Augusta is known primarily as
a portrait artist who works with oil paints and pastels in both traditional and impressionistic styles.
Kehinde Wiley,
the Portrait Artist Who is «Transforming the Way African Americans are Seen,» Makes Time 100 List
Not exact matches
The auction was run by Heritage Auctions,
who said a
portrait of the actress by the
artist Margaret Keane, was the highest - selling item of the night, selling for $ 45,000.
Given the theological cast of her writing, one might expect to find in her memoir a
portrait of the
artist as a young Jonathan Edwards — someone
who (shortly before he went off to college) observed the curiosities of the flying spider, analyzed the optics of the rainbow, and then celebrated the glory of the creator as revealed in the natural creation.
The talented
artist Heather Rooney,
who previously showed how to draw LeBron James, has moved onto perfecting a
portrait of the world's greatest soccer player, Argentina's Lionel Messi.
While Cuomo claimed last week that he hardly knew Howe, The Post disclosed that he was so close to the current governor that he served as the «hand model» for the
artist who painted that official
portrait of Mario Cuomo that hangs opposite the current governor's office at the Capitol.
After the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando in 2016, local
artist and GSD member Kim Sillen organized the Senator
Portrait Project — images of the US Senators
who take NRA money and vote against gun safety laws.
The
artist, Simmie Knox —
who also did official
portraits for then - President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary — recalled Howe giving guidance on how they wanted the painting done, but clammed up when he found out that the lobbyist was under a federal probe.
The painting over the fireplace is a
portrait that my best friend in college (
who is an
artist in London) gave us as a wedding gift!
Based on true events, Woman Walks Ahead tells the story of Catherine Weldon (Jessica Chastain), a widowed
artist from New York
who, in the 1880s, traveled alone to North Dakota to paint a
portrait of Chief Sitting Bull (Michael Greyeyes).
CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER is a documentary
portrait of
artists, writers, and collectors
who remain steadfastly loyal to the typewriter as a tool and muse, featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, David McCullough, Sam Shepard, and others.
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..
While the film is seemingly accessible as a
portrait of an
artist who seems particularly attuned to his own creative process, and particularly adept at describing this attunement (Cave has given several long - form lectures on the peculiar metaphysics of songcraft), it's unlikely that many
who aren't already whole - hog Bad Seeds fans would be able to stomach much of Cave's self - styled pomposity.
In the end, what emerges is a funny, honest, and incisive
portrait of a truly one - of - a-kind
artist, and an exhilarating behind - the - scenes look at the last 50 years of the film industry through the eyes of someone
who has truly seen it all.
Director Shekhar Kapur is an
artist who favours an epic canvas, and this sequel to his 1998 Elizabeth paints a mythic
portrait.
His wife, Gerda (Alicia Vikander), is quickly established as a supportive, loving partner
who maintains an affectionate rapport with her spouse despite a lingering jealousy over his success and her lack of it as a
portrait artist.
Saturday came to an end with the screening of Anton Corbijn: Inside Out, an intimate
portrait of the influential Dutch
artist who has taken iconic photographs of iconic figures throughout his career from David Bowie through Nelson Mandela to Kylie from Neighbours.
«Final
Portrait» focuses on one small episode in the life of Italian
artist Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush),
who died in 1966 at the age of sixty - five.
With the balance of their friendship hinging on
whos getting the most out of it, Life amounts to an elegantly crafted, intensely cynical, double
portrait of the
artist as a young man.
As a lonely, elderly man
who was once a successful
artist, Jenkins beautifully captures a
portrait of a man whose time in the spotlight is long gone and
who spends his days attempting to land drawing gigs and eat pies.
Her mother having recently committed suicide, Lucy has been sent to stay at the villa of a family friend's, ostensibly so that he (Donal McCann), the
artist, can do her
portrait, though she brings with her a private agenda that includes finding out
who her real father is, sussing out the author of an old secret - admirer note, and getting her cherry popped.
It's also an unsurprisingly bravura showcase for Day - Lewis,
who, in what will reportedly be his final screen performance, has left us with something rich, indelible and at times marvelously loathsome — a
portrait of the
artist as a fey, prickly, hyper - demanding middle - aged man.
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?
Here's an interesting
portrait of Howard Berger, a special makeup effects
artist who's worked on films like The Chronicles of Narnia and Inglorious Basterds, and the work he does to transform actors into, well, monsters.
A great mix of old and new cinematic gold, this year's lineup includes Ildikó Enyedi's Berlinale Golden Bear - winner On Body and Soul; Mrs. Fang, Wang Bing's unflinching document of an elderly woman in her final days, which won the Golden Leopard at Locarno; the North American premiere of Katharina Wyss's powerful debut feature Sarah Plays a Werewolf, about a woman
who channels her fears into theater; Govinda Van Maele's fiction feature debut Gutland, featuring Phantom Thread's Vicky Krieps; the U.S. premiere of Slovenian director Rok Biček «s The Family, a compassionate
portrait of a young man's life over the course of 10 years; and experimental
artist Bertrand Mandico's exhilarating, gender - bending Wild Boys.
