An exhibition like Unseen is the perfect vehicle to continue to push the boundaries of traditional portraiture at NPG through their Portraiture Now series of exhibitions started in 2006 to showcase and encourage contemporary portraiture.
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The bride, 34, is a freelance visual artist in New York specializing in mixed-media portraiture, stop animation, printmaking and traditional portraiture.
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The artist's lifelong investigation of portraiture and self-portraiture had more to do with a fascination for the performance of the self than narcissism.
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Dawoud Bey is another photographer whose portraiture moves me deeply—and as an emerging artist and photographer whose lens prefers portraiture, his work is a huge inspiration to me.
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Related: Out of Context, Freaky Self-Portraiture Barely Looks Human [NSFW] Photographer Inserts Her Own Nude Self-Portraiture into Classical Paintings [NSFW] Artist Milo Moiré on Sexism, Nudity, and Psychology
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For more of Jeff Hodsdon's moving portraiture, visit his website.
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" But Mr. Hockney's portraiture, she said, is "something completely different.
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This is not the first scholarly take on Picasso's portraiture.
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It's a delightfully flamboyant recycling of European old master portraiture.
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But that kind of portraiture is not the intention here.
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This exhibition continues the National Portrait Gallery's Portraiture Now series.
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"It's more like fingerprinting than classical portraiture," Mr. Paglen said.
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Fred R. Conrad is a photojournalist who specializes in portraiture.
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Elle Shushan gives its entire booth to portraiture, particularly miniatures.
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The portraiture and news photography are so expressive and layered.
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In secular portraiture, supernatural power translates into force of personality.
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The internet age is a weird era for realistic portraiture.
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The picture evokes classic Hollywood as well as Renaissance portraiture.
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The focus on self-portraiture seems to serve a dual function: to highlight the best examples of self-portraiture throughout time, but also to show us how seminal artists have viewed themselves throughout history.
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To that end, her book is divided into five sections, covering everything from the use of clothes in portraiture, including artists' self-portraiture, to depictions of national identity and the drives for modernization and liberalization.
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Unsurprisingly, most of the work is the portraiture version of hagiography.
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Portraiture with lots of lights makes you think about the lighting.
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They seem, rather, like inspired inquiries into the nature of portraiture.
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Her work includes intimate portraiture that often contrasts bodies and space.
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Nan Goldin is great — she did a lot of self-portraiture.
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I see a lot of religious art, portraiture, landscapes, and cityscapes.
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Growing up, my mom taught me about paintings—portraiture and composition.
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"Courtroom illustration is not portraiture, and it's not cartooning," she says.
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Returning to New York in 1929, Abbott abruptly gave up portraiture.
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She had done similar portraiture projects in her hometown, Brockton, Mass.
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"Twelfth Night," though, cries out for more layered and intricate portraiture.
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"What a way to jump right into political portraiture," Herman said.
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Sepuya's photographs breathe new life into the genre of studio portraiture.
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But neither of them developed Del Baldo's systematic style of portraiture.
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THE EXPANDED SUBJECT: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITURE FROM AFRICA Africa's contribution to 20th-century portraiture is expanded upon in this selection of the contemporary work by Sammy Baloji, Mohamed Camara, Saïdou Dicko and George Osodi.
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She prefers to reflect upon the nature of portraiture and self-representation.
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" Horan explains, "For me, this project is a study in portraiture itself.
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There's portraiture, still life, magazine work, video, abstract photography, audio, and collage.
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One was Gagosian showing John Currin's pretty but tired buxom lady portraiture.
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The striking image is a departure from Bruce Gilden's normally grating portraiture.
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The immediate thing that comes to mind is strength in my portraiture.
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"Untitled" (1987) teases the sculptor's late transition into portraiture and abstract figuration.
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"When I got into portraiture, it was a natural progression," he said.
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Great nonfiction requires great characters, and Greenhouse has the gift of portraiture.
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Up until Women in Kuwait, Alasaker's work typically relied on self-portraiture.
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A lot of your more recent work is based in self portraiture.
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The Museum of the Dog has a taste for overly serious portraiture.
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It was followed respectively by portraiture, genre, landscape, and still life painting.
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What better and more sympathetic a subject for him to dive into, then, than English portraiture in the age of Elizabeth the First in a book called The Elizabethan Image, which examines English portraiture from 1558 to 1603?
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The contrast on display between more traditional documentary-style portraiture and work remniscent of self-portraiture (particularly in the age of the much derided selfie) demonstrates the distinct opportunities available for the self-fashioning and presentation of queer identities.
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Her work seamlessly navigates the lines between still life, portraiture, and high fashion.
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It is the art of portraiture, something Spyra confessed he knew nothing about.
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The result is a compelling picture of a man who himself changed portraiture.
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Guibinga aims to explore the diversity of African identities and experiences through portraiture.
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Their works are acts of self-portraiture that defy the traditional white gaze.
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In one sense, the decision to paint photographic portraiture was almost laughably conventional.
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"11/18," on the other hand, is somewhere between documentary and psychological portraiture.
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"Securing the Shadow: Posthumous Portraiture in America," an exhibition that opens Thursday, Oct.
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It was at Little Sparta that Hogan's interest in formal portraiture was kindled.
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In high school, I used to do portraiture and draw people around me.
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The display was delightfully eclectic, ranging from self-portraiture to Walt Disney animations.
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Many people are Patriots fans, but few turn that love into pointillist portraiture.
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Women were only rarely subjects of Velázquez's portraiture, but this show features three.
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SRS: It looks like you do a fair bit of self-portraiture, too?
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Romke Hoogwaerts: We had been planning a big book on portraiture and identity.
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Morrocco's practice investigates the continuum of the photographic medium in relation to technological and social history — the dappled light of 16th century portraiture, the conception of the silver nitrate mirror, and traditions of gay male portraiture — all dovetail Morrocco's expansive viewpoint.
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Contemporary portraiture is interesting to me because it's a way to immortalize disenfranchised demographics.
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Black Canvas 20163 features many artists whose works collectively favor exploring representation through portraiture.
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This week, democratizing portraiture, Chinese art heists, Burning Man, Silent Sam, hoarding, and more.
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As a result, the show mutated into an overview of different forms of portraiture.
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Self-portraiture has long served as a promotional tool, and has rarely rewarded modesty.
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But physiognomy, the idea that faces carry meanings, still haunts the interpretation of portraiture.
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What struck Mr. Lloyd most, he said, was the work's resemblance to European portraiture.
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TAI YVONNE This drastically new portraiture complements the kind of president that Obama was.
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Several paintings here feature women taking "gym selfies," a subgenre of Instagram self-portraiture.
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"The New Class War" lacks the texture and earth and seduction of real portraiture.
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What is one supposed to do with oversized portraiture in the event of adversity?
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Recognized for her skill in portraiture, she went on to paint many powerful men.
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"I realized I didn't want to do commercial work or portraiture," Mr. Malin said.
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Self-portraiture takes many forms in the show, one of them being trans-species.
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Self-portraiture takes many forms in the exhibition, one of them being trans-species.
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"Historically portraiture was about the ability of the sitter to fight death," Wiley explained.
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By dissolving the border between these styles, Bergman gently nudges us to reconsider portraiture.
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As for the future of digital self-portraiture, he believes the selfie will live on.
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And the premise with this data portrait project is that it plays on traditional portraiture.
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It went viral, as people across the internet debated the teen's choice of self-portraiture.
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Art Review Official portraiture took a hit last week, at least in the United States.
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For more of Maya Fuhr's portraiture and photography, check out her Tumblr and her website.
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"There is nothing quite like this in the previous history of portraiture," Mr Elderfield says.
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At Calloway and then into high school, Smith discovered he had a talent for portraiture.
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The exhibition is organized by subject categories: portraiture, mythology, religion, genre paintings, and sensuous subjects.
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In collaboration with the Creators Project, we ask seven multimedia artists to revitalize self portraiture.
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Rather, they're a renegade performance — skillful improvisations, at high altitude — of 15th-century Flemish portraiture.
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"On the Street" is open now; "In the Studio" will explore portraiture starting in August.
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"White Bird" is otherwise full of neat coincidences, grown-up clichés, sentimentality and stock portraiture.
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How do you see this project fitting into that lineage of queer photography and portraiture?
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The photographs reminded Swig of one of the oldest forms of portraiture: the carved cameo.
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Sherman's cameos transport the most contemporary form of portraiture from the digital into the tangible.
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In typical portraiture of the 18th and 19th centuries, they were features of the background.
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The resulting collaged portraits are visually heterogenous, expanding the women's depictions much beyond basic portraiture.
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However, I do feel close or part of this tradition, and more specifically music portraiture.
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But in most places and at most times, portraiture was available only to society's elites.
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In 2017, Ren won a third place in the Sony World Photography Awards for portraiture.
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The book contains as much autobiography as portraiture, and it begins with an arresting anecdote.
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Formal portraits, however, are a small subset of portraiture, which is wide open for experimentation.
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Everything but the "self" comes out in the self-portraiture of Hungarian photographer Borbála Földes.
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In 1960, the art world was not ready to accept Marcus's conceptual approach to portraiture.
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Self-portraiture is employed to showcase the artist in his most open and receptive states.
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She also applied a glowy, grainy texture to the photos reminiscent of old Indian portraiture.
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A woman's face and upper torso, reminiscent of classical portraiture, is placed on the far left.
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Megan Seres and Johannes Reinhart were awarded the 2016 Moran Prizes for portraiture and photography, respectively.
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The comedian's made quite the stir over the last few years with his wild portraiture talents.
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The most compelling pieces I encountered by far were a version of portraiture, searching and incantatory.
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That photo was an early inspiration for Subway Hands and changed the way I understand portraiture.
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This exhibition celebrates Russia's cultural history and reminds viewers of its oft-neglected tradition of portraiture.
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None other than Nikko Hurtado, the famed L.A.-based tattoo artist who specializes in colored portraiture.
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For "Queen & Slim" I especially looked to it as a lighting guide and a portraiture guide.
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He started the project to combine his passion for portraiture with his interest in military history.
