Sentences with phrase «wonderful portrait of»

A wonderful portrait of a family, we get three generations (the little kids here play a larger role than in most of Ozu's later films, Good Morning excepted) dealing with Hara's matrimonial issues.

Those shot by pros are always great images, and would be wonderful portraits of someone's pet.

Not exact matches

That's why, for over 55 years, Bounty has been visiting hundreds of maternity wards all over the UK, offering a friendly smile, warm conversation, wonderful Bounty pack and beautiful baby portraits.

Christine Hiskey trawled through thousands of papers scattered across the estate and has produced a wonderful portrait Holkham The Social, Architectural and Landscape History of a Great English Country House (Unicorn Publishing).

With all of their friends and family helping out they manged to plan the whole day in just 5 months and filled it with homemade decoration, a wonderful picnic, a delicious cake table, a heartfelt ceremony and some amazing portrait pictures, including lots of colour with some smoke bombs.

I absolutely adore this weeks wedding of the week, a cool contemporary venue, with gorgeous flowers, fab chair decoration for the ride and groom, a wonderful cake topper and fabulous portrait shots.

The National Portrait Gallery — St.Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE The crowning glory of Trafalgar Square, London's National Gallery is an intimate space which houses a collection of wonderful portraits.

Completing his wonderful French cultural trilogy that also includes portraits of the Comédie - Fran ¸ aise and the Paris Opera Ballet, indefatigable documentarian Frederick Wiseman freely, unobtrusively prowls the joint to create a movie that respects the serious work involved in simulating the sensations of pleasure.

Both a classic movie for kids and a remarkable portrait of childhood, E.T. is a sci - fi adventure that captures that strange moment in youth when the world is a place of mysterious possibilities (some wonderful, some awful), and the universe seems somehow separate from the one inhabited by grown - ups.

Pang Ho Cheung delivers a beautifully observed portrait of a modern Hong Kong family that fuses social commentary with fantastical imagery and his trademark cheeky humour to wonderful effect.

A suitable portrait of one of Britain's greatest living painters, this artful documentary offers wonderful access to David Hockney, his family, friends, colleagues and of course his artwork.

«Jaffa to Stamboul» is a really lovely piece with a charming melody heard initially for solo duduk over soaring strings; «Arrival» turns the tables a bit, with choppy strings providing real urgency, rhythmic accompaniment from percussion seeing the pace growing; then «The Orient Express» offers a full - on romantic musical portrait of classical train travel, full of buzz and energy and beauty, with a wonderful theme introduced (barely heard again, sadly).

«This biography is a fascinating portrait of a brilliant, complex, and wonderful man.

Beyond the important civil - rights lesson, Selma is a wonderful ensemble portrait of how politics works, much as was Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's 2012 film about the 1864 passage of the 13th amendment.

But while the pic is far from perfect, it's a deft portrait of an inimitably controversial figure — and one that features a wonderful lead performance.

Apart from its historical interest (the illuminating author's note gives Klaussmann's sources and hints at which of the wonderful letters in the novel are authentic and which are invented), this is a captivating portrait of a marriage in crisis: «Every couple had a dance, Sara knew, one that had to be performed when times got tricky.»

It is at once a strikingly insightful portrait of a mysterious, complex, and sophisticated society, reminiscent of Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings in its wonderful detail and feel for the past, and a fast - paced detective story that reads like the best of twenty - first - century thrillers.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (narrated by Anne Hathaway) Gulliver's Travels (narrated by David Hyde Pierce) Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (narrated by Kenneth Branagh) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (narrated by Simon Vance) Moby Dick by Herman Melville (narrated by Frank Muller) The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (narrated by John Lee) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (narrated by Elijah Wood) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (narrated by Simon Vance) David Copperfield (narrated by Simon Vance) The Wind in the Willows (narrated by Shelly Frasier Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (narrated by Nathaniel Parker) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (narrated by John Lee) House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (narrated by Wanda McCaddon) Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (narrated by Davina Porter) Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (narrated by Scott Brick) The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (narrated by James Langton) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (narrated by Simon Prebble)

When thinking about the perfect place to use as a location for the portraits it was a no brainer really Trebah Gardens is a favourite of all of us here in the office and has a wonderful variety of natural backdrops, plus it is in the heart of the area we focus on.

It's quite astonishing how what seems to be lots of scribbling adds up to a wonderful portrait.

I met two wonderful artists a couple of years ago in Missoula, Montana — Len Nye, who works as a bartender to support himself and his fantastic photography — close - up portraits of ranchers and winter landscapes that look like Japanese watercolors — and Don Bunse, who makes intaglio prints.

You could go off and splash paint to create a wonderful portrait, and start thinking half way through what sort of background you should give it - or what what colour (s) / texture (s) should be included.

If you're strolling down F Street near the Verizon Center and the National Portrait Gallery before December 23, you'll likely be lured into a world of live music, glittering lights, and the promise of wonderful gifts.

