Sentences with phrase «other than a painter»

These shows received little notice, but two years later, a 1962 Sidney Janis Gallery exhibition in New York officially launched Pop Art, bringing Thiebaud national recognition, although he disclaimed being anything other than a painter of illusionistic form.

Not exact matches

When fed brain scans produced by students looking at fresh paintings by the same artists, the program correctly identified the painter better than chance alone: it was correct 83 per cent of the time among the six students who were art majors and 62 per cent of the time among the others (NeuroReport, DOI: 10.1097 / WNR.0 b013e3283331322).
When Corrie Painter was diagnosed with cancer six years ago, she did what any other doctoral student in biochemistry would do: She looked up her disease on PubMed, the giant online database of more than 26 million medical papers.
Satirical comedy starring Iwan Rheon and Rupert Grint that reimagines the megalomaniac dictator as an 18 - year - old oddball who dreams of nothing other than becoming a famous painter.
(NOTE: Painters tape is more easily removed than other kinds of masking tape if furniture is marked.)
But of course truth can be stranger than other things, and Neil Gaiman, in Neil Gaiman's Fantasy Painting — here in The Economist's Intelligent Life — doesn't have to embellish a single thing about the painter and writer Richard Dadd's life, 1817 - 1886.
Many newbie writers (and other artisitic people ranging from painters to restauranteurs) are ego - driven, rather than market - driven.
The feminist's first reaction is to swallow the bait, hook, line and sinker, and to attempt to answer the question as it is put: i.e., to dig up examples of worthy or insufficiently appreciated women artists throughout history; to rehabilitate rather modest, if interesting and productive careers; to «re-discover» forgotten flower - painters or David - followers and make out a case for them; to demonstrate that Berthe Morisot was really less dependent on Manet than one had been led to think — in other words, to engage in the normal activity of the specialist scholar who makes a case for the importance of his very own neglected or minor master.
There are no obstacles in the way of a woman becoming a painter or sculptor other than the usual obstacles that any artist has to face.
Given his stature, and because it is for works other than these that Watteau is best known, this exhibition is especially rewarding since it allows for a clear - eyed appraisal of a painter on the cusp of making his greatest works.
It seems clear, to take France in the 19th century as an example, a country which probably had a larger proportion of women artists than any other — that is to say, in terms of their percentage in the total number of artists exhibiting in the Salon — that «women were not accepted as professional painters
Though one of them paints images and the other does not, one might well feel that they have much more in common than either one does with a painter who prefers to work on a grand scale and with reference to important public issues.
René Ricard, another genius of bohemia, called Rice the «greatest living painter of the city, and in his painting there is no other city than New York, black New York.»
To suppose that the fact of the religious painter having a more elevated subject than his brother artist makes it unnecessary for him to consider his picture as an artistic production, or that he can be less thoughtful about a color harmony, for instance, than he who selects any other subject, simply proves that he is less of an artist than he who give the subject his best attention.
I've been struck by the fact that contemporary advertising seems to know more about the kind of visual language Labille - Guiard utilized (and for that matter, Johannes Vermeer and other golden age Dutch painters) than they know about contemporary painting.
In a provocative article titled «The Curious Case of Contemporary Ink Painting» (Art Journal, Fall 2010), art historian Joan Kee has recently suggested that despite being chosen to represent South Korea in international biennials in the 1960s, Suh and other Mungnimhoe painters were marginalized in their own country by being classed as «ink painters» rather than as contemporary artists.
I do not show the same painting in more than one competitive exhibition, and I would suggest other painters do the same.
For the last 40 years of her life she built on the legacy of Matisse circa 1910 - 1916 with more sensitivity and painterly intelligence than any other painter I know of.
Perhaps no other painter is more synonymous with the West Coast than Diebenkorn.
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.
By Peter Dobey The most talked about painter of late has no doubt been none other than George W. Bush.
And they had a different point of view than the other galleries that existed at the time, and they were particularly interested in the Pictures Generation [a loose affiliation of conceptual photographers and painters who emerged in the mid-70s and appropriated media and advertising in their work], which by that time had become almost underground.
But his adaptation of sharp diagonals — an attribute of form mostly foreign to Color Field painters, other than Kenneth Noland's Chevrons (1963 — 64)-- offered Odita the potential to grapple with emotional content through formal conflict.
