Sentences with phrase «known early artists»

Following this idea of a responsive archive, Koh has chosen to profile one of the lesser known early artists from Singapore's art history, Shui Tit Sing (1914 — 1997), who commenced his artistic training in 1935, the same year the Gillman Barracks were erected.

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I had seen a number of his earlier films at Paris Cinematheque and was very curious to get to know a real - live Soviet artist.

Like the ancient apocalyptic seer, the modern artist has unveiled a world of darkness, but whereas earlier seers could know a darkness penetrated by a new æon of light, the contemporary artist has seen light itself as darkness, and embodied in his work an all - embracing vacuity dissolving every previous form of life and light.

We do know that the artists were among the earliest inhabitants of southern Africa, the ancestors of the modern - day «San» peoples.

Despite the public knowing of Jack's earlier crime, they are clearly able to look beyond it and take the man as an artist devoid of circumstance.

Whatever position one takes on his worth as an artist, one thing is for sure: Fincher has come a long way since the early days of his career, when he was known simply as yet another television - commercial and music - video wunderkind (along with, say, Spike Jonze, Mark Pellington, Michel Gondry, and others) taking some bold stabs at feature - film directing.

Argo — Telluride, early September, 2012 The Artist — Cannes, May, 2011 The King's Speech — Toronto, September, 2010 The Hurt Locker — the previous year, Toronto Film Fest Slumdog Millionaire — Telluride, Toronto, September 2008 No Country for Old Men — Cannes, May, 2007 The Departed — October, 2006 Crash — May, 2005 Million Dollar Baby, December, 2004

The editor tells the story of Mrs Jo Jo, recently resurrected and now competing again / Dexter Brown also known as de Bruyne — Tony Clark traces the career of this renowned artist and evaluates his distinctive style, illustrated with examples of his work / de Bruyne Painting — One of the earlier, large De Bryune paintings depicting a scene from the 1908 French Grand Prix / Granville Bradshaw — Michael Worthington - Williams considers a new biography of this prolific and talented, but flawed, designer / The Genius of Fangio — Simon Moore talks to Michel Poberejsky about Juan Manuel Fangio and the 1957 Monaco Grand Prix

In addition to deep archival research into the lives of her artist subjects, she spent more than a year interviewing former patients at a rehabilitation facility known as Seneca House, which was established in the early 1970s near the Potomac River in Maryland.

What gets me, is that in The Grand Illusion, not only do the irrational assume that the editors and artists etc of the large companies are all those ugly, awful things I listed earlier, but the smaller players are no better.

Our years of professional experience, working with every part in that process (designers, editors, artists, co-authors, actors, musicians, web developers etc.), mean that we know how to get your project done right and done on time (often early).

Radisson Blu is further growing the European portfolio — recent highlights include the very first Radisson Blu hotel in Madrid, and flagship of the year 2010 will be the Radisson Royal Hotel Moscow which is scheduled to open in May: Also known as «Hotel Ukraina» the building is part of Stalin's legendary Soviet skyscrapers «Seven Sisters» and will offer 506 luxurious rooms and suites as well as 38 apartments, world class restaurants including dinner river cruise boats, and a unique art collection featuring 1,200 original paintings by leading Russian artists of the early XX.

In this behind the scenes look at the game, the audience will learn how Concept Artists and Environment Artists work hand in hand to create the places your heroes explore in search of action and glory, with the opportunity to see some of the earliest visions of the worlds you've come to know.

The SCPs in the earlier «teaser posts» aren't the only new thing coming up: Astray488 (the artist formerly known as Mirocaine) has been sending me some other cool stuff as well...

Gilbert had been pretty quiet in recent years working on the odd game or two, but in 2014 he announced he was re-uniting with the graphics artist from his early games, Gary Winnick, in a Kickstarter for his new project called Thimbleweed Park and although I knew it would be a while until it was released, I couldn't wait for it.

