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

Not exact matches

«And the idea that we didn't need that rich portrait of society down to the neighbourhood level for good decision - making, that didn't sit well with Canadians.»

In the rosy portraits of assisted suicide drawn by the likes of the Hemlock Society, cool - headed patients put their affairs in order, make their peace with Heaven, and drift away peacefully to the dulcet strains of their favorite music, surrounded by loved ones and kindly, compassionate medical assistants.

In Meetings with Remarkable Trees, Irish Tree Society chairman Thomas Pakenham shared his photographic portraits of the majestic trees of Ireland and Britain.

The most comprehensive Aztec exhibition ever mounted provides a riveting portrait of a society obsessed with the natural cycle of life and death — a fiercely refined culture in which nobility and war, scholarship and human sacrifice went hand in severed hand.

The exhibition includes the portraits of Nobel Laureates associated with the Los Alamos National Laboratory and is supported by the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, Mars, Incorporated, and the Los Alamos Historical Society.

Bluntly edited, with no hand - holding transitional scenes, the film is an intimate portrait of an idealistic, understaffed, sometimes wrongheaded team battling youth prostitution, thievery rings and adult predators from every class of society.

Wright's film is a beautiful and deeply empathetic depiction of this community, a portrait of Vanier and his philosophy of compassion as the source of true human connection, found and forged with those who have otherwise been cast out by society.

It is a portrait that has some of her society warbler Florence Foster Jenkins with a touch of her gimlet - eyed magazine editor Miranda Priestly, from The Devil Wears Prada.

Hungry for Love / Adua e le compagne Antonio Pietrangeli, 1960, Italy, 35 mm, 106m Italian with English subtitles A trio of iconic European actresses — Simone Signoret, Emmanuelle Riva, and Sandra Milo — headline this potent, proto - feminist portrait of down - and - out women fighting to beat the odds in a patriarchal society.

«Lettres d'amour» (1942): A transporting period piece with ornate costumes by Christian Dior, «Lettres d'amour» paints a blithely pointed portrait of life in a highly stratified society.

The first, by James Whale from 1936 is a nuanced portrait of a racially complex society, with dignified performances from its minority characters (including the electrifying Paul Robeson) which is turned into a much simplified musical starring Howard Keel and directed by George Sydney.

From Jean Renoir (The Southerner) to Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas), from Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala) to Antonio Mendez Esparza (the shattering recent festival hit Life and Nothing More), some of the most powerful portraits of the American Dream's scrappier, more fragmented reality have come from outsiders — their perspective perhaps inflected with their own sense of alienation, and their sympathies duly directed toward those US cultures and classes on society's fringes.

With powerful prose and poetry, his narrative as student and then later, NYC teacher leader, loving father (and husband), and advocate for children paints a portrait of what public education can and must be for American society.

This summer, Art for Barks joined forces with San Diego Humane Society to launch Art to the Rescue, an initiative that collaborates with local artists, like Stephen Fishwick, to paint portraits of adoptable animals.

Since the beginning of our hospital, we have held a fundraiser and food drive to benefit the Humane Society of Sumter County with our Portraits with Santa event, which has proven to be a popular event our clients look forward to every December.

If you ask them, they will post... When Humane Society of Pikes Peak Region put out a call for their community to post family portraits with pets, boy, did they respond!

Rather than Black Square being revered as merely a portrait of an idea, it is shown as the initiator of geometric works that connect with, reflect or challenge society.

Images from Nigerian fashion and society magazines and commemorative fabric printed with portraits give the artist's paintings a global context that connects viewers to the people with whom we share the world.

In subtle visual narratives, Sala often depicts what appear to be fragments of everyday life, and his intimate observations experiment with fiction to double as enigmatic portraits of society.

To this end, Stuart imbued his clients» portraits with the social parity accorded an international society of merchants, landowners and aristocrats.

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.

Imbued with a powerful psychological dimension, Neel's portraits bear witness to almost a century of evolution in attitudes towards gender and ethnicity, and to radical changes in fashion at the heart of American society.

