Sentences with phrase «leading painters like»

As the managing partner of the Werner gallery — which represents leading painters like Peter Doig, Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff, and the late Sigmar Polke, as well as the newcomer Michael Williams, and has outposts in New York, London, and Märkisch Wilmersdorf, Germany, and a project space in Berlin — he is rarely at home.

An impulse for self - expression and freedom from the constraints of the rational world led painters like Willem de Kooning (1904 - 1997) and Arshile Gorky (1904 - 1948) to Abstract Expressionism.

Not exact matches

Like the phrase «mad as a hatter,» which was caused by mercury toxicity, another, «crazy as a painter,» referred to the toxic effects of lead in paint.

Boccioni was leading editor of the famous «Manifesto of Futurist Painters», cooperating with other Futurist artists like Carra, Severini and Russolo.

I can attest that small art fairs and cafes don't always lead to the greatest sales, but being a painter, it only takes one or two people who really like what they see to turn the tables and make things profitable.

Larry Groff: What lead you to become a painter and what were your early years like as a student and young artist?

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Like Graham, Pavel Tchelitchew, one of the leading neo-Romantic painters of the 1920s, focused on the introspective nature of his sitters, and although he favored subjects known to him, he often captured acrobats, dancers and circus performers.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

That's what I saw in them — they were some of the ideas that painters might have been thinking of but he was also capturing what some of the sculptors were doing in terms of process, someone like Barry Le Va, or Richard Serra with his thrown - lead pieces.

I was a product of my environment, heavily influenced and inspired by my friends — mostly artists and musicians — like Patrick Abbey, a painter; Thomas Lauderdale, a musician and lead of Pink Martini; and Chris Stark, a photographer.

Albers left Germany for the US in 1933, with her husband, the painter Josef Albers, to teach at the new Black Mountain College, North Carolina, and make fabrics for design - led companies like Knoll and Rosenthal.

Praised for his jewel - like landscapes, park scenes, and sympathetic images of women, William Merritt Chase (1849 — 1916) was a leading American Impressionist painter and an influential teacher in the late 19th century.

He collected canvases by El Greco, because he considered him the first passionate expressionist; Jean Chardin, whom he saw as the first modern painter; Goya, because he was the link between the Old Masters and the post-Impressionists like Paul Cezanne; and Edouard Manet because his work, too, led to great moderns like Paul Gauguin and the Fauvist Henri Matisse.

One of the leading Abstract Expressionist figure painters was Willem de Kooning (1904 - 97), whose Woman series - begun by works like Seated Woman (1944, Metropolitan Museum of Art)- included Marilyn Monroe (1954).

A small - town boy from Nebraska, the son of a farmer and a truck driver, might not seem like a likely candidate for becoming one of New York's leading abstract painters in the 1960s.

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).

Since then it has organized 16 exhibitions ranging from works by leading 20th - century artists like George Grosz and Martin Kippenberger, to younger generation artists such as the painters Oliver Clegg and Adrian Ghenie.

Known as the «pope of modern art», Read became Britain's leading interpreter of abstract paintings and abstract sculpture during the three decades 1930 - 1960, championing a number of modern artists like the painter Paul Nash (1889 - 1946) and the leaders of modern British sculpture like Jacob Epstein (1880 — 1959), Henry Moore (1898 - 1986), Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982), Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975) and Anthony Caro (1924 - 2013).

Instead, he was more affected by the Barbizon style landscape painting of the Dutch painter Anton Mauve (1838 - 88), a leading member of the Neo-Romanticist Hague School, and by rural realists like Jean - Francois Millet (1814 - 75).

By the early 1980s, a group of avant - garde 20th century painters known as the United Graffiti Artists (UGA), founded in 1972 by Hugo Martinez, had expanded its membership to include many of the leading graffiti taggers and sprayers, with a view to showing works in official venues, like the Razor Gallery.

Other leading members of this plein air painting movement included members of the school of English landscape painting, such as John Constable (1776 - 1837) and Richard Parkes Bonington (1802 - 28), as well as French painters like Theodore Rousseau (1812 - 67), Camille Corot (1796 - 1875), Narcisse Diaz de la Pena (1808 - 1876), Charles - Francois Daubigny (1817 - 1878), Jules Dupre (1811 - 1889), Joseph Harpignies (1819 - 1916), Constant Troyon (1810 - 1865), Charles - Emile Jacque (1813 - 1894), Antoine - Louis Barye (1796 - 1875), Albert Charpin, Felix Ziem and Alexandre De Faux.

Many younger artists returned to observation around that time, but her exploration did not lead toward the abstract realism of painters like William Bailey or Janet Fish, where objects are rendered in great three - dimensional specificity, but to the creation of an alternate universe of «realist» abstraction.

Sometimes painters paint more about what they want the scene to look like than what they see, but everyone's personality leads them to focus on different aspects of the scene.

Three leading contemporary painters will rely on the upcoming show at Seattle Art Museum to tell the tale of what it's like being an African - American.

Phillips collected works by masters such as El Greco, calling him the «first impassioned expressionist»; Jean - Baptiste - Siméon Chardin because he was «the first modern painter»; Francisco Goya because he was «the stepping stone between the Old Masters and the Great Moderns like Cézanne»; and Édouard Manet, a «significant link in a chain which began with Goya and which [led] to Gauguin and Matisse».