Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.

At Stettin the university-educated artist, who had studied German, was chosen to serve as interpreter and clerk in the office of the Stalag commander.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.

People think the dress in the picture was lengthened by an artist much later on.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

The artist was born in Gilbert Mills, New York, in 1886, and until two years ago when he and his wife moved to California, he lived in western New York, in Batavia.

Here he put a small man, whose missing hands might have left his function doubtful, until comparison with the first sketches showed that when the artist came back to the beginning, this was to be the closing figure of the party of `` forty-niners '', and was to hold a basket.

He was able to smell a bargain -- and a masterpiece -- a continent away, and the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr said of him: `` I have never mentioned a new artist that Thompson didn't know about ''.

Django Reinhardt, the ill-fated gypsy, was a true artist, one who demonstrated conclusively the power of art to renew itself and flow into many channels.

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

de Pompadour's favorite artist and was commissioned by her for numerous paintings and decorations.

During the Middle Ages the word artist already existed in some countries such as Italy, but the meaning was something resembling craftsman, while the word artesan was still unknown.

The first division into major and minor arts dates back to Leon Battista Alberti's works ( De re aedificatoria, De statua, De pictura ), focusing the importance of intellectual skills of the artist rather than the manual skills ( even if in other forms of art there was a project behind ).

As, however, the deity is represented in an Neo-Attic, archaistic and conventional character, this copy cannot be relied on as giving us much information as to the usual style of Alcamenes, who was almost certainly a progressive and original artist.

This master returned to Venice, where he soon afterwards died ; but by the high terms in which he spoke of his pupil to Falier, the latter was induced to bring the young artist to Venice, whither he accordingly went, and was placed under a nephew of Torretto.

It was highly esteemed by his patron and friends, and the artist was now considered qualified to appear before a public tribunal.

The events which marked the life of the artist during the first fifteen years of the period in which he was engaged on the above-mentioned works scarcely merit notice.

A skillful Foley artist can make someone walking calmly across the screen seem terrified simply by giving the actor a different gait.

Because of this realization, Hofmannsthal ’ s idea of the role of the artist began to take shape as someone who created works that would inspire or inflame the instinct, rather than merely preserving it in a creative form.

He also began to think that the artist should not be someone isolated and left to his art, but rather a man of the world, immersed in both politics and art.

* A starving artist is someone who minimizes their living expenses in order to spend more time and effort on their art.

" Jackson said, " When I was a little boy growing up in Indiana if someone told me I'd be getting ' the artist of the millennium award ,' I'd have never believed it.

* Martial artist, someone skilled in codified practices and traditions of combat

A street artist is someone who creates and / or sells their art or craft in public for the pleasure of passers-by.

Raggare ( a Swedish word roughly corresponding to the English term " pick-up artist ", i. e., a person seeking sexual contact with someone ) is a subculture found mostly in Sweden and parts of Norway, Finland, Denmark, Germany and Austria.

The only way that one can actually have any social function – maybe not even as an artist, but as someone operating within culture – is in fact to think in other cultural terms.

Whilst he was there he claims that he " learned the word artist and discovered that an artist is someone who does not have to put his paints away, so decided to become one ".

This cartoon marked the first time Warner Bros. cartoon characters Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck were voiced by someone other than legendary voice artist Mel Blanc.

Since no artist in China could make the bewildering array of Himalayan Tantric deities which would be indispensable for his religious activities, he needed to bring with him someone who could.

If anything it increases the chances that someone may see it, and gain interest in the life and work of the artist, which could bring commercial opportunities for him, and as was stated previously, this was not a commercial interest for him, but something he considered to be " an experiment ".

Thrasymachus consents to Socrates ' assertion that an artist is someone who does his job well, and is a knower of some art, which allows him to complete the job well.

: my CD could refer to a CD that I own, a CD owned by someone else but with music that I recorded as an artist, a CD that I have just given to someone here as a gift, or one with some other relation to me that would be identifiable in the context.

