Sentences with phrase «other classical artists»

For example, it's much better for you to spend your money on CDs so your child can listen to Beethoven or other classical artists while they are playing.

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Located in the Riverside Hotel, the Sapphire Room is a swanky bar and music venue that seats up to 170 people and features performances by jazz, blues, classical, and pop artists, among others.

Continuing a strategy regularly employed by the artist, the artworks themselves will be fabricated by others: studio assistants, classical Chinese craftsmen, and volunteer citizens, adding a participatory element to the project that is characteristic of Ai's work.

After meeting en route to the opening of «Red Eye: Artists From the Rubell Family Collection,» the two discovered other common interests, including popular music (the Beatles, the Smiths, Led Zeppelin) and the most classical inspiration in all of Western art — the human form.

Most artists until this turning point painted according to Classical Realism methods, using realistic perspective, shading, and other techniques to create recognizable scenes and subject matter.

Perhaps no other artist merges classical beauty and provocative politics like Lorna Simpson.

Other leading contemporary artists to have built upon the historic and the classical to create something wholly new include Jeff Koons at Almine Rech Gallery, and, more recently, Mat Collishaw at Robiland + Voenna, with four mirror works that engage with paintings by Caravaggio in the Galleria Borghesa's permanent collection in Rome.

Similarly, the artist includes other common mythological and nationalistic symbols such as classical columns and eagles, important to many different cultures.

She performs classical, experimental and improvised music in solo shows as well as in collaboration with other artists.

His work combines the classical ballet of his training with the music of David Bowie, Wire, and The Fall, amongst others, and collaborations with artists and designers such as Sarah Lucas, Peter Doig, Leigh Bowery, and Bodymap have all been part of this ongoing history.

As the artist explained, «if my Abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still - lives show my yearning... though these pictures are motivated by the dream of classical order and a pristine world - by nostalgia in other words — the anachronism in them takes on a subversive and contemporary quality» (G. Richter, quoted in A. Zweite (ed.)

Coinciding with the first ecological movements in the USA and Europe, Land Art was first created in the 1960s by artists working concurrently but sepa - rately from each other, as a critical reaction to the classical genre of sculpture and the commercial art market.

Whether through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, or other media, contemporary artists have drawn on the centuries - old tradition to create works of conceptual vivacity, beauty, and emotional poignancy in the present time.Structured according to the classical categories of the still - life tradition — Flora, Food, House and Home, Fauna, and Death, each chapter in Michael Petry's book explores how the timeless symbolic resonance of the memento mori, has been rediscovered for a new millennium.

Already, many sixties artists have taken on, for me, this classical stature — Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Don Judd, Robert Morris, Kenneth Noland, among others — which feels more like past than present...» Nevertheless, many of the assumptions which were first propounded about the style — or what was commonly claimed, the non-style — of Minimalism (née Cool Art, The Third Stream, Post Geometric Structures, ABC Art, Object Sculpture, Specific Objects, Primary Structures, or Art of the Real) have remained unchallenged for over a decade.

The grand special exhibition on occasion of the inauguration of the enlarged Kunstmuseum Basel will map the medium's extraordinarily dynamic evolution: the classical idea and form of sculpture grows more flexible and abstract as some artists integrate the trivial stuff of everyday life into their art or blur its spatial and conceptual boundaries, even as others return to the figurative tradition in an effort to set the genre on a new solid foundation.

In some ways Abrahams was a classical artist (he once stated boldly: «in my work there is no self expression — no anthropomorphism»), and in others he was the epitome of the romantic, drawn ineffably to the sublime, But at the last moment he was always saved by his sense of the ridiculous, and the originality of his spirit triumphs over generalizations.

In Italian artist Giulio Paolini's «The Other Figure (L' altra Figura)» from 1984, two classical busts are looking down at a shattered classical bust on the floor.

Fischli focused on the creative processes of two characteristic representatives of Swiss art: one a celebrated and pivotal master of the transition to Modernism, the other an artist from the post-war generation who brought new ideas to bear following the end of a Modernism become classical.

