Sentences with phrase «whose pioneering use»

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Designer Linda Loudermilk — a pioneer in environmental fashion whose collection is available at a wide range of boutiques — says she uses eco-friendly fabrics exclusively and adds to the list such exotic sustainable fibers as sea cell (a seaweed - based fiber), soy fiber * (extracted from the residue of soybeans used in the manufacture of tofu), and sasawashi (a linenlike blend of Japanese paper and kumazasa herb with antibacterial properties that «can heal a cut on your leg» — or so Loudermilk claims).

To carry out the study, the team visualised a number of motors from different species of bacteria using a variant of a method called cryo - election microscopy, whose pioneers were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year.

Adenine base editing «is a really exciting addition to the genome - engineering toolbox,» comments Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, whose group pioneered the use of CRISPR for mammalian genome editing.

Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Dame Jane Francis is a pioneering scientist whose study of fossil plants and their use as tools for climate interpretation is recognised internationally.

Ben Schonzeit is a central figure in American Photorealism, whose technical contribution was his pioneering use of the airbrush.

Another pioneer of collage was Joseph Cornell, whose more intimately scaled works were seen as radical because of both his personal iconography and his use of found objects.

His pioneering efforts created a collective identity for the artists whose materials, though «poor», were use to make conceptually rich works that sought to provoke change.

American painter Denis Peterson, whose pioneering works are universally viewed as an offshoot of Photorealism, first used [4] «Hyperrealism» to apply to the new movement and its splinter group of artists.

This «taint» of domesticity has been explored most notably in the pioneering work of Mimi Smith, whose Basic Black (1966) and Table and Chair (1973) use knotted string and other media to portray women's clothing as well as furniture that evokes the heart of the home - the family table.

A pioneer in using found photographs as the raw material for body adornment, German artist Bettina Speckner's work transforms nineteenth century ferrotype portraits of people whose identities are now lost.

Pioneering fashion photographer Guy Bourdin, whose arresting photographs filled the pages of French Vogue for three decades from the 1950s onwards, is notorious for breaking the boundaries of traditional commercial photography and reshaping the classic fashion picture, using a daring narrative and vibrant colour palette.

Early pioneers included Van Gogh (1853 - 1890), most of whose paintings were autobiographical, notably his self - portraits; Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903), noted for his use of Cloisonism (blocks of colour) and Symbolism; Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944), the nervy student of psychoanalysis; and the primitivist painter Paula Modersohn - Becker (1876 - 1907).

Each in their own way, Eva Hesse and Gego, whose real name was Gertrud Goldschmidt (1912, Hamburg — 1994, Caracas), were pioneers of spatial installation and also in the use of non-traditional materials in the context of art.

Although not invented by the Impressionists - it was pioneered by the likes of John Constable (1776 - 1837) and Richard Parkes Bonington (1802 - 28), (artists incidentally whose works Sisley became familiar with during the four years he spent in England from 1857 to 1861), as well as the Barbizon School - it was the Impressionists who revolutionized its use, and Impressionist landscape painting that captured the imagination of the world.

Constantin Brancusi, original name Romanian Constantin Brîncuși, (born February 19, 1876, Hobița, Romania — died March 16, 1957, Paris, France), pioneer of modern abstract sculpture whose works in bronze and marble are characterized by a restrained, elegant use of pure form and exquisite finishing.

The exhibition also spotlights Just Above Midtown gallery (JAM), a pioneering New York commercial gallery that displayed the work of avant - garde Black artists and whose legendary programme spanned innovative approaches to sculpture and performance, using materials as unexpected as Black hair and tights.

You can't turn on the tube without seeing the influence of Bruce Conner, the elusive San Francisco artist whose classic collage films of the late 1950s and»60s pioneered the popping fast - cut editing style used on countless commercials and MTV clips.

Known for his pioneering use of the mobile, where suspended sculptural elements in a three - dimensional space create an ever - shifting harmony, Alexander Calder (1898 — 1976) was an artist whose practice was truly trans - Atlantic.

ROBERT Rauschenberg, whose use of odd and everyday articles earned him a reputation as a pop art pioneer, has died aged 82.