Sentences with phrase «iconic figures»

These 13 iconic figures of Christmas can also be seen as decorations on Christmas trees across Iceland.

One of the most iconic figures in television news» history, he was anchor and managing editor of «NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw» for more than two decades, setting the standard for broadcast news.

I think my articles have covered nearly every aspect of my 46 years in this exciting and ever - changing business, including the Competition Bureau, commission cutting, part - timers, real estate bubbles, why new agents fail, ghosts in houses you are selling and Q&A s with many iconic figures in the real estate industry.

The re-casting of the iconic figures of Kirk, Spock and McCoy gave a new generation of film - goers thrills and spills.

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.

She also pays tribute to iconic figures who have inspired her, including the young Elizabeth II, Georgia O» Keefe and Frida Kahlo.

However, the works in the exhibition highlight recurrent themes, such as the reinterpretation of iconic figures in art, design, and music.

It will showcase iconic figures with strong links to Derry.

A: Your former students include Henry Moore, Damien Hirst and Barbara Hepworth; how do you think the legacy of these iconic figures is represented the university?

In this compendium, which brings together scores of Johnson's witty collages and drawings, often incorporating iconic figures from the 20th century, as well as other ephemera from Johnson's estate, the artist is revealed to be a pioneer of both Pop and Fluxus aesthetics.

With a focus not on the man and the scandals but on his range of influence and continuing pertinence, it mounts a considerable array of visual works that includes many from iconic figures not usually associated with the customary Sadean triad of sexual excess, violence, and perversion.

Extraordinary paintings by Jonathan Yeo, a British artist best known for his portraits of iconic figures including Nicole Kidman, Damien Hirst, Malala Yousafzai, Kevin Spacey and Tony Blair.

SAN MARINO, Calif. — An exhibition opening this fall at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens considers a rich dialogue between two iconic figures in American culture: the renowned photographer Edward Weston (1886 — 1958) and poet Walt Whitman (1819 — 1892).

Hyperbolizing iconic figures from silver screen era Hollywood starlets to High Renaissance depictions of Jesus Christ, his content is promiscuously drawn from art historical and popular cultural references alike.

Iconic figures such as Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff are presented next to other established, mid-career and emerging artists such as Gary Wragg, Phoebe Unwin and Joella Wheatley revealing intriguing, surprising connections, contrasts and underlying preoccupations.The exhibition brings together a diverse range of artists whose achievements arise from protracted periods of time spent in their studios, looking, considering, making, revising and finally producing richly complex works of art.

It affirmed its belief in the power of the image, and it was often humorously and sometimes ironically, that it reappropriated iconic figures such as Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, and depicted «the American way of life», in order to celebrate and criticise it at the same time.

ICON is a show that links back through the long History of Art, representing some of its iconic figures and themes, its role as recorder of movements and trends and subject matters of their day.

These works are not just aesthetically attractive, but intellectually engaging and reflect the artist's experience of inhabiting two very different cultures, which are linked through iconic figures from popular culture and international logos.

The works on display feature a diversity of approaches, from the abstract geometrical paintings of Jack Whitten and William T. Williams, to the photographic depictions by Roy DeCarava and Herbert Randall of both ordinary Black Americans and iconic figures such as Malcolm X and John Coltrane.

Beckman, who is known for photographing some of hip - hop's most iconic figures (including Ice Cube and Dr. Dre), is showing two sets of works at this show.

Richard Klin's new book Abstract Expressionism For Beginners will not only help you understand, but also appreciate the art of some of the most iconic figures in modern art — Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and others.

The exhibition devoted by the Centre Pompidou to the Russian avant - garde between 1918 and 1922 focuses on the work of three of its iconic figures: Marc Chagall, El Lissitzky and Kasimir Malevich.

Its alumni include iconic figures of modern and contemporary art such as Chuck Close, Richard Serra, Peter Halley, and most recently Wangechi Mutu and Matthew Barney.

Iconic figures such as Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff are presented next to other established, mid-career and emerging artists such asGary Wragg, Phoebe Unwin -LSB-...]

Monographs of Schapiro's work include Schapiro's Heroes, 2007, which offers intimate profiles of ten iconic figures.

Showcasing iconic figures like Abraham Lincoln, Marilyn Monroe and Martin Luther King, this is Datuna's first full show of portraits.

