Sentences with phrase «important portrait artists»

It starts with Frida Kahlo and then goes through all the important portrait artists like Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Van Gogh, Picasso and then takes through a number of other artists with interesting styles, Hundertwasser, Gary Hume, Chila Burman, Sonya Boyce, Leger, Picabia, Dali and much more.

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The free play which enters into our experience because of this foreground - background contrast is an important ingredient in Merleau - Ponty's portrait of the artist.

«Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,» an inspiring and important documentary portrait of the Chinese artist and political dissident, begins calmly, with its subject talking of dogs and cats, then cuts to a shot of a cat opening a door by leaping up to pull the handle.

Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a whole?

Not a biography by any conventional definition this is a freewheeling Bob Dylan portrait where his name is never spoke, his life and career is represented by six different actors representing various personas, and the songs and stories (real and imagined) and mysteries of the artist are as important as any historical record.

Since the international competition began in 1993, it has remained a hugely important platform for portrait photographers and promises an unparalleled opportunity for celebrated professionals, emerging artists and amateurs alike.

Highlights of the exhibition include a rare Julia Margaret Cameron photograph made in Sri Lanka towards the end of her life; a self - portrait by Ellsworth Kelly drawn in Paris in 1949; the first collaborative work by Peter Fischli and David Weiss, a set of 10 photographs called the Sausage Series; a new painting on paper by Brice Marden; one of the art brut artist Adolph Wolfli's largest and most important drawings; a portrait of Lucian Freud by Walker Evans; and a mescaline drawing by Henri Michaux.

Renowned for her portraits of friends, family, acquaintances, fellow artists and critics, Neel was among the most important American artists of her time.

Despite their timelessness, the British artist's masterful portraits are making an important contribution to the art historical cannon, broadening the dialogue around black identify and representation.

The article mentions John Sonsini's portraits of Mexican - American laborers, at a gallery known best for important artists with aging reputations.

As self - portraits each piece reflects important elements of the artist's work & life: idle shopping & constant construction.

Opening: «Brassaï: Language of the Wall: The Tapestries, 1968» at Higher Pictures One of the important players in the modernist movement in Paris between WWI and WWII, the Hungarian photographer, sculptor, writer and filmmaker Brassaï (the pseudonym of Gyula Halász) is best known for his salacious photographs of Paris at night and his poignant portraits of the famous artists and writers of his time.

We knew that the show couldn't be an exhaustive survey of self - portraiture but we started by thinking about the Van Dyck painting and what makes it so important: the fact that the artist caused such a seismic shift in the approach to portraiture in the 17th century that was to last for at least the next three centuries; that his portraits were a form of «self - advertisement» and show an acute awareness of his identity and public image as a successful artist; that it was his final self - portrait, made in the last year of his life at the age of 42 and that his various self - portraits (there are seven known in total) trace his life as an artist.

From the important figures in feminism like Judy Chicago and Barbara Kruger to the ever - expanding world of comic book art, to the mixture of kitsch and pop of artist Jeff Koons and the legendary self - portraits of Cindy Sherman, modes of expression are endless.

Self - Portrait with Esme contributes to the ICA / Boston's strong collection of portraits of women by women, including important examples by Marlene Dumas, Alice Neel, Dana Schutz, and Lisa Yuskavage, and extends an inquiry into the subjectivity of identity by artists such as LaToya Ruby Frazier and Cindy Sherman.

Through their varied takes on the portrait, the artists in Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney's Collection demonstrate the vitality of this enduring genre, which serves as a compelling lens through which to view some of the most important social and artistic developments of the past century.

Featuring double - page reproductions of each work — covering Dine's major motifs including his hearts, bathrobes, birds, self - portraits and tools — as well his new 40 - page interview with Centre Pompidou director Bernard Blistène (supplemented with archival photos), this book is the most detailed survey to date of one of the most important contemporary artists.

The result is an informal portrait of one of the most important artists of our time.

In cooperation with eiskellerberg.tv, the fair will present the Cinema of Artists, a selection of film portraits featuring important artists and figures from the international art scene that will be screened during thArtists, a selection of film portraits featuring important artists and figures from the international art scene that will be screened during thartists and figures from the international art scene that will be screened during the fair.

Regarded as one of the artist's most important portraits, this celebrated painting has been acquired by the Watts Gallery just in time for the artist's bicentenary celebrations in 2017.

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A huge portrait of the former director of the National Portrait Gallery, Sandy Nairne, is to be the first important work by American artist Chuck Close to enter a public collection in portrait of the former director of the National Portrait Gallery, Sandy Nairne, is to be the first important work by American artist Chuck Close to enter a public collection in Portrait Gallery, Sandy Nairne, is to be the first important work by American artist Chuck Close to enter a public collection in Britain.

Part of a series of self - portraits that the artist has made of herself in the prosthetically - aided guise of artists that are important to her — a «spiritual family album» that has included Andy Warhol, Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe, and August Sander — this piece transforms Wearing into Arthur Felig, aka Weegee, the legendary photographer of hideous crimes and the rubberneckers who gawk at them.

Renowned for her portraits of friends, family, acquaintances, fellow artists and critics, Neel was among the most prolific and important American artists of her time.

Process plays a more important part in the artist's creativity and he explains that the formats of the portraits came out of his encounters «with the subjects and their environment.»