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" And at the other end of life's journey, portraiture is "an act of resistance to mortality.
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Young subjects offered Le Brun an opportunity to subtly disrupt the manners and conventions of portraiture.
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Her partnership with Mike Nichols is still considered the gold standard for such quick-sketch portraiture.
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Oscar Akermo, a wispy 210-year-old Swede, does Daliesque portraiture in black and gray ink.
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The exhibition is built on a triad of traditional painting genres: still life, landscape, and portraiture.
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Nor why Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, whose work here is mainly portraiture, was included in the show.
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This documentary isn't as coherent as "Truth or Dare," the Olympic standard for pop-star portraiture.
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In 1960, the art world was not ready to accept Marcia Marcus's conceptual approach to portraiture.
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It's a work of journalism and of imagination, of history and portraiture, of indignation and melancholy.
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McPherson uses portraiture to peek into the complexities of the human psyche through her otherworldly characters.
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Writing autobiography, like all self-portraiture, is an art, even if it can be very lifelike.
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Lamqua was famed for portraiture before Parker, but he mostly concentrated on officials and the elite.
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Diane Arbus revolutionized portraiture, but her numerous imitators cannot command our interest to the same degree.
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She became popular for her portraiture and landscapes, as well as portrayals of poverty in Australia.
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And for what they do, they deserve all the love, respect and flattering portraiture in the world.
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Through a combination of pastel, graphite, and melted plastics, Irwin warps portraiture into uncanny pieces of trash.
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Their portraiture evokes the '70s and '80s by way of bold makeup, bright colors, and captivating poses.
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Portraiture has always been an obsession of mine, and it's something I'm still striving to improve at.
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Real people are just so nuanced and bizarre, and I love portraiture as a form of appreciation.
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To Strand, portraiture was the most complete and difficult way to present a subject to the public.
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Ms Cusset sees Hockney as using portraiture as a way of coming to terms with his life.
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Cathy Marshall, a New Zealand–born photographer living in Melbourne, Australia, focuses primarily on fashion and portraiture.
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"This type of portraiture is quite distinctive of the Western artistic tradition," they write on the site.
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Feature The legendary artist has radically upended his distinctive style of portraiture — and his entire life. Why?
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It occurs to me now that what this comes down to is the nature of portraiture itself.
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During the day, Kame's work focuses on portraiture and lifestyle film photography, usually of other queer people.
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You've described blending landscapes, portraiture and street photography, but did any particular aspect take precedence for you?
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His designs have an old-timey opulence redolent of Renaissance portraiture, with luxe fabrics and busy motifs.
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But unlike body painting found at festivals, Meade's living, breathing compositions are a radical approach to portraiture.
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His series Someday I'll Find the Sun toes the line between documentary, staged narrative, and artful portraiture.
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Eventually, group portraiture lost its luster for Mr. Slavin, who went into film directing and commercial photography.
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"Being," at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, explores reality-based portraiture, politics and gender.
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VICE previously covered the first iteration of the Milk and Honey series of street portraiture in 2016.
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Could you tell us about these dating sites, and why you grouped the two types of portraiture?
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Mercifully, "Invisible" escapes hagiography in favor of cleareyed portraiture, even when matters don't fit comfortably into it.
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Photographer Lizzy Gadd specializes in self-portraiture, and this photo positions her as a mother nature figure.
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We see real-life Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino) in intimate and often unflinching portraiture.
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"Boundaries" mixes Weir's ethereal portraiture with still life images and reportage work in Israel, India and Jordan.
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The portraits depict the couple as elegantly-dressed and respectable, using the tropes of upper-class portraiture.
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The presentation was part of Look up here, I'm in heaven, a group exhibition of imaginative portraiture.
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" She said, "Well, you can drive a car, drive me around Hollywood, and I'll teach you about portraiture.
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But in the early days of the art, it was indebted to a tradition of portraiture in painting.
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The 50 panel discussions that make up Black Portraiture[s] V: Memory and the Archive Past. Present. Future.
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This time around, the campaign takes a different approach to portraiture, focusing on the Advanced Style's ladies' hands.
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Of course that's because portraiture has always been my subject; I'm coming at it from a different angle.
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As in any city, he found several characters to aggressively subject with his close-up style of portraiture.
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She has been influenced by her time spent in the editorial world, blending fashion photography with sensitive portraiture.
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Today, he focuses on portraiture and has photographed the likes of Al Gore, Lady Gaga, and Michael Bloomberg.
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At the CONTACT photography festival in Toronto, the most compelling pieces are variations on portraiture, searching and incantatory.
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We assume that's because it's easy to get a snapshot of someone's face and a piece of portraiture.
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Her scintillating works fuse together the imagery of barely-clad bodies into the format of landscape and portraiture.
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Christelle de Castro is a New York City-based photographer, filmmaker, and art director known for her portraiture.
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One is sculptor Glenys Barton, known for classically inflected figurations that complicate the individualizing aims of monumental portraiture.
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One works by going behind the scenes of the human-interest photograph, the other by refusing portraiture entirely.
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"Aquarius" is a marvelous and surprising act of portraiture, a long, unhurried encounter with a single, complicated person.
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For me—and portraiture has always been this way—it's about the person, yes, but also this encounter.
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His portraiture documents the hedonism and heady atmosphere that pervaded certain sectors of German life in the 1920s.
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But Securing the Shadow: Posthumous Portraiture in America affirmed a universal human love through each of its artworks.
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She also turned to more traditional portraiture as she began exploring various themes that she turned into projects.
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In each of these exhibitions, Yiadom-Boakye's paintings have been closely read through the lens of European portraiture.
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She began advertising her portraiture services in New York, and one of her first clients was Maj. Gen.
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Photographer, filmmaker, and artist Hobbes Ginsberg is best known for her probing, confessional, and deeply communicative self-portraiture.
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Both focused early on African-American portraiture precisely because it is so little represented in Western art history.
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Probably, he means a touch of self-portraiture: No choreographer is more steeped in ballet history than he.
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Throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, European portraiture immortalized tailored tunics and the older aristocrats who wore them.
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Bil Zelman is an American photographer and director known for his powerful, candid portraiture and spontaneous, photojournalistic style.
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But basically, her character allows no room for the contradictions and idiosyncrasies of which convincing portraiture are made.
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Still, Mr. Soth admits, some of the portraits resemble his previous work, despite his newfound approach to portraiture.
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Portraiture is a central concern of Locke's paintings, which deconstruct the codes of masculine desire, intimacy, and violence.
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Not many photographers represented ventured beyond of portraiture, but the few galleries that did offered a welcome departure.
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This show makes a clever and du jour move to convey this notion under the sail of portraiture.
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Portrait Painting Focus with Joe Santore (June 20–July 1) focuses on the process and tradition of portraiture.
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Nowadays, patrons have morphed into "collectors" and artists have found myriad other ways to support themselves besides commissioned portraiture.
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After the war, the artist was commissioned to do cultural portraiture, especially images of the country's burgeoning arts scene.
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Their various exhibits around the world, plus art selfie-takers' backlogged snapshots, yielded a dearth of prime self-portraiture.
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Originally trained in the British academic style of painting, his earlier works had shades of European impressionism and portraiture.
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He often lifts ideas from classical portraiture or renaissance art, but equally from personal experience, and sometimes The Simpsons.
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However, she has recently ventured into abstract portraiture, as seen in her Trump-inspired artwork in the video above.
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The visuals are smoky but clear, reminiscent of realist portraiture, with both its characters and its story jolted alive.
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Ford was inspired, and his first foray into animal portraiture eventually lead to his magnum opus, The Animal Kingdom.
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His portraiture is intricate, blunt, and impeccably choreographed, ranging in tone from dark and disorienting to uplifting and iconographic.
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"Self-portraiture is a form of exposing myself to what I fear the most, interacting with people," Lazar says.
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I'm very careful around consent with portraiture—I only got portraits of people I knew well for that reason.
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An admirer of Dostoevsky and Flaubert, Proust was as practiced as they were at literary types of human portraiture.
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Portrait Painting Focus with Joseph Santore (June 18-29) highlights the physical process and tradition of portraiture in painting.
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Falling somewhere between rococo and 18th century portraiture are the bombastic, wondrous digital paintings of English artist Ray Caesar.
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Portraiture was ranked below historical and mythological painting which was deemed, when successful, to be intellectually and morally instructive.
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The painting algorithm took a crash course in portraiture, reviewing 15,000 portraits painted between the 14th and 20th centuries.
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His natural playfulness was augmented with more art-historical, personal, and emotional takes on portraiture, still life, and architecture.
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Long confined to historical museums and musty mansions, it seemed like portraiture had suddenly been rushed out of storage.
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And yet portraiture — in the classic, realist sense — has become increasingly essential (and visible) in the last few years.
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Each individual portrait — and the book operates best as a study in portraiture — is complex, but not gratuitously so.
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But Yachty's unparalleled talent is presenting a world that exists outside the portraiture of a city or even reality.
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But the Obamas chose two of the hottest young artists in portraiture for their official paintings, and it shows.
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"This is a form of portraiture that is unfamiliar now, in many instances," Ms. Shumard said, explaining the appeal.
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Renaissance portraiture was an expanding genre: Moretto would paint the period's first full-length portrait of a standing man.
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Most of my work is portraiture, and I spend a lot of time on casting, styling, and set design.
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They're just so seductive, but at the same time, they raise such interesting questions about the possibility of portraiture.
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The paintings simultaneously explore Casteel's relationship to her communities and representations of the Black body in portraiture at large.
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He came across neither as the avenging angel of Resistance fan-fiction or the rabid partisan of Republican portraiture.
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But the arrangements aren't really about portraiture; they're about creating compositions in photographic tones of black, white and gray.
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Glenda Lissette is a Guatemalan-American photographer and filmmaker whose self portraiture focuses on her experiences growing up online.
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"My extensive work in nude portraiture is part of a long tradition in the history of art," Close added.
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Each of these photographers approach the craft from distinct technical and personal perspectives—from studio portraiture to documentary photography.
