But the Painter of Light was not without his demons, primarily alcoholism and a failed marriage.
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Figuring how to place and dramatize seven individual people was one of the painter's problems.
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The painter becomes a forger and takes the view that everything in life is a fraud.
Sixteen years later the painter Jean Jacoby won for his depiction of boys playing rugby.
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Stour Valley is associated with the painter John Constable while Exmoor is renowned for its wild moorland.
She believes the resemblance between the two figures illustrates the painter's fantasy of what constitutes ideal beauty.
The painter Jacques Majorelle had lived in Marrakech for more than 40 years until his death in 1962.
Even more emphatic was his rejection of Seurat's Pointillist technique and what he considered the painter's coldly impersonal forms.
The mural, like the painter's one at the art school, was swiftly whitewashed.
The painter, then 50 years old, was enjoying an unusual spurt of creativity.
The work of Italian still-life artist Giorgio Morandi provided the genesis for the painter's table, if not for the entire undertaking.
The painter was, Lady Hale writes, a mercenary who would serve the highest bidder without, it seems, sacrificing his artistic integrity.
After all, since when did the buyer of a painting whose price later drops expect to be compensated by the painter?
Mr Andre began to work in Mr Stella's studio, around the time when the painter was becoming a catalyst for change.
Her mother, the painter Elaine Fasula, did a beautiful portrait of her, and I've placed it above the stairway to the basement.
Not long ago it was common to write about modern art, particularly abstract art, as if the work, but not the painter, existed.
They're arranged in domestic settings alongside paintings, sculptures, ceramics, enamels and other artworks by his Pomona Valley contemporaries, including his mentor, the painter Millard Sheets.
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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?
The painter's commercial value, which is infinite, took a long time to catch up with the value placed on him by those who understood him.
The art on the walls of his office, portraits of Airstream trailers by the painter John Baeder, is all personally owned, he takes care to note.
The painter died four years later, at the age of 80, never having ventured further afield than Fontainebleau, a few miles south of his native city.
As they see it, that so many versions of Rogier's paintings were made by his studio, by his followers and by later copiers testifies to the painter's lasting importance.
The painter, from Kirkcaldy in Fife, said Mr Salmond was "the man for the job", and backed him to return as the First Minister after the vote in May.
The painter could become just as rich as the computer whiz so long as the savings from spills that the lid offers are as great as the productivity gains from the chip.
With the passage of centuries, though, the biblical scenes were gradually degraded by dampness, to such an extent that in 1888 church authorities hired the painter August Olbers to mend the damage.
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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.
The Italian tenor, Roberto Alagna, is relentlessly ardent as her lover, the painter Mario Cavaradossi (if their endless embraces seem remarkably natural, it may be because the two singers are married to each other).
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