Sentences with phrase «only living painter»

The recipient of many honors and awards, Frank Stella is the only living painter to be honored with two retrospective painting exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art.

Not exact matches

The son of a house painter, DeFrancisco has spent his entire life in Syracuse, moving only in the past year to a house in suburban DeWitt.

A win for Mr. Turner, the only film here not to receive a nomination from the CDG, would be the second for a Mike Leigh production, though the film's handsome but drab vision of painter J.M.W. Turner's life is in sharp contrast to Topsy - Turvy's opulent view of life in the Victorian theater.

Eisenman is a fantastical painter of everyday life who depicts what only she can imagine as though it were a self - evident reality.

The death of Cy Twombly today is a shock, not only because he was one of the greatest living painters but because he was a contemporary - continuing, until the last, to make and show new work.

Only in 1942 did he finally settle into the life of a painter.

My life as a painter began in the late 1950s when abstraction was «The only game in town».

Screening: «John Maybury's Read Only Memory» at Le Petit Versailles From the maker Francis Bacon biopic «Love is the Devil,» and the famous Sinead O'Conner music video «Nothing Compares 2 U,» comes «Read Only Memory,» documentary of the fabulous life of Australian performance artist and London underground celeb Leigh Bowery, who danced for choreographer Michael Clark, modeled for painter Lucian Freud, and was one of the most photographed, influential, and outrageous fashion icons of the 1980s and «90s.

The show took its title not only from T.J. Clark's The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers (1985) but also from The Painter of Modern Life (1863), Charles Baudelaire's great call for art to embrace the changes of modernity while keeping its distance.

Only one finalist, Glenn Brown, is actually British, although the other three - German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, Dutch painter Michael Raedecker and Japanese installation artist Tomoko Takahashi - all live and work in Britain.

In the late 50's Life magazine pronounced her «the most celebrated of the young American women painters,» Newsweek featured her in a column next to one about Judy Garland, and she was the only woman represented in «The New American Painting» exhibition that introduced contemporary American art to Europe in 1958 - 59.

It seems among living painters in France, I am now the second - best seller; only Pierre Soulages sells for more.

... The pressure of continual questioning about his art was combined with the apprehension of seeing it arrayed in a single space; «only painters and sculptors are subject to seeing their life work taken in a few glances, in a few seconds».

In 1977 Marc Chagall became the only living French painter to hold the highest French decoration — the Cross of the Legion of Honour.

Not only a visionary architect, urban planner and theorist of modernity, but also a painter and sculptor, Le Corbusier made a profound impression on the 20th century in dramatically changing architectural design and the way people lived in it.

The Mexican state glimmers like a world beyond ours, something that only lives in a dimension past the stars or the romantic portraits of rare sanguine painters.

Kertess nominally shares the apartment with Billy Sullivan, a 49 - year - old figurative painter with whom he has lived for 17 years — although Sullivan maintains a separate studio in lower Manhattan and the two have a fully merged household only in East Hampton, where they spend weekends and summers.

An active member of the New York School of painters, Sterne was also one of the artists known as the «Irascibles», who protested against the Metropolitan Museum of Art's policy on American painting of the 1940s and who was included in a now iconic photograph for Life magazine in 1951; Sterne, notably, is the only woman in the image.

From Goodwin's struggle to Hesse's play on to Agnes Martin, the great abstract painter we Canadians are always so quick to claim — she was born in tiny Macklem, Sask., though she lived most of her life in America, and the last several decades outside Taos, N.M., until her death in 2004 — you can stretch, but only a little, to find a continuum.

Although the story goes that post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), sold only one painting during his short life, different theories exist.

They also note that the museum has scheduled only two painting and sculpture exhibitions on living artists: the painter Lee Krasner and the sculptor Richard Serra.

And he was instrumental in the founding of The Ten American Painters in 1898, although he only lived four more years; his place taken in 1902 by William Merritt Chase.

That abruptly changed in 1982, when curator Deborah Wye organized a Bourgeois retrospective at MoMA, only the institution's second devoted to a living woman sculptor or painter.

Also a painter of landscapes, still - lifes and portraits, Morris was the only person of his generation to achieve national stature both as a painter and a plantsman.

There was only one British - born candidate on this year's list, Glenn Brown, a painter, but all four artists live and work in London.

(10) It would be better for Britain to support living artists than raise millions to save Old Master paintings from going abroad; (11) In general, buy art for pleasure, not as an investment; (12) Few video artists have improved on works by the great pioneers of video art, namely: Bruce Nauman, Andy Warhol, Vito Acconci, Joan Jonas etc; (13) Blue Electric Chair is Any Warhol's best painting; (14) His favourite non-blockbuster art show was Clyfford Still's retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, NY, (Nov 1979 - Feb 1980); (15) The fact that only 5 of the last 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters, says more about curators than about the state of painting today.

The exhibition at MOMA - the only major show this season at a New York museum to be devoted to the work of a living abstract painter - comes at a crucial moment.

The painter Nick Payne — who has a series of his drawings and watercolors in the show — hails from Canada, which gave me a good excuse to talk to him about one of my only true passions in life: Canadian fast - food chains.