Sentences with phrase «portrait painters»

In addition to artists from these specific schools, the twentieth century saw the emergence of several individual portrait painters, such as the versatile Graham Sutherland, the expressive surrealist Francis Bacon, the classical Lucien Freud and the famous «impastoist» Frank Auerbach.

Thus, just as portrait painters attempt to establish a likeness through the features or a look in the eyes (where character is revealed), taking far fewer pains with the rest, I must be allowed to devote myself mainly to the signs of the psyche.»

An established portrait artist, his work has been seen in solo exhibitions in London and Madrid and included in the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibitions and previously in BP Portrait Award exhibitions in 1995, 1998, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2014 and 2015.

That Alice Neel is one of the very great post-war portrait painters, far outstripping one - trick pony contenders like Lucian Freud, Alex Katz, Frank Auerbach, or anyone else you care to mention — compare, say, Neel's magisterial portrait of Andy Warhol and any of Freud's tired crusty aristocrats, each a different shade and texture of stale bread — should be cause for general celebration, but it's only this year, twenty - six years after her death, that the first solo show of Neel is being held in London.

A raft of famous faces from the Queen's to Boris Johnson and Michael Sheen's feature in this year's Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition.

Contemporary portrait painters could hardly differ more dramatically than Freud and Alex Katz, who began making suave, simplified paintings of his wife, Ada, among others, soon after their marriage in the late»50s.

Jonathan Yeo is one of the most highly - regarded portrait painters working in Britain today.

He was a trustee of the Tate Gallery from 1933 to 1941, and President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters from 1948 to 1953.

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.

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Before working at the Nelson - Atkins, Crawford held research fellowships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Winterthur Museum, and the Yale Center for British Art, where she studied early American portrait painters and their work in the Caribbean.

«The confirmation that Young Man with a Flute is by George Romney, one of Britain's most famous portrait painters, is an exciting moment for the Museum and demonstrates the importance of supporting curatorial research,» said Bonnie Pitman, The Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art.

ART EVALUATION For analysis of portraiture by portrait painters like John Singer Sargent, see: How to Appreciate Paintings.

Among the leading American Impressionist portrait painters of the 19th century, were John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925), J. Alden Weir (1852 - 1919), Theodore Robinson (1852 - 96) and William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916).

He was appointed a Member of the Royal Society of Painter Etchers and Engravers in 1987 and an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1999.

Its eight carved and painted wood portraits — roughly two - thirds of the work of Ames's brief maturity — introduce an artist who translated the style of self - taught American portrait painters into three dimensions, imbuing their artificiality with the sense of suspended life found in 19th - century photography.

The gallery also features contemporary portrait art in its «Portraiture Now» series, and sponsors the triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition for contemporary portrait painters.

She has also been regularly selected for The Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibitions and was awarded the Burke's Peerage Foundation Prize for Classically Inspired Portraiture in 2015.

Her work has been seen in group exhibitions in the UK and the annual exhibitions of the Society of Women Artists and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.

In 2014 he won the Benton Purchase prize at the Discerning Eye and in 2015 he won both the Smallwood Architects Prize at Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the prestigious critics prize at the New English Art Club.

Four artists have been shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award 2018 at the National Portrait Gallery, one of the largest art competitions for portrait painters in the world.

The artist Elizabeth Peyton, described as «a forerunner of new Realism» by the New York Times is one of the most significant portrait painters working today, known for her Warholian figurative paintings that rose to popularity in the 90s.

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Facing disgrace after his provocative «Madame X» outraged audiences to the Paris Salon of 1884, John Singer Sargent fled to London where he successfully re-established himself as one of England's leading portrait painters.

By the time Alice Neel died last October at the age of 84, she was recognized as one of America's foremost contemporary portrait painters (or «painters of people,» as she preferred to say).

The best portrait painters working today introduce something new into art not through stylistic innovations, but by whom they choose as subjects.

