Sentences with phrase «portrait painting from life»

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Even as a preteen, I realized that something was clearly missing from the portrait of Jesus I had painted in my own short life.

Aside from the grim image of every living thing on earth gasping for breath and choking on water as they sink beneath the waves, the flood story also paints a troubling portrait of a God who seems incompetent because He regrets that He made mankind (Didn't He know this would happen?)

Meet the Maker: Menagerie Artist Emma Gray from Menagerie lives and works in Brighton, where she creates extraordinary portraits of animals painted on wood — some...

The renowned «Darnley portrait» of 1575 by an unknown artist was, in a rare occurrence, painted from life.

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.

Biologists have long aspired to paint a genetic portrait of the ancestor by running the tree of evolution backward, going from its leaves — the living creatures of today — down to the point where all its branches coalesce in a single trunk.

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..

As directors Rybicky and Wickendon unravel Peter Anton's past, they allow themselves to become vulnerable to the audience as well, thus painting a complex portrait of the relationship between filmmaker and subject, art and life, and the joy of coming up from being down.»

Focusing on Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys, Love & Mercy paints an unconventional portrait of the artist by interweaving seminal moments in his life, from his artistic genius to his profound struggles, and the love that keeps him alive.

All of this (I have left out many details) paints a portrait of a couple torn from their secure lives and forced into a horrifying new world of despair, testing them both to discover who they really are what they really feel.

For all that, Bhowani Junction is a very interesting film that tackles difficult political issues from a woman's POV & paints a fascinating portrait of a woman living at that place at that time.

Taking on the considerable task of directing, writing and starring in his film, Everett lavishes great care on a subject he clearly holds in high esteem, and to his credit, does not shy away from painting a less - than - glamorous portrait of an aging Wilde, syphilitic and lecherous as he lives out his exile in Europe following his scandalous imprisonment for gross indecency.

Catlin visited 50 tribes living west of the Mississippi River from present - day North Dakota to Oklahoma, studying their habits, customs, and mode of life and painting their portraits and landscape.»

Throughout the novel, Hay moves back and forth through Elsie's years, giving the reader introspective looks into her life: from her days as a vibrant, adventurous young woman to her years mothering her twins, Elaine and Don; from the time she stepped out of her ordinary life to have her portrait painted to the present day, when she looks into her mirror at «the facility» and says to herself, «I have no idea who you are or why you're here.»

Beginning with her earliest performance with Fleetwood Mac in 1975 — a wild, haunting rendition of «Rhiannon» that's definitely worth a watch on YouTube — Davis paints a vivid and easily accessible portrait of Nicks» life that's bolstered by quotes from previously published interviews.

A love letter to city life, however shiny or sleazy, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney paints a portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America: from the Jazz Age to the onset of the AIDS epidemic; the Great Depression to the birth of hip - hop.

From alternating viewpoints, Love, War and Ice Cream paints a vivid portrait of the love story of Harry and Marina, whose lives are brought together by a chance meeting in an ice cream shop.

Learn how to paint with watercolours, from the absolute basics to landscapes, still life, portraits and more.

Learn how to paint with oils, from the absolute basics to landscapes, still life, portraits and more.

Learn how to paint with acrylics, from the absolute basics to landscapes, still life, portraits and more.

In this lesson, professional portrait artist Keith Morton shows you his methods for painting a portrait from life in acrylics.

From his lush early paintings of the Arkansas nature conservancy Grassy Lake and the Texas Gulf Coast; to his reliefs, sculptures, and assemblages created in a variety of materials; to his most recent paintings depicting survivors of Hurricane Katrina, self - portraits, and a return to still life, this exhibition provides an in - depth look at the work of a unique and significant American artist.

PHILLIPS: Up to when you lost central vision, you painted detailed still lifes from direct observation, along with figures and portraits.

The exhibition will comprise a selection of landscapes, still lifes, and self - portraits from the 1970s through the 1990s, and include a series of landscape paintings that the artist completed while at Skowhegan in Maine.

