Sentences with phrase «paintings of a long career»

Rather than relax into a well - deserved formula, Thiebaud has pushed his exploration of abstraction in them, creating some of the most rigorously structured, sumptuously colored and beautiful paintings of a long career.

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But that was just one small element of his long career producing abstract paintings and print work for the likes of the ICI, the Arts Council, the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Robert Fraser Gallery.

Green and Winters discuss «The evolution of [Winters»] palette over the years and how he comes to color» as well as the «importance of printmaking to his overall practice, and how his intense, career - long focus on that medium informs the way he makes paintings.»

Rose Sharp writes that Goodman's oeuvre «is a little bit difficult to sum up, perhaps, because over the course of this long and productive career, her creative output has vacillated between painting and drawing (with forays into three - dimensional constructions); smooth surfaces and chaotic buildup on canvas; and intimate small - scale works and jaw - dropping large paintings that grab your eye from across the room.

The late Helen Frankenthaler famously «departed» from Jackson Pollock with her early stain paintings in the 1950s, but she kept on making departures for the rest of her long, innovative career.

By the time Untitled III was featured with three other paintings of the «Untitled series» (I, IV) in the 1981 Whitney Biennial, it was clear that Untitled III was among the most scintillating of the master's tableaux, a «landscape» from a catalytic moment in his by - then five - decade long career.

There's a cluster of art about Charlie Manson, and then you'll be confronted by a large corner dominated by beautiful paintings of giant waves, trains, Gumby, Batman, and other motifs Ray has worked with during his decades - long career (he's 59 and has been drawing as long as he can remember).

«JACK WHITTEN: Five Decades of Painting» Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, Calif. Sept. 20, 2014 — Jan. 4, 2015 Jack Whitten's approach to abstraction is distinct, defined by his career - long commitment to evolving his practice.

This exhibition focuses on her early abstract metal sculptures and paintings as a starting point for future examination of a long and continuously inventive career.

Born in Galveston, Texas in 1946, Jones has created a distinctive body of abstract paintings in his long and illustrious career.

Over the course of her young career, Erika Keck has been steadily minimizing canvas (or other traditional backing) in her paintings, composing instead with long, sticky - shiny stripes of acrylic paint, draped across stretcher bars or other structures.

The display will include works that span his long and productive career, from the figurative paintings of the 1940s to the Perspex square reliefs he made in his later years, which will be displayed across the ground floor of the gallery.

Within these paintings, which embody both the radiance of life and the sublimity of death, motifs from Kusama's earliest works are often echoed, giving evidence to the singular vision that has driven her over the course of her long career.

David Hockney RA, has distinguished himself throughout his long and successful career as a gifted draughtsman; his confidence and strength of line characterises his work from single line portrait studies, to large scale paintings of LA in the 60s.

Although she is collected by the Met and other major museums, the Williamsburg - based painter Katherine Bradford has long enjoyed a quiet, solid career, selling her paintings to a modest group of collectors who supported her.

Realising that the inner band epitomised her career - long aim to demonstrate how dramatically perception affects our experience, she began a series of White Inner Band paintings in 1999.

25, 2016), this long - awaited volume includes images of more than 100 paintings — portraits, landscapes and interiors — from throughout Marshall's 35 - year career and essays by the artist, Elizabeth Alexander, and Helen Molesworth, among others.

The exhibition which will take place in The Sackler Wing will consist of recent portrait paintings, which will revisit the genre which has played such a major part across his long career.

Her «thing» is a little bit difficult to sum up, perhaps, because over the course of this long and productive career, her creative output has vacillated between painting and drawing (with forays into three - dimensional constructions); smooth surfaces and chaotic buildup on canvas; and intimate small - scale works and jaw - dropping large paintings that grab your eye from across the room.

Very few of the female painters who've won long - term careers have painted in expressionistic or more unleashed ways, deploying high - keyed color or ropy surfaces, or painting in ways that strike people as irrational, out of control, or non-cerebral.

This compact show touched on the long arc of Mitchell's career, from her early, calligraphic slashes in the 1950s, when she was painting in a studio off St. Marks Place in New York and drinking with the AbEx boys, through her time in Paris in the»60s, and, until her death in 1992, in the French countryside at an estate with an overgrown garden and a

Cast in bronze composite and painted with color - shifting automotive paint, the large sculptures are in one sense the culmination of Price's long career and in another the beginning of a new path cut tragically short.

These paintings, numbering almost two hundred works, are testament to a long and fascinating career of inventiveness, experimentation, and radical development in the production of art.

