Sentences with phrase «sign painters in»

Baldessari's early works were painted phrases derived from contemporary art theory, painted by sign painters in a standard font often used on signs, thereby changing the «accessibilty» of these texts.

He trained as a sign painter in New York and uses text as an art form, creating colourful slogans on banners and placards that challenge elitism and advocate the importance of creativity in politics and education.

Bob and Roberta Smith — the pseudonym of the artist Patrick Brill — spent time training as a sign painter in New York, and uses text as an art form, creating colourful slogans that challenge elitism and advocate the importance of creativity in politics and education.

These straightforward descriptions were then given to a commercial sign painter in order to turn the text back into image.

He trained as a sign painter in New York and uses text as an art form, creating colorful slogans on banners and placards that challenge elitism and advocate the importance of creativity in politics and education.

Not exact matches

The practice also developed of copying particular types — icon painters were to avoid the production of likenesses that might be recognizable as being made by them in particular, and were not to sign them.

On a local level: Alex Lucas, a talented Bristol artist whose large illustrative paintings of animal characters adorn the walls of buildings around the city; and Ged Palmer, a lettering artist and sign painter based in London.

In 1910 Severini signed the first «Manifesto of the Futurist Painters», together with his fellow Futurist colleagues: the Italian young artists Boccioni, Carrà, Russoli and also Balla.

In the 1970s, you'd bring out your best iron, pay a sign painter a few bucks to letter up a placard, and stand somebody like Joe Higgins, the Sheriff of Scat County next to it all day.

Recurrent throughout 8 Painters are stylings on past painterly marks and movements, not so much placed in quotations as absorbed into a work's facture... It's a hopeful sign that the artists in [the show] demonstrate a critical distillation of influences that inform their particular sensibilities, philosophical outlooks, and relationship to materials — not making any great claims, just proceeding in a personally deliberate way.»

From the «precursors» who developed Congo's first works on paper when it was still a Belgian colony to the 1970s «popular painters» who worked as sign painters and created comics, and a new generation of artists that emerged in the 2000s, this unique show offers an historic overview of Congo's artistic landscape.

This past month, a bizarre, three - year - long lawsuit accusing the artist Peter Doig of falsely claiming he never made a 40 - year old landscape painting signed «Pete Doige,» finally came to a close when the judge sided with the painter due to the sheer preponderance of evidence that he had nothing to do with the middling artwork (which was in fact made by a prison inmate).

Describing himself as an «American painter of signs,» Indiana has developed a bold, graphic style inspired by road signs and billboards, reflecting his interest in Americana.

In a couple more one - liners, Klein claimed to have signed the sky and called himself the painter of space.

Out of dead artistic styles, the painter helped to create a vocabulary of signs, so that he could articulate his place in a religious and secular world.

At age 16, she knew she wanted to become a painter, and signed up for a summer program at Black Mountain College in located nearby in upstate New York.

The painter's mark in these works becomes a sign orienting him in an inwards quest to find an emotional self.

Drafted by critic and painter Rodolphe de Repentigny (who signed his paintings with the pseudonym Jauran) and countersigned by Louis Belzile, Jean - Paul Jérôme and Fernand Toupin, it was quite different from the REFUS GLOBAL, which had appeared in 1948.

Scott was born in Greenock, Scotland, the eldest boy in a family of eleven children, and his family moved to Enniskillen in Northern Ireland in 1922 His father was a sign painter whose death Scott tragically witnessed at the age of 14.

From 1993 - 1997, Alÿs collaborated with Juan Garcia, Enrique Huerta, and Emilio Rivera, all of whom work as rótulistas — professional street sign painters — in Mexico City.

Robert Indiana distinguished himself as the «American Painter of Signs» as a way to emphasize his interest in exploring American identity, personal history, and the power of abstraction and language.

Nor have outsider or vernacular forms been included — no painted signs, houses, gold - framed oils made by bored suburbanites, or realistic landscapes made by Sunday painters in their community art, plein - air classes.

