During this time in Paris she saw and absorbed much of the coming abstract art, including works by Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Derain, Laurencin and Gauguin, and formed a lifelong friendship
with the portraitist Sarah Purser.
One way in which Timothy Spall prepared for his role as British painter J.M.W. Turner was to spend two years studying painting
with portraitist Tim Wright.
For the role, Spall, who says that he could «always draw a bit,» spent two years studying painting
with portraitist Tim Wright, which may seem excessive even by Method standards, but that level of commitment is integral to Leigh's process, which Spall has been a part of for more than three decades.
Not exact matches
It was a humdrum commission for the
portraitist often credited
with having perfected the photojournalistic movie still, but when he met the Belgian - born beauty, Willoughby was enraptured.
The pictures and videos being used in Cat Street View were captured by photographer and experienced feline
portraitist Shin Suzuki, who has a way
with the skittish felines.
A lush new volume devoted to the best works by beloved American Impressionist and
portraitist John Singer Sargent, whose dazzling use of light and color depicts modern subjects
with arresting intimacy.
It tracks Elaine de Kooning's development as a first - rate, innovative
portraitist through variously sized drawings, figure studies, trial sketches and small paintings across five decades,
with each room dramatically highlighting the best of her large - scale oil paintings, some never exhibited publicly until now.
It includes Odili Donald Odita, Moshekwa Langa, Robin Rhode and others,
with a strong representation of the British
portraitist Lynette Yiadom - Boakye.
A forceful
portraitist of black women who often composes her pieces
with paint, enamel and rhinestones, Ms. Thomas, who has lived and worked in Brooklyn for 17 years, conceded that she was «scared as hell.»
In prose, the energy of the writing comes from the author's feeling that they will communicate through their words, and similarly,
portraitists tend to connect directly
with the audience, as well.
In Identity Unknown, Donna Seaman brings to life seven forgotten female artists, among the best of their day: Gertrude Abercrombie,
with her dark, surreal paintings and friendships
with Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins; Bay Area self -
portraitist Joan Brown; Ree Morton,
with her witty, oddly beautiful constructions; Loïs Mailou Jones of the Harlem Renaissance; Lenore Tawney, who combined weaving and sculpture when art and craft were considered mutually exclusive; Christina Ramberg, whose unsettling works drew on pop culture and advertising; and Louise Nevelson, an art - world superstar in her heyday but omitted from recent surveys of her era.
In this interview excerpted from her eponymous Phaidon's monograph, the celebrated South African
portraitist discusses the strange nuances of life as an artist
with her long time friend Barbara Bloom.
Gilbert Stuart — «the Vandyke of the Time» — was a master
portraitist whose talents coincided
with the needs of a generation anxiously crafting a new American identity.
She established a following as a house, garden, and property
portraitist,
with commissions from all over the world, but predominantly working in the Hamptons.
A creative Olympian
with little respect for the rules of the game, Mothersbaugh expresses his unique worldview in whatever medium best serves his purpose: as co-founder of the avant - garde art project / rock band DEVO, composer of scores for film and television, illustrator of 30,000 - plus postcards, mutant
portraitist, and maker of musical machines.
Today, it would be easy to see her as a
portraitist of New York's canonised «culturati», but she painted hundreds of the city's residents, treating taxi drivers, kids, actors, and activists
with the same candour and attention.
But before we get to the full flourishing of her talents as a
portraitist — her acute eye serving her by turns
with its detached gaze, its empathy or, indeed, distain, we begin this often poignant exhibition
with Neel confronting the loss of her children.
She also studied
with notable
portraitists Robert Brackman...
That's one reason Ms. Iles included him in the famously cross-generational 2004 Whitney Biennial, where his portraits appeared in a gallery
with those of a younger art star he had inspired, the
portraitist Elizabeth Peyton.
Wong's portraits (many of them set in New York's East Village) place hustlers and other denizens of the gay demimonde in the fantastical context of devotional Christian painting,
with an element of fond caricature that recalls his early days as a street
portraitist in California.
