Sentences with phrase «unconventional portraits of»

In 2008, she began a series of unconventional portraits of artists» shoes and to date has painted more than 120 portraits of both world renowned and obscure contemporary artists whose work she admires.

Love & Mercy presents an unconventional portrait of the iconic Wilson — portrayed by two actors, Paul Dano in the»60s and John Cusack in the»80s — and examines his musical brilliance, personal voyage and ultimate salvation.

Focusing on Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys, Love & Mercy paints an unconventional portrait of the artist by interweaving seminal moments in his life, from his artistic genius to his profound struggles, and the love that keeps him alive.

Official Premise: Love & Mercy is an unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson (portrayed by both John Cusack and Paul Dano), singer and songwriter for The Beach Boys.

It follows the true story of Brian Wilson, the leader and songwriter for The Beach Boys and, we're told, paints an unconventional portrait of his life.

This affectionate and unconventional portrait of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas signals a great start for debut director Andy Goddard.

Ms. Cooper Cafritz was a voracious collector and champion of African and African - American artists, including Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, El Anatsui, Kerry James Marshall and Kehinde Wiley, whose unconventional portrait of President Barack Obama, as a seated figure amid greenery, was unveiled this month.

Not exact matches

Offering a freshly humanist spin on non-fiction filmmaking, Dan Sickles and Antonio Santini's «Dina» is a portrait of an unconventional romance between characters who «were called different» since birth.

No portfolio or demonstrated artistic ability is required for admission, only a self - portrait, which may take such unconventional forms as a map or a suite of poetry.

This year, American readers might mark the day in a somewhat unconventional way by reading James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner, an engaging graphic biography of the great Irish writer by Alfonso Zapico.

These are unconventional and non-judgmental portraits of the painters Jamie Wyeth, Jackson Pollock, Richard Estes, conceptual artist Jenny Holzer, installation artist Judy Chicago and dozens more, from Maine and around the country.

Her psychologically charged portraits tell intimate and unconventional stories, as much about people living on the margins of society and in subcultures as about the New York cultural elite and her own family.

«Political and cultural shifts, including the development of an avant - garde and the breakdown of the traditional organization of sexuality, gave rise to themes that found continual expression in unconventional portraits throughout the century.

She has made gestural as well as hard - edge abstractions, word paintings (her Angry Women series of 1973), and representational self - portraits, sometimes using such unconventional supports as rug samples, sandpaper, and canvases folded like accordion books.

Barry X Ball Directly engaging the historic tradition of the portrait bust, Barry X Ball (b. 1955, Pasadena, California) utilizes digital technologies and unconventional types of stone in creating his body of work.

Cindy Sherman (b. 1954) has become extremely popular in the art market for creating an unconventional series of self - portraits.

There are the 51 photos that make up Dean's unconventional «portrait» of Cy Twombly, all taken at the artist's home and studio in the Italian town of Gaeta (with the exception of one, from the studio of Giorgio Morandi)-- none of which depict the face of their purported subject.

With a confident, gritty, and unconventional style, van der Elsken's confrontational portraits of young love, alienation, and counterculture bohemian life paved the way for late 20th century photographers such as Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, and Wolfgang Tillmans.

By depicting her own unconventional life, the portraits of her friends and family took on a greater societal significance that continues to resonate on view today.»

Ward explains: «Over the summer of 2015, I rode the trains of each of New York City's twenty - two subway lines, collecting bacterial samples from hand rails, seats and other high traffic surfaces in an attempt to create an unconventional series of portraits of the city's complex eco-system and a snapshot of the city at large.

Again, Stothart and her team takes the viewer through a succession of portraits, most of them unconventional in some regard.

Jill Frank's solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia was an unconventional yet striking show of portraits.

Known for his portraits made of unconventional materials such as peanut butter, sugar or syrup, the artist created classical photographic portrait compositions made of scavenged garbage on site.

Referred to by the artist as an unconventional and uncompromising self - portrait through objects, it features the artist's own bed covered in stained sheets, discarded condoms, blood - stained underwear and empty bottles of alcohol.

BRIC is pleased to present Look up here, I'm in heaven, a group exhibition of unconventional portraits featuring paintings, works on paper, and mixed - media work by David Antonio Cruz, Yashua Klos, Tschabalala Self, and Yoon Ji Seon.

Look up here, I'm in heaven, a group exhibition of unconventional portraits featuring paintings, works on paper, and mixed - media work by David Antonio Cruz, Yashua Klos, Tschabalala Self, and Yoon Ji Seon.

At the age of seventy - five, Alice Neel began this shocking, endearing, and unconventional portrait, a project that took another five years to complete.

A retrospective (until 2 October 2016) of the American artist whose psychologically charged portraits tell intimate and unconventional stories, as much about people living on the margins of society and in subcultures as about the New York cultural elite and her own family.