Sentences with phrase «influential portrait artist»

Close is one of America's most influential portrait artists, known for his gigantic mosaic - patterned works, which he paints from photographs.

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Saturday came to an end with the screening of Anton Corbijn: Inside Out, an intimate portrait of the influential Dutch artist who has taken iconic photographs of iconic figures throughout his career from David Bowie through Nelson Mandela to Kylie from Neighbours.

The artist has painted portraits of influential hip - hop figures such as the Notorious B.I.G., LL Cool J, Big Daddy Kane, Ice T, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and Michael Jackson, among others.

If the great and influential Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti was anything like the character portrayed by Geoffrey Rush in «Final Portrait,» they could have come up with another title for the film.

This makes you wonder: why don't the influential patrons of today have a craving for portraits, of themselves or loved ones or even (as Frick and other Gilded Age collectors of artists such as Van Dyck and Gainsborough clearly did) of sufficiently high - status people in general?

Tacita Dean: Landscape, Portrait, Still Life, published at a career - defining moment for the artist, provides a new and authoritative view on a hugely influential filmmaker who has been at the cutting edge of British art for over 20 years.

She did not just paint the well - known and / or the well - born, though there are portraits of Warhol, poet Frank O'Hara, artists Robert Smithson, and Benny Andrews, as well as shapers of the art status quo like Henry Geldzahler, an influential curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Elinor Poindexter, an influential gallery owner.

This show features new work by this accomplished and influential American artist, alongside a selection of his iconic, large - scale portraits from the 1960s.

Her spray - paint portrait by New York artist Lee Quinones and Blondie's influential music video Rapture, featuring artists Jean - Michel Basquiat, Fab 5 Freddy, and Quinones, were featured in MOCA's recent exhibition Art in The Streets.

The influential friendship between the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and the artists GF Watts and Dante Gabriel Rossetti is acknowledged in a display of the portraits they made of each other and those featuring their shared models.

The work, which was unveiled at the Gallery in 2010, is the first painted portrait of British - born Wintour and also the first work by influential American artist Katz to enter the Gallery's Collection.

However, his ironic self - portraits posed in a Mao suit in front of American landmarks found their way to Communist China and were profoundly influential for China ‟ s avant - garde, including conceptual artists Song Dong and Zhang Huan, who were exposed to Tseng ‟ s images through western magazines smuggled into the country in the 1980 ‟ s. Tseng ‟ s photographs not only satirized relations between the United States and its emerging rival, China, but also broadcasted his freedom of movement - a privilege denied most Chinese artists at the time.

Among the works to be selected will be examples of Mapplethorpe's flower studies and portraits of the most influential artists, writers and musicians of the 1970s and 1980s, alongside iconic self portraits.

These abstract drawing / painting hybrids, which the artist refers to as «portraits», are created while listening to influential female vocalists and consequently each piece is named after the singer who inspired it.

BILL VIOLA: THE ROAD TO ST PAUL»S is a powerful, moving portrait of the world's most influential video artist and his wife.

The exhibition includes 15 intimate black and white portraits of influential performing, literary, fine artists and designers.

This struck Brown as strange, because she was familiar with Close's portraits of influential artists — including Lou Reed, Cecily Brown, Kiki Smith, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker and Roy Lichtenstein — none of which featured bare breasts.

Knight, Nick (b. 1958) One of the most influential young lens - based artists of the 1990s, specializing in fashion and portrait photography.

The portraitists Hans Holbein and Anthony van Dyck were the most distinguished and influential of a large number of artists who spent extended periods in Britain, generally eclipsing local talents like Nicolas Hilliard, the painter of portrait miniatures, Robert Peake the elder, William Larkin, William Dobson, and John Michael Wright, a Scot who mostly worked in London.

Lassnig's theory of Körpergefühl (body awareness) which attempts to transfer bodily sensations and mental vulnerably via the canvas onto the viewer is particularly profound in her haunting self - portraits and has been exceptionally influential on future generations of artists.

Man Ray Portraits is the first major museum retrospective of this innovative and influential artist's photographic pPortraits is the first major museum retrospective of this innovative and influential artist's photographic portraitsportraits.

Whether it's useful to think of Richter's wonderful photo - based figure paintings as portraits is a matter for debate, but they have certainly been influential on younger artists such as Glenn Brown (pictured).

Dr Nicholas Cullinan, Director, National Portrait Gallery, London said: «Having worked with her before on FILM in 2011 at Tate Modern, Tacita Dean was top of my list of artists to programme when I took up the Directorship of the National Portrait Gallery two years ago, both to collaborate with one of the most influential artists today and to engage the Gallery with film.

The artist is one of Europe's most influential painters — and the exhibition featured some rather dark subject matters — a portrait of Japanese killer Issei Sagawa, and «The Shore», a «really dark» painting of a German submarine crew about to be shot.

Using unprecedented access to Burden's archive as well as candid footage filmed with the artist in the final years of his life, this documentary film is a revealing portrait of the man behind some of the most thought provoking and influential artworks of the past 50 years.

The artist is one of Europe's most influential painters — and this current exhibition features some rather dark subject matters, from a portrait of Japanese killer Issei Sagawa, to «The Shore», a «really dark» painting of a German submarine crew about to be executed.