Sentences with phrase «last decade of his life»

Though lacking the grave specter that shadowed much of the work from the last decade of his life, these songs carry a gravitas that proves that this period was far from creatively fallow for the Man In Black.

She knew Mother for the last decade of her life, and wrote Mother Teresa's Lessons of Love and Secrets of Sanctity.

And to be honest, I do not care how much God deserves glory — if the last decade of my life was just for that purpose, I have no desire to serve, love or worship that god.

During the last decade of her life she epitomised the growing influence of cross benchers in the House of Lords.

A statement on his website revealed that the 62 - year - old, who spent the last decade of his life protesting in Parliament Square, lost his battle with lung cancer early on Saturday morning.

In the last decades of his life, Einstein chose to work far from the madding crowd of quantum enthusiasts.

In the last decade of his life, Lange became interested in increasing access to health care in general — by setting up health insurance plans in Africa, for instance — and driving down poverty.

In the last decade of her life, Hannah Arendt was one of the world's most misunderstood intellectuals.

After falling for the city while shooting a few features here, Romero spent the last decade of his life living in Toronto.

This is a beautifully written tale of a man probably looking at the last decade of his life, who, unexpectedly, has again found love but who is sucked back into a cynical, dangerous milieu he abhors.

During the last decade of his life Monet concentrated exclusively on making his enormous Water Lily paintings, refusing to exhibit them often discouraging collectors from buying them.

Only in the last decade of her life did Neel enjoy wider public recognition.

The show brings together 13 works, dating from 1985 — 1992, that represent Mitchell's exploration of painting in the last decade of her life.

De Kooning's paintings, like those of Picasso, Matisse and Monet before him, reached their ultimate expression only in the last decade of his life.

A careful viewer will realize that Lewis worked on a smaller scale for most of his life owing to the fact that he lived and worked in a small apartment uptown, only reaching towards the larger scale associated with the New York School in the last decade of his life when he moved downtown to a proper artist's studio.

Breitner travelled frequently in the last decades of his life, visiting Paris, London, and Berlin, among other cities, and continued to take photographs.

In this last decade of his life, he produced an astounding body of energetic, masterful paintings.

Rosenberg's best - known art criticism was published in the 1950s and 1960s, but his most prominent post came in the last decade of his life, when he was art critic for the New Yorker.

The Hawaiian people, their culture, music and daily life had a profound effect on him, which inspired several bodies of work spanning the last decade of his life.

But it's also a reminder of why Guston moved on to fleshy, cartoonish figuration in the last decade of his life — this show inadvertently makes the case that abstraction became a dead - end, or perhaps circuitous cul - de-sac, from which Guston desperately needed an exit.

However, in the last decade of his life he cast in bronze forms previously made in less - reflective materials, to discover how a polished finish would change them.

Created during the last decade of her life, these large - scale canvasses mark a distinct departure from her more sombre works of the early 1960s.

In the last decade of his life, he created multicolored works of serial forms, both wall - mounted and free - standing, which reveal an entirely new engagement with color.

In addition to his most important bodies of work, the exhibition will feature aspects of Conner's oeuvre that have rarely been seen before, including paintings from the 1950s, his photographs of punk bands from the 1970s, video work of the 2000s, and a large number of drawings, prints, and collages and media works that he made in the last decade of his life.

Vibrant designs of apparent simplicity spooling from a master's hands in the last decade of his life, each one a tableau of luminosity and power.

Longtime Gagosian Gallery artist Cy Twombly was fairly productive in the last decade of his life, and his dealer has staged many a show of his brilliant final works.

Newman became known as a major painter in the last decade of his life, and his work was an important influence on the practitioners of color - field painting.

Opening: «Cy Twombly» at Gagosian Gallery Longtime Gagosian Gallery artist Cy Twombly was fairly productive in the last decade of his life, and his dealer has staged many a show of his brilliant final works.

In addition to Goldstein's short films, about which much remains to be said, the exhibition also charts Goldstein's serious explorations in sound art, performance, painting, and a kind of neo-Futurist-meets-Fluxus concrete poetry that he produced in the last decade of his life and career.

For the highly charged paintings that Picasso made during the last decade of his life, often featuring close - ups of the kiss or copulation, seem to cling with all their might to the artist's intense sensuality, his desire for embrace.

She spent the last decades of her life (1986 - 2003) in Atlanta, as a professor at Spelman, Morris Brown, Agnes Scott, and the Atlanta College of Art, as well as working as an associate editor at Art Papers.

In the last decade of his life, Gorky's style emerged from under the influence of Picasso and Cezanne, as he established his own abstract expressionist idiom.

Nolan was initially attracted to abstract art - a form he returned to in the last decade of his life - in the manner of Paul Klee (1879 - 1940).

«Examples of Monet's paintings from the last decade of his life, for instance — especially his series of water lilies (1917 - 1919)-- exhibit a spareness and openness comparable to de Kooning's late paintings.

The four oil paintings exhibited in Turin were completed in the last decade of her life.

Later, during the last decades of his life, he would complete the finest sequence of Impressionist landscape painting - his much loved series of Water Lilies (Nymphéas), in his pond at Giverny.

During the last decade of her life, she turned her attention to public sculpture, many in the form of obelisks.

Marks, his dealer in the last decades of his life, called him «a true American original.»

The paintings Joan Mitchell (1925 - 1992) made over the last decade of her life represent a last - ditch effort to grab art by the horns and to hang on for the wild ride, wherever it might take you.

In the last decade of her life, Holt was involved in both creating new works and revisiting her archive to excavate her consistent exploration of perceptual processes.

Not exact matches

Last year, the CDC found that U.S. life expectancy had actually dropped for the first time in more than two decades to an average of 78.8 years and that every major leading cause of death other than cancer was killing more people.

Piles of research over the last two decades has shown that emotional intelligence is likely the single most powerful success factor yet discovered, affecting everything from your performance at work, to your mood and the quality of your personal life.

Much of the truly negative sentiment toward the building has dissipated over the last several decades, but it continues to strike a chord with many Poles, especially the older generation that lived under Soviet rule.

Among them is the service's high operational tempo over the last three decades, enticements from private industry, and frustration with elements of Air Force life.

In the last decade, the tech giant has spent untold millions of dollars measuring nearly every aspect of its employees» lives.

Meanwhile the last decade's rapid economic expansion has yet to filter down to many of the population who continue to live well below the poverty line and whose livelihoods remain at risk from adverse climatic conditions.

At the event in San Francisco last week, Hosain Rahman, chief executive of Jawbone, the maker of the Up, a wrist device that tracks people's energy and sleep, said that «a decade from now we won't be able to imagine life without the wearables that we use to access information, unlock our doors, pay for goods and most importantly track our health.»

In the last decade, our team members have gone through life - changing events, all of which demand work flexibility.

I have faced two official recessions OR you can say a few bubble - pops in the last two decades of my life.

As Stelios now lives between the Principality of Monaco and the island of St Barthelemy (aka St Barts) in the French Caribbean, he has invested over the last decade in a substantial real estate portfolio in these two locations.