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Such speed, coupled with the low-cost of having one's picture made, meant that this form of portraiture was incredibly accessible to nearly anybody from all walks of life (unlike oil paintings); by the 1780s, silhouettes proved highly popular in America, and, as Naeem argues, democratized portraiture long before the advent of photography.
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Much of the exhibit revolves around an unusual kind of self-portraiture: photographs of the ocean, made by the ocean.
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It is a moment to stop, look around, and admire the tenacity and beauty of the American spirit through portraiture.
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The body seems to have turned from a sexualized space to a politicized one, and there is much self-portraiture.
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A lot of the time, it was being pitched as "reportage"—no one would see it as fine art portraiture.
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We who care about photographic portraiture should recognize that Majoli's approach stimulates our appetite for insight, but doesn't feed us.
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Since a lot of it is CG self-portraiture, I asked her to share a flesh-and-blood selfie, too.
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These things have been going in Britain — which has long enjoyed a love affair with portraiture — since the Tudor period.
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Portraiture for me is a way to spend time with people, befriend them, interact with them on that different level.
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This has contributed, I think, to a new culture of television-making dominated by psychological portraiture, usually focused on men.
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The work has the characteristics of 1530s and 1540s Flemish portraiture, but it is not entirely clear who painted it.
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In a parallel (but dimensionally separated) move to hers, I tried to push towards the outer limits of self-portraiture.
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But even outside of those two records, she's constantly recording these sorts of songs, engaging in vibrant, unflinching self-portraiture.
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The official portraits of the Obamas were unveiled last week, demonstrating what is essentially the American version of royal portraiture.
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These poems anticipate Cindy Sherman's self-portraiture in different guises: There is a self-conscious, pre-postmodern atmosphere around them.
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While landscape portraiture became a common endeavor for artists centuries ago, homes were rarely the principal subjects of the paintings.
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There are two other main walls, one that consists of portraiture and another of flora depictions, both done in chalk.
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BEN BRANTLEY Clothes were more than just clothes to Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), the Mexican tyro of Surrealist self-portraiture.
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Its rubric proves capacious enough to include portraiture, reportage, fashion and pretty much everything you can turn a camera on.
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I took cues from the formation and color rhythm of Andy Warhol's photo booth style portraiture in the Jackie canvases.
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But they also recall the stiff, official poses of everything from Egyptian friezes and Minoan frescoes to early Renaissance portraiture.
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Even the art world establishment has come around: Museums worldwide now embrace them as essential examples of modern-day portraiture.
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And in the '70s and early '80s, that's what he did by initiating his own personal golden age of portraiture.
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Given his personality, "this kind of recurring element of self-portraiture might seem a little bit surprising," Mr. Tarsia said.
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And her insertion of fictional black figures within a mostly white tradition of portraiture is a political gesture in itself.
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Do you agree with Mr. Farago's assessment that the Mona Lisa is the "Kim Kardashian of 16th-century Italian portraiture"?
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Despite his aversion to the new president as a subject for portraiture, Rockwell had voted for him this time around.
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Along the way, no small pleasure is to be had from the amusing, sometimes scabrous, satirical portraiture of illustrious figures.
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In 17th-century Holland, the municipal authorities were especially partial to group portraiture, which put the seal on their stature.
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"Rumors of War," Wiley's largest work to date, mimics the equestrian portraiture of Confederate statues such as that of Gen.
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Much of the self-portraiture is based on personal experience and speaks to the aggressions that black people suffer globally.
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On view through August 14, the exhibition unravels the traditional understanding of portraiture as a singular representation of an individual.
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No other genre within the realm of American art can make a museumgoer's eyes glaze over quite like colonial portraiture.
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The technique is an inventive form of portraiture that leaves her subjects to appear as a series of sinewy markings.
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The featured works are meant to reflect the state of contemporary portraiture in the US. "'The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today' features intimate depictions of individuals whose remarkable stories are rooted in the most pressing challenges of our time," said Kim Sajet, director of Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, in a press release issued today.
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The Senate collection largely comprises 19th-century art and classic formal portraiture, while the House has traditional and more contemporary portraits.
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Her strong (if perhaps unintentional) channeling of "Little" Edie Bouvier of Grey Gardens fame signals the oddball nature of her portraiture.
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One of the more fascinating, and de Chirico-esque, paintings on display combines aspects of still life, self-portraiture, and landscape.
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The British-Ghanaian artist was nominated for the 303 Turner Prize and is known for her psychological approach to Black portraiture.
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The photographic tradition of portraiture began in part because of the technological limitations of cameras that had to take pictures slowly.
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But it reveals the mentality of the time: portraiture was used as a way to preserve the living for future generations.
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I see similarities with Dutch Guild portraits, a very business-oriented genre, but also with the sternness of early US portraiture.
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We caught up with Strutz to talk about her inspirations, learning on the job, and portraiture as a form of appreciation.
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Bright sunlight is actually pretty terrible for portraiture altogether because people squint and the hard shadows do no one any favors.
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In this new art of portraiture, there is indeed emotion—arising not from the subject's face but from the painter's brush.
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It's actually because Instagram, and the mass adoption of cameraphones, has democratised self-expression and portraiture for everyone, regardless of class.
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It's a non-traditional portraiture of Malcolm X with bright pink lips and the pop of color on a white background.
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What is undeniably art is The Push Pose, a collaborative portraiture project between creative director Emma Fletcher and photographer Tamara Schlesinger.
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Jonas's 1972 films Left Side, Right Side and Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy were standouts of layered black-and-white self-portraiture.
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On a recent evening, Liev Schreiber wandered through several rooms of 18th-century French portraiture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Fantin-Latour had an ambiguous relationship with portraiture: He regarded with horror his father's dependency on it to make a living.
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After this room, things take a more affirmative turn, first with a focus on portraiture, including photographs as well as paintings.
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And we found some users who were selling multiple pieces of prison art that was of good quality and mostly portraiture.
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"If you look at the history of Italian Renaissance portraiture, in the 15th century they're very staid, profiled portraits," she said.
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Sometimes it democratized the tradition of portraiture by making possible small images of celebrities like Dumas, who appears here several times.
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In portraiture, most thought it would be easier to hold a somber expression rather than a smile during the exposure time.
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From ancient Greek kouroi to contemporary portraiture, the human body has served as the artist's most familiar yet most elusive subject.
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She presents a portrait of him across from the wall of flowers as well as more depictions on a portraiture wall.
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"Bester's headdress appears like a costume that undermines the pretensions of portraiture," the art historian Tamar Garb wrote in the book.
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There's something haunting about the way he put together colors, and the merciless insight of his portraiture can be genuinely unsettling.
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Rassim brushed off her portraiture as "worthless" and insinuated in the interview that she wished she had better work to show.
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The Vank Cathedral, every inch of its interior painted with stunning murals and portraiture, is the pride of the Armenian-Iranians.
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To me, it's shocking to think that nobody can work with costume and self-portraiture just because Sherman did it too.
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Mr. Slavin has carved out a niche in portraiture that should put the selfie to shame, if ever that is possible.
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I'm the person feeling these fears, and using self portraiture allows these images to be a true manifestation of those emotions.
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A second exhibition, "Recent Histories: New Photography From Africa," at the Walther Collection Project Space in Chelsea stretches portraiture even further.
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The former, "Female Nude on the Sofa" (1928) by Georg Scholz, epitomizes the sobriety that characterizes Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) portraiture.
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Their poses reflected the portraiture styles of the day; their suits, elaborate dresses, and starched collars, and pocket watches exude affluence.
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Hubbs exhibited self-portraiture from two decades of work as well as an image of a mannequin wrapped in black velvet.
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Beyond bringing underrepresented artists into the institution, Identify challenges our expectations of portraiture and how it can be used to understand history.
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Known as Rankin in the industry, he's famous for celebrity portraiture—Klum credits him with creating a comfortability on set that's unmatched.
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His systematic method of documentary photography is now an intriguing work of 19th-century portraiture, even if that was never his intent.
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Occupying a place of honor in the monarch's lap – befitting a tradition of royal portraiture – is nearly 1-year-old Princess Charlotte.
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Settis said the Torlonia had collected some 180 busts, making it one of the biggest collections of Roman portraiture in the world.
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The Boston Globe lauded Ms. Diamond's "shrewd eye for portraiture" when the play had its 2014 premiere at the Huntington Theater Company.
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Portrait Painting Focus with Joseph Santore and Linda Darling (June 19-30) highlights the physical process and tradition of portraiture in painting.
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In one of the first rooms viewers are introduced to Diane Arbus's unnervingly direct portraiture of muscle men, nudists and circus performers.
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Related: Animated Selfie Captures the Artist in 33 Frames Not Selfies, But Hybrid Selfie-Portraiture 10 Yale Art Students Explore Photography's Future
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Del Prete was responsible for all these makeup looks, and more—creating a makeup aesthetic that resembled that of Renaissance oil portraiture.
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An exhibition at apexart shows how 12 Pakistani artists are exploring performance and self-portraiture to define their identities on their terms.
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There's a generous transparency about Washington's portraiture, a compound of sympathy and contemplation that suggests a warm variation on classic Brechtian remove.
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What he knew was that he possessed a gift for portraiture so lifelike that it seemed like malpractice not to express it.
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Perhaps, this is a commentary on official portraiture, a critique of who historically gets their portraits painted and who is left out.
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Georgia O'Keeffe's groundbreaking soft and subdued portraiture of blossoms were unabashedly vaginal, and put the magnified female body into an empowering perspective.
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"We think of the portraiture as less a portrait of the powerful CEO and more a portrait of a person," Selman says.
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In the same years that Lewis was injecting topical stories into abstract painting, Roy DeCarava was experimenting with making photographic portraiture abstract.
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That's the way it can play out for jet-setting portraiture photographers of fashion, culture and celebrity who live on opposite coasts.
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While a steadfast figurative artist throughout her career, two dominant subjects have emerged in Hogan's work in recent years: gardens and portraiture.
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After the surrounding architecture crumbled, the tiny figures remained buried, until centuries later when archaeologists rediscovered these rare forms of ancient portraiture.
