Sentences with phrase «scale portraits made»

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However much the Gospel portraits may have to be scaled down to enable us to see the historical figure of Jesus, they still show us a man who made an impact of such magnitude on those who knew him best and who had left all to follow him, that no unexpected calamity, such as the crucifixion, could have erased this from their thoughts and their experience.

French photographers Agnes Varda and JR collaborated to travel throughout France, taking large - scale black - and - white portraits and pasting them up as public art in places that don't make this country's picturesque travel reel — a row of abandoned miner's housing, a rural cluster of unfinished cottages, a chemical factory and a loading dock.

But her large - scale canvases, defined by gestural, expressive strokes overlaid with mark making, reference the political implications and issues surrounding social agency that draw her to the portrait of de Pareja.

Continuing the Warholian reference, on show will be a series of large scale unique silkscreened portraits of the artist as Che Guevara, Joseph Beuys, Elvis Presley amongst others, as well as works based on Warhol's urine oxidation paintings, abstract works made by pissing on copper metallic painted canvas Turk takes a Gestalt approach to cliché and iconic imagery subverting our sense of what we think we are seeing.

«Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures» features the large - scale portraits the photographer made of high school students across the country, a 15 - year endeavor.

Many of the portraits she made are on view at the Carnegie Museum of Art, along with street photography, large - scale photographic murals, and videos.

It's fascinating to see a tiny Pollock self - portrait and a couple of surreal apprentice - Rothkos, but you're itching to get on to large - scale paintings that will lift you almost bodily out of yourself — to find out if art that rocked the world when rationing was in force still makes an impact.

Further highlights include Polly Apfelbaum's strips of textile that are combined to form a colorfully woven painting; Rashid Johnson's tropical enclave containing various unexpected elements from sculptures made with shea butter to video portraits; Katherine Bernhardt's monumental painting with tropical birds, cuddly robots and cigarette stubs, which at once editorializes and summarizes modern culture and the artist herself; an interactive multimedia installation by Nedko Solakov comprising nine sofas in the shapes of the nine Chinese characters constituting the phrase «I miss Socialism, maybe»; and Yu Hong's large - scale painting depicting a famous Chinese fable widely cited in both modern Chinese art history and Chinese Communist narratives.

While the scale and lighting of the portraits appear to be inspired by a Leonardo da Vinci show she attended at the National Portrait Gallery, a greater impression was made by the people lined up outside waiting to get in.

British artist Marcus Harvey made his name at the groundbreaking «Sensation» show at London's Royal Academy of Arts in 1997 with his unforgettable large - scale portrait of serial killer Myra Hyndley, made from child - size hand - prints.

This exhibition comprises nearly forty large - scale paintings made in the past ten years, all of them portraits ---- some of couples and others of the artist.

In those far off days Sonia Boyce made large scale pastel drawings, full of pattern and portrait, seductive autobiographical narratives revealing absolutely everything about real life and young love, secret conversations, working peoples aspirations, difficult relationships and childhood memories.

His mastery of formal composition, colour and detail have made him one of the pre-eminent European art photographers of our time, and he is best known for his large - scale cityscapes and his ongoing series of family portraits, many of which nod to Renaissance paintings.

Chuck Close (b. 1940, Monroe, WA) is best known for his large - scale, photo - based portrait paintings, which he started making with his first iconic black - and - white Self - Portrait portrait paintings, which he started making with his first iconic black - and - white Self - Portrait Portrait of 1968.

She makes large - scale portraits of naked black men, gazing at the viewer, relaxing in comfortable domestic settings.

Lastly, «Portraits» also features several small - scale paintings, all dated 2006, that could be called «house - portraits» of significant writers, cultural thinkers or places of historical import: Frederick Douglass» House, Aerial View Neverland Ranch, Freud's Childhood Home, and the gate to the Auschwitz concentration camp with the haunting phrase emblazoned on it, Arbeit Macht Frei (Work will make yPortraits» also features several small - scale paintings, all dated 2006, that could be called «house - portraits» of significant writers, cultural thinkers or places of historical import: Frederick Douglass» House, Aerial View Neverland Ranch, Freud's Childhood Home, and the gate to the Auschwitz concentration camp with the haunting phrase emblazoned on it, Arbeit Macht Frei (Work will make yportraits» of significant writers, cultural thinkers or places of historical import: Frederick Douglass» House, Aerial View Neverland Ranch, Freud's Childhood Home, and the gate to the Auschwitz concentration camp with the haunting phrase emblazoned on it, Arbeit Macht Frei (Work will make you free).

Joan Mitchell is the first full - scale biography of the abstract expressionist painter who came of age in the 1950s,»60s, and»70s; a portrait of an outrageous artist and her struggling artist world, painters making their way in the second part of America's twentieth century.

Highlights from the show include Royal College of Art graduate Jodie Carey's eight foot chandeliers made out of fluff from a hoover, Tom Price's animated, small scale sculpted plaster heads, Emma Puntis's mesmerizing miniature portraits, Tatsuya Kimata's ironic sculptures of everyday objects sculpted using traditional marble and stone carving skills, Doug White's majestic palm trees crafted from thousands of abandoned car tyres retrieved from road sides in Belize, Michael Lisle - Taylor's army uniforms crossed with straight jackets, which play to his 19 years in the Navy, and Boo Ritson's large - scale photographs of people she transforms into characters caked in thick paint, which have sold out in her second solo show only a year after graduating.

Works on view are intimately scaled portraits that make use of mood and atmosphere to capture the personalities and psychological landscapes of the figures, personas invented by the artist.

A leading voice of portrait photography, Dawoud Bey got his start as a street photographer in Harlem in the 1970s, then made sensitive, large - scale Polaroids in the nineties, and last year had a retrospective held concurrently at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Renaissance Society.

The exhibition offers a new, large - scale commission, a curtain made of hexagons that mixes Hubbard's portraits of cultural icons, along with color blocks, forming a hive shape.

The 93 - year - old painter will present small - scale portraits (made in the sixties and seventies) of noted critics, curators, and other artists, nude, with big heads of bad hair, and flowery clothes.

Struth uses the mural - scale prints that have become a trope in contemporary art, not least in Germany — he is a peer of Thomas Ruff and Andreas Gursky, having graduated from the same Kunstakademie Düsseldorf program taught by Bernd and Hilla Becher — and the size and deep color of his images are crucial to their effect: In the museum work in particular (Struth also makes streetscapes and portraits),

Uptown galleries began to show more intellectually challenging, non-mimetic large - scale work for an informed audience, while the outdoor exhibit continued to present traditional «scapes and portraits with a more transparent aesthetic, made mainly to please the eye rather than test the mind, to the uninitiated public.

The show consists of recent video pieces and pencil portraits alongside large - scale reproductions of drawings made during the artist's sessions with psychologist Dr. Guttman during childhood.

One of the groups of photographs (Lavatory Self - Portraits in the Flemish Style) I made had a viral moment, and I've never experienced anything like that on that scale.

After receiving his MFA from Yale, Close gained recognition in the 1970s for his massive - scale portraits which were painted using a photorealist style, making them nearly indistinguishable from their photographic equivalent.

«A Discovery Channel / BBC co-production four years in the making, FROZEN PLANET will provide the ultimate portrait of our earth's polar regions, where the scale and beauty of the scenery and sheer power of the natural elements are unlike anywhere else on the planet.