Sentences with phrase «of the greatest painters ever»

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

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More than thirty years after her death, the oeuvre of American painter Alice Neel attracts ever greater interest, and seems only ever more relevant: the substantial and moving exhibition of her paintings currently at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague is the latest indication of this groundswell of attention, including various shows and catalogs in addition to a fine biography by Phoebe Hoban and a biographical film directed by Neel's grandson, Andrew Neel.

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.

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.

Landmark surveys of major figures in the history of art will include the largest display of work by Canaletto ever to be shown in Scotland, an exploration of the extraordinary impact of Rembrandt's work in Britain, only to be seen in Edinburgh, and a retrospective of the great German Expressionist painter, Emil Nolde.

This widely acclaimed exhibit from the artist deemed «the greatest painter this country has ever produced» has been organized by the DMA's Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Gavin Delahunty.

The competition between the British painters John Constable and William Turner has gone down in history as one of the greatest - ever artistic rivalries.

Frederic Edwin Church (1826 - 1900) Pupil of Cole, and America's greatest ever landscape painter.

But above all, Claude remained a painter of nature, which was why the great John Constable (1776 - 1837)- one of the leading figures in the English School of Landscape painting - described Claude Lorrain as «the most perfect landscape painter the world ever saw».

Specialist still life artists included: Frans Snyders (1579 - 1657), who is noted for still lifes of dead game and meat, crammed with religious allusions and moral pointers; Harmen van Steenwyck (1612 - 56), the leading vanitas painter; Willem Claesz Heda (1594 - 1681), an exponent of monochrome banketje; Pieter Claesz (1597 - 1660), a specialist in ontbijtjes (breakfast still lifes); Jan Davidsz de Heem (1606 - 83) and Willem Kalf (1619 - 93), who specialized in decorative still lifes; Samuel Van Hoogstraten (1627 - 78), whose speciality was interiors with deep linear perspective; and Rachel Ruysch (1664 - 1750), arguably the greatest ever female flower painter.

Ironically, in their attempt to reject European abstract art, American realist painters only succeeded in creating the greatest monster of abstraction, ever.

Frederic Edwin Church (1826 - 1900) A pupil of Cole, and America's greatest ever romantic landscape painter, Church criss - crossed the continent, painting tropical forests, waterfalls, volcanoes and icebergs.

He remembers meeting De Kooning before the great painter ever had an exhibition, and he describes his own role as that of a green kid who had none of the years of work that the Abstract Expressionists had behind them.