How To Use Painter In A Sentence

Wielding his blade like a master painter, his palette holds only one colour, and that is crimson.
Painter and decorator Geoffrey Jenks was so shocked when he failed a roadside breath test, he felt his Cokes must have been spiked, Kennet magistrates in Devizes heard on Tuesday.
The work of the Hard-Edge painters, their first collective exhibition catalog in 1959 asserted, runs counter to a widespread contemporary belief in the primary value of emotion and intuition in esthetic experience … the [Hard-Edge painter] is not preoccupied with art as an opportunity to make autobiographical statements. California Cool
All of modern art since the middle of the previous century had been based on rebellion against academicism and Ingres was the painter most associated with academicism.
Interestingly, for all Rauch's fractious subject matter, his painterly touch isn't turbulent at all, but instead measured, calm and neat.

Son of a court equerry in Munich, he was apprenticed in 1582/3 to the court painter, Hans Donauer.
The painter decided to grey the sky
Classical painters developed the use of animal hair, and the paint brush, as we know it, was born.
Whether or not Hugo was a wall-painter, the records of his activities as carver and manuscript painter attest to his versatility.
Cui Jie's dystopian scene from 2011, "Bar," also evokes the painterly eeriness of German artists Gerhard Richter and Neo Rauch. China's Rising Art Stars
A less ambitious painter would have been content merely to bask in the glory that his canvases had earned him.
The Cavendish Street gallery is showcasing the work of 10 artists, including both well-known painters and non-professionals.
He is strongly influenced by Spanish painters such as Goya and El Greco.
He delights in the society of brilliant painters, singers and musicians.
Linear perspective is not a major concern for these painters, but the some paintings do achieve a sense of aerial depth through the mixture of brush strokes and the varied diluteness of ink. Stories from The Sun
A painter who had been working on the clock tower hung a pot of paint on one of the hands and slowed it down!
Painter cleared of bar assault charge A SELF-employed painter and decorator was yesterday cleared of assaulting the manager of a Harrogate bar.
NUREMBERG SCHOOL: Half-way between the sentiment of Cologne and the realism of Prague stood the early school of Nuremberg, with no known painter at its head. A Text-Book of the History of Painting
According to company officials, Owen has gained widespread recognition as a Western painter of fine art, and his work in gouache captures present-day working cowboys.
There is a spontaneity, a wonderful painterly quality that bridges several techniques and makes them unlike other mediums.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. Leonardo da Vinci
Police are now on the verge of allowing painters, plumbers, decorators and joiners into the house to begin clearing up and repairing fittings damaged during the extensive examination of the house.
Pukhov, a careerist painter, sacrifices his artistic integrity by cynically painting potboilers to please factory and party committees.
The poet and the painter have never met before, but their pairing seems inspired.
It is typical of painters, he wrote, to make these wild accusations, wild generalizations.
Both cabinets include the discreet monogram of the painter E.J. Poynter in the third panel.
Elizabeth O'Reilly is a painterly realist who conveys her perceptions of reality via personalized line, color and brushstroke.
He's a landscape painter, he's a good influence.
The imitations were produced by the painter and decorator on the canvas he used daily as a decorator, Lincrusta - perhaps better known as modern-day blown vinyl.
Often referred to as a Proustian painter because he painted from memory rather than from life, Bonnard is even more a Jamesian one. The Nation: Top Stories
Painted in 1953, it dates from the period during which Barns-Graham, originally a figurative painter, was reconciling hard-edged geometrical abstraction with a love of landscape.
In hushed tones, art aficionados, painters and the odd diplomat discussed the question of the day. Times, Sunday Times
Friday's demonstration had a joyful and entrepreneurial air, with face-painters emblazoning the Egyptian flag on takers young and old, carts with fresh popcorn, and women offering hard-boiled eggs and koshary, the national dish of lentils, rice and pasta topped with a spicy tomato sauce. A month after revolt, Egyptians march to protect their victory as neighbors demand freedom, too
The traditional painterly mediums of oil and watercolour remain the norm for the portraiture commissions.