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Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture Through June 2 at the Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, Manhattan; 212-288-0700, frick.org.
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To make up for it, the score had to be dense, providing in music the depth of portraiture Shakespeare achieved in verse.
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Mr. Wiley's work often features African-Americans in the regal poses of emperors and kings, his own distinctive riff on historic portraiture.
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It's the closest thing to self-portraiture that I could imagine, because these objects are the real things I use every day.
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The pictures parody stereotypes of Asian inwardness, and they rebuke Western portraiture, which purports to disclose the inner lives of the subject.
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She returned to Yale thinking about how she might use portraiture to counteract images of black men as victims or violent criminals.
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He compares Bacon's portraiture to an actor who imbues a minor role with outsized power by playing the scene with a limp.
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This is the merest glimmer that, even more than in the rest of the show, "FEELINTHECAT" is a piece of self-portraiture.
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Allah incorporates VHS, Super 8 and 16mm film, and high-definition cinematography into his handheld filmmaking, which has the quality of portraiture.
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That is what has suggested to me to take a somewhat different perspective on contemporary self-portraiture here, stopping short of posthumanism.
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Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture continues at the Frick Collection (1 East 70th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan) through June 5.
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Street photography, which was then in its heyday as a form of art photography, was as prominent in the annuals as portraiture.
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Both have hands on the device, capturing a sharing of power between the two, a change in the dynamic of studio portraiture.
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In the exhibition, Roach combines traditional portraiture, collage, and an interactive portrait backdrop installation to explore the performance of family and identity.
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There's no more accurate way to describe the quartet's spot-on portraiture of a city whose population is patient zero of industrial alienation.
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Elliott Brown Jr., who received his BFA in photography from NYU in 2016, uses portraiture to explore how blackness and queer identity converge.
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Beyond that, the pairing of these friends reveals their shared interest in portraiture, costumes, role-playing, and an imaginative engagement with art history.
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Category award: Portraiture finalistSeries name: Bikes of HanoiAbout the series: Enoch spent a week on the streets of Hanoi, Vietnam, photographing delivery drivers.
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Kelly's newfound appetite for this kind of semi-abstract portraiture leads him to such open-ended, biomorphic pictures as "Study for Plant" (1949).
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Trump's posture and slight lean forward portray the president as an aggressive figure, says Tamzin Smith, a professional photographer who specializes in portraiture.
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Related: Not Selfies, but Hybrid Selfie-Portraiture [Best of 2015] This Year in Art Selfies Feel at Peace Witnessing the Process of Watercoloring
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Those subsections are then divided into different subject categories that explore a broad range of themes and techniques, from architecture, to smile portraiture.
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The museum's press release deepened my curiosity: Throughout her career, [Rose] Marasco has remained uninterested in genres such as documentary, landscape, and portraiture.
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His love of portraiture drew him to sports cards, whose bold typography and abstract backgrounds are elements that Wood loves to experiment with.
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Eliminating portraiture from her paintings and compressing the pictorial plane have allowed Holly Coulis to be more idiosyncratic, playful, convincing, and even funny.
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And, I think that that's why people have responded to it...because it does feel like such an intimate exchange, the mutual portraiture.
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Earlier this year, legendary feminist artist Marilyn Minter teamed up with Miley Cyrus to raise money for women's rights through softly sexy portraiture.
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A new group show called "Being" moves away from last year's navel-gazing digital obsession to explore reality-based portraiture, politics and gender.
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Paul Mpagi Sepuya, 35, also critiques photography portraiture, from a vantage point that is more formally inventive and politically oblique than Ms. Syjuco's.
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Gérard, the artist, painted Napoleon several times and was known for his portraiture; several of his works are on view at the Louvre.
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This small plaster sculpture is on view in Securing the Shadow: Posthumous Portraiture in America at the American Folk Art Museum in Manhattan.
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These are spare yet sumptuous works, full of personal details, in the manner of European portraiture from van Eyck to Degas and Manet.
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Sebastian, the photographer, will get famous for rare photos of Osama bin Laden, then lose himself in the shallow glamour of celebrity portraiture.
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He is probably best known for his work in portraiture, although he is highly accomplished in other aspects of the field as well.
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Murdoch resists easy portraiture (Indians as pitiful or pathetic or damaged) and blind compassion (Indians as noble sufferers or keepers of special knowledge).
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Dominant at the excellent Robert Simon Fine Art is a rare example of female portraiture from the Peruvian Cuzco School, around 1690-1710.
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Portraiture came to be considered "content," and therefore a subject that could be exhausted, despite (or maybe because of) its long, exalted history.
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Drawing his imagery — largely portraiture, with all-too-apparent narrative motifs — from photographs, he created near literal transcriptions of one medium to another.
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Fusing the African-American quilting tradition with European tropes of portraiture, these works grant monumental status to those that have historically been underrepresented.
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As a documentary, "One of Us" is a small act of portraiture, but each portrait captures the pain of having a life upended.
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Many of the preexisting AI GAN artworks also derive from Romantic landscape paintings or portraiture, which contributes to the spookiness of the style.
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Related: The Psychedelic Posthuman Portraiture Of Murat Sayginer The Futuristic Animations Of Gero Doll Are Digital Hallucinogens Psychedelic Animation Imagines an Amnesiac's Nightmare
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Ms. Ferrato famously made a series on domestic violence, inspiring change and offering support to victims As Ms. Barnett describes, self-portraiture is the ultimate symbol of control, and the show has more formal works by Samuel Fosso, Edward Steichen, Cindy Sherman (who does not usually categorize her work as self-portraiture) and a homage to her by Yasumasa Morimura.
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This technique maintains the likeness qualities of portraiture while re-presenting a mask that serves as a conduit between the spiritual and natural world.
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"Selfies are just another form of self-portraiture, so saying the selfie dead is like saying the era of photography is over," Honton says.
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Related: Meet the Body Painting Artist Disrupting Portraiture Meet the People Living as "Muxe," Mexico's Third Gender Female Cyborg Illustrations Illuminate with Acid Colors
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Sorry Virgo, whatever your answer was, it is insufficient, as this marks a more momentous shift in US presidential portraiture than we've ever witnessed.
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On the opposing wall, the colorfully suited subjects of Ruth Ossai's photographs invoke the flamboyant and heavily queer-coded self-portraiture of Samuel Fosso.
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Related: Hyperrealistic Body Paintings Blend Into Iconic Landmarks Meet the Body Painting Artist Blending Humans Into Nature Meet the Body Painting Artist Disrupting Portraiture
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The first US exhibition of works by the Ghana-born artist, Black Like Me introduces a new talent in Black portraiture to American audiences.
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Despite her short career of only 22013 years, Julia Margaret Cameron claimed her place in art history with her distinctive, dreamlike approach to portraiture.
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For the last seven years, creative self-portraiture has provided an outlet to explore gender and sexuality, and what they mean in his life.
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No matter the cause, photographer Florian Voggeneder's series "The Kepler Station" overcomes our collective jadedness by giving Red Planet portraiture an infusion of wonder.
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Occupying a place of honor in Queen Elizabeth's lap – befitting a tradition of royal portraiture – Charlotte poses alongside her big brother and royal cousins.
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Individualised portraiture really kicked off back in the Roman times, when those in the highest echelon of society were represented in marble portrait busts.
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Portraiture also occupied the basement in the shape of Peter Hujar's black-and-white group photographs, alongside a projected slideshow of related color images.
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Related: Surreal Still Lifes of Genetically Modified Fruit Meet the Body Painting Artist Disrupting Portraiture Vibrant Flora Paintings Are an Archaeological Portrait of Life
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" MacDonald likens his initial self-portraiture as somewhat "self-involved and vaguely incestuous, like catching a glimpse of yourself in the mirror during sex.
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There's more Rodin around the court — the museum owns a ton — and a selection of paintings arranged by no-nonsense themes: religion, portraiture, landscape.
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The final sections of the exhibition focus on two areas in which Parmigianino excelled in comparison with his older, friendly rival: drawing and portraiture.
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As his career progressed, Memling more or less cornered the market on portraiture in Bruges, appealing to both a local and an international clientele.
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The truth is that by the time of the collapse, he had been experimenting with grids and fragmented portraiture for more than a decade.
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Enhanced by scrupulous attention to details of color, light and shadow, "Last Supper" radiates its new life without losing Vasari's original strength in portraiture.
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The photos approach portraiture and identity from a decolonized lens, portraying Chicanx people in protest, in nature, and in full awareness of their power.
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The artists' relationships and dedications to ceramic art, woodwork, portraiture, among other pursuits, turns the raw, unplugged passion to create into an artform itself.
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After working mostly with pastel portraiture in the 80s and 90s, she took up photography, which informed her practice in an entirely new way.
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Blanchard highlights the difference between nude portraiture from the male gaze — traditionally considered art — and from the female gaze, which is what Kim uploaded.
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What is most successful about the works in Unseen is how they question specific historical narratives as well as the general practice of portraiture.
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These changes — eliminating portraiture from her paintings and compressing the pictorial plane — have allowed her to be more idiosyncratic, playful, convincing, and even funny.
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The evening will end with an afterparty at the Brooklyn Bazaar, because you must celebrate our time together before you're a posthumous portraiture candidate.
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Both projects included portraiture influenced by the iconic images of Patrick Nagel, whose gestural work has graced the walls of salons since the 80s.
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Along with legends like Chuck Close, the School of Visual Arts grad is known for helping revive portraiture after the dominance of abstract expressionism.
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To become a history painter, an artist would first have to demonstrate a mastery over the lesser categories: still life, landscape painting, and portraiture.
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Inspired by artists like Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, who each created an official Obama portrait, Ms. Hester wanted to explore storytelling through portraiture.
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"There is going to be a spotlight on her," said Paul Staiti, a professor at Mount Holyoke College who is an expert on portraiture.
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In the early 16th century, a format of portraiture developed that was stunning in its impact, showing subjects life-size, full-length and standing.
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Chase Hall's Milk and Honey series explores portraiture in the city—presenting a window of resiliency, empathy, and wisdom across the communities he captures.
