Sentences with phrase «famous nude painting»

For instance, as of 1972, he works on a series of prints inspired by famous nude paintings and prints by artists such as Willem de Kooning and Amedeo Modigliani.

Katherine Sherwood reimagines famous nude paintings by replacing the figures of white odalisques with disabled women of color.

Not exact matches

Orphaned at a young age and under the guardianship of a series of Warnick Dukes, the 23 - year - old falls prey to an unfortunate situation when she poses nude for the famous artist Derek Hawkins, who has promised that the painting is for his eyes only and that he intends to wed her.

I know that's true of any painting (the famous Maurice Denis quote immediately springs to mind: «It should be remembered that a picture — before being a warhorse, a nude, or an anecdote of some sort — is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order») but I have a heightened sense of it here.

The European installation culminates in a display of the paintings that provoked the most bewilderment and notoriety in 1913: Cubist works by Picabia and Gleizes, along with Duchamp's «Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2),» which prompted its famous description by one critic as «an explosion in a shingle factory.»

The show is divided into seven sections, including portraits of artists (Alice Neel's 1970 painting of Andy Warhol after he was shot in an assassination attempt, a collection favorite, for example), street life portraits, nudes, portraits of the famous, and so on.

A star of New York's art scene in the 1980s, the artist Eric Fischl earned the healthy reputation of being a «bad boy,» both the title of his most famous work — a painting of a young boy openly watching a nude woman picking at her toes while he surreptitiously slides his hand into her Freudian purse — and of his recent tell - all autobiography of the period.

Depicting his nude model reclining in a twisted pose, her head turned towards the viewer, this beautiful charcoal drawing (est: # 1.5 - 2.5 million) is a study for Matisse's famous painting «Nu rose», now in the Baltimore Museum of Art.

One of the artist's most famous paintings, Large Reclining Nude, displays the daring scale, simplified forms, and bold, flat planes of colour with which the artist treated the female form in the 1930s.

Alfred Lombard was a famous French artist widely known for his paintings where he often depicted nude women in brilliant arrangements of colors.

At the heart of the show are Gustave Courbet's female nudes beside water and his famous painting The Origin of the World (L'Origine du monde, 1866), a work that still provokes today.

New York City - based Will Cotton has become world famous for his candy - infused paintings featuring a utopian paradise of lollipops, gingerbread and melting ice cream with often nude female characters either lying in candyfloss clouds or wearing sugary confections as bespoke edible garments.

She's better known for her male nudes — often in poses from famous paintings of female nudes — but has remained slightly below the radar compared with, say, Alice Neel.

There are the aforementioned carbs (i.e. her famous bread bags, including my personal favorite, the «challah backpack»), paintings of friends like Paloma Elsesser, India Salvor Menuez, and Hari Nef (at the party, Nef proudly shouted that she wanted to «show off [her] nudes»), and a Chanel sex swing.

Many things on display in «14 Rooms» would make for excellent clandestine iPhone photo fodder: there's Damien Hirst's Holly, Gretel, in which two identical twins were reading the same Jodi Picault novel under a Hirst spot painting; Marina Abramovic's Luminosity, from 1997, featuring a nude woman suspended on the wall and washed in the glare of a spotlight; an early Bruce Nauman performance called Wall - Floor Positions; and, as an epilogue, Jordan Wolfson's [Female Figure], the now - famous robot that was on view at David Zwirner earlier this year.

The 18 works in Master Painters (2011) give personal re-readings of famous paintings, sometimes subtly, but generally with wit or irony: thus Canarian Gothic references Grant Wood's American Gothic; Flowers for a Martyr reworks Vincent van Gogh's iconic sunflowers; and Pedro (Naked at Stairs) harks back both to Gerhard Richter's Ema (Nude on a Staircase) of 1966 and beyond it to Marcel Duchamp's fragmented Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) of 1912.

The video Nude Descending a Staircase — a riff on one of Marcel Duchamp's most famous paintings — shows the nude artist walking down stairs in a futuristic environment while repeatedly taking selfNude Descending a Staircase — a riff on one of Marcel Duchamp's most famous paintings — shows the nude artist walking down stairs in a futuristic environment while repeatedly taking selfnude artist walking down stairs in a futuristic environment while repeatedly taking selfies.

Meantime Duchamp also managed to trigger an enormous scandal at the famous American exhibition of Modern Art, better known as The Armory Show, when his painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No 2 was attacked by an angry mob, ensuring that he became the best known of all the modern artists on show.

Amedeo Modigliani (1884 - 1920) Bohemian Paris - based Italian painter famous for his Expressionist female nudes and for some of the greatest portrait paintings of the twentieth century.

Now known as the «Mona - Lisa of Cologne», it was Richter's response to seeing a Marcel Duchamp exhibition in 1965 and his famous painting Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912.

Erich Heckel (1883 - 1970) Die Brucke artist, famous for his woodcuts, landscape paintings and nudes.

Taken from the «Famous Nudes» series done by artist Karine Percheron - Daniels, the painting was created by superimposing Obama's face onto the body of the Black enslaved woman shown in the 1800 «Portrait d'une négresse» by French artist Marie - Guillemine Benoist.