Sentences with phrase «portraits series begun»

Thomas Ruff Portraits presented selected works from the artist's ongoing Portraits series begun in 1981.

A follow - up to his first exhibition at Blue Mountain in July of 2014, this show will include recent canvases that continue the portrait series begun in 2011.

Not exact matches

Last fall, when Martha began a new portrait series of creative folks in the Portland community, I was honored to be invited to sit for her.

But if Lili Elbe begins life as a series of fantasy portraits, does that make The Danish Girl a movie about a painter who becomes a living painting, dropping art to work as a shop girl in Copenhagen?

But then, after a while, I longed for that more personal emotional connection and in 1994 I began a series of self - portraits that expressed a negative feeling I had about my body.

I began to have my suspicions about any painting of a woman with a book or a drawing - pad or a letter in her lap — the self - portrait pose (at the time, I was still working on a series of self - portraits begun five years before), particularly the beautiful painting of a woman before a window by David, which has since been attributed to Constance - Marie - Charpentier.

In the late 1970s, Barkley Hendricks began a series of his large figure portraits in stylish white outfits painted on white backgrounds.

In the 1970s, Neel began to paint portraits of her extended family as well as a major series of nudes.

Begun in 2014, Brave Beauties is a series of portraits depicting transwomen in South Africa, and as such represents an overt challenge to a culture that continues to violently discriminate against the LGBTQI community.

In 2008, she began a series of unconventional portraits of artists» shoes and to date has painted more than 120 portraits of both world renowned and obscure contemporary artists whose work she admires.

While still studying, the artist created a series of imaginary portraits, including the Rayski Head and Onkel Bernard, beginning to focus on German identity in the post-WWII era.

In 1968, she began working for newspapers as a portrait photographer, producing a series on Liverpudlian poets.

In 1995, she bought a Mamiya camera and began the first of her illustrated journals or «Reisebuchs» a series of mixed media notebooks chronicling her world travels and composed of photographic self - portraits, collages, drawings, and writings in several languages.

Her experimental assemblage paintings that incorporated objects began an inquiry into psychological content that she further extended in self - portraits and a long - running series of solitary female nudes.

Beginning with the portraits that first brought Dijkstra's work to international awareness, of bathing suit — clad teenagers at the beach, and culminating with a series of images of children and teenagers posing in a park, viewers encounter subjects who are alternately self - conscious, exhilarated, stoic, or wary but always cognizant of projecting an identity for the camera.

POLLOCK - KRASNER HOUSE & STUDY CENTER - «Artists on Film Series» begins on September 4 at 7 p.m. with «E de K: A Portrait,» «An Elaine de Kooning Tribute,» and «Dogwood Maiden.»

Less familiar are the series of pet portraits began by Figge Wise nearly three years ago.

The series began as «target pictures,» with painted bullseye targets prominently displayed within her painted collages, such as Saint Sébastien (Portrait of My Lover / Portrait of My Beloved / Martyr nécessaire)(1961), [21] or Assemblage (Figure with Dartboard Head)(1962).

It was only in 1978 with the beginning of the Weimar series that he began to employ color, named for the failed Republic during which the violent palette and brush work of German expressionism conveyed the artists» frustration, Neustein's homage to Nolde, Kirschner, et al. is best expressed in his own words as an «attempt to paint portraits of paintings in their own debris.»

[38][39] Close's tapestry series began with a 2003 black - and - white portrait of Philip Glass.

The series of portraits was shot during the photographer's travels at the beginning of this year.

After 20 years of taking photographs of herself in private, June Calypso began a series of self portraits in which she stages herself as a fictional character named Joyce.

She first discovered her talent for playing with paper and scissors when her photographer husband, Paolo Lafratta, began teaching her about his own field — and that's when Napolitano came up with the idea to create a portrait series featuring clever props and costumes made entirely out of paper.

Cindy Sherman began her classic Film Stills series in 1977; and since then has photographed herself in a variety of roles, including centerfold portraits, history portraits, society portraits and variety of clowns.

He already began working in series as a student, capturing everyday interiors, for example, or shooting over-life-size portraits «en face».

And so she began to paint a series of self - portraits using a mirror placed over her bed.

