Sentences with phrase «success as a painter»

The search for personal identity dominates the film as Christina James (Jean Seberg) struggles to reconcile her dreams of success as a painter, her repulsion with the art world, and her own intrinsic need for romantic validation.

However, when I was nineteen, by the Fall of 1966, after completing a major series of hard - edge border paintings, success as a painter began to materialize.

Ilya Bolotowsky was an American artist of Russian birth who achieved success as a painter, sculptor, muralist, teacher, and filmmaker.

A retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art, in 1939, was evidence of his growing success as a painter.

Baruj Salinas (b. 1935, Havana): An architect by training — he studied at Kent State University in Ohio — Salinas found early success as a painter and engraver.

Building on his success as a painter, Semple has collaborated on artistic projects with Umbro, Moncler, The Prodigy, Selfridges and Levis.

What made you turn to video and leave the comfort of your success as a painter?

A solitary, intensely self - critical man, Louis had by the early 1950s arrived at modest success as a painter and teacher in Washington D.C. Through a visit to Helen Frankenthaler's studio Louis was first exposed to her stained paintings, whose influence on his working methods and conception of painting was profoundly significant.

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The Glasgow Boys» success in the art world paved the way for many famous artists such as painter and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (painting above, right).

Guston briefly provides biographical information and spends the remainder of his time speaking of his experiences working on the Mural Project (PWAP) in Los Angeles; his move to New York working under Reginald Marsh as a non-relief artist; his multiple mural projects in New York (Penn Station Subway, Queensbridge Housing Project, WPA Mural for the World's Fair, etc.); his success in WPA Fine Arts competitions; his move to Woodstock, New York; his time spent teaching at the University of Iowa; his many influences (Renaissance, Modern and Abstract Painters); his personal / professional feelings about the WPA as well as his political feelings about it.

These successes launched Hoptman back to MoMA in 2010 as curator of contemporary art in its painting and sculpture department, and since then her landmark show has been «The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World,» the 2014 conversation - starter billed as the first contemporary painting survey at the institution in some 30 years, featuring 17 contemporary abstract painters — including Mark Grotjahn, Kerstin Brätsch, and Mary Weatherford — who notably remix the techniques of painters from previous eras.

Guston, whose work was widely exhibited during this period, achieved critical success as an abstract painter.

Richard Smith (1931 — 2016) has been described as «one of the most original painters of his generation», who enjoyed huge critical and commercial success in both Britain and the United States in the 1960s and 70s.

William Klein, Gun 1, New York, 1954 Klein had originally studied painting in Paris with Fernand Léger, enjoying some early success in Europe as an abstract painter before switching to photography.

Despite his great success as a teacher, Hofmann primarily considered himself a painter, and from 1958 onward he devoted himself solely to painting.

For the latest installment of our interview series around Phaidon's Vitamin P3 compendium of contemporary painting, Artspace's Loney Abrams met the painter in MoMA's courtyard to discuss how the New York art scene has changed since the «70s, Binion's experience as the rare black artist downtown, and his secret to finding success later in life.

In the early 20th century, following Henri Matisse and André Derain's impact as Fauvist painters and Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque's monumental innovations and the worldwide success of Cubism and the emboldening of the avant - garde, Marcel Duchamp exhibited a urinal as a sculpture.

He first achieved success as an Abstract Expressionist painter, but changed course in the early 1960s and became a painter of...

As a female immigrant painter, Blumenthal never attracted much critical or public attention: despite brief periods of relative success in the 1940s and the 1970s, she died in obscurity.

He assumes that this is out of spite on the weather's part in accordance with his success as a good house painter, but, still, he respects its wills and ways.

Walker writes: «Throughout her career, Clarke enjoyed commercial success as a portrait painter, receiving several official commissions.

Proud of the economic success of their cities, Dutch cityscape painters of the 17th century inverted the gaze of landscape painting by painting the city as viewed from the countryside.

Within a decade, Leslie's participation in the Fifth São Paulo Bienal, and in exhibitions at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Stockholm's Moderna Museet, signaled his international success as an abstract painter.

The building played an important role with regard to art in Milan, as shown by the great success of the exhibition of recent years that have included Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and other painters and sculptors.

This first UK retrospective of the Welsh - born realist painter who gained critical success in the 1960s and»70s as an important instigator of New York's feminist art scene.

Neue Galerie Graz honors one of the most significant painters to have emerged in Austria after 1945, Wolfgang Hollegha, who as a member of the avant - garde painters» group around the Galerie nächst St. Stephan in Vienna, he achieved early international success.

Tom Cole from The Sunday Painter, who took part in the Focus section, said: «As first - time participants at Frieze the fair has been a great success for both the gallery and artist Samara Scott.

While Turner enjoyed great success as an oil painter and continued to explore the potential of watercolour.

He first achieved success as an Abstract Expressionist painter, but changed course in the early 1960s and became a painter of realistic figurative paintings.

He first achieved international success as an Abstract Expressionist painter, but changed course in the early 1960s and became a painter of realistic figurative paintings.

But while intellectually influential in his lifetime, and accepted today as one of the great abstract painters, and one of the key figures in modern art of the early 20th century, he enjoyed little commercial success during his lifetime.

His comparative lack of success abroad made no difference to his reputation in his native country, where he was seen as an icon of modern art and the foremost painter of the remote Australian landscape.

It wasn't until middle age that Auerbach, now 84, found commercial success, but over the last 30 years he has been ranked alongside his friends Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud as one of the most significant postwar figurative painters and his work has been exhibited in and held by museums all over the world.

He enjoyed success as an abstract painter but abandoned pure abstraction in the late 1960s, in favor of a return to figurative painting stating, «I got sick and tired of all that Purity!

-- Susan Rothenberg: After 20 years of the highest success the art market has ever conferred on a woman, Rothenberg in the early»90s finally started to show promise as a painter.

While many other painters of the period like Alan Charlton, Robert Ryman and Brice Marden were also experimenting in monochrome, following the success of late Modernist post-war artists such as Yves Klein, Ellsworth Kelly and Robert Rauschenberg, among others, Stamm quickly furthered his experimentation of the use of a minimal palette by introducing composition, through the precision of the line and the shaped canvas.