Art historians and critics define artists as those who produce art within a recognized or recognizable discipline.

The Glasgow School of Art building ( now renamed " The Mackintosh Building ") is regularly cited by architectural critics as among the very finest buildings in the UK.

Most critics focus on the preface of the novel, which preached about Art for art's sake through its dictum that " everything useful is ugly.

In 1968, Ron Clark, at the age of 25, established in conjunction with the Whitney Museum of American Art an independent study program ( known as the ISP or sometimes the Whitney ISP ), which helped start the careers of artists, critics, and curators including Julian Schnabel, Paul Pfeiffer, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kathryn Bigelow, Roberta Smith, and Mai-Thu Perret, as well as many other well-known, influential cultural producers.

In an effort to raise funds, Butler arranged an exhibit with the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York: Bodybuilders would become " living sculptures ," posing on rotating platforms while art critics analyzed the aesthetics of the bodybuilding physique and compared and contrasted the men to Greek sculpture.

In 1995 Parks surprised fans and critics by teaming up again with Brian Wilson to create the album Orange Crate Art.

This was not long after his Nude Descending a Staircase was attracting the attention of critics at the International Exhibition of Modern Art.

They were a gathering of young painters, sculptors, architects, writers and critics who were challenging prevailing modernist approaches to culture as well as traditional views of Fine Art.

In the 1940s there were not only few galleries ( The Art of This Century, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Julien Levi Gallery and a few others ) but also few critics who were willing to follow the work of the New York Vanguard.

As much as the shortlist of artists reflects the state of British Art, the composition of the panel of judges, which includes curators and critics, provides some indication of who holds influence institutionally and internationally, as well as who are rising stars.

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It was the first imprint to identify a public entity called ‘ Conceptual Art ’ and the first to serve the theoretical and conversational interests of a community of artists and critics who were its producers and users.

Johnson composed many hit tunes including the theme song of the Roaring Twenties, " Charleston " and " If I Could be With You One Hour Tonight " and remained the acknowledged king of New York jazz pianists until he was dethroned c. 1933 by the recently arrived Art Tatum, who is widely acknowledged by jazz critics as the most technically proficient jazz pianist of all time.

When knowledgeable critics compose their " greatest of all time " lists, the jazz piano roster usually places Johnson in the company of his better known peers: Fats Waller, Art Tatum, Earl Hines and Teddy Wilson.

The cultural critics Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin examined and described the fetishes and fetishism of Art, by means of which " artistic " commodities are produced for sale in the market, and how commodification determines and establishes the value of the artistic commodities ( goods and services ) derived from legitimate Art ; for example, the selling of an artist's personal effects as " artistic fetishes ".

Rosenquist has said the following about his involvement in the Pop Art movement: " They ( art critics ) called me a Pop artist because I used recognizable imagery.

Nor is there much discussion on building techniques, nor industrial architecture, nor on Art Deco buildings, omissions which his critics hold have led to those subjects undervaluation and neglect.

The post-World War II era highly benefited some of the artists who were early on recognized by the Art critics of the post World War II era.

Art was, therefore, a biological phenomenon, a view that frequently pitted Read against Marxist critics such as Anthony Blunt in the 1930s.

The Museum of Contemporary Art ( MCA ) Chicago was created as the result of a 1964 meeting of 30 critics, collectors and dealers at the home of Critic Doris Lane Butler to bring the long-discussed idea of a museum of contemporary art to complement the city's Art Institute of Chicago, according to a grand opening story in Time.

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Carigiet's dramatic and colorful compositions were noticed and positively reviewed by art critics such as Manuel Gasser in Graphis Inc. or Linus Birchler, editor-in-chief of Art Monuments of Switzerland and member of the Swiss Federal Art Commission.

One who, for a time, succeeded best and was still the sorriest of all was Charles Arthur Shires, who called himself, in the newspapers, Art the Great, or The Great Shires.

There was considerable contrast between this Mulligan performance and that of Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, who are able to generate a tremendous sound for such a small group.

All belong to the collection being given to Wilmington over a period of years by Mrs. Sloan, who has cherished such revelatory items ever since she first studied with Sloan at the Art Students League, New York, in the 1920's.

The Haworth Art Gallery in Accrington contains an outstanding collection of Tiffany glassware presented to the town by Joseph Briggs, an Accrington man who had joined Tiffany ’ s in the late 19th century and eventually became art director and assistant manager.

In 1995, Art Modell, who had purchased the Browns in 1961, announced he was relocating the team to Baltimore, Maryland.

After being dismissed as the Browns ' head coach by Art Modell ( who had purchased majority interest in the team in ) in January, Brown had shown interest in establishing another NFL franchise in Ohio and looked at both Cincinnati and Columbus.

Art historian Diane Kelder notes that it was Pissarro who introduced Gauguin, who was then a young stockbroker studying to become an artist, to Degas and Cézanne.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Unlike the previous generation of British film makers who had broken into directing and production after careers in the theatre or on television, the Art Cinema Directors were mostly the products of Art Schools.

: The Art Director reports to the Production Designer, and more directly oversees artists and craftspeople, such as the Set Designers, Graphic Artists, and Illustrators who give form to the production design as it develops.

Even more ironically most of the bands who actually did appear as themselves in the movie, such as Art Bergman, The Modernettes and D. O. A., were not on the fake tribute album.

Keith Haring was another well-known graffiti artist who brought Pop Art and graffiti to the commercial mainstream.

In the early 1980s, the first Art Galleries who started to show graffiti artists to the public were Fashion Moda in Bronx and Now Gallery in East Village, Manhattan.

Gumby is a green clay humanoid character created and modeled by Art Clokey, who also created Davey and Goliath.

Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.

His 2012 film Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap features a who's who of underground and mainstream rappers.

The Christian Petersen Art Museum in Morrill Hall is named for the nation ’ s first permanent campus artist-in-residence, Christian Petersen, who sculpted and taught at Iowa State from 1934 through 1955, and is considered the founding artist of the Art on Campus Collection.

It was designed by Nandalal Bose, a key member of the Bengal School of Art, who was one of the great masters at Kala Bhavan in Rabindranath Tagore's Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan.

In 1976, he appeared for the last time in a motion picture, playing a movie crewman who is fired by a movie mogul, played by Art Carney, in Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, and he also made his final public appearance in that year when he was inducted into the Body Building Guild Hall of Fame.

Young Jeanneret was attracted to the visual arts and studied at the La-Chaux-de-Fonds Art School under Charles L ' Eplattenier, who had studied in Budapest and Paris.