"What's interesting is how their lives shaped their art, what caused the art to be the kind of thing that it was."
At different times over the centuries each controlled it, and both did much to shape its predominantly Buddhist art.
She shaped her art by observing life carefully.
At the same time, neo-Classicism as a style and an attitude shaped his art in subtle ways.
The book examines young Chaplin's early childhood experiences and the formative role they later played in shaping his art.
Japanese prints and Greek sculpture also shaped his art.
Writers who shaped their art struggling against the old order, or serving it, find themselves without an anchor.
It's widely known that each successive settler shaped our art, architecture, customs and language.
What followed was a bitter doctrinal and psychic war that radically shaped Hicks's art.
All artists have personalities and skills that shape their art; no one is equally expert at everything.