Sentences with phrase «portrait of a living person»

She was the first woman and first African American to take top honors in the competition which is held every three years and includes a $ 25,000 cash prize and a commission to create a portrait of a living person for the museum's permanent collection.

«Painting portraits of live people is a huge responsibility,» Brooks said in a recent interview.

The honor includes a $ 25,000 cash prize and a commission to create a portrait of a living person for the museum's permanent collection.

Across town, at Salon 94's Bowery outpost, is «The Mess 2017,» a collection of portraits of live people (including Simmons's daughters, Lena and Grace Dunham), accompanied by a rainbow - colored collection of plastic stuff.

Not exact matches

Icons are not portraits of the Virgin or of Jesus (thus no icon of a living person is ever possible).

The scene calls to mind a passage from «The Italians,» author Luigi Barzini's seminal portrait of the Italian people, in which the writer describes the importance of spectacle in Italian life:

He paints most days to make up for lost time, concentrating on portraits rather than still lifes or landscapes because he likes to capture the inner spirit of a person.

Most of the portraits capture ordinary moments in the lives of people.

This is what Elizabeth I's pale, pancake face tells us throughout «Elizabeth I and her People», a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery exploring her life and that of her subjects through portraiture.

But deciphering a person's brain functioning with only six categories is like painting a portrait with only primary colors, Martinez said: it can provide an abstracted image of the person, but not a true - to - life one.

Researchers have long tried to paint a portrait of the relatively small group of people who invent the technologies and products, from new software to life - saving drugs, which mold economies and reshape societies.

We've worked with almost 2,000 awesome single people helping them to create a stand out set of portrait photos for their dating profiles enabling them to get out there & reclaim their dating life.

There is a numbness of loss that resonates throughout the film's subsequent revenge narrative that deepens and heightens the material to depict a portrait of a person who literally has nothing to live for.

Following «Weekend» (2011) and «45 Years» (2015), Haigh's portraits of relationships at opposite points of a timeline, the filmmaker's first American project puts you through it, humanely, reminding you without hammering the point: So many people live like this; some lives are like this, every day.

Great Speeches From a Dying World is an unsettling documentary portrait gallery of nine homeless people living on the streets of Seattle.

It is a harsh and uncompromising portrait of some of the facts of life that people would rather not think about.

Put a camera in the hands of a local villager and you get a really intimate portrait of the daily life of the village and its people because, after all, the cameraman is one of them.

Overlapping stories explore the turning points of ordinary people's lives in a portrait of a small coastal community.

«As the full, unvarnished portrait of the people's critic, Life Itself is surprising, touching, and unforgettable.

An experimental non-narrative directed by Dziga Vertov, a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein (Battleship Potemkin), Man With a Movie Camera is an impressionistic portrait of urban life, giving us no characters but, rather, the sense of the complex comings and goings of everyday people through a city.

The day - to - day workings of hospital dwellers — doctors, nurses, patients and family members — who have to make incredibly difficult end - of - life decisions might seem like a parody of documentary short nominations, but it is an incredibly powerful and sensitive portrait of people in incredibly tough circumstances.

When a person's legacy — outside of the rumors of being an unnatural, diabolical monster that feeds on the blood of the living — consists of a penchant for hoisting one's enemies on spiked posts, we don't expect a sympathetic portrait of that person.

Heineman's documentary (which follows on the heels of Shaul Schwarz's Narco Cultura, and Angus Macqueen and Guillermo Galdós's Drug Lord: The Legend of Shorty) began life as a portrait of extremist American vigilantes patrolling the Mexican border in Arizona, afeared of the tide of drugs and people they believe are overrunning their country.

The people captured on these three - foot, square - ish canvases are a «snapshot of David's life,» explains curator Stephanie Barron, whose portrait also appears in the exhibit.

Red Desert (Criterion) The DVD debut of Michelangelo Antonioni's color debut is accompanied by two early Antonioni documentary shorts: his debut film «Gente del Po» (1947), a portrait of the hard loves of the people living on the Po River, and «N.U.» (1948), about the street cleaners of Rome.

Two recent books offer a searing critique of adolescent life today, and both are worthy of attention for the portrait that they draw of the culture in which young people are immersed.

And so they offer reasonably unbiased portraits of people — teachers, administrators, students — whose lives are nonetheless affected by the action or inaction of advocates and policymakers.

