Sentences with phrase «lived painter whose»

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.

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David and Goliath is so compelling because the points are made through the incredible true stories of real - life underdogs and «giants»: the man whose emotionally stunted single - mindedness enabled breakthroughs in leukaemia treatment; the French painters who chose to go outside the established art system that rejected them, and ended up launching the Impressionist movement.

Synopsis: This is the true story of Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) and her husband Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), the larger - than - life painters who became the most acclaimed artists in Mexican history, and whose tempestuous love affair, landmark journeys to America, and outrageous personalities made them legendary.

Maudie is the largely true story of a Canadian painter whose work was so exuberant, you'd never guess at the difficult life she lived.

The live - action teaser saw Ryan Reynolds» Deadpool take on the role of a painter whose mannerisms were inspired by famed entertainer Bob Ross.

Those in the running include Ghanaian - British multi-media artist Amartey Golding whose film Chainmail throws light over cultural behaviours towards race, gender and sexuality, while channelling the darkness of El Greco and Goya; Dutch fine art photographer Isabelle van Zeijl who blends the techniques and idioms of the Old Masters with present - day aesthetics to create striking self - portraits; British print - maker John Phillips whose eerie still lifes are created from over 1,000 separate photographs; and American painter Lucy Beecher Nelson who reinvents 15th century Italian marriage portraits.

Boucher introduces Lotto as «an outlier in Italian Renaissance art, a portrait painter capable of capturing the soul on canvas, a man whose religious art struck a note of sincerity in an age bound by ritual and dogma, a figure overshadowed in life by Titian and Raphael and condemned to poverty and relative failure in his own day.»

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.

Yves Klein (1928 — 1962), was a conceptual artist par excellence, a radical, utopian dreamer described by the French critic, Pierre Restany as «a painter, but also infinitely more: a believer living in his own sense of the divine», whose diverse practice included ephemeral works in his quest for immateriality.

Katherine Sophie Dreier is better remembered today as a propagandist for modernism, and a patron, co-conspirator, and possible intimate partner of Marcel Duchamp's; she was, however, a life - long painter whose pre-Armory experiences took her to Europe, where she was galvanized by the work of Vincent Van Gogh.

Johnston, the heart of the exhibition, was a geographically sequestered yet ambitious painter whose renderings of life on the homestead embody aspects of the Canadian canon and the peculiar sensitivity of women artists who practiced outside of established norms.

The 82 - year - old painter, who has lived most of his life in northern France near the Belgian border, has pursued his distinctive if somewhat conservative painting style for at least three decades, working for months and sometimes years on canvases whose paint surfaces are so obsessively thick that their images — mostly nudes, heads and still lifes — are virtually obliterated.

Rounding off a fine season of modern American art, which has seen stellar exhibitions at the Royal Academy and the British Museum, White Cube presents a retrospective of the works of Wayne Thiebaud, considered one of the US's greatest living painters and whose work has been shown all - too infrequently this side of the Atlantic in recent decades.

Often praised by critics as the painter whose still lifes revived realism in the 1970's, Fish has always followed her instincts that separated her from the popular Abstract Expressionist's stream that evidently showed as a good decision.

Author Francine Prose, in the first installment of her four - part series «The Lives of the Artists,» weaves a tale of a Venetian painter whose artistic talent is as much a curse as it is a gift.

[266] Contemporary painters include Lucian Freud, whose work Benefits Supervisor Sleeping in 2008 set a world record for sale value of a painting by a living artist.

A British painter whose harrowing, anguished paintings and infamously licentious personal life have provided endless fodder for movie - makers, scholars, and artists alike, Francis Bacon has achieved the stature of a contemporary - art legend — all the more so now that his triptych portrait of his friend Lucian Freud made headlines when it sold for $ 142.4 million at Christie's, making it the priciest artwork to ever go under the hammer.

Clare Torina is a painter whose compositions might include elements of naïve still life, patterning, cartoon - like illustration, and provisional painting.

At several places in the building, the Hamburger Bahnhof currently exhibits an artist whose work and life can not be separated from one another — a painter, an actor, a writer, a musician, a drunkard, a dancer, a traveller, a charmer, an enfant terrible and self - producer — in short, an «exhibitionist» as he called himself and an artist who today is considered one of the most significant of his generation.

Carmen Lomas Garza is a painter whose work is a record of the Chicana / o life she knew growing up in Kingsville, Texas, in the 1950s and 60s.

An article last Thursday about a former synagogue in which the painter Milton Resnick lived misspelled the middle name of an author whose works are in the home.

Next spring, however, the gallery will return to its roots with a major retrospective dedicated to Patrick Heron, a British painter who lived and worked in nearby Zennor, and whose exuberant stained glass window greets visitors in the lobby.

Mr. Currin isn't an Old Master, of course — he's a living, breathing painter whose depictions of women have earned accolades from no less a scholarly resource than Juggs magazine.

For the last couple of years, Tacita Dean has also been living in LA, where she got to know the painter, whose portrait of Dean's son Rufus hangs in the blurry distance of Dean's filmed portrait of Hockney.