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Here, artists are concerned with depicting not just their own communities, but a mix of ethnicities, religions, castes, classes, and genders in group portraiture.
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Related: Meet the Body Painting Artist Disrupting Portraiture 'Body Marbling' is Body Painting's Trippy Cousin Meet the Body Painting Artist Blending Humans Into Nature
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I was reminded of the portraiture convention in which the sitter holds an item symbolizing their identity, such as a paintbrush, lute, or globe.
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For her, the fragmented nature of self-portraiture exists in the cracks of her own memory and resurfaces within the frames of her photographs.
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French portraiture, too, offered Americans a means to ground themselves in an 18th-century tradition — though it also afforded a nice way to decorate.
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A woman is brought to tears by a psychic reading that involves a donkey; in another episode, a series of vulva portraiture flashes onscreen.
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By opposition, the "New York Diary" is about direct, spontaneous and reduced portraiture, something like a principle of bare realism around the subject only.
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Maybe the Clinton picture represents a new brand of presidential portraiture, for a time when politics and entertainment are indivisible, heroes and rogues indistinguishable.
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Her subjects, including the first lady, are exposed, and open, and that in itself is fairly radical within the narrow limits of presidential portraiture.
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While portraiture is still the genre du jour, the focus on childhood avoided feeling voyeuristic, and created instead an honest probe into the future.
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Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. came to photography through self-portraiture, using it at a means to understand and confront the intersections of his identity.
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Attention to the macabre in dog portraiture began in earnest in the 19th century, when the genre got its biggest boost from Queen Victoria.
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Clearly drawing on Picasso's Cubist portraiture, Li's figures hold each other in acrobatic poses that sometimes stretch beyond the edges of their painted frames.
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Already displaying a distinct artistic voice somewhere between figurative portraiture and post-impressionism, it's a wonder that Stetson's isn't even halfway through high school.
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When she's done here, she'll spend the day doing press, a few hours with fashion magazines here, some portraiture with the New York Times there.
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The book—as one familiar with Moises's work would expect—varies throughout, from shocking images of violence to emotionally-charged portraiture to serene landscape images.
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" His V portfolio, on the other hand, "is about direct, spontaneous and reduced portraiture, something like a principle of bare realism around the subject only.
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"I am hugely grateful that we have been able to continue with our tradition of outstanding royal portraiture," Vogue editor-in-chief Alexandra Shulman said.
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Using X-rays and portraiture to great effect, Pasquarelli calls for the viewer to examine the level of harm unseen by the naked eye. —K.
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The free-to-attend Black Portraiture[s] conference will focus on the creation of visual archives in the context of landmark moments in Black history.
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Here, Time photographer Ruddy Roye takes a more contemplative approach through portraiture and firsthand accounts that build a robust picture of the events that transpired.
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There will always be a slice of the market that puts photo quality above all else: Advertising, product photography and high-end portraiture among them.
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Drawing inspiration from New York's urban landscape, Oezdogan translates the city's built environment using geometric abstraction instead of a literal appropriation of the city's portraiture.
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Sanchez believes it's the first project of its kind to use interviews and photo portraiture to focus on people who identify as Latino and black.
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While the auction of machine-designed art is a first, some see the sale as yet another work of portraiture on the Christie's auction block.
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Through the lens of photojournalism, portraiture, fine art and other methods, exhibitions mine subjects like social justice and identity, high school football and pit bulls.
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Related: The Importance of the Animated GIF as Social Commentary Mixed-Media Works Break Down Cultural and Critical Barriers Not Selfies, but Hybrid Selfie-Portraiture
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Her practice evolved from there, and now, her models lacquered with a layer of acrylic paint look like portraiture subjects who've somehow escaped their frames.
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His style is a pastiche of abstract expressionism and low-brow pop surrealism, with vivid, bold fractals of nature redefining the contemporary practice of portraiture.
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As a teenager, I was certain I looked like a baby from medieval portraiture, the kind that appear as elderly people trapped in tiny bodies.
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As far as I can tell, that article was the first in-depth journalistic look at the emergent phenomenon of the quickie digital self-portraiture.
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Art for its own sake, or an audacious formalism, could be realized even while adhering to the traditional genres of portraiture, landscape, and still life.
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PORTRAITURE Although these works are part of a relatively conservative genre of painting, the Winter Antiques Show nonetheless has some interesting and historically significant examples.
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These images push the envelope of traditional portraiture, serving as respectful homage, pointed satire and thoughtful commentary on a difficult life made worse by apartheid.
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Microsculpture – The Insect Portraiture of Levon Biss is on at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, UK, 27 May to 30 October 2016.
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It elevates a different kind of nuance in black portraiture, one that is even rarer: Ms. Sherald paints blackness that is quiet, ordinary and individual.
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Securing the Shadow: Posthumous Portraiture in America continues through February 26, 2017 at the American Folk Art Museum (2 Lincoln Square, Upper West Side, Manhattan).
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The precisely cataloged and annotated portraits of journalists will sit alongside three other bodies of work by the actress: All are forms of self-portraiture.
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Through his portraiture, Wiley depicts these otherwise unknown people as "heroic, powerful, majestic" figures commonly found in classical European paintings of noblemen, royalty and aristocrats.
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Kennicott: Amy Sherald is a Baltimore-based artist who won the 2016 Outwin Boochever award, a national portraiture competition administered by the National Portrait Gallery.
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Jolie immediately thought of a Brooklyn-based photographer, David Brandon Geeting, who is skilled at what I called "object portraiture" (Jolie calls them "still lifes").
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Portraiture and history dominates this year's The Photography Show, and there are many stand out works by Osamu Yokonami, Julie Blackmon, Ryan Vizzions, and others.
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Created exactly 20 years after that painting and only seven years before his death, "The Syndics" is an austere evolution of Rembrandt's prowess for portraiture.
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LL: We were all happy to participate in your printmaking workshop because it was the first time we had come together to learn self-portraiture.
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Dewey-Hagborg is an artist whose work uses biotechnology to political ends, and the DNA portraiture technique first appeared in her 2012–13 project, Stranger Visions.
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Bette Davis went way out of her way, and then we became friendly, and definitely because of her and Hitch, I fell in love with portraiture.
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Ultimately, I became interested in large format portraiture because of Bette Davis, but I really just use one light that feels like sunlight, but soft light.
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Over the course of 12 years, Leutwyler, a specialist in celebrity portraiture, photographed 124 objects that were somehow connected to famous or notorious individuals, all deceased.
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Between 216 and 22017, Goodman painted a series of self-portraits that constitute one of the most powerful and disturbing achievements of portraiture in modern art.
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Between 1994 and 2011, she painted a series of self-portraits that constitute one of the most powerful and disturbing achievements of portraiture in modern art.
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The Outwin Competition takes place every three years and encourages artists living and working in the US to submit works that challenge the definition of portraiture.
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The right image to use with a written piece: It's an old worry, relevant to portraiture, but argued about much more with regards to war photography.
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With it came a hunger for images of all kinds: striking fashion, still portraiture and drama captured behind the scenes at shows and in daily lives.
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The photographer, Regine Mahaux, is well-known for her celebrity portraiture and has taken several pictures of Trump in the past, including high-glamour editorial images.
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We regularly "beautify" our lives through the filters of Instagram, Snapchat, and other social media, and it's not like portraiture has always been a science, either.
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Her paintings have often drawn comparison to the supposed timelessness of Old Master portraiture, as well as historical and contemporary traditions — and omissions — of black figuration.
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Its title is an homage to DeCarava, whose artistic influence is echoed in Jenkins's and Joseph's work through their use of emotive portraiture and captivating storytelling.
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I have a hard time thinking of anything more Western in art than historical painting and portraiture, which essentially make up the entirety of the exhibition.
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Amongst the 75 artist participating this year are Jose Mertz, Mr. Cenz, Elle, and Bay area muralist, Patrick McGregor, known for his hyperrealistic portraiture (pictured above).
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But despite her playful oeuvre, one of the most disruptive aspects of Meade's work is its ability to break down classic portraiture and empower the viewer.
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Having previously worked as a portrait painter for notables such as Andrew Cuomo, Zimmerman wanted to dispel the stigma that portraiture was only for the wealthy.
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However, their similar styles of photography have defined West African portraiture for generations, and continue to have an influence on the photographers of the African diaspora.
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More important, however, is the question of how my expectations of this style of portraiture make their peace with what the work sets out to accomplish.
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Developed by the faculty photographers, the lessons included a range of topics from fashion photography, portraiture, architectural photography, creating dynamic compositions, and capturing movement, among others.
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She activates the double function of portraiture as the recognition of a worldly identity and, in the best instances, the surprise of an evident inner life.
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There is a cross-section of portraiture by Cecily Brown, Jack Whitten and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye; abstraction by Ross Bleckner, Jennie C. Jones and Joan Mitchell.
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Muholi is known for dramatically increasing the contrast in her self-portraiture so as to appear stunningly pitch black, her gorgeous darkness and regal stoicism heightened.
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Quoting Gauguin's writings and those of Georgia O'Keeffe, who was photographed by her lover Alfred Stieglitz, Ms. Mozman Solano questions the acts of portraiture and representation.
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The wilfully undramatic results make a strange new kind of non-pedantic portraiture painting based on historical content and the power of suggestive, artful, mental links.
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Like those artists, the shape-shifting nature of portraiture becomes a metaphor for changing or erroneous representations of people, and particularly women, from the African diaspora.
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On view are 145 works of photography, video, painting, sculpture, and installation that construct a patchy survey of contemporary portraiture and the mechanics of its staging.
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The plethora of Van Dyck portraits which form the vast bulk of the show demonstrate his art historical significance in transforming portraiture in the seventeenth century.
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LI: Your self-portraiture workshop was a good way to prove to our own Haitian people that we can create beautiful images that reflect our identity.
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Tiffany Smith reconsiders the ways in which she and other ethnic women have been historically visually represented, especially through the mechanism of 19th-century ethnographic portraiture.
