Sentences with phrase «took up painting»

He took up painting again in 1945 after a six - year interruption.

I took up painting two years ago aged 76 during that time I have had various lessons using acrylics, water based oils, and watercolors.

There she eagerly took up painting and drawing alongside classes in French literature and art history.

When Mary Heilmann moved from California to New York in 1968 she promptly took up painting.

Returning to Ireland in 1984, she became the first administrator for the Butler Gallery, and a year later took up painting full - time.

He briefly took up painting again in 1930, but stopped again until 1942 - when he decided to return to art for good.

Sims, 41, took up painting as a hobby after he had a health scare in June 2012.

Like many of the older members of the New York School, Tworkov took up painting with the Public Works Project.

He studied design originally at the Royal College of Art: his first job was as a textile designer in Manchester in the early 1920s, and it wasn't until 1928 that he took up painting professionally.

Injuring his spine in a plane crash, he took up painting while recovering in hospital.

He had painted as a young man and later took up painting in his old age, which he did until his death in 1993.

Using her son's art materials, this Ukraine - born Brighton Beach mother of five took up painting in 1937 at the age of 43.

It was after this, that Wool took up painting professionally, achieving a breakthrough around 1986 - 7 with his «Pattern Paintings», made by using paint rollers incised with abstract designs so as to transfer patterns in black enamel to a white canvas.

Brodie was in his mid-twenties when he took up painting.

Albert Oehlen took up painting in the late 1970's, and soon became associated with the Cologne art scene, in which he collaborated with his brother Markus Oehlen and Georg Herold.

Francis took up painting in the hospital while recovering from a spinal injury he suffered while serving as a fighter pilot in World War II.

During this period, Bengston stopped making ceramics and took up painting.

After graduating, Stella moved to New York where he took up painting seriously and it was after two accidental paintings that he found his success.

At 19, she began to study sculpture in Paris with Antoine Bourdelle and Charles Despiau; later she took up painting under the tutelage of Fernand Leger and Othon Friesz.

A teacher of English Literature at Harvard University with five volumes of poetry already behind him, he took up painting and collage in his forties.

When she took up painting again, in 1975, she produced «exuberant works in blue and pink,» he adds.

They made it no farther than California, where, with her husband's encouragement, she took up painting.

The story is that Blachly, who has a day job in an art conservator's studio, secretly took up painting four years ago after a 30 - year hiatus.

However, the union introduced her to a world of artistes, including Larry Rivers, the saxophonist in her husband's band who later took up painting.

After twenty years on Wall Street, and as one of the few women Managing Directors in the institutional investment business, Leila took up painting with great zeal.

He took up painting after attending an evening class at Darlington Art College and his work was included in two major exhibitions in London.

After serving as a bomber pilot during World War II, Bluhm took up painting and moved to Florence and then Paris, where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux - Arts and shared a studio with fellow American émigré Sam Francis.

Mr. Ryman was born in Nashville in 1930 and took up painting rather suddenly in 1953.

Hsieh dropped out from high school in 1967 and took up painting.

Taking his teacher's advice, the young student abandoned sculpture and took up painting with such fervor that he dropped out of high school, even though he was just three months from graduation.

Pippin, who took up painting after losing the use of his right arm (he was shot in the shoulder during active service in the First World War) trod a line between modernist and folk art traditions: «The painting will serve as a bridge within the broader American collection to reveal complex and often - overlooked relationships between styles and practices», M. Melissa Wolfe, the museum's curator of American art, explained.

Sobel, a mother of five, took up painting in 1937, at age forty - three.

The least known of these may be Pauline Simon (1884 - 1976), who ran her husband's dental office until his death, at which point she took up painting.

He was also a regular contributor to Artforum when in 1982 he stopped writing criticism, turned to fiction and took up painting.

After running the family business, he took up painting again in the mid-1930s, only to quickly abandon it once more.

She came to count on John Dewey, the American philosopher who considered creativity and knowledge alike as part of developing experience, as a friend, and her son took up painting.

But when he turned 50, he decided to change course and took up painting full time.

Last year I took up painting after a break of several decades.

Wu took up painting seven years ago.

Do crossword puzzles, take up painting or drawing or a craft.

Why not take up painting, pottery or even knitting — whatever gets your creativity flowing.

Lucky Buddha (30:08)(Originally aired November 6, 2013) The dishes pile up as Debs takes up painting again.

Eventually she was inspired to take up painting so she could capture its utter desolation.

- Born in California in 1940, Heilmann studied ceramics and poetry before moving to New York in 1968 and taking up painting.

For those who don't know, Dubya has taken up painting in his retirement — recently, the Internet was flooded with hacked images of supposed early works, which included a scene in which he is depicted naked from the back in a shower, his face revealed in a tiny hanging mirror.

«If I hadn't taken up painting, I would have raised chickens... it's all art.»

At that time of the interview, Hirst had taken up painting with an ever - increasing desire to emulate his favourite British painter Francis Bacin, after decades of referencing the artist's visceral horrors via the conceptuality of his vitrines.

Pete started work as a cartoonist before taking up painting.

Mary Heilmann studied ceramics and poetry before moving to New York in 1968 and taking up painting.

Given Vancouver's dominant lineage of conceptual and post-conceptual art practice, McIntosh became somewhat of an alternative model of success, one that indirectly gave a young generation of artists (Arabella Campbell, Jeremy Hof, Eli Bornowsky and Rebecca Brewer, among others) permission to take up painting as a so - called serious contemporary art form.