Sentences with phrase «paintings by the musician»

In too many instances, «sound works» by visual artists are full - on groaners: cliché ridden, ignorant of music history or structure, and about as useful as paintings by musicians.

A retrospective of sculptures and paintings by the musician.

Not exact matches

Theory # 2: She was amused by the musicians and clowns who entertained her while Leonardo painted her.

Echotone (Unrated) Cultural portrait of Austin, Texas as painted by members of the city's creative class, struggling musicians balancing artistic integrity against the idea of making concessions to the demands of commercialism.

Festivities at the Santa Barbara waterfront and Stearns Wharf (11AM - 9PM), including favorite food vendors, and a music variety show featuring local musicians hosted by John Palminteri, as well as local shops, face painting, and live band, Tequila Mockingbird, on the wharf.

The artists chosen by von Heyl span a period from a 1928 drawing by Isobel Steele MacKinnon, a Chicago painter who studied in Munich with Hans Hofmann, to a 1968 frottage by Dominick Di Meo, a recent assemblage by Wuppertal - based musician / artist Peter Brötzmann, film posters by Josiah McElheny, a new painting by Molly Zuckerman - Hartung, and much more.

The Black Arts Movement, formally established in 1965 by a group of politically motivated poets, artists, and musicians, had little use for abstract painting.

Tucked away in the back galleries are some of the exhibition's greatest showstoppers, including a mesmerizing painting by Ukraine - born Shimon Okshteyn; two red - drip paintings by Israeli - born, East Hampton - based poet, musician and painter Haim Mizrahi; and an abstract painting by another East End musician and artist, David Demers.

An independent group inspired by the performances of improvisational jazz musicians, its objective was to recreate the process of composing jazz and discover whether painting could, like music, be a collaborative process.

Co-curated by musician and painter Scott Avett, lead singer of the folk - rock band The Avett Brothers, and David Kratz, president of the New York Academy of Art, ABOUT FACE, which will feature sculpture, paintings, and photographs, brings celebrated artists, many from the East End, together with emerging artists to examine the diverse ways human beings are presented in portraiture today.

His work has been recently introduced to the American public by guest curator Steve Martin, the well - known actor, writer, comedian, and musician, along with the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the Ontario Museum, in an exhibit titled The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris.

A hand - painted boat languidly sails on the lagoon, occupied by a group of musicians performing ethereal music by Kjartan Sveinsson, in this performance of Ragnar Kjartansson's kinetic sound sculpture S.S. Hangover.

The Directors of the FCA were joined in the grant selection process by composer, musician, and co-founder of Bang on a Can Michael Gordon; performance maker and writer Clarinda Mac Low; dance - based multidisciplinary artist Dean Moss; and Associate Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art Yasmil Raymond.

Join us for a special sunset performance of Ragnar Kjartansson's kinetic sound sculpture S.S. Hangover, as a hand - painted boat languidly sails on the lagoon, occupied by a group of musicians performing ethereal music by Kjartan Sveinsson.

Some of Johanson's words and compositions feel like heirlooms from a long and ragtag coastal tradition of poets, artists, and musicians: Wallace Berman's mystical photocopies and seminal Semina culture; the poem - paintings of Kenneth Patchen; the beaming peacenik posters of Sister Corita Kent; the blurring between art and life embodied by Allan Kaprow (the subject of a 2008 MOCA retrospective); all filtered through the dirty socks of punk and the wondrous messy freedom that tumbled out of that.

The Letter Paintings, by incorporating the names of mainly male and female African - American musicians, undermined prevailing aesthetic categories by conflating many contemporary movements including Conceptual Art, Color Field, Pattern and Decoration, diary entry and social commentary.

Exhibition: August 14 through September 11, 2010 In this recent body of paintings, Population, by artist and musician Tim Evans, we regard figures of discord — victims or willing limbs of the sociopolitical corpus.

A time capsule group of eight paintings and drawings by Jean - Michel Basquiat from the collection of the actor, producer and musician Johnny Depp attests to his understanding and engagement with one of the icons of 20th - century painting.

Yellow Ranch (Rancho Amarillo) / ROCI CUBA (1988), a painting by Robert Rauschenberg, although Édouard Manet's The Old Musician (1862) is a close second.

In 1959, inspired by reproductions by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, Blake began to paint collage - like pictures of musicians and filmstars and to produce assemblages made of recycled material, postcards and other items.

Taken as a whole, his work defies a singular style, and in his drawings, paintings, and sculptures, Aldrich is able to move effortlessly between figuration, abstraction, and representation — often combining imagery variously inspired by people and places close to him, visual artists, writers, and musicians whom he finds interesting, and experiences drawn from his everyday life.

Everybody Likes to Dance, Customized disco balls, hand - painted dance floor, audio tracks by five musicians, newspaper poster, 2010.

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.

Night Train, a series of multi-media panel paintings by Linda Cohn is inspired in part by the rhythm of jazz musician Duke Ellington and sleepless nights steeped in thought.

