Sentences with phrase «ruff portraits»

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

The retrospective coincides with an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London Thomas Ruff Portraits on show until January 2018.

Thomas Ruff Portrait (Mrs. Rubell), 1988 Chromogenic print with Diasec and wooden frame 82 5/8 x 63 in.

Thomas Ruff Portrait 1983 C - print Courtesy the artist & the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden - Baden © the artist

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Artists run the gamut from the painfully subtle, like the stoic head portraits of German photographer Thomas Ruff, to the playful and polymorphously perverse, such as the drawings of L.A. ex-punker (and now Bucksbaum - winner) Raymond Pettibon, who culls from sources as wide - ranging as pulp fiction and Gumby.

Best known for his oversized, dead - pan portraits, his unmediated shots of commonplace interiors, and his seemingly straightforward photographs of architecture, Ruff has quietly approached many familiar genres, and proceeded to discreetly reinvent them.

Best known for his oversized, deadpan portraits, his unmediated shots of commonplace interiors, his colorful abstractions taken from the Internet of Japanese manga & anime, and his evocative nudes borrowed from pornographic websites, Ruff has quietly approached many familiar genres and proceeded to discreetly reinvent them.

This substantial Ruff overview accompanies a major retrospective survey at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, and contains all of his most renowned series, including portraits, disasters, sky and cityscapes, internet nudes, photograms, manga images, magnetically generated images and found press photographs.

Ruff's diverse output includes stark monumental portraits, his Häuser (austere architectural facades), Sterne (night skies), and a 2003 series of pixellated nudes.

This selection includes iconic series such as the beach portraits of Rineke Dijkstra and the Porträts series by Thomas Ruff.

Thomas Ruff's iconic 1980s portraits of his friends and colleagues draw on a long tradition in photography, yet they push that tradition to new levels.

To my mind, the plumed ruffs summon art historical precedents from Dürer's Wing of a Roller (1512) to Rembrandt's wide - eyed self - portrait etching with its prominent folded collar (1630) to E.H. Tuttle's 20th - century bird etchings.

Ruff turned monumental twenty - five years ago, with faces too cropped to count as portraits rather than presences.

The National Portrait Gallery, meanwhile, looks at the origins of art photography via the work of four celebrated figures of the Victorian era, and Tate Modern takes things further with Shape of Light, which entwines the histories of photography and abstract art from the early 20th century to now and positions work by the likes of Man Ray and Thomas Ruff against abstract paintings, sculptures and installations.

Portrait of a gentleman, bust - length, in a white ruff (c. 1580), Haarlem or Amsterdam School.

Ruff's enormous blown - up portrait heads are... big: they crush you with a billboard - size question of what it means to be human.

There are endless variations on the theme of the human face in contemporary art — prominent examples include Thomas Schütte's supra - personal sculpted figures, Cindy Sherman's role - playing photographic images, the portraits of Marlene Dumas, Candice Breitz and Tony Oursler, Bruce Nauman's experiments with his own body, Rosemarie Trockel's family portraits, Julian Opie's schematic facial representations and Thomas Ruff's passport - style photographs.

Throw away ideas of stuffy courtiers in ruffs and Kings on stallions, because Hodgkin redefined the art of the portrait.

In his early works, Ruff uses black - and - white photography to produce portraits of his friends and fellow students, who pose for him with emotionless faces.

The works Stoya (1986), Untitled Portrait (1987), and jpeg ny15 (2007) by Thomas Ruff were included in You Are Looking at Something That Never Occurred, a group exhibition exploring how artists have used the camera to blur boundaries between past and present, fact and fiction.

Ruff once memorably remarked that his Portraits print series «made collectors who normally buy paintings become interested in photography.»

Internationally acclaimed for his explorations of photography, Thomas Ruff is best known through his serial works, portraits and digital images.

Sharon Lockhart makes haunted photographs that exude the palpable tension of imminent catastrophe, drawing on precedents as diverse as German portrait photographers such as August Sander and Thomas Ruff, European Romantic landscape painting and slick advertising layouts from today's fashion and lifestyle magazines.

The ten portraits each depict single, black, male figures wearing the ruffs of feathers that have become a familiar motif in her work.

When questioned on the portraits Ruff remarked: «I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things.»

The iconoclastic photographs of Piotr Uklański sit alongside the work of Düsseldorf photography stalwarts Thomas Strüth and Thomas Ruff, whose sensibility finds a direct inheritor in the portraits of Rineke Dijkstra.

Struth uses the mural - scale prints that have become a trope in contemporary art, not least in Germany — he is a peer of Thomas Ruff and Andreas Gursky, having graduated from the same Kunstakademie Düsseldorf program taught by Bernd and Hilla Becher — and the size and deep color of his images are crucial to their effect: In the museum work in particular (Struth also makes streetscapes and portraits),

The ten portraits depict single black male figures wearing the ruff of feathers that has become a familiar motif in her work.

MUNICHTHOMAS RUFFHAUS DER KUNST · February 17May 20 · Curated by Thomas Weskl Having earned early attention with his monumentally scaled late -»80s portraits, Thomas Ruff has since spent his career...