Sentences with phrase «most as a painter»

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Most of us probably think of Rubens as a painter of women whose body shapes are now decidedly out of fashion.

The charm and frustration of Ukip is we have doctors who fancy themselves as tax experts, painters and decorators who know all about strategic defence issues, and branch chairmen, retired dentists, who understand the most intricate political solutions for the nation.

The most architectural silhouettes were conceived by Ellery for its fall collection this season as the clothes that would be worn by expressionist painter Egon Schiele's models in his famous nude drawings.

A painter and cinematographer turned director, a craftsman turned celluloid dreamer, an industry veteran who created, almost single - handedly, the uniquely Italian genre of baroque horror known as «giallo,» he directed the most graceful and deliriously mad horror films of the 1960s and early 1970s.

But there is a deeper dimension to Armand's quest: As someone who had previously assumed Van Gogh was just an aspiring painter with serious loose screws, he's also discovering the artist's true nature (Van Gogh's legendary reputation, for the most part, came only posthumously).

The film's animation alternates between black - and - white flashbacks and present - day color sequences to recreate some of Van Gogh's most famous canvases, going so far as to emulate the Dutch painter's groundbreaking thick - brushstroke impasto style.

This documentary plunges the viewer into the chaotic life of a forgotten artist, from early fame as a painter and denizen of the Lower East Side, through his struggles with heroin, to his surprising comeback as street art exploded to become one of the most popular and lucrative art movements in the world.

As we swing back and forth with Turner's way of life, we follow wherever his inner compass leads us; the Academy of fellow painters, most of whom revere his work; the cliffs and hillsides overlooking the greatest object of his eye's desire, the tumultuous seas; and a quaint little place he keeps finding inspiration in called Margate.

Goya's Ghosts starts its first half in Spain in the year 1792, amid the tension of the French Revolution, where Francisco Goya (Skarsgard, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest), one of the country's most famous of painters, has drawn the suspicious eye of the Spanish Inquisitors, who see some of his work as possible representations of evil.

The latest addition to SCRS's list of events is a live discussion with Charley Hutton — a renowned personality in the automotive industry — regarded as one of the most popular painters in the custom car world.

One explanation is that throughout his career Michelangelo claimed sculpture as his principal art; admitting that his formal training was as a painter in the shop of the era's most successful practitioner of this medium tended to undercut that argument.

As a book cover designer, I'm resistant to the fundamental principle (it's like putting a Van Gogh next to a Dali, and then counting up which artist has the most friends and declaring the winner the best painter).

Soon, it is no longer his own past he's revisiting; he believes he can travel back to the seventeenth century, where he lived as the Spanish artist Diego Rodríguez de Silva Velázquez, one of the most famous painters in history.

The design is calm and neutral to let the views shine, but the luxury of the new look is there in the understated touches, such as artworks from some of Australia's most famous painters; you might be sitting under a work by Brett Whiteley or Sidney Nolan.

As the NY Times notes, «Battambang has produced some of the country's most famous artists: the 1960s chanteuse Ros Sereysothea, whose popularity persists decades after her death; the late painter Vann Nath; and Chhom Nimol, the frontwoman of the Los Angeles - based indie rock band Dengue Fever.»

Immerse Yourself in the Visual Arts Recognized as one of the Pacific Northwest's best art towns, Cannon Beach is home to over a dozen galleries where you will discover the work of local artists, the emerging talent of Northwest painters and some of the country's most celebrated sculptors.

Colin Campbell Cooper was one of America's most important Impressionist painters, refining his style as he visited important cultural landmarks around the world.

Oddworld Inhabitants» Lorne Lanning was classically trained as a painter of fine art, but came to realize that the mediums most influential on popular opinion were becoming electronic and mass - distributed.

Although I make my living as a painter, I get most of my ideas on how to write about painting from people who do other things.

Viewed from the standpoint of certain painters, like De Kooning and perhaps Pollock, about whom there is no reason to imagine any real Soutine influence, certain qualities of composition, certain attitudes toward paint which have gained prestige here as the most advanced painting, are expressed in Soutine in unpremeditated form.

To be deprived of this ultimate stage of training meant, in effect, to be deprived of the possibility of creating major art works, unless one were a very ingenious lady indeed, or simply, as most of the women aspiring to be painters ultimately did, to restrict oneself to the «minor» fields of portraiture, genre, landscape or still - life.

It is instructive to examine in greater detail one of the most successful and accomplished women painters of all time, Rosa Bonheur (1822 - 1899), whose work, despite the ravages wrought upon its estimation by changes of taste and a certain admitted lack of variety, still stands as an impressive achievement to anyone interested in the art of the 19th century and in the history of taste generally.

It is instructive to examine in greater detail one of the most successful and accomplished women painters of all time, Rosa Bonheur (1822 — 1899), whose work, despite the ravages wrought upon its estimation by changes of taste and a certain admitted lack of variety, still stands as an impressive achievement to anyone interested in the art of the 19th century and in the history of taste generally.

Painters such as Morandi have the most revolutionary of paintings as they function outside of their epoch of making.

