Sentences with phrase «serious careers as artists»

Her great success opened the way for larger numbers of women to pursue serious careers as artists.

Schapiro himself was a talented painter and draftsman, but he never pursued a serious career as an artist.

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Gerda is more than a jilted spouse; she's a passionate artist who is as serious about her career as Lili is about starting life anew.

Authors who are interested in establishing themselves as both better writers and as serious career - minded artists can benefit greatly from attending writers» conferences and workshops, but the cost of attending is often pretty prohibitive.

Working in a variety of media throughout her career this versatility helped to establish Cassatt as an influential personality in a time when very few women were regarded as serious artists.

There were only a handful of galleries of L.A. at the time, but the one that is perhaps best known is the Ferus Gallery, which was active from 1957 - 1966 on N. La Cienega Blvd. Founded by Walter Hopps and artist Ed Kienholz (who would soon be replaced by the suave salesman Irving Blum), Ferus brought to L.A. the kind of serious art that was being shown in New York and Europe, including Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, and Jasper Johns, as well as kick - starting the careers of a number of L.A. artists.

traces the continual and deliberate evolution in the artist's work from his early to late career and reveals Gottlieb's constant willingness to reevaluate his paintings throughout his lifetime.The eleven works on view, created between 1948 and 1972, focus on three specific series: the Pictographs, the Imaginary Landscapes and the Burst paintings.As Lilly Wei writes, «All three serve as deeply meaningful touchstones, sometimes serious in intent, other times playful, to which he returned to time and again, in one formulation or another, all his life.»

Nine portraits of the Queen as she has never been seen before — with a green nose, a robot eye or a long carrot through her head — are going on display at the first UK survey of an artist whose whole career involves making the funny serious and the grotesque beautiful.