Sentences with phrase «remarkable number of the artists»

Although it lasted only twenty - four years (1933 - 1957) and enrolled fewer than 1,200 students, Black Mountain College launched a remarkable number of the artists who spearheaded the avant - garde in America of the 1960s.

Cristian Albu, Head of the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction comments: «This October my aim was to put an emphasis on names that are fresh and relevant to the current art landscape, and the selection includes a remarkable number of artists who are either currently the subject of major solo shows or participating in important group shows across the world.»

Not exact matches

From civil rights leaders to award winning artists, the Rochester area has been home to a number of remarkable people.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

This year, there were a number of remarkable exhibitions featuring Black artists and the coinciding catalogs were among the best art books of 2014.

Few contemporary artists have developed a visual vocabulary as immediately recognizable as the Chicago - born artist Christopher Wool's — and what's remarkable is that he was able to achieve this distinction across a number of different series, from his influential text paintings to his elegantly minimal canvases marked by fences and other repetitive forms to his dynamic gestural abstractions that borrow from graffiti culture.

The loosening of social and economic constraints in Japan allowed the emergence of a number of remarkable artists who produced increasingly avant - garde works.

Executed in 1969, the year before the artist's death, it belongs to the remarkable series of large - scale works on paper that number among his last and most poignant achievements.

The Ditchling museum reopened last year after a # 2.3 m revamp that improves the presentation of its collection while examining the remarkable number of talented artists, weavers and silversmiths who were attracted to the village's bucolic charms.

Before you think you've seen these works before: what's remarkable about this show is the fact that a number of works on view do not adhere to the trademark styles often associated with these artists, nodding to the idiosyncrasy of collecting practices, and shedding light on the diversity of these artists» careers.

PAFA has also successfully attracted a number of important gifts that further support the Collecting Plan, most notably the remarkable recent gift from Linda Lee Alter of 400 works by such women artists as Alice Neel, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Nevelson, Faith Ringgold, and Miriam Schapiro.

More remarkable than number is the variety of directorial persuasions, including an artist, a playwright, a psychologist and a magazine editor.

Looking back at museum and gallery catalogues from this period, what is remarkable is the sheer number of artists — truly the first wave of «Young British Artists» — who were feted at home and artists — truly the first wave of «Young British Artists» — who were feted at home and Artists» — who were feted at home and abroad.

The artists focus our attention on a number of unique and remarkable geological places on earth: the area between the Euphrates and the Tigris; an uninhabited workers» village in Tuscany; the coast of Ireland; and protected areas in the Philippines.

For a Chinese - born artist who still lives in his hometown, Zhang Peili has been represented in a remarkable number of international exhibitions.

As part of our commitment to supporting new artists we present, a remarkable new artistic voice working in the medium of photography and in their first Irish exhibitions, as well as a number of new commissions forming part of.»

Mr. Bellamy gave first or second shows to a remarkable number of these emerging artists, building an exhibition record that speaks for itself.

It also offers a remarkable number of iconic paintings and sculptures — not only by the artists already mentioned, but by Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Alexander Calder, Jackson Pollock, and, of course, Pablo Picasso.

Washington, DC — At its January 2016 Board of Trustees meeting, the National Gallery of Art acquired a number of works including an extraordinary painting by Dutch master Frans van Mieris (1635 — 1681), an early portrait by Alex Katz (b. 1927) of his wife, Ada, a remarkable trompe l'oeil painting by an unknown 17th - century Dutch artist, and a deluxe - format artist's book with 80 woodcuts by Joan Miró (1893 — 1983).

Even though the results of the artists» individual practices are very diverse, the mentality, methodology and presentation of their work show a number of remarkable similarities.