«Watteau's Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth - Century France,» now on view at the Frick Collection, presents twenty or so works created around the War of the Spanish Succession, an early subject for an artist far better known for his fêtes galantes, those rich scenes of courtship and masquerade that catalogue an entire Baroque iconography.

In the early 1960s, while much of America and Europe was fascinated with the new wave of Pop Artists, Southern California quietly gave rise to a very different aesthetic revolution known as the Light and Space movement.

Having witnessed the phenomenal rise of young British artists in the early 1990s, he contacted those he knew and admired and invited them to make a work for his mail art project, Imprint 93.

During the early 1950s, Richard Diebenkorn was known as an abstract expressionist, and his gestural abstractions were close to the New York School in sensibility but firmly based in the San Francisco abstract expressionist sensibility; a place where Clyfford Still has a considerable influence on younger artists by virtue of his teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Although known for his early championing of the Abstract Expressionists, he befriended a younger generation of artists that reacted against the rhetoric of gestural abstraction, the leading style of Tenth Street.

During the early years, the focus of the gallery was upon mid-career and emerging artists and the gallery is known for having introduced some of the most influential contemporary artists to Brussels at a time when they were still relatively unknown.

Most of these are more intimately scaled than the early monumental «Fuck» paintings, 1969 — , for which the artist is perhaps best known, doing away with some of the optic strangeness of those works and replacing it with something similar to, but not quite like, eroticism.

Understood in their broadest definition, the drawings and photographs assembled here include a wide range of material, among which are an 1864 photograph of the forest of Fontainebleau by the little - known French photographer Constant Alexandre Famin; a pastel completed earlier this year by Jasper Johns; a 3 x 5 inch Cezanne figure drawing; a new 6 1/2 x 10 foot landscape drawing by Ugo Rondinone; a digitally - manipulated photograph of the musician Björk by Inez van Lamsweerde; a small piece by an outsider artist known as the «Philadelphia Wireman,» who carefully bound his drawings up with bits of wire so they are barely visible; a recent charcoal on canvas by Gary Hume; and a 1949 sketchbook by Tony Smith.

Today, the majority of these artists are best known for the large - scale, daring abstractions they created in the 1950s and 1960s, but the careers of each painter featured in the exhibition began to take off in the 1930s and early 1940s, when surrealism still held a central place among the avant - garde.

However, through her work with a group of women artists known as «The Five», af Klint created experimental «automatic drawings» as early as 1896, inspiring her to turn to abstraction.

Artist Inka Essenhigh spent the early years of her career thinking that her fluid, feminine paintings were a no - no.

«I know our esteemed panel of advisors will select an inaugural recipient who is deserving of increased recognition and for whom the award, exhibition, and publication will be transformative — whether they be an early -, mid -, or late - career artist.»

Curator Leah Dickerman should be applauded for guiding the viewers towards so many lesser - known artists and skillfully demonstrating that beyond the super stars of early Modernism (Moholy - Nagy, Kandinsky, Larionov, Delauney, Malevich, Kupka, Hartley, Leger, Mondrian, Picasso, van Doesburg, etc.) stood many others who defined, developed and promoted the innovations of the first decades of the 20th century.

Phillips, an artist best known for his evocative large - format portraits of people at society's fringe, found himself necessarily responsive to those queries warranted by Schutz's painting earlier this year.

Another artist that I mentioned earlier, Nancy Prophet, there are only about a dozen known works of hers so it's very exciting to find a piece of hers in a private collection and bring it to auction.

John Yau offers a tribute to the late painter Michael Mazur, whose early paintings of apes in a zoo were recently exhibited in New York: «This is the kind of challenge that most artists, no matter what the medium, avoid: to confront and stroke difficult subject matter, to be open and sympathetic without trivializing or becoming sentimental.»

This is an early landmark painting by the British artist known for his painterly Pop realism.

For his large retrospective exhibition held earlier this year as the artist turned fifty, he chose to title the exhibition I Don't Know the Mandate of Heaven.