He has also been painting portraits from life.

The owner who consigned «Still Life with Wedding Portrait» for sale at Christie's, acquired the painting from a 2015 benefit auction at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

When he was a young man in West Berlin, having crossed over from the East, Georg Baselitz initially painted stunning monumental patchwork portraits of life among the rubble and then, in the «70s, became an international sensation by painting expressionistic figures upside - down, an aesthetic gambit that to many suggested the topsy - turvy nature of life in postwar Germany.

In her Portrait As An Allegory of Fidelity (oil on linen), the artist presents herself holding her child while around her are piled the trappings of family life including toys, a dog, and a strange gentleman peering from around a curtain in the right rear quadrant of the painting.

There, there were a few memorable highlights, such as mirror paintings by Michelangelo Pistoletto from the 1970s and 80s, shown by the Repetto Gallery; striking portraits and still - lifes by Wayne Thiebaud, shown by Allan Stone Projects; small paintings by Gerhard Richter and Alexej von Jawlensky in the Galerie Ludorff's booth; and Yayoi Kusama's glittering collages, reminiscent of precious stones, shown by Omer Tiroche Gallery.

Some of Lichenstein's greatest works evolved from imagery drawn from popular culture: advertising images, war - time comics, and pin - up portraits, as well as traditional painting genres such as landscapes, still lifes, and interiors.

The exhibition is arranged chronologically and includes portraits, cityscapes and still life paintings borrowed from an extensive list of public and private collections.

Previously shown at Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, the Finnish National Gallery and the Gemeentemuseum, den Haag, the exhibition is arranged chronologically and includes portraits, cityscapes and still life paintings borrowed from an extensive list of public and private collections.

Ranging from still lifes and portraits to landscapes and everyday scenes, these 18 paintings have transformed the museums» collection of Dutch and Flemish art.

The early works, such as Botticelli's Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child, which has not been exhibited outside of Scotland for more than 150 years, are religious paintings while later works from the Renaissance masters, 17th - century painters, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, and Cubists include different genres of paintings such as portrait, still life and landscape, and represent the changing treatment of those genres over time.

Like the curator's 2007 exhibition The Painting of Modern Life, at the Hayward Gallery, the London institution he directs, and after Baudelaire, this is an exhibition that spans from the grand themes to the intimacies of the everyday (in 2007 these were represented by — two examples from many — Gerhard Richter's portrait of the grieving Jacqueline Kennedy, Woman with Umbrella, 1964, and Malcolm Moreley's monumental painting of chatting cruise - liner passengers, On DeckPainting of Modern Life, at the Hayward Gallery, the London institution he directs, and after Baudelaire, this is an exhibition that spans from the grand themes to the intimacies of the everyday (in 2007 these were represented by — two examples from many — Gerhard Richter's portrait of the grieving Jacqueline Kennedy, Woman with Umbrella, 1964, and Malcolm Moreley's monumental painting of chatting cruise - liner passengers, On Deckpainting of chatting cruise - liner passengers, On Deck, 1966).

The works in this exhibition range from the colourful and glittering portraits of fashionable aristocrats, to religious altarpieces and finally to more sober and insightful paintings created towards the end of his life.