While the marketing of desire, seduction and sexual gratification is the ostensible subject of Tal R's latest depictions of sexshop facades, the Copenhagen - based painter's interest in the shops themselves goes no further than their surface and status as signs.

The artist Bob and Roberta Smith — who is one man, Patrick Brill — celebrated the creation of Art UK by presenting a new work in his trademark sign - painter's lettering, proclaiming «through our public collections we all own art», to the parliamentary art collection, one of more than 3,000 collections already represented on the website.

He was a great painter who produced a significant body of work over six decades, until his death in 1980, but his often vitriolic personality and self - imposed outsider status — he mostly refused to sign with a gallery — meant that he has always been seen as a secondary figure.

Signed Lower Left and Dated 1963 Vaclav Vytlacil Prominent American Modernist painter and teacher at the Art Students League in New York.

The words were then physically lettered by sign painters, in an unornamented black font.

During that time he retrained as a professional sign - painter: indirectly it was the «matter - of - factness» of sign - painting that showed the way to the apparently simple, abstract wall paintings he started to make in the early 1990s.

Howard Mehring (American 1931 - 1978) Untitled 1965 Acrylic on Canvas Signed Back 80» x 66» inches unframed Howard Mehring was a twentieth - century painter born in Washing...

In 2013, Levine and her co - director / author Sam Macon released a second documentary Sign Painters about the trade and tradition of hand painted lettering in AmericIn 2013, Levine and her co - director / author Sam Macon released a second documentary Sign Painters about the trade and tradition of hand painted lettering in Americin America.

He began painting seriously in the 1970s, first with found materials and later with sign painter's enamel on standard - sized Masonite boards.

Soon after, Vedova signed the Oltre Guernica manifesto in Milan 1946, which advocated that painters extend the tradition of Picasso's famous anti-fascist Guernica (1937), and depart from figurative painting altogether.

Schwabsky writes: «the fact that so many painters today are working along the broad and very porous border between abstraction and images is a sign that this boundary is, in itself, an object of great fascination.

«The book signing and film screening will delve into the obscure life of painter, fisherman, pseudo-hermaphrodite-Forrest Bess in the film «Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle,»» according to a museum press release.

It was while working in New York as a sign painter by day and an abstract painter by night that he had the idea to import the giant - scale, broadly painted representational pictures from outdoor advertising into the realm of fine art.

In an interview, the artist said, «If you paint it on glass, you can paint the line and then you can put the color on in back, you know like sign painters do... the line remains very crisp.&raquIn an interview, the artist said, «If you paint it on glass, you can paint the line and then you can put the color on in back, you know like sign painters do... the line remains very crisp.&raquin back, you know like sign painters do... the line remains very crisp.»

The same year, Baldessari moved to Santa Monica, where he met many artists and writers, and began to collect photographic images from films and other commercial sources that he would use in his work; during the same period, he photographed himself in deliberately amateurish compositions, and employed local sign painters to execute text - based works.

Description: Painters Jimmy Ernst, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, William Baziotes, Hans Hofmann, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, Richard Pousette - Dart, Theodore Stamos, Ad Reinhardt, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Willem de Kooning, Hedda Sterne, James Brooks, Weldon Kees, Fritz Bultman and sculptors Herbert Ferber, David Smith, Ibram Lassaw, Mary Callery, Day Schnabel, Seymour Lipton, Peter Grippe, Theodore Roszak, David Hare and Louise Bourgeois signed this letter in protest against the «monster national exhibition» at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

October: Following the Academy's suggestion that he work at a «people's owned» factory and then reapply, Richter takes a job as a sign painter at DEWAG in Zittau.

(J. Pissaro, Robert Indiana, New York: Rizzoli, 2006, p. 14) Calling himself «an American painter of signs» Indiana emerged in the New York art scene along with fellow artists Ellsworth Kelly, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and James Rosenquist.

In 1960, Rosenquist, a former sign - painter (as was Warhol and backdrop painter Gerhard Richter), was making neo-Dada semi-abstraction.

Collection of Original Hand Lettered Sign Painter's Samples, Paris, France, c. 1930, tempera on paper, 53.5 x 55.75 in.

