Sentences with phrase «greatest portrait artist»

He was also one of the great portrait artists of the 20th century, despite his highly controversial portrait of Winston Churchill (1954), which was destroyed on the orders of Lady Churchill who hated it.

By Lucian Freud, one of the great portrait artists of the 20th century.

Not exact matches

The portraits of Jesus by some of the great classical artists are discussed.

A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man is perhaps the great account of falling away from faith.

The talented artist Heather Rooney, who previously showed how to draw LeBron James, has moved onto perfecting a portrait of the world's greatest soccer player, Argentina's Lionel Messi.

A great mix of old and new cinematic gold, this year's lineup includes Ildikó Enyedi's Berlinale Golden Bear - winner On Body and Soul; Mrs. Fang, Wang Bing's unflinching document of an elderly woman in her final days, which won the Golden Leopard at Locarno; the North American premiere of Katharina Wyss's powerful debut feature Sarah Plays a Werewolf, about a woman who channels her fears into theater; Govinda Van Maele's fiction feature debut Gutland, featuring Phantom Thread's Vicky Krieps; the U.S. premiere of Slovenian director Rok Biček «s The Family, a compassionate portrait of a young man's life over the course of 10 years; and experimental artist Bertrand Mandico's exhilarating, gender - bending Wild Boys.

The Disaster Artist Looper Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond — Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton Bright Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Dredd Crazy Heart The B - Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography The Silence of the Lambs

Film Editors Spencer Averick — «13th,» «Selma» Alexandre de Franceschi — «Lion,» «Bright Star» Keiko Deguchi * — «God Knows Where I Am,» «Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus» Tracy Granger — «Still Life,» «Boys Don't Cry» Sabine Hoffman — «Maggie's Plan,» «Elvis & Nixon» Edie Ichioka — «The Boxtrolls,» «Toy Story 2» Janus Billeskov Jansen * — «The Hunt,» «The Act of Killing» Céline Kélépikis — «The Red Turtle,» «Now or Never» Melissa Kent — «American Pastoral,» «The Age of Adaline» Juan Carlos Macías — «Wild Horses,» «The Official Story» Jim May — «Goosebumps,» «The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe» Fredrik Morheden — «A Man Called Ove,» «The New Country» Christopher Murrie * — «Kubo and the Two Strings,» «Coraline» Tania Michel Nehme — «Tanna,» «Charlie's Country» Tia Nolan — «Annie,» «Friends with Benefits» Anne Østerud — «The Hunt,» «The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo» Gregory Perler — «Sing,» «Despicable Me» Jacopo Quadri — «Fire at Sea,» «The Dreamers» Fabienne Rawley — «Zootopia,» «MonsterHouse» Jake Roberts — «Hell or High Water,» «Brooklyn» Hayedeh Safiyari — «The Salesman,» «A Separation» Nat Sanders — «Moonlight,» «Short Term 12» Per Sandholt — «Land of Mine,» «A Funny Man» Suzanne Spangler — «Imperial Dreams,» «Smashed» Molly Malene Stensgaard — «Land of Mine,» «Melancholia» Alexandra Strauss — «I Am Not Your Negro,» «A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence» Christian Wagner — «The Fate of the Furious,» «Furious Seven» Monika Willi — «Amour,» «The Piano Teacher» Kate Williams — «The Whole Truth,» «Frozen River» Dan Zimmerman — «The Dark Tower,» «The Maze Runner» Lucia Zucchetti — «Their Finest,» «The Queen» Eric Zumbrunnen — «Her,» «Adaptation» Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Richard Alonzo — «Star Trek Beyond,» «Alice in Wonderland» Alessandro Bertolazzi — «Suicide Squad,» «Fury» Christine Beveridge — «The Monuments Men,» «Under the Skin» Felicity Bowring — «Gold,» «Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy» Jerry DeCarlo — «Carol,» «Julie & Julia» Patricia DeHaney — «Sully,» «Interstellar» Naomi Donne — «Cinderella,» «Philomena» Linda Dowds — «RoboCop,» «Rampart» Audrey Doyle — «Legend,» «Mad Max: Fury Road» Tina Earnshaw — «The Promise,» «Titanic» Rick Findlater — «L'Odyssée (The Odyssey),» «The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey» Paul Gooch — «Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children,» «Maleficent» Fae Hammond — «Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,» «The Legend of Tarzan» Miia Kovero — «Inherent Vice,» «The Master» Michael Marino — «American Pastoral,» «The Wrestler» Frances Mathias — «Saving Mr. Banks,» «Beginners» Christopher Nelson — «Suicide Squad,» «Frank Miller's Sin City» Elaine Offers — «The Kids Are All Right,» «Far from Heaven» Conor O'Sullivan — «The Dark Knight,» «Saving Private Ryan» Daniel Phillips — «Florence Foster Jenkins,» «The Queen» Luigi Rocchetti — «Ben - Hur,» «The Nativity Story» Morag Ross — «Hugo,» «The Aviator» Nikoletta Skarlatos — «Free State of Jones,» «The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 & 2)» Vittorio Sodano — «Il Divo,» «Apocalypto» Shane Thomas — «The Dressmaker,» «Hacksaw Ridge» Kenneth Walker — «Loving,» «For Colored Girls» Kerry Warn — «The Great Gatsby,» «Australia» Carla White — «Hands of Stone,» «August: Osage County» Ann Pala Williams — «Live by Night,» «Click» Jeremy Woodhead — «Doctor Strange,» «Snowpiercer»

If the great and influential Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti was anything like the character portrayed by Geoffrey Rush in «Final Portrait,» they could have come up with another title for the film.

