Sentences with phrase «with sign painter»

He began painting seriously in the 1970s, first with found materials and later with sign painter's enamel on standard - sized Masonite boards.

In 1972, Chéri Samba left school in order to embark on an apprenticeship with the sign painters on Kasa - Vubu Avenue in Kinshasa.

Not exact matches

Painters, house cleaners, carpenters, gardeners, landscapers, and anyone remotely associated with the house must sign the legal document, which prevents them from sharing even the most minute detail related to the home.

«The title of the film is taken from the way van Gogh would sign his letters — especially to his brother — as «Your loving Vincent,»» says Kobiela, who like the Dutch painter has struggled with depression.

In 1910 Severini signed the first «Manifesto of the Futurist Painters», together with his fellow Futurist colleagues: the Italian young artists Boccioni, Carrà, Russoli and also Balla.

Paul Hickman: I started my career as a sign painter when I was 15 and after college continued for the next 16 years working with toxic and environmentally degrading materials.

Perrotin recently signed, along with emerging talents such as Argote, two defiantly noncommercial éminences grises — Claude Rutault and Pierre Soulages, both French abstract painters — prompting some to speculate that he's making a transparent play for gravitas.

Sculptors Sidney Geist and George Spaventa along with painters Charles Cajori and Esteban Vicente signed on as regular instructors.

This past month, a bizarre, three - year - long lawsuit accusing the artist Peter Doig of falsely claiming he never made a 40 - year old landscape painting signed «Pete Doige,» finally came to a close when the judge sided with the painter due to the sheer preponderance of evidence that he had nothing to do with the middling artwork (which was in fact made by a prison inmate).

Tàpies moved on to create symbolic paintings that were influenced by Surrealist painters like Miro and Klee, and by the 1950s he had developed his signature style, which consisted of built - up surfaces that were scratched, pitted, gouged, and carved with letters, numbers, and signs.

Drafted by critic and painter Rodolphe de Repentigny (who signed his paintings with the pseudonym Jauran) and countersigned by Louis Belzile, Jean - Paul Jérôme and Fernand Toupin, it was quite different from the REFUS GLOBAL, which had appeared in 1948.

From 1993 - 1997, Alÿs collaborated with Juan Garcia, Enrique Huerta, and Emilio Rivera, all of whom work as rótulistas — professional street sign painters — in Mexico City.

, 1996 is comprised of panels painted by professional sign painters, four photographic panels, a sign board, and a vitrine filled with popular literature.

[7] Just as these painters had attacked the canvas with swirls, drips, splashes, and smears, Noffke would attack the surface of his metal objects with obsessive and intricate detail consisting of stars, letterforms, arrows, crosses, dollar signs, eyes, and other obscure symbols.

He was a great painter who produced a significant body of work over six decades, until his death in 1980, but his often vitriolic personality and self - imposed outsider status — he mostly refused to sign with a gallery — meant that he has always been seen as a secondary figure.

«We've been very lucky to work with so many talented and fascinating people who have been kind enough to talk about everything from Milton Glaser to being a female sign painter to designing title plates (and why we shouldn't be saying «mastheads»); or opening up their studios and sketchbooks for us.»

(J. Pissaro, Robert Indiana, New York: Rizzoli, 2006, p. 14) Calling himself «an American painter of signs» Indiana emerged in the New York art scene along with fellow artists Ellsworth Kelly, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and James Rosenquist.

With a razor sharp style that reveals her training as a professional sign painter, Auerbach makes works on panel and paper that are a refreshing spin on the traditions of Conceptual art and Concrete poetry.

Self - described as an «American painter of signs,» Robert Indiana (born 1928) has interpreted the postwar American semiotic landscape through a unique merging of Pop's graphic snap with American modernist painting's codes of sexuality and use of advertising designs.