As Tony Kuehn writes in his BookPage review, «This book is a living, breathing testament to Evison's singular talent for creating portraits of people who may be fictional, but nevertheless are so vital that one is certain their names must be in a historic register somewhere.»

The most acclaimed Scottish novel of all time, Sunset Song is a powerful portrait of a land and people in turmoil, seen through the life and struggles of its heroine, Chris Guthrie.

If you were drawn to Doerr's not - unsympathetic portrait of German life during wartime — and the explanation of how everyday people could be caught up in the Nazi machine — pick up Hummel's realistic story of a German hausfrau on the homefront, which is based on the lives of her grandparents.

Through the mixing of these distinct voices, Laura Restrepo creates a searing portrait of a society battered by war and corruption as well as an intimate look at the daily lives of people struggling to stay sane in an unstable country.

Richard Russo's description of town of Empire Falls is as memorable and vivid as his portraits of the people who live there.

In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann's stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author's most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s.

He knows her face because he looks at it every day on the wall of his living room.Sorcha never met the person who bought her self - portrait of her in the woods.

The instant New York Times bestseller from Chris Cleave — the unforgettable novel about three lives entangled during World War II, told «with dazzling prose, sharp English wit, and compassion... a powerful portrait of war's effects on those who fight and those left behind» (People, Book of the Week).

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One photographer working with the project, Seth Casteel, said to the Huffington Post, «When people watch that TV commercial with the sad images and depressing music, they change the channel, but when they see hopeful portraits of adoptable pets full of love and personality, they zip over to the shelter with their family and save a life.»

The fact that he was anti-social and struggled to deal with the world in itself isn't a reason to declare him weird and abnormal — these days there are many people who find it hard to deal with the trials and tribulations of the world with live in -, yet it certainly is one of many things that paint a portrait of someone with serious problems that was slowly but surely heading down a dark path.

A brief cutscene shows a stained glass portrait of Tetra above Zelda's throne, and as Zelda herself tells to Anjean in the Tower of Spirits, the people living in the newly established kingdom are aware of their heritage and the connection to the old Hyrule.

As I dug deeper I was struck by the sense of outrage and loss this painting aroused in so many people: The family of Lea Bondi, determined to reclaim the stolen portrait she had failed to recover in her lifetime; the Manhattan District Attorney who sent shock waves through the international art world and enraged many of New York's most prominent cultural organizations when he issued a subpoena and launched a criminal investigation following the surprise resurfacing of Portrait of Wally; the New York art dealer who tipped off a reporter about the painting during the opening of the Schiele exhibition at MoMA; the Senior Special Agent at the Department of Homeland Security who vowed not to retire until the fight was over; the art theft investigator who unearthed the post-war subterfuge and confusion that ultimately landed the painting in the hands of a young, obsessed Schiele collector; the museum official who testified before Congress that the seizure of Portrait of Wally could have a crippling effect on the ability of American museums to borrow works of art; the Assistant United States Attorney who took the case to the eve of trial; and the legendary Schiele collector who bartered for Portrait of Wally in the early 1950s and fought to the end of his life to bring it home toportrait she had failed to recover in her lifetime; the Manhattan District Attorney who sent shock waves through the international art world and enraged many of New York's most prominent cultural organizations when he issued a subpoena and launched a criminal investigation following the surprise resurfacing of Portrait of Wally; the New York art dealer who tipped off a reporter about the painting during the opening of the Schiele exhibition at MoMA; the Senior Special Agent at the Department of Homeland Security who vowed not to retire until the fight was over; the art theft investigator who unearthed the post-war subterfuge and confusion that ultimately landed the painting in the hands of a young, obsessed Schiele collector; the museum official who testified before Congress that the seizure of Portrait of Wally could have a crippling effect on the ability of American museums to borrow works of art; the Assistant United States Attorney who took the case to the eve of trial; and the legendary Schiele collector who bartered for Portrait of Wally in the early 1950s and fought to the end of his life to bring it home toPortrait of Wally; the New York art dealer who tipped off a reporter about the painting during the opening of the Schiele exhibition at MoMA; the Senior Special Agent at the Department of Homeland Security who vowed not to retire until the fight was over; the art theft investigator who unearthed the post-war subterfuge and confusion that ultimately landed the painting in the hands of a young, obsessed Schiele collector; the museum official who testified before Congress that the seizure of Portrait of Wally could have a crippling effect on the ability of American museums to borrow works of art; the Assistant United States Attorney who took the case to the eve of trial; and the legendary Schiele collector who bartered for Portrait of Wally in the early 1950s and fought to the end of his life to bring it home toPortrait of Wally could have a crippling effect on the ability of American museums to borrow works of art; the Assistant United States Attorney who took the case to the eve of trial; and the legendary Schiele collector who bartered for Portrait of Wally in the early 1950s and fought to the end of his life to bring it home toPortrait of Wally in the early 1950s and fought to the end of his life to bring it home to Vienna.

