Sentences with phrase «whose life and art»

The visually stunning preview focuses on Day - Lewis» dressmaker, whose life and art becomes unraveled after meeting a young woman played by actress Vicky Krieps.

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He is no Shelleyesque art - martyr whose task is to fling himself upon the thorns of life and bleed.

We are after all the heirs of giants who have lived on earth through the ages, many of whose ideas we may reject but whose genius and whose arts, be they of thought and language or of color and representation, both inspire and civilize us.

David and Goliath is so compelling because the points are made through the incredible true stories of real - life underdogs and «giants»: the man whose emotionally stunted single - mindedness enabled breakthroughs in leukaemia treatment; the French painters who chose to go outside the established art system that rejected them, and ended up launching the Impressionist movement.

O Lord Chief of the gods Who alone art exalted on earth and in Heaven,... O Merciful Gracious Father in Whose hands rests the life of the whole world, O Lord, Thy divinity is full of awe, like the far - off Heaven and the broad ocean O Creator of the land... begetter of gods and men who dost build dwellings and establish offerings... O mighty Leader whose deep inner being no god understands... O Father, begetter of all things, who lookest upon all living things... Who is exalted in HeWhose hands rests the life of the whole world, O Lord, Thy divinity is full of awe, like the far - off Heaven and the broad ocean O Creator of the land... begetter of gods and men who dost build dwellings and establish offerings... O mighty Leader whose deep inner being no god understands... O Father, begetter of all things, who lookest upon all living things... Who is exalted in Hewhose deep inner being no god understands... O Father, begetter of all things, who lookest upon all living things... Who is exalted in Heaven?

We live in a world whose creatures, though called to community, have practiced the arts of hostility and enmity — to the vast neglect of the arts of love.

I recently spoke with Daphne de Marneffe, a therapist whose just - published book on the challenges of midlife marriage, The Rough Patch: Marriage and the Art of Living Together, has a chapter on booze and other «attempted escapes.»

Orleans, MA About Blog The Community of Jesus is an ecumenical Christian community in the Benedictine monastic tradition whose mission is to be a faithful witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, to glorify God through worship, the common life, and the creative arts.

Orleans, MA About Blog The Community of Jesus is an ecumenical Christian community in the Benedictine monastic tradition whose mission is to be a faithful witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, to glorify God through worship, the common life, and the creative arts.

The Monuments Men (PG - 13 for violence and smoking) George Clooney directed and stars in this adaptation of the Robert Edsel best seller of the same name chronicling the real - life exploits of an Army platoon comprised of curators, archivists and art historians whose mission was to retrieve masterpieces plundered by the Nazis during World War II.

Life and art intertwine in the mind of a French filmmaker whose wife disappeared 21 years earlier.

The subject of the film is an unknown photographer whose art has been compared to the masters, though she never exhibited her work and little is known about her life.

The film chronicles the life of Adele, a young girl whose life is turned upside down when she meets and gets into a relationship with Emma, a blue - haired art student.

It's fitting that filmmakers Stephen Silha and Eric Slade assemble this documentary with as much colourful poetry as they can muster, because the subject matter was a remarkably life - loving man whose impact on the arts...

Michael Douglas was surprised to find art imitating life when he was cast as a father whose drug - addicted son is sent to prison in new movie And So...

Amy Adams (Arrival) plays Susan, an art gallery owner whose life has become increasingly unfulfilling despite her lavish wealth, social status and eye candy husband (Armie Hammer, The Man From U.N.C.L.E.).

Illustrated with performance, private videos, and recollections from those who knew him, this detailed and innovative documentary looks at the life of the always provocative artist Chris Burden, whose work consistently challenged ideas about the limits and nature of modern art, from his notorious performances in the 1970s to his later assemblages, installations, kinetic and static sculptures, and scientific models.

