Sentences with phrase «surrounding older artists»

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Surrounded by olive groves, the house is positioned below an old castle and there are lovely views across the hills to the south of Lake Trasimeno, scenery that features in the Renaissance paintings of the artist Perugino, who is buried in a small chapel in the village.

I grew up in a home surrounded by fabric and textiles (my almost 80 year - old mother has been an artist playing with textiles since I was a kid; we now share a studio).

Neel's famous naked self - portrait (1980) depicts the artist in old age, perched on a blue and white striped sofa surrounded by blocks of vital color — green, yellow, blue — calm and fearless in herself, staring at the viewer through slightly skewed glasses (her only attire), mouth firmly downturned and cheeks ruddy above the deliquescence of her aged body, a sinking galleon of pale flesh.

At PS1, as one of just five contemporary artists asked to contribute to «1969,» their piped lectures ignored the surrounding older art and stuck to the curriculum.

The baying hacks surrounded the affable NPG Director Sandy Nairne, as he introduced the press preview of «Lucian Freud Portraits, describing it as «A living exhibition planned with the artist», which came from a 2006 conversation with Freud followed by several years of planning, and not a memorial show to Freud who passed away last year at the grand old age of 88.

The subtle links between the nature of these structures and the show's location (within an old bathhouse, surrounded by changing cubicles) as well as the vast projections of light falling on the photographs from the transparent centre section of the roof above, highlighted the artist's sophisticated skill not only for photography, but also for all - encompassing installation work.

A Washington activist, philanthropist and co-founder of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Cafritz nurtured a nexus of art and politics at her home where elected officials, cultural leaders and artists young and old gathered, surrounded by art displayed in every room.

Created during the years of the artist's initial rise to fame in the early 2000s, But You Better Not Get Old is an exceptional example of Bradford's innovative and intuitive process, which results in textured abstractions that serve to both obscure and obviate the artist's personal history and his recognition and perception of the histories of his surrounds.

In Bjarne Melgaard's most recent paintings, old pornographic magazines are defaced with crudely executed figures and scrawled texts from a continuous novel that relies on the violent mythology surrounding the artist.

Hew Locke, a London - based artist from Guyana, is inspired by his South American homeland's Caribbean Carnival processions, events celebrated in cities often situated below sea level and surrounded by swamps and old plantations, or along marshy coasts that are rapidly washing away.

Renowned for thinking outside of the white cube model the eight year old London fair took over the Greenpoint Terminal Warehouse in Brooklyn with a stellar presentation of street art, artist lectures and panel discussions, film screenings and murals in the surrounding neighborhood.

«Today, at the entrance to the swank new replacement facility (in the same location as the old one), and surrounded by native plantings and an elegant molded concrete facade, is a commissioned, site - specific sculpture by New York City — based artist Jean Shin, titled Reclaimed.

I would also love to be surrounded with beautiful art made by my artist friends, and also some old family pics I would love to show off, of my family in the 1800s.