Not exact matches
Using black and white photographs, she shreds and then pieces together
portraits of famous
celebrities,
from Nina Simone to Al Capone, and creates kaleidoscopic patterns.
Known for paintings based on images he sources online,
from animals and flowers to
celebrity portraits (he was commissioned to paint the musician Lorde for the cover of her 2017 album Melodrama), Sam McKinniss is showing a new work based on an image of singer Lana Del Rey.
In conjunction with her solo exhibitions at MOCA Pacific Design Center, Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road, and at the Hammer Museum, Catherine Opie:
Portraits, photographer Catherine Opie joins MOCA Chief Curator Helen Molesworth and Hammer Chief Curator Connie Butler for a conversation about the concepts of portraiture, gender,
celebrity, and creativity at play in the artist's photographs of Elizabeth Taylor's Bel Air home and in her images of visual artists, fashion designers, and writers drawn
from her own circle of friends.
There's his famous hypercolor, hypercontrast prints of hibiscus flowers; his tabloid «Death and Disaster» series
from the early 1960s; square
celebrity portraits of Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, and Jean - Michel Basquiat; a 1986 self -
portrait of the aging artist in his «fright wig»; a grouping of massive Pop - ified Chairman Maos; and stacks of Brillo boxes.
He has had numerous solo shows at White Cube, including his most recent exhibition Most Wanted, a series of
portraits culled
from red carpet photographs of contemporary
celebrities like Lindsay Lohan, Justin Timberlake, and Miley Cyrus.
The Social Medium features work spanning
from the mid-twentieth century to the present, and includes multiple photographic genres such as social documentary, street, society /
celebrity, and
portrait photography.
Some of the most notable artworks include 1960s pop art paintings of consumer products, including Campbell's Soup Cans and Coke, and
celebrities portraits of stars like Elizabeth Taylor, Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, and Elvis Presley; 1970s series, such as Death and Disaster, Mao, and abstract Oxidations; and works
from the 1980s, including The Last Supper and collaborative paintings made with younger artists, such as Jean - Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.
This exhibition will provide a seamless journey through his landmark fashion and commercial photography
from the 90's, presenting classic images of
celebrities such as Lily Cole, Kurt Cobain and Vivienne Westwood, as well as more recent landscapes and family
portraits..
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.
The exhibition takes Van Dyck's self -
portrait as a starting point for examining the development of the genre across a series of themes,
from celebrity and collecting to history and mortality.
She managed to make 43 9 x 12 inch pictures of young white male
celebrities look at once like
portraits, and also on the verge of being indistinguishable
from each other.
On view are iconic works
from key moments of his career,
from his student days in the 1960s to the present, including his large - scale double
portraits of the
celebrity friends of his youth; the collaged Polaroids through which he examined new possibilities within Cubism as well as the artistic use of photography; his later forays into painting the landscape on location in his native Yorkshire; and finally, his experimental works using iPad apps.
His iconic images range
from portraits of artists and
celebrities, posed male and female nudes, to flower still lifes.
For the past ten years, Dawn Mellor has been painting
portraits of
celebrities; consciously misrepresenting, sexualising and violating imagery culled
from photographic
portraits, gossip magazines, film stills and the internet.
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.
Camera Work, Berlin, displays 50 of the artist's iconic
portraits of
celebrities from the 1980s, simultaneously reviving the ideal of Hollywood glamour and looking forward into the future.
Rachel Hecker's terrific airbrushed Jesus
portraits, on the other hand, derive
from both the readymade form of his iconic image with found images of
celebrities such as Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen.
Warhol, an iconic American artist whose reputation has only increased in the quarter - century since his death, is best known for appropriations of images
from popular culture — advertisements, mass - media photographs and
celebrity portraits — that challenged the conventional definitions and subjects of art.
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.
On view is a survey of Pagliuso's most important black and white photographs spanning
from 1968 to 2017, including
celebrity portraits, Poultry & Raptor Suite and landscapes.
Jean Pagliuso (b. 1941 Glendale, CA) is an acclaimed artist who has photographed fashion, film and
celebrity portraits since the 1970s, after she received a Fine Arts degree
from UCLA in 1963.
13 Most Beautiful Avatars (part of their larger
Portraits project
from 2006 - 7) is a photographic series of «
celebrity» avatars exhibited in a contemporary art gallery in Second Life.
«A fascinating group of interviews with major women artists
from around the world, Hugo Huerta Marin's thoughtful
Portrait of an Artist explores in an intimate and compelling way each artist's practice and beliefs about power,
celebrity, gender, and art.
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-...]
These 140 photographs capture the depth of his work,
from fashion photos that appeared in Vogue, to images of the American South in the 1940s,
celebrity portraits, still lifes and private studio images.
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).
Hendricks is best known for his life - size
portraits of people of color
from the urban Northeast; he elevates the common and overlooked person to
celebrity status with bold portrayals of his subjects» attitude and style.
In this exhibition, his first in New York City since 2010, Machen has selected a number of works
from his bi-coastal
Portraits Project (Los Angeles and New York), in which the artist posts two - tone photographs of artists,
celebrities, political figures and other notable personalities on walls throughout the city streets.