Sentences with phrase «life photographic portraits»

The other, JR, is a semi-anonymous French street artist known for public art — larger - than - life photographic portraits posted on streets, buildings, and border walls — that gives a voice to the voiceless at the intersection between the personal and the political.

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The opening credits sequence, accompanied by a rendering of Camille Saint - Saens «Carnival of the Animals,» provides sepia - toned historical period photographs (from the Library of Congress, various museums and photographic archives, and the NY Public Library) of turn - of - the - century city and tenement life (portraits, closeups, slices of life including play, marriage, work, politics, friendships, transportation, domesticity, and leisure time).

Employing a range of techniques, including collage, hand - drawn rotoscoping — a technique that involves tracing from frames of live film footage — interlaced still photographic images, and live 16 mm film footage, Breer composes lively, nimble films that present an intimate, modest, and personal portrait of slices of shared lives and eras.

From his earliest photographic self - portraits to his sculptural still lifes, each series is a remarkable creation suggestive of interiors or furniture, theater settings or architecture, yet they often seem absent of an immediate identifiable content, as if they confront the viewer with a riddle.

His earliest photographic works recreated historical subjects, such as self - portraits, still lifes and mythological scenes.

The National Portrait Gallery celebrates the remarkable life and career of Audrey Hepburn through 70 photographic portraits.

Entitled Shelf Life — read between the lines: a visual poem, a family portrait, a collision of mementos, this expansive and thoughtful photographic piece spans a 63 - foot wall presenting a sequence of images that poetically address increased anxieties over the current political climate.

This photographic corpus contains food representations, still - life objects, domestic artifacts, «domesticated» plants, and portraits.

Daniel Gordon (1980, Boston, USA) is known for his colourful, patterned photographs, portraits, still lifes, and photographic abstractions printed on canvas: so - called Screen Selections.

With an extraordinary knowledge of photographic techniques, he created black - and - white portraits of people, animals and landscapes that capture beauty and transcend the boundary between life and death.

In the wide range of art the gallery offers, subjects range from water and beach scenes, boats, landscape, flower arrangements, graphic paintings of musicians, fifties photographic paintings, birds, fish, traditional still life, figure painting, portraits and trees, covering every major contemporary figurative category and genre.

Yet these relatively automatic processes rarely fail to seduce — death masks and photographic portraits can be more fascinating than a living face.

With blurry intensity, Twombly set his photographic sights on still life motifs, including fruit and flowers from the garden in Gaeta overlooking the sea, landscapes and portraits of friends and family.

Three life - sized photographic portraits of trans feminist activists and women of color — CeCe McDonald, Johanna Saavedra and Jennicet Gutiérrez — occupy a large section of gallery wall space, and their oversized presence speaks to a need for greater visibility of trans women within the larger women's movement.

Rather than doing that, Mexico City - born photographer Amanda Gutiérrez seeks to document her surroundings as she ventures through Brooklyn's Sunset Park, focusing both on her «subjective experience as a Mexican woman living and working in New York» and painting a photographic portrait of the neighborhood's Mexican immigrant community.

This exhibition is a survey of the artist's oeuvre — from images that are the product of experimentation with various materials and photographic processes, to portraits of friends and strangers and still lives of his environment, to book page collages, to more recent hyperreal digital works.

A remarkable photographic project which documents five years in the lives of the inhabitants of Ponte City, an iconic Johannesburg landmark and the tallest residential skyscraper in Africa, will have its only UK showing at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery this winter.

The portrait and landscape photographic series documents the lives of migrant farm workers throughout South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.

The artist paints from photographic reference and her subject's range from portraits and self - portraits to landscapes and still - lifes, all of which are personal and intimate.

He has been an important contributor of portraits, still - lives and photographic essays in such publications as Life, Holiday, Look, Vanity Fair, Scientific American, Town and Country, Esquire, Travel and Leisure, Harper's Bazaar, The New Yorker and others.

Notably, The Home of My Eyes reflects on communities living in Azerbaijan through a sequence of 55 photographic portraits inscribed with ink.

Sprick is one of Colorado's best - known painters; his portraits and still lifes collected widely for their naturalism and accuracy, which border on the photographic at times.

His multifaceted career ranges from early photographic works, recreating historical subjects (self - portraits, still - lives, mythological scenes, etc.), to empty frames and bases without objects.

13 Most Beautiful Avatars (part of their larger Portraits project from 2006 - 7) is a photographic series of «celebrity» avatars exhibited in a contemporary art gallery in Second Life.

The broad range of vision engages one with its formal and narrative authority — from elegant self - contained cerebral works like On Kawara's «Today» series, in which the artist paints only a date of the year against a background of color, and Roni Horn's wall - sized photographic series composed of 36 progressive clown portraits of perceptual ambiguity, both artists neatly isolating individual permutations of life's sequential narrative, to Peter Fischli and David Weiss» collaborative film, «Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go),» in which the unconstructed imagery is punctuated by bursts of random narrative that addresses life's impermanence.

Through the 40 photographic works presented in The Haunted Capital, Frazier offers an intimate portrait of the effects of deindustrialization on the lives of individuals and communities.

Ethridge combines photographic images — landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, still lives, collages and commercial assignments — without hierarchy but with respect for their individual character.

2008 «Character Project» — USA Network Commission Honored Educator, The Society for Photographic Education, Cleveland, OH Oxbow School, Napa, CA — Visiting Artist Residency 2007 Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA - Edward E. Elson Artist - in - Residence 2006 Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY - Artist in Residence, «Expanding the Walls: Making Connections Between Photography, History, and Community» 2005 Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA - Edward E. Elson Artist - in - Residence San Francisco Arts Education, San Francisco, CA - Artist - in - Residence 2003 Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI - Artist - in - Residence California State University, Monterey Bay, CA - Artist - in - Residence, The Reclamation Project 2002 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship - Fellow in Photography David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago - Artist - in - Residence 2000 Federal Reserve Bank, Chicago, IL - Commission 1999 International Artist's Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS), Stockholm, Sweden - Artist - in - Residence Percent for Art Commission, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs - Midway Airport Center for Documentary Sudies at Duke University - «Idivisible» / A National Documentary Project Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY - Artist - in - Residence Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT - Artist - in - Residence 1998 National Portrait Gallery, London - Artist - in - Residence 1997 Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA - Edward E. Elson Artist - in - Residence Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH - Artist - in Residence 1996 High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, «Picturing the South: The Commission Project» Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, Residency Project Committee for Public Art Commission, Cleveland Public Library Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, VA / Colonial Boys and Girls Club, Norfolk, VA - Residency Workshop 1995 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN - Artist - in - Residence Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH - Artist - in - Residence 1994 Percent for Art Commission, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs - Mabel Manning Near West Side Branch Library 1993 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, MoMA Life Trustees Portrait Commission The George Gund Foundation, Cleveland, OH, Commissioned Project The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College and Providence - St.