Patrick Demarchelier is considered to be one of the most eminent
classical photo artists, specialising in fashion, nude, and portrait.
Not exact matches
Known primarily for her
photo - and video - based work, Shirreff is part of a generation of young
artists whose reflections on photography have revitalized the medium, but who eschew thinking of themselves as photographers in the
classical sense.
PIERRE Banchereau — I like the
classical Flemish painters of the 17th century, such as Jan van Huysum, the flower
photos of Hans - Peter Feldmann, the opulent décor of the Villa Boscogrande in Luchino Visconti's The Leopard, or the work of the German visual
artist Gerhard Richter.
«She has taken on the aesthetic of
classical realism and made it her own, meticulously layering fabricated compositions of familial scenes with personal and political meaning, and animating her surfaces with the careful transfer of images of Nigerian pop stars and government figures alongside family
photos,» says Cheryl Brutvan, curator of the
artist's show at the Norton.
Other works on view include a suite of watercolors by Guo Hongwei, combining his renderings of American iconography with his father's calligraphy of Chinese
classical poems; Chen Wei's staged photographs in the traditions of Gregory Crewdson and Cindy Sherman; a thick - imexhibitionso floral - patterned diptych by Liang Yuanwei, exhibitionsly featured in the Chinese pavilion at the 54th Biennale di Venezia; Cheng Ran's romantically staged
photos of the Hollywood sign, commenting on the role cinema has played in shaping the image of America in the psyche of younger Chinese generations; the American premiere of Sun Xun's 21 Grams, a four - year long animation project reflecting on history, social struggles and dystopia; and Hu Xiangqian's Art Museum, a video presentation of the «collection» of Western artworks that have inspired the
artist's creative language but that he's never seen in person or fully understood.
Known primarily for her
photo - and video - based work, Shirreff is part of a generation of young
artists whose reflections on photography have revitalized the medium, but who refuse act as photographers in the
classical sense.