Sentences with phrase «n't by a famous artist»

Their dour and scrabbled images, with frazzled surfaces and muddied palettes, wouldn't merit attention or huzzahs if they weren't by a Famous Artist.

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Previous editions have often been marked by unsigned artists becoming famous (such as John Mayer and Janelle Monae), un-showered attendees not sleeping, and yes, imports from Brooklyn.

I taught middle school art and I was written up in my permanent record because a nasty little boy took a postage size stamp picture containing a nude by a famous artist (2 dots represented the breasts so it was not graphic by any means) and added nasty things to it.

18) The fact that there is a later punk - driven attempt to democratize rock fame (and not in the fatuous way that Andy Warhol's «15 - minutes of fame» comment suggested) or that pop / disco artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna will pick up on Bowie's fame - playing and image - emphatic example, in Madonna's case overtly subordinating the music to the prerogatives of notoriety, do not alter what ALMOST FAMOUS is showing us, that rock can be thought of as a social phenomenon / scene that one might belong to («you're too sweet for rock and roll» is said not by a musician to a musician, but by a groupie to a rock writer), that is as fame - focused as it is music - focused.

Rated of 5 by Ann Brown A Perfect View Beautifully written and hauntingly moving; this story of the life of Christina Olson, the model of the famous Andrew Wyeth painting, Christina's World, will not disappoint and more likely cause you to explore further the amazing artist and his work.

In «I'm Not Hamlet,» a mystery woman asks Hideo to sell an unlisted painting by a famous artist.

La Chola Cusco Restaurant has a legendary story in the middle of the twentieth century worked here a cookhouse with the same name, famous throughout the city for being a meeting place for renowned artists, poets, writers, politicians and intellectuals.Among the most famous visitors can not fail to mention to Pablo Neruda, who, inspired by the majesty of Cuzco and in love with the beauty of the house during his stay he composed much of his work referred to Cusco and Machu Picchu.Su culinary tradition has been restored and recovered giving new life to the restaurant offers a menu with dishes from the new Peruvian and international cuisine, the wine cellar built inside an Inca wall helps maintain the quality of a rich selection of wines with different characteristics.

A hotel not allowed its guests to stay and spend a night with the works done by famous artists.

You can't visit Lanzarote without seeing at least one art installation by the famous artist, Cesar Manrique.

Sean Kelly has a show of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, but not the troublemaking kind; the ones here are all luminous portraits of famous artists, including Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner and Robert Rauschenberg.

Sotheby's has estimated between $ 8 million and $ 12 million for a 1961 painting by Robert Rauschenberg — and honestly, we're not surprised considering the fact that Rauschenberg is one of the most famous artists of the 20th Century.

But not all the things you see are by famous artists.

The market for African - American art has heated up considerably in the past 15 years, and if the DIA waited much longer to get in the game, it would not be able to afford substantial works by the famous artists it needs to fill significant gaps in its collection.

It's part of the Lowry myth — the myth of many famous artists, in fact, whether or not it actually happens to be true — that he's never been taken seriously as an artist by critics or by cognoscenti.

[2] By the 1930s, Davis was already a famous American painter, but that did not save him from feeling the negative effects of the Great Depression, which led to his being one of the first artists to apply for the Federal Art Project.

The eggs, designed by some well - known and some not so famous artists, fashion designers, architectural firms, and sponsored by local and international art galleries (Waterhouse & Dodd, Leila Heller Gallery), fashion houses, companies and individuals ranged from transcendently beautiful and inspired to, well, better - luck - next - time, as in the case of Julian Schnabel «s hurried double stroke, either done in his sleep or by some vengeful former assistant.

Alfred H. Barr Jr., who had advocated works by artists such as Joe Milone and Morris Hirshfield, and had included in his famous diagram of modern art other sources derived from non-European cultures — objects that were made by people who did not regard themselves as artists — would have been pleased with this publication.

