Sentences with phrase «century portrait artists»

See also: 20th Century Portrait Artists.

In the 1970s there was renewed interest in her portrait art after a retrospective of her paintings at the Palais du Luxembourg, and critics began to rank her among the key early 20th century portrait artists as well as an important representative of modern art of the 1920s.

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It is no photograph of the epoch but a portrait on which the artist has worked meditatively and devotedly over the centuries.

Three such portraits of Roman - era Egyptians, found more than a century ago at a site called Tebtunis, were created by the same artist, said Walton, of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill..

What follows, for a leisurely but always engrossing two and a half hours, is an equally impressionistic portrait of a dyspeptic artist — Spall's grunts almost qualify as symphonic — whose pictorial obsession with the pitiless cruelty of nature seems at one with his own brutal indifference to 19th - century propriety.

An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of the 17th century Amsterdam.

Set in the Netherlands in early the 17th - century, during the period of the Tulip mania, an artist (Dane DeHaan) falls for a married young woman (Alicia Vikander) while he's commissioned to paint her portrait by her husband (Christoph Waltz).

The movie tells the story of an artist who falls for a young married woman (Alicia) while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam.

Tulip Fever (R for nudity and sexuality) Romance drama, set in 17th Century Amsterdam, chronicling an artist's (Dane DeHaan) passionate affair with a married woman (Alicia Vikander) whose portrait he's been commissioned to paint.

Sure, it's a great «on ramp» to reading and understanding Joyce — a not - too - taxing wend around middle class, turn - of - the - century Dublin — providing a necessary set - up for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man then Ulysses (read in that order if you can).

It's full of curiosities and various collections of modern and contemporary art and 50 photographic portraits of key artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Those in the running include Ghanaian - British multi-media artist Amartey Golding whose film Chainmail throws light over cultural behaviours towards race, gender and sexuality, while channelling the darkness of El Greco and Goya; Dutch fine art photographer Isabelle van Zeijl who blends the techniques and idioms of the Old Masters with present - day aesthetics to create striking self - portraits; British print - maker John Phillips whose eerie still lifes are created from over 1,000 separate photographs; and American painter Lucy Beecher Nelson who reinvents 15th century Italian marriage portraits.

Visual artists Lucas Ighile and Ayla El - Moussa, known together as 25th Century, stun with their portraits of women with faces of nature or skylines.

Two room - sized video installations - Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, by the artists Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon, and Volta by Stephen Dean - anchor the exhibition.

A range of texts about Riley's original and enduring practice grounds and contextualizes the images, including new scholarship by art historian Richard Shiff, texts on both the artist's wall paintings and newest body of work by Paul Moorhouse, Twentieth - Century Curator at the National Portrait Gallery in London, and a 1978 interview with Robert Kudielka, her longtime confidant and foremost critic.

Ranging in date from the late nineteenth century to the present, and representing some forty artists from Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859 — 1937) to Njideka Akunyili Crosby (b. 1983), the works present diverse and at times unexpected methods of figuration, from the traditional (the portrait bust) to the experimental, and show subjects who come from the realms of both the celebrated and the anonymous.

Barry X Ball (Detail) The artist, Lucas Michael, was life - cast for a portrait early in this century..., 2000 - 2006 Pakistani Onyx 49.5 x 5.5 x 6.625 inches Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, New York

She has also exhibited in the Self - Portrait and Portrait of an Artist from the 18th to the 21st Century show at the Museum of the Russian Academy of the Arts in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2009 and was included in the Smithsonian Outwin Boochever National Portrait Competition.

Exceptional examples include a late eighteenth - century portrait by the New England artist John Brewster, Jr.; a lush, highly detailed nineteenth - century still life by Severin Roesen, a German - born artist based in Williamsport in the 1860s; exquisite nineteenth - century landscapes by William Sonntag, John Kensett, and William Trost Richards; and an impressive range of twentieth - century paintings and sculptures by artists, including Marsden Hartley, Richard Diebenkorn, Red Grooms, and Marisol.

A range of texts about Riley's original and enduring practice grounds and contextualizes the images, including new scholarship by art historian Richard Shiff, texts on both the artist's wall paintings and newest body of work by Paul Moorhouse, 20th Century Curator at the National Portrait Gallery in London, and a 1978 interview with Robert Kudielka, her longtime confidant and foremost critic.

