Sentences with phrase «iconic celebrity portraits»
He also used Polaroid photographs as source materials for his iconic celebrity portraits and many still lifes throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
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I KILLED KENNY also debuts a series of paint - splattered collages, in which historic images of Abraham Lincoln are overlaid with portraits of iconic Hollywood celebrities, contemporary artists, and legendary American boxers — Robert DeNiro in «Raging Bull,» Gena Rowlands in «Gloria,» Christopher Wool in his studio, and publicity stills of Muhammad Ali.
Meanwhile, Warhol restructured his artistic practice around the Polaroid Big Shot camera: he produced carefully staged Polaroid portraits of friends and celebrities, many of which he used as the basis for his iconic prints and silkscreen paintings.
«Grant Wood (1891 — 1942) became an overnight celebrity following the debut of American Gothic, his now - iconic portrait of a Midwestern farm couple, at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930.
For its latest Art Issue, Visionaire, the iconic art and fashion publication that knows how to surprise us with its thematic issues, decided to offer a different perspective on the continuous rise of selfie culture, asking legendary conceptual artist John Baldessari to create a series of artworks inspired by digital celebrity self - portraits.
On view are iconic works from key moments of his career, from his student days in the 1960s to the present, including his large - scale double portraits of the celebrity friends of his youth; the collaged Polaroids through which he examined new possibilities within Cubism as well as the artistic use of photography; his later forays into painting the landscape on location in his native Yorkshire; and finally, his experimental works using iPad apps.
His iconic images range from portraits of artists and celebrities, posed male and female nudes, to flower still lifes.
Camera Work, Berlin, displays 50 of the artist's iconic portraits of celebrities from the 1980s, simultaneously reviving the ideal of Hollywood glamour and looking forward into the future.
Rachel Hecker's terrific airbrushed Jesus portraits, on the other hand, derive from both the readymade form of his iconic image with found images of celebrities such as Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen.
Warhol, an iconic American artist whose reputation has only increased in the quarter - century since his death, is best known for appropriations of images from popular culture — advertisements, mass - media photographs and celebrity portraits — that challenged the conventional definitions and subjects of art.
Her iconic and infamous stylized portrait images of celebrities, artists, musicians, world luminary figures make her one of the most recognized and sought after portrait photographers in the world.