Sentences with phrase «famous portrait art»

Not exact matches

Google's Arts & Culture app went viral this week, hitting the top of the download charts, thanks to a feature that matches selfies of users to famous portraits.

Often featured in the news are the new paintings of past Prime Ministers, for example the famous first official portrait of Tony Blair by Phil Hale, added to the Parliamentary Arts collection in 2008.

When Marc Walton, the senior scientist at Northwestern University and the Art Institute of Chicago's Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts in Illinois, set out to identify the hand behind a set of three portraits found with mummies from Egypt's Roman period, he didn't have a famous name in mind.

The thing with aesthetics is to study art, portrait photography, composition in famous paintings, fashion magazines, color harmony and contrast, light, etc, until it fits together in your mind's eye.

During an art exhibit at the Konami Style store in Tokyo, Shinkawa shows off his artsy chops and paints a portrait of Solid Snake in that famous MGS «blobby style,» with nothing but two strips of tape, a small tub of paint, and some weird white marker thing.

As an artist, I started thinking what that meant for art making, portraits — what is the face of a corporation, what would a corporate patron commission as a portrait, and that thinking manifested into portraits that replaced famous master works of art with corporate logos.

2010 Size Does Matter, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA Passion Fruits, Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany The Global Africa Project Exhibition, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA Personal Identities: Contemporary Portraits, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Sonoma, USA Pattern ID, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, USA Wild Thing, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, USA Summer Surprises, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA Individual to Icon: Portraits of the Famous and Almost Famous from Folk Art to Facebook, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, USA The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, England Searching for the Heart of Black Identity: Art and the Contemporary African American Experience, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, USA The Gleaners: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Sarah and Jim Taylor, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, Denver, USA From Then to Now: Masterworks Contemporary African American Art, Curated by Margo Ann Crutchfield, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA

San Antonio Museum of Art Thirty - one photographic portraits of famous Latino Americans by Timothy Greenfield - Sanders

Grant Wood's American Gothic — the double portrait of a pitchfork - wielding farmer and a woman commonly presumed to be his wife — is perhaps the most recognizable painting in 20th century American art, an indelible icon of Americana, and certainly Wood's most famous artwork.

Portrait of Hugh Gaitskell as a Famous Monster of Filmland (1964), Richard Hamilton Arts Council Collection, South Bank Centre, London © The estate of Richard Hamilton

Further highlights include Polly Apfelbaum's strips of textile that are combined to form a colorfully woven painting; Rashid Johnson's tropical enclave containing various unexpected elements from sculptures made with shea butter to video portraits; Katherine Bernhardt's monumental painting with tropical birds, cuddly robots and cigarette stubs, which at once editorializes and summarizes modern culture and the artist herself; an interactive multimedia installation by Nedko Solakov comprising nine sofas in the shapes of the nine Chinese characters constituting the phrase «I miss Socialism, maybe»; and Yu Hong's large - scale painting depicting a famous Chinese fable widely cited in both modern Chinese art history and Chinese Communist narratives.

In interviews with artists and art historians, she investigates the famous museum scene in which we see the character of Madeleine (with her iconic French twist) from the back as she looks at the portrait of her grandmother Carlotta.

Modern British art is represented by the work of Augustus John, Sir Stanley Spencer, Walter Richard Sickert and Graham Sutherland, including Sutherland's preparatory sketches for his famous portrait of Winston Churchill.

Grant Wood's American Gothic — the double portrait of a pitchfork - wielding farmer and a woman commonly presumed to be his wife — is perhaps the most recognizable painting in 20th century American art, an indelible icon of Americana, and certainly Wood's most famous art work.

Beginning with works from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the exhibition will show that much British art from this period was made by artists from abroad, including Antwerp - born Anthony Van Dyck, the court painter whose famous portraits such as Charles I 1636 (The Chequers Trust) have come to shape our perceptions of the British aristocracy of this time.

The maxim Form follows material, however, was not only proclaimed in the era's avant - garde art: it had a distinct impact on furniture design as well — for example, on Gunnar A. Andersen's experimental polyurethane Portrait of My Mother's Chesterfield Chair of 1964 and Zanotta's famous Sacco beanbag chair of 1968.

Bochner's famous portrait of Eva Hesse from 1966, a circle of synonyms for the word «wrap,» alluding to the rounded forms of Hesse's art, is on view for the first time in its original frame — a delicate tape and glass construction made by Hesse herself.

«This book is a social history of Pop art, a group portrait of both the artists and the people who made some of them rich and famous in just a few years, while setting in motion the drastically altered way art has been marketed and appreciated — in the monetary and aesthetic sense — up to the present day.»

From Warhol's iconic image of America's most famous rock - and - roll singer Double Elvis to Picasso's revealing wartime self - portrait Le Marin, the works offered in Christie's Post-war and Contemporary art auctions are by some of the greatest icons in recent art history.