Barry X Ball The artist, Lucas Michael, was life - cast for a portrait early in this century..., 2000 - 2006 Pakistani Onyx 49.5 x 5.5 x 6.625 inches Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, New York

When the German dealer Susanne Vielmetter first moved out to L.A. around the turn of the century, one of the most interesting artists she encountered there was Kim Dingle, a figurative painter who specialized in portraits of «little girls doing unspeakable things,» the gallerist recalls.

We knew that the show couldn't be an exhaustive survey of self - portraiture but we started by thinking about the Van Dyck painting and what makes it so important: the fact that the artist caused such a seismic shift in the approach to portraiture in the 17th century that was to last for at least the next three centuries; that his portraits were a form of «self - advertisement» and show an acute awareness of his identity and public image as a successful artist; that it was his final self - portrait, made in the last year of his life at the age of 42 and that his various self - portraits (there are seven known in total) trace his life as an artist.

Exhibitions Highlight Seminal Artists of the 20th and 21st Centuries Including Robert Frank, Adi Nes, Shirin Neshat, Dorothea Lange, and Richard Misrach, as well as Work by Amateur Portrait Photographers

Notable acquisitions include the portraits Richard Worsam Meade by Vicente López y Portaña, King Charles II by Juan Carreño de Miranda and nineteenth - century landscapes by artists such as Joaquín Sorolla and Aureliano de Beruete.

Highlights include a 16th - Century portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, formerly on display in the Ministry of Justice; the modern masterpiece Lancashire Fair: Good Friday, Daisy Nook by Mancunian artist L.S. Lowry, recently shown at 10 Downing Street; and Derek Boshier's 1962 contribution to British Pop Art, I Wonder What My Heroes Think of the Space Race — previously installed at the British Embassy in Moscow.

This exhibition features photographic portraits of fine artists, writers, and performers taken throughout the 20th century.

2013 Ballet of Heads: The Figure in the Collection, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA Personal, Political, Mysterious, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY A New View: Contemporary Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO Artists» Self - Portraits from the Collection of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; The Baker Museum, Naples, FL 2014 A Chromatic Loss, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, January 9 - February 15, 2014 The Sara Roby Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Inaugural Group Show: Gallery Artists, March Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA Venus Drawn Out: 20th Century Drawings by Great Women Artists, The Armory Show Modern, New York, NY Vintage Violence, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY New Hells, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY Four Figures, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA Solitary Soul, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

art21 films Valeska Soares working on her «Doubleface» series, in which the artist reworks 19th - and 20th - century portraits of women.

An extremely rare portrait from the late 16th century by the renowned Italian Baroque artist Annibale Carracci (1560 - 1609), which belonged to King Philip V of Spain and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, has been discovered following extensive research by, Tomasso Brothers Fine Art gallery in London.

The image created by such biographical anecdotes, Boccioni's ruminating self - portraits, and the artistic and personal anxieties of his diaries and letters, which are peppered with suicidal thoughts, befit the trope of the troubled and short - lived avant - garde artist, which from Vincent Van Gogh and Amedeo Modigliani, through the Abstract Expressionists, became prevalent in 20th - century art historiography.

The exhibition is divided into several sectors: On the seventh floor, the section «Portrait of the Artist» brings together self - portraits with portraits of artists and other members of the creative community; Early Twentieth Century Celebrity and Spectacle; under the rubric of «Street Life» the exhibition presents artists who took to the pavement with their cameras, photographing subjects as they encountered them, sometimes surreptitiously; Portraits Without People; Body Bared (nude portraits); Self Conscious; Institutional Complex and Postwar Cportraits with portraits of artists and other members of the creative community; Early Twentieth Century Celebrity and Spectacle; under the rubric of «Street Life» the exhibition presents artists who took to the pavement with their cameras, photographing subjects as they encountered them, sometimes surreptitiously; Portraits Without People; Body Bared (nude portraits); Self Conscious; Institutional Complex and Postwar Cportraits of artists and other members of the creative community; Early Twentieth Century Celebrity and Spectacle; under the rubric of «Street Life» the exhibition presents artists who took to the pavement with their cameras, photographing subjects as they encountered them, sometimes surreptitiously; Portraits Without People; Body Bared (nude portraits); Self Conscious; Institutional Complex and Postwar CPortraits Without People; Body Bared (nude portraits); Self Conscious; Institutional Complex and Postwar Cportraits); Self Conscious; Institutional Complex and Postwar Celebrity.

