Sentences with phrase «living as a commercial artist»

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It will also be the first to explore the complete spectrum of his astonishing artistic output, stretching across five decades from the late 1940's to his untimely death in the 1980's — and the first to put Warhol himself — his background and history, his family life and formative experiences in Pittsburgh, his crucial experiences as a commercial artist in New York, and his trajectory across three of the most transforming decades of the century — back into the presentation of his life.

She has also authored several books on China's contemporary art scene and its history including As Seen 2011: Notable Artworks by Chinese Artists (Beijing World Publishing Corp., 2012 / Commercial Press 2012) and Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant - Garde Art in New China (Scalo, 2006, Timezone 8, 2008).

The model of the hermetic artist - genius in the studio who lives off a stipend from a wealthy commercial gallery and has a museum retrospective by the time she is thirty - five has been replaced by the model of artist as creative opportunity - maker and community - builder.

Marrakech already has an array of artists» residencies, two new fine art schools, local commercial galleries such as Galerie 127, Galerie Noir sur Blanc, and David Bloch Gallery, and the Yves Saint Laurent museum, dedicated to the late French designer who lived between Marrakech and Paris.

Drawing on the legacies of conceptual and commercial photography, these artists pursue a largely studio - based approach to still - life photography that centers on the representation of objects, often printed matter such as books, magazines and record covers.

While some artists, such as Mel Bochner, rejected painting and the sculptural object outright, calling for a «dematerialization» of the art object altogether, Sonnier and Merz collapsed the distinctions between painting and sculpture, employing commercial or industrial materials to tie their work more closely to the life of the street.

1908 - 1911 Fall 1908: moves to Chicago to work as free - lance commercial artist, again living with uncle and aunt, the Tottos.

The Cold War era, the rise of commercial advertising as a dominant force in American life, and the popularity of Hollywood and American cinema provided the backdrop against which both artists developed their highly original and multi-media iconography.

In 1968 - 1970, her commercial gallery, The Art Wheel, represented the best local artists and crafts people, simultaneously Norwegian Caribbean Shipping line contracted her services as a Caribbean artist to paint some 360 works on paper that depicted Caribbean life, characters young and old, scenery, vegetation, flowers and landscapes, that would be permanently mounted on three ships, The MS Starward, MS Skyward and MS Southward — a mammoth and rare commercial undertaking which took her two years to complete.

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).

Works by such Pop artists as the Americans Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Wesselman, James Rosenquist, and Robert Indiana and the Britons David Hockney and Peter Blake, among others, were characterized by their portrayal of any and all aspects of popular culture that had a powerful impact on contemporary life; their iconography — taken from television, comic books, movie magazines, and all forms of advertising — was presented emphatically and objectively, without praise or condemnation but with overwhelming immediacy, and by means of the precise commercial techniques used by the media from which the iconography itself was borrowed.