Birnam Wood / Galleries owner Patrick Dawson showed me around David Datuna's Elements, which showcases iconic figures like Abraham Lincoln and Marilyn Monroe.

What does one make of images picturing iconic figures as disparate as Gumby and Babe Ruth, paired with musings on the repressive nature of television or poetic exhortations to greatness?

This auction is a rare opportunity for buyers to purchase artist books and prints by some of the art world's most iconic figures: Pablo Picasso, Peter Doig, Banksy, Henri Matisse, Salvador Dalí, and many more.

On display are works that recall iconic figures of Brazilian music, such as Laercio Redondo's installation devoted to Carmen Miranda.

The show, about «dual images of the Caribbean as a utopic place of pleasure and a land of deviance and illicit activity,» explores the role of iconic figures ranging from pirates to missionaries.

Iconic figures represented in Tibetan thangkas, or painted scrolls, mirror aspects of our own enlightened nature.

Incorporating the characters themselves, these iconic figures feature in idealised landscapes shadowed in sour, unhealthy hues of green or pink that reflect a new sense of narrative for the artist.

Her first mainstream solo exhibition, «Portraits from the Dingle Library», combined images of her mother, Cram, with portraits of iconic figures like George Washington, Queen Elizabeth II and George Foreman As a Baby.

Using a screenprinting style similar to pop artists, Thomas immortalizes these two strong, powerful black women, giving these modern — day women of color the same prominence Warhol gave to iconic figures like Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Though the works reflect comedic irony, the iconic figures of Superman, Tinkerbell, Spiderman and a pink - clad fairytale princess hint at a longing and forlornness for something heroic beyond the struggles of every day life.

I confronted the lack of heroic figures in contemporary culture — a society that often memorializes disasters, war, and the iconic figures while leaving very little room to honor the casualties of these disasters and the sacrifices of the unknown person in our everyday life.»

Featuring masterpieces by such iconic figures as Charles Alston, Elizabeth Catlett, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee - Smith, Norman Lewis, Horace Pippin, and Charles White, the exhibition and its related programs allow visitors to reflect upon a broad range of African American experiences, and examines the ways different African American artists have expressed personal, political, and racial identity over approximately 100 years.

At a time when race and identity became major issues in music, sport and literature, brought to public attention by iconic figures like Aretha Franklin, Muhammad Ali and Toni Morrison, «Black Art» was being defined and debated across the country in vibrant paintings, photographs, prints and sculptures.

In her often mythic work, Schimert selects iconic figures - Ophelia, Sir Lancelot, Neil Armstrong, Nixon, and, for her MATRIX exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum, Oedipus - and merges their stories with her own in an abstractly narrative space composed of drawings, sculpture, wall drawings, and film.

This list of works for Andy Warhol's solo exhibition at Lisson Gallery, «Photographs», documents a series of shots of celebrated, iconic figures inlcuding Salvador Dalí, Pope John Paul II, and Truman Capote as well as a self - portrait of Warhol himself.

This season's auctions feature some of the most iconic figures in 20th and 21st century art.

One of the most iconic figures that emerged from the post-World War II American art, Frank Stella is a painter and a printmaker whose influential work is considered to be crucial to the generations of artists that moved beyond Abstract Expressionism.

In Gil's painting they play concurrent personal and compositional roles, as iconic figures and as integral structural elements.

Through some 120 works and documents loaned by museums in Vitebsk and Minsk and major American and European collections, the exhibition will present the artistic output of three iconic figures — Marc Chagall, El Lissitzky and Kazimir Malevich — as well as works by students and teachers of the Vitebsk school, such as Lazar Khidekel, Nikolai Suetin, Il» ia Chashnik, David Yakerson, Vera Ermolaeva, and Yehuda (Yury) Pen, among others.

Revealing foundational moments in art through pioneering figures from across the world, Spotlight features positions beyond the Western tradition, surveys of under - recognized artists and rarely seen work by iconic figures of the avant - garde.

Elvis, Beuys, Che Guevera are all iconic figures: heroes, consumed by the system and now the art.

The rumor points out a disturbing lack of X-Men, Fantastic Four, Viewtiful Joe, and other iconic figures on both sides of the fence.

Two iconic figures from the Halo Wars series return to the forefront in the latest downloadable content for Halo Wars 2, the Icons of War pack.

I did Call of Duty: Modern Warfare as Gaz and then I did Ghost in Modern Warfare 2, which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of computer games, which is great.