Sentences with phrase «spends years painting»

Duchamp makes elaborate turntable gadgets and spends years painting on mirrors.

Smutz, who is self - taught, began his career as a graphic artist and muralist, and even spent a year painting elaborate designs on custom motorcycles.

Todd Bienvenu: I was a student at the NYSS from 2004 - 07, I moved to New York from New Orleans where I had spent a year painting at home and waiting tables on Bourbon Street after getting my BFA from LSU in 2003.

With Rothko an influence, Morico spent years painting abstract expressionist paintings after graduating in 1994 from Paier College of Art in Hamden while pursuing a career as a graphic artist, including on a freelance basis the past 10 years.

Often he could (and still does) spend years painting and repainting a canvas until finding the right way to finish it.

After winning a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 1959, he spent a year painting in Rome before returning to Los Angeles where he joined the teaching staff of the UCLA Art Department in 1961, keeping his position for nearly 30 years.

Later, she spent a year painting in the Provence as painters such as Van Gogh and Cézanne had done before her.

He was awarded a Henry Luce Scholarship in 1985 and spent a year painting in Bali, Indonesia.

In 1928 Davis traveled to France, where he spent a year painting relatively realistic street scenes in Paris.

Crouter, a wildlife artist who resides in Flint, told the children she spent a year painting this year's entry.

Not exact matches

Jeffrey Cramer, a former federal prosecutor who spent 12 years at the Department of Justice, cautioned against painting the identity of Person A with too broad a brush.

The artist had staked his masterpiece, which he spent over two years painting, on a technical gamble, and lost.

But this time in Year 1, which seems like actual school school, no playing (not literally — I think they still spend 90 % of the time faffing about with paint and cereal boxes).

And, because part of being a pediatric Occupational Therapist is spending years perfecting the skill of keeping things from going in kids» mouths, I also unleashed my boy on some truly messy play with finger painting OUT of the Ziploc bag... but there were no clean hands to take pictures.

Two of the students explained to the group that they were studying Michelangelo, and that he had to lay on his back on scaffolding, working alone by candlelight, when he spent four years painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Last year, when I was spending a lot of time lurking on pregnancy forums, I was struck by the level of obsessiveness around finding out the baby's sex as early as possible in order to be able to buy the «right» newborn clothes and paint the nursery the «right» colour.

The European «welfare states» have cut almost all of their social spendings in the last 20 years, and instead of being wasteful as neocons paint it, those social spendings are what gave Europe peace and prosperity for the past 70 years.

In fact, New York local governments would need to spend $ 31 million each year to properly manage all leftover paint generated in the state.

Wouldn't it be great, I thought, if I could persuade a funding body to sponsor me to spend a year or so producing paintings based on research?

João Zilhão of the University of Barcelona in Spain, an author of both papers, has spent years pressing the case that Neandertals were the mental equals of modern humans, and he sees the newly dated paintings and shells as full vindication.

The watchdog organization has spent the last two years compiling data from nearly 50,000 state utilities across the country and water records from the EPA to paint a vivid picture of the tap system.

He spent four years painting the awe - inspiring ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which is one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

I'm starting my September list of things to do, and I actually spent the entire Labor Day weekend painting some things I had in my house for many years.

I concluded the renovation of my Grandparents» 100 year old farm house over two years ago and I really spent a lot of time agonizing over my paint choices etc..

Painting a mug or a money box with your kids and partner is not only a great way to spend quality time together but it also means you will have a reminder of the day to keep for years to come.

Artist, spent more than 20 years in painting, my hobby drawing pretty girls and nature... My dream is to marry American beautiful girl and live with her forever if she did not mind... I am known among my friends that I..

However, his work was interrupted by the Korean War, for which he did two years service in Germany; his time there was mainly spent putting on Soldier Shows, which, as he would later remark, gave him his introduction to show business.While working on Venice, a 28 - minute documentary that juxtaposed contemporary views of the city with paintings by the masters, Ivory was introduced to art from India's golden age.

BDW: Next, I went to the National Academy of Design for the Fine Arts where I spent two years painting on a scholarship KW: So, when did you develop your passion for acting?

