Sentences with phrase «period as a painter»

Towards the end of his period as a painter, Lueg used phosphorescent color on canvases so that the spectator would cast a shadow onto pictures, thus creating their own imagery.

Amorales took to performance art while a student at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in 1996, after spending a brief period as a painter, a practice he found too solitary.

That was the year she turned 73 and began her most productive period as a painter.

Jones had four distinct periods as a painter; in Paris and London before the war, in Spain in the 1950s, Morocco in the 1960s and after that — although she retained her studio in Chelsea — mainly in Dorset with occasional visits abroad, especially to Vevey and Zurich.

Not exact matches

Timothy Spall was named best actor for his turn as British painter JMW Turner in Mike Leigh biopic Mr Turner, while Marion Cotillard won best actress for her performances in harrowing James Gray period drama The Immigrant and the Dardenne brothers» Cannes hit Two Days, One Night.

A period drama refreshingly free of pomposity and starch, Mike Leigh's biopic stars Timothy Spall as J.M Turner, the great 19th century English landscape painter, and examines his later years.

Deemed the «painter of light,» Turner's mastery work in oil and watercolor specializing in seaside landscapes gained great recognition as a Romantic period standard - bearer, predating the Impressionism that followed.

As disparate as the artistic approaches appear to be in Rothko to Richter, what united the painters throughout the period was a commitment to process, as artists explored a range of brushwork techniques, from audaciously gestural ribbons of built - up paint to vibrating fields and soft washes of color to hard - edged geometrieAs disparate as the artistic approaches appear to be in Rothko to Richter, what united the painters throughout the period was a commitment to process, as artists explored a range of brushwork techniques, from audaciously gestural ribbons of built - up paint to vibrating fields and soft washes of color to hard - edged geometrieas the artistic approaches appear to be in Rothko to Richter, what united the painters throughout the period was a commitment to process, as artists explored a range of brushwork techniques, from audaciously gestural ribbons of built - up paint to vibrating fields and soft washes of color to hard - edged geometrieas artists explored a range of brushwork techniques, from audaciously gestural ribbons of built - up paint to vibrating fields and soft washes of color to hard - edged geometries.

During the same period of the late 1960s, and early 1970s in Europe, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer [49] and several other painters also began producing works of intense expression, merging abstraction with images, incorporating landscape imagery, and figuration that by the late 1970s was referred to as Neo-expressionism.

The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore present an exhibition featuring works from every period in painter Alma Thomas's career, including rarely exhibited watercolors and early abstractions, as well as her signature canvases drawn from a variety of private and public collections.

(She also links the birth of the Mungnimhoe style to a traumatic period of Korean history, noting that the Ink Forest painters grew up under Japanese occupation and that for them «ink painting was an opportunity through which to free the mark from what its members saw as the obligations imposed on it via the dominance of nihonga, the body of paintings made according to traditional Japanese artistic conventions.»)

But when it comes to viewing David Park's body of work, this book shines with superb color plates dispersed throughout, showing Park's development as a painter from his early days, his non-figurative period, his return to figurative painting, and his final figurative work in gouache.

The original common use refers to the tendency attributed to paintings in Europe during the post-1945 period and as a way of describing several artists (mostly in France) with painters like Wols, Gérard Schneider and Hans Hartung from Germany or Georges Mathieu, etc., whose works related to characteristics of contemporary American abstract expressionism.

Besides the painters and sculptors of the period the New York School of Abstract expressionism also generated a number of supportive poets, including Frank O'Hara and photographers such as Aaron Siskind and Fred McDarrah, (whose book The Artist's World in Pictures documented the New York School during the 1950s), and filmmakers — notably Robert Frank — as well.

Guston, whose work was widely exhibited during this period, achieved critical success as an abstract painter.

Many pioneer artists of the period, like Robert Irwin and Larry Bell, began as painters, but later transitioned into more complex media and environmental installations; DeFrance stayed largely committed to examining the phenomenology of painting throughout his career.

