Sentences with phrase «classical portraiture»

Each artistic movement has had its rebels (more often than not, rebelling against the previous movement), but this painting suggests that beneath the elaborate painted surface of classical portraiture beats a heart of pure punk.

He has already achieved international recognition for his highly naturalistic paintings of contemporary urban men adopting heroic poses directly referencing classical portraiture.

Taking influence from classical portraiture, Egyptian hieroglyphs and Japanese woodblock prints, as well as public signage, information boards, and traffic signs, the artist connects the clean visual language of modern life, with the fundamentals of art history.

Unique takes on classical portraiture created from reclaimed detritus (like pieces of chairs, linoleum, doorknobs, and wallpaper), Shrobe's works often include only fragments of the faces of his «sitters,» their collaged torsos surrounded at least partially by old frame fragments.

This contemporary take on classical portraiture draws inspiration from Matisse, Romare Bearden, and contemporary Pop references, all of which have been constant influences in Mickalene Thomas's work.

The Award - Winning portrait artist has developed a distinctive technique which draws influences from a multitude of sources, and her appreciation of a refined technique invokes classical portraiture but with a resolutely modern viewpoint.

Over the course of a decade, the prevailing Neo Classical portraiture aesthetic initiated by Picasso in the 20's, was then rendered obsolete by the same artist's distortion of the human figure which reached its apotheosis with «Guernica».

Barney's photographs — framed in plastic and often arranged in diptychs and triptychs that distill moments from the plot — often emulate classical portraiture.

Throughout much of her career, Thomas has drawn from art history with particular interest in classical portraiture, constructed interiors, and iconic representations of the female form.

LAKIN OGUNBANWO was sensually converging classical portraiture with fashion, making his photographic work enigmatic, bold and vibrant.

What's most surprising about the recent return of classical portraiture is realizing how utterly absent it was from the art world for so many years, to such an extent that Andy Warhol — one of the people ostensibly responsible for killing the form — helped found the New York Academy of Art in 1982 in order to salvage the kind of technical fine arts training (most notably figure drawing) that seemed at the time in danger of becoming extinct.

Born in 1977, Wiley has already achieved international recognition for his highly naturalistic paintings of contemporary urban men adopting heroic poses directly referencing classical portraiture.

Drawing influence from classical portraiture, Egyptian hieroglyphs and Japanese woodblock prints, as well as public signage, information boards and traffic signs, the artist connects the clean visual language of modern life, with the fundamentals of art history.

For BOS it's sharing its diverse world of wild animal collage, leather fetish painting, classical portraiture, grotesque caricature, and immersive sound installation.

Kehinde Wiley is known for his naturalistic paintings of contemporary urban men adopting heroic poses that directly reference classical portraiture.

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

Working at the confluence of fashion photography and classical portraiture, Lakin Ogunbanwo's portraits are enigmatically vibrant and bold in composition, while play with a subterranean erotic and transgressive tone.

Untitled (Self - Portrait) Supermodel, like his whole body of work, takes on classical portraiture but reverses history.

Drawing from influences as diverse as billboard signs, classical portraiture and sculpture, to Japanese Manga comics and Hergé's Adventures of Tintin, Opie «paints» using a variety of media and technologies which enable him to make three - dimensional explorations of his subjects.

Kehinde Wiley revamps the tradition of classical portraiture, retroactively injecting black subjects into the art historical tradition, while Mickalene Thomas addresses understandings of womanhood, identity and desire with her bedazzled interior portraits.

His minimalist portraits, which blend the aesthetics of fashion photography and classical portraiture, have been compared to the studio photography of the iconic Malian photographer Malick Sidibé; and indeed, like that great chronicler of 1960s Bamako popular culture, Ogunbanwo trains his eye on his society.

This process of slowing down the act of looking and deconstruction of the frame is what originally brought him to drawing and painting as a teenager, and is apparent in his photographs which in turn reference classical portraiture.

Between Planes is a modern interpretation of classical portraiture.

Working at the confluence of fashion photography and classical portraiture, Nigerian photographer Lakin Ogunbanwo creates enigmatic portraits with an erotic and subversive undertone.

The images are subtle yet confrontational; this aspect of the artist's image making enables him to navigate two complementary axes - as a form of documentation and as a reference to classical portraiture.