Sentences with phrase «working life as an artist»

These concerns reflect his experiences growing up in Jamaica and his working life as an artist in Harlem.

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Then Jackie returned to her native Ireland, where she worked for International Living for seven years before joining the American Writers and Artists Inc, as Director of Marketing for their Travel Division.

The artist Niggle has spent his entire life seeking to create the perfect tree — just as Tolkien worked from 1917 until his death in 1973 on his twelve - volume but still uncompleted legendarium of Middle - earth.

Holy Spirit, I pray that each one of us would hear one thing — just one thing — over our time here that we can carry home, back to our lonely work, like a flame to sit in the window, guiding us into our next season of life as artists.

Like the ancient apocalyptic seer, the modern artist has unveiled a world of darkness, but whereas earlier seers could know a darkness penetrated by a new æon of light, the contemporary artist has seen light itself as darkness, and embodied in his work an all - embracing vacuity dissolving every previous form of life and light.

Keep it up bro, and may God work a way in your life to make a financial living as an artists too!

He described Jesus as «the supreme artist, more of an artist than all others, disdaining marble and clay and color, working in the living flesh.»

She worked as a professional journalist and graphic designer, but made jewellery as a hobby and sold it at artist markets on the weekends when she lived in Melbourne and London.

Also, I'd worked in a nursing home with people at the end of their lives and it was a good wake up call as I realized one day I too would be at the end of my life and I asked myself what I would regret not doing by the time I got there - I got a loud and clear answer that I had to give being a full - time artist and earning an income from my passion a proper go!

Daily, as I scroll through my feed (and I follow mostly fellow artists, designers and creative businesses), I must remind myself that what I am seeing are really, really small, highly «curated» glimpses into the lives and work of the people I follow.

I'm also a professional company director / company secretary and at one point in my life I spent a year working as a trapeze artist and circus instructor (yep, really!).

Collaborating this assertion, Mr. Ade Oduntan, the artist who designed the «From Ebute» statue, said his art work, which is about 30 feet tall installation of indigenous life size wooden canoe made in fiber glass depict the errant waterways and is meant to keep the memories of the use of canoe as a means of transportation.

With sly wit and boyish wonder, Kean's vignettes about key events in the understanding of air include numerous entertaining detours, such as the work of «William McGonagall, probably the worst poet who ever lived,» and Le Pétomane, a flatulence artist.

In my early career, I worked as an opera singer, actress, model, and voiceover artist in New York City, which certainly taught me a thing or two about the importance of self - care and maintaining a positive self - image, regardless of what life throws my way.

I live in Sacramento, CA and work as a Statistical Editor during the day, but my true passion is being a Makeup Artist on my weekends.

They had bike ramps set up, artists using spray paint to create massive works of art live as onlookers awed, and lots of great local spots that had set up pop - up restaurants for dining on the go.

I live in The Netherlands and work as a performer and artist.

I love being an artist - its how I make my living, primarily - although I do work part time as a therapist for some extra cash.

Hello, everyone I'm Jerry I stay in Pune and I work as a freelancer as I'm an artist I observe every moment of life very sensitively... I want to explore more with someone special

Working mostly in comedies, Ruffalo appeared in The Last Big Thing (1996) and alongside comic character actor stalwarts Steve Zahn and Paul Giamatti in Safe Men (1998); he also starred as an artist with love problems in the romantic comedy Life / Drawing (1999).

NOAH BAUMBACH: Well at different points in my life it's been different people and I — as an adolescent, I sort of had that experience in movies that Walt had with Pink Floyd, this kind of vicarious, sort of collaborative feeling in that listening or watching became sort of a work in progress: a journey you were taking along with an artist to create something new.

Nothing here is as bracing as the wild - eyed fervor of «Lust for Life,» or as alive as the bit in Kurosawa's «Dreams» in which van Gogh is played by a cuddly Martin Scorsese, but the best stretches of «Loving Vincent» make a convincing case that great artists are better understood through their work than through the facts of their lLife,» or as alive as the bit in Kurosawa's «Dreams» in which van Gogh is played by a cuddly Martin Scorsese, but the best stretches of «Loving Vincent» make a convincing case that great artists are better understood through their work than through the facts of their lifelife.

Xiu Xiu: The Sent - Down Girl hasn't always received the same critical respect as the»90s other major films about the Cultural Revolution, in part because it was harmfully assumed that director Joan Chen — who was and still is best known to the Western world for her playing Josie Packard in Twin Peaks — was not a «serious» artist whose work deserved to be considered in the same breath as that of Tian Zhuangzhuang (The Blue Kite) or Zhang Yimou (To Live).

Both established film makers, the documentary is a tribute from one artist to the other as well as a revealing look at Jia's life and work offering audiences a rare insight into the creative mind.

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For an artist like Turner, this becomes an apt metaphor as he struggles for acceptance in the evolving nineteenth century art world and his own nonchalance for life outside his work.

