Sentences with phrase «successful portrait artists»

With a first prize of # 25,000, the exhibition has proved to be the launch pad for the careers of a number of successful portrait artists.

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As a lonely, elderly man who was once a successful artist, Jenkins beautifully captures a portrait of a man whose time in the spotlight is long gone and who spends his days attempting to land drawing gigs and eat pies.

One of the first documented trans women to undergo genital reassignment surgery, Lili Elbe (Eddie Redmayne) was a successful landscape artist when she presented as male and married to portrait artist Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander).

They're both modestly successful artists (Einar in landscapes, Gerda in portraits) with a seemingly blissful existence.

If Omer Fast (and on that note the curatorial team at James Cohan as well) had dedicated research, thought, and care in understanding Sanders's portraits as testaments of successful relationships between artist and subject, Fast's rather empty installation of a Chinatown shop before gentrification, as noted in his artist statement, could have been avoided.

The fourth artist occupying an historical past is Noel Rockmore, a New York - born child of successful illustrators, who discovered New Orleans in the 1950s and spent most of the remaining years of his life developing an eclectic pictorial vocabulary that encompassed Surrealist - tinged views of the French Quarter and detailed portraits of jazz musicians from Preservation Hall.

Presumably Bailey had found among his archives not a single portrait of a female artist that he deemed as successful as his photographs of these 26 men.

We knew that the show couldn't be an exhaustive survey of self - portraiture but we started by thinking about the Van Dyck painting and what makes it so important: the fact that the artist caused such a seismic shift in the approach to portraiture in the 17th century that was to last for at least the next three centuries; that his portraits were a form of «self - advertisement» and show an acute awareness of his identity and public image as a successful artist; that it was his final self - portrait, made in the last year of his life at the age of 42 and that his various self - portraits (there are seven known in total) trace his life as an artist.

The gallery has made a successful bid at a Christie's auction for Isabelle Frith Reading, an affectionate portrait of the artist's wife, with support from the Art Fund.

Sargent was already recognized and acclaimed for his stylized portraits of high society, the most successful artist of this genre of the era.

See all of Carole's Courses on ArtTutor Carole started out as a successful commercial artist before returning to her first love of painting, gaining a reputation as a renowned portrait painter.

Spanning the years from 1952 through 2015, these portraits cover the long career of a successful artist who has truly honed his craft.

Featuring his Tattooed Portraits, this second showing (see 2010) with the New York gallery draws on his day job as a successful tattoo artist for inspiration on a series of rich oil paintings including a huge 72 ″ x 108 ″ piece of Japanese tattooist Shige.

However, placed among works by other, less commercially successful artists — working at the same time and in the same place — a clearer portrait of the time comes into focus.