Chinese copies of Gilbert Stuart's portrait of America's first president were denounced by the artist, desired by collectors — and ended up in some important museums.

In the 1970s there was renewed interest in her portrait art after a retrospective of her paintings at the Palais du Luxembourg, and critics began to rank her among the key early 20th century portrait artists as well as an important representative of modern art of the 1920s.

Taken together, these prints constitute a remarkable self - portrait of the creative drive, vision, and intellect of one of America's most important living artists.

About Face — Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON MUTATED REALITY — Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow The Art of Music — San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA Le Souffleur — Schürmann trifft Ludwig — Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen Destination Unknown — Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX Selfies and Portraits of the East End — Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY Icônes Américaines — Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris Diverse works: Director's Choice, 1997 - 2015 — Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City, NY Fresh Prints: The Nineties to Now — The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH In Living Color: Andy Warhol and Contemporary Printmaking — Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA Still Life: 1970s Photorealism — Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH Very Important People — EOA.Projects, Abingdon, Oxfordshire SELF: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence — National Academy Museum, New York City, NY Face It!

In both process and result — Rauschenberg and Weil shared the roles of model and maker — the double portraits spring from an impulse to collaborate and connect that forms the single most important through line in this artist's extraordinary, ever - changing output.

In line with the mission of New York Artists Equity, «artists for artists», we ask that you create a portrait of an artist encompassing their important quaArtists Equity, «artists for artists», we ask that you create a portrait of an artist encompassing their important quaartists for artists», we ask that you create a portrait of an artist encompassing their important quaartists», we ask that you create a portrait of an artist encompassing their important qualities.

«Chuck Close is one of the most important painters in America, an artist who has magnificently reinvented the genre of the portrait in compelling contemporary terms,» said Dana Gioia, director of the Institute's Harman - Eisner Program in the Arts and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.

These principles are to be found in her impressive self - portraits as well as in numerous works in which she draws on motifs of important old masters such as Hans Holbein the Younger and El Greco or contemporary artists like Constantin Guys.

Bonhams is all set for Monday's sale of important works by key artists of the twentieth century — including the only portrait Auerbach ever made of Freud — , estimated to make # 1,853,000 - 2,725,000 According to Benedetta Ghione - Webb, Head of Sale, each lot has been «carefully selected because it shows the very best of the artist».

Baltimore collectors Tom and Nancy O'Neil have given the institution two dozen color and black - and - white works by 19 important artists of our time, including Dawoud Bey, celebrated for his portrait photography, and Edward Burtynsky, whose photos document humanity's impact on the environment.

The catalogue accompanies the first U.S. mid-career survey of this important Dutch artist's work in photography and video; it features the Beach Portraits and other early works such as the photographs of new mothers and bullfighters, together with selections from Dijkstra's later work including her most recent video installations.

A prime mover in that development and one of the Museum's most important benefactors, the late Gordon Lambert, is remembered in Robert Ballagh's Portrait of Gordon Lambert, which is shown alongside two other works by the same artist, also commissioned by Gordon Lambert.

The artist's trademark games of scale, which were also important to her Biennale installation, are in evidence here; only now, instead of confronting viewers with giant keepsake frames holding life - size portraits of scantily clad amazons, Yanagi has contained

We want to focus on the potential of portraiture as a point of reference that allows an artist to explore more complex and complicated themes than the valorization of an important social figure or personal relation, as is predominantly the criteria for portrait prizes nationwide.

The painting stands as one of the artist's celebrated abstract «portraits,» many of which are held in important institutions» collections including For Carl Andre, 1966 in the Collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and The Dylan Painting, 1966 - 86 in the Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

In this definitive volume, each of Opie's series — among them Portraits, Freeways, Domestic, Icehouses and In and Around Home — is reproduced in full color plates alongside works that were not displayed in the exhibition, allowing for the most complete overview of this important Los Angeles artist's work to date.

Although the features of some of the models are recognizable, they are hardly relevant for the artist's aim in the group scenes, while in the portrait scenes they play an important role.

In this exhibition, Collezione Maramotti presents a selection of Montgomery Barron's portraits alongside artists whose works represent an important core of the collection.

Conventional by comparison, two portrait prints — Linde Sons (1902) and Munch and Director Ludvig Didrichsen (1916)-- involve important figures in Munch's life as an artist.

LW: I notice a lot of the faces in one of the «Solitude» cycles — Los Diecisiete Aurelianos (The Seventeen Aurelianos)-- look familiar; you've mentioned some are portraits of artists and others who are important to you.

Obviously, context is import and it can be important to know about the artist's life, to know what went into the work, what made the portrait in terms of what surrounded it.

Surveying four centuries, the Museum's American holdings include important Colonial and Federal portraits and a superb collection of Hudson River landscape paintings by artists including Thomas Cole, Frederic Church and Albert Bierstadt.

From renowned series such as Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say, to the Family Album series of self portraits of the artist wearing masks disguised as her family members, Wearing explores these important issues through a lens of personal history, and a unique and compelling psychological resonance persists throughout.

Recently, an iconic and familiar work in 1986 by David Robbins, «Talent» has been at the Whitney Museum in New York, with eighteen portraits of important visual artists of the moment (Jeff Koons Cindy Sherman).

A two - person show looks at the works of two important Los Angeles - based artists: Campbell, known for her meticulous portraits composed out of broad lines, and Fields, who uses old - fashioned paint to create the sensations of digital blurring.