The other illuminati are equally insignificant from a social point of view: Mary Hare, an elderly spinster; Ruth Godbold, a poor and hard-working housewife; and Alf Dubbo, a part-Aboriginal painter. Patrick White - Existential Explorer
From the time of the cave painters, artists and sculptors have used patterns to make sense of the world. Times, Sunday Times
This mass of towering, buckled stone and fluted snow is the most unaccommodating zone on Earth, and the painter, in his own words, is ‘not trying to force an egotistical or mystical image upon it’.
American painter and leader of the Hudson River School . His works include Heart of the Andes ( 1859 ).
It became convenient to account for shifts in Freud's work by focusing on his early reliance on drawing and to cite the influence of painters from northern Europe such as Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Albrecht Dürer, or even to suggest a false comparison with the Neue Sachlichkeit painters active in Germany in the 1920s but unknown to the young Freud and overlook others as relevant as Paul Cézanne and Chaim Soutine. Lucian Freud obituary
But next day when the cobbler ventured to criticise the legs, the painter came forth from his hiding-place and recommended the cobbler to stick to the shoes -- advice which in the words of the Latin version of the story also has been adopted as a proverb, _Ne sutor ultra crepidam_ ( "Let not the shoemaker overstep his last"). Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young
At 16, Dunbar applied to become a Butlins redcoat but, instead, found a job as a part-time face-painter, working weekdays in the post office.
Shopkeepers, professional men, painters, plumbers and mechanics must have been counting down the last lingering seconds of the forenoon. MOONDROP TO MURDER
Charleton is an oil painter whose subject matter includes landscapes, aviation art, seascapes, still lifes, marine art and portraits.
The combination of practising painters. ideal facilities, the surrounding landscape and desire for uncompromising inquiry gives Herringbroom Studio its unique spirit.
Derek Jarman's Caravaggio presents itself as a loose, poeticized biography of the famed Baroque painter Michelangelo de Caravaggio, but in fact Jarman appears to be using his subject as a gateway into ruminations on art, love, violence and religion. Caravaggio
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. Leonardo da Vinci
Painter cleared of bar assault charge A SELF-employed painter and decorator was yesterday cleared of assaulting the manager of a Harrogate bar.
Some with the greatest access of luster equal the colors of painters, others the fervid flames of sulphur, or fires quickened with oil.
She is a portrait painter and, contrary to popular belief, this is not a dead art.
Wall is a tremendously challenging artist, as his stuff essentially mocks both the Cartier-Bresson 'Decisive Moment' as self-glorifying bushwa, and the Modernist painters' photography-induced flight from Realism as cowardice. Kenneth Hite's Journal
They are usually painted by nonacademic artists and unknown painters.
The inheritance spent, the painters indulge in reverie, romanticizing the past, retreating into what Jung would call the collective unconscious. Haiti: an act of Devil « Anglican Samizdat
His pen-and-ink medium now includes heavy doses of watercolor, making painterly qualities more emphatic.
Painters and sculptors who have seen her graceful performances are said to be simply enraptured with the perfection of her harmony of motion.
The painter believes that he is going beyond shapes, contours and colours.
The fact that these three are expert drawers and painters doesn't hurt either.
Also striking was a realistic portrait from around 1970 of a woman with upswept hair seated in an ornate chair and another more painterly portrait of a faceless male figure against a background of abstract gestures.
Icons were painted by faithful painters - usually monks - in monastic seclusion.
Indeed, one new report says that we will have to import painters and decorators from abroad by 2020 if trends continue.
To achieve greater realism, Renaissance painters needed to create the illusion of the third dimension, depth.
Liu's non-figurative paintings embody an extreme intensity which has become a trademark style of this talented painter.
Such experiments were carried considerably further by a loosely knit group of younger painters.
No Boston painter would have attempted to settle an aesthetic difference like Luks did when he punched Edmund Tarbell in the jaw.
