Sentences with phrase «first celebrity portrait»

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Some of his celebrity portraits were first «under - painted» by tracing simple outlines of the photographic image onto the canvas and painted in blocks of color.

Elizabeth Peyton's portraits of both her friends and members of the cultural elite of her era, (Kurt Cobain comes to mind), first gained celebrity in the mid-to-late 90s.

From 1908 - 12 Kokoschka began a series of expressionist paintings, namely his «psychological portraits» of Viennese celebrities, seen as the first works to reveal modern existential anxieties: a genre exemplified by his portrait of the prominent architect Adolf Loos (1909, State Museum, Berlin).

Indeed, his virtuoso portrait art, at times on a par with other 19th - century greats like John Singer Sargent and Thomas Eakins, helped him to become one of the first «rock - star» celebrities of English figurative painting.

In this exhibition, his first in New York City since 2010, Machen has selected a number of works from his bi-coastal Portraits Project (Los Angeles and New York), in which the artist posts two - tone photographs of artists, celebrities, political figures and other notable personalities on walls throughout the city streets.