Sentences with phrase «taught as a painter»

James Prosek is self - taught as a painter.

Bannard, who made drawings and watercolors throughout his youth, was self - taught as a painter.

Primarily self - taught as a painter and printmaker, Gottlieb aimed to synthesize an intellectual approach to painting with his own emotional experience.

I'm completely self - taught as a painter.

I would also say that you're self - taught as a painter.

Basically self - taught as a painter, he has left two art schools in Boston and stayed with very little formal education.

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She has since grown up with the painter Osh as her stand - in father; their only other friend is Maggie, who teaches Crow.

Hofmann was friendly with both Greenberg and the Color Field painters as well as the Minimalist painters and sculptors at Hunter, where he taught.

The jazz innovator Cecil Taylor; the painter and musician Lucy Dodd; the filmmaker Steve McQueen; the earth artist Michael Heizer; and the skilled manipulator of human consciousness Andrea Fraser all outdid themselves, teaching us about life, space and the exhibition as form.

Tess Jaray is one of Britain's foremost painters and printmakers as well as being a writer, and the first woman to teach at the Slade.

Addison / Ripley Fine Art ---- Washington artist Isabel Manalo is a painter who has taught at American University's art department for ten years, as well as shown locally, nationally and internationally throughout her career.

The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore present an exhibition featuring works from every period in painter Alma Thomas's career, including rarely exhibited watercolors and early abstractions, as well as her signature canvases drawn from a variety of private and public collections.

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.

A few years later, when I decided I want to become a painter, I got frustrated that in all of these years, she, or the other art teachers I had in high school or during my one year at the Bezalel Academy, didn't teach me what I viewed as «proper skills».

He taught as a professor as well and taught some contemporary painters that I love based out in the Bay area.

«Art Critic Estelle Lovatt FRSA has the experience of being on both sides of the canvas; having trained as a painter, read art history and as a gallery exhibition curator, Estelle is able to teach, judge and talk about works of art, from Cave Art to Banksy, with expert opinion.»

By the time Tworkov arrived to teach painting at Black Mountain College in July 1952, his reputation as one of America's premier painters was proven.

Notable names associated with the Kansas City Art Institute include Walt Disney, who took Saturday classes here as a child; painter Thomas Hart Benton, who taught here from 1935 to 1941; multimedia artist Robert Rauschenberg, who studied fashion design at KCAI; sculptor, conceptual artist and writer Robert Morris; celebrated, present - day performance artist, noted fabric sculptor and more recent KCAI graduate, Nick Cave, and the list goes on.

McKay and Louchhead, who were later to receive national recognition as members of the REGINA FIVE group of painters, saw the potential of the Emma Lake site and its facilities to offer summer workshops for practising artists as a means of breaking from the artistic isolation they felt in Regina, where both taught at the School of Art.

Schooled as an abstract painter and self - taught as a representational artist, Fischl mines historical painting and photography for source material.

In addition to numerous group and one - man gallery shows, event invitations, cherished awards earned, juried show acceptances - and some wonderful editorial profiles - Suys's devotion to his craft, his participation in plein air invitationals, judging, and increasingly teaching, have helped him grow not just in reputation but as a soulful painter who believes in lifelong learning, «no excuses», and the power of observation.

This unassuming ambiguous object resonated not just with Wiley and Nauman, but also with a whole range of Bay Area artists in the 1960s, inspiring more than one group exhibition themed around it, a catalogue, and numerous articles as well as extensive use as a teaching tool by the painter Frank Owen.

Best known as a painter and draftsman, he wrote 3 books and many articles and through his teaching profoundly influenced art and artists in BC and across Canada.

Self - taught, he started his artistic career as a painter, making gestural, abstract works.

In addition to making futuristic sculpture and architecture, he trained as an icon painter and taught woodworking and ceramics.

Starting his artistic career in the middle 40's as a self - taught painter, Morellet portrayed realistic still - life subjects.

[3] Polish Romantic painting is exemplified in the work of Artur Grottger, Henryk Rodakowski, or the equestrian master artist Piotr Michałowski (now at Sukiennice), and Jan Nepomucen Głowacki considered the father of Polish school of landscape painting, as well as the renowned historical painter Leopold Loeffler invited to Kraków by Matejko to teach the future luminaries of the Young Poland movement including Wyspiański, Tetmajer, Malczewski and Weiss among others.

Ms. Faruqee was initially inspired by Josef Albers's «Interaction of Color» (1963)-- she teaches art at Yale University, as did Albers — but her second show at Koenig & Clinton, «Rainbows and Bruises,» also draws upon the Op Art painter Bridget Riley's writings on the Post-Impressionist Georges Seurat.

He started out in São Paolo as a typographer, interior decorator, and self - taught painter of murals, before beginning in 1914 to experiment with oils — carefully observed landscapes and everyday scenes.