DAVID DRISKELL Creative Spirit: Five Decades by Bridget Goodbody DAINA HIGGINS New Paintings by Charles Schultz LOIS DODD New Panel Paintings by Sharon Butler Unlikely Friends: JAMES BROOKS & DAN FLAVIN by Greg Lindquist DAMIEN HIRST The Complete Spot Paintings 1986 — 2011 by Corina Larkin LORI ELLISON by Corina Larkin GEORGES HUGNET The Love Life of the Spumifers by Valery Oisteanu Dark Christmas by Bradley Rubenstein ELLSWORTH KELLY Schwarz & Weiss by David Rhodes MALCOLM MORLEY Another Way to Make an Image, Monotypes by Robert Storr Five Works from the Collection of Albert Murray: ROMARE BEARDEN and NORMAN LEWIS by Charles Schultz THE RONALD S. LAUDER COLLECTION: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century / Germany, Austria, and France by Charles Schultz Anonymous Tantra Paintings by Noah Dillon SANGRAM MAJUMDAR New Work by Kara L. Rooney GUDMUNDUR THORODDSEN Father's Father by Paolo Javier SOTO Paris and Beyond, 1950 — 1970 by Cora Fisher JESS Paintings by Phong Bui GEORGE MCNEIL by Robert Berlind VICTOR MATTHEWS by Vincent Katz LOLA MONTES SCHNABEL Love Before Intimacy by David Markus THOMAS WOODRUFF The Four Temperament Variations by Kara L. Rooney MARTHA CLIPPINGER Hopscotch by Robert Berlind PETER GALLO by Jonathan Goodman Connected by Noah Dillon KANDINSKY's «Painting with White Border» by Susan Bee BARBARA SANDLER Straight On Till Morning by Robert Berlind December (Organized by Howie Chen) by Nathan Kernan EDWIN DICKINSON In Retrospect by Robert Berlind JOSÉ RIVERA by Nathan Kernan REMBRANDT»S WORLD: Dutch Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection by Sara Christoph JOSEPH MONTGOMERY Velveteen by Linnea Kniaz The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini by Mira Schor BOSCO SODI Ubi Sunt by Jonathan Goodman DOUG WADA Americana by Lilly Wei Mind the Gap by Anne Sherwood Pundyk BILL JENSEN by Ben La Rocco WITHIN / WITHOUT: A Studio Visit With SHOSHANA DENTZ by Zachary Wollard SUSANNA HELLER's Studio by Robert Berlind STUDIO VISIT: JOYCE PENSATO by William Corwin Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy by Shane McAdams Letter from BERLIN by David Rhodes JOSEPH MARIONI Eye to Eye by Robert C. Morgan GORDON MOORE by Joan Waltemath Master Bill at MoMA by Irving Sandler

From Arts and Crafts motifs to excerpts from Surrealist still life and Mannerist portraits, Keogh blends a wide - range of source material in her large, graphic paintiFrom Arts and Crafts motifs to excerpts from Surrealist still life and Mannerist portraits, Keogh blends a wide - range of source material in her large, graphic paintifrom Surrealist still life and Mannerist portraits, Keogh blends a wide - range of source material in her large, graphic paintings.

Thanks to the natural and living matter of sponges, I was able to make portraits of the «readers» of my monochromes, which, after having seen and traveled into the blue of my paintings, returned from them completely impregnated with sensibility, just as the sponges» (Y. Klein, «Notes on certain works exhibited at Galerie Colette Allendy», ibid., New York, 2007, pp. 22 - 23).

In between, we discover paintings on canvas and ink drawings of larger - than - life heads, full - length nudes, Ms. Dumas's daughter as a young child, raunchy strippers, political commentary, and more, from early experiments with a variety of conceptually based approaches to an idiosyncratic, continuing series of portraits of «Great Men.»

Memorable food paintings of yore include Giuseppe Arcimboldo's portraits (pictured above) from the 1500s, Pieter Claesz and the Dutch still life painters of the 1600s, Caravaggio's rotting fruit, the early Cubist still lifes of Picasso and Braque, Wayne Thiebaud «s desserts from the 1960s, and Andy Warhol's iconic Campbell's Soup Cans.