But it is also a heartbreaking
portrait of an
artist who's been silenced, and Panahi manages to put a human face — his own — on this injustice, and turn what can seem like an abstract violation of rights into something more immediate and terrible, the stifling of a life.
From the opening credits to an early gag involving a
portrait artist, Steven Spielberg's The Adventures Of Tintin formally announces its intent to respect the style and vision of Hergé, the Belgian
artist who created Tintin and took the boy reporter / adventurer through two dozen books of comic - book adventures over the course of more than 40 years.
A documentary
portrait of
artists, writers, and collectors
who remain steadfastly loyal to the typewriter as a tool and muse, this intriguing and beautiful film features Tom Hanks, John Mayer, David McCullough, Sam Shepard, and others.
According to Focus, the movie «paints an illuminating
portrait both of an
artist on a creative journey, and the women
who keep his world running.»
Final
Portrait tells the story of, literally, his final portrait as an artist - a painting he did of an American novelist who was visiting Paris, where his studio was, in th
Portrait tells the story of, literally, his final
portrait as an artist - a painting he did of an American novelist who was visiting Paris, where his studio was, in th
portrait as an
artist - a painting he did of an American novelist
who was visiting Paris, where his studio was, in the 1960s.
is a deliriously biblical
portrait of the
artist as a godlike monster (for the record, I liked it), this new film by Paul Thomas Anderson offers a more graceful and far more complicated version of the same idea... Quiet, moody, and deeply perverse (I'll say no more), this fascinating movie reminds us that Anderson is the kind of alchemist - director
who can turn somebody ordering breakfast into a classic scene.»
A beautiful, invigorating and loving
portrait of an
artist from a bygone era
who still has something to say.
With his latest film, Paul Thomas Anderson paints an illuminating
portrait both of an
artist on a creative journey, and the women
who keep his world running.
Those seeking a less indulgent
portrait of a French
artist could lose themselves in the meager charms of Michel Hazanavicius» «Redoubtable,» a self - consciously playful if largely panache - free sendup of Godard (played by Louis Garrel, with dark sunglasses and a heavy lisp) during his short - lived second marriage to the actress Anne Wiazemsky (an excellent Stacy Martin),
who appeared in his film «La Chinoise,» among others.
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.
The film, like «Fink,» is a sort of
portrait of the
artists as young men, and anyone
who has, or had, creative ambitions will identify with Davis,
who is talented enough to acquit himself (Isaac's performances are excellent: he's arguably better than the character is meant to be), but probably not enough to move up to the next level (like Garrett Hedlund, now that we think about it...).
«Woman Walks Ahead» follows Catherine Weldon, a widowed
artist from New York in the 1880s,
who travels to North Dakota to paint a
portrait of Sitting Bull.
TIFF 2017: Drama tells the story of Catherine Weldon, a 1890s
artist who sets out to paint a
portrait of Sitting Bull
«Final
Portrait» is a bio-pic that would appeal to people
who have always wanted to take a walk into an
artist's studio.
A passion project for British producer Alison Owen, Tulip Fever is based on Deborah Moggach's novel about an
artist (DeHaan)
who falls in love with a married woman (Vikander) after he's commissioned by the husband (Waltz) to paint her
portrait.
The movie tells the story of an
artist who falls for a young married woman (Alicia) while he's commissioned to paint her
portrait during the tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam.
Jessica Chastain stars in the historical drama «Woman Walks Ahead» as Catherine Weldon, an
artist who left Brooklyn behind and journeyed to the Dakotas to paint a
portrait of Sitting Bull (played by Michael Greyeyes)-- only to become involved in the Lakota people's fight for their land.
The film — about a young woman
who has a passionate affair with an
artist sent to paint her
portrait — was thought to be a potential awards contender, in part because of the presence of Vikander
who won last year's best supporting actress Oscar for «The Danish Girl.»
Ben Barnes brings the perfect combination of innocence and cruelty to Gray, a beautiful, naïve young man
who agrees to have his
portrait painted by noted
artist Basil Halward (Ben Chaplin).
«Underneath the delightfully daffy papier - mâché head of Frank Sidebottom, the real - life inspiration for the 2014 film Frank, you will find Chris Sievey, the inventive court jester of the Manchester music and comedy scene for over 25 years,
who is finally unmasked in this singular
portrait of a truly uncommon
artist.»
Meanwhile, a
portrait emerges of Miyazaki as an
artist who finds creative freedom by adhering strictly to routines.
The film stars Eddie Redmayne as
artist Lili Elbe, born Einar Magnus Andreas,
who decided to live as a woman after modelling for a
portrait painted by his wife.
The
artist has stated that she wants to observe in a person the nuances of gestures and expressions that may be particularly characteristic in that individual as «the challenge in painting
portraits is to catch that essence of
who a person is, their spirit and emotion, in a painting.»
Looks at different
artists who are known for the self -
portraits and begins a project on creating self
portraits.
Or maybe a talented
artist with empty pockets
who can't paint their first
portrait because they can't afford the tube of paint?