We can only guess what the great Dutch genre painters really thought they were doing.
Children and the young at heart had a ball with a great range of fun-filled events including face painters, clowns, balloon modellers and live musicians lined-up to keep them enthralled.
Of all the problems faced by painters, illustrators and still photographers, one of the most difficult is conveying the sense of movement and motion.
The Elector Palatine in Dusseldorf appointed him as court-painter in 1697, with an annual salary of four thousand guilders, but left him free to sell half his pictures to others.
As a colorist, Vicki's understanding of color theory runs deep, but as an oil painter, her talent with color is exceptional.
Each time a car ploughs through the hedge, Mr Painter is left with the bill to fix it, which can cost up to £1,000.
He had met his old lady when he was a house painter and she was a waitress.
But Franz Kline was a very, very well-known expressionist painter. ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
DOCTORS have cured a painter and decorator suffering uncontrollable tremors in his right hand - with sound waves. The Sun
Color, often manipulated and used to painterly effect, is an important element in all of these works, with hues ranging from acidic yellows and oranges to stormy blues and greens.
The old man clutched the young painter's arm and said, "Do you see nothing? clodpatel Huguenot! varlet! cullion! The Unknown Masterpiece 1845
I am like the painter of that mosaic, the small pieces are falling into place and I need your help.
Lipsky's hand-painted edges and the sweet smell of oil paint that had subtly impregnated the gallery were the only echoes of Guston's painterliness.
This retrospective offers the first chance in 40 years to discover not only the full range but also the true depth of this painter. Times, Sunday Times
All the painters in our gallery paint their works from beginning to end—Pat Steir, Jonathan Lasker—and I think their collectors like the notion that every ounce of paint on their works was brushed on by the artists alone. The Art Assembly Line
From today painting is dead" is an aphorism often attributed to Paul Delaroche, a 19th-century French painter, upon seeing the first daguerreotypes though Wikipedia maintains there is no compelling evidence that he actually said it. Farewell to the fine art of focusing
She is a painter outstanding for her landscapes.
Sandra trained as a dancer and worked as a theatre set painter and then a trapeze artist.
Indeed, one new report says that we will have to import painters and decorators from abroad by 2020 if trends continue.
The colored light falls on the painter's large areas of pure local hue and fragments them; it steals across his blindingly harsh white highlights and suffuses them with saturated and pastel hues.
Look around you for pictures that you really like, and in buying which you can help some genius yet unperished -- that is the best atonement you can make to the one you have neglected -- and give to the living and struggling painter at once wages, and testimonial. A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market)
Shaw – being the maverick painter in the pack, and a popular favourite – will surely win the big prize, though, with his views of nowhere places, meticulously and perversely rendered in the unwieldy and super low-tech medium of model aeroplane kit makers' Humbrol enamels. This week's new exhibitions
He was quite popular both as a portrait painter and an Orientalist.
His seminal book postulated that depictions of the East by Western painters and writers had a Eurocentric, colonialist subtext.
In each, he runs a dazzling gamut of painterly techniques: glazing, impasto, scumbling, decalcomania, fluid linear strokes and so on.
WELTSCHMERZ is a cooperation between painter Chris Gill and sound artist Terence lloren and includes an installation and a live performance by Terence lloren held at 7 pm during the opening.
She was a distinguished oceanographer, and a gifted painter into the bargain.
This mismatch, he says, militates against the Hockney-Falco claim that the painter relied on optical aids.
Besides "-- drily --" an unattached bachelor is considerably more in demand as a painter of society women's portraits than a Benedict. The Moon out of Reach
The young painter's works were jeered at at first,but later they proved to be very valuable.
Teacher David Farrow has swapped the chalkface for the painter's easel, after giving up his job as head of art to become a professional artist.
No Boston painter would have attempted to settle an aesthetic difference like Luks did when he punched Edmund Tarbell in the jaw.
Rome in the nineteenth century was a Mecca for painters, sculptors, architects, printmakers, writers, and composers from all over the world.
