Sentences with phrase «last decade of one's 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.

I Late August for my mother, in the last decade of her life, was a time of sadness.

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.

If he had stuck with the Machian approach, Einstein might have attained the all - encompassing «theory of everything» that consumed the last decades of his life.

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.

Despite advances in medicine, many older adults currently still endure ill health for at least the last decade of life.

On a sunny patio over tacos and margaritas, we shared stories of the last decade of our lives.

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.

And it is true that I have spent the last decade of my life documenting that schools with large concentrations of students of color and students from low - income families can achieve at high levels.

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.

VT reader Waffle managed to snag a tour of the two - story apartment where Caesars Palace and Circus Circus founder Jay Sarno spent most of the last decade of his life in.

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.

Born in Kalisz, Poland, in 1926, Szapocznikow studied in Prague and Paris, spent the last decade of her life in France, and created an impressive number of sculptures and drawings that are now defined as post-surrealist and proto - feminist.

Spanning his five - decade career, the exhibition presents aspects of Conner's work that have rarely been seen before, from paintings he made in the 1950s to photos from the Bay Area punk scene in the 1970s to video work from the 2000s, as well as numerous works produced in the last decade of his life.

In the last decade of her life, while Mitchell suffers from cancer, she paints large cycles, such as La Grande Vallée, and concentrates on pastels after her operations (Untitled, 1991).

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.

It was not until the 1960s, the last decade of his life, that he achieved public acclaim for his work.

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

During the last decade of his life, self - taught artist and South Side resident Joseph Yoakum (1890 — 1972) began drawing almost full time.

He could not have chosen a more authentic area to spend the last decades of his life.

A muralist with the government - funded Federal Art Project in the 1930s, an Abstract Expressionist in the 1950s and «60s, and a figurative painter in the last decades of his life, Guston is regarded as a leading figure in the creation of a new style of painting known as Neo-Expressionism.

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.

Arneson worked in series, and in the last decade of his life (he passed away at age 62 from cancer in 1992), he completed a series of works on Pollock, from portraiture to replication of his works.

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.

For the last decade of his life Glasco lived and painted in Galveston.

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.