Sentences with phrase «on celebrity portraits»

His process includes doodling on existing images, creating visual jokes on celebrity portraits, and play - drawing.

Not exact matches

The film Moukarbel has made focuses on the Joanne era alone, and refuses to dwell on her more theatrical past, becoming a portrait of a woman rather than one of a celebrity.

Known for paintings based on images he sources online, from animals and flowers to celebrity portraits (he was commissioned to paint the musician Lorde for the cover of her 2017 album Melodrama), Sam McKinniss is showing a new work based on an image of singer Lana Del Rey.

Several of Noguchi's public artwork proposals were rejected; voluntarily (and then less so), he was interred in a Japanese work camp in Arizona; the FBI investigated him for espionage; he had romantic affairs with the likes of Frida Kahlo; and on and off, Noguchi turned to bust portraits of high society New Yorkers and Hollywood celebrities to make ends meet.

Carefully staged celebrity portraits by Jonathan Yeo and Michael Peto are on display at the National Portrait Gallery

This is the gallery that, in 2009, turned the death of Dash Snow into a celebrity event and showcased Kehinde Wiley, with his cross between street art and fashion magazine on top of his Obama state portraits.

Israel's portraits are intended to complement — and comment on — the grand gallery, which is filled with 17th - and 18th - century portraits of famous figures of the British noble class as well that of Sarah Siddons, the great actress and celebrity of 18th - century London.

For its latest Art Issue, Visionaire, the iconic art and fashion publication that knows how to surprise us with its thematic issues, decided to offer a different perspective on the continuous rise of selfie culture, asking legendary conceptual artist John Baldessari to create a series of artworks inspired by digital celebrity self - portraits.

She managed to make 43 9 x 12 inch pictures of young white male celebrities look at once like portraits, and also on the verge of being indistinguishable from each other.

Many artists now use portraits to comment on larger issues, such as individual identity, social inequities, politics, celebrity obsession — and the genre of portraiture itself.

On view are iconic works from key moments of his career, from his student days in the 1960s to the present, including his large - scale double portraits of the celebrity friends of his youth; the collaged Polaroids through which he examined new possibilities within Cubism as well as the artistic use of photography; his later forays into painting the landscape on location in his native Yorkshire; and finally, his experimental works using iPad appOn view are iconic works from key moments of his career, from his student days in the 1960s to the present, including his large - scale double portraits of the celebrity friends of his youth; the collaged Polaroids through which he examined new possibilities within Cubism as well as the artistic use of photography; his later forays into painting the landscape on location in his native Yorkshire; and finally, his experimental works using iPad appon location in his native Yorkshire; and finally, his experimental works using iPad apps.

Rachel Hecker's terrific airbrushed Jesus portraits, on the other hand, derive from both the readymade form of his iconic image with found images of celebrities such as Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen.

On view is a survey of Pagliuso's most important black and white photographs spanning from 1968 to 2017, including celebrity portraits, Poultry & Raptor Suite and landscapes.

But the swiftly moving art world, latching on to the latest, often - superficial thing, had little time for this contemplative artist who considered every brush stroke, whose works were small, who favored landscape painting and studio still lifes, and whose portraits were homely but sensitive studies of people he knew, rather than celebrities.

With the usual celebrity suspects — Chloe Sevigny, John Waters, Kim Gordon, and Thurston Moore — on hand, the game was in the meta - moment: Clarissa Dalrymple attended her portrait by Billy Sullivan; graffiti - chic entrepreneur Aron, who is thinly disguised as the baseball bat - wielding «Arod» in the novel Reena Spaulings, hung out with Biennial - featured Bernadette Corporation members, and Jeff Koons appeared doubled in Adam McEwen's fake obituary of the neo-Pop star.

The variety of subjects dealt with offers a wide perspective on Diane Arbus» talent, ranging from anonymous subjects to celebrity portraits of Norman Mailer, Jorge Luis Borges, Mia Farrow, Marcello Mastroianni, Madame Martin Luther King, children's fashion, to several photographic essays in which the images are credited or commented by the photographer herself («The Vertical Journey,» «The Full Circle,» «Auguries of Innocence.»

Indeed, his virtuoso portrait art, at times on a par with other 19th - century greats like John Singer Sargent and Thomas Eakins, helped him to become one of the first «rock - star» celebrities of English figurative painting.

In this exhibition, his first in New York City since 2010, Machen has selected a number of works from his bi-coastal Portraits Project (Los Angeles and New York), in which the artist posts two - tone photographs of artists, celebrities, political figures and other notable personalities on walls throughout the city streets.