Sentences with phrase «modern artists»

What a thing to feel, in front of «the greatest modern artist who ever lived»!

The lessons focus on Christian marks, Ancient marks and some created by modern artists.

The 20th century was the stage for some of the greatest modern artists in history.

To begin with, these Black Paintings were seen by other modern artists as an extreme and uncompromising form of avant - garde art, rather than a serious attempt at innovation.

At any rate, he retained a lifelong interest in capturing the interplay of light and colour, and remains one of the great modern artists of the early 20th century.

Highly unpopular with the general public and the arts authorities, although highly rated by other modern artists, dealers and collectors.

While the 20th - century city was a significant magnet for modern artists, many sought respite and even refuge in quieter, rural areas.

It features references to important modern artists along with their artworks, with individual explanations where relevant.

Many modern artists who sought to create art for art's sake, without referring to objects in the real world, instead turned to abstract canvas paintings.

Her dissertation explores how modern artists worked across boundaries of fine art and design to champion modern art's relevance to everyday life in the early twentieth century.

For years he was an art prince, the quintessential modern artist at the quintessential modern - art museum.

A number of British modern artists are the subject of solo exhibitions as well this year.

It confirmed the importance of their position within the world of British avant - garde art, and arguably as two of the most innovative modern artists of the late 20th century.

Even modern artists found in blue a specific emotional charge that was not taken for granted.

Maybe he was one of the first modern artists.

Even so, he remains one of the top modern artists of the Hungarian School.

Throughout the late 1930s and early 1940s, any European modern artist with the means found a way to go abroad.

But, not really, since his paintings reference and pay homage — some tongue - in - cheek — to visionary modern artists and abstract painters.

However, far from diminishing, the power of this great modern artist continues to grow.

But do modern artists need to be able to draw?

Many modern artists are notable for their use of found objects in their art.

And of course, I'm listening a lot to some other modern artists.

He is regarded as one of the finest narrator - type abstract painters, and one of the great modern artists of the American school.

Thus for instance, a mass - produced, secondhand book on Installation Art, published in 1995, which would normally be worth (say) $ 2.00, might be worth a hundred times more if it contained the signature of a famous modern artist such as Damien Hirst.

This original vintage 1973 Fauvism lithograph print» The Piano Lesson» is by the world famous Modern artist Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954).

He also encountered a number of American modern artists including the Cubist Stuart Davis (1892 - 1964), the Russian - born primitivist Max Weber (1881 - 1961) and the Italian - born Futurist Joseph Stella (1877 - 1946).

Ernest Mancoba is arguably the most important modern artist from South Africa, and perhaps Africa, yet unlike some of his contemporaries like Gerard Sekoto, his work has not received widespread critical revaluation.

This original vintage 1973 lithograph print» The Moroccans» is by the world famous Modern artist Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954).

Beyond these relatively well - known names, there is a group of talented and important American modern artists who remain undervalued, under - appreciated and largely unknown by the broader market.

Giacometti: Pure Presence No modern artist after Picasso saw human beings in a more forceful or thoughtful way than Alberto Giacometti.

He continued taking art courses at Princeton University while studying for a degree in history, combining these classes with visits to New York art galleries, where he absorbed the aesthetics of leading modern artists such as Jackson Pollock (1912 - 56) and Franz Kline (1910 - 62), as well as Jasper Johns (b. 1930), whose geometric imagery of targets, flags and so on, was especially inspirational.

Shiraga Kazuo was a Japanese modern artist whose works for the avant - garde groups of Gutai and Zero Kai established him as a leading author of his nation.

Brian O'Doherty coined his now famous description of the white cube in a series of essays in 1976, highlighting the often unarticulated context that he argued was a determining factor in the way that many modern artists made their work.

In effect, Rosenblum makes modern artists into Romantics, just as his best book compares Mark Rothko's somber light to Northern Romanticism, the territory of Caspar David Friedrich and Peder Balke.

He was fascinated by the French Impressionists, especially Pierre - Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919), and studied them and those of other modern artists on multiple visits to France, starting in 1895.

Hulten has performed with some of music's most influential modern artists including Ray Charles, The Temptations, Natalie Cole and Barry Manilow.

Wander along the museum's vast themed rooms and see works by by renowned modern artists such as Monet, Renoir, Arp, Ernst, Klee, Magritte, and Klimt.

About the same time, he made contact with New York - based modern artists including Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) and Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943), although his own artistic ambitions were still unclear.

Sofía Frigerio delineates points of correspondence between modern artists who made works of geometric abstraction in Sweden and Latin America, as seen in the exhibition Concrete Matters [Feb 24, 2018 - May 13, 2018] at Stockholm's Moderna Museet.

Charmed Lives in Greece The philhellenic friendship of Nikos Hadjikyriakos - Ghika, John Craxton and Patrick Leigh Fermor shows how a passion for Greece has inspired modern artists and writers.

As part of the Tate Modern Artists Book Series, Richard Wilson by Simon Morrissey was published by Tate Publishing.

This is a captivating folio size abstract mid century color lithograph (this is not an offset lithograph) by the world famous modern artist Joan Miro.

A pioneer of the Abstract Expressionist style, Still was arguably the most anti-traditional of modern artists in New York, who also included Philip Guston (1913 - 80), Franz Kline (1910 - 62), Willem De Kooning (1904 - 97), Josef Albers (1888 - 1976), Adolph Gottlieb (1903 - 74), William Baziotes (1912 - 63), Robert Motherwell (1915 - 91), Jackson Pollock (1912 - 56) and his wife Lee Krasner (1908 - 84).

This week I stumbled across a special gem, our 1998 Meet the Author interview with modern artist, New Yorker cartoonist and Hunter S. Thompson collaborator, Ralph Steadman.

He showed an early talent for painting, studying at Black Mountain College in North Carolina — one of the first American colleges to hire major modern artists as faculty members.