Hints and tips:
...You can’t be a good abstract painter unless you understand figurative art.” In 1996, he set up on his own....
...“I’m influenced by painters more than anybody,” Nagle says....
...I mean, literally, we were on this little billy goat trail,” says Denison-Pender. Leahy picks up the tale: “On the last day we ended up sharing a bottle of wine by the waterfalls....
...That, says the UK’s most prolific creative force — painter, poet, musician, publisher, memoirist and novelist — has led to people mistaking him for a disagreeable person....
...There are painters and construction workers finishing up a renovation of this 5,180-square-foot house on a suburban-looking block facing the Biscayne Bay....
...She opens with a show of Nigerian painter Collins Obijiaku (b 1995) whose work ranges from $6,000 to $14,000 (October 15-November 19)....
...Which artist married the painter Diego Rivera (above) in 1929 — and again in 1940? What is Britain’s busiest railway station (ie the one with the most annual passengers)?...
...Which ones you sense — be it poets or painters, travel-writers or storytellers, naturalists, climbers or athletes — depends on taste and temperament....
...His first show is of another Kent artist, Billy Childish (Man in the mouth of a cave, to August 25), with new paintings on the themes of swimming and the sea (£15,000- £50,000)....
...(FT) Why an artist had to flee Beijing Hua Yong, a painter in Beijing, witnessed the eviction of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers from the Chinese capital, and pulled out his camera to document...
...His two most successful plays, The Pitmen Painters and Billy Elliot, focus on ordinary people caught up in larger ideological and economic shifts....
...“When I grew up, the [American abstract impressionist] painter John Hubbard and his children were friends,” explains Bridport-based sculptor David Worthington....
...The day after I meet Billy Childish, the prolific painter, poet and rocker, he sends me an email detailing his daily routine....
...These days his CV includes the complete $745m Hobbit trilogy and the award-winning TV drama Fargo, alongside Billy Bob Thornton....
...He was interested in science and mathematics and, in 1967, co-founded E.A.T — Experiments in Art and Technology — with the Swedish engineer Billy Kluver, inviting artists and scientists to work together;...
...and surf pioneer Billy Al Bengston to create the artwork for his laid-back Californian “Surf Sound” collection....
...He is survived by his wife, the Danish-born painter and former model Birgit “Gitte” Kroencke, whom he married in 1961, and by their daughter....
...Mr Hall also wrote the Billy Elliot screenplay and musical....
...Other highlights have included Tracey Emin spending all day in the gallery reading poetry with her choice, Billy Childish, her former boyfriend, and Colin Hall (Tony Bevan’s choice) lounging in a four-poster...
...Though Burroughs considered himself essentially homosexual, he was attracted to witty, high-spirited women such as Joan; they had a child, Billy, who was to die in 1981 of alcohol complications....
...The painter stands with her back to us, looking out to one side....
...Lee Hall, the Newcastle-born playwright of Billy Elliott and Pitmen Painters fame, who has spearheaded opposition to the cultural spending cuts, welcomed what he described as a “U turn” but insisted: “Even...
...In one corner you might find painters George Grosz and Otto Dix giving expression to the horrors of society in the midst of utter moral collapse; in the other, Bertolt Brecht would be puffing a cigar and...
...One feels the charge and the echo of many great composers in his novels (he also wrote the libretto for Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd) and for him it was not just a shadow art form but an ideal to strive...
...Billy Swinton, another former steelworker who now works as an industrial painter, believes the Tories “are not doing a bad job”....
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