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Just as selfies can counter the stuffiness and formality of certain traditions of self-portraiture, the Museum of Selfies is a counterweight to pompous art museums.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads DURHAM, North Carolina — After nearly a century unseen, the photographic portraiture of white itinerant photographer Hugh Mangum is on view.
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Samantha Keely Smith at 68 Jay Street combined portraiture with her rambunctious fictional landscapes to create images of faces that teetered on the verge of dissolution.
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They can even take good portraits, but there's so much more to portraiture, and that extends into my filmmaking, which is this ability to read a person.
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The words are like a master class on portraiture, and the photos show how determination and patience are essential in getting the best out of the medium.
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I've been feeling like portraiture for me is a little problematic because I want to share my vision, but I feel weird taking ownership over other people.
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For portraiture, the A27R III might be even more well suited, as its high megapixel count lets you see every detail while catching every single micro expression.
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In a girlie, lowbrow sort of way, I was preparing for life as a photographer — I was learning about imagery and portraiture and art and self-expression.
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The French and Senegalese artist speaks in a grand, poetic style about the possibilities of portraiture and connecting with her subjects on an ephemeral and spiritual level.
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Here, Diallo spoke to VICE about the hidden complexities of portraiture and how she hopes to gain self-love through teaching other women how to love themselves.
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Kathleen Sweeny, Long Beach, N.Y. RE: CHUCK CLOSE Wil S. Hylton profiled the legendary artist, who radically upended his distinctive style of portraiture — and his entire life.
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The methods of the caricaturist "involve reduction and abstraction" and often "a degree of humor and commentary," she said, adding that Picasso's caricatures informed his mature portraiture.
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I thought of van Gogh claiming to recognize more than twenty black pigments in the portraiture of Frans Hals, the best of them created from charred bones.
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"I wanted the 'canon' of art history to include bodies that most folks would be familiar with and recognize as their own," she says of her portraiture.
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Those portraits are the subject of "Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture," an absorbing survey at the Frick Collection that also demonstrates his unending lightness of being.
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"I'm exploring the idea of feminism and the complexities of agency — who has it, who doesn't and what that means," Newsome says of his move toward portraiture.
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We spoke with Saldamando about why and how she chooses her subjects, depicting people of color in portraiture, and what it's like to make this work today.
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Scott G. Brooks' series of contemporary portraiture incorporates a similar impression of nostalgia by inserting "party favor" plastic toys of the early 2000s into his painterly aesthetic.
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The Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, born on New Year's Eve 400 years ago, also saw self-portraiture as a means to boast of his technical acuity.
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Blending bright colors and portraiture, the paintings serve as a mini history lesson, offering long overdue recognition for a number of activists, writers, artists, dancers, and politicians.
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Treating his whole surface as of equal interest, Cézanne's skilled, hacking handling of figure and scenery blur the boundaries a bit between portraiture, landscape, and still life.
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Since the late 1970s, he has investigated different genres of photography such as portraiture, astronomy, and surveillance footage to test the limits and expectations of his medium.
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From Eugène Atget's reflective vitrines to Lee Friedlander's sly self-portraiture, photographers have long been in thrall to the visual complications glass can inject into a composition.
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One gallery of Securing the Shadow has an array of daguerreotypes from the Stanley B. Burns MD Family Collection and Archive showing this side of postmortem portraiture.
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Both specialized in portraiture, capturing the prominent figures in their respective countries; for Velázquez, this meant the Spanish royal family; for Rembrandt, wealthy Dutch burghers and merchants.
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The wretched and the brave, and such is Saunders's magnificent portraiture that readers will recognize in this wretchedness and bravery aspects of their own characters as well.
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"Both have achieved enormous success as artists, but even more, they make art that reflects the power and potential of portraiture in the 21st century," she added.
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While her work still includes on-land portraiture and TV shoots, she's become known for her focus on underwater settings, like wedding dress models styled as mermaids.
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Though nudity and self-portraiture are staples of the art canon, the way Chiara Mazzocchi incorporates both in her visual and performative works is anything but usual.
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BRIC will present Look up here, I'm in heaven, a group exhibition of four artists highlighting the use of unconventional portraiture to question how identity is constructed.
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Stefano Alcantara, a protégé of Paul Booth's at Last Rites Gallery who does surreal black-and-gray portraiture, lives in Fort Lauderdale but is often on tour.
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Scherezade Garcia's unstretched paintings are based on Baroque portraiture, though revised with swarthy complexions and and floral designs based on both Dutch and native New York species.
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Working primarily in the realm of self-portraiture, she is able to act as various fictional characters, while exploring her own personality and history in the process.
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Portraiture became her focus anew in the last decades of her life — she even painted, in the 1980s, a likeness of the eventual American president, Donald Trump.
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Since that time, countless African American artists have used portraiture — in photographs and paint — to explore the complex nature of their subjects, as well as black life.
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With a unique painting style that bleeds and swirls the fleshtones of the antiquated subjects, Irish painter Genieve Figgis' Renaissance-style portraiture exudes a surreal and hypnotizing eeriness.
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Whether photographing people in a rooming house, drinking around a pub, or making love in city parks, Brandt's portraiture frames the landscape as slightly alien to its occupants.
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But like a lot of Yeo's celebrity portraiture, the surface of the canvas is just a reflection of the thousands of images we've already seen of this personality.
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Even the most inspired or unconventional casting choices, experimental commissions, unique and expressive portraiture, or solicitation of input from the "actor/sitter" do not a true collaboration make.
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" Her old-fashioned training in portraiture at the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London ("no electric lighting was allowed") also helps her "talk to painters about painting.
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Filled with low-lights, sound effects, 3D casts, growing things, unnerving portraiture, tape, stickers, and smells, it feels as far from a traditional gallery as you can get.
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Category award: Portraiture finalistSeries name: The Women of HMP Foston HallAbout the series: Ansett visit HMP Foston Hall, a closed prison for women over 18 in Derbyshire, England.
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Though the door to society portraiture had closed because Oakley's family no longer had access to the upper class, the door to magazine and book illustration had opened.
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Since then, she has continued to work in photo and video portraiture with a particular focus on teasing out repressed experiences or personalities, often making use of masks.
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Following a long-established tradition of ethnographic photography, but abandoning that tradition's scientific passivity and applying instead his unique approach to portraiture, Penn purposefully engaged with each subject.
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While classical portraiture exists to position subjects in the best possible light, I try to engage in a broader contemporary discussion with my use of colors and contrasts.
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"In its unabashed food portraiture and selfie use, [Ulman's Instagram] lacks the self-awareness of the characteristically self-aware generation of which she is a part," Friedlander writes.
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"Self Portrait" and Whitten's figurative practice may be lesser known alongside his abstract work, but portraiture and the deeply personal ran through his practice from start to finish.
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Van Dyck Night (Friday) The latest edition of the Frick Collection's Free Nights focuses on the exhibition "Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture," on view through June 5.
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The images in Broken Manual, shot in 2008, are eerie and destabilizing, pushing Soth into territory quite apart from the legacy of American documentary portraiture in his line.
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Related: 21 Female Artists Reflect on the Origins of Self-Portraiture In This Show, the Paintings Are on the Palettes A Painter's Portraits Explore the Politics of Style
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A new photography show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York moves away from "navel-gazing digital obsession" to explore reality-based portraiture, politics and gender.
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All of his work involves portraiture in some way, but Mind Frame makes a concerted effort to sustain a close up on each of the different emerging figures.
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But almost a half-century later — now that Davis is widely recognized as a central portraiture photographer of the 20th century — these images have assumed a new importance.
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Rather than coasting on his inheritance, he leaned into his genetic potential, executing flawless fine line portraiture that established him as one of the nation's leading tattoo artists.
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Some feminists have viewed her body-positive art as exploitive in an old, essentializing way, failing to see the claim to power implicit in her erotic self-portraiture.
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Monet's large "Women in the Garden," an early endeavor in plein-air group portraiture, hangs beside Bazille's "Family Gathering," a stiffer showcase of bourgeois leisure and light effects.
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In his instantly recognizable style of portraiture, he styles his subjects in a kind of faux-orientalist swag, using items like the ones in the shop as props.
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But like those shows, its cookie-cutter outlines allow for the possibility of a transcendent star performance, one that pushes past note-by-note impersonation into idiosyncratic portraiture.
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Starting with Nadar in the late 19th century up to the '60s and '70s, there is a French tradition of (not occasional but consistent) black-and-white portraiture.
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"Sensation" and its Young British Artists dominated the art conversation, enraptured the tabloids, and relegated British portraiture to the debased realm of one-note arguments and conceptual gimmicks.
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The scraps and flecks of newsprint work like Impressionist brush strokes: up close it's hard to see the image, but a few steps back you see poignant portraiture.
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"They're about psychological portraiture, enabled by the artful use of Mr. Bush's diaries — they're surprisingly rich — and the author's many probing interviews with Mr. Bush over the years."
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At a time when figurative painting was deeply unpopular and portraiture was generally scorned, she became famous for her stylized portraits of pop-culture icons and historical figures.
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Portraiture of black subjects dominates a lot of the booths, and graciously so, given the lackluster legacy of white America rearing its ugly head over the past year.
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The new series of prints, Native Impressions, revisits visual-textual portraiture with images of six men and six women, community leaders of the tribal nations of North Dakota.
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The composition of her black-and-white image "The Years Are Waiting for You" (1936), based on an ad for anti-aging sunblock, combines classical portraiture and horror poster.
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"Inspired by classic portraiture, the campaign is reimagined in an informal urban environment, juxtaposing the old and the new, the traditional and the contemporary," the company's online release stated.
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Rumors of War is also the title of his 2005 painting series, which riffs on the masculinity, power, and historicity of equestrian portraiture and its affirmation of white masculinity.
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Nisenbaum's "MOIA's NYC Women's Cabinet" (2016) locates her immigrant sitters in a composition which draws upon the long tradition of group portraiture, a format historically reserved for the elite.
