Sentences with phrase «think of another living artist»

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There will be albums we leave off, artists we'll discover in two weeks that change our lives, comments we'll read and think «of course, how could we have been so foolish» before drowning in a sea of remorse.

Rudolf Steiner (1861 - 1925), an Austrian philosopher, educator, scientist, artist, and the founder of Waldorf education, emphasized the importance of achieving balance in the three realms through which a person relates to the world — the realm of thinking, the life of feelings, and physical activity.

Long before scientists were studying the properties of neurons, artists had devised a series of techniques to «trick» the brain into thinking that a flat canvas was three - dimensional or that a series of brushstrokes was actually a still life.

An artist impression of a camarasaurus, an extinct sauropod dinosaur thought to have lived 100 million years ago in what is now the Sahara Desert.

In BURDEN, Timothy Marrinan and Richard Dewey look at the artist's works and private life with an innovative mix of still - potent videos of his 70s performances, personal videos and audio recordings, friends, fellows students and colleagues, critics» comments and latter day footage at his Topanga Canyon studio, all peppered with his thoughts and musings through the years.

There are an infinite number of striking or subtle ways that comic book writers and artists can convey exposition, character details, psychological states, and simultaneous events occurring in parallel storylines; you can do stuff like expand a single decisive instant so that it fills up six pages, or show Spider - Man swinging through midtown Manhattan in a full - page splash panel dotted with thought balloons that summarize a year's worth of his life.

The characters may think they sound brilliant when they crib from Oscar Wilde with lines like, «What is true about music is true about life: that beauty reveals everything because it expresses nothing,» or «A real artist creates beautiful things and puts nothing of his own life into them.»

I thought Terrence Howard gave the year's most complex and nuanced performance in «Hustle & Flow,» as a pimp who wants to become a rap artist, and finds his life and his attitudes toward women transformed by the experience of art.

Morgan Spurlock isn't the first person you'd think of to direct a documentary about the popular geek Mecca, but he's wisely chosen to stay out of the spotlight this time around, instead opting to focus on the lives of five attendees (including a toy collector, an aspiring artist and a costume designer) who have traveled to the annual convention for various reasons.

National Poetry Month is a call to not only remember these inspirational artists, but think about and share how their work and the art form it embodies has endured to influence millions of lives.

I have some familiarity with the artists who populate this fictional tale and I think he did a great job of bringing them to life as characters in this amusing mystery.

I have written a suite of articles on self - publishing for manybooks.net, as well as publishing more general articles on the highs and lows of a modern artist's life on Thought Catalog.

His life changes when billionaire Gary Eastman enters his shop and becomes the ultimate patron: a lifetime commission for all his work in exchange for a crap - load of money.Some of his artist buddies envy him and others think he's sold out.

Do you think it will be easier or harder in the next decade for artists of all types to make a living wage?

Think of creative artists who are so engaged by their art that they view it as part of their daily life, not just a means of making a living.

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As I read this article it reminded me of how we artists can be quite an emotional lot.Sometimes we have trouble being practical.I certainly have mixed emotions about this subject.On the one hand it is always great to sell a piece of art but on the other five dollars doesn't seem worth the hassle.But the point I think many may have missed is that a five dollar work of art would definately be something you only spend a small amount of time on, like a half hour or less.That's $ 10 an hour to do what you love and isn't that what we're all looking for?My husband who's a bussiness man is always making me look at it that way, in terms of an hourly wage.I know that's not very artistic thinking but it sure does make sence in this materialistic world that we live in.

I remember when the Painting A Day trend started... a lot of artists thought it was crazy — but I've read about a few who, at least at the time, made a living income from it.

When I first started trying to become an artist, to try to live off my creativity and think of my art as more than just a hobby; my apprehension and my attitude toward my own work showed in the way I presented myself.

I'm finding I'm tough thinking of what to write in social media posts etc. as I just don't feel that my life will be that interesting to other people (although other artists blog posts and newsletters fascinate me).

I know a number of artists who live down under, and I'm thinking if enough were interested, I'd do something late evening my time, which would be mid-day your time.

And I think that if you could manage the job of Director of Design at an art institute for 20 years, the fact that you hit the wall on politics doesn't mean you hit the wall on your life as an artist.

