Sentences with phrase «classical portrait»

In an amusing twist, another art / sex mixing was on view, on the form of Jeff Koons's kitschy marble Bourgeois Bust - Jeff and Ilona (1991), the faux - classical portrait of the artist embracing his ex-porn star wife.

Called «Lick and Lather» it featured 14 classical portrait busts of the artist — the kind of sculptures usually carved out of Grecian marble — cast in chocolate and soap.

Drawing inspiration from classical portrait painting of the 17th - century Dutch Golden Age to explore the relationship between her subjects and their environment, Dumas often presents her subjects as heroic, engaged in a struggle of sorts against their marginalization or confinement, and against the spatial and psychological encroachment of people.

Hartung's dark room installation includes two elements — a lighted fish tank sitting on top of a metal cabinet with a paper image of two classical portrait paintings, and a fifteen - minute video projection titled The Ascent of Man.

«I want the audience to think of classical portraits initially, then notice my distortions and make their own interpretations,» explains Eymann, who mainly works in oil and watercolour, on paper and canvas.

Opie has posed Streb against a black drop cloth and uses theatrical lighting to create a formally classical portrait that recalls seventeenth - century painting with allegorical dimensions.

Katy Grannan's Deanna, Allentown, PA channels classical portrait compositions from art history, while Mickalene Thomas» female subjects assertively challenge the viewer with their sexuality.

The artist initially approached young men on the streets of Harlem and convinced them to pose for him in his studio and recreate classical portraits.

His references to the heads of long - dead monarchs, feudal rulers, Wall Street bankers and other «VIPs» of the western world are closer to cartoon characters and coloring book silhouettes than to classical portrait painting.

Unlike the classical portrait of what writers are expected to become — a mysterious legend that lives in isolation and writes one masterpiece a year — author 2.0 needs to mobilize their social media effort to remain visible and accessible for public.

While other takes on advertising verge on the conventional, such as Timur Si Qun's monument to peace with the phases of the moon as its logo, Amanda Ross - Ho returns to a classical portrait bust, based on an early photography manual, with a vengeance.

Basciano said it was «as close to a classical portrait that I can ever imagine to see in the Turner prize».

Komarov tries to apply the same quality of the classical portraits to heroes of our society.

Here, using black models, Wiley reimagined these classical portraits for a modern age to powerfully confront entrenched conceptions of race, identity politics and status.

By reinventing the iconography of classical portraits from the 1400s, the Swiss - Italian artist unites past and present.

At the same time, these works can be placed in an ancient sculptural tradition because of the similarities with the classical portrait bust.

Depicting her characters in poses reminiscent of classical portraits, the artist raises timeless questions of identity and representation.

Opie shot to fame in the 1990s with her classical portraits of lesbian, gay and transgender figures, as well as her beautiful landscapes.

Other interesting artists included Matthew William Peters (1741 - 1814), the Corkman Robert Fagan (1767 - 1816) who painted many of his classical portraits in Italy, and the Dublin artist Robert Home (1767 - 1834).

There is even a classical portrait executed in a manner reminiscent of old frescos.

From the classical portraits of Irving Penn, Richard Avedon and Timothy Greenfield Sanders, to symbolic portraits by Patti Smith and John Coplans, and those that tell stories by Adrian Peper and Carrie Mae Weems, Aspects of Portraiture: Photographs from the Wadsworth Atheneum examines social history, identity and race, and nostalgia for the traditional portraits that once defined photography.

The work takes a classical portrait of the Sheikh but positions it on hinges and at an angle that reveals a safe embedded in the wall behind it.

Gone are the outstanding features of a classical portrait that leave an impression of its subject; we're left with more of an anonymous depiction, which makes the act of existing into a statement but leaves little impression of its subjects and has one feeling distanced from the stiff men with their well - coiffed hair and matching signature suits.

Produced exclusively for Fire Island Artist Residency, this edition of photographs is part of Mickalene Thomas» ongoing subversion of the classical portrait genre of the female nude.

A classical portrait of a lady hangs above a sideboard holding Loreen's grandmother's china, among other things.