Faces Places, then, registers as a profound meditation on the compulsion some artists feel to make their work, and its completion, indistinguishable from the day - to - day actions and recollections of their own lives.

Lifelong sibling con artists, Bloom (Brody, Hollywoodland) and Stephen (Ruffalo, Blindness), are nearing their last days working as a flamboyant, theatrical - styled team when Bloom announces that he's ready to go legit (he wants an «unwritten life,» remarking of how his whole life has been one scenario after another concocted for him to perform in by Stephen), but not before Stephen convinces him to give it one more go before retirement.

As we were walking back to work, and about an hour before I had probably the best night of my life (no hyperbole, I'm genuinely serious) at the midnight madness premiere of The Disaster Artist, she asked me what I had in the queue for the next day.

It's all in the performances: The incredibly versatile Toni Collette, who first stunned horror audiences as the mother in The Sixth Sense, plays Annie, an artist who works from home constructing intricately designed miniatures of her own life.

Director and co-writer Will Gluck's version is live action, Potter's famous drawings appear as the work of artist and animal lover Bea (Rose Byrne).

«The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside «The Room,» the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made» was based upon Sestero's work as an actor in the 2003 cult film «The Room.»

The characters in Golden Exits aren't exactly artists but the sort of people who spend their lives preserving or recording artists» works as well as their odds and ends, spending their lives with the dramas other people created.

The always - great Toni Collette does possibly the best work of her career as Annie Graham, an artist (she designs miniature models that often replicate her own home life, which is clearly a reference to a filmmaker producing a film that he's admitted comes from his own personal life) and mother of two.

Gene Kelly (Singin» in the Rain, Xanadu) stars as Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter and artist living in Paris who catches the eye of a rich heiress (Foch, Spartacus) feigning an interest in his work, although probably more interested in a relationship with him.

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.

Artists work in subjective realms, and often require lives that are ritualized so as to allow their minds to bloom.

Such a life serves more than work, as artists are often control freaks riven with anxiety and social awkwardness that must be put to rest by the calming waves of routine.

ROBERT ALTMAN The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Film Comment pay tribute to America's greatest living and working director Kathleen Murphy writes about Altman the artist; plus: a salute to «the producer as gambler» by Alan Rudolph

Soutine traveled as young Russian artist to Paris and live and worked among other young artists like Zadkine and his friend Modigliani.

In my mid-thirties, I spent six years as a youth worker for Melbourne Citymission, where I mentored quite a number of young people, and once again my life experiences and career position afforded me an opportunity to work along side many brilliant mentors, including some top business people and some very successful artists.

This unit of work explores the life and work of L.S. Lowry as an important English Artist.

She once lived in a commune with a rock band, and has worked as an exhibiting artist.

As Paul Staiti reveals in Of Arms and Artists, the lives of the five great American artists of the Revolutionary period — Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, Benjamin West, and Gilbert Stuart — were every bit as eventful as those of the Founders with whom they continually interacted, and their works contributed mightily to America's founding spiriAs Paul Staiti reveals in Of Arms and Artists, the lives of the five great American artists of the Revolutionary period — Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, Benjamin West, and Gilbert Stuart — were every bit as eventful as those of the Founders with whom they continually interacted, and their works contributed mightily to America's founding Artists, the lives of the five great American artists of the Revolutionary period — Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, Benjamin West, and Gilbert Stuart — were every bit as eventful as those of the Founders with whom they continually interacted, and their works contributed mightily to America's founding artists of the Revolutionary period — Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, Benjamin West, and Gilbert Stuart — were every bit as eventful as those of the Founders with whom they continually interacted, and their works contributed mightily to America's founding spirias eventful as those of the Founders with whom they continually interacted, and their works contributed mightily to America's founding spirias those of the Founders with whom they continually interacted, and their works contributed mightily to America's founding spirit.

Her work provides a strong sense of time and place and explores the people and stories of her native Puerto Rico as well as the lives of other Latino and Latina artists, dancers, and political figures.

Presented as a collection of texts, edited and introduced by a scholar years after the artist's death, the book unfolds through extracts from Burden's notebooks and conflicting accounts from others about her life and work.

Sometimes the connection between writer and artist doesn't work out as well as one hopes, but other times, Torres says, «it's fulfilling to see what comes back» when his words are brought to life by an artist's pencil.

I like to say that what I'm after is to have an interesting life, and doing the work that I do as an artist helps me achieve that.

But a 99 - cent basepoint for music works fine for me, even though it means fewer brick - and - mortar music stores have survived, and that artists have turned to live performance and direct sales as income boosters.

Tezuka felt that it was his responsibility, as a manga artist, to positively influence the public by sharing his experiences from some of the darkest moments in history and exploring through his works, the depth and complexity of humanity, the value of life, and the potential within all people to create change.