The artist was especially excited by this commission as a portrait of a dean is «always a great addition to a portrait artist's portfolio» and «this was for Harvard!»

• Stein by Picasso, Zola by Manet — Book Riot offers up 9 portraits of great authors painted by great artists.

Artist Katherine Carl spent 10 months with the Empress in 1903 while painting her portrait and described her as shrewd, but with great presence, charm, and graceful movements resulting in «an unusually attractive personality».

Bringing into focus the flesh - and - blood woman behind the portrait, she vividly imagines the life of a woman with a complicated relationship to her family and her past, and a special bond with one of our greatest modern artists.

Sure, it's a great «on ramp» to reading and understanding Joyce — a not - too - taxing wend around middle class, turn - of - the - century Dublin — providing a necessary set - up for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man then Ulysses (read in that order if you can).

As she did for Zelda Fitzgerald 30 years ago, Milford resurrects the great and courageous lyric poet Edna St. Vincent Millay from unwarranted marginalization, making extraordinarily compelling use of a vast private archive of Millay's diaries and letters in a vivid and sensitive portrait of a mercurial, original, and radiant artist.

Making an already great - looking game look even better are the beautifully drawn and animated portraits by celebrated comic book artist Dave Gibbons, who may be best known for his work on graphic novel «The Watchmen.»

Each month its «Fan Mail» section provides a portrait of an artist, whom the editor selects, making this a great way for unknown artists to gain recognition.

Yet, since he was indisputably a great artist, his portraits were always nuanced.

Through great perseverance and determination, they managed to track down forgotten artwork, piece together vivid biographical portraits, and conduct interviews with surviving artists, who, in spite of their stature and longevity, had never before been interviewed.

It's a fitting conclusion to a graceful portrait of a great American artist.

His exhibition of Andy Warhol's portraits in Hong Kong in 1982 was the artist's first exhibition in Greater China.

Not to marginalize Sutherland, who is certainly one of my favorite artists working today, but I couldn't drag myself away from Deberdt's portrait of Jason Dill, who skateboarders (like myself) tend to see too much of; likewise for his great bodega portrait of Jahmal Williams (from whom we see too little).

By focusing on Cézanne's portraits, the exhibition offers an unrivalled opportunity to develop a greater understanding of his originality as an artist as well as gaining an intriguing glimpse into the personal world in which he inhabited.

Through the repetition of various stylistic approaches to the portrait and through his experimentation with the linocut technique, we see a glimpse of Picasso's great range as an artist.

16 October: Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris at National Portrait Gallery — This exhibition explores the life and artistic career of the great Victorian artist, founder of the Arts and Crafts movement.

2013 Ballet of Heads: The Figure in the Collection, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA Personal, Political, Mysterious, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY A New View: Contemporary Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO Artists» Self - Portraits from the Collection of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; The Baker Museum, Naples, FL 2014 A Chromatic Loss, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, January 9 - February 15, 2014 The Sara Roby Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Inaugural Group Show: Gallery Artists, March Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA Venus Drawn Out: 20th Century Drawings by Great Women Artists, The Armory Show Modern, New York, NY Vintage Violence, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY New Hells, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY Four Figures, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA Solitary Soul, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

This sprawling group portrait of a region documented and reclaimed the little - known history of the artists who worked and lived in the greater Los Angeles Metropolitan Region, illuminating the pivotal role they played in shaping the ethos and aesthetics of postwar California.

National Portrait Gallery, London This captivating show proves that the most exciting thing happening in Victorian art was photography, and the bold and revolutionary Julia Margaret Cameron was the greatest British artist of her day

Perhaps the greatest revelation of the exhibition — even greater than being so close to pieces actually worn on the body of a larger - than - life American artist — is seeing O'Keeffe's items both in person and in portraits.

«Offers a great insight into sources of [Sasnal's] inspirations and fields of interest: painting about painting, figurative painting and portraits, the history of Poland and travel shots... The book itself is a journey full of facts and intriguing perspectives on materiality and subject matter of Sasnal's paintings and his way of deconstructing the different symptoms of current times... Jam - packed with fascinating personal stories and facts from the artist's life.

The Art Fund has helped the Scottish National Portrait Gallery buy a striking self - portrait by one of Scotland's greatest living arPortrait Gallery buy a striking self - portrait by one of Scotland's greatest living arportrait by one of Scotland's greatest living artists...

