Sentences with phrase «celebrated figures including»

He has painted and worked with iconic and celebrated figures including actors Kevin Spacey, Dennis Hopper and model - turned - actor Cara Delevingne, artists Damien Hirst and Grayson Perry, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, peace activist Malala Yousafzai and has produced official commissions of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall.

She later used her fortune to promote contemporary art and to collect works from celebrated figures including Braque, Dali, Miro, Matisse and Kandinsky.

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Recent events have included a dinner celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Maastricht rebellion, a cross-party conference on «How Britain Can Exit The EU», a speech by President Václav Klaus on «European Integration Without Illusions», an «international conference» to «advocate the dismantling of the Single Currency», and speeches from Labour figures on «Britain Beyond the EU».

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Freedom's Sisters is a multimedia exhibition that celebrates 20 African American women, including historic 19th - century figures and contemporary leaders, who helped shape the spirit and substance of the Civil rights Movement in America.

The SEMA Show is a mecca for automotive royalty of all kinds, including TV personalities, celebrated race car drivers, sports figures and iconic artisans.

TB killed many celebrated literary figures including George Orwell, Samuel Johnson, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Franz Kafka, Anton Chekhov, Robert Louis Stevenson, D. H. Lawrence, and John Keats

The company is celebrating one billion digital checkouts and accompanies this breath - taking milestone with a special infographic that also includes interesting facts and figures never seen before.

Ligon has chosen works by the major figures in Postwar American art including the celebrated Abstract Expressionists Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and Philip Guston.

Ironically (from an Owens perspective), the roster of figures Foster discusses — Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, Gretchen Bender and, working as a team, Jenny Holzer and Peter Nadin — includes two (Sherman and Prince) who are among the most celebrated artists of their generation, another who recently enjoyed a retrospective at the Whitney (Levine), and a fourth whose work has long been ubiquitous in museums and public spaces (Holzer).

A visual and aural experience, the exhibition feature's some of the artist's most celebrated and innovative creations, including Aviarium works that explore wave vectors of bird vocalizations; and examples from his sculptural Recital series paying homage to overlooked figures such as blues legend Bessie Smith and Arctic explorer Matthew Henson.

GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNDERGROUND CULTURE Queer creativity in the 20th century is celebrated in this exhibition that includes familiar figures like Andy Warhol, Mae West, Leonard Bernstein and Robert Mapplethorpe.

Bacon's Sleeping Figure, 1959, is included in La Peregrina, a personal and contemporary response to Rubens and His Legacy by celebrated artist and Royal Academician Jenny Saville.

Comprising over 50 lots, highlights include 20th Century Western paintings by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Keith Haring; important artworks by Asian artists Yoshitomo Nara, Yayoi Kusama, Zeng Fanzhi and Zao Wou - ki; and pieces by celebrated contemporary international figures Anish Kapoor, Adrian Ghenie and Michaël Borremans.

A lively and comprehensive overview of painting of the last 30 years, presenting work by such celebrated figures as Gerhard Richter and Neo Rauch, alongside emerging artists including Jumaldi Alfi and Ingrid Calame

Other artists represented include Amedeo Modigliani, well known for his elongated, wistful figures; Georgio de Chirico, the Metaphysical painter of dream - like empty townscapes; and Giorgio Morandi, celebrated for his subdued still lifes.

The intimate image dialogue between one celebrated photographer and another is an explicit theme of this exhibition with highlights including a portrait of Eugene Atget by Berenice Abbott, Lee Miller by Man Ray, Man Ray by David Bailey, Helmut Newton by Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber by Horst, Henri Cartier - Bresson by Arnold Newman, and Andy Warhol by Sir Cecil Beaton among other remarkable examples which capture significant 20th - century figures who are usually behind the camera.

The print collection offers an overview of a number of epical moments in contemporary American art, and includes compositions by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns; Pop artists Andy Warhol, Robert Rosenquist, and Roy Lichtenstein; minimalists Frank Stella, Sol LeWitt, and Chuck Close; neo-expressionists Julian Schnabel, Robert Longo, and David Salle; as well as graphics by celebrated figures like Louise Bourgeois, Vija Celmens, Pat Steir, and Richard Serra.

The Portland, Ore. - based company produces art books, calendars and gift products and for more than a dozen years has collaborated with the gallery on wall calendars showcasing works by 20th century African American artists including Cortor, whose stately and graceful images often celebrate the black female figure.

GOOD FIGURES is an exhibition that celebrates the enduring appeal of the female figure depicted by 30 Contemporary female artists, including Rosie Emerson's cyanotypes (right) and «Knickers» by Jane McAdam Freud (below), courtesy of TINT - ART.

