Sentences with phrase «androgynous portraits»

The progression between her repetitive childhood drawings of women to her more fantastical and androgynous portraits and self - aware video pieces, is immediately engrossing as the viewer plays voyeur.

Stettheimer painted androgynous portraits of the likes of fellow artists Marcel Duchamp, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Elie Nadelman, foregrounding revolutionary ideas about gender and introducing the concept of gender fluidity to her portraiture.

Each work is an anonymous and androgynous portrait; life size heads possibly sleeping, dreaming or restrained, each a contrast of pristine materiality and emotion.

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Elizabeth Peyton's portraits of androgynous punk rockers, celebrities, friends, and opera stars are usually credited with presaging renewed critical interest in a type of painting that used to be dismissed as shallow.

Around the age of ten, I discovered the Blaue Reiter group of painters, especially Alexej von Jawlensky and his 1909 Portrait of Alexander Sakharoff, a sexy, androgynous dancer.

Her portraits of historical figures like Napoleon, rock stars like David Bowie, and her own friends and lovers are linked through their depiction of celebrity and the artist's distinctive style of the idealized, feminized, androgynous male.

The difference between a Peyton portrait and a Nan Goldin candid portrait is perhaps most indicative of this divide: Peyton's work, though progressive in many ways for her emphasis on the androgynous and idealised, pales in comparison to the dichotomy of Goldin's photographs.

Just when you thought it was safe to walk into a gallery and pretend to be shocked or titillated, you turn the corner and see his ludicrous portrait of art world arbiter Clement Greenberg as «Clemunteena Gweenburg» (1971), an androgynous figure simultaneously pleasuring and sodomizing him / her self with paint brushes.