A New York - based photographer and educator well - known for his candid, humorous and honest
portraits of celebrities, musicians and athletes.
A few weeks ago, it seemed like you couldn't go to a local museum without coming across
portraits of celebrities.
The works, which include
portraits of celebrities such as Edward Kennedy, Tara Tyson, Mary Martin and Truman Capote as well as intimate photographs of Andy Warhol's friends, will be complemented by other photographs and works in the GW Permanent Collection.
Warhol used this process throughout the 1960s to reproduce multiple
portraits of celebrities, including Jacqueline Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, and Elvis Presley.
These Portraits of Celebrities in 1920s Paris Launched Berenice Abbott's Career.»
Camera Work, Berlin, displays 50 of the artist's iconic
portraits of celebrities from the 1980s, simultaneously reviving the ideal of Hollywood glamour and looking forward into the future.
For the past ten years, Dawn Mellor has been painting
portraits of celebrities; consciously misrepresenting, sexualising and violating imagery culled from photographic portraits, gossip magazines, film stills and the internet.
Robert Mapplethorpe, born in New York in 1946, died in Boston 1989, was an acclaimed photographer, most noted for his black and white
portraits of celebrities, flowers, as well as female and male nudes.
Corrections officer Gene Palmer gave the pair paint and tools in exchange for «stunning
portraits of celebrities.»
Artforum reports that the acquisition includes several rarely seen works, as well as
portraits of celebrities taken for magazines.
Together with
the portraits of celebrities (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kathleen Turner) and those of the artist's friends and lovers (Patti Smith, Sam Wagstaff), Mapplethorpe documented the world around him in all its dazzling brilliance and extremes.
His portraits of celebrities, footballers and musicians are literally everywhere.
Her later paintings include
portraits of celebrity artists like Andy Warhol and Marisol, as well notable people such as Mayor Ed Koch and Bella Abzug.
On view are iconic works from key moments of his career, from his student days in the 1960s to the present, including his large - scale double
portraits of the celebrity friends of his youth; the collaged Polaroids through which he examined new possibilities within Cubism as well as the artistic use of photography; his later forays into painting the landscape on location in his native Yorkshire; and finally, his experimental works using iPad apps.
Not exact matches
Editor's note: Jeremy Cowart is a Los Angeles - based
celebrity portrait photographer and founder of Help - Portrait, a global movement of photographers giving free portraits to those
portrait photographer and founder
of Help -
Portrait, a global movement of photographers giving free portraits to those
Portrait, a global movement
of photographers giving free
portraits to those in need.
With his subsequent usher textbooks, autobiography (There Is life Beyond Name Tags, Dude Books, 2001), magazine (Badge and Bulletin, the only ushering magazine including a centerfold
portrait) and cultlike following, Glibface had almost singlehandedly brought ushering into the sunlight
of ecclesiastical
celebrity ~ To his fame are credited such innovative strategies as parhug valets; tour guides, computerized seating readouts - for latecomers, and Roy Dude University's School
of Usherology.
It's worth digging past the
celebrities and charities to discover this
portrait of the WPM.
Being greeted by a giant, shaggy - maned Kate Moss is always a good way to start an exhibition — or enter any room, for that matter — and when this glossy black - and - white wonder is just a drop in David Bailey's star - studded ocean
of celebrity portraits, you know it's the place to be.
REUTERS — Dec 26 — Online dating site Match.com is enlisting a
celebrity stylist to advise camera - shy singles how to build a hip, sexy Web
portrait of themselves.
The film Moukarbel has made focuses on the Joanne era alone, and refuses to dwell on her more theatrical past, becoming a
portrait of a woman rather than one
of a
celebrity.
Anderson's dazzling feature is also, notoriously, a thinly veiled
portrait of the birth
of Z - grade science - fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard's
celebrity - endorsed religion, though less barbed than you might expect.
Using archival footage and anecdotal evidence, Edelman constructs a complex
portrait of race and
celebrity in the tail end
of 20th - century America, one that doesn't provide answers but gives voice to a chorus
of diverse opinions.
Waugh's
portrait of gossip - mongering,
celebrity - worshipping, pleasure - seeking upper - class twits (some filthy rich, many penniless) in the decades between the world wars is shot through with a distinctive insanity.
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portraits of political figures, regular people,
celebrities, etc..
Marshall Terrill is the author
of nearly 20 published books, including the bestselling biography «Steve McQueen:
Portrait of an American Rebel» and biographies
of celebrity icons Elvis Presley and «Pistol» Pete Maravich.
Using black and white photographs, she shreds and then pieces together
portraits of famous
celebrities, from Nina Simone to Al Capone, and creates kaleidoscopic patterns.
Elizabeth Peyton's
portraits of androgynous punk rockers,
celebrities, friends, and opera stars are usually credited with presaging renewed critical interest in a type
of painting that used to be dismissed as shallow.
The art series is a collection
of celebrity portraits digitally painted in gold in an immortalized state.
Mickalene Thomas: Mentors, Muses, and
Celebrities, an exhibition featuring photographs, film, and video, is a richly textured, and moving
portrait of the multiplicities
of womanhood that builds upon the artist's ongoing reconsideration
of black female identity.
