Sentences with phrase «portraits of alluring»

The painter Brian Calvin, 46, for instance, whose portraits of alluring slacker girls are currently in high demand, had been mining that vein long before Gingeras included him in «Dear Painter» in 2002.

It is at once a vivid portrait of an alluring, late - nineteenth / early - twentieth - century world; a front - row seat to a world - class magic show; and an unexpected love story.

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A pitch - perfect mystery, an alluring portrait of contemporary Venice, and an elucidating eye into the attitudes of a timeless place in the grip of change.

There is enchantment in wondering... in seeing a beautiful portrait every now and then rather than an overabundance of the overexposed; I wanted the figure before me to remain a magnificent mystery, like any alluring woman is as the rarity of a thing is what makes it valuable, even an enigma, and when something or someone is that, they become captivating.

It happened quickly; the allure of the island's time - capsule qualities — like antique Ford Fairlanes and Buick LeSabre convertibles growling down cobblestone streets — may fade fast, even if the Che Guevara portraits on Havana's Art Deco and colonial façades remain.

Well known and admired for her internet - era busts of figures seeming to emerge from abstract matrices, Sascha Braunig has recently evolved to paint full portraits as well as these kinds of truncated figurative studies, which create an alluring and elegant sense of mystery.

2013 New York 1993, New Museum, New York Think First, Shoot Later: Photography from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Looking at the View, Tate Britain, Millbank Project, London The Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow 2012 Boy: A Contemporary Portrait, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai Measuring the Universe: from the transit of Venus to the edge of the cosmos, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London Print / Out, Museum of Modern Art, New York Relocated, Galerie Neu & MD 72, Berlin New suite of Contemporary Displays, Tate Britain, London Klang & Stille, Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst, Munich The Allure of the Collection, National Museum of Art, Osaka

The dignity of his subjects carries over into Thomas» glitzy and alluring portraits that speak to women's roles in today's world.

Currin's accomplished and alluring paintings of distorted and disfigured women and men, including portraits, genre scenes, and still - lifes, bring back the figurative in contemporary painting with an informed nod to art history.

TEXAS ABSTRACT, Wade Wilson Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico Trivial Pursuits: Obsession's Allure, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, Louisiana In Six Weeks, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, Texas Painting: A Love Story, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas Mirrored and Obscured: Contemporary Texas Self - Portraits, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas

Driven by the culture of sex and erotic art the portraits break down the censorship of sexual allure and nudity, showing «the different modes in which the body can exist in social spheres and contemporary art».

There are many references to art and popular cultural imagery that have permeated the Chinese creative subconscious, be it an iconic Andy Warhol portrait and images of the twin towers with smoke pouring from them culled from print media, or the enduring allure of Hollywood and cinema's role in both reflecting and shaping the image of America in the minds of people outside it.

And artists such as Gerhard Richter, Christian Boltanski, Tacita Dean and Fiona Tan have all amassed archives of everyday portraits that owe much of their allure to Barthes's «imperious sign of my future death».

Oldenburg «s portrait conveyed not only the squalor of the neighborhood, but also the mysterious allure of its «bums» and «chicks,» its signage, and even its manhole covers.

In these works, Soares modifies vintage portraits of women to suggest the allure and mystery triggered by covered objects.

In Histology of the Different Classes of Uterine Tumors, Mutu builds upon the pages of a Victorian medical diagram to create portraits and masks that are powerfully alluring in their futuristic aura and at times frightful with a primordial feel.

Artists have been intrigued for centuries, whether it be Tutankhamun's stylised and iconic death mask, portraits painted with stunning realism on Roman coffins, Vermeer's alluring Girl with a Pearl Earring or Picasso's Cubist dissections and fragmentations of the face.