Homer never taught in a school or privately, as did Thomas Eakins, but his works strongly influenced succeeding generations of American painters for their direct and energetic interpretation of man's stoic relationship to an often neutral and sometimes harsh wilderness.

At St Martin's he was taught by abstract painters of the «50s, such as Henry Mundy and Alan Reynolds.

[24] She cites her studies with painter Paul Brach as teaching her to «understand the stroke as an event in time» and to think of her performers as «colors in three dimensions.»

Lawson may well have been encouraged to come to Colorado Springs by two New York artist - colleagues: Robert Reid, a fellow National Academician and member of The Ten American Painters («The Ten») who taught figure painting at the Broadmoor Academy from 1920 to 1927, and Randall Davey, who taught there from 1925 to 1930 and who preceded Lawson as a teacher at the Kansas City Art Institute.

He attributes his fondness for neon colours to skateboard graphics from the early «90s, and to the influence of Pop painters such as Peter Saul and the Chicago Imagist Barbara Rossi, who taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where Curry studied as an undergrad.

(28) What might it be like to teach a survey of art history and, instead of rehearsing the traditional examples of Pollock as a gestural painter and Mark Rothko as a Color Field artist, use Krasner and Fine as the primary examples of the style?

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.

He has a strong sense of Bay Area art traditions — his father is a second - generation Abstract Expressionist painter who taught art at De Anza High School in Richmond — as well being interested in a wide range of modern and contemporary artists from many countries.

Although he has received some beaux - arts training, his first career was as a self - taught sign - painter.

In conjunction with its 25th anniversary, the Armory Center for the Arts presents Caught Looking: Simone Gad, Tracy Nakayama, Ruby Neri, Lauralee Pope, Mary Weatherford, an exhibition of works by five painters who have taught or led workshops at the Armory during its tenure as one of Pasadena's leading arts institutions.

Fischl himself developed that particular faith as a young painter in the 1970s when he started to try to express himself on canvas, first at CalArts, the Disney - funded art college outside Los Angeles, and later in Nova Scotia, where he took a teaching job and met his wife, the celebrated landscape artist April Gornik, and finally in New York.

Self - taught as a child growing up in Milan, and later mentored for a time by a young Lucio Fontana, the earliest influences of Antonio Calderara were of the figuration and light effects of Piero della Francesca, Seurat and the Milanese Novecento painters.

He has been teaching and working in the U.S. as a painter and new media artist since 1999.

Grace Hartigan, an Abstract Expressionist painter once hailed as the leading female artist of her generation who later turned to teaching and led a Baltimore art school to national prominence, died Nov. 15 of liver failure at a nursing home in Timonium, Md..

A microbiologist, surfer and self - taught painter, Brookes enjoys meditating on complexities, according to the gallery: the nature of existence and perception, Hindu and Buddhist deities, science and philosophy, as well as fractals and math - based patterns.

Rochelle Feinstein (born 1947) has long been influential as both an abstract painter and an educator (she was one of the first women to be tenured at in the Visual Arts at Yale, where she still teaches).

The people working with these compositional elements were trained as Color Field and hard - edge painters, many of them taught by European modernists who emigrated to the United States, including Josef Albers, a Bauhaus professor who taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina.

McNeil speaks of why he became interested in art; his early influences; becoming interested in modern art after attending lectures by Vaclav Vytlacil; meeting Arshile Gorky; the leading figures in modern art during the 1930s; his interest in Cézanne; studying with Jan Matulka and Hans Hofmann; his experiences with the WPA; the modern artists within the WPA; the American Abstract Artists (A.A.A.); a group of painters oriented to Paris called The Ten; how there was an anti-surrealism attitude, and a surrealist would not have been permitted in A.A.A; what the A.A.A. constituted as abstract art; a grouping within the A.A.A. called the Concretionists; his memories of Léger; how he assesses the period of the 1930s; the importance of Cubism; what he thinks caused the decline of A.A.A.; how he assesses the period of the 1940s; his stance on form and the plastic values in art; his thoughts on various artists; the importance of The Club; the antipathy to the School of Paris after the war; how Impressionism was considered in the 40s and 50s; slides of his paintings from 1937 to 1962, and shows how he developed as an artist; the problems of abstract expressionism; organic and geometric form; the schisms in different art groups due to politics; his teaching techniques; why he feels modern painting declined after 1912; the quality of A.A.A. works; stretching his canvases, and the sizes he uses; his recent works, and his approaches to painting.

Formally trained as a painter, McCarthy taught performance, video, installation, and performance art history at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1984 to 2003 and currently works primarily in sculpture and video.

Foto Johannes SchwartzIn the late 40s and the 50s he played a crucial part in the appreciation of art produced by psychiatric patients, children and self - taught painters (naive painters), nowadays also referred to as «outsider art».

Professor Evertz, a noted abstract painter, knew Mr. Wells first as his teaching assistant at Hunter, where he was a full professor, then as a colleague and, until the end of his life, as a close friend.