Lucien Castaing - Taylor Professor of Visual Arts and Anthropology and director of the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University, Lucien Castaing - Taylor is an anthropologist whose work seeks to conjugate art's negative capability with an ethnographic attachment to the flux of life.

(In French, English and Russian with subtitles) Jean - Michel Basquait: The Radiant Child (Unrated) «Better to Flameout Than to Fade Away» bio-pic recounting the meteoric rise and untimely demise of Basquait (1960 - 1988), the Brooklyn - born, black graffiti scofflawt - turned - legit fine art phenom whose promise future was consumed by the heroin overdose which claimed his life at the age of 27.

Working in the hills of rural Pennsylvania, Brent Green is a self - taught filmmaker, storyteller and visual artist whose films have screened, often with live musical accompaniment, at the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, the San Francisco Film Society, MoMA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Walker Art Center, The Hammer Museum, as well as at warehouses, galleries and rooftops across the globe.

All deserve high marks for sincerity, but I doubt if the results would have satisfied Kahlo, whose originality in matters of life, art, and ideas was vastly more far - reaching.

The country's vibrant colors and life are affectionately captured by director of photography Seamus McGarvey (whose stunning cinematography alone makes the film worthy of a cinema release), with the work of production designer Johnny Breedt and art director Vivienne Gray further giving the place and community a character and pulse of its own: warm and inviting, often funny and friendly, but also not without real danger lurking on the fringes and beneath the surface.

«Many teens say they appreciate» these chances, says education writer Anya Kamenetz, whose upcoming book The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life explores these issues in - depth.

The authors pointed out some of the advantages of low poverty noting, «Children whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantages.»

She witnesses demonstrations, visits a tai chi class, encounters an art professor who resembles a hippie and lives in a school bus, and meets a student political activist whose cause is global warming.

Seventy years later, amid the shadowy world of art dealers who profit off the sins of previous generations, Jack gives a necklace to his granddaughter, Natalie Stein, and charges her with searching for an unknown woman - a woman whose portrait and fate come to haunt Natalie, a woman whose secret may help Natalie to understand the guilt her grandfather will take to his grave and to find a way out of the mess she has made of her own life.

First - time graphic - novelist Weing has produced a beautiful gem here, with minimal dialogue, one jolting battle scene, and each small page owned by a single panel filled with art whose figures have a comfortable roundness dredged up from the cartoon landscapes of our childhood unconscious, even as the intensely crosshatched shadings suggest the darkness that sometimes traces the edges of our lives.

From the bestselling author whose memoirs Under the Sun and Bella Tuscany have captured the voluptuousness of Italian life comes a lavishly illustrated ode to the joys of Tuscany's people, food, landscapes, and art.

She is passionate about making art accessible to all and enjoys living on the Oregon coast, where she has made her home for almost 15 years and is excited to serve as Program Director for the Cannon Beach Arts Association where she brings her experience in planning and management to an organization whose mission is strongly aligned with her own.

Orleans, MA About Blog The Community of Jesus is an ecumenical Christian community in the Benedictine monastic tradition whose mission is to be a faithful witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, to glorify God through worship, the common life, and the creative arts.

Those in the running include Ghanaian - British multi-media artist Amartey Golding whose film Chainmail throws light over cultural behaviours towards race, gender and sexuality, while channelling the darkness of El Greco and Goya; Dutch fine art photographer Isabelle van Zeijl who blends the techniques and idioms of the Old Masters with present - day aesthetics to create striking self - portraits; British print - maker John Phillips whose eerie still lifes are created from over 1,000 separate photographs; and American painter Lucy Beecher Nelson who reinvents 15th century Italian marriage portraits.

Boucher introduces Lotto as «an outlier in Italian Renaissance art, a portrait painter capable of capturing the soul on canvas, a man whose religious art struck a note of sincerity in an age bound by ritual and dogma, a figure overshadowed in life by Titian and Raphael and condemned to poverty and relative failure in his own day.»

