Sentences with phrase «make self portraits»

So, why exactly do artists make self portraits?

So there you have it, a few reasons why artists make self portraits.

We asked seven to make self portraits that show what others see in them — and what they see in themselves.

I've made self portraits since 1971 but have only made a serious effort to make one a day since 2009.

For this project Lichty made a self portrait of his digital self.

The photographer makes self portraits in a selection of current fashions.

Gullow is a visual artist living in Asheville, NC and for the last four years she has made a self portrait everyday as part of her ongoing series, Self Exam.

I've made self portraits since 1971 but have only made a serious effort to make one a day since 2009.

I've made self portraits since 1971 but have only made a serious effort to make one a day since 2009.

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The company is touting their music streaming device as the largest online catalogue of free music in the world, offering over 42 million songs — but we're not expecting the classic bathroom mirror self - portrait to make a triumphant return any time soon...

The key to Greer's interpretation» one that makes her short book on Shakespeare for Oxford's «Past Masters» series one of the finest essays on Shakespeare this century» is her insight that the persona of the Fool in Lear and other plays largely coincides with the self «portrait of the poet in the Sonnets: both persons, Sonneteer and Fool, are self «deprecatory, marginalized, and contemned, yet for that reason are lethally insightful about the flaws of the nobility.

She has great legs and a tiny waist so this sequin, Self - Portrait dress looks like it was made for her.

JJ made a really beautiful pen and pen holder from a can and also this lovely self - portrait!

Make a beeline for Roksanda for iconic silhouettes or look to Needle & Thread, Self - Portrait and Maje for a new wave of trend - led pieces that tick all the boxes for sophisticated soirées, weddings and beyond.

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Every time I wear a Self Portrait dress, I feel like it was made for me.

I felt like dressing up so I wore a beautiful Self Portrait dress and made it day time appropriate by wearing the dress with my Tibi gladiator sandals (similar here).

One too many self - snapped portraits makes you look like a narcissist, she cautions, and potential dates may feel you're inaccessible.

Make the quickly registration on Best USA Dating.com, give your personal self - portrait and open your individuality creating personal profile.

Don't do what most men do, which we women always make fun of, and stand in front of the mirror to take a self - portrait.

Paying close attention to SOA's array of outlaws makes the series an even more richly detailed portrait of self - righteous villainy.

Jafar Panahi's self - portrait of a muzzled artist banned from making films and awaiting his prison term for anti-government propaganda was tellingly smuggled out of his apartment and beyond Iran on a flash drive embedded in a cake.

Charlotte Rampling: The Look DVD Review by Kam Williams Documentary Offers Intimate Self - Portrait of Legendary Actress The legendary Charlotte Rampling has been making movies since the mid-Sixties when she first stole scenes as the late Lynn Redgrave's sidekick in Georgy Girl.

This Is Not a Film (directed with Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 11), shot while Panahi was under house arrest in his Tehran apartment, is a tantalizing hybrid of documentary self - portrait and contemplative fiction, at once an act of rebellion and a singular example of film as legal loophole: Panahi was effectively telling his persecutors, «You never specified that I couldn't make a film like this, because you never could have anticipated me making it.»

It's an interactive self - portrait made from my own personal home videos.

To make the program even more fully rounded, the museum is also showing a 64 - minute self - portrait, Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (1996), which provides an excellent introduction to her work as a whole.

This is a video guide to making a painted self - portrait.

I wanted to know and understand Marie Antoinette's women friends more the surprising Princess de Lamballe, the manipulative Duchess de Polignac, the self - made portrait painter Elisabeth Vigee - Le Brun.

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Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up will be the first exhibition outside of Mexico to display her clothes and intimate possessions, reuniting them with key self - portraits and photographs to offer a fresh perspective on her compelling life stSelf Up will be the first exhibition outside of Mexico to display her clothes and intimate possessions, reuniting them with key self - portraits and photographs to offer a fresh perspective on her compelling life stself - portraits and photographs to offer a fresh perspective on her compelling life story.

She is on a search for its origins; painting as practical magic, the prosaic made ecstatic, and self - portrait in its most basic sense as a trace of its author... The non-traditional materials Strobert employs — powdered graphite, pumice, papier - mâché and glitter among others — all have visual signatures as distinctive as the bulbous shine of oil paint or the transparent skeins of gouache.