-- In his newest book Vermeer's Family Secrets, art historian Benjamin Binstock proposes a new hypothesis to explain problematic paintings by Vermeer that dodn't quite match the rest of the artist's oeuvre: they were painted by his daughter Maria, star of one of his most famous works, while she apprenticed under her father in his studio.

Made in Heaven series didn't just blur the line between art and porn but they completely erased it, showing that porn is art undisputedly, if it's made by one of the world's most famous contemporary artist.

And, surprisingly enough, many of these artists were connected to the Abstract Expressionist movement (the most sought - after segment in the art market) to one extent or another: a Washington D.C. - based artist Sam Gilliam was brought by David Kordansky Gallery to Frieze Art Fair in New York this year, an active member of the famous New York School Edward Dugmore was exhibited at Loretta Howard gallery just recently, and now it is Raymond Spillenger, an Abstract Expressionist who is gaining attention with an upcoming retrospective scheduled for early 2016 at the Black Mountain College near Asheville, N.C. Spillenger, who died in November at the age of 89, abruptly left the art scene in the late 6os, and while his fellow AbEx artists were going through mounting recognition and success at the Stable Annual, Spillenger plunged into family life and didn't show his art even to the family members.

LED versions of paintings by famous (and not - so - famous) artists take up position in an open field.

Like the famous British artist, Tracy Emin once said, «You don't get to be Tracy Emin by being a slacker.»

Ei Arakawa has placed LED versions of paintings by two famous artists (Gustave Courbet and Joan Mitchell) and five not - so - famous artists (Amy Sillman, Atsuko Tanaka, Jutta Koether, Reena Spaulings, Nikolas Gambaroff) in the middle of a field far outside Münster's city center, on the southwestern end of Lake Aa.

But then usually and normally are not words you'd associate with the adventurous artist Simon Starling, nor with the Turner Prize which he won in December, helped by his famous Shed.

Melrose Place was not famous for its subtlety, but one of the things that was lost on me while I watched the show was the nearly subliminal presence of art works by a collective known as the GALA Committee, led by conceptual artist Mel Chin.

However the appointment of the artist is somewhat controversial: most famous for the works Everyone I Have Ever Slept With (a tent embroidered with the names of everyone she had ever sleepy with), and My Bed (her unmade bed, surrounded by grimy detritus), Emin is not your typical fine arts academician — and perhaps an odd choice of a professor of drawing.

A cooler approach is taken by the satin nickel border to the tangerine center of Tangible (for Verlaine), created in 1971 for the artist's wife Verlaine (not the famous French poet, as I initially guessed).

And don't miss this: Artist and gallerist Austin Thomas, famous for insisting that real artists support other artists by buying art, talks about collecting with Wagner, Hoggard and Harding on The James Kalm Report.

This edition contains impeccable reproductions of Albers» famous series, which beautifully illustrate the artist's primary thesis, that the discrepancy between visual information received by the retina and what the mind perceives proves that this information is not intrinsic to color itself, but is dependent on its relationship with its surroundings.

Cobain, a longtime artist when she's not busy serving as a muse for the likes of Marc Jacobs, has previously exhibited her work under a pseudonym (and was once outed by a nosy Huffington Post reporter), but has since decided to use her own (very, very famous) name so she can «better take control of the narrative,» according to a quote from gallerist Matt Kennedy to artnet News.

This classic poster by one of the worlds most famous artist isn't one to ignore!

Typically, most famous works (and the artists who created them) could not be appreciated simply by viewing them, but required close study of a museum guidebook.

He had progressive ambitions — creating «spatial films» in the museum galleries with photographic reproductions of famous African American figures, videos of members of the Harlem community, and recordings of jazz music — but not a single artwork by a black (or white) artist was included.

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.

Although it was not part of the original intent, the tradition is that some projects from each edition are acquired by the city or other parties to remain on permanent display, and artists are often invited to participate across multiple editions of the exhibition — the most famous instance being Michael Asher and his roving Caravan (1997 - 2007).