I had studied with Burns ten years before, during the scholarship year the Manhattan gave me, along with the five-hundred-dollar prize for my paintings of bums on Hudson Street.

Pissarro, on the other hand, preferred to finish his paintings outdoors, often at one sitting, which gave his work a more realistic feel.

La Caze gave 584 paintings of his personal collection to the museum.

The dealer, recognizing at once the unusual gifts of the young painter, gave him an order for twenty-four pictures and arranged for three of Tadema's paintings to be shown in London.

One humorous story relates that one of his paintings was rejected and instead of keeping it, he gave the canvas to a maid who used it as her table cover.

For over sixty years he gave his audience exactly what they wanted: distinctive, elaborate paintings of beautiful people in classical settings.

Mendes gave Janney a book of paintings by Edvard Munch.

Talented, charming and attractive ( and surprisingly modest ) Lawrence was popular with Bath residents and visitors: artists William Hoare and Mary Hartley gave him encouragement ; wealthy people allowed him to study their collections of paintings and Lawrence's drawing of a copy of Raphael's Transfiguration was awarded a silver-gilt palette and a prize of 5 guineas by the Society of Arts in London.

After 1517 he occasionally illustrated the old subjects, but he also gave expression to some of the thoughts of the Reformers, although his portraits of reformers were more common than paintings of religious scenes.

It has been theorised that it was this that gave rise to the yellow tinge that is predominant in his paintings such as Chichester Canal circa 1828.

In 1457 Matthias gave permission to the Wallachian serfs to build an orthodox church, beautifully decorated with paintings and preserved until today.

According to the art critic Harold Rosenberg in the 1940s and 1950s Action Painting gave artists the freedom to perform-the canvas as " an arena in which to act ", thereby rendering the paintings as traces of the artist's performance in his / her studio.

During this time, the increasingly deep relief of Stella ’ s paintings gave way to full three-dimensionality, with sculptural forms derived from cones, pillars, French curves, waves, and decorative architectural elements.

In 1907, Alfred Stieglitz gave Smith an exhibition of paintings in New York at his Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession ( also known as gallery 291 ), making Smith the first painter to have a show at what had been until then a gallery devoted exclusively to the photographic avant-garde.

The completed church gave the city of Dresden a distinctive silhouette, captured in famous paintings by Bernardo Bellotto, a nephew of the artist Canaletto ( also known by the same name ), and in Dresden by Moonlight by Norwegian painter Johan Christian Dahl.

The fundamental basis on which the director of the Academy based his art was unquestionably to make his paintings speak, through a series of symbols, costumes and gestures that allowed him to select for his composition the narrative elements that gave his works a particular depth.

According to his followers, Sri Chinmoy wrote 1, 500 books, 115, 000 poems and 20, 000 songs, created 200, 000 paintings and gave almost 800 free peace concerts in notable venues around the world.

At that time van Gogh gave Theo a less than flattering account of Breitner's paintings as resembling mouldy wallpaper, although he did say he thought he would be all right in the end.

Although Newman's paintings appear to be purely abstract, and many of them were originally untitled, the names he later gave them hinted at specific subjects being addressed, often with a Jewish theme.

In The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices, he gave instructions of his inventions and illustrated them using miniature paintings, a medieval style of Islamic art.

Others believe that Thomson, who produced at least 63 landscape paintings that last spring, many of which he gave away or discarded, suffered severe depression and drowned himself.

Bellmer gave up doll-making and spent the following decades creating erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings, and prints of pubescent girls.

Soane designed the sky lights to illuminate the paintings indirectly, and gave us one the great small galleries in which to look at oil paintings.

Cardinal Borromeo gave his collection of paintings and drawings to the library, too.

On 30 September 1954 Meher Baba gave his " Final Declaration " message, in which he made various enigmatic predictions.

This " graffiti " gave the station an even more enigmatic feel, and by 2000 nearly every inch of the facility had been " personalized " in one form or another.

Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half out of four stars, saying, "... there is a tangible pleasure in following enigmatic characters through the shadows of their lives ; deprived for a time of plot, given characters who are not clearly labeled and assigned moral categories, we're allowed to make judgments based on their manner and speech.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two stars out of four and wrote, " The movie seems to be going for a highly mannered, elliptical, enigmatic style, and it gets there.

Couperin and Rameau gave titles to nearly everything they wrote, not in the later sense of `` program music '' but as a kind of nonmusical reference for the close, clear musical forms filled with keen wit and precise utterance.

