Sentences with phrase «fright wig»

His timing for his white fright wig and pop art paintings of soup cans was well timed as post-Eisenhower era society was looking for something fresh with a little more wild and kinky edge to stay entertained.

«No «fright wig», no dark sunglasses; an intimate portrait of Andy Warhol».

Shining forth from amongst the many portraits of iconic figures is a later portrait of the artist — «Self Portrait in Fright Wig», a collage work on paper which exudes the very nature of the brand.

Ms. Export wears crotchless pants and a fright wig in an iconic self - portrait, Action Pants: Genital Panic (1969 - 2001).

Take, for example, Jeff Koons's Pink Panther (1988) at Sotheby's, sold for $ 15 million, which would have been an outstanding result if it hadn't been expected to do $ 20 million, or Self - Portrait (1964), a Warhol fright wig that hammered at Christies on May 11 at $ 24 million but had been estimated to sell north of $ 30 million.

Skarstedt Gallery is selling Warhol's $ 32 million self - portrait in a fright wig.

Another Warhol, a 1986 pink silkscreen «Self Portrait (Fright Wig)» valued at $ 12 million to $ 18 million, sold for $ 11.4 million.

On Tuesday, one of the top prices was paid for a Warhol self - portrait from 1986, a bright red canvas with the artist's gaunt face and fright wig in yellow.

Nearby, in the booth of the Rhona Hoffman Gallery from Chicago, is a photo the American artist Deana Lawson shot in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a young man, smiling on a deserted road, with bunches of bananas framing his head like a fright wig.

These so - called «fright wig» silkscreens show the artist wearing his signature wig and staring piercingly at the viewer.

Kelly Crow offers some details on the Fright Wig late Warhol self portraits coming to Sotheby's in May:

Formally, some of the works like Red or Fright Wig are directly descended from the early 1980s, too (think Philip Taaffe or Kenny Scharf).

Andy Warhol, Self - Portrait (Fright Wig), 1986 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. 1998.1.2890

Alexander Calder priced between $ 5 million and $ 10 million will vie for buyers with four Warhols, including a 1965 Campbell's soup can and a 1986 self - portrait in a fright wig, valued between $ 1 million and $ 10 million.

The gallery in London made many distinguished exhibitions by some of the greatest artists of our time including Willem de Kooning, Carl Andre, Maurizio Cattelan, Lawrence Weiner, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Jannis Kounellis, Anselm Kiefer, Richard Long, Bruce Nauman, Gilbert & George, Richard Hamilton, Brice Marden, James Turrell, Rachel Whiteread, Sigmar Polke, Cy Twombly, Ron Mueck and Andy Warhol, who he commissioned to make the celebrated «Fright Wig» Self Portraits.

Many of the fashionable artists in the world emerged from beneath Andy's fright wig.

There's his famous hypercolor, hypercontrast prints of hibiscus flowers; his tabloid «Death and Disaster» series from the early 1960s; square celebrity portraits of Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, and Jean - Michel Basquiat; a 1986 self - portrait of the aging artist in his «fright wig»; a grouping of massive Pop - ified Chairman Maos; and stacks of Brillo boxes.

Executed only a few months before his death, the work shows Warhol in the signature peroxide fright wig of his late career, staring starkly out from the canvas in an emotionally arresting vision that confronts the reality of time head on.

Next door was the Hendricks, along with Ann Hamilton photos, portrait busts by Janine Antoni, skin - tone monochromes by Byron Kim, not - mugshots by Glenn Ligon, and fright wig Warhols, which encircled the National Gallery's first Felix Gonzalez - Torres, a sublime silver piece from 1991 called «Untitled» (Ross in L.A.).

(A dressing gown and fright wig?

Bigfoot, on the other hand, wants out of the law enforcement game, moonlighting as a bungling extra in TV cop filler like Adam - 12 and heading up crass infomercials dressed in a hippy fright wig.

Years ago, the witch (Meryl Streep — flawless in a blue fright wig and yellow teeth) placed a curse on his family.

And centred on a sixty - something father, Winfried (Peter Simonischek), donning fright wig and buck teeth to inveigle his way into the work - focused existence of his estranged, middle - aged daughter, Ines (Sandra Hüller)?

Here is Kate Lyn Sheil in an ill - fitting fright wig, a pale and disembodied specter, flailing as she attempts to swim in the same ocean where Chubbuck swam with strength decades ago.

In «Toni Erdmann,» a very good and peculiar comedy from Germany's Maren Ade, a father subjects his high - strung adult daughter to a kind of unexpected — and clearly unwanted — shock therapy, using joke - shop fake teeth, a fright wig and a freakish sense of humor as tools of enlightenment.

The film features multiple scenes in which «Toni,» sporting a ludicrous fright wig and fake teeth, unexpectedly shows up to embarrass his daughter at important work functions; there's also a showstopping karaoke performance (of sorts) and an extended, screamingly funny set piece involving nonsexual full - frontal nudity.

That's Rhys Ifans being deranged under a white fright wig.

You can still catch Andy Warhol: Self Portraits (Fright Wigs), an exhibition of five, monumental works from the artist's final self - portrait series at Skarstedt's Upper East Side gallery open until April 22nd, 2017.

Not exact matches

Only with the arrival of fright - wigged con artist Ernie McCracken (Murray, gleefully camp) do things look up, McCracken teaching him to make money hustling ten - pin, until he's abandoned to a bunch of rednecks who twig to him and slash off his bowling hand.

The most interesting thing about the character is his hair, which goes from fingers - in - the - socket fright - wig to Anna Wintour bob after he's busted out of the carnival by cocky medical student Victor Frankenstein (James McAvoy).

The Room's repeat visitors demanded it — The Disaster Artist opens in early December, with James Franco, fright - wigged and wrapped in the mantle of Tommy Wiseau.

A fright - wigged Spacek is notable in her one scene and the latter definitely makes for some (no pun intended) cool visuals.

Have ultra racist stereotype in fright - wig afro kick half - naked luchador with jiggle breasts through building.

Over the span of her career, Deborah Kass has made a point of infiltrating the male - dominated art conversation (and market) by creating feminist riffs on classic pieces of man - made art, inserting herself into Warhol's fright - wig self - portraits, for instance.

Phillips 29 lot sale includes an Andy Warhol «fright - wig» Self Portrait from 1986, if the piece sounds familiar it's because a much larger pink version was recently sold for $ 39 million by Skarstedt at Art Basel.