Sentences with phrase «represents celebrity artists»

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MIAMI, July 7 / PRNewswire / — ... The move represents Webdate's commitment to the South Beach club scene and signifies the company's strategy to overtake rival Match.com by becoming the dating community of choice among the hip and chic... Webdate is the only online dating service to provide video chat and the «webdating» experience as a substitute to the traditional blind date... The move puts Webdate in close proximity to the clubs where Webdate sponsors several parties a month for celebrities, supermodels, recording artists and athletes.

The contradictory relationship between Kitano the celebrity and Kitano the serious artist makes him oddly reminiscent of both Jerry Lewis and Clint Eastwood, other iconic actors whose directorial work often questions what their iconography represents.

A glimpse of Leonardo DiCaprio, Uma Thurman and Spike Jonze thrilled the celebrity hounds; the presence of Donna Karan, Marc Jacobs, Raf Simons and Calvin Klein underscored art as fashion; Eli Broad led off the big collectors, and star artists were represented by Eric Fischl, who prowled the aisles with his camera, documenting the fair itself as a big installation as he snapped pictures for his upcoming show on people at art fairs.

Even so, a private life hidden behind the public one presents a problem for biographers; the celebrity will always be more easily represented than the artist.

An embodiment of savvy self - promotion, Damien Hirst has become the world's richest living artist, and with that, a scapegoat for the pompous market and inflated celebrity status representing all that is wrong with contemporary art today.

In an effort to capture celebrities through their audiences, South African artist Candice Breitz, who is represented by White Cube in London and Sonnabend in New York, made video portraits of Bob Marley (Legend), Madonna (Queen), and Michael Jackson (King)-- all 2005 — and of John Lennon (Working Class Hero) in 2006.

These works and artists represent the subsumption of pop and capital into art, but also the radical transformation of the art market itself: the complete commodification of the artwork, enabled by New York's bursting one - percent and the stratospheric ascendance of artists as celebrities and financial elites.

But 20:50, first created at Matt's Gallery in 1987, is not a piece of «young British art», a part of YBA culture; it does not represent an art trend or a celebrity artist.