Sentences with phrase «nude portraits of»

According to The New York Times, «It would be easy to read Kurt Kauper's nude portraits of the former hockey players Bobby Orr and Derek Sanderson as a rote comment on the fragile state of American (or Canadian) masculinity.

Elegantly - posed choreographers and dancers alternate with nude portraits of ballet dancers and models that Lynes shot after hours, sometimes repurposing the same sets he used for ballet photographs and commercial work for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.

The X, Y, and Z Portfolios (published in 1978, 1978, and 1981, respectively) by American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 — 1989) summarize Mapplethorpe's ambitions as a fine - art photographer and contemporary artist, reflecting the tripartite division of his mature work: homosexual sadomasochistic imagery (X); floral still lifes (Y); and nude portraits of African - American men (Z).

The nude portrait of Carla Bruni goes on sale today at Christie's.

The first major survey of Rivers» work in New York in over a decade, the exhibition includes Rivers» famous nude portrait of Frank O'Hara in boots, and highlights the artist's strong interest in appropriation as well as the broad range of inventive methods and materials he employed over the course of his career.

And at the Paris Review Daily, the poets Eileen Myles and Jeremy Sigler discuss Larry Rivers» nude portrait of Frank O'Hara at Tibor de Nagy.

Showing works from all periods of Neel's career, the exhibition includes portraits and nudes including the celebrated nude portrait of John Perreault.

Paints a nude portrait of Isabetta, nearly six years old, when she comes on a visit from Cuba.

[31] Towards the end of his life he did a nude portrait of model Kate Moss.

Her expressive oil paintings of her friends aren't particularly good, although they aren't particularly bad either (Her nude portrait of «Lena,» which kind of looks like Lena Dunham, is definitely worth taking note of).

Related works also reveal Banner's consideration of film and text, including site - specific work, Ha - ha, 2014, which spans the huge windows of the gallery giving an unreal sense of the landscape beyond; Tête à Tête, 2014, a film in which two mechanically operated windsocks become the main protagonists in a bonnet drama, set in the grounds around Longside Gallery; and Mirror, Banner's 2007 film in which actress Samantha Morton reads, for the first time, the artist's nude portrait of her, rendered in word not image.

British painter Lucian Freud's nude portrait of his daughter Bella Freud, the fashion designer estimated to be worth $ 20 - 30 million failed to sell.

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His portraits, groups and nudes, are elegantly rendered examples of classic photography in purist form.

His work shocked contemporaries and often sparked outrage — the flagrant Blue Nude, a provocative, perverse portrait of Amélie reclining in the garden sunlight was misunderstood and received by critics like a physical assault on the senses, language Matisse used himself to explain his almost violent process.

Wilmot begins to fantasize that as Velázquez, he has created a masterpiece, a stunning portrait of a nude.

Often and traditionally portrayed as nudes, the female body in photographs stands in stark contrast to the portrayal of men — often the ones taking the portraits — famous male photographers such a Weston, Steiglitz, Man Ray, etc, who commonly employed «the male gaze» approach.

An amusing example of this taboo on confronting a dressed lady with a naked man is embodied in a group portrait of the members of the Royal Academy in London in 1772, represented by Zoffany as gathered in the life room before two nude male models: all the distinguished members are present with but one noteworthy exception — the single female member, the renowned Angelica Kauffmann, who, for propriety's sake, is merely present in effigy, in the form of a portrait hanging on the wall.

Then there are the superb images by South African photographer Zanele Muholi, a gay woman in a country that's still worryingly hostile to the LGBTQ community: as recently as 2009 the country's then Minister of Arts and Culture Lulu Xingwana described Muholi's portraits of nude lesbian couples as «immoral» and «against nation - building.»

In the introduction Haynes writes: «For her new exhibition... Semmel has created 12 large paintings, many of which have two layers, each with a nude self - portrait.

In the 1970s, Neel began to paint portraits of her extended family as well as a major series of nudes.

The exhibition surveys fifty years of Neel's paintings and is arranged thematically into nine themes: Allegory, the Essential Portrait, the Psychological Portrait, Portraits from Memory, Cityscapes, Nudes, Parents and Children, the Detached Gaze and Old Age.

In 1975, he acquired a Hasselblad medium - format camera and, working primarily in the studio, began producing large - scale still lifes (of subjects such as lilies and skulls), interiors, nudes, portraits and self - portraits.

His style is reminiscent of the later expressionist paintings by Bomberg, while his subject matter has been considered repetitive by some critics; a painter of portraits, nudes, building sites and urban landscapes, all depictions which he will return to again and again.

Even more unsettling is the self - portrait of Alice Neel, eighty years old and totally nude — and surprisingly defiant in its quirkiness and sensuality.

This is just another term for a realistic work (as opposed to a work featuring a figure which is variously known as a nude, life painting or figure painting, a life drawing or figure drawing, or if they are clothed, a costume painting, costume drawing or portrait if a personality is the center of focus.)

