Sentences with phrase «struggling artists finding»

La La Land tells the story of two struggling artists finding solace and support in each other while pursuing their dreams in modern - day Los Angeles.

Not exact matches

Musician and videographer Jack Conte had struggled to earn enough from his work, and found one - off project crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter didn't provide the steady capital artists need to focus on creativity.

Nikki struggles to find the balance of single motherhood, dating and being the strong artist Kelsey needs at Ink Ink.

Summary: A struggling artist tries to find solace after his mother passes away in this unique and heartfelt comedy.

Its ultimate goal seems to be little more than to depict the struggles of a rude, vaguely talented artist, and to find entertainment in his ego - driven failures.

Looking for solitude, he packs up his things and moves there only to find unusual friendships developing with local struggling artist Olivia (Patricia Clarkson)-- trying to overcome a personal tragedy of her own — and Joe (Bobby Cannavale) an overly friendly Cuban hot - dog vendor, desperate for some form of interaction with people.

Not only does it capture the disappointment and frustration of being a struggling artist, it also pokes fun of the ridiculous scenarios that New Yorker's often find themselves in.

Oakland artist Jeremy Mayer, who makes found - object sculptures out of discarded typewriter parts, is one of the shop's regular customers, but his presence in the film has less to do with typewriters than with the artist's financial struggles.

Binoche plays a divorced artist struggling — in part due to her own commitment issues — to find a meaningful connection through a series of frequently amusing and sometimes unsettling flings that never seem to work out.

He spends a good amount of time trying to find a place to keep the cat until he can return the feline from Greenwich Village, where he and his struggling artist acquaintances go from couch to couch if they aren't able to afford the rent on some hole of an apartment, to the Upper West Side.

When so many people are struggling with a certain problem, scam artists can find a way to exploit that problem for their own gain.

Wanting to find out more about the passionate, young, overeaching past of the game designers that struggled during that time, this report manga was created: «Passion of Game Designers ~ in their «early» days» Following his recent works, «Utsunke» and «Pen and Chopsticks» manga artist Keiichi Tanaka, who himself had a career in the game industry, will be handling his third report manga.

Although specifically concerning the uneasy and relationship between comic artists and publication syndicates, the speech summarizes the creator / distributor struggle found in any monetized creative medium.

Many full - time artists struggle to find insurance, or decide to drop their insurance completely because the cost is prohibitive, leaving them in danger of being bankrupted if they get hit with a costly medical emergency.

I think from early admiration of artists like Freud, Auerbach and Giacometti, I find it easier to trust something that comes from sustained struggle, although of course this is as arbitrary as any a priori standard one brings to bear.»

I am a «Struggling Artist» who found a video on You Tube where the user had taken one of my pieces and used it in the video.

She began the discussion with the observation that, in Cuba, many artists are leaving behind political critique in order to appeal to the international art market, and Ai talked about his own struggle as a young artist to find an audience for his work.

Most artists find it fairly easy to photograph their completed work, but many struggle to document the process of the work as they are creating it.

One artist was struggling because he has a very demanding day job and can't seem to find the time to work on his art business.

Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter adds to the growing literature of how women American artists struggled to find their place — not as a homogenous group but as vibrant individuals.

Because of my struggles with the line between abstract and figurative art, I'm always intrigued to find an artist who has managed to successfully straddle the two.

Mack's subversive work underscores the struggles of many women artists in the 1970s who found their role as homemaker monotonous and often an obstacle to being taken seriously in a male - dominated art world.

As Rauschenberg found acclaim (including the grand prize at the Venice Biennale of 1964) and financial security, he never forgot the earlier struggles and in 1970 he helped to found Change, an organisation devoted to providing emergency funds for artists.

This exhibition rings true because it addresses our personal struggles and demonstrates the artist's ability to work things out, to find a way to combine seemingly irreconcilable opposites, such as art and life, thinking and doing, creating things and relating to people.

But there has been little public support or appreciation of contemporary artists and many struggle to find recognition.

In this excerpt from Phaidon's Akademie X, the celebrated Kenyan collagist gives her best advice for artists struggling to find their voice or achieve recognition.

However, according to anecdotal evidence, Warhol, with ancestry in today's Slovakia, struggled to find his niche in his early years as an artist.