A fully illustrated catalogue includes essays that examine Diebenkorn's interactions with Matisse's work throughout his long career by Matisse / Diebenkorn co-curators Katy Rothkopf, BMA Senior Curator of European Painting & Sculpture, and Janet Bishop, SFMOMA Thomas Weisel Family Curator of Painting and Sculpture.

Thomas began her career as a commercial artist, art director and illustrator, and switched to painting full time in the early 1980s, inspired by her move to the East End of Long Island.

Capogrossi: A Retrospective brings together over seventy paintings and drawings in a long overdue examination of the artist's career.

Like the softly repeated murmur of a prayer, there's something both comforting and conservative in Giorgio Morandi's career - long affinity for painting small still lifes of bottles, vases and other objects arranged in his studio.

Known for his investigations of identity and a career - long engagement with ideas of power, authority, artifice and illusion, Mark Wallinger works in a wide range of media, covering painting, sculpture, photography, film, installation, performance and public art.

He painted his first mural in 1923, the beginning of a long career that would make him famous throughout Mexico and the United States.

In his three - decades - long career, Peter Doig has established himself as one of the most inventive and accomplished artists working in painting today.

This was the period of his Woman paintings, which were to remain his most celebrated series, and fame was not long delayed; though, ironically, nothing gave his career a greater boost than a letter in 1955 by the millionaire Huntington Hartford, a bitter condemnation which was run as a full - page advertisement in every major American newspaper.

Police executions, war crimes, torture, and terrorism are just a few of the gut - wrenching themes of the artist Leon Golub, who over his long career channeled the outrage of his political activism into raw paintings.

-- Lucas Samaras «During the first three decades of his long career, American artist Lucas Samaras (b. 1936 in Greece) turned to pastel to produce small, intimate works that explored themes present in his better - known paintings, sculptures, and installations.

In tandem with an independently organized retrospective at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, this hometown survey of Fishman's fifty - year - long career features the painter's esteemed large - scale gestural abstractions alongside a selection of intimate studio investigations — an assortment of miniature paintings, sketchbooks, and small sculptures — that share the same physicality and unapologetic emotional punch as her bigger, iconic works.

Quiñones has put an interesting twist on work that otherwise could be viewed as a footnote to the long career of photographer Aaron Siskind, whose curling paint images posited him well within abstract expressionism.

Throughout his career, Dan Colen has engaged in long periods of material experimentation, gradually deconstructing the essence of painting.

Although Pousette - Dart (1916 Saint - Paul, Minnesota, USA - 1992 Suffern, New York, USA) created several distinct series of paintings during his long career as an Abstract Expressionist painter, his monochromatic series called Presences spanning the late 1950s through the early 1990s, was among his most powerful.

The exhibition features highlights from the artist's long, distinguished career, including monumental paintings from many of his most important series as well as intimate prints and drawings, many of which strike a delicate balance between eroticism and violence, life and mortality.

Already trained in architecture before arriving in Weimar, Schawinsky worked in everything over the course of his long career, from theater and music to photography, painting, and graphic design.

A selection of recent paintings demonstrate the rich and bold palette that has gained international attention in recent years for an artist who has a long, successful career as a writer and poet.

As the art historian Éric de Chassey notes, these new compositions «not only enter into a dialogue with the 1960s works, but take stock of every painting experience Riley has created during a long career.

Bronze sculptures, embroideries, paintings and gouaches are on display inside, the latest products of Emin's career - long act of self - examination.

In these paintings, McCarthy continues his career - long probing of what happens when human drives and desires meet archetypal American narratives like Snow White or the Western.

Bowling has continued to push the boundaries of painting throughout his long career.

Since then, Miller has launched a career that has resulted in over twenty solo and numerous group exhibitions in the United States and internationally, and his paintings are currently among the most widely collected works between the East End of Long Island and New York City.

Building his career at the fabled Ferus Gallery on La Cienega Blvd that launched West Coast Pop Art with his enigmatic word paintings before moving on to become one of the world's leading artists renowned for his ultra-flat (long before there was a «Superflat») paintings of gas stations, snow - capped mountains, & soft focus silhouettes.

Over the course of his long career, Norman became best known for his highly detailed paintings, which offered powerful critiques of inhumanity and social injustice.

Featuring more than seventy - five paintings by Monet, this innovative exhibition spans his long career from its beginnings in the mid-1860s to the public display of his Venice paintings in 1912.

The good news is that Ford and I had worked together in advertising long before he resurrected his painting career, so we always had a sense of humor on both the delivery and reception of these brusque critiques.

Although Kazuo Nakamura is best known for his pioneering abstract paintings of the 1950s, his long career in art is currently being re-evaluated.