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Several of Noguchi's public artwork proposals were rejected; voluntarily (and then less so), he was interred in a Japanese work camp in Arizona; the FBI investigated him for espionage; he had romantic affairs with the likes of Frida Kahlo; and on and off, Noguchi turned to bust portraits of high society New Yorkers and Hollywood celebrities to make ends meet.

Images: Jackson Pollock, Echo: Number 25, 1951, 1951, enamel paint on canvas, Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest and the Mr. and Mrs. David Rokefeller Fund, Museum of Modern Art, New York © 2015 The Pollock - Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Jackson Pollock, Number 7, 1951, 1951, enamel on canvas, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gift of the Collectors Committee (1983.77.1) © 2015 The Pollock - Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Jackson Pollock, Untitled, c. 1949 - 50, painted terracotta, Collection Gail and Tony Ganz, Los Angeles © 2015 The Pollock - Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Jackson Pollock, Portrait and a Dream, 1953, oil and enamel on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Algur H. Meadows and the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated © 2015 The Pollock - Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Jackson Pollock, Number 14, 1951, 1951, oil on canvas, Purchased with assistance from the American Fellows of the Tate Gallery Foundation 1988 © 2015 The Pollock - Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Jackson Pollock, Black and White Painting II, c. 1951, oil on canvas, Private Collection © 2015 The Pollock - Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

With more than 250 works on show, the exhibition explores the tireless experimental spirit that drives Raysse's entire artistic output, from his small, playful sculptures to the self - discipline of drawing; from films expressing the libertarian trends of the 1970s to Raysse's use of neon as colour; and from installations celebrating consumer society to his paintings, which represent the most complete aspect of his work — among them, transcriptions of great Renaissance masterpieces, female portraits, large group paintings, and imaginary landscapes.

Hand - coloured studio portrait with handwritten inscription © 2014 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and DACS, London)

It is a portrait of people who are the products of a society that has lost track of information and is saturated with change.

However, as Family Picture, a number of his self - portraits, and later works, such as the triptych Departure (1932 — 33) and Paris Society (1925, 1931) show, Beckmann's canvases don't just present the viewer with a feast of social malaise, they also attest to spatial dislocation, implying how the horrors of Europe's early - 20th century distort one's ability to see the world.

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

Celebrated for her portraits of people traditionally on the margins of society — dwarfs and giants — as well as those on the inside — society matrons and crying babies — Arbus was fascinated with the relationship between appearance and identity.

