Sentences with phrase «of a great painter on»

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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.

Britain fared better, with my favourite sci - fi horror film in a long time, Glazer's Under the Skin, and my favourite entertainment film of the year, the conventional, but charming Pride, while the flawed Mr. Turner impressively reflects the great painter's sun worship through Dick Pope's widescreen cinematography.Highlights of my year included being on the FIPRESCI jury at the Hong Kong IFF, where I admired Yang Hen's third feature, Na pian hu shui (Lake August), and a couple of first features among others, as well as attending the amazing HK film market for the first time, where I saw one of my three 2014 «films for the ages», Tsai's Journey to the West; and seeing a nitrate print of Hitchcock's Rebecca at the George Eastman House in Rochester (where they are doing a three - day all - nitrate festival in May, 2015!).

While it's true that Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel is also an early contender for film awards, Mike Leigh's lavish epic about Britain's greatest painter is very likely a film to keep an eye on for end of the year voting — if it...

However, for those familiar with the great painter's works, as well as the prevailing spirit of the Era of Enlightenment and the style of the other great artists of various mediums who used their craft to comment on the blights of the world around them, Goya's Ghosts speaks on a level that transcends just the story of two men looking after the welfare of a young, unfortunate woman caught up in the hysteria of power that marked the end of the Spanish Inquisition's stranglehold of power, as well as the outrageous hypocrisy in their manner of governance.

In 1961, even before he had finished his first feature film Ivan's Childhood (1962), he submitted a proposal to the studio for a film on the life of Russia's greatest icon painter, Andrei Rublev.

This gives some extra understanding to how painters hide things, or make them less obvious and challenges them to question why which is great for AO1 and AO4, making informed responses and commenting on the work of artists in ways which help them develop ideas and understanding.

In her author's note in The Golden Day, Ursula Dubosarsky writes that Charles Blackman, an acclaimed Australian modernist painter, was a particularly keen influence on the novel:» [My] greatest debt is to Charles Blackman's many astonishing, lush depictions of schoolgirls — enchanting, disturbing, and endlessly evocative.»

Discover the fascinating city of Toledo, once home to the great painter El Greco, on this tour from Madrid.

I had a great day roaming the streets of James Town to enjoy the acrobatics of street artists, listening to music, shopping colorful pieces from the artistic stands, see street art painters in action, walking on the beach of James Town, enjoying a delicious soy kebab, talk to people and just soak up the atmosphere of the festival.

Stephen the Great was a religious and cultural man, and it was his influence that gave rise to a school of native painters who have bequeathed some true masterpieces of the fresco technique found on the 16th and 17th - century painted monasteries of Bucovina.

[Sent out earlier in the gapingvoid newsletter etc:] Picasso, the greatest painter of the twentieth century, didn't sit around on his rear end all day,...

Recurrent throughout 8 Painters are stylings on past painterly marks and movements, not so much placed in quotations as absorbed into a work's facture... It's a hopeful sign that the artists in [the show] demonstrate a critical distillation of influences that inform their particular sensibilities, philosophical outlooks, and relationship to materials — not making any great claims, just proceeding in a personally deliberate way.»

Given his stature, and because it is for works other than these that Watteau is best known, this exhibition is especially rewarding since it allows for a clear - eyed appraisal of a painter on the cusp of making his greatest works.

The painter Jane Freilicher, whose airy, radiantly colored still lifes and landscapes made her a leading light of the 1950s New York School and one the great representational artists of postwar America, died on Tuesday in New York.

Arguably — and often labeled — the greatest painter of his generation, Luc Tuymans signals in every canvas the necessary limits of the medium, even the coda to its drawn - out death: his reliance on fleeting photographic and filmic imagery, his refusal to spend more than one day on a canvas, and perhaps most of all, his indifference to craft bring the Belgian artist into head - on confrontation with painting, and endow his subjects — from the untouchable (the Holocaust) to the pedestrian (flowers, pigeons)-- with an unmistakable air of violence inflicted.

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.

One of the greatest landscape painters, John Constable devoted his career to capturing nature on his canvases.

This exhibition tracks the transitional period of the great twentieth century painter Arshile Gorky, who moved from figuration to abstraction with his drippy, brightly colored oil on canvases.