Through their varied takes on the portrait, the artists in Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney's Collection demonstrate the vitality of this enduring genre, which serves as a compelling lens through which to view some of the most important social and artistic developments of the past century.

Tate acquires Joan Carlile portrait The Tate gallery has announced a round of new acquisitions in its annual report, including a landmark portrait by 17th - century British painter Joan Carlile that now represents the oldest work by a female artist in the museum's collection — one which was long assumed to be the work of a man.

Curated by Maria Lind, Philippe Parreno at CCS Bard explores the artist's work with moving images, focusing on two later pieces, June 8, 1968 (2009) and Zidane: A XXIst Century Portrait (2006), and an early work, Anywhere Out of the World (2000).

Pocket Utopia will officially reopen on April 29th with the exhibition, in collaboration with C. G. Boerner, Portraits of Artists: 18th Century French Engravings.

The exhibition Portrait of the Artist As... looks at the ways in which artists have portrayed themselves, their peers, and their predecessors over four centuries.

Beginning with works from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the exhibition will show that much British art from this period was made by artists from abroad, including Antwerp - born Anthony Van Dyck, the court painter whose famous portraits such as Charles I 1636 (The Chequers Trust) have come to shape our perceptions of the British aristocracy of this time.

Chaim Soutine is a contradictory figure in modern art: his heated, weirdly boneless portraits, woozy landscapes and visceral still lifes made him one of the 20th century's most popular artists.

A second - century Roman bust of a goddess, for example, will be paired with unusual portrait busts made of chocolate and soap by contemporary artist Janine Antoni in an effort to explore classical concepts of beauty.

This is a thread which runs throughout the art collections, from Jonathan Richardson's 18th century portrait Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Gwen John's Corner of the Artist's Room and Marc Quinn's Kiss.

The exhibition will feature new portraits of Diane von Furstenberg by four leading figures in Chinese contemporary artists — conceptual artist Zhang Huan, photographer Hai Bo, painter Li Songsong, and multimedia artist Yi Zhou — resulting in a dialogue that brings the narrative of Diane's ongoing collaborations with visual artists into the global age of the twenty - first century.

In the 18th century, a large trade in pastels sprang up in taverns, hack artists making small change from improvised portraits of the proprietors.

The artist will also present a special new portrait based specifically on paintings in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art's 19th - century European collection, where his work will speak to masterpieces by Claude Monet, Odilon Redon, Vincent van Gogh, and others.

«For the last two centuries,» said Katie Pfohl, NOMA's Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, «American artists have captured many different conceptions of the country and its people, from colonial American portraits that showcase the country's early diversity, to the broad range of materials and forms to be found in 20th century American art.

Around one hundred paintings from museums worldwide tell the great story of portrait and figurative painting from the fifteenth to the late twentieth century in four broad thematic sections that offer much more than a merely chronological approach to works by a host of outstanding artists: from Raphael, Botticelli, Mantegna, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Dürer, Cranach, Pontormo, Rubens, Caravaggio, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Velázquez, El Greco, Goya, Tiepolo up to the Impressionists, Manet, Van Gogh and great twentieth - century artists, such as Munch, Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Giacometti and Bacon.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American artists primarily painted landscapes and portraits in a realistic style.

A preview of artistic duo Walter & Zoniel's new series, The Untouched, reviving a nineteenth - century technique known as tintype, reflects this with life - size portraits of British icons displayed in the Stamp Staircase alongside a video of the artists» process.

Where previous monographs have focused on a single genre within the artist's vast output, this stunningly illustrated survey encompasses his entire oeuvre, now stretching across more than a half - century of activity, including photo - paintings, abstracts, landscapes and seascapes, portraits, glass and mirror works, sculptures, drawings and photographs.

Indeed, this year's fair will feature works as varied as Puzzle Portrait, a 1978 painting by Roy Lichtenstein that was purchased directly from the artist in 1983, and a white Carrara marble statue of Bacchus by 17th - century Italian sculptor Domenico Pieratti.