With a particular focus on painting, this exhibition brings together seminal works that provide an overview of the artistic, socio - economic and political concerns of artists in Germany, during a time period when these artists were reconciling with the trauma of war, finding a national identity, struggling for freedom of expression and constantly pushing the limits of modern and contemporary art.

The contrast between the found crate and the «reproduction» bottles might also reference the gap between the political context of the artist's boyhood (due perhaps to its black label, Carling was associated among South Africans with the struggle against apartheid) and his current professional success.

The latest installment of Schoeni Art Gallery's Niubi series was «Generation Me: Lost in Transition,» an exhibition from February this year of young Mainland Chinese artists who are struggling to find their place in an already established and highly competitive art market.

Australian abstract artists, by rejecting the requirement to perpetuate iconography, may also find themselves trapped in this bind, because whilst their work may have more appeal to an international audience, it can struggle to leave any impression at home, which is ultimately where it will need to be nurtured.

Among the artists who struggled to find an opening in this less than hospitable environment were Martin Barré, Jean Degottex, Raymond Hainss, Simon Hantai, and Jacques Villeglé, all born in the decade after 1917.

The daily struggle to procure the basic materials of everyday life effects artists strongly; in a country where art supplies are in very short supply, artists are forced to be extremely resourceful, often using found materials in their work.

Artists were struggling themselves to find a sense of community away from the public eye and beneath the public's scorn.

Hong Kong's artist community, however, is small and high costs mean that artists struggle to find studio space and often have day jobs as architects and designers.

Today is the occasion to bear in mind the American Conceptual artist Barbara Kruger (26/1/1945 --RRB-, she layers found photographs from existing sources with pithy and aggressive text that involves the viewer in the struggle for power and control that her captions speak to.

Here, the artist struggles with the effable and ineffable experiences of subjectivity, the perpetual schism between the flatness of surfaces that enable linguistic communication (whether screen or page) and the more sensuous and palpable dimensions of desire and the body, which rarely find form in language.

Much like the boxer, Basquiat had to fight many (metaphorical) opponents in the art world to reign supreme; factors like racial oppression, lack of funds, and the struggle to find permanent housing besieged the artist early on.

While their identity as black Americans is not the motivation for their inclusion in the show, this identity is nonetheless significant in that many found themselves marginalized in a white - dominated art world that granted limited admission to black artists and again within the Black Arts movement, which rested on a revolutionary ethos that saw abstraction as a site of established privilege, limited in its ability to express political dissent and contribute to the struggle for racial equality.

Sharrer, like other female artists, struggled to find equal billing given the masculine aesthetics of this movement.

Founded in 2009 as a platform for emerging Middle Eastern artists, the Running Horse presented «In the Trenches» (12/20/10 — 3/26), a group exhibition by emerging artists Rasha Kahil, Hiba Kalache and Alfred Tarazi exploring internal and external struggles, followed by a solo show for Kahil (6/20 — 7/30), and «Dial 911 for the New Middle East» (9/11 — 10/1) by activist group the Feel Collective, who explored the September 11 attacks destabilizing impact on the region.

Artist Statement «â $ œAnything is better than lies and deceit!â $ Bound by duty, lit up by love, Tolstoy's characters in «Anna Karenina» struggle to find a balance between one's responsibilities and passions...

To Murray, experiences like this, of finding resolution after struggling, was a highlight of being an artist.

Recognizing that many artists struggle to find venues for promoting their work, Clio Art Fair created a unique platform to highlight artists currently outside of the mainstream art world.

Israel Meza Moreno, known as Moris (born 1978), belongs to a young generation of Mexican artists who work with found objects in Mexico City, creating sculptures that reflect metropolitan violence and the struggle to survive.

In an accompanying statement, the artist writes about the struggle to find ways of making marks that look natural and at home on the canvas, that have their own personality rather than acting as a conduit for hers.

Diller and fellow AAA founder Louis Schanker, who was also an administrator with the WPA, made sure many struggling abstract artists found paying jobs with the WPA painting public murals.

The artworks in each section put forward different solutions to these problems, pointing out how artists found themselves struggling with similar dilemmas across different historical periods.

In the early 1960s in Harlem, Bearden was a founding member of the art group known as The Spiral formed «for the purpose of discussing the commitment of the Negro artist in the present struggle for civil liberties, and as a discussion group to consider common aesthetic problems.»

Enrolling at the Cooper Union in 1926, the young artist struggled to find the appropriate artistic milieu to encourage her talent.