His original ambition was to be a painter, and in 1933 he enrolled at Goldsmith's College School of Art.
Hence the shift in emphasis from the finished work to the actual process of creation of the Action painters and others.
This was a breakthrough exhibition for painter Greg Stone, who has long been a mainstay of the thriving arts community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
I believe he used ‘dots’ to create the image rather than traditional painterly styles.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. Leonardo da Vinci
Occasionally painters turned some of their work over to dealers, whose markups could be substantial.
The more convincing the painting, the greater the paradox that it was but a reflection or shadow, and the more the painter looked like a prestidigitator.
By juxtaposing these elements, he not only achieves a variety in his compositions, but also employs means provided by a stark contrast in his experience as a tangentially urbanised painter.
He set himself up as a house painter and soon became successful.
He broadened the scope of the Collection through the acquisition of works by early Renaissance painters.
Rodiya girls wander the country as dancers and jugglers, and their erect figures, elastic step, and regalness of carriage, would be envied by the proudest woman promenading Vanity Fair; some of them have faces so perfect in a classic way that a sculptor or painter might make himself famous by reproducing them. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan
Gaugin: The painter who invented his own brand of artistic licence life and work for which he can be reverentially remembered: his extensive travels, his experimentalism and his "primitivist" painting style honed in Tahiti - a bold reaction against the Impressionism embraced by most of his WN.com - Articles related to Keira Knightley takes on performance art
She trained as a painter and sculptor.
Claris had taken Petra down to the shops and Mrs Painter was at the chiropodist 's -- so it was just Bridget and Frances. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
He was worthless as a painter.
In 1608 Evesham was referred to as both sculptor and painter.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Quincy has had astounding success as a painter.
Perhaps eyes painted without black pupils seem ghostly but the painterly dabs of umber tones definitely bring this woman back to earth.
Indeed, he was both an amateur painter and a musician in a rock band that met at weekends.
Pukhov, a careerist painter, sacrifices his artistic integrity by cynically painting potboilers to please factory and party committees.
The painter exchanged a bemused look with his assistant, but agreed, quoted a price, and asked what subjects I would like him to paint.
He was a post - impressionist painter whose early works somber, dark colors.
Her aim at a synthetical expressiveness, so uncommon in Italian women painters of the time, was such that the most important critics immediately noticed her. Paola Levi-Montalcini.
It was here that he first conceived the idea of being a peasant painter.
Few, even among Dutch painters, led such an unadventurous life, yet in his dedication to his art, and the sacrifice of his well-being to his unremitted meticulous toil, he fell little short of the heroic.
The camera was designed to confront the world in terms of traditional perspective views, with a painter's relation of horizontals and verticals.
His paintings were exhibited in Pittsburgh as early as 1927 and again in 1931 at the Museum of Modern Art. But Nazi rule (which deemed his art degenerate), World War II and postwar abstractionism relegated Dix to the background, and unlike Max Beckmann and George Grosz — the Berlin painter with whom he is often linked — Dix did not immigrate to the U.S. Sex, Blood and War
Leader of the esthete Florentine layabouts was Seymour Kirkup, a Brit painter with it was said too much money and not enough talent. American Connections
His claim to be an important and unjustly neglected painter is sheer self-deception - he's no good at all.
He intended to be a painter, but in 1935 was severely injured in a bicycle accident; he spent months in hospital and a sanatorium, and was an invalid for the rest of his life.
I would that I were a painter and could invite naked women to lounge about in my bottega under the guise of labor. The Poet Prince
She would be a great actress or a great painter, or perhaps the first woman Prime Minister.
In the painting the revolution's populist crowd is transformed by the painter into a common herd, a mob of grotesqueries, to be manipulated by the speaker to do his bidding.
From the early Renaissance on, they had been admired and drawn by painters and sculptors and carefully described and cataloged by art enthusiasts and antiquarians.
Even at school, Liz had always been a very gifted painter.
