Sentences with phrase «international prominence for»

After studying under Josef Albers at Yale, Stanczak and his peers soared into international prominence for their involvement with Op Art, a term named after Stanczak's first solo exhibition in New York City in 1964.

Ato Malinda is a dynamic artist who has gained international prominence for her performance and video works....

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The reports of Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Center for Transitional Justice (the world's leading non-governmental organization studying political transitions), as well as the U.N. documents on the justice of nations moving from tyranny to democracy, give prominence to judicial punishment among all possible measures for addressing past human - rights violations.

He quickly cemented his place as first choice for the Selecao, replacing the much - maligned Moacir Barbosa, and came to prominence on the international stage through a string of superb performances during the 1958 World Cup finals.

CSS achieved national and international prominence by spearheading the Los Angeles Unified Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Policy, the most stringent pesticide policy in the nation for K - 12 public schools — the first to embrace the «Precautionary Principle» and «Right to Know» and then the passage of California's Healthy Schools Act.

The job carries far less public prominence than governor or attorney general, the post from which Spitzer earned the nickname «Sheriff of Wall Street» for his battles with American International Group and the New York Stock Exchange, among others.

It is heart - warming for an industry that has only gained international prominence in the past two decades to see one of its sons holding an Oscar statue.

Founded in 2005 by Cole Dabney and Bobby McCurdy, the AFCA has seen its membership grow to over two dozen members with a diverse roster of professional film critics who regularly review movies for national television stations, daily newspapers, weekly alternatives, local radio, monthly magazines, and websites with international prominence.

She began her career as a child and came to international prominence in 2007 after co-starring with Keira Knightley in the film Atonement, which gained her nominations for a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the youngest actress ever to have this kind of recognition.

He'd done similar, equally compelling work prior to his breakthrough (2009's About Elly stands as arguably his strongest film), but with an increased eye on Middle Eastern cinema in the wake of Kiarostami's Certified Copy and the jailing of the more radical, uncompromising Jafar Panahi, coupled with the film's heart - tugging narrative, A Separation arrived at an opportune time for his country's rise to international cinematic prominence.

Despite spending the majority of his life in Delft, the Netherlands, where he worked from 1946 to 1979 as a civil servant for the Dutch Postal Service, Schoonhoven rose to artistic prominence as an active and influential member of the international avant garde.

Ironically, Mthethwa, a dandyish figure who came to international prominence in 1999 after his work was included in the exhibition «Liberated Voices» (1999) at the Museum for African Art in New York, has done much the same.

One of the few women to rise to international prominence in modern sculpture, Hepworth is the grande dame of modernism — quite literally, since she was knighted by the Queen for her contributions to British art.

As these young artists succeeded, the spotlight moved from Paris to New York, setting the stage for America's post-war prominence in the international art world.

He studied at Central Saint Martins School of Art and came to international prominence with his 1989 drama - documentary Looking for Langston, focusing on the life of Langston Hughes, an American poet and activist.

Known for embodying the radical power of art not only in the grandest of gestures but also in the most misshapen, haphazard, collective, bric - a-brac of even the smallest of chance statements, BHQF rose to national and international prominence with recognition of the Brucenniel.

>> > Until 25 October 2015 Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World Tate Britain London UK Retrospective of one of Britain's greatest artists, Barbara Hepworth (1903 > 1975), one of the few women artists to achieve widespread recognition and international prominence, featuring many of her most significant sculptures in wood, stone and bronze alongside her rarely seen works that exemplified modernism from the 1920s onwards.

Scottish painter, poet, jazz musician, and jewelry designer Alan Davie rose to international prominence in the 1950s and 1960s for his paintings that explored spiritual and cosmic themes through a combination of symbols gleaned from cultures around the world.

Founded in 1979, the New York City - based practice established its identity through self - generated conceptual art and architecture installations, before reaching international prominence with large - scale cultural and civic projects such as the Blur Building at the Swiss Expo 2002 in Yverdon - les - Bains; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts redevelopment project and the High Line, both in New York; as well as the Broad museum in Los Angeles and the recently completed Zaryadye Park near Red Square in Moscow, which opened in September 2017.

Offering insight into the significance of competitions in career development, the Preparing for the Future: Talent Development and Art Prizes panel at the Future Now Symposium examines the reasons behind the prominence of international accolades and uncovers recurring trends in winning works.

One of the most significant sculptors of his generation, Juan Muñoz (1953 -2001) rose to international prominence in the mid-1980s for his return to the human form and his emphasis on the relationship of sculpture, architecture and the viewer.

Cuban - born artist Carmen Herrera (b. 1915) has painted for more than seven decades, though it is only in recent years that acclaim for her work has catapulted the artist to international prominence.

The exhibition shows recent works such as The Crocodile Who Ate The Sun (1982/2015) as well as earlier works, namely the 2008 video responsible for Mroué's rise to prominence on the international scene, entitled On Three Posters.

Following earlier CCS initiatives such as the Sleipner injection project, 2 the IEA GHG program, 3 the Greenhouse Gas Technology conferences, 4 the planning for CCS as part of the Gorgon LNG mega-project, 5 and early SaskPower planning for coal CCS projects, 6 CCS gained international prominence in the mid-2000s.

Given heightened prominence during the recent U.S. election, it has since become a growing concern in Europe and even Canada, where a campaign manager for a federal Conservative Party leadership candidate admitted recently to publishing a fake article online to rile the «left» about the supposed «billions» the Liberal Party was spending on international aid.

In the decades following the Civil Rights Movement, during which the city earned a reputation as «too busy to hate» for the relatively progressive views of some of its citizens and leaders compared to other cities in the Deep South Atlanta attained international prominence.