Sentences with phrase «mark of a true artist»

Still, the mark of a true artist is they need not a vocational requirement to make art, its simply what they do.

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That is, he understood the vocation of every true thinker to be much the same as the vocation of the true poet, or of any true artist: to bear witness to that haunting and penumbral interval that marks the difference between being and beings, and to attempt to keep it open in our thoughts and our words and our works.

Mark is an example of the whinny wannabe artist who lacks the talent or the drive to be a true artist.

If the movie - trailer business has a reigning visionary, a true artist of the medium, it's Mark Woollen.

«The Wolf of Wall Street» If the mark of a truly significant artist is their ability to continually provoke and outrage viewers in their later years instead of falling into a complacent rut, then Scorsese once again proved himself to be a provocateur for the ages with this jaw - dropping, eye - popping depiction of the true story of a crafty little weasel (Leonardo Di Caprio in what now stands as the performance of his career) who created a billion dollar empire out of selling crappy penny stocks and subsequently rode it into the ground in a blaze of greed, hubris and more cocaine than «Scarface» and «Boogie Nights» combined.

As the art critic and historian Peter Plagens reminds us in this excerpt from Phaidon's Bruce Nauman: The True Artist, however, Nauman nevertheless managed to leave his mark on the New York art scene of the 1960s with his gamechanging performance videos.

Previously Van Eck worked 13 years as a curator at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago organizing more than 70 exhibitions and programs including Theaster Gates first solo museum exhibition, Kiss by Tino Sehgal, Jan Tichy's Cabrini Green, Mark Bradford's Chicago residency and exhibition, and many other exhibitions which featured Chicago artists including Kerry James Marshall's One True Thing: Black Aesthetics.

It was at the Musée d'art Moderne de la ville de Paris that the New York dealer Fergus McCaffrey (who has made his mark on the recent international landscape by showing artists such as Sigmar Polke and activists from the Japanese Gutaï movement) discovered the true breadth of her work.

Curated by Matthew Higgs, Director of White Columns, New York and author and film - maker Jon Savage with archivist Johan Kugelberg, True Faith is centred on four decades» worth of extraordinary contemporary works from artists including Julian Schnabel, Jeremy Deller, Liam Gillick, Mark Leckey, Glenn Brown and Slater Bradley, all directly inspired by the two groups.

Today, he is widely known as a true giant of the American contemporary art scene, an artist who has a significant mark of his own.

The years before the demise of the Nationalist Party in 1949 were marked by the artists such as Fu Baoshi, Huang Binhong, Qi Baishi, and Zhang Daqian, who was an expert forger, who achieved the status of a true master, and one of the finest examples of his oeuvre is the uncompleted panorama Mount Lu.

Indeed, if it is true that «every picture tells a story», one feels that Hopper's simple but unique genre - paintings will continue to be meaningful long after the intellectual modernism of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and later contemporary artists, has faded into history.

His incorporation of time - based technologies with paint and canvas — which other artists at the time found too conventional — mark Colmer as a true innovator in his field.