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.

«But I'm trying to work out whether he can be seen as a great artist, or whether he is a great portrait painter.

1976 Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Private Notations: Artists» Sketchbooks II The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, The Great American Foot Show Transworld Art, New York, An American Portrait 1776 - 1976 The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, 60s: American Pop Art and Culture of the Sixties The Art Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, CA The Lyon Collection Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper Australia Council, Sydney, Illusions of Reality, exhibition traveled to Australian National Gallery, Canberra; Western Australian Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart (catalogue) Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, Drawing Today in New York

The sumptuous touring exhibition from the National Gallery of Art, which continues through Jan. 4, captured one of art history's greatest moments in 68 paintings — landscapes, still lifes and portraits — by 21 artists, including Monet, Bonnard, Cézanne, Corot, Degas, Gauguin, Pissarro, Renoir, Seurat and van Gogh.

This exhibition of portrait drawings by some of the greatest ever artists is an encounter both with genius and the faces of people who lived up to 500 years ago.

I arrived at the usually sedate National Portrait Gallery to be confronted by a throng of eager reporters, photographers and film crews from as far afield as Japan, testament to the popularity of one of the greatest British artists, the late Lucian Freud.

Around one hundred paintings from museums worldwide tell the great story of portrait and figurative painting from the fifteenth to the late twentieth century in four broad thematic sections that offer much more than a merely chronological approach to works by a host of outstanding artists: from Raphael, Botticelli, Mantegna, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Dürer, Cranach, Pontormo, Rubens, Caravaggio, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Velázquez, El Greco, Goya, Tiepolo up to the Impressionists, Manet, Van Gogh and great twentieth - century artists, such as Munch, Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Giacometti and Bacon.

In a guide to intriguing art exhibitions nationwide, Judith Dobrzynski features the High Museum of Art's «Walker Evans: Depth of Field», a major international retrospective of Evans» work, including images taken of the American South during the Great Depression; the Denver Art Museum's «Women of Abstract Expression», celebrating the contributions of female artists who helped shape the movement in the 1940s and 1950s; the Met Breuer's «Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible», the Museum's inaugural exhibition examining works that were never finished by the artists from the 15th century to today; the Asian Art Museum's «Emperors» Treasures: Chinese Art From the National Palace Museum, Taipei», and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art's «This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today.»

Self - Portrait as a Great Artist: In his «portrait - landscape,» Rousseau painted himself towering over modern Paris FrancePortrait as a Great Artist: In his «portrait - landscape,» Rousseau painted himself towering over modern Paris Franceportrait - landscape,» Rousseau painted himself towering over modern Paris Frances Morris

• Edward Weston (1886 - 1958) Still life photos • Raoul Hausmann (1886 - 1971) Berlin Dada artist, invented photomontage • John Heartfield (1891 - 1968) Dada photomontage artist • Walker Evans (1903 - 75) Great Depression portraits • Henri Cartier - Bresson (1908 - 2004) Street photography • Robert Capa (1913 - 54) War photography • Irving Penn (1917 - 2009) Fashion • Richard Avedon (1923 - 2004) Fashion photography • Bernd and Hilla Becher (1931 - 2007) and (b. 1934) Architectural photos • Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 - 89) Nude studies, still lifes of plants • Jeff Wall (b. 1946) «Staged photography»

The artist combines drawing and engraving, photography and collage, alternates between bronze and porcelain, thoughtful self - portraits and mysterious effigies, with a great economy of colour, most often using just black and white.

Scott eventually began a series of portraits of contemporary artists, several of which were commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain.

Peyton herself owes a debt to the great portrait painter Alice Neel, known for her incisive psychological studies, and in fact paid homage to Neel with a nude image of the artist (referencing Neel's own famous nude self - portrait at age 80.)

Charles Gaines, «Faces 1: Identity Politics» Opens: 6 — 8 p.m., Paula Cooper, 521 West 21st Street What you should know: The African - American conceptual artist presents a series of portraits of some of the great philosophers of identity, from Aristotle to bell hooks, with each new thinker's face layered on their predecessors, an elegant metaphor for the faulty notion of a clearly delineated self, and for the way we're all partly determined by those who came before.

Speaking of Warhol, only one was offered, the 40 - by - 40 inch «Portrait of Man Ray» from 1974, based on a Polaroid SX - 70 photograph of the great artist in a brimmed cap, lips locked on a cigar.

Lady Willoughby was also a great friend to Michael Andrews — his Portrait of Jane is one of a very few portraits that the artist ever painted.

The Swiss artist Jean - Etienne Liotard was one of the greatest portraitists of the Enlightenment period, whose oeuvre includes pastel portraits, oil paintings, still lifes, genre scenes and trompe l'oeil.

Joffe is a great artist because she mobilizes the resources of visual modernism and the intellectual traditions of feminism in the service of her portraits.

In 2009 he was a selected artist for the BP award presented by Great Britain's National Portrait Gallery.