Bordeaux in the '20s and' 30s — From Paris to the Aquitaine" presents art and furniture of the Art Deco movement associated to artists from the Bordeaux region, such as ceramist René Buthaud and painter Jean Dupas. Time Off Europe Calendar
He was highly respected as an artist and his art remains the yardstick by which English painters can measure themselves and their work. Times, Sunday Times
I phone carpenters and painters, and a funny little man with glasses to dig up my garden.
Peacham, indeed, offered drawing as ‘a gentleman's exercise’ which could also serve ‘for the necessarie use and generall benefite of diuers trades-men and artificers, as namly painters, ioyners, free-masons, cutters, and carvers.’
Da Vinci was a painter, engineer, botanist, and an anatomist. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 598
It is surely permissible to see in these two portraits the hand of a single painter.
a gifted painter but an indifferent actor
Children and the young at heart had a ball with a great range of fun-filled events including face painters, clowns, balloon modellers and live musicians lined-up to keep them enthralled.
As a painter, he is in a league of his own .
Nocturne – a term taken over by Chopin from the Irish composer John Field, but frequently employed by painters, too, particularly Whistler – is written in the relaxed, ambulatory tone of an 18th-century rambler's tale. Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight by James Attlee – review
The painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats.
Ni Yi - de is the renowned oil painter the water color painter the fine arts theoretician.
On the easel was a wild abstract in crude bright colours, bearing no visible relation at all to the scene in the harbour before them; it was unexpected, compared to the neat, anaemic little water-colours that nineteen out of twenty Trewissick harbour-painters produced. Greenwitch
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Park did not want to be a painter, though today he produces interior scenes and landscapes mostly populated with anthropomorphic animals.
An electric fan is now used instead of bellows to excite the embers and a compressor drives a spray painter, but other tasks are manual.
The city was and is home to many great painters, sculptors, poets and composers ... a city of romance.
Artists in many fields collaborate, as painters did in the Renaissance, before there was any guff about the artist as transcendent, solitary genius.
Here, being true to nature enables Shemesh to record a dazzling array of painterly gestures, some of them squarely within the tradition of Abstract Expressionism.
Gerry's ambition was to become a portrait painter.
If a painter wishes to paint a sombre portrait, he first covers the canvas entirely with a dull brown colour.
By comparison, eighteenth-century painters are more hackneyed, whether producing ‘classical’ landscapes or topographical views.
Passed over for court painter to George III, Reynolds turned to the King's opponents, the Whig grandees and the group that surrounded the Prince of Wales.
Recent scholarship has hardly begun to gauge the strands of influence flowing out of the studios of western artists in what were then called the “presidencies” of Bengal, Behar, and Oudh — and thence to the workshops of indigenous Indian court and other local painters who evidently admired, or at least for whatever reasonsoughtto emulate them. Francesco Renaldi in Dacca
The set also made good use of images by the Expressionist painters Grosz and Kirchner to depict the seamy side of Berlin.
The Chinese painters were meticulous copyists of the bookplates, drawings, or watercolors of arms provided them.
Here, his interests gravitated towards modernist painters such as Picasso and DeKooning.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun. Pablo Picasso
Engineers and architects use spatial intelligence, as do visual artists like sculptors and painters.
Never quite abstract, never entirely candid, always at a tangent to the world, Hodgkin is a strangely opaque painter.
Michelangelo, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, died in 1564.
A painter friend who lived in Greece for awhile said he thought the calcimining done each spring in villages probably had very little binder and seemed flaky as he remembered.
On the foot of the pedestal was the painter's name, "BATTONI pinxit, Romæ, 1750. The Lost Stradivarius
He makes week of rate, calling card shows its identity is painter and calligrapher.
This revolutionary approach was announced by a woman painter, Anita Malfatti, “the protomartyr of modernism,” whose forward-looking paintings in her second exhibition, in 1917, were derided by Monteiro Lobato He claimed that she simply contributed her own “-ism” in her paintings where a horse and rider fall over: “I call this genre topple-ism”. [Jose] Oswald de [Souza] Andrade
Not surprisingly, a slot in the Underground can be a big boost to the careers of unknown painters.