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Related: Feminist Art Platform "Curated by Girls" Goes IRL 150 Self-Portraits Reveal the Inner Lives of Iconic Artists 21 Female Artists Reflect on the Origins of Self-Portraiture
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But for portraiture, landscapes, still life, or any other slower photography discipline, the X1D promises to provide a level of image quality you can't get with smaller format cameras.
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The reciprocal gaze that marks her early photographs would be furthered and intensified in the collaborative form of portraiture in her mature work, done with a medium-format camera.
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Related: F*ck Contouring, We Just Want More of This Magical Hogwarts Body Art Meet the Body Painting Artist Disrupting Portraiture Women of Color Examine Assimilation Through Body Painting
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In their sophistication and unsparing portraiture of grown-up combatants, these films are diametrically opposite in spirit to the first wave of Iranian films focusing on children and nature.
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Unlike the conjuring acts of painting and sculpture, documentary photography and portraiture require — or at least strongly suggest — the presence of the photographer, even if he is never seen.
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All these questions could, perhaps, be attributed to the charm and knack of instigating instant familiarity with strangers — the typical social skills of a photographer who specializes in portraiture.
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These indelicate, cropped, figurative drawings that flippantly disregard the niceties of polite portraiture make up only the minority of the hundreds of images that constitute the Fantasy Builder exhibition.
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The portrait of the Meyers dates from 1896, which was the end of an era for Sargent, too: He was losing interest in portraiture, or at least portrait commissions.
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And his depictions of men whether in portraiture or in farming scenes — where they are always robust and often bare-chested — are noticeably more engaging than those of women.
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By the time she was in her early 21954s, it is obvious that she was a prodigy who moved comfortably between direct observation and imagination, portraiture and crowd scenes.
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A good starting point is her portraiture, done mostly in oil crayon, where she strikes an individualized impression with each piece, often through her use of the background color.
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Even the most critical eye cannot help but chuckle at the ungainly sight of a classic piece of portraiture brought down to the humbling level of a jester act.
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As vaguely pornographic, commercial pinup portraiture of women thrived in the 224s, beefcake magazines such as Bob Mizer's Physique Pictorial offered their own exaggerated celebration of the male body.
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"Murdoch resists easy portraiture (Indians as pitiful or pathetic or damaged) and blind compassion (Indians as noble sufferers or keepers of special knowledge)," David Treuer writes in his review.
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"Silent Kingdom: A World Beneath the Waves," a collection of black-and-white photographs taken mostly in the waters off Vizl's native Mexico, offers a different kind of portraiture.
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See This In a rather short period of time, Jordan Casteel has become one of the most interesting painters of her generation, working predominantly in the medium of portraiture.
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Ramiken's first Brooklyn show, "Nobodies," goes to Andra Ursuta, whose six remarkable glass sculptures, resting on cinder-block plinths, create an arresting tableau of sex, stress and self-portraiture.
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I think portraiture is always kind of exploitative, especially with the work I'm making, so I feel a lot more comfortable putting myself through that rather than other people.
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The colors she uses don't have that warm, burnished glow you expect from classic portraiture, and the immediacy of her renderings isn't filtered through the careful staging of power.
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Last fall, the university announced a Diversifying Portraiture Project that included unearthing and cataloging images of prominent minorities affiliated with the university, as well as the new portrait initiative.
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MARTHA SCHWENDENER An earlier version of the review of "Securing the Shadow: Posthumous Portraiture in America," at the American Folk Art Museum, misidentified the author of the catalog essay.
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Related: This Photographer Transformed Herself for 300 Self-Portraits 21 Female Artists Reflect on the Origins of Self-Portraiture 150 Self-Portraits Reveal the Inner Lives of Iconic Artists
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Wilson echoes Curtis's tradition of large-format black-and-white portraiture in the series Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange (2012–ongoing), using photographic processes similar to those from Curtis's time.
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Since 2010 BP has also given special support to the BP Portrait Award: Next Generation program which encourages 14 to 21 year olds to become involved in painted portraiture.
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The Museum of Selfies is trying to have it both ways: acting as both a playground for selfie-takers, and a gently educational venue for learning about self-portraiture.
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While the experience of Khmer women is undoubtedly a strong theme in her work, Neak's conceptual process of portraiture is more fundamental to her practice than an overarching feminist read.
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Soon after, I thought, 'Maybe it's not Black divas, but it's just an African-American portrait series, interviews in the style of my portraiture on film, direct-to-camera, somehow.
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The animation will be on view in the exhibition The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today, which also includes a diverse range of dozens of portraits by finalists of the competition.
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Capturing the minimum amount of detail needed for her portraits, she gives consumer culture unexpected gravitas, as her paintings walk the line between Insta culture, fashion illustration, and painterly portraiture.
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As an aspiring artist, though, he converted to poetic still life, portraiture, and landscape after seeing Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard exhibited at The Art Institute of Chicago in 1938.
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The addition of such personal detail woven seamlessly into the installation sets up a situation in which the mind vacillates between state narratives based on objective records and self-portraiture.
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Each work has less to do with Kahlo and the common portraiture trope of woman-and-cigarette, and more to do with the artists' inveterate compulsions to study these objects.
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These energetic works, plastered with a palette knife, are viscous and fleshy, marking a first step away from the traditional idea of portraiture, says the show's lead curator, John Elderfield.
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They're especially jarring in contrast with her portraiture, which suggests a real strength and comfort among friends and partners, as opposed to the lasting childhood trauma manifested by the sketches.
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There are only so many ways you can capture images of people on the street, but somehow, artist Jeff Hodsdon is reinventing the wheel when it comes to urban portraiture.
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This project, from the onset, was us opening ourselves up to a certain amount of vulnerability and the camera phone is such a perfect tool to address self portraiture with.
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Related: Body Paintings and Activist Art In the Arizona Desert Painting Reality on Top of Reality Makes You Question Reality 21 Female Artists Reflect on the Origins of Self-Portraiture
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At New York's Abrons Art Center, several dozen works will be on display, ranging from portraiture drawn on the back of envelopes to watercolor drawings made with illicitly obtained materials.
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"She was so striking that I couldn't let her pass without giving her one of my cards," he said, according to Richard J Powell's Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture.
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Looking over the work of Brighton, UK-based artist Mary Jane Ansell, one can't help but notice a strong appreciation for the technical values of painting exemplified in classical portraiture.
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And while Minimalists and Conceptualists had their aesthetic and philosophical reasons for rejecting figuration, Gilbert & George's use of self-portraiture opened the door to truly seeing queer bodies in art.
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Hayv Kahraman's ethereal portraiture toes the line between fact and fiction, as it tells a distorted tale of her harrowing journey from Iraq to the US in the early 1990s.
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They're portraits whose subjects care about aesthetics, who are thoughtful about the history of portraiture, and who have the personal charisma to carry the weight of that history on themselves.
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The exhibition features works by 11 artists who are exploring self-portraiture, either straightforwardly or by circumvention, by photographing elements of their environment that help constitute their definition of themselves.
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He pointed out the absence of shadow and the blown-out background in Avedon's portraiture that left "every wrinkle, stubble, wen and nervous tick" on his subjects faces strikingly visible.
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How did he write a first book in such dazzling, sparkling prose—so incredibly deft in execution, so precise and artistic in naturalistic descriptions—and so loving in human portraiture?
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Mr. Wiley adapts a historical style of portraiture that was rarely used to celebrate black people, and presents them, in all of their everyday glory, in grand and opulent colors.
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Based in Mumbai, Mr. Kallat has been best known since the mid-1990s for allegorical paintings and sculptures combining news photographs, self-portraiture and images of urban chaos and violence.
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With his painting of this woman, who was either the wife or the mistress of Ludovico il Moro, Duke of Milan, Leonardo "revolutionizes the genre of portraiture," said Mr. Delieuvin.
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The first, a portrait of Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley, was widely celebrated as a presidential portrait for progressives who, until that point, mostly rejected presidential portraiture as corny establishmentarianism.
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Bathurst introduced Ojih Odutola to a new conception of portraiture through the work of African-American artists like Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden and fellow Alabamian Kerry James Marshall.
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Some are choosing to evade the selfie net by muffling and camouflaging their self-portraiture, which may be why social media is intoxicated with the Instagram images of Cindy Sherman.
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I suppose that given this history I thought I would see quite unique work, but much of it was rather respectably unadventurous studio portraiture, focusing on skill rather than vision.
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If identity, memory, and personality enter the pictorial conversation, however, then the work tips toward portraiture — meaning it addresses notions of likeness in relation to a real or metaphorical being.
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Using the reclining Venus as an inspiration, Lawson constructs, from blackness, her own definition, critiquing the narrow aesthetic monopolies whiteness has had on the body, sexuality, and the canon of portraiture.
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The Gallery is housed in the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, a Greek Revival behemoth which began its life in 1836 as the United States Patent Office.
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Born in Memphis to immigrants from China and Vietnam, Kha's work plays with ideas of self-portraiture to capture shifting relationships to home, identity, and sexuality, often in the American South.
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Such oblique portraiture parallels his songwriting, in which he adopts the perspective of the outcast in songs about faith healers and indigenous exiles, cross-dressing cat burglars and anxiety-ridden assassins.
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" He also recognized that Western portraiture hadn't historically told everyone's stories, and wanted to paint people "who had perhaps struggled for their voices to be heard in one way or another.
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Beyond the employment of external objects, Pallas' practice is also unique in his use of self-portraiture as a tool within fashion photography, a stylistic mechanism usually separate from the genre.
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For another, his primary milieu is celebrity portraiture, having spent the last three decades photographing Bruce Springsteen, Julia Roberts and Sean Penn for magazines like Vanity Fair, GQ and Rolling Stone.
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Nothing irritates Close more than referring to his early portraiture as "photorealism," but setting aside the art-historical baggage of that term, it's a pretty good description of what you see.
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Those thematic sections include self-portraiture, the relationship between the police and LGBTQ people of color, responses to the AIDS pandemic, and surrealism and the construction of queer-friendly alternate realms.
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Yet unlike Kehinde Wiley's deeply subversive portraits of African Americans dressed as European figures, in which he deconstructs the power of European portraiture, Diop's impersonations are entrenched in historically accurate images.
