Sentences with phrase «influential living painter»

So who is this irreverent master who, before his death at the age of 70 four years ago, was hailed as perhaps the world's finest and most influential living painter — and why isn't his name more familiar to the wider public?

This exhibition showcases the experimental practice of arguably the world's most influential living painter.

With a career spanning some six decades, Richter is often discussed and viewed as one of the most influential living painters of the 20th century.

In 2009, Art in America writer Raphael Rubinstein coined the term «provisional painting» to describe a common attitude and approach he saw among several of the most influential living painters, including Albert Oehlen, Mary Heilmann, Richard Aldrich, and Michael Krebber.

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Janet's work is a touchstone of modern still life paintings, influential for new generations of painters.

The departure was short - lived, however, ending when Hoptman returned to the city as a senior curator at the New Museum, bringing in works by painters like Elizabeth Peyton, George Condo, and Tomma Abts while also organizing seminal exhibitions including «Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century» — the influential show of provisional - looking sculpture that famously included a lot of paint — and «Younger than Jesus,» the first iteration of the museum's Triennial.

Gerhard Richter, perhaps the world's most famous living painter, and Arvo Pärt, the hugely influential composer, have come together to produce two new works dedicated to each other.

Many highlighted the artist's role as a member of The Eight, a group led by Robert Henri, an influential teacher and painter who encouraged American artists to portray subjects from daily life.

In addition, the book discusses recent technical analysis, offering a better understanding of how the self - portraits were painted and providing a rare opportunity to compare how one of the most celebrated and influential European painters chose to represent himself at different stages of his life and career.

The figurative painter Lois Dodd, the last living founder of the Tanager Gallery (1952 - 1962), the most influential of the artist - run galleries that clustered on East 10th Street, said it was difficult for people in today's supercharged contemporary art world to imagine how profoundly uninterested collectors and dealers were in the 1950s in most art being made at the time.

«One of the most important and influential artists living today, Julian Schnabel is a seminal figure for all current painters,» explains Peter Doroshenko, Director of Dallas Contemporary.

Organized by Scott Rothkopf, the museum's deputy director of programs and chief curator, and Jessica Man, a curatorial assistant, the show is accompanied by a catalog of more than 650 pages, which includes a memoir by the artist's mother, Carol Hendrickson, a public health nurse, who lives with her second husband next door to Owens and her family; testimonies about how wonderful Owens is as a person and a painter from a bevy of artists, curators, dealers, and studio assistants; price lists from early exhibitions; essays, including one about Elizabeth Murray by Francine Prose; statements by influential people who were among the first wave to recognize her importance.

Screening: «John Maybury's Read Only Memory» at Le Petit Versailles From the maker Francis Bacon biopic «Love is the Devil,» and the famous Sinead O'Conner music video «Nothing Compares 2 U,» comes «Read Only Memory,» documentary of the fabulous life of Australian performance artist and London underground celeb Leigh Bowery, who danced for choreographer Michael Clark, modeled for painter Lucian Freud, and was one of the most photographed, influential, and outrageous fashion icons of the 1980s and «90s.

Josef Albers was a renowned German abstract painter and color theorist, one of the most prominent and influential pioneers of 20th - century modernism, who dedicated a great deal of his life to art — either teaching it or producing it.

The ambitious animation aims to tell the story of Vincent Van Gogh's influential but troubled life, using 12 hand - made oil paintings per second that were created in the style of the legendary painter.

Naturally, the Brooklyn Museum included Briggs in «Open House: Working In Brooklyn,» and his paintings were also selected for «Back to the Future,» the 2015 Life on Mars exhibition that recognized influential Williamsburg painters from the early 1980s.

His preference for natural settings in his later paintings perhaps reflects the belated influence of the American Pre-Raphaelite movement, whose adherents — many of them still - life painters — followed influential English art critic John Ruskin's teachings of fidelity to nature.

Beginning February 21, 2010, the Dallas Museum of Art will present a landmark exhibition exploring the influential and profound relationship between photographers and painters who lived and worked along the Normandy coast in France during the mid-19th century.

Her aesthetic idiom, in many ways, reflects her background as a member of the Indian Radical Painters and Sculptors Association — a short - lived but hugely influential collection of artists and art students who rebelled against what they perceived to be the commodification of art in India.

One of the most influential abstract and conceptual painters of his generation, Whitten lived in New York City, where he passed away in January 2018.

Later influential artists included the short - lived Thomas Roberts (1749 - 78), his Romantic - style brother, Thomas Sautelle Roberts (c.1760 - 1826), the master landscape painter William Ashford (1746 - 1824), and the draughtsman / printmaker James Malton (d. 1803) who was noted for his views of Dublin, as was the Brocas family, of Henry Brocas Senior (1762 - 1837) and sons Samuel Frederick Brocas (1792 - 1847) and Henry Brocas Junior (1798 - 1873).

Opening Nov. 5, another traveling show, John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury, features oils and watercolors from the last two decades of the life of the influential painter, who died in 1953.

The Bradford - born painter has been called Britain's greatest living artist and is one of the most influential cultural figures of the last 50 years.

The painter, printmaker, photographer and stage designer David Hockney is one of the most successful and influential of all living English artists.

When it's an utterly splendid, signature black - and - white piece by Christopher Wool, one of the top - five most expensive living painters — his work regularly sells for the ten of millions of dollars at auction — and among the most influential artists anywhere today.

Cubism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism were the most important of these movements, and attracted a number of indigenous American artists, including: the New Jersey Cubist / Expressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - American artist.

American artist William Merritt Chase (b. Indiana, 1849 — d. New York, 1916), a renowned figure in the international art circles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was a brilliant observer of contemporary life, an innovative painter, and an influential teacher.

On the occasion of his retrospective exhibition at the New Museum, the influential painter and musician Llyn Foulkes will speak about his life and work.