Sentences with phrase «life painter»

I think I learned to be an artist as a still life painter and then applied that language to the figure.

For the best living painters, see: Best Irish Artists.

This exhibition showcases the experimental practice of arguably the world's most influential living painter.

«I see myself as a still - life painter trying to become an abstract painter,» he has said.

Living painters keep the work of their predecessors in mind, even though the connections can be hard to see.

For me, he was the greatest living painter.

He is, simply, one of the best living painters.

I see myself as a still - life painter trying to become an abstract painter.

Pollock's fame could be seen that year in a bit of nose - thumbing at New York critics by «Life» magazine, when he was featured under the somewhat incredulous headline, «Is this the greatest living painter in America?»

Memorable food paintings of yore include Giuseppe Arcimboldo's portraits (pictured above) from the 1500s, Pieter Claesz and the Dutch still life painters of the 1600s, Caravaggio's rotting fruit, the early Cubist still lifes of Picasso and Braque, Wayne Thiebaud «s desserts from the 1960s, and Andy Warhol's iconic Campbell's Soup Cans.

Walter Tandy Murch, (1907 — 1967) was an important still life painter who until recently it has been very difficult to find information or see many images of his work online but recently I read a terrific essay on his painting: The Recreated Image, Walter Tandy Murch at Sixty, by Winslow Myers This essay has many quotes from Murch and many fascinating biographical details about Walter Murch's art and life.

Ten years later, as a student in Düsseldorf, he cofounded postwar Germany's answer to American Pop art, Capitalist Realism, with fellow artists, among them Gerhard Richter, who had his own MoMA retrospective in 2002 and is currently the world's most expensive living painter at auction.

He met Whiteley in Florence and together they decided to travel to Bologna to visit the studio of the Italian still life painter Giorgio Morandi.

• For more about still life painters like James English, see: Irish Art Guide.

Our early still - life painters worked from one of two imperatives: a scientific approach to describing discrete natural elements as faithfully as possible, or the more painterly approach of rendering entire scenes illusionistically.

Gerhard Richter, perhaps the world's most famous living painter, and Arvo Pärt, the hugely influential composer, have come together to produce two new works dedicated to each other.

You can see shows by living painters at the National Gallery in London, where the collection used to stop with French Impressionism, and at the Louvre.

There's a lot to digest in Phaidon's latest blockbuster compendium Vitamin P3, which profiles 108 of the most important, innovative, and under - appreciated living painters from some 41 countries around the world.

In New York he was affiliated with the Bowery Gallery, where he has had three one - person exhibitions, and since 1997 he has been a member of Zeuxis, a national association of still life painters based in New York.

Groundbreaking articles include its August 8, 1949 issue, in which Life published the controversially - titled article «Jackson Pollock: Is He the Greatest Living Painter in the United States?».

Known as one of the most renowned living painters, he spent most of his childhood in Canada, studied in London, and has settled in Trinidad since 2002.

The museum is the architectural translation of the oeuvre of France's best - known living painter, Pierre Soulages.

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.

• For the top living painters in Ireland, see: Best Irish Artists.

He remains the only living painter besides Jasper Johns who has been honored with two major exhibitions at the museum.

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).

If one asked an arts journalist to identify a major living painter or sculptor, playwright or choreographer, composer or poet, who was a practicing Catholic, the critic, I suspect, would be unable to offer a single name.

His daughter, still - life painter Rachel Ruysch, would often decorate preserved limbs with lace.

while also reveling in a maximalist kaleidoscopic bounty that would make a Dutch still - life painter blush.

There's nothing quite so treacherous as the posthumous retrospective of a long - lived painter whose chief contribution to art came decades before his death.

The class is taught by the renowned contemporary still life painter Amy Weiskopf, who will select up to 25 students by portfolio application.

In turn, Scully's extensive run of exhibitions worldwide reflects the journey taken by this remarkable artist as he earned his title as one of the world's most accomplished living painters.

«Painting pictures of objects from the most ordinary of worlds — the table, the kitchen, the grocery store — allows me to look at these objects long and differently,» The still - life painter writes.

The paintings of the earliest American still - life painters Raphaelle Peale and Joseph Biays Ord have a distinctly North American feel.

Merian was encouraged to paint at a young age by her stepfather and still life painter Jacob Marrel.

Yet, even at a time when some Europeans considered him America's foremost living painter, Tobey was comparatively neglected at home, his reputation overshadowed by the younger, more muscular practitioners of Abstract Expressionism — Pollock, Kline and de Kooning foremost among them.

We're excited to learn that two works by Houston still life painter Sarah Lamb are on view in the exhibition Two Centuries of American Still - Life Painting: The Frank and Michelle Hevrdejs Collection, which traces the history of American still - life painting in the United States over the course of nearly 200 years.

On the other hand, Gerhard Richter, who was born in 1932 in Dresden, has been a prominent figure in European painting scene since the «50s, and has many times exceeded his own records as the world's highest - paid living painter.

It seems among living painters in France, I am now the second - best seller; only Pierre Soulages sells for more.

This month the young artist will be showing some new and older works at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in a two - person exhibition with surreal still - life painter Ginny Casey.

Undoubtedly the most prominent living painter of our era, Gerhard Richter's assent to the top having left East Germany as a student has been nothing short of meteoric.

Frank Auerbach @ Tate Britain Arguably Britain's greatest living painter puts on a retrospective with his trademark thick painterly style.

As of 2004 Vicari was Britain's richest living painter and, at one point, Britain 18th richest person with a net worth of $ 142 million.