Sentences with phrase «in unconventional portraits»

«Political and cultural shifts, including the development of an avant - garde and the breakdown of the traditional organization of sexuality, gave rise to themes that found continual expression in unconventional portraits throughout the century.

Not exact matches

Love & Mercy presents an unconventional portrait of the iconic Wilson — portrayed by two actors, Paul Dano in the»60s and John Cusack in the»80s — and examines his musical brilliance, personal voyage and ultimate salvation.

Focusing on Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys, Love & Mercy paints an unconventional portrait of the artist by interweaving seminal moments in his life, from his artistic genius to his profound struggles, and the love that keeps him alive.

This year, American readers might mark the day in a somewhat unconventional way by reading James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner, an engaging graphic biography of the great Irish writer by Alfonso Zapico.

In 2008, she began a series of unconventional portraits of artists» shoes and to date has painted more than 120 portraits of both world renowned and obscure contemporary artists whose work she admires.

Her psychologically charged portraits tell intimate and unconventional stories, as much about people living on the margins of society and in subcultures as about the New York cultural elite and her own family.

Using unconventional methods such as painting in altered states, using passport photo booths for self - portraits, painting blindfolded, or with his feet — sometimes with his entire body — Rainer manipulates form, composition, and perception to capture extreme emotions.

Barry X Ball Directly engaging the historic tradition of the portrait bust, Barry X Ball (b. 1955, Pasadena, California) utilizes digital technologies and unconventional types of stone in creating his body of work.

Cindy Sherman (b. 1954) has become extremely popular in the art market for creating an unconventional series of self - portraits.

There are the 51 photos that make up Dean's unconventional «portrait» of Cy Twombly, all taken at the artist's home and studio in the Italian town of Gaeta (with the exception of one, from the studio of Giorgio Morandi)-- none of which depict the face of their purported subject.

It offers an unconventional and uncompromising self - portrait through objects, in which the artist herself is absent.

Ward explains: «Over the summer of 2015, I rode the trains of each of New York City's twenty - two subway lines, collecting bacterial samples from hand rails, seats and other high traffic surfaces in an attempt to create an unconventional series of portraits of the city's complex eco-system and a snapshot of the city at large.

Again, Stothart and her team takes the viewer through a succession of portraits, most of them unconventional in some regard.

Referred to by the artist as an unconventional and uncompromising self - portrait through objects, it features the artist's own bed covered in stained sheets, discarded condoms, blood - stained underwear and empty bottles of alcohol.

BRIC is pleased to present Look up here, I'm in heaven, a group exhibition of unconventional portraits featuring paintings, works on paper, and mixed - media work by David Antonio Cruz, Yashua Klos, Tschabalala Self, and Yoon Ji Seon.

Look up here, I'm in heaven, a group exhibition of unconventional portraits featuring paintings, works on paper, and mixed - media work by David Antonio Cruz, Yashua Klos, Tschabalala Self, and Yoon Ji Seon.

A retrospective (until 2 October 2016) of the American artist whose psychologically charged portraits tell intimate and unconventional stories, as much about people living on the margins of society and in subcultures as about the New York cultural elite and her own family.