The same period saw a bolder, more flourishing art as well, with witty, aggressive performances from such artists as Marina Abramovic before and after Ulay, Lynda Benglis, Ana Mendieta, Carolee Schneemann (when not a painter or video artist), Barbara Probst, and Yoko Ono.

He had just left the Chelsea School of Art after an unsatisfactory period as a figurative painter in an institution that overvalued abstract expressionism, and was «thrashing about as an artist» attempting to express his perplexity and anger at the dismal political situation facing the left at the time.

During this period, Connelly was recognized as a key figure among the New York - based Neo-expressionist painters — alongside artists such Julian Schnabel and Jean - Michel Basquiat — and was collected by major institutions across the United States.

Executed during the same period as her celebrated Sunflower paintings, together these paintings stand as «audacious, masterful works in which the artist adroitly juggles emptiness and fullness, balance and unbalance, lightness and weight» (P. Albers, Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter, New York, 2011, p. 315) and as act as works which show Mitchell at the height of her artistic prowess.

During this period, Dzubas was included in exhibitions such as «Sixty American Painters 1960» at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, «Abstract Expressionists and lmagists at the Guggenheim Museum» in 1961, the 1961 Pittsburgh International Exhibition, the Corocoran 28th Biennial of 1963, The Whitney Annual of 1963, and «Black and White» at the Jewish Museum in 1964.

Aligning himself with the 9th Street group of Abstract Expressionist painters rather than the photographers working in this period, his work was exhibited alongside such luminaries as Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, and Barnett Newman.

Here's a heroic period in American history as captured by one of the quintessential American painters of the era.

During this period, the School had a thriving art history department, headed by Conal Shields, that employed painters such as Harold Cohen and academics, including T. J. Clark.

The exhibition includes work by the names often identified with the eighties such as Jean - Michel Basquiat, Sherrie Levine, David Salle, Julian Schnabel and Christopher Wool, as well as many lesser - known painters who exemplify the breakthrough aesthetic of this period.

Beginning with works from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the exhibition will show that much British art from this period was made by artists from abroad, including Antwerp - born Anthony Van Dyck, the court painter whose famous portraits such as Charles I 1636 (The Chequers Trust) have come to shape our perceptions of the British aristocracy of this time.

Reflecting on the connection of this periods creativity to pop art, op art, kinetic art, non-gestural works etc., the book illustrates works of Minimal artists such as Brice Marden, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Ad Reinhardt and Robert Ryman; Colourfield painters such as Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, Sam Gilliam and Morris Louis; post-painterly abstractionists such as Frank Stella, David Novros, Richard Diebenkorn, Al Held, Jo Baer and Jules Olitski; and Hard Edge painters such as Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Mangold, Joseph Albers and Elisabeth Murray.

These monumental and defiant works, made during an astonishing period of productivity for the painter in 1965 - 66, are now viewed as a landmark moment in German art.

Blackshaw was regarded as one of the most signifiant painters of his period and one of the most important painters from Ireland.

Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker and wood engraver, as well as one of the most influential and pivotal artists of the Renaissance period in Europe.

Now most young painters are running with what has been referred to as the globalised «silver period» of abstraction.

As the UK's debut presentation of works by Los Diez Pintores (Ten Concrete Painters) a group active from 1959 - 1961, this exhibition will focus on the origins of concretism in Cuba during this historic period.

Alfonso A. Ossorio was a Filipino - American painter, whose art synthesized Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism and Art Brut in different periods — these styles and the artist representing the styles, such as Jackson Pollock and Jean Dubuffet influenced him...

This was the period during which the Danish - born artist emerged as a painter of stature, having fallen in with Werner's circle in the late 1970s after a period experimenting with performance art.

As a female immigrant painter, Blumenthal never attracted much critical or public attention: despite brief periods of relative success in the 1940s and the 1970s, she died in obscurity.

