Sentences with phrase «old painter whose»

The 1985 Turner Prize, which is awarded annually for an outstanding contribution to British art, has been awarded to Howard Hodgkin, the 53 - year - old painter whose retrospective exhibition was recently seen at the Phillips Gallery in Washington, the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven and the Venice Biennale.

Boston, for example, was particularly rich: he turned up both John O'Reilly, a 65 - year - old photomontagist whose work has been little seen in New York (article on page 35), and Ellen Gallagher, a 29 - year - old painter whose reputation is growing rapidly but who has yet to appear in a major New York show.

Not exact matches

Prominent historian Painter — whose works, such as The History of White People, have explored race, gender and class in America — offers a more personal take on those themes as she reflects on enrolling in the Rhode Island School of Design as a 64 - year - old black woman and what it means to continue growing and discovering joy as we age.

Those in the running include Ghanaian - British multi-media artist Amartey Golding whose film Chainmail throws light over cultural behaviours towards race, gender and sexuality, while channelling the darkness of El Greco and Goya; Dutch fine art photographer Isabelle van Zeijl who blends the techniques and idioms of the Old Masters with present - day aesthetics to create striking self - portraits; British print - maker John Phillips whose eerie still lifes are created from over 1,000 separate photographs; and American painter Lucy Beecher Nelson who reinvents 15th century Italian marriage portraits.

Recently graduated from Slade School of Fine Art in 2016, 23 year old Faye Wei Wei is a young painter whose passion and energy has earned her considerable attention in the public eye.

The 1977 show also included female Old Masters of established reputation: Renaissance painters like the Cremonese aristocrat Sophonisba Anguissola and the Bolognese Lavinia Fontana; eighteenth - century professionals like the pastel portraitist Rosalba Carriera, whose Venetian studio was once as essential a stop on the Grand Tour as that of her male colleague Pompeo Batoni in Rome, and the Swiss - born Angelika Kauffmann, represented by a self - portrait that showed the dark - haired, porcelain - skinned beauty making a definitive choice between painting and music.

The 82 - year - old painter, who has lived most of his life in northern France near the Belgian border, has pursued his distinctive if somewhat conservative painting style for at least three decades, working for months and sometimes years on canvases whose paint surfaces are so obsessively thick that their images — mostly nudes, heads and still lifes — are virtually obliterated.

Mr. Currin isn't an Old Master, of course — he's a living, breathing painter whose depictions of women have earned accolades from no less a scholarly resource than Juggs magazine.

For Jamian Juliano - Villani, the 29 - year - old painter from New Jersey whose cartoon - cribbing compositions have graced gallery shows since before her graduation from Rutgers in 2013, widespread recognition is proving to be a double - edged sword.

The great Social Realist painter Raphael Soyer, A 1917, whose family emigrated to NY from Russia, at the turn of the 20th century, pretty much took me under his wing when I was 16 years old; and taught me oil painting.

«It is not clear when the essentially formalist notion of inner light became a commonplace in the criticism of Venetian painting of the sixteenth century, but it was certainly a major concern of the Bavarian painter Max Doerner, whose handbook The Materials of the Artist and Their use in Painting, with notes on the Techniques of the Old Masters (1921), had been published in an English translation in New York in 1934 and came to be much used in the circle of the abstract expressionists.

Then 35 years old, the artist was described in the magazine's introductory note as «a young American painter whose two one - man shows at the Kootz Gallery last season were well received.»

Bob Thompson was an African - American figurative painter known for his bold and colorful canvases, whose compositions were appropriated from the Old Masters

A must - visit is the combined rare - books shop and contemporary art gallery Harper's Books, featuring work by Irish painter Genieve Figgis, whose dark, witty parodies of Old Masters and 18th - century paintings are on view through August 10, followed by a group show featuring abstract and near - surreal paintings by Katherine Bradford, Sarah Braman, Al Freeman, and Adrianne Rubenstein (August 13 to September 25).

Today, the gallery prides itself upon the support of artists whose work warrants more widespread attention — 89 - year - old painter Rosalyn Drexler, 72 - year - old artist Howardena Pindell, and the late Paul Feeley among them.

From Roman antiquity to Old Masters to present - day painters, artists whose work masterfully «fools the eye» seems to perenially delight viewers.

Also key to his evolution was the older painter Milton Avery, whose high - keyed, domestic panoramas were strongly influenced by Matisse.

The newly bicoastal gallery also represents a range of artists from young new - media practitioners like Tabor Robak to provocateurs like Santiago Sierra and good old - fashioned painters like Stanley Whitney, whose 2012 show made Raphael Rubinstein's «Top 10 in Painting» in A.i.A. that year.

Of special interest is Lyme Art Colony painter Childe Hassam, whose view of the Church at Old Lyme (1906) will be featured.

The 32 - year - old artist, whose... artists considered for this year's Turner prize were Dutch - born painter Michael...

The Glasgow painter, 49, whose works include gold leaf patterns on gallery walls, is the oldest winner of art...

Curator Michelle Grabner, a painter as well as an academic, has chosen to explore three themes: «art that emphasizes critique and self - reflection» (Gary Indiana); women artists who examine what it means to be a «woman artist» (Louise Fishman, Molly Zuckerman - Hartung); and «materiality and craft» (Sheila Hicks, whose fiber sculptures «push back» at the old notion of art versus craft).

She not only appreciates the early struggles of the older painters, whose efforts expedited acceptance for those following them, but finds a number of qualities in their work that have a profound meaning for her.