This is by the great Spanish painter, Goya.
Nadler, a serious abstract painter, displays a small gem at Davis Dominguez.
Hambling, the portraitist and sculptor, will join James Lloyd, a former winner of the BP Portrait award, painter Emrys Williams and Royal Academician Chris Orr, along with the writers Pullman and Willy Russell, in a sale of original images, all donated to promote the cause of drawing. Artists' self-portraits to raise money for drawing campaign
I cannot think of another artist whose canvases convey so clearly quite what a blessed existence the painter believes he leads.
In another era, many of these artists would have been landscape painters.
She also exhibited as a painter and sculptor and illustrated the several books she wrote on her life and work.
It arrived the day after the painter had taken a razor to his ear. Times, Sunday Times
This is the first major retrospective in this country of the German painter whose pieces are as visually amazing as they are intellectually complex. Times, Sunday Times
He was a painter and poet.
Colours, space, light, and composition are used to masterly, painterly effect.
With more than 400 works, including 275 paintings, 50 of the late paper cutouts and an assortment of sculptures, drawings and prints, the massive show has temporarily displaced the entire permanent collection from two floors of the museum It's like a long, languorous alfresco feast in the south of France, with course after course of the painterly equivalent of ripe fruit, creme fraiche, warm bread and the giddy intoxication of perfumy rose. The Most Beautiful Show In The World
The poor painter sold his paintings for a paltry sum of money.
Here, Downes's painterliness has sprouted where it could have been least anticipated: surrounded by a Minimalist's monument to the absolute.
She fulfilled herself both as a qualified mother and as a successful painter.
He was renowned as a portrait painter.
Perugia's most celebrated painter, Pietro Vannucci, who was also known as Perugino, once had an even more famous pupil: the Renaissance master Raphael. NYT > Home Page
Chinese painters are famous for their smart drawing, simple sculpt and human spirit.
Hundreds of children who arrived in the town were entertained by a disco in the square and street carnival along the main thoroughfare, with clowns and face painters on hand to add colour.
So the pachydermic concept with the thunderous footfall is this: can a painter who veers back and forth between emphatically paint-as-paint abstractions (Richter squeegees the stuff across canvases on the studio floor) and a form of painstaking realism be taken seriously as a whole? Looking Back At Richter
He couldn't even begin to explain it to himself; the view was too vivid to be real, like some forest rendition by a surrealistic painter, a primordial viewpoint of a world undulled by reality and human pollution. The Woods Out Back
[4] Thomas Crafts was, in 1789, a painter and japanner, opposite the site of the great tree (corner of Boylston and Washington Streets). Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
Paintings that depict the beauty and immensity of nature and man's puniness within it were a specialty of Romantic painters.
And he heard it from a servant in the building where the painter lives.
Joseph Viscomi asserts that "working on metal with the tools of poet and painter enabled Blake to create a multi-media space, a 'site' where poetry, painting, and printmaking came together in ways both original and characteristic of Romanticism's fascination with autographic gesture, with spontaneity, intimacy, and organicism Blake's Contraries Game
He's a great painter, footballer, man, etc.
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'The painter must be anonymous, a servant,' he says, feelingly.
He is certainly painterly in his style, building up a web of images yet leaving the reader to their own observations.
As a close friend and neighbour of the elderly painter, Osterlind used to visit Renoir every day.
Historians have often counterposed their work, presenting Matisse as a maker of luxuriously coloured, harmonious images, and Picasso as the more conceptual painter, who emphasized form over colour and anguish over serenity.
Despite the rehabilitation of such major Victorian painters as Rossetti and Burne-Jones, Watts has not yet made it back into the Victorian pantheon.
The Teerlincs resided in more than one London parish and Levina, for a painter, enjoyed an unusual degree of social status.

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