The location for «The Freedom Principle», organized by Naomi Beckwith and Dieter Roelstraete, is unsurprising, given the Chicago museum's proximity to key figures and sites of this period, including Thmei Research and aacm, as well as The African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (known as Africobra), the Afro - Arts Theater, the Wonder Inn on South Cottage Grove Avenue, the Hyde Park Art Center, and the celebrated Jazz Record Mart in the River North neighbourhood.

This exhibition presents portraits of designer, muse, collector, and icon Diane von Furstenberg by some of the most celebrated artists of the past four decades, along with a retrospective of DVF fashion spanning the last forty years.Diane von Fustenberg: Journey of a Dress features works by artists including Francesco Clemente, Chuck Close, Helmut Newton, Julian Opie, and Andy Warhol, as well as new portraits of von Furstenberg by four leading figures in Chinese contemporary art: conceptual artist Zhang Huan, photographer Hai Bo, painter Li Songsong, and multimedia artist Yi Zhou.

The show features over 40 architects, ranging from renowned 20th century masters and internationally celebrated contemporary architects such as Tadao Ando, Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima (SANAA) and Kenzo Tange; to exciting figures little known outside of Japan including Osamu Ishiyama, Kazunari Sakamoto and Kazuo Shinohara and young rising stars such as Hideyuki Nakayama and Chie Konno.

Kimathi Donkor's solo exhibition Queens of the Undead at Rivington Place, including new works commissioned by Iniva, celebrates the lives of exemplary figures from African Diaspora history as well as those who have suffered at the hands of the authorities.

The show will examine his understanding of form and light in the composition of formal portraits, still lifes and figurative works that celebrate the sensual quality of nature and the human body.The works relate strongly to the museum's permanent collection of fine art that includes portraits from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Dutch old master still lifes and studies of the nude and human figure, a staple of western art dating back to the classical forms of Greek sculpture.

During the opening reception a book signing for the Academy's book, The Figure, which celebrates the impact the Academy has had on contemporary art, will take place with many of the contributing editors and artists participating including Jean - Pierre Roy, Peter Drake, Margaret McCann, and John Jacobsmeyer.

If, as Harry Gaugh first demonstrated, Nijinsky could reliably serve Kline as a surrogate in self - portraiture during the 1930s and 1940s, including in his breakthrough to abstraction, the historical and artistic figure of Charles Meryon could arguably fulfil a similar function in Meryon in 1960, albeit under different circumstances.41 Meryon was, like Nijinsky, celebrated as a virtuoso by his contemporaries and famously plagued by mental illness, dying in an asylum at Charenton in 1868 at only forty - seven years of age.

Kimathi Donkor's solo exhibition at Rivington Place, including new works commissioned by Iniva, celebrates the lives of exemplary figures from African Diaspora history as well as those who have suffered at the hands of the authorities.

Presented as a series of filmed conversations between Aitken and celebrated cultural figures from diverse media including visual art, architecture, film, new media and music, The Source leads us to new frontiers of contemporary culture.

It is an aesthetic that links many of the women artists who feature in this issue, including Barbara Hepworth (1903 — 1975), whose forthcoming Tate Britain exhibition celebrates not only her long life of radical experimentation (both in the creation of her artworks and also the way they were to be experienced by the viewer), but also how important an international figure she became, with exhibitions across the globe from a relatively young age.

Since the inception of the program more than 130 artists have participated, including celebrated figures such as Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol.

County Tyrone's most celebrated artists include: Oliver Sheppard (Irish Nationalist sculptor); Felim Egan, (Contemporary Abstract Artist); Roy Lyndsay, (Landscape and Figure Paintings); Clement McAleer, (Abstract Painter working in Acrylics); Denis Orme Shaw, (Contemporary Painter); Victor Sloan, (Lens - based Artist, Painter and Printmaker); Robert Ponsonby Staples, (Portrait, Genre and Landscape Painter).

«Painters and Poets» celebrates and tracks a number of crucial friendships from these interconnected circles of artists and poets, some of which were also love affairs, sometimes sexual sometimes not: Frank O'Hara and Larry Rivers, Frank O'Hara and Grace Hartigan, Joe Brainard and Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard and John Ashbery, John Ashbery and James Schuyler, James Schuyler and painter and writer Fairfield Porter, Rudy Burckhardt and Edwin Denby, Rudy Burckhardt and Red Grooms and Mimi Gross, with central figures also including painters such as Jane Freilicher, Rackstraw Downes, Neil Welliver, Yvonne Jacquette, and Alex Katz.