Sentences with phrase «leading living painters»

The Contemporary Painters Series is a new, curated series of accessible, authoritative and highly illustrated monographs on the world's leading living painters, which locates painting as a vibrant and vital part of contemporary art.

In the catalogue for his famous 1964 show at the Fogg, at Harvard, Michael Fried announced that the leading living painters were three white men, all New Yorkers.

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As we swing back and forth with Turner's way of life, we follow wherever his inner compass leads us; the Academy of fellow painters, most of whom revere his work; the cliffs and hillsides overlooking the greatest object of his eye's desire, the tumultuous seas; and a quaint little place he keeps finding inspiration in called Margate.

The painter Jane Freilicher, whose airy, radiantly colored still lifes and landscapes made her a leading light of the 1950s New York School and one the great representational artists of postwar America, died on Tuesday in New York.

Many highlighted the artist's role as a member of The Eight, a group led by Robert Henri, an influential teacher and painter who encouraged American artists to portray subjects from daily life.

Jonathan Cooper Park Walk Gallery celebrates 15 years of partnership with the still life painter James Gillick, and presents 19 loaned works spanning his career (11 June — 4 July), while new works by leading Venetian glassmaker Lino Tagliapietra are on show at Mallett (until 4 July).

Larry Groff: What are some of your most important influences or events that lead you to become a still life painter?

A painter often leads a solitary life, alone in the studio while others are with friends, lovers, and family.

Nancy Natale tells a captivating story about how a comment on her blog led to a real life meeting with Veronique Lindenberg, the niece of painter Hedda Sterne.

Though she was the lone female Ab - Ex painter to pose for that famous «Irascibles» photograph, Sterne was virtually unknown for most of her life, but her work enjoyed a very slow, modest rise in recognition in the years leading up to her death in 2011.

For 20 years, against the better judgment of his Russian - Jewish immigrant family, Louis led a quiet life as a Cubist painter.

Peter Blume, a leading modern American painter, lived in Sherman, Connecticut amidst an international artistic community.

Sales for leading painters Elizabeth Peyton and Xu Lele, and sculptor Cady Noland — who holds the price record for a living woman artist at $ 6.6 million — have climbed more than 3,000 percent in five years.

Leading Pop artist James Rosenquist — who came to prominence among New York School figures like Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Willem de Kooning — is well known for his large - scale, fragmented works that bring the visual language of commercial painting onto canvas (notably, from 1957 - 60, Rosenquist earned his living as a billboard painter).

Specialist still life artists included: Frans Snyders (1579 - 1657), who is noted for still lifes of dead game and meat, crammed with religious allusions and moral pointers; Harmen van Steenwyck (1612 - 56), the leading vanitas painter; Willem Claesz Heda (1594 - 1681), an exponent of monochrome banketje; Pieter Claesz (1597 - 1660), a specialist in ontbijtjes (breakfast still lifes); Jan Davidsz de Heem (1606 - 83) and Willem Kalf (1619 - 93), who specialized in decorative still lifes; Samuel Van Hoogstraten (1627 - 78), whose speciality was interiors with deep linear perspective; and Rachel Ruysch (1664 - 1750), arguably the greatest ever female flower painter.

Not an easy person to know and be around, the leading Post-Impressionist painter sought friends for the majority of his life, finding very little success.

One of America's leading Impressionist painters, Mary Cassatt spent most of her life living in Europe, and trained in Paris.

Ann Gale is a leading American figurative painter living in Seattle.