Sentences with phrase «whole life as an artist»

I»VE WORKED almost my whole life as an artist to distance myself from the kind of role models traditionally associated with the idea of the photographer.

Not exact matches

Lifelong sibling con artists, Bloom (Brody, Hollywoodland) and Stephen (Ruffalo, Blindness), are nearing their last days working as a flamboyant, theatrical - styled team when Bloom announces that he's ready to go legit (he wants an «unwritten life,» remarking of how his whole life has been one scenario after another concocted for him to perform in by Stephen), but not before Stephen convinces him to give it one more go before retirement.

There were great performances across the board by Christian Bale (whose combover alone deserves some kind of award) and Amy Adams as the con artists, Bradley Cooper as the fed who is as tightly coiled as his perm and Jeremy Renner as a politician who falls into their trap out of a genuine desire to help his constituents but the whole thing was stolen outright by Jennifer Lawrence as Bale's wife, a live wire whose innately direct nature is enough to blow the entire deal in an instant, in what may be the best performance to date of her already incredible career.

Yeah, I think I've been using a Polaroid since... well... I guess everyone uses them through their whole life — but as an artist, since the late 1990's.

As the artist later proclaimed: «suddenly I realized that I had been emptying space instead of filling it, and that now my line made the whole area come to life» (B. Newman quoted in T. Hess, New York, 1969, p. 31.

He points to the veteran Italian artist Carol Rama as an artist who «has lived her whole life in Turin in the same flat, for more than 70 years, and has an amazing body of work,» adding that «Goethe was the same».

He was filming the whole time, as well as when he was later traveling between his home in London, New York, and his family's home in La Paella, Colombia, and the resulting 80 minutes of footage — showing behind - the - scenes banter at the Zwirner show, work at the residency, the artist goofing around — seems to be at least a distant relative of Sigmar Polke's extraordinary travelogue videos now on view in his survey at Tate Modern, or even, in its multichannel spread, to Dieter Roth's filmic account of the last year of his life.

«My whole life is aimed at making the things from everyday life that Dickens describes and these artists draw» he wrote in his first years as a struggling artist.

Well, some hateful individuals saw Made in Heaven series as a perfect opportunity to ridicule Koons's sexual life, to the extent that they even saw the whole series as the artists excuse to get laid.

Taken as a whole, his work defies a singular style, and in his drawings, paintings, and sculptures, Aldrich is able to move effortlessly between figuration, abstraction, and representation — often combining imagery variously inspired by people and places close to him, visual artists, writers, and musicians whom he finds interesting, and experiences drawn from his everyday life.

Among an ever expanding (and as Karen Barad might say, «entangled») list, I am inspired by the complex and contradictory city I live in (the city of Chicago) and the incredible community of hard working, sincere, talented artists who I am surround by and have the privilege of working alongside and in collaboration with every day (too many and to diverse to name individually here) / / by mentors A. Laurie Palmer and Claire Pentecost and Anne Wilson and Ben Nicholson / / by Simon Starling and Andrea Zittel and Mark Dion and Sarah Sze and Phoebe Wasburn and Mierele Laderman Ukeles and Joseph Beuys and Eva Hesse and Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson / / by writers and philosophers Karen Barad and Jane Bennett and Rebecca Solnit and Italo Calvino and Steward Brand and the contributors to The Whole Earth Catalog (of which my father gave me his copies) and Ken Issacs and Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson and William Cronon and Bruno Latour and Deluze and Guttari and Jack Burnham / / by ideas of radical intimacy and transformation and ephemerality and experimentation and growth and agency and mobility and nomadicism and balance and maintenance and survival and change and subjectivity and hylozoism and living structures / / by mycelium and soil and terracotta and honey and mead and wild yeast and beeswax and fat and felt and salt and sulfur and bismuth and meteorites and microbes and algae and oil and carbon and tar and water and lightening and electricity and oak and maple / / by exploration and navigation and «the Age of Wonder» and the Mir Space Station and the Deep Tunnel Project / / by Lake Michigan and the Chicago River and waterways and canals and oceans and puddles... to name a few.

With a critical eye to the ways in which images are used within mass media and the photographic medium is viewed in the cultural landscape as a whole, the artist employed early methods of appropriation, and in one series, «Stills» shows the way the potential of human life literally hangs in the balance in a collection of press images of people falling from buildings.

As being an artist my whole life there are many things here I have to disagree with about posting fine art on Pinterest.

It could be someone they knew or somewhere they once lived, or as Los Angeles - based artist Adrian Kay Wong demonstrates, it could be adolescence as a whole.

Rather than shy away from the issues at hand, these artists wholeheartedly embraced the weaknesses and painful events of their own lives and the New York community as a whole.

The Writer tells her whole story chronologically, from Martin's birth in Saskatchewan and her early years as an artist, living in derelict Manhattan shipping lofts with Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly and others, to the seven years she stopped painting, just as her career was taking off, the months she spent roaming the country in a pickup truck and her last 30 years, in Taos some of that time, in an adobe house she built with her own hands.

It consists of a series of live performances by artists from Greece and abroad, as well as a special tribute to the artist Ana Mendieta (Cuba, 1948 — New York, 1985) who holds an emblematic position in the feminist history of art, which will run for the whole duration of the Biennale (SMCA, Moni Lazariston, 30 September 2017 — 14 January 2018).

Starting to blossom in her practice in an era not far removed from the echoes of the male artist - dominated Cedar Tavern, perhaps the artist's poignant re-examinations of gender expectations — both in her own life and in society as a whole — stand as a testament to the hopes we hold for women to assume prominent positions both in the arts and in the brave new world ahead.

However, wandering through the galleries of this exhibit helps you understand modernism as a whole and the changing culture and life of artists during this time period as well.

S. E. Fenson, «A Whole Man's Life: MoMA Mounts a de Kooning Show as Vast and Varied as the Artist's Career,» Art & Antiques, November 2011, p. 56 (another example illustrated in color).

Besides his family (like an old - fashioned shop - keeper, he lives right near the first Green Line cafe, which is right across from that Arcadia known as Clark Park), Douglas» communities include the whole neighborhood — the University City Arts League gallery, the 40th Street Artists in Residence and the neighborhood at large.