Lampert writes: «With a portrait his aim is not exactly to convey likeness, more an experience: how the person looks (including under the skin); what's going on in their life (and his); the conditions of that evening.

Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY Claxons (four - person exhibition, curated by Walter Robinson), Haunch of Venison, New York, NY Grey Area, New York, NY The Queen's Feathers (one - person exhibition), John Tevis Gallery, Paris France 2011 Peacocks and Bottles (one - person exhibition) Organized by Nana Kipiani in conjunction with Artisterium, National Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia Forever and Never, One More Time (two - person exhibition), Season, Seattle, WA Color Theory, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY 2010 Birdbaths and Birdhouses (one person exhibition), Le Petit Versailles, New York, NY The Visible Vagina, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art & David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY 2009 Modern & Contemporary Ceramics, A.M. Richard Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY Bazvalon (one person exhibition), Rose Burlingham Living Room Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Momenta Art (one person exhibition), Brooklyn, NY French Kiss, organized by Rob Wynne, JGM Galerie, Paris The Demoiselles Revisited, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL (Momenta Art booth) 2006 The Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York, NY 2005 Picture Window, (site specific, city organized), Baltimore, Maryland 2004 Hall of Portraits, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland College Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD 2003 The Recurrent, Haunting Ghost, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY Sleight of Hand, Salena Gallery, Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY 2002 Kismet, The Work Space, New York, NY 2001 Bad Touch, Lump gallery / projects, Raleigh, NC (also traveled to Keith Talent Gallery, London, Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Boston, Space (1026, Philidelphia & UIMA, Chicago) Beautiful You, curated by Larry Krone, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York, NY Your Humble Servant the Genius (two person exhibition with Rob Wynne), Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY Nijinsky, Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY 1999 The Fin - de-Siécle Salon, curated by J. A. Poisson, P.S. 122, New York, NY 1998 Re: Duchamp (organized by Mike Bidlo), Abraham Lubelski Gallery, New York, NY Bowie, Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY 1997 Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, France (one person exhibition) The Whole World in a Small Painting, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY 1996 Cadmium Cathode, Sauce, Brooklyn, NY

Regarded as one of the most important American portrait painters of the 20th century, Neel's subjects were people she knew from her everyday life — family, friends, neighbors, activists and creatives.

Stephen Shames will be showing his series, «Power to the People» consisting of images of the Black Panther Movement, as well as his documenting of life in the Bronx, in the Portraits exhibition at Rendez - vous Photographique Ville de Vichy, located in Vichy, France.

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.

The artist does not paint portraits of real people, rather she depicts people she has conjured up — fully formed subjects who appear to have complicated, interesting lives and deep backstories.

She is most famous for her provocative and insightful portraits of people from all walks of life — family, friends, lovers, artists, poets, strangers, children — executed from the 1920s to the 1980s.

In Uptown, which is, a little regrettably, located in Chelsea, Als brings together over thirty portraits Neel painted of people within her social circle in Harlem (if one takes a detour to Als's Instagram, they will stumble upon a similar project: a compulsive record of tender snapshots presenting the people encountered in his life).

Her psychologically charged portraits tell intimate and unconventional stories, as much about people living on the margins of society and in subcultures as about the New York cultural elite and her own family.

In the book 700 Nimes Road — named for Taylor's Los Angeles address — photographer Catherine Opie explores this connection between Elizabeth Taylor the star and Elizabeth Taylor the person through intimate and at times poignant «indirect portraits» of the icon's life at home, including shots of movingly personal items like a pair of Taylor's red baby shoes.