In tribute to San Jose sign painter Rey Giese (1919 - 2013), KALIED Gallery will be hosting a major exhibition of hand - painted signs by the late master of the lettering brush, spanning over 75 years o

Medium: Oil painting on linen Image size: 5.75 x 4 inches Frame size: 14 x 12 x 2 inches Signed at lower right: AVS A noted contemporary figurative painter, Stevovich grew up in Washington, D.C., and as a young child spent time roaming the halls of the National Gallery of Art, where he was particularly drawn to the Renaissance paintings that would come to inform his work.

Medium: Oil painting on linen Image size: 10 x 7.25 inches Frame size: 19 x 16 x 2 inches Signed at lower right: AVS A noted contemporary figurative painter, Stevovich grew up in Wa...

These constructions clearly have autobiographical significance, although they are less powerful than a group of canvases created by the sign painters that hang in a corner of the gallery.

It has been more than 20 years since Robert Indiana has had a show in New York, but in early February the «American painter of signs,» as he once called himself, will find his work all over Manhattan.

Mr. Tàpies (pronounced TAH - pee - ess) came to prominence in the late 1940s with richly symbolic paintings strongly influenced by Surrealist painters like Miró and Klee, a style he abandoned by the mid-1950s as he turned to what became his signature work: the heavily built - up surfaces that were often scratched, pitted and gouged and incised with letters, numbers and signs.

The signed and dated oil on canvas entitled Baile en Tehuantepec, painted by Diego Rivera in 1928, is the artwork of this Mexican painter that was sold for the highest price among all of his artworks.

May 1, 2014 — May 1, 2015 American Abstract Artists 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio Exhibitions in Colleges and Museums, 2012 - 2015 Painting Center, «Wit», Curated by Joanne Freeman, New York, NY, 2013 Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2013 - 2008 (Annual Exhibition) Paris CONCRET, «American Abstract Artists International», Paris, France, 2012 Parc Floral De Paris, «Le Salon des Realties Nouvelles», Invitational, Paris, France, 2012 The Ice Box, Crane Arts, «Abstraction to the Power of Infinity», Curated by Janet Kurnatowski, Philadelphia, PA, 2011 OK Harris Gallery, «American Abstract Artists 75 Anniversary», New York, NY, 2011 Galerie oqbo Deutche Kunstlerbund, «75th Anniversary American Abstract Artists International», Berlin, Germany, 2011 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, «75h Anniversary of the American Abstract Artists», Ithaca, NY, 2011 Sideshow Gallery, «Material Matters»: American Abstract Artists, Curated by Kat Griefen, Director AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2007 Florence Lynch Gallery, «Material Sign» (four person exhibition), Curated by Stephen Westfall New York, NY, 2006 RB Stevenson Gallery, «New Year Gallery Selections», San Diego, CA, 2003 2002, 2000 Art Resources Transfer, «A Conversation Exhibition», New York, NY, 2003 The Affordable Art Fair, «Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art», Pier 92, New York, NY, 2002 Klein Art Works, «Blotto» (four person exhibition), Chicago, Ill, 2000 Condesa Lawler Gallery, «Abstract Index», New York, New York, 1999 Art Initiatives, «Dealer's Choice», New York, NY, 1999 Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY, 1992, 1985 The Gallery at Hastings - on - Hudson, «The Legacy of the Abstract Expressionists», Hastings - on - Hudson, 1990 0scarsson Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, NY, 1987, 1985 Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College, Philadelphia, PA, 1986 Ruggiero Henis Gallery, «Mixed Media», a sculpture exhibition Curated by Fredericke Taylor, New York, NY, 1989 John Davis Gallery, New York, NY, 1988 San Francisco Art Institute, «Four Painters», San Francisco, CA, 1981 «Art Today USA II» (organized by David Galloway, Teheran, Iran, 1976 Newport Harbor Art Museum, «Market Street Program», Los Angeles, CA, 1973 San Francisco Art Institute, «Drawing Invitational», San Francisco, CA, 1973