Sentences with phrase «many of the great painters»

Thinking of Michal Williams, sitting alone in the apartment, and reading these poems, I suddenly thought of another twentieth - century disaster - marriage, that of the great painter Stanley Spencer, whose visions of Christianity led him to paint the general resurrection in the small - town churchyard of Cookham, and whose Christ was a working - class Englishman of 1930s vintage.

Many times I have laughed about the holiness feeling, the candles, the dim light, the smell of incense, accompanied by the art and expression of great painters who were more atheist that many of us here yet their work of art are hung on famous temples or cathedrals around the world.

He has made a remarkable film about the artistic process of the great painter and sculptor Giacometti, with a stunning cast led by Geoffrey Rush.

Renoir was a formalist and was exploring what it meant to be the son of a great painter, how to understand reality from a visual perspective, and how the position of the camera can be the position of the painter.

This is, of course, the way many of the greatest painters in the world were taught their craft.

A haunting novel of rivalry, love, and betrayal that transports readers back to Renaissance Italy, Leonardo's Swans will have you dashing to the works of the great painter — not for clues to a mystery but to contemplate the secrets of the human heart.

Two of the greatest painters in European art history are Dutch.

When I think of a great painter using pink, Philip Guston comes to mind; in his works pink becomes a subversive color.

It's latest record million dollar sale price acknowledges what many have recognized for decades — Marshall is one of the great painters of his generation and his approach, «Blackness in the Extreme» (as he titled his Nov. 12 lecture at the Crystal Bridges Museum), resonates narratively and aesthetically.

It seems as if there's an element of collaboration or material - sharing among all the artists in the show, which sounds more promising than it usually would based on the list of great painters here, which includes Nicholas Cueva and Joshua Bienko.

Tompkins and Ofili visit the Museum of Modern Art in New York together, where the artist declares the work of Jasper Johns «chilling,» adding that, «He's certainly one of the great painters.»

This exhibition reasserts Giacometti's place alongside the likes of Matisse, Picasso and Degas as one of the great painter - sculptors of the 20th century.

Posterity has taken a rather different view, and Guston is now regarded as one of the great painters of his generation.

DQ: I'll be part of «Painting the Periphery,» a group exhibition curated by Aubrey Levinthal and including a bunch of great painters, at Millersville University starting December 3rd and running until February 7th.

She is one of the greatest painters ever — by way of Van Gogh, Cézanne, and on into pure abstraction.

Gerhard Richter, one of the greatest painters of our time, discusses beauty in the era of the internet.

To commemorate the four - hundredth anniversary of the death of El Greco, the Metropolitan Museum and the Hispanic Society of America are pooling their collections of the work of this great painter to provide a panorama of his art unrivaled outside the Museo del Prado in Madrid.

The sheer amount of work is fantastic, combining gracefully to reveal moments in the life of one of the greatest painters in the twentieth century.

«Stuart Davis has been called one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century and the best American artist of his generation, his art hailed as a precursor of the rival styles of pop and geometric color abstraction,» remarks Barbara Haskell.

Following in the footsteps of the great painter - sculptors Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, Bates's work in sculpture expanded his expressive range and had a profound impact on his work in other media.

Only that you are one of the great painters of our time.»

This concentrated look at a significant body of rarely seen work sheds new light on one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century.

See why in this survey of a great painter of modern life.

From the press release: To commemorate the four - hundredth anniversary of the death of El Greco, the Metropolitan Museum and the Hispanic Society of America are pooling their collections of the work of this great painter to provide a panorama of his art unrivaled outside the Museo del Prado in Madrid.

I still think that Bill de Kooning is one of the greatest painters in the world.

In a group of paintings by Tong Hongsheng, the artist applies the techniques of Vermeer — universally acclaimed as one of the greatest painters in Western art history — to traditional Tibetan Buddhist subjects, an intriguing twist considering that whole political can of worms.

