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.

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.

It looked to me as though he had everything an artist could want, joy in his work, standing in the profession, a large and steady income.

In describing an unusual miniature fifth-century Greek bronze in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, that takes the form of a man on all fours with the foreparts of a pig, Dorothy Kent Hill expressed the artist's dilemma: how could an artist depict a man bewitched into a pig other than as a man with a pig's head?

Having established himself as a solo artist with " Space Oddity ", Bowie began to sense a lacking: " a full-time band for gigs and recording — people he could relate to personally ".

" Had he been a trapeze artist in a strolling circus, Coleman could have dispensed with the trapeze.

It is possible that Jahangir might have seen these images in their Islamic persona, as the Qur ' an features such creatures, yet depiction of living things was haraam ( forbidden ), so the images could well have been created by a Christian artist.

Equipped with these formulas, the artist could once again blend his paint easily without losing control of his brush.

Dutch painting was highly specialized and rarely could an artist hope to achieve greatness in more than one area in a lifetime of painting.

In 2006, palaeontologist and artist Neil Clark similarly suggested that travelling circuses might have allowed elephants to refresh themselves in the loch and that the trunk could therefore be the head and neck, with the elephant's head and back providing the humps.

The advantage was that the artwork could be completed in the artist ’ s studio and later transported to its destination and there attached to the wall or ceiling.

Arguments arose that the values of the artist and those of society were not merely different, but that Society was antithetical to Progress, and could not move forward in its present form.

In response to this, the columnist Marc Cassivi of La Presse wrote that " there was only one closet a Quebec artist could never exit and that was the federalist one.

Members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science had been complaining about the lack of a good term at recent meetings, Whewell reported in his review ; alluding to himself, he noted that " some ingenious gentleman proposed that, by analogy with artist, they might form word scientist, and added that there could be no scruple in making free with this term since we already have such words as economist, and atheist — but this was not generally palatable ".

She asked the producers and makeup artist Michael Westmore if they could perhaps make her more attractive and tone down the Klingon makeup.

Release could not secure a record contract, and by 1970 Tork was once again a solo artist, as he later recalled, " I didn't know how to stick to it.

A solo artist usually needed months to write a play ( though Jonson is said to have done Volpone in five weeks ); Henslowe's Diary indicates that a team of four or five writers could produce a play in as little as two weeks.

However, the project was ultimately aborted as it turned out that Rockwell, known for his perfectionism as an artist, could not deliver material as fast as required of him for a daily comic strip.

Such people, who may be real but impersonated people or fictitious characters played by the con artist, could include, for example, the wife or son of a deposed African or Indonesian leader or dictator who has amassed a stolen fortune, or a bank employee who knows of a terminally ill wealthy person with no relatives or a wealthy foreigner who deposited money in the bank just before dying in a plane crash ( leaving no will or known next of kin ), a US soldier who has stumbled upon a hidden cache of gold in Iraq, a business being audited by the government, a disgruntled worker or corrupt government official who has embezzled funds, a refugee, and similar characters.

Jefferson had the floorcloth painted a " true grass green " upon the recommendation of artist Gilbert Stuart, so that Jefferson's " essay in architecture " could invite the spirit of the outdoors into the house.

In 1934 artist Katherine Maltwood suggested a landscape zodiac, a map of the stars on a gigantic scale, formed by features in the landscape such as roads, streams and field boundaries, could be found situated around Glastonbury.

In 1940, Colbert refused a seven-year contract that would have paid her $ 200, 000 a year, as she had found that she could command a fee of $ 150, 000 per film as a freelance artist.

If you couldn't pay your bill, people such as La Rotonde's proprietor, Victor Libion, would often accept a drawing, holding it until the artist could pay.

" Lewis adds, " As cosmopolitan an artist as he would later become, his storehouse of visual imagery would never expand beyond the landscape of his childhood, with its snowy streets, wooden houses, and ubiquitous fiddlers ... scenes of childhood so indelibly in one's mind and to invest them with an emotional charge so intense that it could only be discharged obliquely through an obsessive repetition of the same cryptic symbols and ideograms ... "

Peel's Radio 1 shows were notable for the regular " Peel sessions ", which usually consisted of four songs recorded by an artist live in the BBC's studios, and which often provided the first major national coverage to bands that later would achieve great fame.

