Sentences with phrase «portraiture as a genre»

Tacita Dean: PORTRAIT is the first exhibition in the Gallery's history to be devoted to the medium of film and reveals the artist's own longstanding and personal interest in portraiture as a genre.

Currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the mid-career retrospective of work by the photographer Rineke Dijkstra lays out the argument she has built for more than twenty years for the intimacy and dignity of portraiture as a genre.

reinvents portraiture as a genre for rendering the drama of self - display.

While working, I started playing with the visual codes within portraiture as a genre, on how we interpret personalities into poses and gestures.

So, why did Chuck Close chose portraiture as the genre of choice?

The first exhibition in the Gallery's history to be devoted to the medium of film, Tacita Dean discusses her longstanding and personal interest in portraiture as a genre.

The exhibition is the first in the Gallery's history to be devoted to the medium of film, and also reveals Tacita Dean's own longstanding and personal interest in portraiture as a genre.

The exhibition will be the first in the Gallery's history to be devoted to the medium of film, and also reveals Tacita Dean's own longstanding and personal interest in portraiture as a genre.

The exhibition will reveal the artist's longstanding and personal interest in portraiture as a genre.

This exhibition will be the first in the Gallery's history to be devoted to the medium of film, and also reveals the artist's own longstanding and personal interest in portraiture as a genre.

Not exact matches

Throughout the course of art history, self - portraiture has been an irresistible exercise for artists as different as Rembrandt van Rijn in the 17th century and Frida Kahlo in the 20th, two of the genre's...

Marshall's subdued, slightly melancholy, slightly hopeful canvases are often allegories — they rethink various art - historical genres, such as history paintings and self - portraiture, by applying elements of African American culture to them.

To be deprived of this ultimate stage of training meant, in effect, to be deprived of the possibility of creating major art works, unless one were a very ingenious lady indeed, or simply, as most of the women aspiring to be painters ultimately did, to restrict oneself to the «minor» fields of portraiture, genre, landscape or still - life.

Installed thematically in two rooms on the first floor and four rooms on the second, the show explores five genres that developed as categories when painting was still in its infancy as a respected medium: Still Life, Landscape, Scenes of Everyday Life, Portraiture and History Painting.

While portraiture has illustrated political and social circumstances throughout history, the artists in this exhibition try to transform portraiture into a genre that can hold its own weight amongst the innovations of the contemporary art world by using Neel's portraiture as inspiration means to address the complexities of personal identity.

Major topics include the worldwide production and dissemination of photographic images; the local and global character of specific genres, such as portraiture and photojournalism; the photographic representation of human movement and migration; and (post) colonial photographies.

In the selected items on view, the developments of American artistic traditions can be traced through the early interests in portraiture, the rise in prominence of landscape painting in the 19th - century, the popularity of genre scenes, as well as the academic traditions of history and large - scale society paintings.

The elusive theater of portraiture itself is a persisting force in Neel's work through the years, as well as its ability to «collapse time and chronology,» a power Als aligns with the essay genre itself before suggesting Neel might be considered an «essayist of the canvas,» and a deeply moral one at that.

As such, the relationship between the intended subject matter and the continual reinterpretations bear witness to the possibilities found within the genre of narrative portraiture.

While portraiture is a traditional, time - honoured genre, this exhibition offers a new perspective by bringing together iconic portrait paintings by artists such as Max Beckmann, Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach with more unconventional works by artists such as Lara Favaretto and John Bock.

Or they try to revive other genres, such as still life and portraiture.

Favorite subjects were mundane activities of everyday life but also looked to traditional genres such as portraiture, the female nude and the landscape as a way to subvert expectations through outrageous depictions.

Continuing the Museum's series The Genres: Portraiture, Still Life, and Landscape, the exhibition will feature 11 works by Paglen adjacent to an exhibition of landscapes from the 17th to 20th centuries by artists such as Charles François Daubigny, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, John Pfahl, and Andy Warhol, among others.

The sumptuously illustrated accompanying catalogue, published by Yale University Press, explores portraiture as a site of artistic experimentation, in works that shift the genre from one based on mimesis to one stressing symbolic associations between artists and subjects.

Caught as if in a state of ambiguous absorption and frozen at the height of their youth, they embody a new kind of portraiture that confirms and updates the immortalizing aura of the traditional genre.

Thomas's work grows from a long study of art history, drawing inspiration from the classical genres of portraiture, landscape, and still life, as well as from contemporary popular culture, the imagery of which she uses to explore issues of identity and race, as well as beauty and the self.

Taking this premise as his point of departure, Rondinone creates mixed - media installations that run the gamut of artistic genres and techniques — including landscape drawing, abstract painting, photographic portraiture, realist sculpture, and video — and reflect the belief that

Inspired by work such as Marlene Dumas» «Chlorosis» and the Terracotta Warriors of Xi'an, China, Bassel uses the traditional genre of portraiture in conjunction with the obscurity of a crowd to allow a sense of intimacy to unfold, even within the monumental scale of her painting.

