Sentences with phrase «of great painters like»

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

Not exact matches

Then there were diagrams explaining why your eyes may be blind but your consciousness can have inner vision, like the blind painter in front of his great allegory.

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Miami Vice is Mann's usual triangulation of Nietzsche, linen - edge designers like Ozwald Boateng and distinguished painters of geometric abstraction, like the great Richard Diebenkorn.

The visual basis of the works of the most interesting of this group of American painters like Georgia O'Keefe, John Marin, Arthur Dove and the great Marsden Hartley ultimately depended upon the work of the Cubists, the Fauves and Albert Pinkham Ryder.

Like many great American painters and storytellers, I am obsessed with the notion of revealing the source, strength, and mysticism of my region, the Deep South.

• 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

In «Postwar,» Jackson Pollock, Frank Stella and other American all - stars have no more or less prominence than Socialist Realist painters from the Soviet Union and the new People's Republic of China, or than artists from beyond the great powers, like the ghoulishly brilliant Mozambican muralist Malangatana Valente Ngwenya.

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.

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.

Damien Hirst has called Hoyland ʻby far the greatest British abstract painter», adding: ʻHis paintings always feel like a massive celebration of life to me.»

Indeed, Baldessari's irreverence for the sanctity of art permeates his oeuvre, whether it be negating all but a corner of a Parmigianino masterpiece, mocking the great art critic Clement Greenberg with his own words, parodying the color - field painters by «floating» large rectangular blocks of color outside the second - story window of his home (Floating: Color [1972]-RRB-, or pairing Goya's catastrophic texts from his Disasters of War series with everyday objects like a paper clip.

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.

PD I like to think of Polke first and foremost as a great painter because I believe his most powerful works are ones that were made within the language of painting.

In painting, during the 1920s and the 1930s and the Great Depression, modernism is defined by Surrealism, late Cubism, Bauhaus, De Stijl, Dada, German Expressionism, and Modernist and masterful color painters like Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard as well as the abstractions of artists like Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky which characterized the European art scene.

But his portraits of the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as the one of Herbert Read, were not successful, and the big compositions, like Christmas Eve and Harbour Window With Two Figures, were only doubtfully so, though it is unlikely that Heron himself, a great protagonist for his own achievements as well as those of the other painters he admired (Matthew Smith, William Scott, Peter Lanyon and Roger Hilton foremost amongst the British) ever thought so.

The «Water» pictures include large - format color images that often read like artful abstractions at first glance: the dried - up Colorado River Delta in Baja, Mexico, with its lunar - like silvery gray surfaces; a great swirl of water at China's Xiaolangdi Dam on the Yellow River that brings the British painter J.M.W. Turner to mind; and an aerial picture of dry - farming land in Aragon, Spain, whose jutting organic forms suggest the shapes of Picasso or Jean Dubuffet.

That unabashed bombast has made Wiley a walking superlative: the most successful black artist since Basquiat, possibly the wealthiest painter of his generation, certainly the one who made his name earliest (he was 26 for his first major solo show), a gay man who has become the great painter of machismo for the swag era, a bootstrapper from South Central who talks like a Yale professor (much of the time), a genius self - promoter who's managed to have it both ways in an art world that loves having its critical cake and eating the spectacle of it, too, and a crossover phenomenon who is at once the hip - hop world's favorite fine artist (Spike Lee and LL Cool J own pieces) and the gallery world's most popular hip - hop ambassador.

The name of the minimalist painter and theorist Josef Albers has never been on the list of form - minded photographers of the 20th century — a list that would include greats like Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Imogen Cunningham and Laszlo Moholy - Nagy.

Co-curator of the exhibition, Juan Manuel Bonet, sees «the great painter that is Katz like a Hopper of the second half of the 20th century, as a painter who occupies a comparable space to that which Hopper occupied in his day.

HENRY JAMES AND AMERICAN PAINTING The great chronicler of transatlantic high society wrote like a painter.