Hazel Dooney is a good example of someone who eschews the art world, but makes a great living and whose work sells for large sums of money on the secondary market.

One of the most puzzling minor sidelights of Courbet's composition is the significance of the little boy scribbling a picture, a later insertion whose presence has been accounted for both as a mere space filler - to balance the still - life objects on the left - hand side — and as a personification of the newly awakened interest in the art of children associated with the Swiss artist Rodolphe Topffer.15 Yet here again a Fourierist interpretation best accounts for this figure.

The Wein Prize, one of the most significant awards given to individual artists in the United States today, was established in 2006 by jazz impresario, musician and philanthropist George Wein to honor his late wife, a long - time Trustee of the Studio Museum and a woman whose life embodied a commitment to the power and possibilities of art and culture.

ITINERANT at Queens Museum will present a selection of Performance Art works by local and international artists whose works reflect on issues affecting diverse populations living in Queens, and NYC at large.

is an artist and poet whose research - driven interdisciplinary works weave together art, writing, science and life in a complex yet elegant way.

Mirroring the vision of the Ballroom itself, a non-profit cultural space founded on the belief that art can impact the human spirit positively, OPTIMO brings together nine artists whose work celebrates life, incorporating visual pleasure, humor, interactivity, color, technology, industrial design, politics, landscape, spirituality, and popular culture.

Interstitial seeks to answer this question through the examination of new and recently - created free - standing sculptures by contemporary Los Angeles - based object makers whose work exists in the interstices, the spaces between the historical genres of the decorative arts, still life, and abstraction.

Making Painting is curated by Turner scholar James Hamilton, whose writings on nineteenth and twentieth century art have explored the continuing resonance of Turner's life and work across the past two hundred years.

English is the author of «How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness,» co-editor of ««Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress» and he is working on a new book, «1971: A Year in the Life of Color,» whose subject was the basis of his Twenty - Sixth Annual Rebay Lecture at the Guggenheim Museum in January 2014.

Rounding off a fine season of modern American art, which has seen stellar exhibitions at the Royal Academy and the British Museum, White Cube presents a retrospective of the works of Wayne Thiebaud, considered one of the US's greatest living painters and whose work has been shown all - too infrequently this side of the Atlantic in recent decades.

Bill Havu, whose namesake William Havu Gallery is one of the top art venues in town, focuses on work by artists living in this part of the country — not just Colorado, but New Mexico, Arizona, California, Texas, Wyoming and even such unexpected places as Nebraska and Kansas.

JUDY CHICAGO is an artist, author, educator, and humanist whose work and life are models for an enlarged definition of art, an expanded role for the artist, and women's rights to freedom of expression.

Now imagine that this work was created by a German Jewish refugee named Hannelore Baron, whose experience watching her father beaten during Kristallnacht would haunt her and her art for all of her life.

Through these details, the art shifts from abstraction into portraiture, capturing seagoing vessels whose exterior surfaces are transformed by interactions with water, animal and plant life, weather and usage.

Pendleton, whose new work is on view now at Pace Gallery, discusses the connection between civil protest and live art with poet Thom Donovan.

This new group exhibition features painting and sculpture works by four contemporary Korean artists whose striking and intimate art serves as a record of personal experiences and key moments in life, memorializing the often - overlooked value of the everyday.

In Identity Unknown, Donna Seaman brings to life seven forgotten female artists, among the best of their day: Gertrude Abercrombie, with her dark, surreal paintings and friendships with Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins; Bay Area self - portraitist Joan Brown; Ree Morton, with her witty, oddly beautiful constructions; Loïs Mailou Jones of the Harlem Renaissance; Lenore Tawney, who combined weaving and sculpture when art and craft were considered mutually exclusive; Christina Ramberg, whose unsettling works drew on pop culture and advertising; and Louise Nevelson, an art - world superstar in her heyday but omitted from recent surveys of her era.

For Lynn Hershman Leeson, whose retrospective Civic Radar is now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, it's life and death.