Sentences with phrase «portraits by famous artists»

Many Italian Greyhounds were immortalized, along with their owners, in portraits by famous artists such as Pisanello and Giotto di Bondone.

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Artist Sarah Rosado keeps things simple by choosing her favourite breakfast cereals to create portraits of famous musicians.

Sean Kelly has a show of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, but not the troublemaking kind; the ones here are all luminous portraits of famous artists, including Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner and Robert Rauschenberg.

Famous black and white photographs include Robert Doisneau's iconic «Kiss by the Town Hall» (1950) and artist Cindy Sherman's «Untitled Film Stills» self - portrait series (1977 - 1980).

By referencing the famous painting The Artist's Parents, Baselitz revisits an early double portrait of himself and his wife Elke from 1975.

Neel's famous naked self - portrait (1980) depicts the artist in old age, perched on a blue and white striped sofa surrounded by blocks of vital color — green, yellow, blue — calm and fearless in herself, staring at the viewer through slightly skewed glasses (her only attire), mouth firmly downturned and cheeks ruddy above the deliquescence of her aged body, a sinking galleon of pale flesh.

Further highlights include Polly Apfelbaum's strips of textile that are combined to form a colorfully woven painting; Rashid Johnson's tropical enclave containing various unexpected elements from sculptures made with shea butter to video portraits; Katherine Bernhardt's monumental painting with tropical birds, cuddly robots and cigarette stubs, which at once editorializes and summarizes modern culture and the artist herself; an interactive multimedia installation by Nedko Solakov comprising nine sofas in the shapes of the nine Chinese characters constituting the phrase «I miss Socialism, maybe»; and Yu Hong's large - scale painting depicting a famous Chinese fable widely cited in both modern Chinese art history and Chinese Communist narratives.

There are about 20 portraits of famous individuals arriving at Hollywood Road painted by the American artist Lee Waisler.

Similarly, Monk's imposing self - portrait busts inspired by idealised Greco - Roman statuary, has each had its nose smited by a famous Italian artist of the Arte Povera generation, such as Jannis Kounellis, Gilberto Zorio or Emilio Prini, as well as by Monk himself.

Beginning with works from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the exhibition will show that much British art from this period was made by artists from abroad, including Antwerp - born Anthony Van Dyck, the court painter whose famous portraits such as Charles I 1636 (The Chequers Trust) have come to shape our perceptions of the British aristocracy of this time.

These talking portraits are the latest works by Tony Oursler, an American artist who is famous for his video - based installations featuring enlarged eyes and murmuring mouths, some of which are creepy, others of which are (by Oursler's own admission) comical.

This has been the primary focus of her so - called «Art History» paintings, in which she detournes famous images by artists like Andy Warhol and Frank Stella to incorporate her own viewpoint, such as in her series of paintings sneaking her own face into the Pop artist's self - portraits.

Both The New York Times and Life magazine were keen to cover the protest, the latter including a now famous photo portrait of the group of artists taken in 1951 by Nina Leen.

Notables include Pay for Your Pleasure, a corridor lined with portraits of famous intellectuals, each paired with a quote relating art and criminality, that begins with a donation box for the victims of violent crime and culminates with an artwork by an imprisoned local murderer; Black Out, a sprawling collection of works reflecting on the artist's hometown of Detroit, completed in honor of the city's 300th anniversary; and Day Is Done.

Richard Prince has again been raiding the Instagram accounts of the largely female rich and famous with a series of «New Portraits,» from celebrities, models, and other individuals of visual note with a current show of works by the artist at one of Gagosian Gallery's Madison Avenue spaces — and Prince's presence in the gallery's -LSB-...]

The 150 works encompass artist self - portraits by the likes of Gustave Dore, Adolf von Menzel, Edouard Vuillard, Dora Maar (one of Pablo Picasso's partners), and even Alfred Hitchcock (a line drawing of his famous profile).

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Taken from the «Famous Nudes» series done by artist Karine Percheron - Daniels, the painting was created by superimposing Obama's face onto the body of the Black enslaved woman shown in the 1800 «Portrait d'une négresse» by French artist Marie - Guillemine Benoist.