This loan exhibition features some 100 works from the artist's extensive body of work and includes some wonderful portraits and landscapes including this wonderfully monochromatic yet richly textured depiction of a Pennsylvania excavation site.

Finally, it was wonderful to see Richard Corman's 1984 portraits of Jean - Michael Basquiat grace the pages of the Financial Times during the week.

Add to this her wonderful painterly technique, which recalls the prestige portraits of 19th - century art, and Yiadom - Boakye looks poised to be this year's winner no matter who takes home the prize.

Two portraits also caught my eye both as pleasing works in their own right, but also as a wonderful juxtaposition of style, subject and media which have the same essence at their core.

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of The Serpentine said «Nicolas Trembley's wonderful Nineties section was a great highlight - a portrait of a decade through the remaking of exhibition history.

His legacy as an artist is deeper and wider than we can know now — beyond the groundbreaking portraits of friends, family and neighbors that first made him celebrated, there are countless assemblages, innumerable landscapes, and oh so many wonderful photographs.

A remarkable and wonderful exhibition that, for the first time, explored the connections and influences of Rembrandt's late self - portraits on Francis Bacon's own self - portraits.

Nairne's successor, Nicholas Cullinan, said: «This wonderful portrait represents both a fitting tribute to my predecessor, Sandy Nairne, and a striking example of contemporary portraiture.»

This may be right historically, but the exclusion of Hedda Sterne, the only woman to appear in the photograph of «the irascibles», a group portrait shot for Time - Life in 1951, and whose works were a wonderful surprise in the opening show of the new Whitney Museum last year, feels perverse.

His name was Jackson Pollock, and this wonderful 1987 filmed portrait of his life and work and method is directed by Kim Evans, narrated by Melvyn Bragg, and features amazing footage from 1951 of Pollock painting by Hans Namuth.

From Stephen Fry and Tracey Emin's modest wooden pencils, to James Dyson's slickly designed mechanical gadget, Dave Eggers» labyrinthine nibbed tool and Paul Smith's jewel - like object worth # 3,000, each weird and wonderful pencil featured in the book becomes an accurate portrait of its owner, demonstrating that in the digital age the pencil is no longer just a simple work tool, but a much - loved totem of creativity.

Her set, which involves a floor painted with a giant enlargement of the architectural blueprints for the Whitney building and a big green neon portrait of herself, is one of the Biennial's most wonderful moments, albeit only until March 11.

First, though, she insists on walking me around her latest exhibition, In the Company of Alice, a wonderful group show that features portraits by the late figurative painter Alice Neel, and responses to her work by the likes of Chris Ofili, Doig, Chantal Joffe, Marlene Dumas and Elizabeth Peyton.

Other galleries with distinguished vintage work include New York's Salander - O'Reilly with drawings by Stuart Davis, Ralston Crawford and Matisse, San Francisco's Hackett Freedman with a late Cubist 1943 self - portrait by Hans Hofmann and Philadelphia's Marianne Locks with a 1963 Joseph Cornell box on cosmological themes and a wonderful 1938 Matisse drawing of a seated woman.

Hepworth In Yorkshire is a portrait of the artist's rugged origins, in «a land of grim and wonderful contrasts.»

Anthony Green's eccentrically shaped canvases stand out as do some wonderful Mary Feddens, two Louise Bourgeois cat prints that were at last month's London Print Fair and a stunning series of Hockney full - length portraits in oil flanked by some garish Kitajs priced at # 84,000.

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of The Serpentine said «Nicolas Trembley's wonderful Nineties section was a great highlight a portrait of a decade through the remaking of exhibition history.

The show provides a wonderful opportunity to bring his unique and very individual Rorschach paintings and portraits to the attention of a new audience».

Whether it's useful to think of Richter's wonderful photo - based figure paintings as portraits is a matter for debate, but they have certainly been influential on younger artists such as Glenn Brown (pictured).

A suite of wonderful self - portraits by the young Kia Labeija, the only female HIV - positive artist of color featured in the show, brings us into the present moment.

The collection of American art includes works by the great 18th century history painter John Singleton Copley; the Francophile Mary Cassatt, a leading figure in the American Impressionism movement; the portraitist Gilbert Stuart; the painter of the cowboy west Frederic Remington; the wonderful 19th century realists Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins; the post-Impressionist Whistler; the virtuoso society portrait painter John Singer Sargent; the Pop - Artists Jasper Johns, Edward Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein; co-inventors of «Action - Painting» Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner; and the Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko, to name but a few.

Although Keïta did not get to enjoy his international fame for very long, it did provide him with a wonderful sense of revelation as he managed to see his portraits blown up to almost life - size, as opposed to a postcard format.

Samples of work by members range from realism (a 1959 double portrait by Alex Katz of his wife, Ada), to semi-abstraction (Lois Dodd's wonderful 1958 picture of three caramel - colored cows), to the full - on gestural painting of Charles Cajori, Fred Mitchell and Perle Fine.