Sentences with phrase «popular of all living artists»

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Popular when New York wasn't such a homogenized, safe place (thank Rudy) and the majority of people who lived below 14th Street were unemployed artists or musicians, the whole secondhand phenomenon took off mainly because no one could afford anything that cost more than a dollar or two.

This documentary plunges the viewer into the chaotic life of a forgotten artist, from early fame as a painter and denizen of the Lower East Side, through his struggles with heroin, to his surprising comeback as street art exploded to become one of the most popular and lucrative art movements in the world.

Morgan Spurlock isn't the first person you'd think of to direct a documentary about the popular geek Mecca, but he's wisely chosen to stay out of the spotlight this time around, instead opting to focus on the lives of five attendees (including a toy collector, an aspiring artist and a costume designer) who have traveled to the annual convention for various reasons.

As his late mother never revealed the identity of his father, 11 - year - old Marcus is sent to an island off the coast of South Carolina to live with his great - aunt Charlotte, a reclusive artist whose paintings of seascapes and rustic summer cottages are popular with tourists.

Watch artists carve ice sculptures right in front of you and enjoy Live Stage Shows with popular holiday music.

If you ever wanted to have the coolest music from the biggest franchises in the history of video games then you'll soon have that chance — EMI Classics, Video Games Live and IMG Artists will release an album celebrating some of the best known, most popular video game music of all time.

It is somewhat pathetic that this highly successful artist, unsparing of herself in the painstaking study of animal anatomy, diligently pursuing her bovine or equine subjects in the most unpleasant surroundings, industriously producing popular canvases throughout the course of a lengthy career, firm, assured and incontrovertably masculine in her style, winner of a first medal in the Paris Salon, Officer of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic and the Order of Leopold of Belgium, friend of Queen Victoria — that this world - renowned artist should feel compelled late in life to justify and qualify her perfectly reasonable assumption of masculine ways, for any reason whatsoever, and to feel compelled to attack her less modest trouser - wearing sisters at the same time, in order to satisfy the demands of her own conscience.

It is somewhat pathetic that this highly successful artist, unsparing of herself in the painstaking study of animal anatomy, diligently pursuing her bovine or equine subjects in the most unpleasant surroundings, industriously producing popular canvases throughout the course of a lengthy career, firm, assured and incontrovertibly masculine in her style, winner of a first medal in the Paris Salon, Officer of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic and the Order of Leopold of Belgium, friend of Queen Victoria — that this world - renowned artist should feel compelled late in life to justify and qualify her perfectly reasonable assumption of masculine ways, for any reason whatsoever, and to feel compelled to attack her less modest trouser - wearing sisters at the same time, in order to satisfy the demands of her own conscience.

Cory Oberndorfer Cory Oberndorfer is an artist fixated on nostalgia, American popular culture, and the joy of life's simple pleasures.

Mirroring the vision of the Ballroom itself, a non-profit cultural space founded on the belief that art can impact the human spirit positively, OPTIMO brings together nine artists whose work celebrates life, incorporating visual pleasure, humor, interactivity, color, technology, industrial design, politics, landscape, spirituality, and popular culture.

Six artists present works that in some way critically re-stage films, media spectacles, popular culture and, in one case, private moments of daily life.

On her blog, Car Metaphors, Watching Analogies in the World of Computers, pioneering Internet artist and theorist Olia Lialina writes, «the most popular analogy contemporary authors use to explain the computer's development and its role in our life is to cars.»

Brooklyn - born artist Jean - Michel Basquiat filled numerous notebooks with poetry fragments, wordplay, sketches, and personal observations ranging from street life and popular culture to themes of race, class, and world history.

30 - year career of covering the live music scene in the Berkshires, I have to give credit to MASS MoCA for staging most or all of the very best shows during this post-Music Inn, post-Tanglewood Popular Artists Series (for the most part) era.

Testifying to the breadth of the artist's practice, the exhibition include landscapes, portraits and still lifes, resplendent in references to history, myth and popular culture from across and through time.

On view from January 26 through March 16, 2018, this site - specific exhibition visually materialized and meshed memories of the past and present in Red Star's investigation of her Apsáalooke (Crow) Indian father's life in rock music, a site of familial importance and popular culture that has informed the artist's practice and individual and collective identities as an Apsáalooke (Crow)- Irish American woman.

The artist — popular both within and beyond the art world for his darkly subversive, laugh - out - loud drawings and sculptures — takes his place alongside Tino Sehgal, whose Tate Modern Turbine Hall piece last summer saw performers talking to gallery - goers, telling them intimate stories from their own lives; Laure Prouvost, the French - born, London - based maker of warmly mischievous installations and films; and Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, whose apparently traditional portraits of ordinary sitters turn out to be fabrications drawn from her own imagination.

Sometimes influenced by the European movements, artists and approaches, these artworks have become the icons of the popular culture, entwined in all spheres of life decades after their creation as the proud representations of the American people and spirit.

Brooklyn - born artist Jean - Michel Basquiat filled numerous notebooks with poetry, wordplay, sketches, and personal observations ranging from street life and popular culture to themes of race, class, and world history.

The Arte Povera artist reflects on the impression that popular military culture left on his early life through a kind of ironic adult - childlike lens.

The most popular exhibition of a living artist ever held at the Tate was David Hockney's recent retrospective, which attracted 478,082 visitors.

Perhaps the most popular and versatile British artist of the 20th century, David Hockney is most famous for portraying scenes of the sensual and uninhibited life of athletic young men, depicting swimming pools, palms, and perpetual sunshine.

The popular annual event will return to KOKO, London, bringing live works by internationally renowned and emerging artists to over 1,500 visitors during the week of Frieze London.

