Sentences with phrase «portraits by painters»

The exhibition at the Phillips features portraits by painters as revered as Renoir, Edgar Degas, and Gustave Caillebotte, as well as the more obscure Leon Bonnat and Jean Patricot, plus photographs by Nadar.

The new series of interpretive portraits by painter Abshalom Jac Lahav combines faces of famous persons out of history, and specifically out of the belief system of American ideology and creed, with the bodies of fashion models wearing sleek, sometimes nearly transparent outfits.

Accordingly, an Albrecht Dürer print of the «Veronica cloth» bearing the image of Christ's face is juxtaposed with an anonymous «subway portrait» by Walker Evans; a self - portrait by painter Raphael Soyer shares the space with a self - reflexive photograph by Laura Letinsky; and H. C. Westermann's autobiographical Korea sculpture stands in as a reminiscence of his service in that war.

Elsewhere, Bronx - born conceptualist Vito Acconci's Trademarks (1970 — 2004), a photographic record of the artist biting himself, was joined by a tiny self - portrait by painter Henry Taylor.

Not exact matches

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This poetic description incorporates an essential principle of both Mennonite and mainstream Protestant thought: the supremacy of word over image, a prejudice that Dutch painters in general and Rembrandt in particular countered by imbuing their portraits and historical subjects with the visual equivalent of sound.

The pattern was inspired by the Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who created portraits from flowers, fruits and vegetables.

Michelle Obama's official portrait will be by the painter Amy Sherald, a rising talent whose first solo museum show will open in May at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis... portraits are a bit like online dating, with subjects paging...

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

Scenester: returning to the melancholic Norwegian painter's diaries for deeper insight into this 1974 portrait by the pioneering British filmmaker

In addition to lots of love all over our adoption center, there will be food trucks, including Latin Burger and Taco, Magic Box, What the French and Passion BBQ, face painters, My Perfect Pet Photography portrait studio, Canine Counselors» ask the trainer opportunity for all dog owners, Costco and the best beats brought to you by So Flo Studios.

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

Penelope Gottlieb: Portraits in Air (A Series Revisited)(Santa Barbara, CA)-- Cabana Home presents an exhibition of new works by Santa Barbara based painter Penelope Gottlieb.

The interior and exterior design of the buildings and rooms also complement the art on display throughout the property, which is created by local Jamaican painters and artisans, and depict intricate Jamaican landscapes, villages and portraits.

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.»

His style is reminiscent of the later expressionist paintings by Bomberg, while his subject matter has been considered repetitive by some critics; a painter of portraits, nudes, building sites and urban landscapes, all depictions which he will return to again and again.

The invisible interviewer, attuned and sensitive, is Ada Katz, a former scientist who received a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research in tumor genetics at the University of Milan in 1955 — known to many from hundreds of portraits by her husband, the painter Alex Katz.

New York, NY (November 8, 2015) Color came streaming into the Leslie Feely gallery on East 68th Street early November as the gallery unveiled a 14 - portrait gallery of works by painter, Jules Olitski.

The first works on display are three small portraits based on those by the Scottish painter Henry Raeburn.

The 1977 show also included female Old Masters of established reputation: Renaissance painters like the Cremonese aristocrat Sophonisba Anguissola and the Bolognese Lavinia Fontana; eighteenth - century professionals like the pastel portraitist Rosalba Carriera, whose Venetian studio was once as essential a stop on the Grand Tour as that of her male colleague Pompeo Batoni in Rome, and the Swiss - born Angelika Kauffmann, represented by a self - portrait that showed the dark - haired, porcelain - skinned beauty making a definitive choice between painting and music.

He was rewarded with a knighthood by his most famous patron, Charles I, and the sense that it would be impossible to better Van Dyck as a portrait painter was universally recognised and remarked on not only by his contemporaries but also his successors.

