Sentences with phrase «interests as a sculptor»

She spoke with me about the creation of her large hollow plaster pieces and about her interests as a sculptor.

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During the half hour so that we spent together, I learned that Chuck shares my interest in Abstract Expressionism, citing Jackson Pollock as his favourite artist, and doubles as a sculptor in his spare time.

After all, there are few areas that are really «denied» to men, if the level of operations demanded be transcendent, responsible or rewarding enough: men who have a need for «feminine» involvement with babies or children gain status as pediatricians or child psychologists, with a nurse (female) to do the more routine work; those who feel the urge for kitchen creativity may gain fame as master chefs; and, of course, men who yearn to fulfill themselves through what are often termed «feminine» artistic interests can find themselves as painters or sculptors, rather than as volunteer museum aides or part time ceramists, as their female counterparts so often end up doing; as far as scholarship is concerned, how many men would be willing to change their jobs as teachers and researchers for those of unpaid, part - time research assistants and typists as well as full - time nannies and domestic workers?

Contemporary sculptors interested in working with physical materials, as Maychack is, often take as their source material the recesses and underpinnings of architectural space, whether it is the moldings of a room (see Francis Cape), the sprayed girders of an underpass (Karlis Rekevics), or the negative spaces in and about actual objects (Rachel Whiteread).

Though known primarily as a sculptor, Rob Fischer also explores his interest in the American landscape through photography, here expressed in a series of three snapshot taken out of a car window of a dingy mobile home.

As a sculptor disinterested in indentifying with any particular school or movement, Louise Nevelson occupies a similarly unique place on the periphery of Abstract Expressionism, motivated by an interest in the Surrealist notion of «convulsive beauty» which defined the post-War climate in American art.

Originally trained as a sculptor but interested in painting for its illusionism and color, Fuchs moved from sculptural installation to painting after her two - year residency at the Core Program.

Though the broad «Abstract Expressionist» label is itself widely contested, these painters and sculptors share both an avid interest in the monumental, the mystical, and the sublime — as well as an unmistakable desire to break free from art of the past.

The great American sculptor Robert Smithson, who died in a plane crash in 1973 at the age of 35, was as interested in the history of the Earth as he was in the history of art.

Even though you wouldn't think of me as a sculptor, ultimately that interest has always been there.

As the Amon Carter continues its commitment to featuring the work of regional artists, this exhibition is a destination for anyone interested in Texas art, especially that made by women sculptors working in the vanguard of three - dimensional creative expression.

Taken as a whole, the exhibition is a clean, a strong, and a varied one and of vast artistic, educational interest and importance, and, if I mistake not, will have as a result, and despite the unquestionably skeptical and even hostile attitude towards the merits of the new foreign movements, or an indisposition to accept them as being worthy of the title of art movements in general — the most marked effect upon the cause of art in America, and upon the coming production of American painters and sculptors, than anything that has occurred since the first exhibition of the so - called Munich band of young American painters in the old American art galleries in 1878, and of the work of Monet and his contemporaries and followers held here in 1883.

Kapoor's interest in this pictorial effect was best reflected in his statement «I am a painter working as a sculptor.»

He began his career as a sculptor, but gradually became more interested in photographic reproductions of his sculptures and eventually turned his attention exclusively to photography.

BALTIMORE — The Austrian artist Franz West is an interesting sculptor and, as a godfather of the lately popular grunge aesthetic, enormously influential.

As Memorial Day approaches, sculptor and metalworker Chris Erney recalls a recent visitor to his Torpedo Factory studio who brought news of a challenge — and posed an interesting design challenge of his own.

Beginning as an abstract painter and figurative sculptor, his motivation grew from an interest in chroma and psychophysical effects of these stimuli acting upon his five known senses.

Few found objects, however, are reinvented in such interesting form as the rubber tires used by contemporary sculptor Chakaia Booker.

Lewis Colburn Philadelphia, PA As a sculptor, Lewis Colburn is interested in the way we re-interpret and re-tell the past through the filter of our current experience.

David's longstanding interest in 20th century British and European modern sculptors, such as Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti, has sharpened recently.

Grey is interested in redefining the role of artist as social sculptor, and provoking us to reconsider the origins and consequences of the forms and frames of our consciousness and to reappraise the contemporary artist's contribution to our primary cultural record.

As Minimal and Conceptual art began to fade in the late 1970s, a new generation of figurative painters and sculptors began to appear, who took a renewed interest in the work of the school.

, Florence 1986, pl.71 The subject of the horse was of primary interest to John Skeaping, in his capacities as sportsman and as sculptor.

Early works are set alongside her contemporaries some of whom are better known than others to show that she and Henry Moore were not the only sculptors interested in carving as opposed to modeling.

Starting out as a traditional sculptor working with metal, Beckers branched out into the Land Art movement thanks to his interest in biodiversity and biomimicry.