«I grew up around some of the great artists, like Sam Gilliam and Al Loving and Joe Overstreet — a group of Abstract Expressionist painters, who were doing their thing,» Sirmans says.

At a time when the so - called New Image Painters — Baselitz, Schnabel and co — were reviving interest in neo-expressionist painting, the existential cruelty of Titian's painting, in which a satyr is skinned alive, seemed like a message from the past, telling us that the truly great artist can not so much transcend the infirmities of old age — failing eyesight and diminished muscular control — as turn them into an aspect of genius, in works that strip back to the essence of things, and which can communicate to any age.

Like Newlyn before it, the West Cornish town of St Ives became a beacon for landscape painters, sculptors and other artists after the completion of the Great Western Railway, in 1877.

As a result, contemporary American painters like Chuck Close, Richard Estes and Don Eddy, have achieved a degree of detail that significantly exceeds anything produced by the great Renaissance artists, like Jan van Eyck, Leonardo or Titian.

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.

Jellett had precocious talent as a painter, and while starting out as a follower of Impressionism she began - as a result of her association with the Parisian abstract painter and teacher Albert Gleizes - to develop a greater interest in modern abstract art like Cubism.

Andy Warhol, the epitome of post-war modernism, whose screenprint Eight Elvises set tongues wagging when it reportedly sold for $ 100 million by private treaty in 2009, is now a solid member of the mega-seller artist club - as too are the great 19th century painters like Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh.

A piece of work reportedly liked by the great British painter Francis Bacon; although that story may be apocryphal, as Hirst drew many of his ideas from works by Bacon.

Best Modern Painters (c.1700 - present) We profile ALL the great 18th century masters of English figurative painting, like William Hogarth and Joshua Reynolds, as well as ALL the main members of the school of English landscape painting including JMW Turner, Constable and Richard Parkes Bonington.

The new exhibition at Tate Liverpool will focus on Bacon's use of «space - frames» — considered one of Britain's greatest modern painters — who set his subjects inside a «ghost - like» frame.

That Alice Neel is one of the very great post-war portrait painters, far outstripping one - trick pony contenders like Lucian Freud, Alex Katz, Frank Auerbach, or anyone else you care to mention — compare, say, Neel's magisterial portrait of Andy Warhol and any of Freud's tired crusty aristocrats, each a different shade and texture of stale bread — should be cause for general celebration, but it's only this year, twenty - six years after her death, that the first solo show of Neel is being held in London.

One was a painting by Clifford Still, considered by many a secondary figure but whose champions include James Demetrion, former director of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. Demetrion ranks the West Coast abstract painter with greats like Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko and Barnett Newman and said that Law's example, No. 3, «is one of his best.»

In any event, detached as it was from the unique horrors of the Great War and the Holocaust of World War II, Mexican muralism contrasted noticeably with the flight into abstract art (via movements like Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel) adopted by many other 20th century painters during the period 1930 - 1960.

LG: The great Venetian view painters like Canaletto and his student, Francesco Guardi painted scenes of 18th century life along the canals in Venice.

Like a great many other New York painters, past and present, she has found some of her best subjects in rural Maine.

Many younger artists returned to observation around that time, but her exploration did not lead toward the abstract realism of painters like William Bailey or Janet Fish, where objects are rendered in great three - dimensional specificity, but to the creation of an alternate universe of «realist» abstraction.

Many great painters exploit the undiscovered possibilities of their chosen medium — think of van Gogh treating brushstrokes like woodcarving, or J.M.W. Turner creating the illusion of space from thin washes of color.

This exhibition reasserts Giacometti's place alongside the likes of Matisse, Picasso and Degas as one of the great painter - sculptors of the twentieth century.

So if you really love a painter like Laura Owens, who just recently had a solo show at the Whitney, but you can't afford her paintings (which have sold at auction for upwards of $ 1.755 million), buying a signed and dated Laura Owens print for $ 1,800 is a great alternative.

According to the article, Landis, a lifelong painter and former gallery owner, has gone to great lengths — including dressing up like a priest — to donate pieces of important artwork from his collection to U.S. museums.