Sentences with phrase «turn of the century french»

-- Bio pic focusing on the life and work of turn of the century French artist Serephine de Senlis.

His current work consists of paintings and drawings on paper based on turn of the century French and German filet lace patterns, design - based imagery imbedded in instructional diagrams, and harkens back to the computerized digitization of 1980s era 8 - bit schemata.

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Each of Europe's great nations in turn asserted its own claim to election, starting with Isidore of Seville and the Visigothic kingdom of Spain in the seventh century and followed in turn by the French, the British, the Russians, and the Germans.

At the turn of the century, the French power couple Marie and Pierre Curie — the discoverers of radium — attended séances conducted by Eusapia Palladino, at the time a well - known Italian medium.

But Assayas also refers specifically to Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944), a recently rediscovered Swedish pioneer of abstract art who claimed that her paintings were directly dictated by spirit forces, and to 19th - century French literary titan Victor Hugo, who practiced «table turning» sessions to contact the dead (Assayas fabricates an «extract» from an apocryphal French TV film of the 1960s, featuring actor - singer Benjamin Biolay as a solemn Hugo).

writes about two little know French cars built in Lyons / 1924 B.S.A. 14hp — This month the Editor gives his impressions of his outing in what was a Daimler in all but name / Two motor - manufacturing families — Two apparantly unrelated families named Ravel were engaged in motor manufacture in France at the turn of the century.

I'm also inspired by Manville's warmth which I attribute to the predominantly French - Canadians who immigrated to the area at the turn of the 20th century, seeking gainful employment in the mill.

Here, DeJean, trustee professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania and author of a number of books on French literature and history, turns her attention to a tale of intrigue and finance in 18th - century France.

Rather, they come to hear your stories: of Étienne Bazeries, the French cryptanalyst who in the nineteenth century spent three years trying to decipher Louis XIV's code (so full of twists and turns that it took more than two centuries to decode it), or of Marian Rejewski, the Polish cryptanalyst who helped to defeat Enigma in World War II.

Bill Bensley and Bensley design studio modelled the property on the concept of a Laotian hill station from the turn of the 20th century, in which a grand and gracious home of a French host would be opened to intrepid adventurers and curious travellers from diverse walks of life who managed to make their way to this magical corner of the world.

It was built at the turn of the nineteenth - century and widely considered one of the most picturesque French buildings in the archipelago.

The NoMad Hotel is a turn of the century Beaux - Arts building that has been masterfully restored to its original grandeur with interiors by world renowned French designer Jacques Garcia.

Newly renovated turn - of - the - century architecture with French country decor - 3 blks west of lake, 10 min from downtown Chicago...

The French Annexation saw the rebuilding of the city from the turn of the 20th century.

The French colonial architecture, high ceilings, beautiful Italian - marble floors and rich rosewood furniture at this luxurious colonial hotel will take you a step back in time.Built at the turn of the century, circa 1932, the luxurious Settha Palace Hotel in Vientiane, Laos has been restored to its former charm.Re - opened in 1999, the French colonial architecture, period furniture, French restaurant, landscaped gardens complemented by modern facilities, are some of the features of this historical landmark in the heart of Vientiane, the capital city of Lao P.D.R. (Laos).

By turns lyrical, powerful and serene, her work is underpinned by her adherence to the French nineteenth - century master Eugène Delacroix's observation: «the first duty of a painting is to be a feast for the eye».

Having turned 93 this past December, the iconic «painter of black» French artist Pierre Soulages would be highly deserving of a major retrospective; but his current show «21st - Century Soulages,» on view at the French Academy in the Villa Medici in Rome through June 16, is in fact devoted to recent work.

In 1954, French literary critic Michel Carrouges borrowed the term bachelor machine from this work to name a pervasive trend in turn - of - the - century art and literature, citing the work of Mary Shelley, Edgar Allen Poe, Jules Verne, Alfred Jarry, Villiers de l'Isle - Adam, Raymond Roussel, Franz Kafka, Fritz Lang, Thea Von Harbou, and Jean Tinguely, among others.

His work helped shape the aesthetics of French art at the turn of the twentieth century and formed the cornerstone of the international Art Nouveau movement.

American collectors Marlene and Spencer Hays have promised their entire collection of some 600 works of art to Paris's Musée d'Orsay, beginning with a donation of 187 French masterpieces from the turn of the 20th century.

The American collectors Marlene and Spencer Hays promised their entire collection of some 600 works of art to Paris's Musée d'Orsay, beginning with a donation of 187 French masterpieces from the turn of the 20th century.

Given the gallery's setting in a prominent turn - of - the - century apartment building, the sculptures here enter in to dialogue with the elegant white double - panel French doors, which pepper the apartment - gallery and account for its authentic Viennese character.

The first gallery is haunted by the spirit of the French impressionist painter Claude Monet, who — at the turn of the last century — was chasing the present, while painting his unruly garden: «I am just running after nature without being able to catch her up».

By the turn of the 20th century, a number of noteworthy artists, including Daniel Chester French, John Henry Twachtman, Augustus Saint - Gaudens, Childe Hassam, and many others, had taught or were teaching at the League.

Kline may have been reflecting on this period rhetoric when he decided, shortly after the tabloid - worthy tussle with Fautrier at the Venice Biennale, to turn to the celebrated French printmaker of the nineteenth century in Meryon.

A controversial figure on the Anglo - French art scene at the turn of the twentieth century, Wynford Dewhurst is most famous for his 1908 work The Picnic, in the collection of Manchester Art Gallery.

This course surveys Western art from the French Revolution to the turn of the twentieth century.

Greek mythology is supplanted by Renaissance mythology, which in turn is fused with the expressionism of 20th century French humanistic paintings.

This exhibition features for the first time the work of a completely unknown French photographer and his photographs of French regional life at the turn of the 20th century.

Detailed Description: Artist statement: Turn - of - the - century French chronophotographer, Étienne - Jules Marley was interested in photographic - based movement and pioneered innovative ways to capture this in people and objects.

Artist statement: Turn - of - the - century French chronophotographer, Étienne - Jules Marley was interested in photographic - based movement and pioneered innovative ways to capture this in people and objects.

There is also, of course, the tension between empiricism and scientific theory, as demonstrated often in engineering: English suspension bridge designers in the 19th century were generally empirical, and their bridges stood; French were highly scientific and theoretical, and their first bridges, tho elegant, almost all failed (turned out to be the way they anchored their cables)... and the regrettable tendency of scientists to think that, because they are authoritative in their own field, they are thereby authoritative in policy and social engineering...