Sentences with phrase «society portraits»

The figures are loosely worked, their spectacles and Rolexes and signet rings glimmering like the jewels in society portraits.

The artist creates works that fuse society portraits with lowbrow popular culture and critiques of laissez - faire capitalism.

John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925) Outstanding society portrait artist in the grand manner.

Was he less of a modern after all than John Singer Sargent, who gave up society portraits for landscape?

Both her 1981 Centerfolds series, with its prone, vulnerable - looking young women, and her 2008 Society Portraits of scrupulously turned - out matrons feel somewhat repetitive here.

Fashion illustrations and society portraits from various eras inspired the women's portraits in Psychic Violence in America.

Kay's academically inspired paintings range in their subjects from ridiculous cartoons and stoner culture to heraldic emblems and seventeenth century society portraits.

He gained a small following through painting society portraits and had his first one - man show at M. Knoedler & Co. in 1917.

Gerda stops painting conventional society portraits and makes Lili her main model.

KLIMT AND THE WOMEN OF VIENNA»S GOLDEN AGE, 1900 - 1918 Gustav Klimt's «Portrait of Adele Bloch - Bauer I» (1907), the trophy of the Neue Galerie's collection, will be reunited for the first time in a decade with a pendant painting, «Portrait of Adele Bloch - Bauer II» (1912) and shown alongside other Klimt society portraits.

Waterhouse's The Lady of Shalott (1888), a public favorite mischievously hung high, is sandwiched by Millais» light society portrait Hearts Are Trumps (1872) and Bramley's harrowing A Hopeless Dawn (1888).

«A highlight for visitors will be Birch Forest, 1903, a rare landscape by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, who was known for his Viennese society portraits.

Opening: «Andy Warhol: Late Paintings» at Skarstedt Gallery «I had energy and wanted to rush home and paint and stop doing society portraits,» Andy Warhol once wrote of his Skulls, Hammer and Sickle, Rorschach, Knives, Dollar Signs and Reversals series, which he created from 1974 through 1987, the year of his death.

Sherman's 2008 Society Portraits take on problems of ageing and class through caricatures of older wealthy women, from a heavily - rouged bourgeois Parisian — who comes across as both dowdy and classy in her fur coat and silk scarf — to women sporting glamourous getups and putative plastic surgery.

While people familiar only with Sargent's glamorous society portraits might be surprised he produced so many marine paintings and drawings — the show includes about 60 works — he was descended from a family that had been active in the shipping trade.

By that time his reputation was already tarnished by his production of art for schlocky galleries, and by a stream of arguably undiscriminating society portraits.

John Singer Sargent Biography of American Impressionist Society Portrait Artist.

In society portraits that delighted the wealthy in Britain between the wars, Frampton paints porcelain skin and frozen, glassy faces with meticulous precision.

The show's story continues with highlights from Sherman's Society Portraits from 2008.

A grid of photographs from pioneering feminist conceptual photographer Natalia LL's series «Sztuka Postkonsumpcyjna» (Post-Consumer Art, 1975) and «TAK / YES» (1971) was placed alongside Zuzanna Janin's video Walka / Fight (2001)-- in which the artist boxes the professional heavyweight Przemysław Saleta — and new paintings by the emerging artist Ewa Juszkiewicz based on eighteenth - and nineteenth - century society portraits.

FAMOUS AMERICAN PORTRAITURE For biographies of some of the best artists from the 19th century, see: John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925) Society portrait artist.

The resounding exceptions are her «society portraits,» first shown just after the market crash of 2008.

Richard Wilson is today considered the «father of British landscape painting», but he started out as a society portrait painter.

In January 2015 his Society Portraits were on view at Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery.

More recently, gallery partner Sukanya Rajaratnam has curated exhibitions that include a 50 - year retrospective of David Hammons, a solo show of Sean Scully's paintings from the 80's and a survey of Cindy Sherman's most acclaimed series, spanning 30 years of Centerfolds, History Portraits and Society Portraits.

Iké Udé's photo Amy Fine Collins (2010) showed the fashion critic Collins sitting ramrod straight amid flamboyant patterns, while Eric Fischl's knockout painting The Krakoffs (2006) advanced the society portrait with a masterful use of black clothing that cuts diagonally through the composition and offsets the subjects» at - odds psyches, and two blurry «head - shot» portraits by the Iranian - born Y.Z. Kami plumbed depths one can't quite fathom.

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.

John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925) One of the best portrait artists, noted for society portraits.

Certain ghosts are necessary to complete the society portrait.

In a society portrait, who and what has been left off a list — or snubbed, or retired to a distant corner — is no less telling than who occupies the center table.

Featuring more than two dozen works spanning 30 years, Cindy Sherman: Once Upon a Time, 1981 — 2011 at Mnuchin Gallery, New York, takes as its focus three of the artist's most acclaimed series: the Centerfolds, the History Portraits, and the Society Portraits.

Once Upon a Time at Mnuchin Gallery, New York, showcases a number of works that span 30 years, taken from such acclaimed series as the Centerfolds, the History Portraits and the Society Portraits.

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).

In a new photography exhibition on the Upper East Side, the Mnuchin Gallery is revisiting Cindy Sherman's Society Portraits, one of her most famous works and an exploration of what it means for (rich) women to age.

Featuring more than two dozen works spanning 30 years, the exhibition will focus on three of Sherman's most acclaimed series - the «Centerfolds,» the «History Portraits» and the «Society Portraits.»

One of the upstairs galleries is devoted to a brilliant hanging of Sherman's recent series of «society portraits,» featuring herself done up as fictional ladies of means, aging with varying degrees of grace.

The exhibition, curated by Philippe Ségalot and Sukanya Rajaratnam, focuses on three of her series: The Center Folds, The History Portraits and The Society Portraits.

All are pulled from three different series: «Society Portraits» (Sherman as UES women battling age with plastic surgery), the «History Portraits» (Sherman as Renaissance and Rococo figures) and the seminal «Centerfolds» series (Sherman as a modern version of the reclining woman but all lost in private moments as opposed to, you know, tugging at a bikini string).

Featuring more than two dozen works spanning thirty years, it will take as its focus three of Sherman's most acclaimed series: the Centerfolds, the History Portraits, and the Society Portraits.

Thus, in the late 1870s and early 1880s his landscape painting demonstrated how well he understood Impressionism, yet it was an Impressionism in part only, and - as far as portraits were concerned - always sacrificed to the exigencies of a society portrait.

The exhibition, curated by Philippe Segalot and Sukanya Rajaratnam, focuses on three of her series: The Center Folds, The History Portraits and The Society Portraits.

They were both enrolled at the Royal Academy Schools around 1914 and both lived in Hampstead in the 1920s and 1930s, although no evidence has emerged that they communicated.34 Walters is now obscure, but was successful and widely known during the early phase of his career between the wars, particularly for his depictions of working class Welsh life and society portraits.

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Following that, she co-curated a survey of Cindy Sherman's most acclaimed series, spanning 30 years of Centerfolds, History Portraits and Society Portraits, with Philippe Ségalot.

But we soon return to celebrity friends such as Ingrid Bergman and Muhammad Ali, reminding the viewer of the artist's fascination and obsession with fame, and of Warhol's commissioned portraits spanning the 1970s right up to the year before his death — with the artist's wish for his «society portraits» to all hang together in a huge display at New York's Museum of Modern Art.