On a night of mixed results, Sotheby's bottom line was dented by the auction house's having to buy in a 1966 double -
portrait photo painting by Gerhard Richter, «Familie Hötzel,» which failed to sell at its low estimate of $ 3 million.
Not exact matches
In fact, he retells his story as an adult living in Toronto, in a house whose décor» a
portrait of Our Lady of Guadalupe rests beside a
photo of Kaaba; a brass statue of Shiva stands beneath
paintings of Christ; a prayer rug lies near a bedside Bible» inadvertently displays our protagonist's eclectically tacky approach to religion.
As a fellow adoption advocate we thought you would enjoy taking part in Open
Portrait, a blog that is painting a portrait of open adoption through photos, videos, and
Portrait, a blog that is
painting a
portrait of open adoption through photos, videos, and
portrait of open adoption through
photos, videos, and quotes.
The picture, based on a 1989
photo of Mario Cuomo, was
painted by Simmie Knox, whose works include the official White House
portrait of former President Bill Clinton.
Mario Matthew Cuomo June 15, 1932 — January 1, 2015 Mario Matthew Cuomo June 15, 1932 — January 1, 2015 Official
portrait, based on a 1989
photo and as
painted by artist Simmie Knox
The
painting is a creative take on a green card where the
portrait takes the place of the identification
photo and a turkey handprint replaces the fingerprint usually included on green cards.
She draws and
paints the most beautiful
portraits using
photos straight from your IG feed if you want.
The tutorials include Pop Art
Portraits, Pop Art, Nature Poster, Urban Ink
Photo,
Painting Effect and Watercolour effect.
Rudder uses the data you thought was private — browsing history, how long you stare at your ex's Facebook
photos, your dating profile and messages — and
paints a (sometimes horrifying)
portrait of human behavior.
Illustrated with a mix of
portrait photos and a few
paintings in childlike or abstract styles, and capped by suggestions for related classroom activities and a short resource list, this book will serve as both an effective consciousness raiser for middle - grade students and a strong lead - in to Deborah Ellis» powerful Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees (2009).
Local artist and instructor, Jennifer Andrews, will walk you through
painting over a copy of your pet's
photo to create your very own Pet
Portrait.
Adoptapalooza provided fun for the whole family, including face -
painting, caricature
portraits,
photos of pets and their owners, and pet food giveaways.
Barone's idea was ambitious: He'd
paint portraits of 5,500 euthanized shelter dogs using
photos from shelters from across the nation.
In addition to pet adoptions, Adoptapalooza featured: great music; face
painting and fun temporary tattoos for kids by The Cheeky Chipmunk; caricature
portraits by Lorelei Arts; tricks and training tips from a certified Petco trainer on the Merrick Dog Training Field; dog licensing by the NYC Department of Health; microchipping for dogs and cats by Vetco; emergency preparedness information from New York City Emergency Management / Ready New York and the American Red Cross Greater New York Region; free pet
photos by the Alliance and free personalized pet ID tags courtesy of the Alliance; and giveaways from event sponsors.
Original
paintings are made from favorite pet
photos and no two
portraits are alike, as each
portrait captures the characteristics and personality of the pet.
You can tell it's something quite special from the moment you enter and see the lobby's pretty vintage tiled floor, bookcase of antique documents and hallways full of old black and white family
photos and colourful
painted portraits.
His
photos of the day - to - day life of gangs in the Bronx and the radical black liberation movement the Black Panthers are much more than a documentary illustration of a given period in time: they represent an insider's view, one which
paints the
portrait of the contrasts in American society.
Chuck Close (b. 1940, Monroe, Washington) is an artist best known for his large - scale,
photo - based
portrait paintings.
Homepage for the Chuck Close catalogue raisonnéArtifex Press, the first company dedicated to the production of digital catalogues raisonnés, celebrates the release of Chuck Close:
Painting, 1967 - 2012, a searchable, sortable interactive web publication detailing the artist's iconic
photo - based
portraits.
Gasthof, a semi-surreal, partial self -
portrait (that's the artist on the left, in the
photo of the
painting above), sold at a Christie's auction in 2014 to Larry Gagosian, Cohen's art dealer, for just under $ 17 million.
This stunningly illustrated survey encompasses works from the late 1950s to the present —
photo -
paintings, abstractions, landscapes, seascapes,
portraits, color charts, grey
paintings, glass and mirror works, sculptures, drawings and photographs — providing the definitive account of Richter's achievements.
Shown, Detail «Untitled (Double
Portrait of Artist with Frustula Sculpture),» n.d. (black and white
photo with original
paint marks).
Mining sites like eBay for 19th - and 20th - century
photo portraits of everyday African Americans, Jefferson gives their forgotten sitters a shot at immortality by
painting their formal
portraits, emphasizing the importance of Sunday finery to people who toiled in the service industry six days a week during and after the days of slavery.
Richter's amazingly prolific multimedia output — from
photo -
paintings, to drawings, to photographs, to landscapes, to
portraits, to sculptures — has been exhibited internationally for the last five decades.
Using unconventional methods such as
painting in altered states, using passport
photo booths for self -
portraits,
painting blindfolded, or with his feet — sometimes with his entire body — Rainer manipulates form, composition, and perception to capture extreme emotions.
In the images above, you'll see
photos of Jill Nathanson's
painting class, Josef Zutelgte's
portrait drawing session, and
photos from the reception and exhibition at the end -LSB-...]
Despite knowing that Doig
paints scenes of cold, blustery environments from
photos in his London studio, I think of Figure in a Mountain Landscape as a self —
portrait of the artist - perhaps more of a conceptual or psychological self —
portrait rather than an actual one.