«Lassnig's art, which shares traits
with expressionism, reminds me intermittently of the American
portraitist Alice Neel, and also of one grasping for connections
with much younger generations of artists.»
Famous artists associated
with Art Deco include the Polish - Russian society
portraitist Tamara de Lempicka, glass artist Rene Lalique and graphic designer Adolphe Mouron.
Leading artists of these years included the
portraitist and illustrator Adelaide Everhart, a North Carolina native who trained at the Cincinnati Art Academy and
with William Merritt Chase and others at the Art Students League of New York.
From 1913 to 1916, he enjoyed a scholarship from the Art Students League, and worked
with John C. Johansen (a
portraitist whose expressive style resembled that of John Singer Sargent), and Anders Zorn.
Recently, Morpheus has begun working
with Polish artist Dariusz Zawadzki, American painter Geoffrey Gersten and the transformative
portraitist, Jota Leal.
Información en español sobre la exposición Franz Xaver Winterhalter, the 19th century's most renowned
portraitist of European aristocracy, captured the elegance and opulence of his distinguished sitters
with an unrivaled brilliance.
Thus the first Russian landscape - painter, Simon Shchedrin, was really what one may term a primitive
portraitist of scenery,
with all the formalism of an early Holbein.
With his camera, he documented the final 15 years in life and work of the famous painter and
portraitist.
Known in her lifetime as a landscape painter and
portraitist, it was revealed decades after her death that she had also been experimenting
with abstraction.
He was an excellent
portraitist and genre painter, and his fascination
with the landscape and peasant life around Lake Balaton increasingly occupied his attention and formed his main themes.
It is the deep humanity and empathy
with her sitters that separates Neel from other
portraitists of her time.
At times, it seems the stylish Georgian
portraitist Thomas Gainsborough has got together
with the self - taught painter Henri Rousseau to produce pictures at once naive and sophisticated.
The American John Singer Sargent was the most successful London
portraitist at the start of the 20th century,
with John Lavery, Augustus John and William Orpen rising figures.
He is best as a
portraitist with a poignant Portrait of a Woman (Portrait of Lady Anne Tree) of 1950.
«Weed and Wonderful»: An exploration of Irish undergrowth
with botanical
portraitist and gallery artist Yanny Petters.
The Victorian English painter and book illustrator John Everett Millais - associated initially
with the Pre-Raphaelites - was an infant prodigy, who became an extremely rich and fashionable
portraitist.
With sales foremost in mind, much that was brought was by artists who were fresh off a solo exhibition (Yayoi Kusama), or were preparing for one (Ebony G Patterson), or were currently showing at a museum (David Hockney, Dara Friedman, Frank Stella, Ugo Rondinone); or were riding their celebrity moment — as with Dana Schutz, surfing the controversy of her Whitney Biennial Emmett Till submission, Lubaina Himid, this year's Turner Prize winner, and Amy Sherald, the officially anointed portraitist of Michelle Ob
With sales foremost in mind, much that was brought was by artists who were fresh off a solo exhibition (Yayoi Kusama), or were preparing for one (Ebony G Patterson), or were currently showing at a museum (David Hockney, Dara Friedman, Frank Stella, Ugo Rondinone); or were riding their celebrity moment — as
with Dana Schutz, surfing the controversy of her Whitney Biennial Emmett Till submission, Lubaina Himid, this year's Turner Prize winner, and Amy Sherald, the officially anointed portraitist of Michelle Ob
with Dana Schutz, surfing the controversy of her Whitney Biennial Emmett Till submission, Lubaina Himid, this year's Turner Prize winner, and Amy Sherald, the officially anointed
portraitist of Michelle Obama.
With her passion for people, Elaine was by inclination a
portraitist.
Alice Neel, who died in 1984, is remembered best as a
portraitist — her paintings present friends, lovers, and other intimates
with an astonishing, often forbidding guilelessness.