• Tony Smith (1912 — 1980), sculptor who bridged AbEx and minimalism (dad of Kiki) Mel Kendrick (b. 1949), formalist process - based sculptor Chris Wilmarth (1943 — 1987), sculptor of steel, bronze, and etched glass Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), minimalist sculptor who flirts with figuration Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Neo-AbExer with a taste for graffiti and repetition Alex Hubbard (b. 1975), rising master of painterly materials and abstract coloration Josh Smith (b. 1976), Factory - like painter of great expressive volume Jacob Kassay (b. 1984), mirrored - painting - wunderkind - turned - sackcloth artist • Andy Warhol (1928 — 1987), Pop maestro and appropriationist world - changer David Robbins (b. 1957), artist and «Concrete Comedy» theorist David LaChapelle (b. 1963), lush photographer of celebrity decadence Ronnie Cutrone (1948 — 2013), Factory personality and East Village cult figure George Condo (b. 1957), Neo-Picassian painter of the grotesque Mark Dagley (b. 1957), Op abstractionist • Richard Serra (b. 1939), grand master of process art and the post-industrial sublime Grégoire Müller (b. 1947), painter of current - event appropriations Philip Glass (b. 1937), «Einstein on the Beach» composer Lawrence Chandler (b. 1951), composer, musician, and sound artist • Sol LeWitt (1928 — 2007), father of conceptual art, multitasking artistic outsourcer Adrian Piper (b. 1948), performance art innovator Mark Williams (b. 1950), monochromatic minimalist painter

And also on Great Jones Street, at No. 4, is Eric Firestone Gallery, where a strong exhibition of the painter Joe Overstreet (reviewed by my colleague Roberta Smith) is up until May 5.

Born on the shores of Armenia's Lake Van, Arshile Gorky immigrated to the United States in 1920 and went on to become one of the greatest American painters of the twentieth century.

Considering that Velázquez is widely seen as the greatest painter ever to lay oil on canvas, and considering that he only made about 110 paintings in his lifetime, the fact that a new portrait is visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art this month (April 16 - July 14) is bound to cause a stir.

People often think that a great painter has to have great brushes, and it's true that some of them insist on hair so fine that it could put the silkworms out of business.

My mother had a ton of books on classical painters, like Caravaggio, and the greats of the Renaissance, whom I loved, but no books on contemporary art.

One of the truly great «realist» painters, of the twentieth - century Gregory Gillespie, will be on view at Forum Gallery in New York City.

This sparkling display of some four score watercolours from the first decade of the last century throw an unfamiliar light on the artistry of John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925), the last great swagger portrait painter in the western tradition.

I can think of few portraits in which a painter's absolute dislike of her subject is made more apparent than in the hatchet job she did on the great poet, curator and critic Frank O'Hara, whose liver - spotted bald head, bared teeth, and mad staring eyes are visible in no other portrait or photo of him I know.

She is one of the greatest painters ever — by way of Van Gogh, Cézanne, and on into pure abstraction.

With the emphasis on «impossible» and «negation,» Rubinstein is suggesting that the painter no longer needs to think about making a great painting, but simply «must go on,» as the voice whispers at the end of Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable.

Consider what happens when Robert Mapplethorpe encounters Mannerism, contemporary painters like John Currin create their own «Idols of Perversity,» and — long before both — Goethe built a great drawing collection on his mistakes.

TRIBECA & SOHO & NOHO & EAST VILLAGE & MURRAY HILL 100 Painters of Tomorrow / 23 Warren / thru 12/6 Material Way curated by Kathleen Kucka / BMCC — CUNY / 81 Barclay / thru 12/1 Carey Denniston / Kansas / 59 Franklin / thru 12/20 Anton Perich / Postmasters / 54 Franklin (new location) / thru 11/22 Terry Winters / The National Exemplar / 381 Broadway @ White — suite 206 / thru 12/31 Bianculli's Personal Theory of TV Evolution organized by David Bianculli / Apexart / 291 Church / thru 12/20 Seokmin Ko; Elena Berriolo / API / 434 Greenwich / thru 12/20 Basim Magdy; Daphne Fitzpatrick; Will Yackulic / Art in General / 79 Walker / thru 1/10 Mohammed Kazem / Grahne / 157 Hudson / thru 12/20 MFA Thesis Exhibition (Part I) / Hunter / 205 Hudson (on Canal) / thru 11/22 Ariel Orozco / Brownstone / 3 Wooster / thru 11/22 Design Series / Swiss Institute / 18 Wooster / thru 11/23 Classical Nudes / Leslie - Lohman Museum / 26 Wooster / thru 1/4 Roy Lichtenstein / Feldman / 31 Mercer / thru 12/20 Opening 11/22 Pedro Cabrita Reis / Freeman / 140 Grand / thru 12/20 Sam Samore / Team / 83 Grand / thru 12/21 Opening 11/23 Tim Noble & Sue Webster / Geiss / 76 Grand / thru 12/20 Chris Domenick / Recess Activities / 41 Grand / thru 12/20 Smoothie Social: 11/22 (3 - 6 PM) Performance: 12/18 (6 - 8 PM) Prime Matter / Senaspace / 229 Centre / thru 12/6 Thread Lines; Xanti Schawinsky / Drawing Center / 35 Wooster / thru 12/14 Open Sessions 2 / Drawing Center: The Lab / 35 Wooster / thru 12/14 Opening 11/21 Andreas Schulze / Team / 47 Wooster / thru 12/21 Opening 11/23 Phillip Chen, etc. / Museum of Chinese in America / 215 Centre / thru 3/1 Nadja Frank; Jessica Segall / Denny / 261 Broome / thru 12/7 Paul Cowan / Clifton Benevento / 515 Broadway / thru 12/20 Mitsuko Miwa / Longhouse / 285 Spring / thru 12/6 Reuven Israel / Fridman / 287 Spring / thru 12/20 Plasmatik: K.K.Thoen, G.Kroenert, S.A.March, T.Francke, S.Tufnell; curated by N.Kates / Melissa / 102 Greene / Opening 11/20 (7 - 9 PM) Social Photography IV / Carriage Trade @ Harvey Foundation / 537 Broadway / Closing Reception 11/22 (6 - 9 PM) The Right Amount of Wrong curated by Lovina Purple / ISE Foundation / 555 Broadway / thru 12/19 Ernesto Burgos / Werble / 83 Van Dam / thru 12/20 Suzatte Bross / Geary / 185 Varick / thru 12/6 Amy O'Neill / Karma / 39 Great Jones / thru 12/6 Alex Kwartler; LeRoy Stevens / Karg / 41 Great Jones / thru 11/26 Learn to Read Art: A Surviving History of Printed Matter / 80WSE / NYU / 80 Washington Square East / thru 2/14 Opening 12/2 Reception 12/12 Ernest Cole / NYU Grey Art Gallery / 100 Wash..

