Sentences with phrase «painter friends like»

During the 1950's, while Ms. Freilicher's painter friends like Mr. Rivers were carousing through lower Manhattan, she was quietly doing her own work, almost in secret, though she also sometimes partied with her friends.

I also have great painter friends like Marilyn Minter.

Not exact matches

Like the writers, painters, musicians, and philosophers of Romanticism and Modernism that influence, challenge, and comfort him, my artist friend holds a very high view of art.

friends had been lawyers like myself, painters like my first sponsor, warehousemen like his sponsor, teachers like my room mate, or «consultants» (a handy AA.

Her friend Vicky (Rebecca Hall), on the other hand, the feminist whom Juan offends with his indecent proposal for a «menage a trois» with herself and Cristina, denies the attraction and magnetic pull of the painter's sexual aura, because she's been fully indoctrinated by an ideology that's supposed to function like an amulet against the evils of subjugation.

As a book cover designer, I'm resistant to the fundamental principle (it's like putting a Van Gogh next to a Dali, and then counting up which artist has the most friends and declaring the winner the best painter).

As Stella's longtime friend the painter Larry Poons puts it, «Do Beethoven's first efforts sound like his last ones?

We know from the titles of the related paintings that these compositions refer to trees, most specifically cypresses, perhaps silhouetted against the sky in favorite places like Calvi and Girolata in Corsica that she visited during summers sailing on the Mediterranean with her companion, painter Jean Paul Riopelle, his daughters and a coterie of friends.

His recent paintings reminded me of a discussion I had ten years ago with a painter friend who, unconvinced by Turner's work at that time, said, «I like what they're about, but I don't like how they're made.»

I was a product of my environment, heavily influenced and inspired by my friends — mostly artists and musicians — like Patrick Abbey, a painter; Thomas Lauderdale, a musician and lead of Pink Martini; and Chris Stark, a photographer.

In partnership with painter friends Howard Smythe and Don McAree, Poons ran a coffee shop, the Epitome, on Bleecker Street, which became a favorite watering hole for Beat Generation artists and writers, including prominent figures like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.

Painters like Karen Kilimnik made work stemming from the influence of popular culture, creating cursory celebrity portraits, while Elizabeth Peyton took the practice a step further by painting portraits of celebs, musicians, and European monarchs alongside her significant others and members of her social circle, entrenching mass culture's idolization of celebrity in the realm of fine art while at the same time elevating her friends to celebrity status.

Fellow African - American abstractionists like the painter's friend Stanley Whitney — who has a show of his wavy grids currently up at the Studio Museum in Harlem — and Jack Whitten — who showed his lush abstract paintings at Alexander Gray Associates in 2013 to raves — are also being rediscovered one by one as personal and painterly alternatives to Identity Art are sought.

Like his friends Walter Ufer and Victor Higgins, fellow Chicago painters who preceded him to Taos, Hennings was inspired to change his style radically under the influence of the region's strong color and light.

In paintinglike works he makes by sandwiching three - dimensional objects between glass and foam board, he sometimes incorporates pieces by friends, like the painter Sascha Braunig and the sculptor Nancy Lupo.

Later, Rosenberg published further collections of essays, including Discovering the Present (1973), and Art on the Edge (1975), as well as several individual studies of abstract painters like his friend Saul Steinberg (1978).

Nela Arias also became a close friend of Walasse Ting, an abstract - expressionist painter (with whom she collaborated on several works) known for authoring art books that included the participation of artists like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann, James Rosenquist, Asger Jorn, Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Kiki Kogelnik, Joan Mitchell, and Sam Francis.

Bartlett: I never responded to his paintings like the way many of my friends did at Yale (Morandi was the favorite painter when I was there).

A friend of the French Intimist painters Edouard Vuillard (1868 - 1940) and Pierre Bonnard (1867 — 1947), Prendergast's personal «mosaic» style employed contrasting, jewel - like colors, and patternlike flat areas of unmodulated colour.

RF: Recently, an old painter friend of mine told me that I use color amounts like an abstract painter.

Taking the same approach as the gallery's prior «Painters and Poets» exhibition, this show looks at the work of New York School painter Jane Freilicher, who was both friend and muse to renowned writers like Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery.

He was asked why he hadn't become an abstract painter like his friends.