Bahá ' u ' lláh gave his son many other titles such as " the Most Mighty Branch " the " Branch of Holiness ", " the Center of the Covenant " and the apple of his eye.

In 1985 the emergent When Saturday Comes ( a fanzine without a specific club focus that was subsequently launched as a mainstream magazine ) promoted a ' fanzine movement ' that gave birth to many more club titles during the late 80's which was something of a glory period for fanzines.

Lords Temporal include appointed members ( life peers with no hereditary right for their descendants to sit in the house ) and ninety-two remaining hereditary peers, elected from among, and by, the holders of titles which previously gave a seat in the House of Lords.

Upon Peter's death, Catherine found her four siblings, Krystyna, Anna, Karol and Fryderyk, gave them the newly created titles of Count and Countess, and brought them to Russia.

When Philippe, grandson of Louis XIV, became King of Spain as Philip V, he gave up his French titles.

Basil showed considerable statesmanship in his treatment of the defeated Bulgarians ; he gave many former Bulgarian leaders court titles, positions in provincial administration, and high commands in the army.

Herzig-Yoshinaga and her husband, John " Jack " Herzig, pored over mountains of documents from the War Relocation Authority, a task that " was roughly equivalent to indexing all the information in a library, working from a card catalog that only gave a subject description by shelf, without giving individual book titles or authors.

After the release of the second album, Unveiling the Secret, along with titles such as " Prisoner to Desire ", " Black Panther ", and " The Saint Became a Lush ", Psyche achieved the European breakthrough that gave them the ability to go on a formal tour.

Also involved in the Nancy Drew writing process were Harriet Stratemeyer Adams's daughters, who gave input on the series and sometimes helped to choose book titles ; the Syndicate's secretary, Harriet Otis Smith, who invented the characters of Nancy's friends Bess and George ; and the editors at Grosset and Dunlap.

Notably, even after assuming the formal regalia, Hatshepsut still described herself as a beautiful woman, often as the most beautiful of women, and although she assumed almost all of her father's titles, she declined to take the title " The Strong Bull " ( the full title being, The Strong Bull of his Mother ), which tied the pharaoh to the goddesses Isis, the throne, and Hathor, ( the cow who gave birth to and protected the pharaohs )— by being her son sitting on her throne — an unnecessary title for her, since Hatshepsut became allied with the goddesses, herself, which no male pharaoh could.

The French and Spanish gave their sea commanders similar titles while in Portuguese the word changed to almirante.

The victory gave Sampras his 13th Grand Slam title, breaking the record of 12 by Roy Emerson and at that time giving Sampras the most Grand Slam titles in history, until his record was eclipsed by Roger Federer following the 2009 Wimbledon final.

The Commonwealth's written constitutions gave to the Lord Protector the King's power to grant titles of honour.

Watt lasted fifteen rounds, but the judges gave Argüello a unanimous 15-round decision, thus making him only the sixth boxer to win world titles in 3 divisions, and the second Latin American ( after Wilfred Benítez had become the first by beating Maurice Hope one month before ) to do it.

The DHV adopted the Fédération Cynologique Internationale ( FCI ) rules that govern IPO titles, so that at least on paper the SV and DHV gave up control of the sport to the FCI.

While Alfonso XI lived, his lover Eleanor gave a great many titles and privileges to their sons.

Ary Vasconcelos tells us in his book Panorama da Musica Popular Brasileira that Nazareth was a " devoted family man who often gave the songs he composed titles in honor of his son, sometimes his wife, or another relative.

The Khitans used the Chinese calendar, maintained Chinese imperial and administrative titles, gave its emperors reign names, used Chinese-styled coins, and sent imperial seals to its vassals.

At a convivial gathering on the 18 November he supported a toast to " the speedy abolition of all hereditary titles and feudal distinctions ", and gave proof of his zeal by expressly repudiating his own title, a performance for which he was dismissed from the army.

IGN gave Armada a 6. 0 out of 10, criticizing a formulaic approach that failed to distinguish the game from other RTS titles.

They gave up their titles so that members could be elected to public office.

In 1967, Laver won 19 titles, including the Wimbledon Pro, the U. S. Pro Championships, the Wembley Pro Championship, and the French Pro Championship, which gave him a clean sweep of the most important professional titles, a professional Grand Slam.

Sir derives from the Middle French honorific title sire ( messire gave rise to mylord ), from the Old French sieur ( itself a contraction of Seigneur meaning ' lord '), from the Latin adjective senior ( elder ), which yielded titles of respect in many European languages.