The Village
portrait artist made Jasper look like a 1930s crooner in pastel, but Jasper was very good - natured about it.
This month, Alice Neel, Uptown (David Zwirner Books / Victoria Miro), a new book authored by Pulitzer Prize winning critic Hilton Als, looks at
the portraits the artist made while living in Spanish Harlem and the Upper West Side throughout the twentieth century.
Not exact matches
When Wiseau and Sestero clash — the baby - faced actor becomes the de facto voice of reason on the film's chaotic set, thanks to every disastrous decision Wiseau
makes — The Disaster
Artist reveals itself as a nuanced
portrait of the jealousies that arise when the creative process goes haywire.
Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall play the aging parents of an
artist (Peck's real - life daughter Cecilia) who returns home to paint their
portraits in this
made - for - TV drama from Arthur Penn..
But in addition to
making me laugh, hard, at a time when cathartic laughter is all but a medical necessity, this
portrait of the
artist as a not - so - young weirdo struck me as peculiarly moving.
But director Asif Kapadia deftly
made a humane, evenhanded
portrait of an
artist whose incredible talent was outmatched by her personal demons.
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.
He was 20, performing in a 1986 revival of John Guare's «The House of Blue Leaves» on Broadway, when he picked up a video camera and
made a little movie called «
Portrait of the
Artist as an Old Man» with the show's star, John Mahoney.
The feature - length
making - of doc «Luck, Trust & Ketchup» combines behind - the - scenes footage with on - set interviews of the cast and crew, as well as Carver's widow, Tess Gallagher, and
portrait artist Don Bachardy.
120
artists from around the globe painstakingly hand painted the over 64,000 individual
portraits that
make - up every second of the film.
Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A
Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as
Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a
portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as
portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black
artist friends and pushed them to
make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those
artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a whole?
Terry Zwigoff's landmark 1995 film is an intimate documentary
portrait of the underground
artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have
made him a household name in popular American art.
The film chronicles a leg of the «Inside Outside Project,» a roving art initiative in which the accomplished French street
artist JR
makes enormous
portraits of people he meets and pastes them onto buildings and walls, each of them reaching several stories high.
Perhaps a stronger filmmaker, like Martin Scorsese (a mutual friend and frequent collaborator with Winkler and Cocks) could have
made De-Lovely a less flawed and more definitive
portrait of the
artist.
Bill Pohlad, a producer who has overseen such films as Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild, Tree of Life, and 12 Years a Slave, as well as the musically inclined biopic The Runaways,
makes his directorial debut (technically a sophomore effort as his original debut was canned in the early 1990s) with a biopic of The Beach Boys» Brian Wilson that, while not a perfect film, is an interesting and sometimes illuminating
portrait of an
artist as a young and older man.
Students develop their own skills exploring how to
make their own
portrait in the style of the
artist.
Paralyzed by her fear of her cat's death, she commissions an
artist to immortalize Blanche by painting three
portraits of him, and simultaneously
makes a commitment to discover her true nature.
Spender's nuanced, dramatic, and ground ¬ breaking
portrait of Gorky, a gifted but bedeviled
artist who concealed his painful past,
makes clear the connection between Gorky's beautiful and haunting work and his unmitigated sorrow over the lost paradise of his Armenian childhood.
As she did for Zelda Fitzgerald 30 years ago, Milford resurrects the great and courageous lyric poet Edna St. Vincent Millay from unwarranted marginalization,
making extraordinarily compelling use of a vast private archive of Millay's diaries and letters in a vivid and sensitive
portrait of a mercurial, original, and radiant
artist.
My friend, LA - based designer Lili Chin, is a «pet
portrait artist» and
made this for me.
Making an already great - looking game look even better are the beautifully drawn and animated
portraits by celebrated comic book
artist Dave Gibbons, who may be best known for his work on graphic novel «The Watchmen.»
Historical and technical anecdotes from these
portraits flesh out our understanding of these
artists at the very moment they are
making their mark on the history of painting.
Artist «Red» Hong Yi
made a massive Jackie Chain
portrait out of 64,000 chopsticks, binding them as a illusionary measure of depth.
I met two wonderful
artists a couple of years ago in Missoula, Montana — Len Nye, who works as a bartender to support himself and his fantastic photography — close - up
portraits of ranchers and winter landscapes that look like Japanese watercolors — and Don Bunse, who
makes intaglio prints.
Each month its «Fan Mail» section provides a
portrait of an
artist, whom the editor selects,
making this a great way for unknown
artists to gain recognition.
As an
artist, I started thinking what that meant for art
making,
portraits — what is the face of a corporation, what would a corporate patron commission as a
portrait, and that thinking manifested into
portraits that replaced famous master works of art with corporate logos.