Warhol, indeed, has been Kass's Trojan horse of choice, as can be seen from her My Elvis series — now on view at Paul Kasmin Gallery along with three of the self - portraits — which she began in the early 1990s by replacing the Pop artist's iconic portraits of the swivel - hipped rocker with Yentl, Barbra Streisand's cross-dressing character from the 1983 film of the same name.

Scott eventually began a series of portraits of contemporary artists, several of which were commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain.

In 1984, Giacobetti began a series of celebrity portraits comprising over 200 subjects, including Federico Fellini, Stephen Hawking, Francoise Sagan, Philippe Starck, and Yehudi Menuhin.

Stemming from his love of music — he began his photographic career working for popular music magazines, has designed over 75 album covers, and created many music videos — Corbijn also produced a series of Cindy Sherman - style self - portraits wherein he posed as rock legends including Elvis and Jimi Hendrix.

Begun in the 2000s with dual portraits of female figures, she has in recent years created a series of symbiotic depictions of a female and male couple.

Indeed, she began the portrait series as a rejoinder to Vanity Fair's staid «Hollywood Issue,» which she found to be severely lacking in diversity.

The artist began his first series of portraits in the early 2000s during a residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Noting a disconnect in the subject - ground relationship, Katz began using cutouts to arrange figures on pieces of wood in 1959, a concept developed into a series of flat «sculptures» or freestanding portraits in real space.

He had finally graduated from the cultural capitals of the old world to the new megalopolis - and he promptly began a series of jazz portraits, including one of his hero Dizzy Gillespie, whose music was to enliven the film The Reality of Karel Appel, directed by Jan Vrijman in 1961.

Begun in the townships of South Africa in 2006, this ongoing series now includes more than 250 portraits from around the world.

During the early 1960s, following his first showing at the New York gallery of Leo Castelli (1907 - 99), he began to include more colour in his painting, together with numerous classical references (Leda and the Swan, the Birth of Venus) and scatological imagery, a process which peaked in the «Ferragosto paintings», as well as his series entitled «Nine Discourses on Commodus» (1963), a portrait of the power - crazy Roman emperor created under the influence of works by Francis Bacon (1909 - 93).

In the summer of 1942, Callahan traveled to New York to meet Alfred Stieglitz whose series of portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe inspired him to begin the decades - long series of portraits of his wife Eleanor.

Begins a series of portraits of well known artists such as Lucas Samaras, Alex Katz, Francesco Clemente, and Cindy Sherman.

He summered in Seal Harbor, Maine, (photographed left) with group of Philadelphia artists and musicians where he began series of charcoal portraits of these personalities.

In 2012, Budescu began a series of portraits in which he used a large format camera and glass plate negatives that are scanned and printed digitally.

She begins the talk about her 60 - year career titled «Anyone Can Fly» at (9:30) and discusses her self - portrait (17:56), American People Series (19:43), Black Light Series (36:25) and story quilt works (48:25), among many others.

Semmel began investigating the aging process in 1988 with her «Locker - Room» series, which observed various beautification rituals performed among an all - female domain, often featuring accurate portraits of middle - aged bodies.

Bacon's response to the art of the past which he admires deeply is for the paintings of Rembrandt, Velazquez and Goya (e.g. the series of screaming popes which he began in the mid-1950s based on Velazquez's portrait of Pope Innocent X, which are also related to the «still» of the screaming nurse in Eisenstein's film The Battleship Potemkin, and the detail of the woman screaming in Nicolas Poussin's The Massacre of the Holy Innocents).

Around this time he began painting a series of building sites and Julia Yardley Mills (JYM) began to model for portraits.

Beginning with a dramatic, portrait - like photograph of two hands forming the shape of a duck — which interestingly does not include the cast shadow silhouette — the artist, over a series of works, gradually empties out any perceived conceptual or symbolic content from the image to create a fluidic but flattened abstract space.

The artist began the 1980s with the publication of POPism: The Warhol»60s and with exhibitions of Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century and the Retrospectives and Reversal series.

He begins his series of «Pig Portraits».

After graduation, she began working for newspapers as a portrait photographer, producing a series on Liverpudlian poets.

Dumas began work on the Magdalena paintings after completing a series of portrait heads of Jesus, entitled Jesus Serene.