Based on Contempt, Cheryl Donegan's Line, 1996, does not, the artist maintains, «seek to analyze or critique the Godard film, but to use it as a... classical language through which other stories can be told.»

Among the highlights will be the social practice artist Theaster Gates singing his own rendition of «God Bless America,» «The Battle Hymn of the Republic» and other traditional patriotic tunes; the filmmaker Arthur Jafa presenting his lauded short movie about racism, «Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death»; the artist Shirin Neshat showing films about violence against women; the composer David Lang performing and also speaking about «danger and honesty in both pop and classical music»; the poet Elizabeth Alexander reading her own work; and the artist Hank Willis Thomas presenting and discussing his film «A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else» (2014) on James Baldwin.

With À la Lumière des Deux Mondes (At the Light of Both Worlds, 2005), a site - specific work created for the Louvre's glass pyramid — the first time a contemporary artist had exhibited in the institution — Tunga used one of the building's columns as a pivot on which various symbolically charged objects were balanced: gold and black skulls and a giant walking stick intertwined with braided hair on one side; a chain of skulls caught in a dark net falling towards a floor littered with golden and black reproductions of heads from the Louvre's classical sculptures on the other.

Other works on view include a suite of watercolors by Guo Hongwei, combining his renderings of American iconography with his father's calligraphy of Chinese classical poems; Chen Wei's staged photographs in the traditions of Gregory Crewdson and Cindy Sherman; a thick - imexhibitionso floral - patterned diptych by Liang Yuanwei, exhibitionsly featured in the Chinese pavilion at the 54th Biennale di Venezia; Cheng Ran's romantically staged photos of the Hollywood sign, commenting on the role cinema has played in shaping the image of America in the psyche of younger Chinese generations; the American premiere of Sun Xun's 21 Grams, a four - year long animation project reflecting on history, social struggles and dystopia; and Hu Xiangqian's Art Museum, a video presentation of the «collection» of Western artworks that have inspired the artist's creative language but that he's never seen in person or fully understood.

• For details of other classical expressionists, see: Irish Artists: Paintings and Biographies.

Some artists, such as Richard Wilson, painted idealized scenes imbued with the spirit of the classical past, while others, such as Joseph Wright of Derby, pursued more individual and personal visions of the natural world.

His work, which incorporates romantic and classical imagery, finds inspiration in youth and Goth culture, fashion layouts, and books, among them the Hardy Boys series, as well as the work of Wilde, Huysmans, and other writers of the Aesthetic and Decadent period of literature reimagined from the perspective of a young gay artist.

Curated by art historian John Wilmerding, this outstanding - sounding group show, which examines how Pop artists broadened the scope of classical still life to include sculpture and other new media, includes over 75 artworks from an all - star list of artists from Jasper Johns and Jeff Koons to Wayne Thiebaud and Andy Warhol.

In close dialogue with Elizabeth Neilson, curator of the exhibition and director of the Zabludowicz Collection, Mirza will rework these two installations owned by the Collection to create a new exhibition which will explore not only the landmark building — its classical architecture and impressive scale — but also the works of other artists in the Collection itself, selecting artworks to incorporate into a unique display within the 19th century former chapel.

Coinciding with the classical Arcadian landscapes of Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin, working in Rome, the Dutch school began to produce great examples of Baroque landscape painting, of which the finest works were created by Jacob van Ruisdael (c.1628 - 82) and his pupil Meindert Hobbema (1638 - 1703); other top artists included Philips de Koninck (1619 - 88) who specialized in large - size panoramic views; and Aelbert Cuyp (1620 - 91) noted for his soft light and impastoed highlights.

Like other Pre-Raphaelite artists such as William Holman Hunt (1827 - 1910), Rossetti was in favour of the aesthetics, classical poses and natural compositions of Raphael (1483 - 1520) and his predecessors.

The painting, whose reclining figure «has a sensuous, alluring posture, looks back at the classical traditions of the nude in a very different way» than in the treatment of similar subjects by other artists.

Some writers have concentrated on the materiality of the artist's mark as aggressive, often illegible graffiti; others have followed the classical allusions to ferret out the references.