Sentences with phrase «portraits of that clown»

I mean, I don't see anything extraordinary about his portraits of that clown.

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Cindy Sherman and her photographs and how she captures gender and stereotypical poses, with examples of her History portraits, her grotesque portraits, her Stereotypical female poses and her Clown images.

His «clown - like» portraits become a mirror of our uncertainty — parodying the stereotypical image of perfect beauty.

Maybe Hopper was still thinking years later of Henri's portraits, with their glossy lips and eyes, when he gave a clown lipstick and eye makeup.

In the last decade Sherman has reintroduced herself into her work, for example in her History Portraits where she playfully appropriates the subjects of the Old Masters, as well as introducing us to a whole new cast of characters in her Clowns and Headshots (or Hollywood / Hampton Types).

There were childlike sketches with captions like «Why you shouldn't shoot a constipated poodle,» buffoonish portraits of amorous couples, cartoons of doctors and disaffected teens, whimsical storybook illustrations, a caricature of President Reagan, and even a ceramic totem pole of clown heads.

Cindy Sherman began her classic Film Stills series in 1977; and since then has photographed herself in a variety of roles, including centerfold portraits, history portraits, society portraits and variety of clowns.

For example, the ceramic sculpture Balderdash - dash (1978) by Robert Arneson depicts a self - portrait bust of the artist as a clown.

Beverly McIver's paintings are a voyage in self - revelation from her earlier self - portraits in white face (the clown) to black face (confronting the black stereotype); to more recently, the unmasking of her skin, body and feelings as she explores her identity as an artist and as an African American.

Biography: Beverly McIver's paintings are a voyage in self - revelation from her earlier self - portraits in white face (the clown) to black face (confronting the black stereotype); to more recently, the unmasking of her skin, body and feelings as she explores her identity as an artist and as an African American.

A selection of ambitious and celebrated works will be highlighted, including a complete set of the seminal Untitled Film Stills (1977 - 80) and a complete group of her 12 centerfolds (1981), and selections from major series such as fairy tales / mythology (1985), history portraits (1988 - 90), sex pictures (1992), headshots (2000), clowns (2002 - 04), fashion (1983 - 84, 1993 - 94, 2007 - 08), and society portraits (2008).

The renowed Kunstpalais Erlangen made an exhibition exploring»... the often disquieting figure of the clown...», in which no less than six portraits from series «Paradise The Portraits» (2001) aportraits from series «Paradise The Portraits» (2001) aPortraits» (2001) are shown.

His knockout works are his most recent ones: 19th - century aristocratic portraits onto which he has hand - paints disruptions such as the clown noses in the work above, or a smear of lipstick across a woman's face.

The broad range of vision engages one with its formal and narrative authority — from elegant self - contained cerebral works like On Kawara's «Today» series, in which the artist paints only a date of the year against a background of color, and Roni Horn's wall - sized photographic series composed of 36 progressive clown portraits of perceptual ambiguity, both artists neatly isolating individual permutations of life's sequential narrative, to Peter Fischli and David Weiss» collaborative film, «Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go),» in which the unconstructed imagery is punctuated by bursts of random narrative that addresses life's impermanence.

Such is the case with Jeremy Blake's woozy film tour of a ghost - haunted California mansion; Judith Schaechter's stained - glass windows with clowns instead of sacred emblems; a sound piece by Archive (Chris Kubick and Anne Walsh) that conjures the spirit of Joseph Cornell; and AA Bronson's candy - color photograph of the corpse of his fellow artist Felix Partz, a Pop version of a Victorian post-mortem portrait.

Inhabiting a peculiar space between a clown - like portrait and ceremonial statue that concretizes the legacy of modernist abstraction, in Untitled (Free Standing Large Garden Sculpture Mask M24.g) Grotjahn makes a truly irreverent addition to the canon of bronze sculpture.