In his life - sized self - portrait, «Brown Sugar Vine» (1970), Hendricks appears nude, wearing sunglasses and a stocking cap, artfully confronting and subverting American stereotypes about black male sexuality by claiming ownership of it.

Joan Semmel's Erotic Series (or «fuck paintings») of the 1970s, subsequent nude self - portraits, and recent unflinching depictions of her aging body establish her as one of the most important feminist painters of her generation.

A key figure of Australian art since the mid-1980s, Linda Marrinon has developed an idiosyncratic language of figurative painting and sculpture that merges contemporary cartoons with neoclassic tropes of the nude, reclining figure, and bust or standing portrait.

Choose from a diverse collection of female nudes, Pre-Raphaelite figures and famous portraits.

Just as the Liz Taylor Series deconstructs the genre of the self portrait, and the Hardcore series of digital photographs on canvas deconstructs the still life, Burkhart's new photography series reconfigures the genre of the nude.

Furthermore, she often tackled subjects that were perceived as «risky» during her lifetime: Neel is known for painting gay people long before homosexuality was legalised, transvestites, members of the poor, immigrant communities in Spanish Harlem (where she lived), candid portraits of nursing and pregnant women as well as unflinching male and female nudes.

Painter of portraits, nudes, still - life and urban scenes.

The works at the Chrystie Street space are all drawings, inky nude self - portraits of Ms. Emin sitting in a chair.

For lovers of elegant Neo-classicism, there were incisive portraits by Ingres from the eighteenth century and early nude studies by Degas from the nineteenth century, plus for dessert, a gorgeous, urgently scribbled Seurat of a silhouetted colt, c. 1882 — 1883.

By the seventies Neel was painting portraits of her extended family and a series of nudes.

At the time, his paintings consisted of landscapes, portraits, and nudes.

During this early period, his paintings were mostly portraits, nudes, and urban scenes, under the influence of his instructor.

The show is divided into seven sections, including portraits of artists (Alice Neel's 1970 painting of Andy Warhol after he was shot in an assassination attempt, a collection favorite, for example), street life portraits, nudes, portraits of the famous, and so on.

Alfred Leslie sought to maximize psychological impact in enormous portraits of nude and nearly nude women.

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.

Dubuffet applied his radical approach to subjects ranging from views of Paris and its metro to nudes, portraits of writers, majestic beards, and scenes from the Sahara desert.

Throughout the 80s, Mapplethorpe produced a bevy of images that simultaneously challenge and adhere to classical aesthetic standards: stylized compositions of male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes, and studio portraits of artists and celebrities, to name a few of his preferred genres.

Monographs of his work include: Irving Penn (1984); Irving Penn: Master Images (1990); Irving Penn: A Career in Photography (1997); Dancer (2001); Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949 - 50 (2002); Irving Penn: Platinum Prints (2005); Irving Penn: Small Trades (2009); Irving Penn: Portraits (2010); Irving Penn: Archæology (2010); Irving Penn: Cigarettes (2012); and Irving Penn: Cranium Architecture (2013).

This was established with their first purchase, Pierre Bonnard's Standing Nude Looking in Mirror, and continued as the collection grew to include works such as Edgar Degas's Dancer with Arm Too Far behind Head and Adolph Gottlieb's Portrait of Marcus Rothkowitz — a pencil portrait of his colleague MarkPortrait of Marcus Rothkowitz — a pencil portrait of his colleague Markportrait of his colleague Mark Rothko.

But whereas the work of those artists achieves a meaningful dissonance through a sundry aggregation of disjunctive motifs, Picabia's layered images serve to reinforce one another within each painting, coalescing in their signification into a unified expression or theme: in one case it is the seductive menace of his Portrait of Kiki (ca. 1938 - 40), a demimonde figure painted in lurid yellows and greens with a spider form imposed over her face; in another it is the cheesy eroticism of Reve (ca. 1935), an image of a sleeping woman about to be kissed imposed over a nude standing (like Botticelli's Venus, but with arms upraised) on the surface of the waves.

It's just one masterpiece after another, from the potently probing self - portraits to the conjugal tenderness of The Jewish Bride or his frank, raw nudes.

Published by Seven Stories Press (New York), the book is Chase - Riboud's first anthology of poetry since her acclaimed Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra (1987), which won her the Carl Sandburg Poetry Prize for Best American Poet.

And in this show — the first solo exhibition Tate Modern has ever held for the Spanish master — those voluptuous stretches of flesh appear everywhere, from reclining nudes to portraits of a woman seated in a chair.

1987 Carl Sandburg Award for best American poet from the International Platform Association for her anthology of poetry, Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra (Willam Morrow, 1987)

Drawing for me by this time had become the same as and of parallel importance to the writing of poetry, and I had already published two volumes of poems, one of which, Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra, had won the Carl Sandburg Award for best American poet.