Exhibitionism's 16 exhibitions in the Hessel Museum are (1) «Jonathan Borofsky,» featuring Borofsky's Green Space Painting with Chattering Man at 2,814,787; (2) «Andy Warhol and Matthew Higgs,» including Warhol's portrait of Marieluise Hessel and a work by Higgs; (3) «Art as Idea,» with works by W. Imi Knoebel, Joseph Kosuth, and Allan McCollum; (4) «Rupture,» with works by John Bock, Saul Fletcher, Isa Genzken, Thomas Hirschhorn, Martin Kippenberger, and Karlheinz Weinberger; (5) «Robert Mapplethorpe and Judy Linn,» including 11 of the 70 Mapplethorpe works in the Hessel Collection along with Linn's intimate portraits of Mapplethorpe; (6) «For Holly,» including works by Gary Burnley, Valerie Jaudon, Christopher Knowles, Robert Kushner, Thomas Lanigan - Schmidt, Kim MacConnel, Ned Smyth, and Joe Zucker — acquired by Hessel from legendary SoHo art dealer Holly Solomon; (7) «Inside — Outside,» juxtaposing works by Scott Burton and Günther Förg with the picture windows of the Hessel Museum; (8) «Lexicon,» exploring a recurring motif of the Collection through works by Martin Creed, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Bruce Nauman, Sean Landers, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Jason Rhoades, and Allen Ruppersberg; (9) «Real Life,» examines different forms of social systems in works by Robert Beck, Sophie Calle, Matt Mullican, Cady Noland, Pruitt & Early, and Lawrence Weiner; (10) «Image is a Burden,» presents a number of idiosyncratic positions in relation to the figure and figuration (and disfigurement) through works by Rita Ackerman, Jonathan Borofsky, John Currin, Carroll Dunham, Philip Guston, Rachel Harrison, Adrian Piper, Peter Saul, Rosemarie Trockel, and Nicola Tyson; (11) «Mirror Objects,» including works by Donald Judd, Blinky Palermo, and Jorge Pardo; (12) «1982,» including works by Carl Andre, Robert Longo, Robert Mangold, Robert Mapplethorpe, A. R. Penck, and Cindy Sherman, all of which were produced in close — chronological — proximity to one another; (13) «Monitor,» with works by Vito Acconci, Cheryl Donegan, Vlatka Horvat, Bruce Nauman, and Aïda Ruilova; (14) «Cindy Sherman,» includes 7 of the 25 works by Sherman in the Hessel Collection; (15) «Silence,» with works by Christian Marclay, Pieter Laurens Mol, and Lorna Simpson that demonstrate art's persistent interest in and engagement with the paradoxical idea of «silence»; and (16) «Dan Flavin and Felix Gonzalez - Torres.»

«Alice Neel: Late Portraits & Still Lifes,» at David Zwirner Gallery, is a rare and extraordinary grouping of 16 perfect, irreducible human beings, four bouquets of flowers, a couple of dying plants on a windowsill beside a fire escape and a wonky white chaise longue, in a total of 18 paintings dating from 1964 to 1983, the year before the artist's death.

Hear from four of the sitters painted by David Hockney for our exhibition «David Hockney RA: 82 Portraits and 1 Still - life», from 11 - year - old Rufus Hale to the architect Frank Gehry.

Frida Kahlo painted her life story in 55 small but powerful self - portraits, like Self - Portrait with Monkey, 1938, on view in Modern Masters: 20th Century Icons from the Albright - Knox Gallery.

Henry has won numerous awards, including First Prize in the American Society of Portrait Artists 2000 competition, the Gold Medal of Honor at the 2003 Hudson Valley Art Association annual exhibition, and the Best Painting from Life Award of the National Oil & Acrylic Painters» Society in 2003.

«Offers a great insight into sources of [Sasnal's] inspirations and fields of interest: painting about painting, figurative painting and portraits, the history of Poland and travel shots... The book itself is a journey full of facts and intriguing perspectives on materiality and subject matter of Sasnal's paintings and his way of deconstructing the different symptoms of current times... Jam - packed with fascinating personal stories and facts from the artist's life.

Still life portrait from Kirigami series - paintings created using folded and cut paper as still life.

Two have just opened: Portrait, at London's National Portrait Gallery, which focuses on her films of human subjects, including choreographer Merce Cunningham, and the artists David Hockney and Cy Twombly; and Still Life at the National Gallery next door, a delicate, two - room exhibition for which she has assembled works of art from the present alongside paintings from the past.

For Billy Sullivan, the art on view presents photography capturing spontaneous moments, drawings and painted portraits culled from his life, especially times lived in the seventies in New York City.