Sentences with phrase «taught artist because»

He considers himself a self - taught artist because his work is the result of his industrial design, architectural and engineering structure knowledge applied to his search for harmony and his aesthetic discourse.

Not exact matches

OK, so «chill» in the title of this three - episode collection is supposedly a reference to the temperature — because in each, the iconic artist teaches viewers how to paint wintery scenes.

I taught middle school art and I was written up in my permanent record because a nasty little boy took a postage size stamp picture containing a nude by a famous artist (2 dots represented the breasts so it was not graphic by any means) and added nasty things to it.

Dostoevsky is important because he can and does teach us how in fact we do believe, for he has understood, as only a great artist can, the struggle between belief and unbelief.

We're only doing a small number of artists this time around because we are also teaching them marketing while we do it.

After college, Arneson stayed in the San Francisco Bay area and took a job teaching ceramics at Menlo - Atherton High School, in part because he could not envision a career as a ceramics artist and wanted to maintain a connection to his passion for the medium.

I'm particularly excited about this edition because Susan Hiller will be teaching a master class at Zabludowicz Collection in London, where leading international artists advise a small group of emerging artists about their practices.

Perhaps, because of his years devoted to successful teaching, this German expatriate and pre-eminent New York School painter achieved the acme of his highly invigorated style in the 1940s and»50s, between ages 60 and 80, at a time when most artists are content to recalibrate their earlier successes.

Troubling because it's become a kind of catch all concept for artists working outside art's mainstream (whatever that is), and more so because of the back story it implies: that self - taught artists coming up from the street or out from the field straddle the slender line that separates the exotic from the non grata.

«Honoring Willie White» stands as an important exhibition not only due to the breadth of works on view, but also because it reminds us of the power of so many of the South's marginalized self - taught artists.

Rubbing salt into the wound of excluded artists is the inclusion of Jack Vettriano, the self - taught painter of The Singing Butler who has long been spurned by the art establishment, dismissed as the Jeffrey Archer of the art world, perhaps because his art sells so well on greeting - cards and posters.

Feeley and Stout were intimate with Abstract Expressionism, and knew artists associated with it, and, in Feeley's case, promoted it through exhibitions at Bennington College, where he taught (1939 — 43 and 1946 — 1966), but ultimately they rejected it because it was too chaotic for them.

Highlighting the importance of imagery from this early age the artist later reflected: «I had stacks of comics because I had sort of taught myself how to read, because I couldn't speak English.

Feeley and Stout were intimate with Abstract Expressionism, and knew artists associated with it, and, in Feeley's case, promoted it through exhibitions at Bennington College, where he taught (1939 - 1943 and 1946 - 1966), but ultimately they rejected it because it was too chaotic for them.

Despite my myriad commitments — which included teaching a graduate seminar this fall; curating a show of a Santa Fe artist Allan Graham at Gallery Diet in Miami last month; preparing to celebrate the Miami Rail's one year anniversary, assisting our friends in the Twin Cities with launching the Third Rail this upcoming November; and actualizing all the usual Brooklyn Rail responsibilities — I accepted their invitation, largely because I feel it is an important opportunity for all of us to pay homage to artists whose works were damaged by Sandy.

Howard reflected on his time teaching at Virginia Commonwealth University, where a number of artist - run pop - up exhibitions were happening because «there was a density of young creative types,» he says.

Artists of our generation tend to be self - taught because our instructors, many of them older abstract painters, liked to talk about content and form, but not necessarily about how to paint.

Now I knew de Kooning, and when he was with Janis Gallery before I ever worked there, he was out of money so Janis sent him to Yale instead of giving him money... because one of Janis's artists was Albers [who taught at Yale].

They are what is taught in art schools, and increasingly attract the uninspired and untalented because it is what you do as a young artist if you don't question received ideas.