Shaw spent his first 44 years acquiring artistic mastery — Ray Charles called him "one of the greatest musicians that ever lived" — as well as money, fame and an array of America's choicest sexual trophies.
Onstage he radiated joy, showmanship and the kind of irreverence that's earned through complete artistic mastery.
It belongs to European civilisation, of which this supremely important medieval building has long been such a peerless artistic embodiment, in the greatness of its carvings, its paintings, its music and its collections.
And claims for its superiority and moral stature have been beaten down by the memories of how artistic mastery cohabited with evil in regimes like the Nazis'.
Philip D. English, chairman of the BSO board, said that Alsop' s "artistic mastery, recording success and highly regarded reputation world-wide will shape an exciting future for the BSO". No further details of Alsop's contract were available today.
For more than 30 years Ms. Levine has been slyly lifting images and forms from works by well-known Modernist artists and photographers, using them, her admirers maintain, in ways that undermine conventional notions of originality, artistic mastery and authorship.
Levine lifts images and forms from works by well-known Modernist artists and photographers, using them, her admirers maintain, in ways that undermine conventional notions of originality, artistic mastery and authorship, Roberta Smith writes.
The personal genuineness and artistic mastery of "Ry Cooder" and "Fraser & De Bolt" with Ian Guenther show most of current rock for what it really is, mere pop postur ing.
Lewis supplies a long description of each woman and - with the detail of the painting and the idiosyncratic spelling of its title - stakes a high claim to authoritative knowledge and artistic mastery.
For Rodney Ascher who directed Room 237, it was Kubrick's sheer artistic mastery with The Shining that made the film such a source of fascination for movie fans and for him as a director.
5. Come into my World Another example of Gondry's peerless mastery of the motion control camera.
