Sentences with phrase «very few other artists»

But very few other artists have made a combination of the two practices the focal point of their work.

Not exact matches

Apart from my own contribution, and a few others, the emphasis here was, very much on the form of the art, how it was produced, who the artists were and their social context, rather than its message.

Within a very few years, artists like John Carpenter, John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, Rob Bottin, Rick Baker, Sam Raimi, Brian DePalma, Bob Clark, Dan O'Bannon, Sean S. Cunningham, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, Stan Winston, Larry Cohen, and on and on and so on, were working in and reinvigorating the horror genre — many under the tutelage of Roger Corman, still others the initial products of formal film school training, almost all the consequence of a particular movie geekism that would lead inevitably to the first rumblings of jokiness and self - referentiality - as - homage that reached its simultaneous pinnacle and nadir with Craven's Scream.

Outside of the queer, art and HIV / AIDS communities one might imagine that with the deaths of Robert Mapplethorpe, Felix Gonzalez - Torres, Keith Haring, David Wonarowicz, and a very few others, artists stopped living with, or making art influenced by HIV.

While other artists have experimented with countless mediums, from the strictly analog to the high - concept digital, Lou remains one of the very few artists to use beads as her primary medium.

And while it could be argued that the dazzling boom and bust of a few 26 - year - old white male skateboarders - cum - abstract - painters isn't representative of thousands of other emerging artists, the spectacular market failure of that one, tiny group had a much broader cooling effect on the market: With collectors suddenly questioning the value of their not - insignificant investments (no matter how rich you are, watching your $ 100,000 painting go to $ 20,000 in a few months has to be unpleasant), a crisis of confidence resulted in some very good galleries going under.

«Very few artists are able to develop a vocabulary and create an aesthetic that affects other artists deeply,» said Ross.

One of the problems is that when works like Heilmanns receive praise for their wit and ingenuity, it downgrades the expectations and ambitions of other abstract artists; so that now, any number of painters think that slapping a few lines and shapes around on a canvas, in a manner that vaguely represents something or other — place, memory, feeling, whatever — constitutes an abstract painting, in which it is the very ambiguity of the work which constituting the «abstract» bit.