«I can think of no other painters whose commitment to art and their artistic community was as strong as that of James Brooks and Charlotte Park in the decades that they lived on the East End,» stated Alicia G. Longwell, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator at the Parrish.

«High and Low Life in the Netherlands of the 17th Century,» at Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts, is a generous — maybe too generous — mélange of still lifes, genre painting, landscapes, religious and historical works whose best - known artists include the still - life specialist Pieter Claesz, the fantasy landscapist Joos de Momper and the genre painter Dirck Hals, brother of the celebrated FrLife in the Netherlands of the 17th Century,» at Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts, is a generous — maybe too generous — mélange of still lifes, genre painting, landscapes, religious and historical works whose best - known artists include the still - life specialist Pieter Claesz, the fantasy landscapist Joos de Momper and the genre painter Dirck Hals, brother of the celebrated Frlife specialist Pieter Claesz, the fantasy landscapist Joos de Momper and the genre painter Dirck Hals, brother of the celebrated Frans.

There are not many living artists whose every new work you would always want to see, but so it is with Thomas Scheibitz, a painter and sculptor born in East Germany in 1968 whose work is gorgeous, original, exquisitely made and highly intelligent: a chain of stars in perfect alignment.

The Life of Images offers a sweeping retrospective of a visionary photo painter whose work continues to resonate

By contrast, painter, printmaker and the first woman to be elected as Keeper of the Royal Academy, Eileen Cooper, whose work encompasses themes of sexuality, motherhood, life and death, presents a series of intimate new paintings and a new portrait of Constance Spry, who was a lover of Gluck's.

Mike Cloud is a New York based painter whose work examines the conditions of painting in its contemporary life among countless reproductions, symbols and descriptions.

LIU Xiaodong is a painter of modern life, whose large - scale works serve as a kind of history painting for the emerging world.

Hugh Steers: The Complete Paintings, is the first monograph focused on the career of American figurative painter Hugh Steers (1962 - 1995), whose life was cut short by AIDS, at the age of 32.

Travess Smalley (b. 1986, West Virginia, USA, lives and works in New York) is a painter and printmaker whose practice involves blurring the lines between the digital and the physical through prints, sculptures, and books.

Born in Kisumu, Kenya in 1987, Onyis Martin is a young painter and mixed media artist living and working in Nairobi whose practice is rapidly gaining national and international recognition.

Johns is known — too narrowly — by the public as an originator of pop art, while Kelly is an abstract painter whose work is often misperceived as oblivious to the issues of contemporary life.

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Juan Gris, Spanish painter whose lucidly composed still lifes are major works of the style called Synthetic Cubism.

to the site dedicated to the life and work of Louis VAN LINT (Brussels 1909 - Kraainem 1986), a key Belgian painter whose plastic creation stretches for fifty years through the heart of the twentieth century.

Roberta Smith reports in the NY Times: «Alan Uglow, an abstract painter of light - filled geometries whose expansive fields, bordered with notched lines, reflected in part his passion for soccer, died on Jan. 20 in Manhattan, where he lived.

Famed before the French Revolution as painter to the court of Marie Antoinette, Anne Vallayer - Coster was a star still - life artist whose exquisite portraits of fruits and flowers, books and musical instruments were favorably compared to the work of the master, Chardin.

Such an artistic upbringing instilled in Chiara a unique sensibility — reserved and determined, fragile and audacious — which she expresses in her documentary films about artists she admires: the painter Brice Marden; the architect Frank Gehry; and the group of women artists of different generations — Nancy Spero, Marina Abramovic, Kiki Smith, Ghada Amer, and Swoon — whose lives she chronicled in Our City Dreams (2008), which won her international critical acclaim.

His preference for natural settings in his later paintings perhaps reflects the belated influence of the American Pre-Raphaelite movement, whose adherents — many of them still - life painters — followed influential English art critic John Ruskin's teachings of fidelity to nature.

A budding painter could sit in this booth for weeks and glean a lifetime of learning from this master, whose life was tragically cut short because of a heroin overdose.

But when I propose the idea to the Los Angeles painter Njideka Akunyili Crosby, 33, whose work borrows heavily from everyday life in Enugu, Nigeria, where she grew up, she hesitates.

The Turner Prize is named after the great 19th - century British painter J.M.W. Turner, whose expressive seascapes gave way in later life to impressionistic, even abstract work.

The gallery exhibits a diverse roster of established and emerging artists, representing more than thirty painters whose styles span the spectrum from realism to abstraction, through landscape and still lifes, specializing in Virginia landscape paintings.

Herb Alpert has spent more than half his life as a respected abstract expressionist painter and sculptor, whose work has been widely exhibited in the States and Europe.

Yinka Shonibare, MBE (b. 1962) is a painter, photographer, filmmaker, and installation artist whose work is influenced by the culture of Nigeria, where he grew up, and England, where he studied and now lives.

A painter whose focus was on the interaction of color, technique and the enjoyment of making art, his family continues to live in The Hamptons.

For example, Edward Hopper, famous for chronicling New York urban life, is also a painter whose own subjectivity and imagination are integral to his work.