Sentences with phrase «influential champion of»

Her passion for organic farming, natural clothing and well - considered beauty products has made her an influential champion of craftsmanship, traditional skills and natural living.

Hired in 1922 by the Chicago Daily News, he soon became an influential champion of modernism in a city well - known for its cultural conservatism.

Her passion for organic farming, natural clothing and well - considered beauty products has made her an influential champion of craftsmanship, traditional skills and natural living.

Willem de Kooning was a pioneering figure of Abstract Expressionism, one of the most influential champions of the dynamic, process - driven painting that brought New York to the center of the art world in the 1940s and 1950s.

The highly respected Escalante was one of the first and most influential champions of Lowbrow and Street Art, a founder of Juxtapoz Magazine, and...

The highly respected Escalante was one of the first and most influential champions of Lowbrow and Street Art, a founder of Juxtapoz Magazine, and director of a successful eponymous gallery in Chinatown.

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«He is truly one of Africa's most influential figures, with his good counsel sought by world leaders and CEOs,» says Rockefeller Foundation president Judith Rodin, who calls him «a champion for the power of technology to improve the lives of millions.»

The important essay entitled «Jewish Intellectuals and the De-Christianization of American Culture in the Twentieth Century» holds that the old Protestant cultural hegemony was defeated in no small part by the growing number of Jews championing «a secular vision of American culture» in the «American academic and literary intelligentsia» and in the best and most influential universities.

The 22 - year - old was an influential figure for the Ligue 1 champions last season, playing an important role in the heart of midfield for Leonardo Jardim's side in their title success and run to the semi-finals of the Championchampions last season, playing an important role in the heart of midfield for Leonardo Jardim's side in their title success and run to the semi-finals of the ChampionsChampions League.

The Argentine, who moved from Southampton earlier this summer, has not yet made any major signings for his squad, and will not want to lose a player as influential as Paulinho, though the north London club's lack of Champions League football could be problematic as they look to fight off interest from big clubs in his signature.

In the years since he has been one of the club's most influential players, winning five Premier League titles and the Champions League in 2008.

The Chilean was influential in the opening two games of the World Cup as South Americans knocked World and European Champions out of the competition.

However, with the huge disappointment of exiting the Champions League van Gaal had the difficult task of revitalising his players for the upcoming busy festive period a task made harder by even more players on the sidelines and a three - match ban for the influential Schweinsteiger.

A four - time winner of the Champions League, he was deeply influential in each of those final victories against Arsenal, Manchester United (twice) and Juventus.

Having lost two of their most influential players in the summer, Cesc Fabregas to Barcelona and Samir Nasri to Manchester City, many had predicted a downfall in Arsenal's fortunes starting with qualification to the group stages of the Champions League.

Nexen Man City Cup Kicks Off Soon Manchester City, English Premier League Champions, and Surf Cup Sports, one of the most influential and recognized youth soccer and events management programs in the United States, will be teaming up once again for the upcoming Nexen Manchester City Cup.

He also is author of the influential book, Game On: The All - American Race to Make Champions of Our Children.

The Volodin reforms are top - down, bureaucratic - administrative reforms, which appear to be motivated more by efforts to consolidate the speaker's power vertikal, rather than to foster parliamentarians as champions of constituents» concerns and influential political actors in their own right.

Indeed, it is a supreme irony that many of the SDP's ideas only really became influential when championed by New Labour modernisers.

Moss is chairman of the New York State Sheriffs» Association, an influential law enforcement lobbying organization, and is an outspoken critic of the tougher gun laws championed last year by Democratic Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

«Jobs for New York is effectively trying to make candidates secondary players in their own campaign,» Levine said, referring to the political action committee championed by the influential Real Estate Board of New York.

Drew Endy (right) was named one of Esquire's 75 most influential people of the 21st century and one of President Barack Obama's 2013 Champions of Change for his work redesigning genomes and developing genetically encoded computers.

As co-founders and former co-chief executives of Matches Fashion, one of the premier independent fashion retailers in the United Kingdom and a major player in the e-commerce market, Tom and Ruth Chapman turned a brick - and - mortar store into a global platform stocking the most influential, international luxury brands, while championing British fashion talent.

Love Means Zero: Infamous and influential tennis coach Nick Bollettieri has trained generations of champions, from Andre Agassi and Monica Seles to Serena Williams, but that greatness comes at a price.

Andrew Sarris, one of the nation's most influential film critics and a champion of auteur theory, died on Wednesday at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan.

The FCSBM has quickly become an influential champion in that fight and I look forward to building upon the organization's record of success.»