Charles starts his paintings with anything at all, simple painted shapes of animals and other images, or collaged materials of all sorts and big fat spills of paint, which liver when dry, providing a complex, wrinkled terrain that he then covers with tiny lines and dots of sign - painter's enamel, squeezed from little bottles.

Mr. Tàpies (pronounced TAH - pee - ess) came to prominence in the late 1940s with richly symbolic paintings strongly influenced by Surrealist painters like Miró and Klee, a style he abandoned by the mid-1950s as he turned to what became his signature work: the heavily built - up surfaces that were often scratched, pitted and gouged and incised with letters, numbers and signs.

Black monochromes (painted with «one - shot» sign - painters enamel) that he mishapes and distorts into bi-products of formed material.

With «Painter's Progress» in 1981, she reintroduced legible imagery in the form of a large pink palette shape and three orange brushes inspired by a neon sign in the window of an art supply store.

And I realized I had to do something 1983 Rammelzee vs K Rob «Beat Bop» 1984 First shows at Clarissa Dalrymple and Nicole Klagsbrun's Cable Gallery (artists of Wool's generation who begin showing same period include Philip Taaffe Jeff Koons Mike Kelley Cady Noland and James Nares 1984 produces first book photocopied edition of four: 93 Drawings of Beer on the Wall 1984 Warhol Rorschach paintings 1986 First pattern paintings 1987 Joins Luhring Augustine Gallery 1987 First word paintings 1988 Collaborative installation with Robert Gober one painting by Wool (Apocalypse Now) one sculpture by Gober (Three Urinals) one collaborative photograph (Untitled) and a mirror Gary Indiana contributes a short piece of fiction to the accompanying publication 1988 In Cologne sees show of Albert Oehlen's work meets Martin Kippenberger 1988 First European shows Cologne and Athens 1988 Collaborates with Richard Prince on two paintings: My Name and My Act 1989 Museum Group shows in Amsterdam Frankfurt am Main and Munich Whitney Biennial 1989 One year fellowship at the American Academy in Rome 1989 Starts taking photographs 1989 Publishes Black Book an oversized collection of 9 - letter images 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall 1990 Meets Larry Clark 1991 First survey mounted at Boymans - Van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam publishes accompanying artist's book Cats in Bag Bags in River color photocopies of photographs of black and white paintings 1991 Creates edition of small paintings for ACT - UP New York Needle Exchange 1991 Participates in Carnegie International includes painting and billboard with truncated text announcing «THE SHOW IS OVER» 1991 Meets Jim Lewis 1991 Relocates studio to East 9th Street in New York 1992 LA riots 1992 DAAD residency in Berlin 1993 Publishes Absent Without Leave 160 black - and - white images from travel photographs taken over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994 Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray - paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey» paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Marfa Texas

He believes that the artist himself needs not do the lettering itself, as long as the sign painter complies with the instructions dictated by the artist.

Her works are graphic, and appear commercially manufactured, however each work is meticulously hand - made, with a brush or pencil; she paints or draws the discrete objects herself, and employs a sign painter to produce her large - scale architectural interventions.

In the late 1980s, however, he became disillusioned with his working methods and abandoned his own art for two years to train as a professional sign painter.

Indiana called himself a «sign painter» to suggest the humble origins of his artistic activity in the American work ethic and to indicate his fascination with the use of words in signs.

Painter launched his editions company in 1990 with $ 100,000 in start - up capital from his mother, Lila Lee Escalante, who married Conrad Escalante, founder of the Superior Outdoor Display sign company, and became one of richest women in Long Beach.

Thus, just as portrait painters attempt to establish a likeness through the features or a look in the eyes (where character is revealed), taking far fewer pains with the rest, I must be allowed to devote myself mainly to the signs of the psyche.»

Under the influence of the Cubist painter Albert Gleizes (1881 - 1953), during a painting trip to Bermuda with Hartley, Demuth introduced the first signs of architectonic structure into his compositions - inspired also, no doubt, by his previous Parisian studies of Cezanne.