Sentences with phrase «classical portrait of»

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

To round out this contemporary portrait of the United Methodist Church, something needs to be said about conservative or classical Methodists.

The portraits of Jesus by some of the great classical artists are discussed.

Also at 11 a.m., former NYC Mayor David Dinkins rehearses his narrative role in a special performance of Lincoln Portrait at Carnegie Hall next week in collaboration with renowned pianist Jiaxin Tian and the Manhattan Symphonie, DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 W. 37th St., Manhattan.

He's also the co-founder of NeuWrite, a collaborative group for scientists and writers; the author of «Portraits of the Mind»; and the host of a radio show which focuses on opera, classical music, and their relationship to the brain.

Ne Change Rien (Unrated) Musical bio-pic painting an intimate portrait of Jeanne Balibar, following the French chanteuse from rehearsals to recording sessions, and from classes to concerts, as she exhibits an enviable versatility by performing everything from hard rock to classical opera.

«Jaffa to Stamboul» is a really lovely piece with a charming melody heard initially for solo duduk over soaring strings; «Arrival» turns the tables a bit, with choppy strings providing real urgency, rhythmic accompaniment from percussion seeing the pace growing; then «The Orient Express» offers a full - on romantic musical portrait of classical train travel, full of buzz and energy and beauty, with a wonderful theme introduced (barely heard again, sadly).

To that end, Rauschenberg crafted a veritable collage of classical artworks, including Bronzino's «Portrait of a Young Man» and Ingres» «Odalisque.»

Multilingual, well traveled, and sharp - witted, Cameron was curious about not only the scientific process of photography but also the artistic composition of portraits, using classical paintings as her model.

The hotel is a 5 - minute drive from the old village of Mougins, where you can stroll around narrow streets filled with restaurants and art galleries, or visit the Museum of Classical Art or the Photography Museum (with several portraits of Pablo Picasso, who lived and died in Mougins).

«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.

Among contemporary American photographers, Opie is exceptionally attuned to the histories of representation, and Portraits and Landscapes vigorously embodies the artist's conversation with classical European portraiture as well as the American Pictorialist idiom within landscape photography championed by Alfred Stieglitz in the early 1900s.

Throughout the 80s, Mapplethorpe produced a bevy of images that simultaneously challenge and adhere to classical aesthetic standards: stylized compositions of male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes, and studio portraits of artists and celebrities, to name a few of his preferred genres.

The artist's portraits of young children highlight the attention to detail, composition and color that characterize much of classical painting.

Included are portraits of personalities such as Vincent Minnelli, Jane Fonda, the Marx Brothers, Louis Brandeis, and Sitting Bull, important German and Swiss figures Mildred Scheel, Max Bill and Joseph Beuys, commemorative images, such as Truck and The New York Post and a reinterpretation of the classical painting «The Annunciation».

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.

For the exhibition Portrait Gallery in Genova, the artist will show a new series of works; the installation situates the paintings, with their brooding and centripetal masses, in dialogue with the rooms of the villa responding to its monumentality and mimicking the classical display of a picture gallery.

For his collages Montgomery is basically attracted to the classical portrait format with which he creates layered abstract images, which are reminiscent of faces or muzzles.

This trick, in which an image is only legible from a single perspective, can be seen in classical paintings, such as William Scrots» 1546 portrait of King Edward VI.

Meanwhile Curator Claire Liley picked out some of her favourites as: «Thomas J Price's startling triple portraits of men of African origin from Hales Gallery, a six - metre - high ubiquitous toy - human gure by KAWS from Galerie Perrotin and some superb classical modern works by Magdalena Abakanowicz from Marlborough Fine Art».

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.

This exhibition brings together some of Mapplethorpe's renowned portraits with a focus on musicians, artists and classical poses.

One of the most significant young artists today, Kehinde Wiley (American, b. 1977) is known for his vibrant, large - scale paintings of black urban men rendered in the self - confident, empowered poses typical of classical European portrait painting.

The exhibition contains work from all areas of Mapplethorpe's principal aesthetic interests including; still lifes, portraits, figure studies, flowers, body fragments and classical statues.

During the 80s, Mapplethorpe produced a series of photographs that simultaneously challenge and adhere to classical aesthetic standards: stylized compositions of male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes, and studio portraits of artists and celebrities.

Under the Skin features a selection of Emin's intimately - scaled monoprints and watercolors, including self - portraits that portray the figure in the classical reclining nude pose.

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.

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.

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

Sabin Bors: This brings me again to selfportrait.map — in what way does the creative process here relate to the «classical» idea and representations of the (self --RRB- portrait?

Visitors could curl up inside Jennifer Rubell's fibreglass sculpture Portrait of the Artist (2013; Stephen Friedman Gallery), modelled on the pregnant artist in a classical «odalisque» pose.

The temples are built in grand Hellenistic style — but the dress, the women's veils and the frontality of the portrait busts of the Palmyrenes and their families that lined their huge frescoed tombs reveal a striking mixture of classical and eastern influences.

Her figurative paintings use traditional art - historical genres (the still life, the formal portrait, depictions of classical statuary) to explore people and objects that no longer have the fixed representational or symbolic status that allowed those genres to operate.

Rauschenberg's use of juxtapositioning various things out of a context, creating a whole new environment and context, always appealed to me more so than making a painting about something; about a landscape, portrait, still life, or historical or classical event and so forth; biblical thing.

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

Several of Zefeldt's paintings incorporate «portraits» of classical sculpture heads repeated one by one on the canvas, aligning them in a circle as well as placing more of them within the circle where eyes, a nose and a mouth would be — ultimately forming a face.

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

Patrick Demarchelier is considered to be one of the most eminent classical photo artists, specialising in fashion, nude, and portrait.

She uses the visual language and inherited traditions of classical academic western painting, particularly the portrait and still life.

While Bertucci's subjects assume the statuesque poses of classical portraiture, her portraits celebrate alternative ideals of beauty.

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

The amusing busts are «Self Portraits» created by defacing or deconstructing classical sculptures with the foundation's signature face of smeared blue eyes, bloody - looking lips and a splash of yellow hair.

The show will examine his understanding of form and light in the composition of formal portraits, still lifes and figurative works that celebrate the sensual quality of nature and the human body.The works relate strongly to the museum's permanent collection of fine art that includes portraits from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Dutch old master still lifes and studies of the nude and human figure, a staple of western art dating back to the classical forms of Greek sculpture.

One of the most significant young artists today, Kehinde Wiley is known for vibrant, large - scale paintings of young urban men, rendered in the self - confident, empowered poses typical of classical European portrait painting.

His fictional portraits amalgamate a range of sources, from classical sculpture to observed individuals in London's British Caribbean communities.