Sentences with phrase «started as a painter»

Having started as a painter, he changed course in his early twenties and studied physics and quantum physics at the universities of Berlin, Edinburgh and Vienna.

Leger started as a painter artist in French Cubism with Picasso, Braque en Juan Gris.

Behind the black gate was a world of color, hundreds of abstract works created and hidden away by Mr. Bates, who had a promising start as a painter in the 1970s before renouncing the art world and retreating to his storefront to paint.

You started as a painter and then made sculpture for a decade or more.

When I went into undergraduate school, I started as a painter and kind of quickly gave up because I was like, «Oh my God, everybody whose two years ahead of me is so much better than me.

Born in San Antonio in 1972, Curry started as a painter at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and then «inspired by the exhibition «Helter Skelter: LA Art in the 1990s» at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles «moved to the West Coast to study with Jim Shaw, Mike Kelley, Liz Larner, and John Baldessari.

For Arthur, who started as a painter, it was his experience at Skowhegan in 1985 that led to him discover that he was an object - maker, which connected him back to his early childhood when he used to make all sorts of found materials.

No one starts as a painter.

Schneemann started as a painter in the 1950s.

I started as a painter and wasn't really looking at British art as much as the Americans.»

Not exact matches

U nder the influence of western painters who settled in Bali in the 1930s - Balinese artist started painting single scenes instead of narratives tales, using images from everyday life as their theme,

So lets start from there... Use ScotchBlue ™ Pre-Taped Painter's Plastic to create a diagonal line across the surface, as shown in the photo.

And of course Mrs. Cole is married — to a struggling painter (Jack Huston) whose brittle support for her work starts to crack as she begins to see it as a career.

Goya's Ghosts starts its first half in Spain in the year 1792, amid the tension of the French Revolution, where Francisco Goya (Skarsgard, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest), one of the country's most famous of painters, has drawn the suspicious eye of the Spanish Inquisitors, who see some of his work as possible representations of evil.

As young starting painter Johns was close friends with Robert Rauschenberg; they shared together studio for several years and were mutual sparring - partners for each other.

As the title implies, it provides 41 rejected attempts at beginning a profile of the artist David Salle, a megastar painter in the 1980s whose reputation had started to wane by the time Malcolm began interviewing him in the early 1990s.

Growing up in Campbell River, he started as a teenager working as a fishing guide at Painter's Lodge.

A graphic designer and painter before he moved to game development, he started in the industry as a pixel artist and sprite animator.

Rex mentioned he started off as an installation artist and later realized he was a painter.

Like could a painter choose just to sell maybe an 8 × 10 - ish canvas on Vango for the $ 250 and as they unlock higher prices also start selling larger works on the site?

Paul Hickman: I started my career as a sign painter when I was 15 and after college continued for the next 16 years working with toxic and environmentally degrading materials.

I don't know what's «industry standard practice» for fine art galleries these days, regarding pricing works on paper vs. works on canvas, but my suspicion is that the reason for the * historical * difference between the two is that works on paper are perceived to be less «serious» (after all, watercolor started out as a quick way for oil painters to sketch out drafts), and less long - lasting (historically, a lot of watercolors were fugitive, and tended to fade with time, unlike varnished oil paintings).

The painter Alice Neel (1900 — 1984) only started to be recognized as a visionary after her time had passed.

Mickalene Thomas started out as an abstract painter, inspired by Australian Aboriginal art and late - nineteenth - century French Pointillism.

Another would be to start with a portrait of the painter as a young man, somber of mien and hue.

We were amazed by Anderson's determination to finish as a legally blind artist a painting he had started two decades before, especially as he described how erratic his vision was and the problems this created for him as a painter.

Curated by artist Daphne Wright, this exhibition takes these specific aspects of Freud's intimate studio practice as a starting point to explore themes of vulnerability, longing and loss that permeate the painter's work.

Combining a ceiling mounted projector and wall - bound painting into a single work, they take as their starting point contemporary painter Albert Oehlen's forays into projections on paintings.

Jack Bush started off as an illustrator but fostered his love of abstract art in his spare time, playing a role in the Toronto - based abstract expressionist group Painters Eleven (1953 — 60) and winning the attention of Clement Greenberg in 1957.

Just as Ms. Blaine was becoming known as a promising abstract painter, and gaining the admiration of such critics as Clement Greenberg, she started to shift back to representation.

She started her career as a painter, but over the years, has increasingly incorporated fabric and thread into her work.

Antin started her career as a painter and got into contact with Fluxus art in the early 1960s in New York.

People remember Alfred Leslie as the guy who started as an abstract painter.

Artist Bruce Nauman described this quest as follows: «If you see yourself as an artist and you function in a studio and you're not a painter, if you don't start out with some canvas, you do all kinds of things — you sit in a chair or pace around.

Bradford: Yes, I started out as an abstract painter.

After starting her career as a painter / sculptor in the mid 1960s in New York she became a leader of Post Minimalism along with Richard Serra, Eva Hesse and Bruce Nauman.

Starting out as a «Neo-Pop» painter, Christopher Wool explores painting's elusive and allusive qualities with a variety of methods including using commercial rollers to apply decorative patterns on white panels.

Starting with the figurative artists of the «Hairy Who» in Chicago and West Coast Funk artists and their assorted allies, it recontextualizes painters as various as William N. Copley, Elizabeth Murray and Gary Panter; encompasses the rogue artist / musicians of Destroy All Monsters; and concludes with the erstwhile Providence collective Forcefield.

Jasper Johns (born 1930) made his major breakthrough as a painter in the mid-1950s when he started using iconic, popular images in his paintings — an explosive move at a moment when advanced painting was understood to be exclusively abstract.

during that time he switch his practice from full time painter to multimedia based practice, and since 2004 he started his career as a video and installation based artist.

Philip Guston, Kazimir Malevich and John Piper occur to me as painters who started figuratively, switched to abstraction, then returned to a new mode of figuration.

The Anderson collection gets a jump start with the intense color accents and rippling enamel texture of Lucifer, by Jackson Pollock, before ending with such outsize painters as David Reed and Susan Rothenberg.

To that end, as a starting point, I draw inspiration from mid-century California hard - edge painters like John McLaughlin and Frederick Hammersley, both masters of formal gamesmanship and elegant compositional balancing acts.

BRUCE SILVERSTEIN GALLERY In the «Spotlight» section, showcasing a single artist in each booth, Bruce Silverstein is exhibiting three spectacular canvases from the 1970s by Alfred Leslie, a painter who started off as an Abstract Expressionist and later turned to figurative realism.

Born in 1940, he started as an abstract painter, and he took instantly to the movement after seeing the slit canvases of Lucio Fontana.

February 13, 2014 - David Bates got his start as an artist at SMU before becoming an internationally renowned painter and sculptor.

Tàpies started as a surrealist painter, and his early works were influenced by Paul Klee and Joan Miró.

Freilicher started out as an abstract painter after studying with Hans Hofmann in the late 1940s, but turned somewhat abruptly to representational painting, Russeth wrote for ARTnews, after seeing the Museum of Modern Art's 1948 Bonnard retrospective.

LY: I started as an abstract painter, as big as I could make complete with palette knives and buckets of paint from Utrecht.

The Ethics of Scrutiny takes aspects of Freud's intimate studio practice as a starting point to explore themes of vulnerability, longing and loss that permeate the painter's work.