I agree with this article, I think a blog really helps to create a connection with the audience, it helps them know about the art and the life of the artist.

That achievement in the arts, as in any field of endeavor, demands struggle and sacrifice, no one would deny; that this has certainly been true after the middle of the 19th century, when the traditional institutions of artistic support and patronage no longer fulfilled their customary obligations, is undeniable: one has only to think of Delacroix, Courbet, Degas, van Gogh and Toulouse - Lautrec as examples of great artists who gave up the distractions and obligations of family life, at least in part, so that they could pursue their artistic careers more singlemindedly.

And the belie the enormous amount of distilled thought, and raw life force behind the artist's work: Turns out the black - paintings series was born when Stella blacked out a multicolored canvas in a fit of frustration at how the piece was progressing.

What follows, in the exhibition, are works by artists who have persevered in defiance of portrait fatigue, such as Alex Katz and Chuck Close, and some creative curating that asks us to think of 1970s Body Art, anonymous street photography, and certain still lifes as portraits.

Thinking about abstraction's continued relevance may require me to at least mention Zombie Formalism, («Formalism because this art involves a straightforward, reductive, essentialist method of making a painting and Zombie because it brings back to life the discarded aesthetics of Clement Greenberg»), if only to suggest that the term, coined by artist - critic Walter Robinson, quoted in brackets above, seems to refer more to the market than to the art and may appear more pertinent in the USA than in the UK where alternative modernisms have sometimes held more sway than the version associated with Greenberg and Fried.

I believe the artist has a social responsibility to engage others in a thought process that ultimately brings the creative process into everyday life thereby enhancing the quality of our experience.»

I've been thinking about Blackburn beer garden gak w * nker a lot, and I've come to the conclusion: he is a self - expressionist of the highest order, Britain's greatest living artist.

The artist aims to reveal the dormant life in inanimate objects, historical facts, and figures of thought, with the ultimate goal of rendering the material immaterial.

Where Break Down maps a life through an inventory of belongings, Breaking News maps the artist's mind through an inventory of his thoughts, or at least his media intake.

In its genuine collapsing of the art - life divide and its affirmation of the value of bringing art into unlikely places, the piece reminds me of what I've admired about The Art Guys since, as an art student in Boston in the mid-1990s, I picked up their Contemporary Arts Museum Houston catalog and thought, «There are artists in Houston?»

Currently one of the 14 women artists in the Saatchi Gallery's first all - women exhibition, Champagne Life, Ittah spoke to Studio International about her technique, her current collaboration with her partner, Kai Yoda, and her thoughts on the status of female artists today.

When you support the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, you: encourage critical thinking, improve teacher education in Virginia, make a difference in the life of a child, stimulate artistic discourse in our community, support local artists, and assist in non-profit development.

As these artists have drawn their practices and thought lives down to the intimate scale of the gallery, a love language has formed from material and incident.

The Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. proudly presents Invisible Things, a new exhibition of painting, installation, and sculpture works by Korean artists Gyeongja Lee and Hyemin Lee that gives form to the powerful inner thoughts, emotions, and memories that occupy our everyday lives.

Each Sunday throughout the run of Andy Warhol: The Last Decade, accomplished artist living and working in the Dallas / Fort Worth metroplex offer unique thoughts on the artist, his work, and his contributions as they put this special exhibition into context based on their own particular perspectives as artists.

The panel will explore the timeliness of this recent iteration of digital abstraction, with three artists who variously work through issues such as: how gesture, expression, and authenticity might continue to be possible in a contemporary image - based culture; whether our digital era truly produces an ahistorical condition in which images and marks have no specific reference and no relevant point of origin; how structures of and interfaces with digital technologies have necessitated new models for thinking about memory, distribution, and reproduction, as well as degradation, rupture, breakdown, and the void; and how the ubiquity of the screen in all aspects of life has given rise to a renewed interest in the relationship between two - dimensional and three - dimensional space, with a refreshed focus on tromp l'oeil and «topographical» painting.

«Think about your grandmother differently,» the artist Robert Kushner said to me last summer, reflecting on the years he spent during the mid-1970s cutting, sewing, and crocheting handmade garments — often out of scavenged and second - hand clothes — then staging them as costumes for live performances and runway shows in downtown New York studio lofts and galleries like Paula Cooper and the Kitchen.