From the legendary sculptor, Sabina von Steinbach, in the 13th century, who, according to local tradition, was responsible for South Portal groups on the Cathedral of Strasbourg, down to Rosa Bonheur, the most renowned animal painter of the 19th century, and including such eminent women artists as Marietta Robusti, daughter of Tintoretto, Lavinia Fontana, Artemisia Gentileschi, Elizabeth Chéron, Mme. Vigée - Lebrun and Angelica Kauffmann — all, without exception, were the daughters of artists; in the 19th century, Berthe Morisot was closely associated with Manet, later marrying his brother, and Mary Cassatt based a good deal of her work on the style of her close friend Degas.

But his «painterly» style — with its emphasis on the visible mark and texture of paint - as - matter — resonated most powerfully with the Venetian oil painters, such as Giorgione and Titian.

17 In mid-century France, as in 17th - century Holland, there was a tendency for artists to attempt to achieve some sort of security in a shaky market situation by specializing, by making a career out of a specific subject: animal painting was a very popular field, as the Whites point out, and Rosa Bonheur was no doubt its most accomplished and successful practitioner, followed in popularity only by the Barbizon painter Troyon (who at one time was so pressed for his paintings of cows that he hired another artist to brush in the backgrounds).

This came as a surprise to me because most San Francisco painters were coming out of Still and Frank Lobdell which meant an emphasis on large fields of muddy black or acid yellow.

As stated by David Zwirner: «The gallery is proud to be entrusted to help with the extraordinary legacy of Joan Mitchell, one of the most important and original American painters to emerge in the second half of the twentieth century.

The basic point about Louis's work and that of other Color Field painters, sometimes known as the Washington Color School in contrast to most of the other new approaches of the late 1950s and early 1960s, is that they greatly simplified the idea of what constitutes the look of a finished painting.

Gerhard Richter is widely recognized as one of the most significant painters working today, and he is certainly among the most influential.

Most important, it will serve as a reminder that many of the brightest and most gifted young painters working today have chosen this tradition, among all available options, to help define the future of visual arts.&raMost important, it will serve as a reminder that many of the brightest and most gifted young painters working today have chosen this tradition, among all available options, to help define the future of visual arts.&ramost gifted young painters working today have chosen this tradition, among all available options, to help define the future of visual arts.»

Most past Joan Mitchell Foundation grant recipients were eligible to apply, including Painters & Sculptors Grant Recipients, MFA Grant Recipients, CALL Artists, New Orleans - based Career Opportunity Grant Recipients, and Emergency Grant Program Recipients, as well as Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist - Teachers.

Her works command six figure prices at auctions and she is celebrated as one of the most influential painters of our time, heralded as a role model by art academy students the world over.

The Austrian artist Maria Lassnig (b. 1919) is recognized as one of the most important contemporary painters and can be...

Regarded as one of the most important American portrait painters of the 20th century, Neel's subjects were people she knew from her everyday life — family, friends, neighbors, activists and creatives.

Aged 82, she is now regarded by many as one of Britain's most exciting contemporary painters.

Joan Semmel's Erotic Series (or «fuck paintings») of the 1970s, subsequent nude self - portraits, and recent unflinching depictions of her aging body establish her as one of the most important feminist painters of her generation.

The most famous alternative to the Salon was the gallery created by the painters who came to be known as the Impressionists.

As such, «Rower's pours come closer to the abstracting nature photos of Edward Weston than to the works of Pollock or de Kooning, painters who, even when most abstract, always left behind traces of the actions of their hands.»

Rubenstein, a curator, painter and director at CANADA in New York, assembled the show as an homage to the artists and artworks that she most admires.

Over the years he rose from relative obscurity as a miscategorized California Pop artist to one of the most celebrated painters of the twentieth century.

Influenced by Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and Pierre Bonnard, Heron experimented with composition, scale and particularly colour in ways that saw him recognised as one of the most important painters of the 20th century for his shift away from figuration — his refusal of narrative.

And Germaine McAgy, the wife of Douglas, was a curator at the Legion of Honor, and she knew, as Doug did, these New York painters, and she brought their work to the Legion, and so the Legion briefly became something that it had never been and hasn't been since — a place where one saw the most advanced art.

Zhang Xiaogang has established himself as one of the most important Chinese contemporary painters.

Cofounder of the collective Galerie LIGA in Berlin, he was one of the leading protagonists of the New Leipzig School before gaining a reputation as one of the most important painters of his generation.

He was rewarded with a knighthood by his most famous patron, Charles I, and the sense that it would be impossible to better Van Dyck as a portrait painter was universally recognised and remarked on not only by his contemporaries but also his successors.

Along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Gorky has been hailed as one of the most powerful American painters of the 20th century.

After much experimentation and after conquering nearly every artistic medium, Baselitz has established a reputation of being not just one of the German best known painters, but as one of the most famous artists in the world.

The writer and former director of the ICA, Ekow Eshun, considers whether Basquiat was really «one of the most significant painters of the 20th century», as -LSB-...]