Other strong influences on Mizrahi's paintings and sculptures were made by poets, musicians and artists from more recent Hamptons creatives.

Inspired by his own spell as a musician, and realising how much he'd miss the intensity of performing when he returned to making art full time, he decided to create paintings that satisfy the adrenalin and animalistic frenzy he still craved.

As the story goes, Mehretu was paid visits while working there by her friend Jason Moran, a decorated jazz musician who would hang out on the balcony and play electric piano while she painted.

There are jazzy paintings by the Dutch artist Sedje Hémon that can be read as musical scores; paintings, texts, and scores by the great egalitarian Englishman Cornelius Cardew, who assembled orchestras that included untrained musicians; a video by Ross Birrell and David Harding of a performance of Henryk Górecki's effective but schlocky neo-Romantic Symphony of Sorrowful Songs; the avant - gardism of Avraamov; corny instruments fashioned by Nevin Aladağ from everyday objects; performances of work by the esteemed queer minimalist Julius Eastman; austere and inventive pieces by Alvin Lucier; and many more.

Leading contemporary musicians and sound artists compose exclusive, new works inspired by paintings from the collection

The name (Orpheus was a mythological poet and musician of ancient Greece) was coined by French art critic Guillaume Apollinaire when describing the «musical» effect of the abstract paintings by the Cubist Robert Delaunay (which comprised overlapping planes of contrasting or complementary colours) in order to distinguish them from Cubism generally.

Painter, sculptor, poet, and musician Larry Rivers was an established figure in the New York School, recognized for creating large paintings merging abstract and narrative elements, as in Washington Crossing the Delaware (1953), where the general leads his men through a space defined by murky oil washes and broad gestural brushwork.

British artist Helen Bur stands by her mural painting of Funmilayo Ransome - Kuti, the mother of the late Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, which was commissioned for Dak» Art.

Here, they are harlequins, young female acrobats, men in djellabas, a silhouette stretched out beneath a fire... In other paintings we find women in kimonos, musicians, silhouettes shaded by parasols.

Opening: «Noah Becker: Fun Drugs» at Amy Li Projects An artist, musician, writer and documentary filmmaker, Noah Becker is known for his realistic paintings inspired by popular culture.

The «mark of the drama»; the stir of the human spirit shaped in the world of Abstract Expressionism, Color Fields, and the paintings building psychic images of the «DADA» period («Art for Arts sake»), movement influenced by the art of music, musicians, poets — the longing to explore and invent time — abstractions.

A keen drummer, he was a member and with Frank Wollny co-founder of the free jazz group Triple Trip Touch (aka T.T.T. or TTT) and took every opportunity to play with some of the best Jazz musicians of the late 1980s including Butch Morris, Frank Wright, Billy Bang, Louis Moholo and Frank Lowe, organising events at his country mansion in Heimbach in 1990 involving installations by Lennie Lee, performances by Anna Homler and paintings by Christine Kuhn.

As Snow himself has explained, «My paintings are done by a filmmaker, sculpture by a musician, films by a painter -LSB-...] sometimes they all work together.»

Paintings such as Folk Musicians (1942) and The Visitation (1941) are examples of Bearden's depictions of agrarian life, as well as his portrayal of emotional bonds common to all humanity, but particularly informed by an African - American experience.

The exhibition debuts work by JaH - HaHa, a collaboration between artist Jeff Huntington and musician Jimi Haha, whose work features paintings of young Keith Richards and Mick Jagger on sheets of music.

This is the artist's first exhibition in Los Angeles and presents new paintings, soft sculptures and a room of experience — an immersive installation that fills nearly half of the gallery with colorful plastic spheres and features a soundscape by Brazilian musician Rodrigo Amarante.

Guests can enjoy a reception with the artist, create their own artwork alongside the artist using paint, brush, and collage techniques, and enjoy special performance art by Three EyEs, featuring musician gamin and movement by Jungwoon Kim and Germaine Ingram.

Their work has a directness that short circuits concept and fashion, and encourages an engagement with the materiality of the work and the felt experience of it; they are John Eaves RWA, from Bath; Frank Bowling RA, OBE, who works in London and New York; Patrick Jones, based in the Exmouth area, and John Bunker, from London Curated by Nick Moore, Bristol - based painter, musician and writer, the title of the exhibition derives from associations such as deep, profound, personal, direct, close; all words one could use to describe the qualities of these small abstract paintings.

A group of recent paintings came out of listening to the same set of CDs in my car for months: Chris Bell's «I am the Cosmos,» two Alex Chilton records, Liz Phair's first album, «Exile in Guyville,» «Led Zeppelin III,» and a new album by the painter - musician Christopher Mir.

This exhibition — guest curated by collector, actor, writer, and musician Steve Martin and organized by the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles) and the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto)-- will include approximately 30 major paintings of Harris's idealized northern landscapes from the 1920s and 1930s, one of the most significant periods of the artist's career.

This past weekend, we checked out the book / 10» collaborative project between artist Ashley Macomber and musician / actor / artist Bonnie «Prince» Billy, Afternoon, and found a lot of the paintings by Mac