Sentences with phrase «fictional portraits painted»
«Fictional Portraits painted in a style verging on magic realism create a haunting impression in Odutola's NYC museum debut.»
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Like Clockers (1992) and his two other books set in fictional Dempsey, N.J. - Freedomland (1998) and Samaritan (2002)- Lush Life paints a richly textured portrait of city dwellers that would make Balzac and Dickens proud: The novel is populated with quick - witted cops, underprivileged teenage criminals, ethically challenged officials, and overworked and long - suffering average joes.
Highlights from Michelle Grabner's crowd - pleasing selection include Dawoud Bey's presidential portrait photography (Barack Obama, 2008), Karl Haendel's Theme Time Drawings, pencil drawings of various subjects arranged in shaped frames across a massive section of wall, and works by Donelle Woolford, the fictional young black female artist «created» by Joe Scanlan and played by various actors whose Joke Painting (detumescence)(2013) investigates the notion of authenticity.
They're not portraits, but representations of fictional characters, their arresting postures, the style in which each is painted, suggest different works by old and 19th - century masters: Caravaggio, Velázquez, Degas.
The early paintings of Chicago - based artist Jim Nutt place figures in a theatrical setting, while in his later fictional portraits, characters seem to exist in a different space — that of the portrait studio.
Drawing on the various histories of her artistic heroines, the paintings are fictional portraits inspired by everyone from spooky poet Emily Dickinson to abstract expressionist painter Lee Krasner and theorist Susan Sontag — though the models she uses bear no physical resemblance to these icon references.
Least known of the four, Lynette Liadom - Boakye paints portraits of characters that you assume are real but which are entirely fictional.
Other remarkable works include the installation The Unfinished Conversation (2012), a portrait of the cultural theorist Stuart Hall; Peripeteia (2012), a fictional drama on the lives of individuals in two 16th century paintings by Albrecht Dürer, and Mnemosyne (2010), which tells the story of migrants in the UK, questioning the idea of Britain as a promised land, where financial worry and casual racism can instead be real threats.