Sentences with phrase «sometimes eccentric work»

It is not surprising, then, that in the present atmosphere, Bourgeois» personal and sometimes eccentric work would be appreciated in an especially vivid way.

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But relating to the discussion above, she addresses her sometimes eccentric instincts, and the mixed fortunes of her recent work, with admirable pride and intelligence:

Carter describes the five other people who shaped his early life, only two of them white: his eccentric relatives who sometimes caused the boy to examine his heritage with dismay; the boyhood friends with whom he hunted with slingshots and boomerangs and worked the farm, but who could not attend the same school; and the eminent black bishop who refused to come to the Carters» back door but who would stand near his Cadillac in the front yard discussing crops and politics with Jimmy's father.

Colour is the essence of JMW Turner's work, and his distinctive, sometimes eccentric use of vibrant colour was central to his success as an artist.

Professor Rosenblum does himself less than justice: he is neither the simple mainline neoconservative that he pretends or the swinging elder statesman evoked by his repeated claims of solidarity with «art historians... of a younger generation» and «anyone under forty,» but an original and sometimes brilliantly eccentric critic, distinguished among other things for his persuasive work on the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as well as for his astonishingly early and penetratingly intelligent recognition of Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, and Frank Stella.