A heroic period in American history as captured by one of the quintessential American painters of the era: That's the story with Thomas Hart Benton and the Navy, an exhibition of steel, smoke, saltwater, and sinew all captured in a signature style.

Alfonso A. Ossorio was a Filipino - American painter, whose art synthesized Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism and Art Brut in different periods — these styles and the artist representing the styles, such as Jackson Pollock and Jean Dubuffet influenced him greatly, shaping a course of his career.

During this period he also worked as a freelance sign painter and typesetter.

The exhibition at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein focuses on Thomas Schütte's lesser - known early works of the late 1970s, a period of time which for Thomas Schütte was a kind of «research phase» during which, as a student in Fritz Schwegler's class, and later in Gerhard Richter's painting class, he gradually made his way to sculpture: «As the student of a painter who could do everything, you couldn't just paint anymore.&raquas a student in Fritz Schwegler's class, and later in Gerhard Richter's painting class, he gradually made his way to sculpture: «As the student of a painter who could do everything, you couldn't just paint anymore.&raquAs the student of a painter who could do everything, you couldn't just paint anymore.»

Unlike John Quinn, another important art collector of the period, who saw Matisse as an avant - garde artist, Barnes felt the Fauve painter was part of a «classic» French tradition.

Scott began his career studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1974 to 1979 but considers longer periods of working informally with painters Jane Piper and Joan Mitchell as the pivotal influences of his own painting.

After periods of study at art colleges in London, his career as a painter began in earnest with solo exhibitions in London in the early 60s.

The work might call to mind The Rose (1958 — 66), the 2,300 pound canvas by Jay deFeo, a work into which, as Baker recently wrote on «Painters» Table,» «she poured her entire vision and energy» over an eight - year period.

Freilicher is a painter of Long Island landscapes and cityscapes of New York City in a fluid style, some of which she adapted from Abstract Expressionism and her period as an action painter.

While at MoMA PS1 and Clocktower, Mount worked with international scope of curators, artists, and institutions, and on seminal exhibitions such as the first Greater New York in 2000; the retrospective of painter John Wesley, covering his entire career from 1961 - 2000; Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties, Disasters of War: Francisco de Goya, Henry Darger, Jake and Dinos Chapman; Body Works: Bruce Nauman, Valie Export, Gabriel Orozco, Joan Jonas, and Louis Bourgouis; Sol LeWitt: Concrete Block; Min Tanaka presents Subject: Heuristic Ecdysis, Santiago Sierra, Person remunerated for a period of 360 consecutive hours, 2000, among others.

Born in Nüremberg, Germany, to Polish - Jewish parents, Metzger was evacuated to England with his brother as part of the Kindertransport in 1939 (his parents disappeared in 1943); 20 years later, after a period of study with the painter David Bomberg, he would abandon painting to seek ways of working that would recognize the destructiveness of the twentieth century: «artists have a special part to play in opposing extinction, if only on a theoretical, intellectual basis,» he wrote.

In the postwar period painting became an arena for action, as Harold Rosenberg explicated in his essay, «The American Action Painters,» published in ARTnews in December of 1952.

Over in New York, Jackson Pollock married the painter Lee Krasner in 1945, and during the postwar period an artist as emancipated as Mary Martin flourished alongside her husband Kenneth.

The essay proved something about Riley's continuing artistic curiosity and generosity, but more than that is a signal to the way in which she is neither stuck in a period - as the 60s darling of Op - nor a painter who feels threatened by developments in other media.

On exhibition will be works from the Wells Street Gallery period (1957 - 1959) as well as examples of recent work by a majority of the original artists associated with the gallery including: painters Richard Bogart, Ernest Dieringer, Judith Dolnick, Robert Naktin, Ronald Slowinski, Naomi Tatum, Gerald van de Wiele, Donald Vlack, sculptor John Chamberlain, and photographer Aaron Siskind.