Sentences with phrase «of a great painter»

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

Yet, he possesses an impressive curriculum and is widely acknowledged to be one of the great painters of our times.

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

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.

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

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.

For years I felt frustrated by the loneliness of the painter and his possibility to share thoughts with others who really understand what painting is about.I feel so lucky to live in this century where technology gives me access to interviews like this one and see works of great painters like Stuart Shils.

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.

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?

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

I'm excited to be part of a show at the ICA at Maine College curated by Michelle Grabner this summer called American Genre — tons of great painters, including a lot of people in my community that I have great affinity for (Michael Berryhill, Aliza Nisenbaum, Dana DeGuilio) and others that are new to me that I'm excited to see for the first time.

Wonderful collection of the writings of the great painter, and brilliant writer on the visual arts, Fairfield Porter, with a really excellent forward by Rackstraw Downes.

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.

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.

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

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.

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Bernard Berenson was a connoisseur because he could detect the hand of a great painter in historic paintings and see the differences in a forgery.

I was so and still I am in such adulation of great painters.

Turner And The Masters, which opens next autumn, will bring together 100 works of historical significance from collections around the world that will look at Turner's work in the company of the greatest painters in art history and reveal his debt to them.

A show whose contents surpassed its obvious crowd - magnet function to reveal struggles within the work of a great painter on the cusp of modernism.

With an affecting boldness, Schmidt has crafted scene after scene painted on site within SFAI's paint - spattered studios — in realtime inserting herself within the storied paint - spattered studios which have served as foundations for decades of great painters.

Theo van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker and descendant of the great painter, was murdered for producing a film criticizing Islam's restrictions on women.

LG: Provincetown has had a rich history of great painters.

The room's serenity is rounded out by the exquisite subtlety of Brice Marden's Blonde (1970), an oil - and - beeswax triptych of closely keyed hues; an untitled Agnes Martin grid; Wilmarth's Normal Corner (1971); and a selection of works by Richard Diebenkorn, one of the greatest painters of California light.

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.

Often compared to Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud in terms of the revolutionary and powerful nature of his work, 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

«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.»

Covering both the movement and the artists at their peak, it gives us a glimpse into the production of some of the greatest painters such as Childe Hassam, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Julian Alden Weir, John Twachtman, and many others.

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.

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.