Spanning more than 50 years of his career, Jamie Wyeth, on view through July 5 at the San Antonio Museum of Art opens with his childhood drawings, traces his development as a portrait painter, examines his stint in The Factory with Warhol in New York, contemplates the rural scenes that pay homage to his family's legacy and details his emergence as a great animal and bird painter.

See Surrey through the eyes of one of the greatest English landscape painters in a unique exhibition focusing on his lifelong love affair with the county.

It was not until the late 1960s that she began to be recognised as one of the great American painters of the century, not least because her work offered a unique window on the changing world of Harlem in the years before and during civil rights.

The critic Leo Steinberg, a great admirer of de Kooning's work, was deeply upset when he first heard about Erased de Kooning Drawing; the great color - field painter Barnett Newman is said to have remarked, on seeing Rauschenberg's all - white pictures, «What's the matter with him?

On his return to the US in 1949, he taught and met the great painters of the day, principally Pollock.

Last week, the New York Studio School hosted members of the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) for an interesting talk on one of the greatest Italian painters of the twentieth century: Giorgio Morandi — the subject of the current exhibition at CIMA, on until June 25th.

Arshile Gorky was one of the last great Surrealist painters and a major influence on (and early figure in) Abstract Expressionism.

The seriousness of topics such as alcoholism, depression, and poverty was transferred on canvas with great softness and vigor, and therefore Fischl has quickly embraced the description of himself as a painter of the suburbs.

Luc Tuymans is one of today's most widely admired painters, a continuation of the great tradition of Northern European painting and an enduring influence on younger and emerging artists.

The Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, holder of the world's greatest Piet Mondrian collection, will put all 300 works on show in one great exhibition to chart the painter's ground - breaking career (3 June — 24 September).

A lone figure walking beside an indigo swimming pool; a boat passing before the entrance of a cave as a great black bird swoops by; a girl dressed in white, clambering high in the branches of a vast tree on a starlit night: these are some of the strange and poetic recent subjects of the painter Peter Doig, the subject of a major exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery this summer.

Who knows if someday, a great painter, looking with scorn on the often brutal game of supposed colorists and taking the seven colors back to the primordial white unity that encompasses them all, will not exhibit completely white canvases, with nothing, absolutely nothing on them.

Great Critics and Their Ideas: Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, on painters apologising, interviewed by Matthew Collings.

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.

Using bodies in their most abject and raw forms, the great painter orchestrated a highly personal, yet captivatingly universal visual aura with right doses of social commentary on religion, womanhood, and labor.

At the contemporary art annexe to the Kunstmuseum — Museum fur Gegenwartskunst there is an exhibition of the polymath conceptual artist filmmaker, painter and musician Rodney Graham [16-1-49] Canadian born artist who is a great narrative inventor of personas which can literally turn the world on its head — witness his upside down tree photos — this museum is a wonderful place within a stones throw of the Rhine

This concentrated look at a significant body of rarely seen work sheds new light on one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century.

But her nudes — where, in my opinion, she gets too close for comfort to great painters of the past — are a quite different story... It takes courage and a lot of talent to take on the iconic artworks of a famous master.

The fully illustrated catalogue does them more justice, featuring essays by seven writers, including Philippe Cézanne, the painter's great - grandson, which discuss in full detail Fiquet's relationship with her husband, the procedures used by her husband to make these pictures, and the influence of these paintings on Juan Gris, Henri Matisse, and a host of other later artists.