Timothy, who was named best actor at the Cannes Film Festival for his performance as the artist, spent two years learning to paint before filming started.

For the role, Spall, who says that he could «always draw a bit,» spent two years studying painting with portraitist Tim Wright, which may seem excessive even by Method standards, but that level of commitment is integral to Leigh's process, which Spall has been a part of for more than three decades.

One way in which Timothy Spall prepared for his role as British painter J.M.W. Turner was to spend two years studying painting with portraitist Tim Wright.

John James Audubon spent eleven years of his life documenting the birds of the Americas by painting life size portraits of the wildlife that he had observed during his travels.

But a new report based largely on interviews with 30 local union presidents who each have spent less than eight years in office paints an evolved picture of leaders who are often involved in collaborative relationships with their school superintendents; who have to work constantly to balance the needs of a new generation of teachers with the needs of older members; and who see the importance...

You'll spend summers planning, going to professional development workshops and courses, and trying to catch up on the myriad small things you didn't get done during the school year, like painting your house or balancing your checkbook.

I spent this morning diving into the new NAEP numbers in an effort to paint a more complete picture of student achievement in DC over the past decade, which included the three tumultous years of Michelle Rhee's chancellorship.

Born next to the saloon that has been in his family for one hundred years, Sunny has over the years partied with Andy Warhol, spent time in India at the feet of a guru, and painted abstract expressionist originals.

In the meantime, that's a few hundred dollars per year I'm now going to spend on even more custom - painted covers for my books (shunning pre-mades and stock photo covers forever from here on).

When on your winter vacation here on the island of Roatan, Honduras and after all site seeing has been checked off the list, spend a few hours a day learning the stunning Art of Stained Glass by Richard Snyder glass artist with more than 40 years of designing, painting & firing glass products of all styles and specializing in restorations of antique windows & lamp shades.

No matter how outdoorsy you are or how much you like to paint the town, just the time you spend sleeping can add up to more than 2,900 hours a year at home — and that's likely the bottom end of the scale.

At 73, she has spent more than 50 years pitching dynamic gestural painting up against the cool austerity of the grid.

Partially in response to an exhibition at the Jewish Museum, Artists of the New York School: Second Generation (1957), organized by Meyer Schapiro, which included twenty - three artists, not one of them affiliated with the Tanager, gallery members at the Tanager spent five years developing what they envisioned as their own New York project, a series of five two - week exhibitions organized around five themes: Old Masters, nature departed, natured observed, paint, and personal mythology.

Trained academically in China, Cai Jin also spent ten years (1997 - 2007) in New York, which may well have broadened her sensibility to abstract painting, by now a global phenomenon rather than a purely Western modernist achievement.

Once I told one of my collectors that I might increase the price of the low range paintings next year and he said» I don't mind to spend few more dollars.

I remember Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster, who visited as critics, and I was making these long paintings, 1 by 8 feet, portraits that were hanging one on top of the other, and Siri said they were okay individually, but they were much more interesting together, which spurred me to spend the next year making paintings that were in a diptych format, exploring how they relate to one another and how everything didn't have to be in every painting.

Educated at Yale University, he was influenced by the teachings of Josef Albers; he also spent a year in Yale's 5 - Year BA Program, doing ethnobotanical research and making paintings and drawings in the South Paciyear in Yale's 5 - Year BA Program, doing ethnobotanical research and making paintings and drawings in the South PaciYear BA Program, doing ethnobotanical research and making paintings and drawings in the South Pacific.

Also Monday, an eerie 1991 painting of a moonlit white canoe with a figure slumped in its hull fetched almost $ 26 - million (U.S.), a new world record for the artist, Peter Doig, 56, who spent most of his early years in Canada.

What is never made clear during the course of the exhibition is why Close has spent thirty years painting heads.

Artist Inka Essenhigh spent the early years of her career thinking that her fluid, feminine paintings were a no - no.

Following a degree in fine arts from Pennsylvania State University in 1963, she spent three years at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux - Arts in Paris and studied paintings in museums throughout Europe.

A conceptual artist who's spent the past 50 years painting the same repeating marks in a variety of formats, Niele Toroni rarely shows in New York.