I can think of few portraits in which a painter's absolute dislike of her subject is made more apparent than in the hatchet job she did on the great poet, curator and critic Frank O'Hara, whose liver - spotted bald head, bared teeth, and mad staring eyes are visible in no other portrait or photo of him I know.
Lu said, «in my opinion, from the ancient time to the present day, every painter uses paint to depict the world other than the paint — no matter figure, still life, landscape, and other things.
LG: More than other still life painters, I sense a deep affinity between your paintings and modern poetry.
Through ongoing, generous donations from Dr. Daum and other patrons, and judicious purchases with funds from an endowment for acquisitions, the museum's permanent collection has grown to encompass more than 1,500 artworks by some of the most highly regarded artists of the past 50 years, including Pop art practitioners, Color Field painters, Neo-Expressionists of the 1980s and 1990s, and artists of diverse practices who have emerged during the last 20 years.
He was far better than Romero, the other Los Four, and decorative Latino painters.
Frankenthaler's reputation as a painter rather than printmaker is consistent with other Abstract Expressionist artists who also worked in printmaking: Pollock, De Kooning, Johns, Mitchell.
Certainly, there are those painters who are doing their job better than the others, and those that we can choose among others due to our preferences.
It is no wonder that one of her major influence is no other than notable painter David Hockney.
A virtual Rorschach test for American culture during the better part of the last century, Wyeth split public opinion as vigorously as, and probably even more so than, any other American painter including the other modern Andy, Warhol, whose milieu was as urban as Wyeth's was rural.
Boasting more than 45 pieces by Calder, 41 by minimalist painter Ellsworth Kelly and 21 by Warhol, the Fishers» treasure trove contains some of the largest numbers of pieces by those individual artists and others.
«Serapis» is unmistakable as the work of any other painter than Gorchov.
Particularly impressive is the three painters painting each other in their own styles, what better way to reflect on your own identity than to paint other artists and see how they paint you.
He has done so in great contrast to his peers, and is known for willingly and repeatedly throwing himself into an aesthetic breech and so has opened up more new and exciting territory within the realm of abstraction than any other painter of his generation.
«This is my big crime, bigger than all the others», he said in 1885, «I have long been buying, and to a very great extent, the works of very original and talented painters, several of whom are real geniuses».
As you move from one collision of modernist styles to another, it makes sense that the painter - sculptor Frank Stella has called Hofmann «the artist of the century,» who «produced more successful color explosions than any other artist.»
Not a muralist but an easel painter, he was a quieter, perhaps less self - promoting figure than the others, and his international reputation didn't really begin to build until the 1940s.
Rather than a simple list of links to other sites the Painters» Table blog roll is categorized (more categories on the way) and each blog or site has a page where you can find posts from that blog featured on this site.
I've heard it expressed by some artists that as a consequence Picasso (through cubism) ends up being more a sculptor than a painter and Matisse (through flatness) more a painter than a sculptor simply because one (Picasso) chose to deal with dimension more than the other even though both worked in the two mediums.
And other than Paul Behnke, I can't think offhand of an American painter who is strongly curious about the history of British abstraction.
Opening: «It's Really Normaling: Brian Belott and Eric Hibit» at Greenwich House Messrs. Belott and Hibit are both color - mad, inexhaustibly inventive painters who regularly seem to be having much more fun than most other artists in this town.
Some abstract painters are harder to fathom than others.
Better than any other painter, Lempicka embodied the Art Deco design style.
There are no symbols, metaphors or hidden meanings (other than the many allusions to painters he appreciated, from Barnett Newman to Munch or Philip Guston to Matisse), just the manifestation of freedom, grace, simplicity and boldness.
Perhaps more than any other sculptor of his generation, he made manifest in his sculpture of the early 50's the whole, abstract and essentially non-Cubist space that was being developed by the Abstract Expressionist painters.
And for Thornton, unlike a rash of other contemporary painters, the work is less about making specific references to art history and calculated departures from it, than in developing a broader vocabulary that draws inspiration from far outside the art world.
During Gowanus Open Studios 2016, which took place on Oct. 15 and 16, more than 350 painters, printmakers, portraitists, sculptors, furniture makers and other artists showed off their work — and their work spaces — to an estimated 5,000 - plus visitors.
Some Americans art historians believed that your work possessed a kind of symbolic and emotional content that reflected the experience of the war more accurately than other painters and, in a way, different form the paintings of the abstract expressionists.
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