Trained in East Germany in the classical art of realist painting, Richter's images have the quiet stillness of European masterworks, taking in genres such as the still life, landscape and portraiture, but of contemporary subjects that are often rendered like a slightly out of focus photograph.

The artists in this invitational group exhibition examine the genres of traditional maritime and marine art using ship portraiture, seascapes, novels, folklore and ancient myths about the sea as inspiration.

He explains Duchamp's attitude to portraiture: «Duchamp seemed to be exploring the genre itself, often using his own image as a subject to make a point... The idea of retaining the formal characteristics of the genre, while using it to highlight conceptual ideas, has always seemed to me the way portraiture is most likely to evolve in the future.»

The works are subdivided thematically, with each group representing a specific case - study in unfinishedness — corresponding to specific times (such as the Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern periods), media (prints and sculpture), artists (including Turner, Cézanne, and Picasso), and genres (most importantly portraiture).

Could it be this painterly quality to Dean's films that led the NPG, in collaboration with its neighbour the National Gallery, and the Royal Academy (whose offering I haven't seen, as it doesn't open until the end of May), to the decision to divide the present survey of her work into the three traditional painting genres — portraiture, landscape, still life?

Classical art history celebrates portraiture as one of the highest genres of art for its ability to elevate the status of the sitter.

His publications, in Studio Vista's Pocket How to Do It series, range from Composing Your Paintings (1971) to books on genres such as portraiture and still life (1966 and 1969 respectively).

In his paintings from the last decade he has turned his attention more specifically to reimagining art historical genres including portraiture and landscape painting, while drawing inspiration from such artists as Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, and many others.

This exhibition features over ninety drawings by many of the preeminent artists of the Dutch Golden Age — among them Rembrandt van Rijn and his followers Ferdinand Bol and Gerbrand van den Eeckhout; Abraham Bloemaert; Aelbert Cuyp; and Jan van Goyen — who were active primarily in their native Holland and who brought their extraordinary talents to bear on such quintessentially Dutch subjects as landscapes and marine views, pastoral and genre scenes, still life, and portraiture.

Showing in the main gallery: Director's Cut, a group exhibition featuring 20 artists who breathe fresh perspectives and a new vitality into traditional photographic genres such as landscape, portraiture, and still life.

David Choong Lee is a Korean artist who combines versatile genres such as graffiti, collage, portraiture and graphic design to create an array of vibrant figurative and abstract artworks.

Director's Cut, a group exhibition featuring 20 artists who breathe fresh perspectives and a new vitality into traditional photographic genres such as landscape, portraiture, and still life.

Many artists now use portraits to comment on larger issues, such as individual identity, social inequities, politics, celebrity obsession — and the genre of portraiture itself.

Borondo is renowned for his very particular style characterized by an unusual mix of genres; classic portraiture and street art describes his work as follows:

The exhibition includes several inter-connected works that address the loaded nature of portraiture: the role of this genre in establishing how we, as a culture, remember the acts of public figures, describe who occupies certain positions in our society, and whose images are recorded and why.

Highlights of recent Broad MSU exhibitions include: Trevor Paglen: The Genres; the final installment of the exhibition series The Genres: Portraiture, Still, Life, Landscape, featuring works by social scientist, researcher, and writer Trevor Paglen; Moving Time: Video Art at 50, 1965 - 2015, one of the final exhibitions conceived by Founding Director Michael Rush exploring the development of video art from its earliest presentation, currently on view at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Material Effects, which brought together six leading artists from West Africa and the diaspora whose work examines the circulation and currency of objects and materials; and The Artist as Activist: Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman, the first major museum exhibition to bring together a comprehensive body of work by two of Bangladeshi's foremost contemporary artists.

The Inaugural Exhibition brings together over 350 works that epitomize those genres and subjects most prominently featured in the collection such as contemporary Bay Area photography, American color photography, and portraiture, alongside photographs of historic San Francisco and the industrial landscape.

Placing emphasis on stylistic elements instead of the overarching photographic medium, the contemporary collection cites how the conventions of classic genres, such as portraiture, landscapes and architectural, are developed through new practice.

«But is the selfie the same as the fine art genre of photographic self - portraiture?

Felibien ranked the genres as follows: (1) History Painting; (2) Portraiture; (3) Genre Painting; (4) Landscapes; (5) Still Life.

Revisiting the ideologically charged genres of Western history painting and portraiture, Donkor's dramatic, large - scale works represent narratives of legendary figures and events from African history, as well as more recent issues associated with civil unrest and police violence.

Portraiture as an artistic genre has a long - standing lineage with memorializing civic and political leaders, communicating narrative through the likeness of a person and adding to that likeness a symbolic stamp of status.