Video Portraits of Lady Gaga is the much talked about exhibition conceived and created by the multi-titled American sculptor, painter, stage director, playwright, choreographer, performer, and video artist Robert Wilson.

by Kostas Prapoglou Video Portraits of Lady Gaga is the much talked about exhibition conceived and created by the multi-titled American sculptor, painter, stage director, playwright, choreographer, performer, and video artist Robert Wilson.

Amy — Blue, an evocative portrait of the soul singer Amy Winehouse by Dutch painter Marlene Dumas has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery with oportrait of the soul singer Amy Winehouse by Dutch painter Marlene Dumas has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery with oPortrait Gallery with our help.

Finally a big Obama bravo to painter Amy Sherald, 44, of Baltimore, plucked from almost - obscurity by Michelle Obama to paint her official portrait.

My research in grad school all led to one portrait of Marie - Antoinette by the queen's court painter, and it was in the exhibition.

Hodgkin, now a wheelchair user but still working at the age of 84, is well known for his abstract works and some people might be surprised by the portrait painter tag.

One artist I am excited about representing is Louis Savage, who is a talented abstract painter who was forced by his previous gallery to do representational portraits, which resulted in him stepping away from galleries for years, but not his practice.

Inspired by painters such as Matisse and Picasso, she made studies of passers - by on Whitechapel High Street one Sunday afternoon, to create monumental and vividly coloured portraits celebrating local people on the platforms of Whitechapel station.

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.

Michael Feldman documented the transition to this new work in a film, in 2008 - 09, Portrait of an American Painter [17] In 2009, Willis had a one - person show at the Elizabeth Harris Gallery, with catalog entitled The Lattice Paintings essay, by James Panero [18] of The New Criterion.

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

For that reason, this exhibition is one not to be missed by aspiring painters and portrait artists, or those interested in painting practice.

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.

His large - scale canvases reiterate historical portraits by Old Master painters, but with contemporary black youth in place of the original subjects.

«Self - Portrait with Palette (Painter and Faun)» by Florine Stettheimer, undated.

Her paintings have won awards at international juried shows hosted by The Portrait Society of America, Oil Painters of America and American Impressionist Society.

It features Spanish Colonial artworks such as religious paintings, portraits, furniture, and decorative arts, and also boasts remarkable works by early - and mid-20th century Mexican painters and printmakers.

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

There he realized some of his own most ambitious theater pieces, and also presented a solo by the painter Marcia Marcus, now obscure, who has a way - ahead - of - its - time self - portrait at the Grey.

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).

An evocative portrait of the soul singer Amy Winehouse by Dutch painter Marlene Dumas was acquired with our help in 2012, watch the curator explain why the gallery decided to add Amy - Blue to its contemporary collection.

Its distinctive circular shape echoes the poem's inspiration — a round self - portrait by Italian painter Parmigianino (1503 - 1540).

A recent exhibition presented the immense, ghostly portraits of Gottfried Helnwein, an Austrian painter haunted by Nazism and the Holocaust.

For me, the important portrait painting was done by the greatest painters.

Tate acquires Joan Carlile portrait The Tate gallery has announced a round of new acquisitions in its annual report, including a landmark portrait by 17th - century British painter Joan Carlile that now represents the oldest work by a female artist in the museum's collection — one which was long assumed to be the work of a man.

Two major acquisitions for the San Diego Museum of Art this month: Lucas Cranach the Younger's Nymph of the Spring (c. 1537 — 1540), described by the museum as its «most important Northern Renaissance painting» and John Singer - Sargent's Portrait of John Alfred Parsons Millet (1892), the first work by the painter to enter its collection.

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.

Photographs of European men in the jungle, two monumental paintings by the Dutch - trained Indonesian Romantic painter Raden Saleh, and a portrait of a Tonkin woman by French Impressionist Victor Tardieu hint at the complicated flows of images and ideas between Europe and its colonies.

His early landscapes, portraits and still lifes were characteristic for their dark palette, but soon his style became distinguished from pictorial elements and by 1950 he considered himself as an abstract painter.