Erikson is said to have told the artist that he painted his happiness, but did not live it.

Other well-known celebrities who live on or have regularly visited the island: Famously renowned Harlem Renaissance artist Lois Mailou Jones, U. S. President Barack Obama ; former president Bill Clinton and his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ; comedian and talk show host David Letterman ; Bill Murray ; Tony Shalhoub ; Quincy Jones ; Ted Danson and wife Mary Steenburgen ; Larry David ; the Farrelly brothers ; Meg Ryan ; Chelsea Handler.

Degas, who believed that " the artist must live alone, and his private life must remain unknown ", lived an outwardly uneventful life.

Skip has become a well-known if controversial artist, and they reminisce about how they had such great ideals, and how they failed to live up to those ideals.

The young artist followed the traditional curriculum of drawing from plaster casts and occasional live models, reveled in the atmosphere of art talk with older peers, and pleased his parents with a first-class mark in anatomy.

Even though this album would gradually garner high praise, it was initially poorly received ; however, the next one, Moondance, established Morrison as a major artist, and throughout the 1970s he built on his reputation with a series of critically acclaimed albums and live performances.

He became a solo artist after its breakup in 1995, and since then tours regularly with his live band, Radio Bemba.

A prominent American artist in the jungle scene, AK1200 has been credited for helping to bring jungle and drum and bass to the forefront in the United States, due to his reputation for impressive live performances and prolific remixes, as well as for playing for free to help promote the spread of the style.

Jimmie Durham, an American Indian conceptual artist, references Fanon's postcolonial thought in a piece entitled " Often Durham Employs ..." ( 1998 ), with this quote from Fanon: " The zone where the natives live is not complementary to the zone inhabited by the settlers.

Phil also appeared live with the Plimsouls during the late 70s both as a guest vocalist and as an artist on the same bill.

* Gregory S. Glasson ( born 1974 ), bass player most notably known for his work with Grammy Award winning artist Seal both live and on studio remixes.

In 1996, ATR was joined by Nic Endo, a Japanese-German-American noise / soundscape artist, who played her first live show with ATR in the spring of 1997 during the South by South West festival in Austin, Texas.

Activities include children's crafts and activities, a giant paint-it-yourself mural, storyteller, old-fashioned family photos, caricature artist, clown and balloon animals, hay rides with live bluegrass band, and live entertainment.

Problems of synchronization meant that the only remotely practical solution was to have one artist, likely Bowie at Wembley, mime along to prerecorded vocals broadcast as part of the live sound mix for Jagger's performance from Philadelphia.

Caricature by Hans Georg Pfannmüller showing Dietrich during a cabaret performance in 1954. From the early 1950s until the mid-1970s, Dietrich worked almost exclusively as a highly-paid cabaret artist, performing live in large theaters in major cities worldwide.

The live was followed up by a collaboration Act Against AIDS charity single with fellow Japanese artist Kuwata Keisuke titled ‘ Kiseki no hoshi ’ and released on January 23, 1995.

Pop artist Ben Folds frequently inserts interpolations of the theme from Rhapsody in Blue during the outro of his song " Philosophy ," notably during the live recorded performance of Ben Folds Five for Sessions at West 54th.

In addition to his works on paper, Pettibon has also made animations from his drawings, live action films from his own scripts, unique artist ’ s books, fanzines, prints, and large permanent wall drawings that often include an arrangement of his own works on paper almost creating an installation of collage.

* LivePA, a live performance artist or personal appearance

Established artists often pay homage to artists or songs that inspired them before they started their careers or musicians who in some way helped them enter show business by recording their own versions of tunes associated with that artist ( See, for example, I Remember Tommy ) or performing tunes associated with their favourite influential musician ( s ) in their own live performances for variety.

He continues to perform his songs before live audiences as a touring concert artist.

In the absence of console tape or artist tape, live sound engineers may use a strip of white gaffer tape along the bottom of a mixing board, to label the channels used for a particular show ; although PVC tape ( AKA electrical tape ) will come away more cleanly from a mixing desk.