now, more than a quarter of a century later — during which time he settled in the US, began collaborating with his wife Emilia, and acquired the status of one of the most important artists among former Soviet nonconformists — the tone and comportment of his work has changed.

Figurative painter Natalie Frank discusses the prize and says, «Establishing new names, new routes, new protections [for women artists] feels more important than ever.»

The two - minute version, he says, would be that Greenberg favored «purity, formalism, flatness, overall design, and surface incident» in painting while Rosenberg argued for «the action of the artist on the canvas and the notion of the creative act being the most important aspect of art making, rather than the product.»

Showcasing more than twenty important and cutting - edge Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese, and Korean artists and artist groups, this exhibition presents the work of artists who skillfully use contemporary approaches to express their respective cultural and artistic heritages.

California Dreaming at the New Britain Museum of American Art will present more than 100 important works from 1952 to the present by these three artists, spanning more than 65 years.

The opulent Victorian interiors of Leighton House provide the setting for what is the only UK showing of an important collection of more than 100 drawings by the Pre-Raphaelite artists.

«In an age when anyone feels they can be a photographer, the Rudin Prize is more important than ever to recognize artists pushing the medium's envelope,» said Norton Photography Committee Member Beth Rudin DeWoody.

California Dreaming presents more than 100 important works from the 1950s to now by these three artists.

The exhibition features American artists for whom Blake was an important inspiration and includes more than 130 paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, films, and posters, as well as original Blake prints and illuminated books from collections throughout the United States.

Collection of more than sixty sculptures, drawings, watercolours, tapestries, embroideries and isntallations offers comprehensive overview of the most important chapters in the work of the five artists.

Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American Prints is drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection holdings of more than 12,500 prints of which more than 7,500 are by American artists.

The exhibition will feature American artists for whom Blake was an important inspiration and will include more than 130 paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, films, and posters, as well as original Blake prints and illuminated books from collections throughout the United States.

Consisting of more than 50 works, including the public debut of at least 13 new works, Marc Quinn will be one of the artist's most important exhibitions to date.

Most important, however, these artists are non-strategic: they rely primarily on intuition rather than research or theory to move the work forward.