Sentences with phrase «icon painter from»

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Screening: «John Maybury's Read Only Memory» at Le Petit Versailles From the maker Francis Bacon biopic «Love is the Devil,» and the famous Sinead O'Conner music video «Nothing Compares 2 U,» comes «Read Only Memory,» documentary of the fabulous life of Australian performance artist and London underground celeb Leigh Bowery, who danced for choreographer Michael Clark, modeled for painter Lucian Freud, and was one of the most photographed, influential, and outrageous fashion icons of the 1980s and «90s.

Drawing on the various histories of her artistic heroines, the paintings are fictional portraits inspired by everyone from spooky poet Emily Dickinson to abstract expressionist painter Lee Krasner and theorist Susan Sontag — though the models she uses bear no physical resemblance to these icon references.

Of course the 16th - and 17th - century Chinese artists making these homage albums are light years away from the accelerated dialectics of Post-Enlightenment Western art, with an ethos apparently more congruent with that of Russian icon painters or Medieval and Gothic artists, many of whom remained anonymous, repudiating their individuality in the service of God.

Described by New York Times art critic Holland Cotter as «a classic artist's artist and one of our few important practicing history painters» Saul is best known for his paintings depicting exaggerated, provocative images of pop culture ranging from well - known art references to political icons.

American painter Elizabeth Peyton is celebrated for her highly stylized paintings of cultural icons, which portray a wide range of subjects from Kurt Cobain to Napoleon to Marc Jacobs in her characteristic fey, androgynous fashion.

Fine and decorative arts objects have been high on the Cleveland Museum of Art's wish list, and through purchases from endowment funds the institution has acquired the 15th - century Byzantine icon The Mother of God and Infant Christ, which has been attributed to icon painter Angelos Akotantos; a 1977 abstract painting, Rho I, by Jack Whitten; contemporary Chinese artist Xu Bing's 1985 woodcut Five Series of Repetition: Moving Cloud (Yi - yun); and William Turner's ca. 1850 watercolor A View from Moel Cynwch: Looking Over the Vale of Afon Mawddach and Toward Cader Idris.