In the same tradition of great painters who settled in the Hamptons during the winter months to work without interruption and take advantage of the large spaces and one of the most beautiful lights of the Northeast (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell are just a few who come to mind), Kawai and her husband, photographer Justin Waldron, set camp in a modernist - style home and adjacent studio in East Hampton.

The exhibition shed new light on two of the greatest painters in history.

The private art collections of great painters reveal an enthralling continuity of vision going back centuries

While consistently bohemian in her own appearance and lifestyle (she had three children by three different fathers), Neel was also, in Walker's view, one of the great painters of the changing fashions of the 20th century.

Almost two decades have passed since the emergence of the great painters of the New York School, and a good deal of critical analysis has seen its way to print.

«Our terrific showing was bolstered by a world - record price for Mark Bradford's Helter Skelter I, an astonishing work by one of the greatest painters of our time.

13 Feb 2018 IMMA Collection: Freud Project 2016 - 2021: Two new paintings by Lucian Freud join work by Emily Dickinson, Sigmund Freud and John Berger in a new exhibition at IMMA curated by Irish artist Daphne Wright Tuesday, 13 February, 2018: Minister for Culture, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan T.D., was in IMMA to preview The Ethics of Scrutiny, curated by Daphne Wright, the second exhibition to be presented as part of the ground - breaking IMMA Collection: Freud Project - a five - year loan of 52 works by renowned artist Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011); one of the greatest painters of the 20th - century.

His depictions of people and the urban landscapes near his London studio show him to be one of the greatest painters alive today.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art because it was abstract, not figurative.

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«Together with Twombly's cycle of paintings The Four Seasons 1993 - 5, acquired in 2002, this gives an enduring place in London to the work of one of the great painters of the second half of the 20th Century.»

In what is arguably one of the most ambitious exhibitions to be held at Moderna Museet, three of the greatest painters of the last 200 years are brought together, not in competition, but as a means to explore the ways in which artists across the centuries share interests, values and preoccupations.

Charles Lapicque Original Handsigned Lithograph Dimensions: 56 x 38 cm Edition: EA 19/20 Hand Signed Charles Lapicque was one of the great painters of the «Ecole de Paris» and of...

Barnett Newman is one of the great painters who backs the show at the Whitney as the quintessence of American creativity.

Opening on April 19 and on view throughout the summer, Richard Pousette - Dart: Painting / Light / Space invites visitors to immerse themselves in a group of mural - sized canvases by one of the great painters of the New York School.

Roy Lichtenstein's Frolic, 1977, (estimate: $ 4 - 7 million), was inspired by his own 1962 painting, Girl with Ball, by ads and comic books, and by one of the greatest painters in art history — Pablo Picasso.

One of the great painters of our time returns to the iPad for a special collection of works done in Yosemite in 2010 and 2011.

British artist Francis Bacon is one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century.

One of the great painters of our time, Kerry James Marshall, has a brilliant exhibition opening at MCA Chicago on April 23, 2016, a collection of work from the last 35 years.

It is this unique ability that marks Doig as one of the greatest painters of his generation.

Frize followed the footsteps of great painters like Piet Mondrian and Barnett Newman as he reconsidered the medium's potential by starting from scratch.

15 Feb 2018 02 Sep 2018 IMMA Collection: Freud Project, The Ethics of Scrutiny, curated by artist Daphne Wright The Ethics of Scrutiny, curated by artist Daphne Wright, is the second exhibition to be presented as part of the IMMA Collection: Freud Project - a five - year loan of 52 works by renowned artist Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011); one of the greatest painters of the 20th - century.

Tuesday, 13 February, 2018: Minister for Culture, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan T.D., was in IMMA to preview T he Ethics of Scrutiny, curated by Daphne Wright, the second exhibition to be presented as part of the ground - breaking IMMA Collection: Freud Project - a five - year loan of 52 works by renowned artist Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011); one of the greatest painters of the 20th - century.

The work is the solution to a problem that perplexed and defeated many of the great painters of the nineteenth century: how do you paint a mighty canvas outside, en plein air?