Sentences with phrase «like sign painters»

In an interview, the artist said, «If you paint it on glass, you can paint the line and then you can put the color on in back, you know like sign painters do... the line remains very crisp.»

Sometimes I treat pattern tightly, like a sign painter, and sometimes sensuously.

Not exact matches

«The title of the film is taken from the way van Gogh would sign his letters — especially to his brother — as «Your loving Vincent,»» says Kobiela, who like the Dutch painter has struggled with depression.

In the 1970s, you'd bring out your best iron, pay a sign painter a few bucks to letter up a placard, and stand somebody like Joe Higgins, the Sheriff of Scat County next to it all day.

Tàpies moved on to create symbolic paintings that were influenced by Surrealist painters like Miro and Klee, and by the 1950s he had developed his signature style, which consisted of built - up surfaces that were scratched, pitted, gouged, and carved with letters, numbers, and signs.

Renaissance painting, [especially early Renaissance northern Italian painters, specifies Stonehouse], contemporary painters like Leon Golub and Anselm Kiefer, magic realist writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Day of the Dead imagery, movie posters from Ghana, West African barber shop signs...»

As an avid collector of Pop, Op and Abstract Expressionists — including works by fellow artist (and sign painter) Robert Indiana, Frank Stella, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Motherwell, Gerald Laing and others — Gallery Director is a role that fits Bill Pugsley like a vintage Zoot Suit.

Mr. Tàpies (pronounced TAH - pee - ess) came to prominence in the late 1940s with richly symbolic paintings strongly influenced by Surrealist painters like Miró and Klee, a style he abandoned by the mid-1950s as he turned to what became his signature work: the heavily built - up surfaces that were often scratched, pitted and gouged and incised with letters, numbers and signs.

Calling himself «the American painter of signs», he began to focus his attention on the reality / unreality of American society in pictures like: The American Dream I (1961, MOMA, New York).

So if you really love a painter like Laura Owens, who just recently had a solo show at the Whitney, but you can't afford her paintings (which have sold at auction for upwards of $ 1.755 million), buying a signed and dated Laura Owens print for $ 1,800 is a great alternative.