Instead, these
portraits by Spanish
artist Lola Dupre are
made with the most old - school tools: scanner, printer, scissors, paper, and glue.
His themes, processes, personas, and approach to
making art are evident in everything from the ready -
mades and Pop
portraits of his direct descendents to the work of some of the most boundary - pushing conceptualists, abstract painters, and video
artists working today.
These bronze busts, in the same gallery as the wall of
portraits,
make me appreciate the
artist's feeling for volume and form, an updated sculptural impressionism.
When she returned from her uptown wilderness to the fashionable Upper West side in the 1960s she was out of step with the contemporary scene, however Neel
made a concerted effort to reengage with the New York art world painting numerous
portraits of
artists, curators and gallery owners, including the poet and MOMA curator Frank O'Hara, and
artists Andy Warhol and Robert Smithson.
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.
is a major survey of the
artist's practice that will feature
portraits and abstract photographs, works related to his ongoing Truth Study Center project (begun in 2005), and posters
made in support of the anti-Brexit campaign.
This
makes you wonder: why don't the influential patrons of today have a craving for
portraits, of themselves or loved ones or even (as Frick and other Gilded Age collectors of
artists such as Van Dyck and Gainsborough clearly did) of sufficiently high - status people in general?
These
artists make tragic, comic, and silent
portraits of the human condition.
The result is a
portrait of the general intelligence of an artistic community, including both the inspiration of individual
artists as well as an impression of shared discourse and cognitive approaches to art
making.
The
artists make tragic, comic, and silent
portraits of the human condition.
The exhibition began with early
portraits created in Havana and paintings
made in the 1930s when the
artist was living in New York's Greenwich Village.
Reacting to the range of works on view, which included a selection from the
artist's Concorde series (1997), still lifes,
portraits, and abstract works created using dye or developing fluid on light sensitive paper, Morton noted «what
makes Tillmans's best work sing: the ability, through looking a little, and loving a little, to turn events in our visual lives into vivid, everyday poetry, with all the pleasure and knotty exegesis that implies.
Then in March, Simpson picked up her camera again to
make a series of amazing
portraits of 22 women
artists curators, and scholars for Vogue magazine.
Despite their timelessness, the British
artist's masterful
portraits are
making an important contribution to the art historical cannon, broadening the dialogue around black identify and representation.
Continuing the Warholian reference, on show will be a series of large scale unique silkscreened
portraits of the
artist as Che Guevara, Joseph Beuys, Elvis Presley amongst others, as well as works based on Warhol's urine oxidation paintings, abstract works
made by pissing on copper metallic painted canvas Turk takes a Gestalt approach to cliché and iconic imagery subverting our sense of what we think we are seeing.
Hosted by Tyler Ashley, the Dauphine of Bushwick, the evening will be punctuated by new video
portraits Atlas is
making of contemporary
artists as a continuation of his «Instant Fame!»
Best known for her «plastic
portraits» of dolls and dollhouses, the photographer Laurie Simmons has been
making psychologically probing tableaux since moving to New York as a young
artist in the late 1970s.
Kehinde Wiley, the
Portrait Artist Who is «Transforming the Way African Americans are Seen,»
Makes Time 100 List
An
artist can
make an inflammatory statement, like Kosuth saying «Painting is dead» — but then you go to his house, and there's a
portrait of him by Basquiat or Warhol.
Sly and obliquely, but also unmistakably, another Hockney show currently available in London, this time at Annely Juda Fine Art, the
artist's regular dealer, casts doubt on the proposition the Royal Academy exhibition of his recent
portraits seems determined to put forward, which is that nothing can match a figurative painting
made when directly confronting the subject, with no technology to modify -LSB-...]
Join us this Sunday when we
make silhuette
portraits inspired by the american
artist Alex Israels «
portraits from the exhibition #AlexIsrael.
TIME MAGAZINE RELEASED its Time 100 list for 2018 and it features three visual
artists — Judy Chicago, JR, and Kehinde Wiley, who appears in the wake of painting his news
making portrait of President Barack Obama, which was unveiled at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery on
portrait of President Barack Obama, which was unveiled at the Smithsonian's National
Portrait Gallery on
Portrait Gallery on Feb. 12.
Standout
artists in the show include Tomashi Jackson, who uses Josef Albers's 1963 text Interaction of Color to explore the history of racial segregation in her painterly assemblages; David Shrobe, who creates surreal
portraits by combining his figurative paintings and drawings with found materials; and Kennedy Yanko, who
makes abstract sculptures by blending rubbery skins of poured paint and crumpled paper with bits of marble and scrap metal.
Display highlights include a
portrait painting of a young woman in profile by Armenian - Egyptian
artist Ervand Demirdjian titled Nubian Girl, which is believed to be one of the earliest works in the collection
made between 1900 - 10.