As famous for his quips as for his art — he variously mused that «art is what you can get away with» and «everyone will be famous for 15 minutes» — Warhol drew widely from popular culture and everyday subject matter, creating works like his 32 Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe, using the medium of silk - screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color.

I feel that the time is ripe to mount an installation or cubby hole featuring small intimate portraits in my iconic make - up style of famous female courtesans and concubines from the Belle Epoch to Hollywood's Golden Era plus tiny sculptural art objects similar to my votive bread effigies of well endowed male hustlers, rent boys which of course will include some well known names of mainstream he - man box office stars and of the legendary art rock band The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, «We all monkey down the street.»

Inspired by impressionist art and famous portraits, Jane loves to recreate some of the most famous paintings by using lots of small objects to make up a picture.

Recreating not just famous artworks, but also the portraits of those experiencing them has led me to a deeper questioning of art history's evolution; how will the canon of essential art be considered once it becomes merely another set of digital blips in the social media feed, one that is ever - faster flying by?»

With her 1970 show, «Portraits of Eight New York Women,» she tried to portray women who were — or should have been — famous within art - world circles.

The Nude Man in Art from 1800 to the Present Day Musèe d'Orsay, Paris, France «Eye to I... 3,000 years of Portraits» Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY 30 Americans, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Through the Eyes of Texas: Masterworks from Alumni Collections, The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX 2012 Looped, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection, RedLine Gallery, Denver, CO The Soul of a City: Memphis Collects African American Art, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN 30 Americans, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA All I Want is a Picture of You, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA BAILA con Duende: Group Art Exhibition, Watts Towers Arts Center and Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Collection, The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ 2011 Parallel Perceptions, NYC Opera, New York, NY Who, What, Wear: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY Capital Portraits: Treasures from Washington Private Collections, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (LACMA) Los Angeles, CA Beyond Bling: Voices of Hip - Hop in Art, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL 30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. For a Long Time, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA RE-Envisioning the Baroque, I.D.E.A. at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CA 2010 Size Does Matter, FLAG Art Foundation, New York NY Passion Fruits, Collectors Room, Berlin The Global Africa Project Exhibition, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY Personal Identities: Contemporary Portraits, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Sonoma, CA Patter ID, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH Wild Thing, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA Summer Surprises, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Individual to Icon: Portraits of the Famous and Almost Famous from Folk Art to Facebook, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, England Searching for the Heart of Black Identity: Art and the Contemporary African American Experience, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY The Gleaners: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Sarah and Jim Taylor, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, Denver, CO From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art, Cleveland Art Museum, Cleveland, OH 2009 Enchantment, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford, CT Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820 - 2009, National Academy Museum, New York Creating Identity: Portraits Today, 21C Museum, Louisville, KY Other People: Portraits from Grunwald and Hammer Collections, Curated by Cindy Burlingham and Gary Garrels, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2008 30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL Recognize: Hip Hop amd Contemporary Portraiture, Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Macrocosm, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA 21: Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Selected Drawings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Cleveland, OH Down, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Detroit, MI

This has been the primary focus of her so - called «Art History» paintings, in which she detournes famous images by artists like Andy Warhol and Frank Stella to incorporate her own viewpoint, such as in her series of paintings sneaking her own face into the Pop artist's self - portraits.

Newman was, very famously, a portrait photographer, and his subjects — mostly famous people in the arts — gaze down, up, sideways and straight at you from the walls of the gallery.

Harry Bertoia's «Sonambient» sculptures got their own recordings — 11 of them between 1970 and 1978 — enclosed within portraits of the famous, plantlike art forms in strong black - and - white photographs printed on the covers.

The ghoulish mash - up of Portrait Of Hugh Gaitskell As A Famous Monster Of Filmland heralded a new chapter for 1960s art

Three of Japan's most influential photographers are on view at Norwich's Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (until 19 March): Kikuji Kawada, revered for lyrical black - and - white images of natural phenomena; Eikoh Hosoe, who came to prominence with avant - garde portraits; and Nobuyoshi Araki, perhaps the most famous of the three in this country, who has gained acclaim and notoriety for his erotically charged images.

Similar to the current awakening of digital technology in art and advertising, Steichen made photography famous with his portraits of the likes of Winston Churchill, Eugene O'Neill, and Charlie Chaplin; fashion and commercial spreads; dynamic still lifes (see: An Apple, A Boulder, A Mountain, France); and horticultural close - ups.

Lucian Freud (b. 1922) Famous for his outstanding portrait art; Berlin - born grandson of Sigmund Freud.

The Colby Art Museum has enough clout to mount a Whistler Exhibit (though most identified with France and England, Whistler was actually born and raised in New England), which includes a precursor to the famous portrait of his Mom that hangs in the Louvre.

