Sentences with phrase «whose leading figures»

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Rufian is a leading figure in Sumate, a movement of Spanish - speaking independence supporters whose motto is: «It's not about your origin, it's about your destiny.»

Meanwhile, Monáe, whose own artistic journey reflects a similar determination, leads the multi-faceted collective of artists at Wondaland, which features a breadth of voices, styles, and figures coming together to revolutionize the future of music, arts and culture.

It reveals an agile seven - footer whose turnaround jumper is accurate up to 20 feet; a heady player who discourages double - teaming with canny passes; an outstanding athlete who has somehow figured out the exotic fast - break passing strategies of point guards Mark Jackson and Rod Strickland, both of whom never make a simple move when 13 complicated ones will do; and a defensive intimidator whose 3.7 blocks per game at week's end were second only to Olajuwon's league - leading 4.2.

However, his daughter Corinne suggested to the BBC that her father is a victim of a scheme led by figures «behind the scenes» whose aim is to try and remove him from his position as president which, as it failed on Friday in the election, she believes will soon become old news.

At the end of their first week of witnesses, federal prosecutors sought to refocus attention on Silver as they continued to create a portrait of a powerful political figure whose greed they allege led to multiple corruption schemes.

As she enthuses through the great achievements of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, «an incredible woman» who made it possible for Edward Hubble to determine that the universe is expanding; Cecilia Payne - Gaposchkin who figured out how stars were formed; and Vera Rubin whose work led to the theory of dark matter, it's easy to forget Dunkley has become a star in her own right.

Federico Fellini was one of the leading figures of the international cinema in the 1960s, whose dreamlike images and indelible characters made La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, and Juliet of the Spirits among the most acclaimed films of that era.

The two portrayed figure skaters whose bitter rivalry leads to a much - publicized brawl at the Olympics, stripping them of their medals; the men subsequently decide to reattain their old glory by re-entering the Olympic competition as a figure - skating pair.

The same would hold true of a Lead Actor bid for Boseman — though James Brown is an enormously compelling real - life figure whose life is replete with the material that wins actors awards, the Best Actor race more than any other acting category is closely tied to the Best Picture race, and Boseman will likely struggle against competitors in stronger films overall.

Answering our call was Annette Bening, who plays former Hollywood leading lady Gloria Grahame romantically linked to a much younger man in her final years in «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool»; Jessica Chastain, who plays real - life poker entrepreneur Molly Bloom targeted by the FBI in «Molly's Game»; Diane Kruger, who won the Cannes film festival's top acting prize for her portrayal of a woman whose husband and child have been killed by terrorists in «In the Fade»; Margot Robbie, who stars as disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding in the quirky «I, Tonya»; Saoirse Ronan, as a Sacramento teen looking for her place in the world in «Lady Bird»; and Kate Winslet, who stars in Woody Allen's 1950s Coney Island drama «Wonder Wheel.»

From the Greek mythological references of the Sirens, who lured sailors to their watery graves, to Biblical figures like Delilah, whose betrayal led to Samson's enucleation and ultimate death, the femme fatale has taken on many forms in literature, art and other mediums.

Elba is a good starting point for this feature: He's a great actor whose undiscriminating ways have led him to figure prominently in the popular choice for the best television show ever made (The Wire), some big movies (American Gangster, Prometheus, Thor, 28 Weeks Later), and some unwatchable dreck, from the Madea - free Tyler Perry movie Daddy's Little Girls to the godawful Fatal Attraction knockoff Obsessed.

The key recommendation of the task force, whose members included leading figures in the corporate reform movement, was that more school choice was needed, specifically the expansion of privately managed charter schools and vouchers.

Barnes & Noble, whose highly discounted pricing for its popular Nook e-readers partially led to the bargain price of the Wi - Fi Kindle, has not revealed holiday sales figures.

Leading the pack of institutionally - recognised artists enjoying solo attention at the fair are figures including Pierre Huyghe, whose mesmeric L'Expédition Scintillante Act II (Light Box)(2002) is presented by Marian Goodman Gallery (C21) following Huyghe's acclaimed installation at Skulptur Projekte Munster 8 and ahead of a new installation at London's Serpentine Galleries this October.

She spent seven and a half years in Spain (1963 - 1970), where her work «gradually developed from broad gestural and spatially referenced painting to compositions of a somewhat surreal figure / ground composition... (her) highly saturated brilliant color separated (her) paintings from the leading Spanish artists whose work was darker, grayer and Goyaesque.»