Although, you never know: if you look back at Dorothy Miller's shows, the artists she put in her exhibitions in the late»40s and early»50s included most, if not all, of the great Abstract Expressionists.

«Then, Stettheimer was still known only to insiders,» said Mr. Deitch, who used cellophane curtains and gilded white furniture to evoke the artist's early - 20th - century salon, and juxtaposed Stettheimer's frothy paintings of her illustrious friends with works by Elizabeth Peyton, Jeff Koons and Jane Kaplowitz.

American artist Alex Katz is primarily known for his portraiture that synthesizes a kind of color field abstraction with realism; however, nature is a subject the artist has depicted consistently since the early 1950s.

While the exhibition features all the major pillars of early abstraction, with a loud omission of Georges Braque, the true treasure of this survey are the lesser - known artists.

Know for excellent artists early highlighting Feminism movement — These are current ceramic works by Ann Agee that are inspired by Italian folk pottery and are all unique pieces called Hand Warmers and have a hole in the back to reference their historical precedent.

Alan Cristea Gallery will present early prints by Anni Albers (b. 1899, d. 1994), one of the best - known textile artists of the 20th century.

In the 1980s, a decade when artists commonly appropriated styles or imagery from earlier art historical periods, Mark Innerst became known for beautifully crafted natural and urban landscape paintings that gave new life to the American tradition of the romantic sublime.

While the Japanese artist is best known for orchestrating digital LED counters into richly varied arrangements — strewn across the floor, installed in geometric patterns on walls, even placed on little robotic cars — the works in his recent installation «Totality of Life» span a wider range of media and incorporate a certain humanist dimension that his earlier installations lacked.

Galerie Perrotin began representing two of its most well - known artists, Maurizio Cattelan and Takashi Murakami, very early on in their careers.In 1993, Perrotin brought the works of Maurizio Cattelan — still relatively unknown at that time — to the Yokohoma contemporary art fair, NiCAF.

Topics include his early childhood; his nomadic adventures to places such as Cuba, California, New York, and Florida; his involvement in various galleries with other artists; his work lobbying for artist rights in Washington, D.C.; and details about some of his most best - known works.

IN 1961, early in his career, the Pop artist Claes Oldenburg wrote a manifesto: «I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

At the gallery's 293 Tenth Avenue location, «Robert Motherwell: Early Paintings» examines the lesser - known, experimental abstractions of the artist's pre - «Elegy» years.1 Around the corner at Kasmin's 515 West Twenty - seventh Street venue, «Caro & Olitski: 1965 — 1968, Painted Sculptures and the Bennington Sprays» looks to the personal friendship and creative dialogue between sculptor and painter.2 And finally, up the block at the gallery's 297 Tenth Avenue address, in «The Enormity of the Possible,» the independent curator Priscilla Vail Caldwell brings the first generation of American modernists together with some of the later Abstract Expressionists — Milton Avery, Oscar Bluemner, Charles Burchfield, Stuart Davis, John Marin, Elie Nadelman, and Helen Torr, among others, with Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.3

Although Don Nice is best known for his depictions of contemporary American culture such as candies, soda bottles and branded sneakers, the early watercolor and oil paintings in this exhibition stem from the artist's upbringing on an open range and his love of nature.

Announced earlier this fall, the open call for B Hotel drew over 500 submissions, from both well - known and emerging artists from more than 15 countries.

Artists of earlier generations sought a signature style and produced exhibitions of very similar paintings, and old - school galleries and collectors no doubt still favour this kind of «branding.»

So while Caterpillars on a Leaf (c. 1952) represents (in a charming semi-figurative style of hatched black on yellow) the curling form of the creatures, by the early 1960s the artist was no longer focusing on the world of appearances, jettisoning still - lifes and interiors for paintings of pure feeling.

Name: Thelma Golden Affiliation: The Studio Museum in Harlem (Director and Chief Curator) Known For: Championing early career artists.