Sentence examples for artistic foundations from inspiring English sources

Then she noticed another branch of search hits, sites that mentioned Gautier in relation to some artistic foundations, to his funding of a poetry journal called Glyphonym.

"We must never forget," writes Mr. Holender, who had attended the show, "that decisive innovations in the arts have always come from the so-called 'provinces.' The important singers and conductors who have laid their artistic foundations in such places are legion.

Design of industrial products shall draw upon historical, cultural, logistical, aesthetic and artistic foundations.

But it needs an artistic foundation to make it seem appropriate to a world that may be tough, but still relishes the soft touch of handwork.

Merovingian art, visual arts produced under the Merovingian kings of the 5th to the 8th century ad, who consolidated power and brought Christianity to the Frankish kingdom (modern France and the Rhineland) after the fall of the Roman Empire in Gaul and laid the political and artistic foundation for the Carolingian Empire that followed.

As every passing day makes the basic foundational chains of our own society seem more diminished than ever, Michelangelo's faces, fixed in our civilization's artistic foundation, showing those who live attenuated lives, pulled taut by exclusion and made meaningful by daily labor, appear essential.

Ms. Crosby said that when she started as artistic director, "three foundations pulled funding, very deliberately saying I wasn't qualified to run an organization" on the artistic side.

Mao Zedong's passing in 1976 marked the end of the chairman's quarter-century reign, and his quest to annihilate China's artistic and religious foundations.

The money comes without conditions, intended simply as "seed money or venture capital for intellectual, social and artistic endeavors," the foundation says, to eliminate constraints on the recipients' productivity or creativity.

The foundation supports artistic life in Israel, providing funds to individuals and cultural institutions.

Mr. Rink's appointment will complete a turnover in the foundation's artistic and executive leadership.