Influenced by Quattrocento portrait painters such as Roger van den Weyden, Hanzlová has isolated the flowers against dark backgrounds, illuminating and defining their form at different stages of life.

In October, the RA opens an exhibition of work by one of the greatest portrait painters of all time, Giovanni Battista Moroni.

JE: «Initially, his portraits were appreciated by other artists and some critics, but the general response was negative because Cézanne wouldn't do what portrait painters were expected to do, which was to give a sense of the sitter's internal psychology.

Initially interested in portraiture, Motley found it difficult to earn a living, due in part to the fact that most of the wealthy white patrons favored white artists, and black patrons were either financially unable to or uninterested in supporting black portrait painters.

The most intimate moments in art — portrait painters and their subjects laid bare on film and in exhibition

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.

Considered one of the most important American portrait painters of the 20th century, Neel had little interest in flattery, but rather sought to capture the complexity of her sitters.

George P. A. Healy, who had almost no money and little education, took the gamble of a lifetime and with no prospects whatsoever in Paris became one of the most celebrated portrait painters of the day.

Monday also saw two Irish films screen: Urszula Antoniak's Nothing Personal, a soulful drama about immigration set in Connemara, and The Beholder, Conor Horgan's documentary about three Irish portrait painters.

At 547 Hudson Street, in the ground floor of a four - story townhouse that's been granted landmark status by the city of New York, sandwiched between an upscale brokerage firm and «Vang Olsen Mimi the Portrait Painter» (where, for $ 2,500, Mimi will paint a portrait of your pet), Ed's Martian Book is quietly selling its book — its only book — for $ 28.

The portrait painter does not hesitate to alter the contour of a feature to bring out the meaning of a face.

Melanie Norris is a portrait painter who we are featuring this week, and while setting up her post I literally stopped multiple times to reflect on her answers.

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The film tells the remarkable true story of Catherine Weldon, played by Jessica Chastain, a portrait painter from Brooklyn.

Susanna White's historical drama follows the fascinating true story of portrait painter Caroline Weldon and her bond with Sitting Bull.

Angela Lansbury is the beautiful young music hall singer that Dorian drives to suicide when he cruelly spurns her and Donna Reed is the daughter of the portrait painter who adores Dorian, an innocent and idealist who Dorian is afraid of destroying through his vice.

Based on a true story, Chastain plays Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from Brooklyn, who travels to the Dakotas in the early 1890s to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull (Michael Greyeyes), the famous Native American chief who defeated Col. George Custer and his battalion during the Battle of Little Bighorn.

When it was announced that Jessica Chastain would be starring in A24's weighty biopic Woman Walks Ahead, which centers on wealthy widow and portrait painter Catherine Weldon who leaves New York City in the 1890s and becomes allies with the famous Sitting Bull and the fight for his Lakota people, many fans believed this could be the breakthrough role she needed to finally win an Academy Award after two nominations earlier this decade.

I visited a sixty - three - year - old portrait painter in her studio, traced the history of her work chronicled in her large portfolio, and watched as she applied thin luminous layers of paint to a portrait in progress.

I wanted to know and understand Marie Antoinette's women friends more the surprising Princess de Lamballe, the manipulative Duchess de Polignac, the self - made portrait painter Elisabeth Vigee - Le Brun.

I recently visited St. Petersburg and Moscow because Maire Antoinette's friend and portrait painter Elisabeth Vigee - Le Brun considered Russia to be her second home, after she fled the French revolution and traveled through Europe.

The painting, which now hangs in the Kremlin Gallery, was painted by Royal portrait painter Valentin Serov.

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Boucher introduces Lotto as «an outlier in Italian Renaissance art, a portrait painter capable of capturing the soul on canvas, a man whose religious art struck a note of sincerity in an age bound by ritual and dogma, a figure overshadowed in life by Titian and Raphael and condemned to poverty and relative failure in his own day.»