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Entitled Iconic, the presentation at The Art Show will mark the debut of these intimately scaled portraits which use the visual language and gestures of 15th century icons to depict contemporary subjects selected by Wiley from the streets of New York City.

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.

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The painting in question is, like all of Anderson's recent movies, a large - scale portrait of an individual who, in his particular failures, losses, commitments and dislikes, embodies something fundamental about the time and place in which he lives.

Joan Brown (1938 - 1990) was a prodigy in the «Bay Area Figurative style,» and «Portrait of a Chair» (1958), which serves as a kind of frontispiece to this exhibition, is a stunning example of someone mastering scale, composition, color and hell - for - leather brushwork at the tender age of 19.

The exhibition looks at the various subjects which Learoyd photographs in his studio, including portraits, figure studies, and still lifes, and how his use of camera obscura influences the overall impression of his large - scales works.

The show, which is presented at the New York location of Arario Gallery, is entitled «Smile - isms» and is comprised of lithographs, several statues and one large - scale painting, all featuring the grinning self - portraits for which Minjun is known.

Jennifer Rubell (b. 11 June 1970) is widely recognised for a series of large - scale «food installations» which have been exhibited in numerous museums around the world, including the Saatchi Gallery (London), the LA County Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Portrait Gallery (Washington) and the Rubell Family Collection (Miami).

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.

The resulting work, Fela: Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen... (2002), ended up being one of the most talked - about works in the exhibition, and likewise represented another breakthrough for Barkley, which ultimately got him painting large - scale portraits again.

VIA's grant supports a series of large - scale portraits entitled When You're Free, You Run in the Dark to be exhibited at The Artist's Institute, as well as a series of related public programs, in advance of a new film about the girls» summer music workshop, which premiered at the Polish Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale.

Everything else in the large - scale fantastical portraits of African Americans — their distinctive clothing and the background against which they are set — celebrates color.

The portrait paintings, of which there were five (three of solitary visages, one bearing two heads, and one comprising a group of four severely discombobulated busts), were either medium or large in scale, and constituted the most labor - intensive, complex, and accomplished works in the show.

The exhibition includes a selection of large - scale posed family portraits from his first one - person show The Good Life in 1994 along with images from his Ektachrome Archive, which the artist photographed between 1986 and 2000.

The New Portraits images, which originally debuted in Gagosian's Madison Avenue location in New York City in 2014, are large - scale reproductions of Instagram posts taken from largely unknown (non-celebrity) strangers that Prince found on the social media platform.

Experiencing firsthand both the grandeur of this privately created museum and the impressive scale of the life - size portraits Henry E. Huntington collected, which as a child Rauschenberg had seen reproduced on his mother's playing cards, he understood that becoming an artist could be a viable career choice.2 After his discharge from the Navy in summer 1945 Rauschenberg settled briefly in Los Angeles, eventually relocating to Kansas City, Missouri, in January 1947.

It is perhaps fitting, then, that curator Przemysław Strożek uses the work as a symbolic point of departure for an exhibition that simultaneously serves as the first large - scale retrospective of Prampolini's work since the early 1990s and as a portrait of the international character of the Polish avant - garde, the centenary of which is this

Portraits of You are paintings that render the world metaphorically, in which scale is discontinuous, space is abstract, and form more idealized.

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.

These tiny vignettes also shift the scale of the portrait heads themselves, turning them into architecture, which then turns the tiny paintings into murals: Prangenberg rejoices in shifting scales and temporal frames of reference.

A comprehensive survey of Tseng ‟ s pioneering series of self - portraits, this exhibition will feature over 90 large - scale, black - and - white photographs, some of which will be on view for the first time.

He has gained notoriety nationwide for his large - scale portraits of family and community members, as well as large - scale paintings of family quilts which serve as allegory for themes of family and faith.

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.

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.

The artist explores the subject using different mediums and two distinct approaches: A series of portraits painted in oil with text and two large scale drawings which form a diptych.

Ezawa will also present a selection of light boxes that further his investigations into stolen works of art, including to - scale recreations of Edvard Munch's The Scream, versions of which were stolen in 1994 and 2004, and Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch - Bauer I, which was appropriated by the Nazi regime in 1938 and was famously repatriated to the Bloch - Bauer family in 2006.

This handsome volume features 100 works from Tseng Kwong Chi's pioneering series of large - scale black - and - white self - portraits, produced from 1979 to 1989, many of which have never been published.

Eric Holzman has a fondness for aged surfaces, which he creates as substrate for his modestly scaled drawings of landscapes, portraits and still - lifes.

Ezawa also presents a selection of light boxes that further his investigations into stolen works of art, including to - scale recreations of Edvard Munch's «The Scream», versions of which were stolen in 1994 and 2004, and Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch - Bauer I, which was appropriated by the Nazi regime in 1938 and was famously repatriated to the Bloch - Bauer family in 2006.

The artist's trademark games of scale, which were also important to her Biennale installation, are in evidence here; only now, instead of confronting viewers with giant keepsake frames holding life - size portraits of scantily clad amazons, Yanagi has contained

Tina Barney's spotlight brings together a selection of the artist's large - scale photographic portraits of esteemed figures from the arts, most of which have never been exhibited.

Richard Prince's «New Portraits» series (2015), in which he appropriates Instagram posts, turning them into large - scale prints, is evidence of the influence viral, online imagery has already had on contemporary art photography; and, while we might cringe at the thought of «selfies» and «food porn» someday appearing in MoMA's photographic collection, it is almost imperative that they do.

In 2016, the J. Paul Getty Museum opened a solo exhibition of his large - scale portrait and still - life photographs, which then traveled to the Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art.

Highlights of the Norwich leg include All That Is Solid (2015), a recent film by John Akomfrah and Trevor Mathison concerning the transience and impossibility of capturing the unrecorded voice and the undocumented past; Spirit is a bone (2014), portraits of Moscow citizens by artist duo Broomberg & Chanarin created through the use of a facial recognition system recently developed in Russia for public security and border control surveillance; as well as a series of posters that reproduce on a 1:1 scale a scene from Ryan Gander's studio in which a still life has been constructed from research material on the subject of «The Still Life».