Sentences with phrase «who painted the backdrop»

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Against the backdrop of oil paintings depicting these events, the prologue concludes by noting that wealth and opportunity shifted away from black communities, where the only white people left were the police who patrolled the streets.

The ongoing dialogue between the digital and physical worlds provides the backdrop for Data Deluge, an exhibition that presents a selection of sculpture, furniture, painting, photography, video, sound and works on paper by artists who shape Web - based and software - generated data into art.

Back in the 1960s, Ashbery succinctly nailed Bishop's work when he described it as «Post-Painterly Quattrocentro» — «Quattrocentro» because of Bishop's fierce loyalty to oil paint and to the paradoxical possibilities of the painting as window, and «Post-Painterly» because of his immediate struggle with the work of Robert Motherwell, Ellsworth Kelly, and Ad Reinhardt, painters who formed the backdrop of his maturation as an artist.

He meets Gene Moore, head window designer at Tiffany & Co., Bonwit Teller, and other stores, who hires him periodically over the next two years to design displays and paint backdrops for store windows on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

Excitingly, the artist Gaylen Gerber — who is known for painting monochrome backdrops on which to display the work of other artists — will do a minishow featuring Hammons, Levine, and Trevor Shimizu.

Israel enlisted Warner Bros Studios scenic painter Andrew Pike, who painted the same backdrop for the AS IT LAYS set, to paint the mural onsite in Paris.