Sentences with phrase «personality than painter»

David Hare was more personality than painter, his pampered upbringing impacting upon his ambition and distain for self - promotion, which otherwise may have propelled him to the front ranks of American art history.

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Synopsis: This is the true story of Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) and her husband Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), the larger - than - life painters who became the most acclaimed artists in Mexican history, and whose tempestuous love affair, landmark journeys to America, and outrageous personalities made them legendary.

And yet there is something about a modern painter starting out for an island paradise that makes the matter somewhat more than one of relocation; something, also, about Doig's personality as a painter that makes his move to such a romantic redoubt more significant still.

Your Favorite Rapper's Favorite Painter seems to exist at once as an explosively creative and unique personality in art history as well as a dangerously mythic symbol, representing much more to some people than any one artist ever ought to.

Kelly went on to praise the idea that artworks are «more important than the artist's personality», perhaps suggesting a concern that any emphasis on the painter's own involvement might detract from viewers» attention to the objects themselves (Kelly 1980, p. 32).

Sometimes painters paint more about what they want the scene to look like than what they see, but everyone's personality leads them to focus on different aspects of the scene.