Sentences with phrase «doing society portraits»
Opening: «Andy Warhol: Late Paintings» at Skarstedt Gallery «I had energy and wanted to rush home and paint and stop doing society portraits,» Andy Warhol once wrote of his Skulls, Hammer and Sickle, Rorschach, Knives, Dollar Signs and Reversals series, which he created from 1974 through 1987, the year of his death.
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«And the idea that we didn't need that rich portrait of society down to the neighbourhood level for good decision - making, that didn't sit well with Canadians.»
«Without branding all generals and statesmen as murderers or thieves... a portrait of war makers and state makers as coercive and self - seeking entrepreneurs bears a far greater resemblance to the facts than do its chief alternatives: the idea of a social contract, the idea of an open market... the idea of a society whose shared norms and expectations call forth a certain kind of government.»
While many have praised the «Spotlight's» important championing of old - fashioned journalism, I found it most powerful as a damning portrait of how rape culture is allowed to thrive when good men do nothing to protect the most defenseless members of society.
More than just a portrait of contemporary black society, it's a story of cultural differences between parents and children of how individuals learn (or don't learn) from experience, and of how there should be no place for those who cause violence and strife.»
If you ask them, they will post... When Humane Society of Pikes Peak Region put out a call for their community to post family portraits with pets, boy, did they respond!
However, as Family Picture, a number of his self - portraits, and later works, such as the triptych Departure (1932 — 33) and Paris Society (1925, 1931) show, Beckmann's canvases don't just present the viewer with a feast of social malaise, they also attest to spatial dislocation, implying how the horrors of Europe's early - 20th century distort one's ability to see the world.
He considered French society the primary subject in his works, rather than the individuals, and famously said: «I don't do portraits.
One of the upstairs galleries is devoted to a brilliant hanging of Sherman's recent series of «society portraits,» featuring herself done up as fictional ladies of means, aging with varying degrees of grace.
To do this he revisited long - neglected artistic genres such as history painting in his disaster series, still life in his soup cans and Brillo boxes, and the society portrait in Ethel Scull Thirty - Six Times.
«So this is the second show [at David Zwirner London]-- and I've always been fascinated by Britain for several reasons, for example it is one of the last «class societies» — although I don't know how long it will still go on — but I once tackled that subject in a small show, the first white cube show that I did called «Spelndid Isolation», and one of the portraits in that show was also based on Henry Draper [American doctor, amateur astronomer, and pioneer of astrophotography]-- these three works in front of you [portraits: «William Robertson», 2014, «John Robison», 2014, and «John Playfair», 2014] are derived from the paintings in the professors room at University of Edinburgh.
2008 30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL Group Show, Andréhn - Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden Belle du Jour, Collette Blanchard Gallery, New York, NY 21: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY As Others See Us: The Contemporary Portrait, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT The Other Mainstream II: Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Whithorn, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI City Stage, New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA Black Is, Black Ain't, Renaissance Society, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Perverted by Theater, apexart, New York City, NY Performed Identity, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York City, NY
Ibrahim's work has been shown in exhibitions at Abu Dhabi Art (2017); Portrait of a Nation, Berlin (2017); Cuadro Gallery, Dubai (2013, 2015, 2016); UAE Pavilion, Venice Biennale (2009); Khorfakkan Art Centre (2009); UAE Pavilion, Expo Zaragoza, Spain (2008); Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany (2002); Dhaka Biennial, Bangladesh (1993, 2002); Havana Biennial, Cuba (2000); Cairo International Biennial (1998, 1999); UAE Contemporary Art, Institute du monde arabe, Paris (1998); Six Artists Exhibition, Sharjah Art Museum (1996); Emirates Art, Kunstcentrum Sittard, the Netherlands (1995); Five Artists Exhibition, Emirates Fine Arts Society, Sharjah (1994) and Exhibition for the Emirates Fine Art Society in the Soviet Union, Moscow (1990).