Sentences with phrase «of realist portrait»

BEST IRISH ARTISTS For a list of the leading Irish painters, including exponents of realist portrait painting, see: Best Irish Artists.

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Alec Guinness brilliantly winds the contradictions of his principled British officer into a crisp portrait while William Holden reprises the cynical survivalist of Stalag 17 as the camp's unceremoniously pragmatic realist.

The festival described the 17 - minute long film as «a diptych of one man's day, half impressionist and half realist portraits.»

Stein works between the lines of abstract and realist, he creates recognisable faces, but is not interested in a photo realistic portrait.

Even in this case, it must be noted that certain photographs represent a private sketch group meeting in one of the women artists» homes; in the other, the model is draped; and the large group portrait, a co-operative effort by two men and two women students of Repin's, is an imaginary gathering together of all of the Russian realist's pupils, past and present, rather than a realistic studio view.

Keeping It Real Beijing artist Liu Xiaodong's expressive realist portraits, touching on some of the most vital social problems in China, have brought him respect in his home country — and a high level of visibility internationally Barbara Pollack

In the April 1999 issue of American Artist magazine the contemporary realist painter Jack Beal is quoted as saying about his commissioned portraits, «I tell my clients that when my portrait of them is finished, they will hate it — and their spouse will hate it even more.

His realist portraits of friends and associates in the 1960s and 70s conveyed a certain hipness and attitude defined by cool authenticity and self - possessed style.

His portraits are realist works constructed of flawlessly rendered figures and an array of props.

The paintings were composed of thick, fluid brushstrokes, the individuals appearing more as caricatures rather than traditional realist portraits.

Lucian Freud's oeuvre is comprised of expressive, realist portraits, most often of female nudes or of himself, but also of various public figures, such as Clint Eastwood, Leigh Bowery, and Queen Elizabeth II.

(A pendant show here, Kerry James Marshall Selects, offers a revealing glimpse of the artist's sources and inspirations: a stern portrait from the workshop of Hans Holbein, flowing figure studies by Veronese, a social - realist lithograph by his former teacher Charles Wilbert White, and a photograph of Gerhard Richter's wife, smudged with paint.)

Powerfully expanding upon his photo - realist self - portraits based on photographs taken at various stages of his life, Stingel essentially explores the «that - has - been» of photography.

Chicago artist Marla Friedman's recent portrait sculpture of the legendary Apollo 13 astronaut Captain James A. Lovell, Jr. follows the historic and time - honored realist tradition.

She was not included in the major exhibitions of realist art that took place in the 1960s in, among other museums, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in spite of her efforts at ingratiating herself with two of the major curators of the time, Frank O'Hara and Henry Geldzahler, by painting their portraits.

The reference of all the images is the 1885 portrait of Saint Fabiola by the French realist painter Jean - Jacques Henner.

The third gallery features early portraits including the striking Arnold Comes of Age (1930) made the same year as American Gothic, an amalgam of Northern Renaissance works, but also Piero della Francesca, German realist art by Wood's contemporary Christian Schad, and the idyllic and symbolic American landscapes of Arthur B. Davies and Maxfield Parrish.

Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) British realist - one of the best portrait artists of the modern era.

Six works range from the Ghanaian Jeremiah Quarshie's realist portrait of «Auntie Dedei» seated on yellow plastic containers, and the Congolese Chéri Samba's surrealist satire, to the American Kehinde Wiley's naturalism, and the British Chris Ofili's abstract «Blue Steps».

Although realist sculpture first emerged in the form of portrait busts of Roman Emperors (compare these gritty works with romantic Greek sculpture), and was continued most memorably by sculptors like Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917), it wasn't until the advent of Pop - Art in the 1960s that artists like Duane Hanson (1925 - 96), John De Andrea (b. 1941) and Feuerman began to produce superrealist figurative sculpture.

For other important American realist portrait painters, see: Benjamin West (1738 - 1820) the «Father of American Painting»; John Singleton Copley (1738 - 1815), noted for his portraits and history pictures; Gilbert Stuart (1755 - 1828), who painted some 130 portraits of George Washington; and Thomas Eakins (1844 - 1916) for his outstanding subject - paintings and portraiture.

[1] In addition to work showing a personal version of precisionism, he produced paintings, drawings, and prints in the social realist, Mexican muralist, and surrealist styles as well as still lifes, portraits, and landscapes that defy easy classification.

The collection of American art includes works by the great 18th century history painter John Singleton Copley; the Francophile Mary Cassatt, a leading figure in the American Impressionism movement; the portraitist Gilbert Stuart; the painter of the cowboy west Frederic Remington; the wonderful 19th century realists Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins; the post-Impressionist Whistler; the virtuoso society portrait painter John Singer Sargent; the Pop - Artists Jasper Johns, Edward Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein; co-inventors of «Action - Painting» Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner; and the Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko, to name but a few.

Although noted for his portrait art as well as his genre painting and still lifes, he is best remembered for his landscape painting, whose detailed naturalism perfectly illustrates the principle that close attention to nature is the foundation of realist painting.

The upshot of all this is a portfolio of quite different subject - matter and style, ranging from beautifully evocative realist landscapes - witness her superb depiction of light and shadow in «The Lookout, Dungarvan», «Co Waterford Mountains», and «Blackwater River, Villierstown» - to Impressionist portraits like «Gillian» and highly expressionist works such as «Treewoman» and «Loss and Hope».

Alice Neel Portraits of people and animals by this innocent realist.

Although the book focuses on her portraits, it also covers the artistand # 8217; s early social realist paintings and cityscapes, tracing the evolution of Neeland # 8217; s style and examining themes that she revisited throughout her career.

Lohin has included two Imaginary Portraits, one of which — «Reclining Female Torso,» 1980 — looks like a realist's rendering of forms carved from flesh - colored stone.

Considered one of America's leading contemporary realists, Daniel Sprick's subjects range from extraordinarily realistic portraits to hauntingly contemplative still lifes and urban light filled landscapes.

Richter is a brilliant photo - realist painter, but the way he messes with the images often gives them a haunting atmosphere; many, such as a recent portrait of his daughter Ella (2007), have a dirty blur to them.