Sun streaming into the studio at varying hours and seasons — London's pale wintry light in a new monumental portrait of Paul's sister Kate; rising and waning summer brightness hovering over Paul's own gaunt, taut features in five «Self - portraits» made monthly from June to October last year — marks time and its passing, while an inner glow emanates from each figure.»

Niarchos has also made notable purchases of his own, such as a Vincent van Gogh self - portrait, auctioned at Christie's in 1989, that cost him $ 71.5 million.

The portraits at the Frick varied widely in formality and speed of execution, ranging from quick and expressive drawings and oil sketches to full - length canvases made in Van Dyck's capacity as court painter to Charles I. Works in the first category can look unnervingly contemporary, particularly the sensitive and precocious self - portraits that appeal, anachronistically, to our obsession with «authenticity.»

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.

He also made self - portraits, sometimes in the nude.

Introducing the Brown Paper Bag to the Fan Test for the Month of June (2011), an installation of multiple self - portraits Báez made every day for a month.

His work in photography began with his pioneering AutoPolaroid and Photo - Transformation self - portraits, made between 1969 and 1976, which feature his costumed or disguised self as the subject and were often manipulated with added colors or abstracted renditions of his own body.

The primary tool and subject of these works is her own body; using a messy oil - and - pigment technique gleaned from the «Body Prints» of David Hammons, she has been making process - rich self - portraits that feel simultaneously intimate and in - your - face.

He has also made a number of photographic and sculptural self - portraits that often involve some degree of disguise.

He's made marble self - portraits, a porcelain Michael Jackson, a wooden Buster Keaton.

Instead, there are tapestries made by multiplying reflected versions of paintings; close - up photographs of the surface of paintings; mirror - like reflective works; overpainted self - portraits; various grey paintings; photographic facsimiles of the iconic series of 48 Portraits presented in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1972 — so returning them to their photographic origins in encyclopaedias; and a spectacular installation of «4900 Colours&raquportraits; various grey paintings; photographic facsimiles of the iconic series of 48 Portraits presented in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1972 — so returning them to their photographic origins in encyclopaedias; and a spectacular installation of «4900 Colours&raquPortraits presented in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1972 — so returning them to their photographic origins in encyclopaedias; and a spectacular installation of «4900 Colours», 2007.

The 1977 show also included female Old Masters of established reputation: Renaissance painters like the Cremonese aristocrat Sophonisba Anguissola and the Bolognese Lavinia Fontana; eighteenth - century professionals like the pastel portraitist Rosalba Carriera, whose Venetian studio was once as essential a stop on the Grand Tour as that of her male colleague Pompeo Batoni in Rome, and the Swiss - born Angelika Kauffmann, represented by a self - portrait that showed the dark - haired, porcelain - skinned beauty making a definitive choice between painting and music.

Thinking about Alice Neel brings to mind another great portraitist of our time, Lucian Freud, who never bothered to flatter his models and didn't make an exception for himself either, as his famously unsentimental nude self - portrait demonstrates so eloquently.

His early paintings and sculptures paid homage to the ready - mades of Marcel Duchamp, while the cross-hatching motif he developed in the 1970s found its origins in Edvard Munch's Self Portrait.

Executed in charcoal, ink and often ballpoint pen, her self portraits and images of her brothers and others are usually set against dark backgrounds, the subject's skin depicted in black hues defined by pattern, texture and mark making.

Schiele, whose oeuvre spans just ten years, cut short by his death from influenza at twenty - eight, made more than 250 self - portraits in that brief period, «more than any artists since Rembrandt.»

The end of his life helped inspire this show, which looks at fourteen pictures that Beckmann made after settling in New York in 1949 (including that tangentially fatal self - portrait), along with 25 works made prior to the move.

These photographic self - portraits present Perry camouflaged in a space made from the materials taken from other bodies of her work, such as collections of cereal boxes, takeout containers, and aluminum foil.

From self - portraits created in our children's programs and wearable art designed for the Teen Stylin» runway to woodcut prints inked in the Studio School's adult classes, art - making happens across VMFA's campus.