• James Earle Fraser (1876 - 1953) Minnesota - born sculptor, took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago, also studied in Paris with American sculptor Augustus Saint - Gaudens; became famous for portraits of American historical figures.

Other famous works of art by Andy Warhol, aside from those already mentioned, include: Campbells Soup Can (1962, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York); Triple Elvis (1962, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts); Liz No 2 (1962, private collection); Marilyn Diptych (1962, Tate Modern, London); Green Disaster Ten Times (1963, Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt); Four Mona Lisas (1963, Museum of Modern Art, New York); Green Disaster (1963, Darmstadt Landesmuseum); Suicide (1963, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York); Brillo (1964, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York); Electric Chair (1964, Tate Modern, London); Jacqueline Kennedy No. 3 (1965, Hayward Gallery, London); Self - Portrait (1967, Tate Modern, London); and Mao (1973, Art Institute of Chicagart by Andy Warhol, aside from those already mentioned, include: Campbells Soup Can (1962, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York); Triple Elvis (1962, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts); Liz No 2 (1962, private collection); Marilyn Diptych (1962, Tate Modern, London); Green Disaster Ten Times (1963, Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt); Four Mona Lisas (1963, Museum of Modern Art, New York); Green Disaster (1963, Darmstadt Landesmuseum); Suicide (1963, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York); Brillo (1964, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York); Electric Chair (1964, Tate Modern, London); Jacqueline Kennedy No. 3 (1965, Hayward Gallery, London); Self - Portrait (1967, Tate Modern, London); and Mao (1973, Art Institute of ChicagArt Frankfurt); Four Mona Lisas (1963, Museum of Modern Art, New York); Green Disaster (1963, Darmstadt Landesmuseum); Suicide (1963, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York); Brillo (1964, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York); Electric Chair (1964, Tate Modern, London); Jacqueline Kennedy No. 3 (1965, Hayward Gallery, London); Self - Portrait (1967, Tate Modern, London); and Mao (1973, Art Institute of ChicagArt, New York); Green Disaster (1963, Darmstadt Landesmuseum); Suicide (1963, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York); Brillo (1964, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York); Electric Chair (1964, Tate Modern, London); Jacqueline Kennedy No. 3 (1965, Hayward Gallery, London); Self - Portrait (1967, Tate Modern, London); and Mao (1973, Art Institute of ChicagArt Institute of Chicago).

• Alfred Stieglitz (1864 - 1946) Photo - Secession founder • Edward Steichen (1879 - 1973) Versatile pioneer • Edward Weston (1886 - 1958) Still life photographs • Man Ray (1890 - 1976) Dada, fashion • Irving Penn (1917 - 2009) Fashion photos • Richard Avedon (1923 - 2004) Fashion, portraiture • Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 - 89) Figurative images and still lifes • Jeff Wall (b. 1946) Famous for his postmodernist pictorialism • Nan Goldin (b. 1953) Feminist camera art • Cindy Sherman (b. 1954) Surrealistic self - portraits • Andreas Gursky (b. 1955) Architecture, landscapes

Notables include Pay for Your Pleasure, a corridor lined with portraits of famous intellectuals, each paired with a quote relating art and criminality, that begins with a donation box for the victims of violent crime and culminates with an artwork by an imprisoned local murderer; Black Out, a sprawling collection of works reflecting on the artist's hometown of Detroit, completed in honor of the city's 300th anniversary; and Day Is Done.

«The confirmation that Young Man with a Flute is by George Romney, one of Britain's most famous portrait painters, is an exciting moment for the Museum and demonstrates the importance of supporting curatorial research,» said Bonnie Pitman, The Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art.

It combines the highest quality 18th - century French decorative arts, magnificent English portraits and Dutch Old Master paintings with one of the finest Victorian gardens in Britain, famous for its parterre and ornate working Aviary.

A famous example of art - historical painting, Hans Holbein the Younger's double portrait, The Ambassadors, shows two friends amid an array of detailed artifacts from art and science.

His first attempt at plastic art was a wood figure based on Gainsborough's famous portrait of Blue Boy (1770).

In 1971 Hockney completed his most famous piece of portrait art - Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy (later voted the most popular modern painting in the Tate Gallery).

Gander has set up a little studio just inside the entrance to the fair, where he is printing up and mounting a series of black - and - white portraits to line the corridor: rather than mugshots of the famous, these are images of people looking past the camera at art that interests them.

George Stubbs, The Nilgai, 1769 The medical man and art collector William Hunter commissioned this portrait of an exotic species from the sublime Stubbs, who is most famous for his eerily beautiful paintings of horses.

His famous Self - Portrait (1968, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis) is nearly 10 feet in height.

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Won dismissal for The Andrew Lloyd Webber Art Foundation of actions disputing title in a famous Picasso Blue - Period painting, Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto (The Absinthe Drinker), which subsequently sold at auction for $ 54 million.