Sentences with phrase «trained as an abstract painter»

DT: Does your training as an abstract painter still influence your work at all today, or do you feel you've moved away from that style entirely?

Like his clear paternal influence, Los Angeles based artist John Baldessari, Esteban Schimpf was trained as an abstract painter.

Initially trained as an abstract painter, Corse (b. 1945) emerged in the mid-1960s as one of the few women associated with the West Coast Light and Space movement.

Initially trained as an abstract painter, Corse (b. 1945, Berkeley, CA) emerged in the mid-1960s as one of the few women associated with the West Coast Light and Space movement.

He trained as an abstract painter with the influential Al Held at Yale University in the early 1960s, but says he left school after getting his MFA and «wanted a world without heroes and with transitions — not juxtapositions.»

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Classically trained as a painter, his vast oeuvre consists of a paradoxical body of work that sits somewhere between figurative and abstract art.

Trained as a realist painter, he became a pioneering abstract artist after seeing works by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso, and other European modernists at the Armory Show in New York in 1913.

Additionally, Henry, who was initially trained as a painter, introduced bold primary colors to create contrast with the natural / built environment and incorporated the dynamic motion and personal statement of abstract expressionism.

Her paintings are a culmination of her penchant for life viewed through the lens of a formally trained painter and her strive towards absolute consistency in her mark - making, establishing Leonhardt as one of today's most exciting abstract voices.

An omnivorous reader, influenced by the poet Rimbaud, as well as philosophers like Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer, and with a love of music but little formal training in fine art, Nolan turned to painting at the age of 21, following in the footsteps of abstract painters like Paul Klee and Laszlo Moholy - Nagy.

Trained as a psychologist, she has made a name for herself as an abstract painter by transferring her colorful neurological associations onto canvas.

I was actually trained to be an abstract painter, if it is possible to be trained as one.

Thomasos's training as a classical abstract painter, as an MFA student at Yale and then in her apprentice years in Philadelphia, where she taught at Tyler alongside the established abstractionists Dona Nelson and Stanley Whitney, gave her a fluid confidence with paint, an ability to make a convincing mark, generally a straight, fast line, that could convey decisiveness and sensuality all at once, like the handwriting on a novelist's love - letter.