2018 Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels Aspen Art Museum, Aspen 2017 Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Nature & Politics Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis Figure Ground Haus der Kunst, Munich (catalogue) Nature & Politics Moody Center for the Arts - Rice University, Houston 2016 Nature & Politics Museum Folkwang, Essen (traveled to Martin - Gropius - Bau, Berlin; High Museum, Atlanta)(catalogue) 2015 Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan Marian Goodman, London 2014 Thomas Struth - Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rineke Dijkstra & Thomas Struth: Seeing Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Cristina Iglesias & Thomas Struth Ivory Press, Madrid Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Five Works Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam Marian Goodman Gallery, New York 2013 Stiftung zur Förderung zeitgenössischer Kunst, Weidingen / Eifel 2012 St. Petersburg Schirmer / Mosel Showroom, Munich Galleri K, Oslo 2011 Thomas Struth, Fotografien 1978 — 2010 Museu Serralves, Porto; traveled from: Whitechapel Gallery, London; K20, Düsseldorf; Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich (catalogue) 2010 Situation Kunst, Bochum Thomas Struth, Korea 2007 — 2010 Gallery Hyundai, Seoul New Works Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (catalogue) 2009 Paradises Frieze Art Fair 2009 - DB VIP Lounge, London Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens 2008 Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Zuoz Galerie Meert - Rihoux, Brussels Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina — MADRe, Naples Familienleben SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne; traveled to: De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg (catalogue) Family Portraits Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam 2007 Making Time Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Making Time Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Making Time Museo del Prado, Madrid (catalogue) 2006 Thomas Struth — Rineke Dijkstra Galerie Xippas, Athens Galerie Meert - Rihoux, Brussels 2005 Audience, Read This Like Seeing It For The First Time (Video work in collaboration with The Bern Academy of Music) Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Museum Photographs 1987 - 2004 Galleri K, Oslo Audience Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam Imágenes el Perú Museo de Arte Lima, Lima Arbeiten aus Peru Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Audience Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich 2004 Pergamon Museum I - VI Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (catalogue) Une Heure: Video Portraits CAPC - Musée d' Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux 2003 1977-2002 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Cities Marian Goodmann Gallery, Paris Strassen Galleri K, Oslo Pergamon Musum I - VI Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan 2002 Pergamon I — IV Marian Goodman Gallery, New York 1977 - 2002 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue) New Pictures from Paradise Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; Centro de Fotografía, Universidad de Salamanca (catalogue) Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich 2001 Pictures from the Dandelion Room Schirmer / Mosel Showroom, Munich (catalogue) Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue) Galerie Meert - Rihoux, Brussels 2000 My Portrait National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; traveled to: National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Galleri K, Oslo (catalogue) Galerie Shimada, Tokyo 1999 Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan Still Centre National de la Photographie, Paris Gallery Shimada, Tokyo The Berlin - Project (with Klaus vom Bruch) Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg New Pictures from Paradise Marian Goodman Gallery, New York; Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris 1998 The Berlin - Project (with Klaus vom Bruch) Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern Still Carré d'Art, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Nîmes; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue) Centro Galego de Are Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela Galerie Meert - Rihoux, Brussels Nouveau Portraits Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris 1997 Face to Face (with Luo Yongijn) Fine Arts Foundation of Beijing; International Art Palace, Peking (catalogue) Portraits Sprengel Museum, Hanover (catalogue) Achenbach Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf (with Cindy Sherman) The Berlin - Project (with Klaus vom Bruch) Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Nieuw Werk Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam 1996 Valocuvia Fotografier Kluuvin Galleria, Helsinki (catalogue) Galerie Shimada, Tokyo 1995 Strangers and Friends Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (catalogue) Strassen Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (catalogue) Neue Arbeiten Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Oeuvre récentes Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris Landschaften Galerie Shimada, Yamaguchi 1994 Strangers and Friends Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (catalogue) Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Galerie Meert - Rihoux, Brussels 1993 Museum Photographs Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (catalogue) Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan Photographien aus Deutschland Galerie Shimada, Yamaguchi The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne 1992 Portrait Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld (catalogue) Directions Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne 1991 Galerie Meert - Rihoux, Brussels House - Street - Individual - Group Galerie Shimada, Yamaguchi 1990 Photographs The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago (catalogue) Portrait and Museum Photographs Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam Giovanni Minelli, Paris Urbi et Orbis, Paris 1989 The Clocktower, New York (with Andreas Gursky) Halle Sud, Geneva Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna Neue Bilder Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne 1988 Galerie Meert - Rihoux, Bruxelles Neapel and Tokyo Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich Portikus, Frankfurt / Main (with Siah Armajani) 1987 Unconscious Places Kunsthalle Bern, Bern; Westfälisches Landesmuseum Münster, Münster (with Siah Armajani); Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (catalogue) Tokyo und Münster Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne 1986 Galerie Shimada, Yamaguchi 1985 Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich 1980 Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (with Roswitha Ronkholz) 1978 PS1 - Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City

Weaving together personal narratives and political ideals, Barrada presents a complex portrait of a city in transition, resonating with many of the challenges we face in contemporary society.

Five steps in, you're hit with the big names: Nan Goldin, an iconic American photographer whose images of urban nightlife in the 1970s and»80s offer a window onto society's darker margins (Goldin is a friend of Berger and one piece bears a personal inscription); Rashid Johnson, a fast - rising conceptual artist whose prismatic work mines the meaning of the black American identity; and, notably, Robert Mapplethorpe, in a rare self - portrait emblematic of the artist's confrontational beauty.