** Sewist is a relatively new term, combining the words " sew " and " artist ", to describe someone who creates sewn works of art, which can include clothing or other items made with sewn elements.

That is the assumption that the artist, as someone possessing advanced technical competence in the means of visual production, is, in the service of enlightenment, entrusted with the task of wrenching, tearing or cajoling the beholder's habits of perception out of their ossified, conventionalized, academicized and ultimately falsified norms.

A mime artist ( from Greek " μίμος "— mimos, " imitator, actor ") is someone who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art, involving miming, or the acting out a story through body motions, without use of speech.

Burns hosted the game show Oblivious, in which Burns acted as someone or something ( an artist or golf instructor, for instance ) and asked a contestant a series of five questions in conversation.

" GM Jan Hein Donner called Nimzowitsch " a man who was too much of an artist to be able to prove he was right and who was regarded as something of a madman in his time.

Jahangir himself is far from modest in his autobiography when he states his prowess at being able to determine the artist of any portrait by simply looking at a painting.

In Istanbul, the team recruits Peter Riviera, an artist, thief, and drug addict who is able to project detailed holographic illusions with the aid of sophisticated cybernetic implants.

The only way he was able to get management to agree to a full season was to hire The Great Sebastian, " the debonair King of the Air " and world-class trapeze artist, as the star of the show.

Hentzi accused Mendes and Ball of identifying too readily with Jane and Ricky, saying the latter was their " fantasy figure "— a teenaged boy who's an absurdly wealthy artist able to " finance own projects ".

Only through learning a system completely will an artist be able to, " absorb what is useful ," and discard the remainder.

If the disc is in the database, the client is able to retrieve and display the artist, album title, tracklist and some additional information.

Rothko ’ s painting technique required considerable physical stamina that the ailing artist was no longer able to muster.

It is considered an example of a vanity label, where an artist is able to run a label, with some degree of independence, from within a larger parent company, Interscope in this case.

Second, it can add expressiveness to the painting, the viewer being able to notice the strength and speed applied by the artist.

He expressed regret that he received little recognition as an artist until the year his mother died and that she was not able to enjoy his success.

Claus Sluter was the leading sculptor in Burgundy, and was one artist able to use the style with a strongly monumental effect.

In Art after Technology Maurice Benayoun lists possible tracks for " postdigital " art considering that the digital flooding has altered the entire social, economical, artistic landscape and the artist posture will move in ways that try to escape the technological realm without being able to completely discard it.

This allows an artist to be able to record onto track 2 and, simultaneously, listen to track 1, 3 and 7, allowing them to sing or to play an accompaniment to the performance already recorded on these tracks.

If all the voices and instruments in a recording are individually recorded on distinct tracks, then the artist is able to retain complete control over the final sculpting of the song, during the mix-down ( re-recording to two stereo tracks for mass distribution ) phase.

While still in college, she was a full-time professional artist who was able to add her professional work to her college art curriculum for credit.

In his Maternity, Botero repeated a composition he already painted in 2003, being able to evoke a sensuous velvety texture that lends it a special appeal and testifies for a personal involvement of the artist.

With the original release of the album, there was worry that the album wouldn't sell because some people wouldn't be able to differentiate between her and LeAnn Rimes, who was also a successful artist at that time.

Bill Wray, a production artist for Ren and Stimpy, described the main issues regarding Kricfalusi's conflict with Nickelodeon as not being able to meet deadlines for production.

In the early 1970s, a couple of years after artists in SoHo were able to legalize their live / work situation, artist and resident organizations in the area to the south, known then as Washington Market or simply the Lower West Side, sought to gain similar zoning status for their neighborhood.

Using unlimited cards, a con artist is able to sell rides for $ 1 instead of $ 2.

Through Semba music, the artist is able to convey a broad spectrum of emotions.

He was in Zurich around 1923, receiving the visit of a compatriot, writer Victor Eftimiu, who declared him a hard-working artist able to reconcile the modern with the traditional.