Sentences with phrase «successful painting career»

Known today primarily for his role in the development of the electromagnetic telegraph and his namesake code, Samuel F.B. Morse also had a successful painting career.

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The book paints a picture of an exceptionally successful woman who admits to lacking confidence at various points in her career.

Stallone gives Henry a more laid - back persona of a man comfortable with his post-boxing life while De Niro paints Billy as an emotional hothead who hasn't been able to let go of the past despite a successful career outside the ring.

The Guild is generally painted by the many who don't like it as an a promotional club that protects and enhances the career gains of the most already - successful, traditionally contracted authors, the perceived «haves» as opposed to the «have - nots» for whom standard publishing deals and conditions are frequently described by critics as flatly punitive.

Dempsey writes that, Cunningham, a graphic designer who abruptly refused to exhibit his paintings after a successful start to his painting career, «worked in the solitary atmosphere of his chapel studio in Battersea, where he would travel each day to work on his canvases.

17 In mid-century France, as in 17th - century Holland, there was a tendency for artists to attempt to achieve some sort of security in a shaky market situation by specializing, by making a career out of a specific subject: animal painting was a very popular field, as the Whites point out, and Rosa Bonheur was no doubt its most accomplished and successful practitioner, followed in popularity only by the Barbizon painter Troyon (who at one time was so pressed for his paintings of cows that he hired another artist to brush in the backgrounds).

Edwin Dickinson (1891 - 1978) painted many large, major pictures, and enjoyed a long and — once it got off the ground — successful career.

«Diebenkorn had a very successful career painting in an abstract manner.

David Hockney RA, has distinguished himself throughout his long and successful career as a gifted draughtsman; his confidence and strength of line characterises his work from single line portrait studies, to large scale paintings of LA in the 60s.

After a short but successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol began making paintings.

He started painting some nine years ago after a successful career in the development and implementation of complex IT systems.

Murillo's career was a successful one, and he painted canvases for the most important patrons and churches in Seville.

In addition to his career in painting, Smith is also a successful bookmaker and ceramicist.

A selection of recent paintings demonstrate the rich and bold palette that has gained international attention in recent years for an artist who has a long, successful career as a writer and poet.

The architect Philip Johnson bought the painting and donated it to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, launching Warhol on a successful career as an artist.

A graphic artist, activist, successful podcast host, author and hand - painted lettering specialist, he kicked off his career with clients such as the Guardian and WWE.

She quit painting for nearly a decade, abandoning a successful career in New York and settling in New Mexico to write and, eventually, to paint again.

Emilio Sánchez (b. 1921, Camagüey - d. 1999, Warwick, N.Y): After moving to New York City in 1944 to study painting and printmaking at the Art Students League, Sánchez embarked in a successful artistic career.

Seen by many as the High Priest of Pop - art, Warhol enjoyed a successful career as a commercial illustrator, before achieving worldwide fame for his pop - style painting, screenprints, avant - garde films, and a lifestyle involving a mixture of Hollywood stars, intellectuals, avant - garde artists and underground celebrities.

From the agitation of the elliptical spots that inaugurated his precocious beginnings in the early 1960s, to the torrents of impasto with which he sprayed his way through the 1980s and 1990s, followed by more experiments in texture and paint application — not all successful, but never diffident — Poons's career has been something of a protracted high - wire act, dedicated to the pursuit of painting on its own terms.

Though her family objected to her becoming a professional artist, Cassatt began studying painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia at the early age of 15, she continued her studies in Europe and later moved to Paris were she embarked on a successful career with many commissions.

Chu called the painting his «lucky star», after which his career became increasingly successful.

Yet throughout his prodigious and successful career, he and his bustling workshop also created imposing altarpieces and smaller religious paintings for private devotion or collectors, striking portraits, depictions of sensual episodes drawn from the classical tradition, and majestic allegories glorifying the Venetian state.

In the mid 60's, excited by developments in American painting, Bowling moved to New York, where he pursued a successful career, including a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1971.

Drawing from a selection of masterpieces that span Bellini's long and successful career, this exhibition catalogue focuses on the main function of landscape in his oeuvre: to enhance the meditational nature of paintings intended for the private devotion of intellectually sophisticated, elite patrons.

For Frost, teaching was an equally important part of his artistic career as painting, and this was reflected in his successful academic career, which included teaching at the Bath Academy of Art (1952), the Leeds School of Art (1954 - 6), the Leeds College of Art (1956 - 9), and the University of Leeds, as well as being an artist in residence and professor of painting at the University of Reading.