Yet the top 10 results included works dating from 1778 to 1968, led by a record price for Henry Moore, whose monumental Reclining Figure: Festival fetched # 24.7 million.

Key figures within «No Wave», a short - lived avant - garde scene in the late 70's in New York led by a collective of musicians, filmmakers and artists, Dick and Goldin met during this time and became life - long friends whose work richly influenced each other.

In the 1990s Drapell was widely exhibited in the United States and Europe, where he was recognized by American critic Kenworth Moffett and Parisian gallery owner Gérald Piltzer as a leading figure among the «new new painters,» a grouping of abstract artists in Canada and the northeastern United States whose work is characterized by high - keyed, glossy colour and built - up surfaces.

Another acknowledged leading figure of the movement is Michelangelo Pistoletto (b. 1933), whose now iconic mirror paintings played with the representation of reality by inviting the viewer to enter the work.

Bob and Roberta Smith creates brightly coloured text - based paintings with powerful social messages; Yinka Shonibare clads figures in colourful batik to create politically loaded sculptural or photographic tableaux; Thomas Heatherwick is one of the world's leading designers, whose Olympic Cauldron fired the imagination of viewers in the opening ceremony in 2012; Rebecca Warren fuses everything from the ideas of conceptual artist Joseph Beuys to the cartoons of Robert Crumb, creating vitrines and lumpy sculptural figures; Conrad Shawcross brings engineering and sculpture into collisions of mechanics, sound, light and space; and Louisa Hutton, of architects Sauerbruch Hutton, designs buildings with a flair for colour and material richness.

James Rosenquist, a leading figure of the Pop Art movement whose influential work spanned the globe from New York to Miami to Europe, died late Friday at his home in New York City, according to a close family friend in South Florida.

The Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture brings together the work of over 25 leading international artists, in whose practice the human form plays a central role.

Carlo Carra was an Italian painter whose avant - garde artwork established him as the leading figure of the dynamic and radical Futurist movement.

The press release states that Pedersen «was among other things a leading figure in the European artist group Cobra, and whose hallmark was a boundless imagination and an inexhaustible joy in creation... Besides the artist's well known pictorial universe, ARKEN's exhibition also demonstrates the variety of Carl - Henning Pedersen's art: war pictures typified by wildness and horror, the eruption of energy in the Cobra years, and later examples of a more texturally oriented surface painting.

Now features works of art by leading figures whose careers have centered on the African - American experience, such as Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden, Betye Saar, and Ernest Withers, as well as expressions by younger artists.

Dan Christensen (1942 - 2007) was a leading figure in the Color Field movement whose relentless experimentation with new tools and materials made him among the most ambitious abstract and gestural artists of his time.

Biography: Dan Christensen (1942 - 2007) was a leading figure in the Color Field movement whose relentless experimentation with new tools and materials made him among the most ambitious abstract and gestural artists of his time.

In «Green Dance» (1999), whose lines and colors invoke Matisse, a simian figure in the foreground leads the viewer's eye to a line of vibrant dancers in the background.

One of the leading Abstract Expressionist figure painters was Willem de Kooning (1904 - 97), whose Woman series - begun by works like Seated Woman (1944, Metropolitan Museum of Art)- included Marilyn Monroe (1954).

This exhibition, Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas, will be bringing together for the first time three leading American artists from three different generations whose work challenges a Western painting tradition that historically erases or misrepresents people of color..

The exhibit «Standing Still Lifes» is not to miss event of a leading figure of American pop art, whose scaled - up, vivid and bold artistry made his work iconic.

No less a figure than the artist Hans Haacke — whose long - standing commitment to rendering transparent economic, social, and aesthetic structures throughout culture has led him to be immanently associated with the paradigm — used the phrase «consciousness industry» as early as the mid-1980s to describe the sophisticated networks of institutional support necessary to make visible ostensibly adversarial avant - garde artistic gestures.4 Works seeking to emphasize the moral, political, and intellectual forces that determine and enforce culture, he observed, were nevertheless dependent on a museum or gallery platform designed to privilege aesthetic experience.

Perhaps top teams are busy generating new leads and reaching 6 figures and may overlook those poor souls whose houses are aready sitting for months since their sign is already posted on those lawns.