Sentences with phrase «success as an abstract painter»

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

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.

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!

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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.

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.

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.