Modern culture is reflected in his humorous
portraits, landscapes and interiors by means
of familiar political and
celebrity figures, chain restaurants and box stores, and well - known brands.
Throughout the 80s, Mapplethorpe produced a bevy
of images that simultaneously challenge and adhere to classical aesthetic standards: stylized compositions
of male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes, and studio
portraits of artists and
celebrities, to name a few
of his preferred genres.
Both artists enjoyed
celebrity status in an audience beyond the art world, and both manipulated their personas as evidenced, in the exhibition, by each
of their self -
portraits in drag.
Mapplethorpe / Warhol Celebrity
Portraits gives us the opportunity to juxtapose the artists» portraits of each other, as well as both artists» images of celebrities such as Grace Jones, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Keith Haring, Deborah Harry, Roy Lichtenstein, Francesco Clemente and Truma
Portraits gives us the opportunity to juxtapose the artists»
portraits of each other, as well as both artists» images of celebrities such as Grace Jones, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Keith Haring, Deborah Harry, Roy Lichtenstein, Francesco Clemente and Truma
portraits of each other, as well as both artists» images
of celebrities such as Grace Jones, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Keith Haring, Deborah Harry, Roy Lichtenstein, Francesco Clemente and Truman Capote.
The exhibition brings together more than 90 images representing Lieberman's body
of work as a photojournalist with the Associated Press and numerous publications, encompassing a broad spectrum
of subject matter including
celebrity portraits, sporting events, nature tableaus and aerial photography.
By the time I became aware
of her work she had become a minor
celebrity — a relic
of the depression era who had ignored Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Minimal and Conceptual art and was still painting traditional
portraits of her family and friends, as well as art historians, critics, curators and artists.
Ms. Kilimnik's reconstructions
of 18th - century salons, featuring
portraits of contemporary
celebrities like Paris Hilton, decked out as Marie Antoinette,... read more... «Karen Kilimnik's Philadelphia salon»
I KILLED KENNY also debuts a series
of paint - splattered collages, in which historic images
of Abraham Lincoln are overlaid with
portraits of iconic Hollywood
celebrities, contemporary artists, and legendary American boxers — Robert DeNiro in «Raging Bull,» Gena Rowlands in «Gloria,» Christopher Wool in his studio, and publicity stills
of Muhammad Ali.
Her provocative
portraits of art - world
celebrities like Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg — along with dozens
of other people who caught her fancy — made her the quintessential artist's artist.
Warhol's
portraits are symbols
of the fame and
celebrity that made him popular, but they are also testimonials
of his creative genius in pushing the boundaries
of the medium.
Known for paintings based on images he sources online, from animals and flowers to
celebrity portraits (he was commissioned to paint the musician Lorde for the cover
of her 2017 album Melodrama), Sam McKinniss is showing a new work based on an image
of singer Lana Del Rey.
In conjunction with her solo exhibitions at MOCA Pacific Design Center, Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road, and at the Hammer Museum, Catherine Opie:
Portraits, photographer Catherine Opie joins MOCA Chief Curator Helen Molesworth and Hammer Chief Curator Connie Butler for a conversation about the concepts
of portraiture, gender,
celebrity, and creativity at play in the artist's photographs
of Elizabeth Taylor's Bel Air home and in her images
of visual artists, fashion designers, and writers drawn from her own circle
of friends.
He shot male and female nudes that evoked the essence
of classic statuary, his photographs
of flowers perfectly captured their delicate nature, and his
portraits of New York
celebrities like Patti Smith and Deborah Harry had a haunting, soulful quality.
There's his famous hypercolor, hypercontrast prints
of hibiscus flowers; his tabloid «Death and Disaster» series from the early 1960s; square
celebrity portraits of Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, and Jean - Michel Basquiat; a 1986 self -
portrait of the aging artist in his «fright wig»; a grouping
of massive Pop - ified Chairman Maos; and stacks
of Brillo boxes.
Several
of Noguchi's public artwork proposals were rejected; voluntarily (and then less so), he was interred in a Japanese work camp in Arizona; the FBI investigated him for espionage; he had romantic affairs with the likes
of Frida Kahlo; and on and off, Noguchi turned to bust
portraits of high society New Yorkers and Hollywood
celebrities to make ends meet.
However, while Andy Warhol used Pop Art to explore the
celebrity culture
of the 60s, Bennett uses this genre «for the purpose
of painting a
portrait of America.»
Meet
celebrities and other fabulous people in this diverse selection
of portraits taken by Warhol in the 1970s and 1980s with his favorite camera, the Polaroid Big Shot.
During the 80s, Mapplethorpe produced a series
of photographs that simultaneously challenge and adhere to classical aesthetic standards: stylized compositions
of male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes, and studio
portraits of artists and
celebrities.
Included here are examples
of his
celebrity portraits, camouflage paintings, Rorschach blots and more.
In the 1970s, Warhol's nightly forays to the legendary nightclub Studio 54 cemented his
celebrity aura and provided a flow
of wealthy clients for his flourishing business
of commissioned
portraits.
He has painted commissioned
portraits of many
celebrities such as Hugh Hefner and Jay - Z.