Sentences with phrase «whose remarkable work»

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In this latter area Martin found time to become closely acquainted with a selection of classical authors, long sequences of whose work he had off by heart, due to his remarkable gift of memory.

THE DANISH GIRL, directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper, is the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Einar and Gerda Wegener (being portrayed, respectively, by Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander), whose marriage and work are cast into the unknown when Einar begins a groundbreaking journey to become one of the world's first transgender women, Lili Elbe.

Dalton Trumbo, whose remarkable body of work included «Roman Holiday,» «Kitty Foyle» and «Spartacus,» was a man who spoke in a declamatory style — «like everything you say is going to be chiseled in stone,» as one character complains.

Two - time Oscar winner Trumbo, whose remarkable body of work included scripts for «Roman Holiday,» «Kitty Foyle» and «Spartacus,» was a man who spoke in a declamatory style — «like everything you say is going to be chiseled in stone,» as one character complains.

The Danish Girl is the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Einer and Gerda Wegner (portrayed by Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander respectively) whose marriage and work are cast into the unknown when Einer begins a groundbreaking journey to become one of the world's first transgender women, Lili Elbe.

From Oprah's Oscar - nominated work in «The Color Purple» (1985) through her fine performances in films such as «Beloved» and «Selma,» she has demonstrated a remarkable ability to disappear into characters whose adult lives couldn't be more dissimilar to hers.

Room's director, Lenny Abrahamson — whose previous film was the offbeat Frank, starring Michael Fassbender as an eccentric musician who wears a large papier - maché head — navigates the balance with remarkable finesse, working from a screenplay written by Donoghue.

History buff Andrew Carroll — best known for his remarkable work in archiving and publishing American wartime letters — offers a new book that profiles 50 or so forgotten locations in the United States whose stories continue to impact us today.

I hope that all of us who were inspired by her remarkable life will work to ensure that this becomes a permanent memorial to a woman whose stage was the whole world and who truly did change the world.

The Inca Empire, which reached remarkable development culture, whose monumental architectural works endure over time, there is Machu Picchu «Wonder of the World».

A British room contains four works by Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011), ranging from an early painting (Self Portrait, 1949) to the remarkable etching, Self - Portrait: Reflection (1996); two paintings by Francis Bacon (1909 - 92); the heavily impasto Head of Man (Self - Portrait)(1964) by Leon Kossoff (b1926), whose thick paint swirls offer his own form of distortion, concealment and ensuing excavation; and a delightful recent graphite piece by Frank Auerbach (b1931), Self - Portrait II (2010).

It establishes the fact that the spider is my mother, believe it or not» — Louise Bourgeois Spider III is among the most significant and personal works created by Louise Bourgeois, an artist whose career spanned over seven decades of remarkable productivity.

Ugo Rondinone collects works by the underrated Alan Shields, who died in 2005, and by Nancy Grossman, whose work is resurfacing after a remarkable exhibition at Michael Rosenfeld gallery.

Barrada has disinterred the work and life of Thérèse Rivière (1901 — 70), a French anthropologist, a collector of toys, drawings and magic instructions from North Africa, whose remarkable achievements were largely silenced following her confinement in psychiatric institutions.

-- Louise Bourgeois, 1996 Louise Bourgeois» iconic Spider III is one of the most significant and personal works from an artist whose career reflects nearly a century of remarkable productivity.

The Hugo Boss Prize honors outstanding achievement in contemporary art, celebrating the work of remarkable artists whose practices are among the most innovative and influential of our time.

The show offers a remarkable glimpse into the iterative process of an artist whose elemental, abstract work defies easy categorization.

Robert Rauschenberg, the American master whose work has challenged artists and audiences for five decades, will be in Houston this week to discuss the humble material he imbued with remarkable beauty.

In the first major exhibition of his work in the UK for 35 years and the first retrospective of the artist since his death in 2008, Tate Modern celebrates his extraordinary six - decade career, showcasing major international loans that rarely travel and telling the story of a remarkable artist whose influence is still felt today.

All of which is a reminder that this remarkable artist, whose work has been exhibited and admired and written about for half a century, has never been given a retrospective exhibition in a New York museum.

It recounts the complex friendship and remarkable intellectual partnership of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, the psychologists whose work has provided the foundation for the new behavioral science.