Sentence examples for gentle artists from inspiring English sources

Living in Hampstead, within the "nest of gentle artists", as Herbert Read referred to them, undoubtedly stimulated his interest in abstraction and ensured that he was at the heart of the modernist circle that, by the late 1930s, was centred in London.

Shortly afterward, Hepworth and her second husband Ben Nicholson moved into a studio around the corner from Moore, while Naum Gabo, Roland Penrose, Cecil Stephenson and the art critic Herbert Read also lived in the area (Read referred to the area as "a nest of gentle artists").

The gentle artist with the mustache and the shy smile was extremely popular abroad during the cold war — and at times even more famous than at home, where his plays were banned — as a symbol of bravery and subversive humor in the face of Communist dictatorship.

We're living in an era where it's hard to be a gentle artist anymore.

He's also a gentler artist than he was then.

No doubt he's a gentler artist — more generous, too — but he has an abiding weakness: he doesn't love or even trust the camera.

But if Giles Andreae's Sir Scallywag and the Deadly Dragon Poo (Puffin, £6.99 paperback) were to be next year's winner, the gentle Victorian artist who gave her name to this prize would surely be revolving in her grave.

Mr. Devillers comes across in person as a gentle, low-key artist with little interest in money.

There's something pleasing about the way it eschews all the standard baggage that comes with middle-of-the-road, Radio 2-playlisted artists: no gentle trip-hop breakbeats or cosseting synth washes, no hitmaking songwriters-for-hire buried in the credits, no post-Amy Winehouse retro soul or supper-club jazz scenery.

"The work in this show has a refined and gentle femininity, but the artists all have more aggressive work," Aslanian said.

Even in the case of "gentle jazz" that includes artists such as founders like Earl Klugh--who, by the way, is enjoying his own creative renaissance--this subgenre of smooth jazz is no longer grouped with the pleasant noodlings of New Age-y artists once found on the Windham Hill label and its copycats.