Carefully staged
celebrity portraits by Jonathan Yeo and Michael Peto are on display at the National Portrait Gallery
Not exact matches
Being greeted
by a giant, shaggy - maned Kate Moss is always a good way to start an exhibition — or enter any room, for that matter — and when this glossy black - and - white wonder is just a drop in David Bailey's star - studded ocean of
celebrity portraits, you know it's the place to be.
Modern culture is reflected in his humorous
portraits, landscapes and interiors
by means of familiar political and
celebrity figures, chain restaurants and box stores, and well - known brands.
Both artists enjoyed
celebrity status in an audience beyond the art world, and both manipulated their personas as evidenced, in the exhibition,
by each of their self -
portraits in drag.
By the time I became aware of her work she had become a minor
celebrity — a relic of the depression era who had ignored Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Minimal and Conceptual art and was still painting traditional
portraits of her family and friends, as well as art historians, critics, curators and artists.
Meet
celebrities and other fabulous people in this diverse selection of
portraits taken
by Warhol in the 1970s and 1980s with his favorite camera, the Polaroid Big Shot.
Get the
celebrity treatment in the VIP lounge with food, casino games, and
portraits by caricature artist Jeffrey Harris.
Some of his
celebrity portraits were first «under - painted»
by tracing simple outlines of the photographic image onto the canvas and painted in blocks of color.
Painters like Karen Kilimnik made work stemming from the influence of popular culture, creating cursory
celebrity portraits, while Elizabeth Peyton took the practice a step further
by painting
portraits of celebs, musicians, and European monarchs alongside her significant others and members of her social circle, entrenching mass culture's idolization of
celebrity in the realm of fine art while at the same time elevating her friends to
celebrity status.
For its latest Art Issue, Visionaire, the iconic art and fashion publication that knows how to surprise us with its thematic issues, decided to offer a different perspective on the continuous rise of selfie culture, asking legendary conceptual artist John Baldessari to create a series of artworks inspired
by digital
celebrity self -
portraits.
In an effort to capture
celebrities through their audiences, South African artist Candice Breitz, who is represented
by White Cube in London and Sonnabend in New York, made video
portraits of Bob Marley (Legend), Madonna (Queen), and Michael Jackson (King)-- all 2005 — and of John Lennon (Working Class Hero) in 2006.
Scott» s 1969 film
portrait of Richard Hamilton continued this collaborative formula, with Hamilton musing about cinema, art, and
celebrity while images of his works, their original source materials, and related elements from pop culture flash
by in rapid succession.
Co-organized
by London's National
Portrait Gallery, this exhibition dives into Hockney's output, through 162
portraits spanning fifty years that show Hockney's relatives, lovers, and
celebrity friends in their
The works, which include
portraits of
celebrities such as Edward Kennedy, Tara Tyson, Mary Martin and Truman Capote as well as intimate photographs of Andy Warhol's friends, will be complemented
by other photographs and works in the GW Permanent Collection.
There are numerous
portraits that interpose
celebrities and fine art, such Robert Wilson's video
portrait of Lady Gaga as a stand - in for Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière from a 19th - century
portrait of the same name
by Jean - Auguste - Dominique Ingres.
Widely respected for her
portraits and her work as a prolific art writer, de Kooning also navigated abstract expressionism while embroiled and overshadowed
by her husband William de Kooning's
celebrity.
Richard Prince has again been raiding the Instagram accounts of the largely female rich and famous with a series of «New
Portraits,» from
celebrities, models, and other individuals of visual note with a current show of works
by the artist at one of Gagosian Gallery's Madison Avenue spaces — and Prince's presence in the gallery's -LSB-...]
With the usual
celebrity suspects — Chloe Sevigny, John Waters, Kim Gordon, and Thurston Moore — on hand, the game was in the meta - moment: Clarissa Dalrymple attended her
portrait by Billy Sullivan; graffiti - chic entrepreneur Aron, who is thinly disguised as the baseball bat - wielding «Arod» in the novel Reena Spaulings, hung out with Biennial - featured Bernadette Corporation members, and Jeff Koons appeared doubled in Adam McEwen's fake obituary of the neo-Pop star.
The variety of subjects dealt with offers a wide perspective on Diane Arbus» talent, ranging from anonymous subjects to
celebrity portraits of Norman Mailer, Jorge Luis Borges, Mia Farrow, Marcello Mastroianni, Madame Martin Luther King, children's fashion, to several photographic essays in which the images are credited or commented
by the photographer herself («The Vertical Journey,» «The Full Circle,» «Auguries of Innocence.»
From 1908 - 12 Kokoschka began a series of expressionist paintings, namely his «psychological
portraits» of Viennese
celebrities, seen as the first works to reveal modern existential anxieties: a genre exemplified
by his
portrait of the prominent architect Adolf Loos (1909, State Museum, Berlin).
The
celebrity portraits created
by artist and rapper Yung Jake using emoji went viral a couple of months ago.