An English -
themed portrait series celebrating the return of great British fashion, featuring select Burberry pieces worn by 6 of the hottest young British models today.
Not exact matches
This features a culturally diverse cast, and other art -
themed titles in the
series include The Case of the
Portrait Vandal (2015) and The Case of the Counterfeit Painting (2016).
For the third year running, entrants to the competition are encouraged to submit works as a
series — either a group of individual
portraits based on a particular
theme, or two or more photographs that form a single
portrait when shown together — in addition to stand - alone
portraits.
These are aspects that are visible in her exploration of well - established photographic genres such as film stills, fashion photography or classic
portraits, as well as in
series where she explores a more abject material related to
themes like fairytales, catastrophes, pornography, war and surrealism.
The Wrestlers on display here are a continuation of a
series Blake has returned to many times since the 1960s, while the Tattooed People are a new take on a recurring
theme which he explored in earlier
portraits of rock stars, pin - up girls, and circus acts.
By contrast, painter, printmaker and the first woman to be elected as Keeper of the Royal Academy, Eileen Cooper, whose work encompasses
themes of sexuality, motherhood, life and death, presents a
series of intimate new paintings and a new
portrait of Constance Spry, who was a lover of Gluck's.
Continuing what has become a hallmark
series of self -
portraits, Heffernan has developed a unique and fertile visual lexicon, which deftly combines
themes of the personal with the political, the universal with the individual, and the familiar with the fantastical.
The exhibition takes Van Dyck's self -
portrait as a starting point for examining the development of the genre across a
series of
themes, from celebrity and collecting to history and mortality.
Through a
series of 66 self -
portraits by Lee Friedlander from the past 50 years, one encounters many of the
themes that have come to characterize his practice.
The exhibition is centred around Two
portraits with person (between Franco and Francesco), the first work of a new
series by the artist, which deals with two of the most recurring
themes of Arena's practice,
portrait and time.
The
theme of the self -
portrait is explored in Andy Warhol's Polaroids, Cindy Sherman's Bus Riders and Nan Goldin, whose slide
series captures the intimate moments of loneliness, drug use, sex and death in the era of Aids in the 1980s.
Sherman's work is often executed in
series; she transforms herself in elaborately staged self -
portraits with a running
theme.
His photographic
series are dedicated to
themes such as Africa, Nippon, German landmarks, Dance, Shell, and
portraits of artists and musicians.