Weiblichkeit im Surrealismus, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany The Promisse of Photography, Schim Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany Collaboration with Parkett, 1984 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY, USA Audit, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg 24 h International Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia World Without End: Aspects of 20th Century Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Melodrama, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK Trauma, Hayward Gallery in collaboration with Dundee Contemporary Arts, London, UK Australian Art and Society 1901 - 2001, National Gallery of Australia, Australia 2000 12th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Deep Distance - Die Entfiernung der Fotografie, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland Veronica's Revenge, Contemporary Perspectives on Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Photography Now, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, USA Flight Patterns, Museum for Conternporary Art, Los Angeles, USA Behind ihe Scenes, The Museum of Contemporay Photography, Chicago, USA Presumed Innocent, capc Musée d'Art contemporain de Bordeaux, France Artist Films, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany 1999 Konstruksjon eller virkelighet, Lillehammer Kunstmuseurn, Lillenhammer, Norway La Casa, il Corpo, Il Cuore, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Stiftung Kunst, Vienna, Austria Wohin kein Auge reicht, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany Das Versprechen der Photographie (The Promise ofPholography), Selections from the DG Bank Collection, PS 1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York Kunstwelten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany Nuevas Visiones, Nuevas Pasiones, Fundación Marcelino Botin, Santander, Spain 1998 Family Viewing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA Portraits, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, USA Echolot, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany Die Nerven enden an den Fingerspitzen, Die Sammlungen Wilhelm Schurmann, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany Strange Days: Guinness Contemporary Art Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Nature of Man, Lund Konsthall, Lund, Sweden «Roteiros» x 7 XXVI Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Life is a bitch, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival, Pusan, Korea Fleeting Portraits, Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany 1997 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA 1996 Fundacao Bienal de São Paula, São Paulo, Brazil» Campo 6», The Spiral Village, Museum of Modem Art, Torino, Italy Jurassic Technologies Revenant, 10 th Biennale of Sydney, Australia Prospect 96, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany 1995 Antipodean Currents, The Guggenheim Museum (Soho), New York, USA»95 Kwangiu Biennale, Kwangju, Korea

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).

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.

As with his acclaimed tree portraits (New York Arbor), these large - format black and white pictures were made in the five boroughs of New York City, and deepen Epstein's investigation of how nature and society interact.

The artist makes portraits of undocumented Latin American immigrants, and of other distinct communities, using the focused attention of observational painting to mark those who are socially unmarked in society, along with the apparently anonymous goods that constitute a transnational trade in quotidian objects such as flowers, garments, handcrafts and letters.

Playing on happenstance, in Nazis and Astronauts 2011, he juxtaposes emblematic portraits of bad men (Nazis) with good men (American Astronauts), instruments of government and society, in alternating black and white and colour tiles (not of the bathroom type).

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

Oprah Winfrey / By Mickalene Thomas / Screen print with hand applied rhinestones on 4 - ply board, 2007 - 2008 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; © 2014 Michalene Thomas / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York

The local Alma Thomas Society will hold its inaugural event Sept. 19 with a lecture and book signing by Columbus native Amy Sherald, a well - known artist and winner of the National Portrait Gallery's 2016 Outwin - Boochever Portrait Competition, which had more than 2,500 entries.

In the north gallery, which presents some of Lassnig's later white - and - pastel - coloured paintings of figures in her now hallmark style, one sees examples of some of her ongoing concerns: speech and muteness (Self - Portrait with Speech Bubble, 2006, where speech is a small, just visible breath on a cold morning) and the idea of growing up (and growing old) in contemporary society, as in TV Child (1987).

During this period he also exhibited with the Society of Artists in Dublin, and showed several works (a landscape and three oil portraits) at the Royal Academy (RA) in London.

And perhaps it was the quasi-domestic setting of an Upper East Side townhouse (with works by Bruce Nauman and Frank Stella hanging above the fireplace mantels, and the couple's double portrait, their forms encased in plaster by George Segal, presiding over the upstairs salon), but the atmosphere that afternoon reminded me of a shiva call, paid in honor of this dead couple and the art that once propelled them into the fishbowl of society, and later divided them.

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.

Born a Methodist preacher's son in Knoxville, Tennessee, Delaney studied with the portrait artist Lloyd Branson until migrating, with Branson's assistance, north in the 1920s to Boston, where he worked odd jobs while taking art lessons at institutions such as the Massachusetts Normal Art School and the Copley Society.