The show included the monochromatic
portraits he was known for — like «Manhattan Memo,» a shadowy depiction of a man in an expletive - laden black T - shirt and
paint - smeared jeans, or «
Photo Bloke,» of a man outfitted in a soft pink suit — but art - world coverage of the show focused on
paintings that seemed to strike a new tone.
Original watercolor
painting from
photo - 22» x 30» sofa size
painting - engagement
portrait, watercolor wedding
portrait
Combining videotapes of these
photo sessions with small
portraits of their subjects is a bad idea; so is a wall of small, simpler Warholesque
portraits titled «A-E-I-O-U and Sometimes Y.» Still, Ms. Thomas's conviction that the political is visual and every square inch of a
painting's surface must count is inspiring.
Departing from previous
painting - dense retrospectives of Chicago - based artist Lee Godie's work, Intuit's recent exhibition — though it did include several strong canvases — focused instead on some fifty of the several hundred self -
portraits that Godie took in public
photo booths during the 1970s and»80s.
He skipped the
photo shoot for the famous 1951 Irascibles group
portrait for a trip to Europe, and this in part accounts for why he has not assumed his rightful position among those
paint - slingers of New York's titanic moment.
A mesmerizing example of the artist's
photo -
painting practice, it takes its place alongside the exceptional works produced during this year, including Onkel Rudi (Lidice Collection), Frau die Treppe herabgehend (The Art Institute, Chicago), Motorboot (Kunstmuseum, Basel), Mutter und Tochter (Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen), Schwimmerin (Froehlich Collection, Stuttgart),
Portrait Prof. Zander and Tante Marianne.
Pawel Althamer, Self -
Portrait as the Billy - Goat, 2011, Glazed ceramic, plastic, metal, resin cast, goat fur, used shoe,
painted Styrofoam plinth, 152 x 152 x 154 cm, Courtesy the artist and Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw,
Photo: Bartosz Stawiarski
The
paintings have taken various other photographic themes as their subject matter since 2000, including: details from Hirst's own work, personal photographs of the birth of the artist's son such as «Self -
Portrait as Surgeon», which depicts Hirst in the hospital; famous diamonds; scientific
photo library pictures of butterflies; and biopsies.
Photo: Richard Schmidt) As we make the journey through Hockney's oeuvre — one that the artist has also clearly enjoyed revisiting — we move from his formative pictures as a student at the Royal College of Art in London, through to the breakthrough Los Angeles
paintings — typified by A Bigger Splash (Hockney first moved to the Hollywood Hills in 1979)-- to the first big room of the show: a stunning display that reunites Hockney's celebrated series of large double
portraits.
Chuck Close is renowned for his highly inventive techniques of
painting the human face, and is best known for his large - scale,
photo - based
portrait paintings.
Chuck Close (b. 1940, Monroe, WA) is best known for his large - scale,
photo - based
portrait paintings, which he started making with his first iconic black - and - white Self - Portrait
portrait paintings, which he started making with his first iconic black - and - white Self -
Portrait Portrait of 1968.
Portrait d'artiste dans la crise 1980 - 81 Materials to be determined: wire, wood, plastic, adhesive,
paint brush, multi colored string 13.39 x 15.75 x 10.24 inches (34 x 40 x 26 cm) ARG # KT1980 - 004 © ADAGP, Paris & ARS, New York Courtesy of Hiroko Kudo
Photo by Christopher Burke
Published on the occasion of Richter's major touring exhibition in Europe, this landmark publication encompasses his entire oeuvre, now stretching across more than a half - century of activity, including
photo -
paintings, abstracts, landscapes and seascapes,
portraits, glass and mirror works, sculptures, drawings and photographs.
Where previous monographs have focused on a single genre within the artist's vast output, this stunningly illustrated survey encompasses his entire oeuvre, now stretching across more than a half - century of activity, including
photo -
paintings, abstracts, landscapes and seascapes,
portraits, glass and mirror works, sculptures, drawings and photographs.
From the artist's bio: Chuck Close (b. 1940, Monroe, WA) is renowned for his highly inventive techniques of
painting the human face, and is best known for his large - scale,
photo - based
portrait paintings.
However, if I am asked to
paint a
portrait, animal or person, I want it to be a true likeness without being
photo - realistic.
His color
photos with
painted backdrops of office cubicles or beach scenes let the client choose what image to project, but the curved
painted backdrops flatten out the space and create a surreal effect, in contrast to the elegance of Keita's large - format
portraits.
From
paintings of the teenagers she mentored in Flatbush to the collaged
portraits of loved ones constructed of old family
photos and letters, Kate tells us her story through her work.
CHUCK CLOSE Chuck Close is a visual artist noted for his highly inventive techniques used to
paint the human face, and is best known for his large - scale,
photo - based
portrait paintings.
Taylor posted a
photo of «Ghana girl,» his subject for this
portrait on Instagram, where he also documented the Accra «studio» where he
painted it here and here.
The show will include a new series of
portrait paintings titled Mature, where the Tokyo - based artist uses
photos from fetish magazines as a reference, Gokita portrays these women without his signature distortions or grotesque elements, showing a significant level of admiration towards his subjects.
Varejão is so prepared to back up her work that she has photocopies in her hands of some of the most important books and images that stood out to her while researching a culture and an ethnicity that at first seemed foreign:
photos of Hopi women wearing a hairstyle of whorls, drawings of Mimbres's burial rituals, images of her own previous series where cracked
paintings looked to make ties with 11th century Chinese Song dynasty ceramics, and American Indian
portraits by George Caitlin were only a few of the many pages that she held and showed me during our time together.
Inspired by his mentors» early «
photo paintings» and stark black and white images, Struth developed a unique photographic perspective, creating
portraits of families, architectural facades, urban experiences, and crowds.