Sentences with phrase «studied academic painting»
Emerson Woelffer (1914 - 2003) studied academic painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, and immediately afterwards got a job as an easel painter for the Works Progress Administration.
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A new series of studies by academics at Royal Holloway, University of London and at University of London College found that people who have social power are strongly influenced by internal body cues stemming from their motor system when making judgements about preferences of paintings, objects, movements or letter sequences.
I was 23 years old, nine months into a year - long fellowship to live and paint, no academic strings attached, in Paris — and to roam from city to city, looking at works of art that I had studied only in books.
When he resumed painting in 1945, Tworkov began experimenting with an academic approach to abstraction through the study of still life and the figure.
As an undergraduate art history major who didn't start painting until several years later, I studied the paintings from an academic perspective, so stumbling across these old familiar images now that I've been painting for a while is exciting.
In 1949, just as the Abstract Expressionist movement was establishing itself as the up - and - coming force in New York, Pepi went to Rome for two years to study at the American Academy and immerse himself in the art historical tradition to which he pointedly related his painting, giving rise to later critical accounts of his work as «academic» at heart.
Although formally educated in art and graphic design, he attribute his development as a painter through experimentation and the actual process of painting more than any formal academic studies.
I actually painted myself up until shortly after college and I studied Italian Renaissance painting at a certain point in my academic career.
Ye Linghan, age 27, attended the prestigious China Academy of Art in Hangzhou where he studied traditional mural painting and drawing, his academic training evident in the many works on paper included in the exhibition.
At Colnaghi Gallery, a delightful painting of the French academic painter William - Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 - 1905), Study of the Head of a Woman for «Offering to Eros», hangs next to a photograph of a naked torso «Maryanne» (1988) by Robert Mapplethorpe.
The nudes may recall the sober brightness of Roman portraiture or the studied illusion of transience in academic painting.
The exhibition, which will only be seen at MoMA, presents an unparalleled opportunity to study the artist's development over nearly seven decades, beginning with his early academic works, made in Holland before he moved to the United States in 1926, and concluding with his final, sparely abstract paintings of the late 1980s.
I grew up seeing representational painting and at the time of the exhibition, I was immersed in «academic» painting while studying art history at Boston University.
Lining the lower levels are academic paintings in the newly introduced technique of western oil painting — portraits, figure studies, landscapes, still lifes.
• Applicants to the two - year Certificate Program must demonstrate a minimum of 2 academic school year's study from a post-secondary Fine Arts Program • Applicants to the four - year Certificate Program must demonstrate previous fine arts study from studio classes in drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking or mixed media.
In his painting Botero successfully combines and reinterprets the various artistic influences he experienced, while often returning to the copies and still - lifes that he had grown accustomed to during his academic studies.
This exhibition takes its leave from the academic life drawing classes of old, not with examples of their output, but with paintings of 18th - century wood - panelled classrooms teeming with bewigged students studying muscular torsos.
Myers disagreed with the League's rigid academic approach to art, finding more interest in reacting to urban life, so he often left his studies to paint and draw the city.
St. John was originally majoring in sociology, but the course of his academic studies changed when he discovered love of painting.
Instead of taking to academic painting he fell in love with Sue Weil, a fellow American art student, and studied with her at the famous Black Mountain College in North Carolina under the ex-Bauhaus master, Josef Albers.
Scott studied at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (BFA, 2001), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA, 2007), the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2010) and a completed a 2009 - 10 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship for Fine Arts in Leipzig, Germany.