The work of Italian still-life artist Giorgio Morandi provided the genesis for the painter's table, if not for the entire undertaking.
These portraits, several of which are in the show, provoke the persistent question: if his sitters can't stay awake for the painter, why should we?
In contrast, the painting's lower, terrestrial register reflects a burgeoning Spanish taste for naturalism, a gift for portraiture the painter had honed in Italy, and the reality of the Toledo El Greco knew.
One suspects that Timon of Athens had the right idea for dealing with the ungrateful poet and painter who abused his generosity.
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Charles Hope, the foremost British expert on the greatest painter of the Venetian Renaissance, for example, has written no fewer than 24 learned papers on his life.
Paul Cezanne, for example, was the greatest painter of the modern period but not one of his many masterpieces would be considered an icon.
"It takes the paper and pencil and re-entry out of it, " said Jeff Painter, information specialist for the WSDA's plant protection division.
The greatest honor for a Japanese musician or painter is to be designated a "Living Treasure" by the government.
Meanwhile, living, breathing, and hungry comic book artists are on the prowl for their next Corel Painter upgrade.
Sixteen years later the painter Jean Jacoby won for his depiction of boys playing rugby.
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Conductor Paul Hillier handles this vocal realm almost like a painter, looking for just the right musical color for every word, and just the right vocal density for every chord.
Throughout these sales, collectors gravitated to artists with global fan bases and easy-to-recognize styles like Richter, the German painter best known for creating wildly colorful abstracts by scraping an oversize squeegee across his canvases.
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Over the next decades, he exchanged the downtown art scene for the Hamptons bohemia of Sag Harbor, where he set up studios with the landscape painter April Gornick, whom he later married.
The anonymous medieval painter is renowned for bringing a psychologically animated reality to his work.
For the past 10 years, Moussavi, a painter, has been head of the state-owned Art Center.
Mr Andre began to work in Mr Stella's studio, around the time when the painter was becoming a catalyst for change.
Painter George Condo was responsible for the marvelously simple and delicately colored setting and costumes, while recordings by dancemaker and musician Meredith Monk provided the score, dominated by her guttural and mostly wordless vocalizing.
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" Christopher Painter, the deputy chief for cybercrime at the U.S. Department of Justice who once prosecuted Kevin Mitnick, one of the first notorious hackers, adds:"Indications are that this is becoming a more financially motivated thing.
OK. So the father, the middle-generation guy, in your story sells his soul to the devil in return for becoming a successful painter - as opposed to a painter who paints a lot but doesn't sell anything.
Once again, this year's shortlist for the highest-profile art prize contains not one painter, let alone a portraitist.
Mitchell, the late Chicago-born painter known for splattering strokes and bold colors, operated just outside circles of older abstract-expressionist peers like de Kooning and Pollock.
Artist Samir Aich said that his death "was a great loss for the entire cultural fraternity" of India, while painter Jogen Choudhury said that he had left a huge void both at home and abroad.
Through his unexecuted project for the facade, a little known study for the tombs of Medici popes Clement VII and Leo X, and studies for the Laurentian Library, Michelangelo transformed himself from a painter and sculptor into an architect.
Stour Valley is associated with the painter John Constable while Exmoor is renowned for its wild moorland.
The painter Jacques Majorelle had lived in Marrakech for more than 40 years until his death in 1962.
Braque, an equally rigorous painter, would later be described, for the precision and structure of his pictures, as the Chardin of cubism.
Painter was the first of 40 company nominees for president of the class.
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Mr Walker, who is a painter and decorator, said he was now waiting for the British Museum's treasure valuation committee to tell him what he will receive.
New York- and London-based art gallery David Zwirner will be presenting for the first time in South America, featuring works from artists including American painter Alice Neel and minimalist artist Dan Flavin, famous for sculptures and installations that use fluorescent lights.
One sunny morning in 1983, a model named Amanda slipped on an antique French blouse, swept back her long auburn hair, and turned toward the painter Tom Keating, pouting her lips as young girls did for Renoir.
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