With a focus in Fighting Games, PG boasts a Roster of world champions, perennial contenders, and influential community leaders.

The Cameroonian curator Koyo Kouoh, who set up the Raw Material gallery in Dakar and is a champion of promoting art from African countries, rises to 73 on the list, while Hyun - Sook Lee, founder of the influential South Korean gallery Kukje, enters at number 82 and the Indian artists Bose Krishnamachari and Riyas Komu are at 86.

Tom Sachs, described by Emma Allen for the New Yorkeras a «mix of mad scientist, obsessive tinkerer, cult guru, taskmaster general, starry - eyed theoretician, and workout champion,» is an original advocate of bricolage, or DIY, and one of today's most inspiring and influential sculptors.

Formalist art critic Clement Greenberg championed Noland, along with Jules Olitski and Louis, in his influential writing of the 1950s and 60s, interpreting their paintings as the next logical progression in Modernism's continuous refining of the medium, reducing it to solitary, non-representational painted forms on blank canvas.

André Emmerich, an influential Manhattan art dealer whose gallery was an early champion of the 1950s and»60s school of Color Field painting and who also mounted important shows of pre-Columbian art, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan.

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami today announced its dynamic exhibition schedule for 2016, featuring a full season of major solo American and international museum presentations that champion highly influential and under - recognized contemporary artists.

As a pioneering London gallery that championed the careers of many influential artists, it was one of the first gallery venues to be associated with Minimalism and Conceptual Art.

The gallery created a platform for some of the most influential artist's of the 1990s — developing a space that supported and championed critical, context - specific, political and conceptual art.

After completing an art foundation course at Central Saint Martins, Marten was accepted into Oxford's Ruskin school of art, where her tutor was the influential artist and curator Richard Wentworth — a key champion of her work after she graduated.

In this interview with Artspace's Dylan Kerr, the longtime champion of contemporary painting gives a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of her influential work.

Names like Albers, Hoffman, and DeKooning ring out as some of the champions who fit this profile, with the work of Brancusi, a Romanian - turned - Parisian, brought to this country by the eternally influential French immigrant Marcel Duchamp.

Many artists with work in the Menil Collection were championed by the late Leo Castelli, one of the 20th century's most influential art dealers.

The influential critic Clement Greenberg, who championed the Abstract Expressionists, wrote a 1955 essay extolling the rise of those artists and the decline of the School of Paris.

And the work that Dwan championed has taken its place as some of the most influential and iconic artwork of the last century, made by individuals such as Robert Rauschenberg, Edward Kienholz, Claes Oldenburg, Donald Judd, John Chamberlain, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Marin, and Andy Warhol — and on to the monumental projects by Charles Ross, Michael Heizer, Walter De Maria, and Robert Smithson.

Her work is held in major art collections throughout the country, but she has never received the recognition of Washington Color School painters championed by influential art critic Clement Greenberg like Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis.

Since 1910 we have donated over 8,000 works to museums and public galleries — from Bacon, Freud, Hepworth and Moore in their day through to the influential artists of our own times — championing new talent, supporting curators, and encouraging philanthropy and collecting in the UK.www.contemporaryartsociety.org/support/annual - fundraiser

Arguably the most influential American art critic of the second half of the 20th century, through his writings Greenberg championed the post-war American abstract modernist art which flourished in the 1950s.

Arguably the most influential American art critic of the second half of the 20th century, as a champion of the post-war American abstract modernist art which flourished in the 1950s (and most particularly for his promotion of Jackson Pollock), Clement Greenberg was also the most vilified.

After World War II, championed by the influential critic Clement Greenberg (1909 - 94), Smith became the most highly - regarded American sculptor of the time.

In 1937, Nicholson, together with Naum Gabo and the British architect Leslie Martin edited Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art, an influential monograph on constructivism which championed the introduction of mathematical elements, clean lines and minimalist ornamentation to public and private art.

These works were championed by influential critic Lawrence Alloway, who credited Flack with the reinvention of the still life.

A highly influential movement, Abstract Expressionism eventually led to Minimalism - one of the first contemporary art movements - via sub-styles like Op - art, championed by Bridget Riley (b. 1931).

• Philip Johnson (1906 - 2005) Highly influential US architect; champion of the International Style.

It was a short - lived but influential style of colourful abstract art, created mainly by Robert Delaunay (1885 - 1941) and his wife Sonia Delaunay - Terk (1895 - 1979), in response to the austere monochromatic style of analytical Cubism championed by Picasso and Georges Braque.