Chaim Soutine is a contradictory figure in modern art: his heated, weirdly boneless portraits, woozy landscapes and visceral still lifes made him one of the 20th century's most popular artists.

This piece is from a popular and highly coveted series of doctored images that the artist made by taking interior settings — from banal living rooms to entire movie theaters — and wrapping them in 3 - D «skins» made from paintings by art - historical figures like Mondrian and, in this case, Georgia O'Keeffe.

Begun in 1962, Wesselmann's «Little Still Life» series demonstrates the artist's increasing interest in depicting contemporary, popular subject matter such as food, articles of clothing, and flowers, which he typically represented in tabletop displays.

Leckey, born in Birkenhead, is known for his interest in different aspects of popular culture and his Turner exhibition includes Cinema - in - the Round 2006 - 2008, a video work which is essentially an art lecture in which the artist expounds on his fascination with the life of images on - screen and takes in everything from Chuck Jones's Road Runner chasing Wile E Coyote, and Felix the cat, to James Cameron's Titanic and Homer Simpson.

«Lush Life» Visits Nine Lower East Side Galleries Mackie Healy Hipsters, artists and literature fans alike endured the heat last Thursday night, partaking in the opening of Lush Life, a collaborative summer gallery show, based on a popular crime novel.

Everything falls faster than an anvil expands this reading to look at contemporaries from this period, as well as artists working today; who take the things of everyday life, the clichés of popular culture, and twist them into the other - worldy.

Engaged in a reassessment of the definition of the artwork and role of the artist, making the turn from a conceptual outlook where artistic authenticity lied in the artist's inner world towards interaction with popular media and mass - products that reflected artistic vision, his work ranges somewhere between the art and life, his pieces questioned the relation of artistic and everyday objects.

The exhibition will testify to the breadth of the artist's practice and will include landscapes, portraits and still lives, resplendent in references to history, myth and popular culture from across and through time.

An wonderful and, at times, eccentric insight into the life of one of the most popular artists of 20th century Britain.

The exhibition begins with the artist's arrival in Paris, exploring the creative environments and elements of popular culture that were central to his life and work.

Unlike the increasingly popular, so - called transitive painting, which points to networks of production or distribution outside the picture plane, the artists in Vivid are committed to life within the stretcher.»

Many of Cain's strokes, drips, and flat planes of paint recall movements past — largely male - dominated genres — while her specific colors, pleasurable and redolent of popular culture, music, fashion, and perceived grounds of femininity, invoke an artist navigating her lived world.

Sullivan Goss presents a salon exhibition of popular works from the Gallery's Estates and our living artists.

There is a an undeniable reference to memory and youth in these images, specifically the childhood associated with 1950's popular culture — from the use of the artist's own toys, to the evocation of editorial pages from Life and Look magazines or family - oriented situation comedies like Father Knows Best.

Knuttel Brush - Off; Popular Artist Fails to Make List of Our Greatest Living Painters Daily Mail (London); September 13, 2010; Byrne, Maura; 598 words... born American painter and printmaker twice nominated for a Turner prize.

Not only was it the most popular exhibition at the gallery on London's Millbank, either in its time as the Tate Gallery or since it became Tate Britain in 2000, but it was the most visited exhibition for any living artist ever held at any of Tate's four galleries.

In the words of curator and feminist Xabier Arakistain «Why has one of the legendary pioneers of feminist art, and one of the most popular living artists in the USA, still not received recognition from hegemonic art institutions?»

The visitor figures cement the position of Hockney, who turns 80 in July, as Britain's most popular living artist.

«Why has one of the legendary pioneers of feminist art, and one of the most popular living artists in the USA, still not received recognition from hegemonic art institutions?»

This is a lively and accessible introduction to the life and work of David Hockney, one of the most popular and influential British artists of the 20th century.

Yinka Shonibare MBE: Magic Ladders By Judith F. Dolkart (author), Derek Gillman (foreword) Yinka Shonibare MBE (b. 1962), a British artist of Nigerian descent, is best known for his dramatic tableaux of life - size, headless mannequins, gorgeously dressed in eighteenth - and nineteenth - century costumes made from elaborately patterned textiles popular in Africa.

In these pieces, the artist tackled genres like the still life, the portrait, figurative representation, landscape, interiors, historical painting, political propaganda, religious iconography, and the appropriation of elements from popular culture and art history.

Artists created charged works by juxtaposing disparate images sourced largely from popular media, such as Hannah Höch's 1930 photomontage Untitled (Large Hand Over Woman's Head), a work of layered images from magazines that speaks to the representation of women in popular culture, and Kurt Schwitters» Mz 426 Figures (1922), an assemblage of discarded newspaper and printed detritus, which evokes the urban environment in which he lived.

Bringing together live endurance theater, large - scale projection, popular music, photography, painting and drawing, this exhibition will introduce American audiences to the collected outpout of one of today's most exciting and evolving artists.

«We're thrilled with the star - studded lineup of authors, artists and performers featured in our 23rd season — they range from the witty Dave Barry and B. J. Novak (one of the genius minds behind the popular television show The Office) to the insightful Malcolm Gladwell and the iconic Amy Tan and Ruth Reichl,» said Carolyn Bess, director of programming and Arts & Letters Live at the Dallas Museum of Art.

Bernard Jacobsen shows a still immensely popular Larry Bell glass cube, which takes us right back to the 60s, while Andrea Rosen gets out its best Felix Gonzalez - Torres, who remains one of the greatest conceptual artists to have ever lived.

Artists who I would describe in this way are students of popular culture and modern life who amass information almost as a PhD researcher might, and yet they are not cool observers - they are eccentric participants.