Sentences with phrase «literary artists such»

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The great task of all literary artists is to show others their vision, posing it in such a way that others may say: Yes, this is true, this is a part of my life, this is valid for my life.

Artists and literary authors have also inspired biographical film epics, such as two films from Vincente Minnelli.

The center hosts exhibitions by up - and - coming Haitian artists such as Jean Brierre and discussions by literary stars, including Edwidge Danticat.

The exhibition presents more than 300 artifacts from the Beniecke Rare Books & Manuscript Library's James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters, including materials from intellectual and literary figures, and artists such as Aaron Douglas, Augusta Savage, James Van Der Zee, and Laura Wheeler Waring.

In his most recent body of work, Santiago reimagines the history and story of the Black Knight that figured in several Renaissance paintings and literary accounts, such as the one depicted in the painting Chafariz d'el Rey, c. 1570 - 80 (artist unknown).

, García will stage a new iteration of several ongoing performance works stemming from texts written by the artist, by others following the protocols given by the artist, or utilising and responding to iconic literary texts such as James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

The title, The Course of Human History Personified, is borrowed from the poet Dante and recalls both grandiose artistic and literary cycles from the nineteenth century such as the New York Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole's five - painting The Course of Empire of 1836, where nature plays as large a role as humans.

Invested in the artistic practices of both conceptualism and abstraction, his influences include literary figures such as Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright as well as artists such as Norman Lewis, Sam Gilliam, and Alma Thomas.

The recent works which will be shown were produced in a Buenos Aires inspired by writer Jorge Luis Borges, a result of the time the artist spent visiting literary spaces — such as the National Library of Argentina or a second hand bookstore, and generally experiencing the city in itself.

As such, the artist's life and work can be said to constitute a living archive composed of political events, photographs, letters, and literary texts that serve as a source of inspiration and represent a continuation of his oeuvre.

[3] Aside from admiring the paintings of American and European masters, the artist draws inspiration from the work of literary greats, such as Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, and Ezra Pound.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the artist took as inspiration for his work literary sources such as Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

Grounded in literary sources such as Poe and Mallarmé, his work reflects the artist's psychoanalytic research and features an imaginative interpretation of esoteric sciences, especially alchemy.

Thus, instead of focusing on individual creative disciplines (such as painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography), and attaching overriding importance to individual works of art, Fluxus artists worked together in order to blend different artistic genres (visual, literary and musical) into a number of «events», involving installation art, conceptualism, happenings and photography as well as various types of performance art.

Inspired by literary precedents such as automatic writing, by the resourcefulness of the bricoleur making do with what is at hand, and by the openness toward chance that all artistic production under severe constraint must necessarily incorporate, Cabinet's series invites a number of distinguished authors and artists to be incarcerated in its gallery space to complete a project from start to finish within 24 hours.