Stanton's text provides a guide to Jane Frank's life and work, and there is a helpful and liberal use of quotations from the artist herself, enabling the reader to understand how Frank's thinking evolved, especially from the late 1950s through the late 1960s.

Because Matta (1911 - 2002) persisted in creating representational imagery, however abstracted, and lived in Europe and South America from the 1950s on, his New York profile faded to the point where, starting in the 1970s, he was thought of more often as Gordon Matta - Clark's father than as a living artist.

MICHELLE GRABNER: So we have Joe Scanlan — I think a quite brilliant artist who lives here in New York — one of his projects is Donelle Woolford.

This new publication prepares them for the real business of thinking, seeing and living as an artist in the fast - changing contemporary world.

-- Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Galleries AKADEMIE X is a guide on how to live a creative life by some of the world's most thought - provoking artists and writers.

We knew that the show couldn't be an exhaustive survey of self - portraiture but we started by thinking about the Van Dyck painting and what makes it so important: the fact that the artist caused such a seismic shift in the approach to portraiture in the 17th century that was to last for at least the next three centuries; that his portraits were a form of «self - advertisement» and show an acute awareness of his identity and public image as a successful artist; that it was his final self - portrait, made in the last year of his life at the age of 42 and that his various self - portraits (there are seven known in total) trace his life as an artist.

In speaking about his art, Kenny Scharf commented to the museum: «I believe the artist has a social responsibility to engage others in a thought process that ultimately brings the creative process into everyday life thereby enhancing the quality of our experience.»

«Maria saved my life from the streets at one point and continues to confound every stereotype of a Brooklyn artist you can think of simply by being her very raw, unreconstructed and upfront immigrant self,» said Prospero of his wife and we love it / them.

From thought - provoking sculptures to a haunting video to a photographic installation, each of the chosen works engages with contemporary culture, reflecting the artist's looking at and thinking about life today.

Group Island Press: Recent Prints, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 2018 Thinking Through Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, 2018 Sunrise, Sunset, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL, 2017 The Unhomely, Denny Gallery, New York, NY, 2017 Women Painting, Miami Dade College, Kendall Gallery, Miami, FL, 2017 New Faces, Different Places, Central Features Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM 2017 The Home Show, form & concept, Santa Fe, NM, 2016 Girls Who Dance in Dissonance, Wayside, Los Angeles, CA, 2016 Surface Area: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, 2016 Self - Proliferation, Girls» Club, curated by Micaela Giovannotti, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2016 Faces and Vases, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2016 Visions Into Infinite Archives, SOMArts Cultural Center, curated by Black Salt Collective, San Francisco, CA, 2016 Summer Art Faculty Exhibition, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2015 Paula Wilson & Jovencio de la Paz, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck, MI, 2015 Perception Isn't Always Reality, Kranzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, MO, 2015 DRAW: Mapping Madness, Inside — Out Art Museum, curated by Tomas Vu, Beijing, China, 2014 - 2015 Lake Effect, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, curated by Mike Andrews, Saugatuck, MI, 2014 I Am The Magic Hand, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, Organized by Josephine Halvorson, New York, NY, 2013 Sanctify, Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2013 The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, 2012 Configured, Benrimon Contemporary, Curated By Teka Selman, New York, NY 2012 Art by Choice, Mississippi Museum of Fine Art, Jackson, MS, 2011 The February Show, Ogilvy & Mather, New York, NY, 2011 Art on Paper: The 41st Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, 2010 Defrosted: A Life of Walt Disney, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, 2010 41st Collectors Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK, 2009 - 2010 Carrizozo Artist's Show, Gallery 408, Carrizozo, NM, 2009 - 2010 While We Were Away, Sragow Gallery, New York, NY, 2009 A Decade of Contemporary American Printmaking: 1999 - 2009, Tsingha University, Beijing, China, 2009 Collected.

The image created by such biographical anecdotes, Boccioni's ruminating self - portraits, and the artistic and personal anxieties of his diaries and letters, which are peppered with suicidal thoughts, befit the trope of the troubled and short - lived avant - garde artist, which from Vincent Van Gogh and Amedeo Modigliani, through the Abstract Expressionists, became prevalent in 20th - century art historiography.