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In 18th-century Mexico, an entire genre of portraiture was devoted to monjas coronadas, or crowned nuns, young novices pictured taking their vows of celibacy in teetering headdresses made of roses.
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The rubric of "Being," which is defined as "notions of personhood and identity," proves capacious enough to include portraiture, reportage, fashion, and pretty much everything you can turn a camera on.
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What's more, Huxtable feels shoe-horned into this exhibition since a great deal of her work and the essence of her practice is self-portraiture that works the tropes of identity.
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The panel will also discuss how other elite families in 143th- to early-19th-century New York used portraiture to secure their public image and status in the new United States.
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Histories and Happenings A lost photo shoot illuminates the roots of Lynn Davis, who is, along with Peter Hujar and Robert Mapplethorpe, one of the masters of black-and-white portraiture.
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"He refused to paint what had long been thought to be necessary aims of portraiture: the depiction of 'personality,' 'character,' 'likeness,' or 'humanity,' " said John Elderfield, the curator of the exhibition.
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And so they do, Mr. Walsh might argue, since it is through such deluded self-portraiture that we are able to function in a world always threatening to erase our identities.
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Less convincing is a new exhibition by the British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, who presents a rushed and feeble new suite of oil paintings that continues her project of fictionalized portraiture.
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Same Light, New Exposure, curated by Birdie Piccininni, considers contemporary photographic portraiture and the complex intersubjectivities of photographers, their sitters, and the optics of negotiated inquiry and the doubt of fact.
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At De Soto Gallery, Ivan Forde, in a set of large-scale cyanotypes that look more like paintings or prints than photographs, brings mythology, colonization, and self-portraiture simultaneously to life.
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In traditional portraiture, a good portrait presents someone as a likeness but also with a sensitivity of who the person is, who they have been, or who the artist reads them as.
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And Moreau's rough-hewn, obscure landscapes harken back to the shadowy backdrops in Leonardo da Vinci's portraiture, especially "The Virgin of the Rocks" (22003–22014) and "The Mona Lisa" (20053-22005; 2980).
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Yet his mug shots endure as an intriguing form of early portraiture, and his crime scene photographs still startle through his inventive technique, which involved a camera positioned high on a tripod.
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Their presence has brought joy and comfort when the MSD community needed it most, so it only seemed right to honor them with a special yearbook page and some expert canine portraiture.
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Bored by the set-up of traditional film festival photo booths, Andrew H. Walker, a staff photographer at Shutterstock, took an unusual approach to celebrity portraiture for this year's Toronto Film Festival.
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Whatever your feelings about Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald's work, you have to admit that their portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama are a powerful addition to the tradition of political portraiture.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads TORONTO — Moving between the two galleries that contain The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture is like traveling between different worlds.
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This large but understated painting, done in the canonized style of European aristocratic portraiture but with a Mexican subject, was a necessary palate cleanser before taking in the rest of the fair.
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In "Edvard Munch Posing Nude in Åsgårdstrand" (1903), the artist stands nude, sword in hand and hand on hip, a humorous spoof of European portraiture — here the royal subject has no clothes.
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Now that political earthquakes have, one hopes, woken this country from its neoliberal stupor, it's no coincidence that the art world is taking overdue notice of Calhoun and McCormick's community-oriented portraiture.
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The gravity and poise of her subjects bestow these photographs with a power that makes them about more than portraiture: they are about the ability of the I to see the Other.
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So much so that he decided to create a photo series that explores it through the digital imagery of Grand Theft Auto V, interspersed with his usual photographic portraiture titled Open World.
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Related: Famous Renaissance Paintings Are Even More Surreal as Modern Photos Kitschy Sculptures Update Renaissance Portraiture for Modern Times Meet The Artist Turning Warped Renaissance Art GIFs Into An Augmented Reality Book
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" The Financial Times's Jackie Wullschlager countered, "Although neither definitive nor offering new insights, this show is a very good recapitulation of how Picasso as a god of forms vitalized portraiture after photography.
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The encounter is done in close-ups that resemble shots from "The Silence of the Lambs," in which the "quid pro quo" between Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling doubles as emotional portraiture.
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He often hates the trip: He's torn about his exchanges with people in Morocco, especially when they demand money from him or he's made to realize that they consider his portraiture intrusive.
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Chapters recounting fevered statecraft are interspersed with those chronicling Holbrooke's three marriages and multiple affairs and romances, including one with Diane Sawyer, all featuring the same detailed reporting and sharp personality portraiture.
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In great detail, we are taken through Parks's first decade of independent work, and see how he evolved from portraiture and fashion to the social documentary for which he became widely celebrated.
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It presents a small selection of paintings made over a 260-year period in which she moved through distinct styles, from varieties of Surrealism to a riff on social realism to portraiture.
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This is a central tenant of Man, The Posters, a series of photographs by Carlee Fernandez that combine self-portraiture with cardboard cutouts of men who have inspired her throughout her life.
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Ms. Colard is also preparing the exhibition "The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture" at the Ryerson Image Center in Toronto in collaboration with the Walther Collection.
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One area Securing the Shadow falls short is in delving into how posthumous portraiture endures despite our access to photography, such as through charitable organizations that donate portraits of stillborns to parents.
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In its performative fragments and dark, static interiors, this perambulatory hallucination echoes the portraiture of Pedro Costa and the history-inflected reenactments of Anocha Suwichakornpong's By the Time It Gets Dark (2016).
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The Secret World of Art Forger Elmyr de Hory: His Portraiture on Ibiza Through April 19 at the Hillstrom Museum of Art, Gustavus Adolphus College, 800 West College Avenue, St. Peter, Minn.
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Mixed in with the book's authoritative technical and historical essays are shorter literary reflections on Antonello's portraiture, including one by Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author lately writing in Italian.
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But some are photographed with their faces turned away or hidden behind foliage, and we understand that portraiture is as much a matter of intensity and intent as what is actually seen.
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The painter Nengi Omuku, whose works of abstracted, fragmented self-portraiture explore mental health and fractured identities, is organizing the renovation, by artists, of a building at the city's main psychiatric hospital.
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The artists' choice to evince portraiture, landscape, and other accepted imagery conveys a devotion to the subject matter, and a concerted effort to bring the floral still life into the 21st century.
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Today, at 27 years old, Clay has had her work featured in numerous publications, including the New York Times and Vogue, and she continues to keep her audience captivated through mesmerizing portraiture.
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A long-time resident of Chicago, where she has exhibited her work, Bergman's paintings possess a psychological depth that is rare in contemporary portraiture, which emphasizes surface appearance over almost all else.
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The Way She Looks: a History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture (Photographs from the Walther Collection) continues at the Ryerson Image Centre (33 Gould Street, Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3) through December 8.
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However, I can recognize that in a departure from the history of portraiture made on the continent, the bodies of the people are not the primary objects that these artists aim to depict.
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They liken selfies to cave-man drawings, Renaissance portraits, and self-portraiture, and also want to tell the story of the technological and artistic convergence that made selfies in their current form materialize.
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But with the release this week of George W. Bush's first art book, the 43rd president of the United States can call his meticulous and dogged study of portraiture a labor of love.
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Through a mixture of portraiture and documentary photography, as well as oral testimonies and memoir, the book immerses readers in the lives of rebel fighters, child soldiers, and others caught in the conflict.
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It is Bartos' tender and shameless portraiture, of both herself and others, that makes her an integral part of any discussion on how contemporary female artists are continuing to shape perceptions of sexuality.
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Hecht's fiction can't be revived, but "Child," a book both candid about appetite and generous in portraiture and appreciation, could be strategically edited into an American classic, a stepchild of Mark Twain's autobiography.
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Then there was the internet, and social media, whose rise seemed to render the medium of painting — not to mention portraiture — completely irrelevant: Why paint someone's picture in the age of the selfie?
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These pieces, like her previous work, are portraiture, but the figures here gain something for me through their increase in size: they become so bountifully feminine that I can't help but admire them.
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She is perhaps best known for her celebrity portraiture; her famous subjects have included Prince, Whitney Houston, Lauryn Hill and Nipsey Hussle, some of whose images she also prints on T-shirts ($45).
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Especially because in the first iterations of the series we're primarily focusing on portraiture, to be able to look at a full-sized portrait eye-to-eye will be a really powerful experience.
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Through portraiture and conversation, Marianne and Héloïse draft and smudge and attempt again to understand one another, to build an accurate representation of the other that they can carry onward despite its impermanence.
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In my latest work, Infinite Essence, I expand on framed portraiture and these themes of emancipation onto the spiritual plane, leveraging my training as a biomedical engineer and depicting dimensions of the soul.
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Their somber dignity and equanimity often equal those of European portraiture from earlier centuries, but may also indicate knowledge of the great Peruvian portrait photographer Martín Chambi (1891-1973), who worked in Cuzco.
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"Securing the Shadow: Posthumous Portraiture in America" may not sound like much of a show for children: It consists of the paintings and photographs of deceased loved ones our ancestors kept as mementos.
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Part of a series of seven Gilbert paintings of the first president, this one is filled with details borrowed from classic European portraiture, and includes the artist's signature peeking from under a drapery.
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In recent years, as smartphones have made high-quality digital photography a standard feature in most of our lives, posing for naked portraiture — and sharing the results with others — has become common behavior.
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Next up is London-based Luke Willis Thompson, a New Zealand artist of mixed European and Fijian heritage, whose trilogy of short videos are a contemporary take on the traditional genre of portraiture.
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She has yet to settle on a name for this type of 3D self-portraiture, but the project currently exists as a collection or archive people can explore and experience in several ways.
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The 84 black-and-white plates featured in Selected Photographs, that Kamoinge members helped to edit, reflect the genres in which Draper tended to work, including portraiture, street photography, and found abstract imagery.
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Lartigue's images slow down a bit in the exhibition's next two rooms, which feature far fewer fast cars winding down long roads, and more zoomed-in action shots that make for compelling portraiture.
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For works derived mostly from published, photographic sources, many of the pictures and sculptures on view in People accomplish what the best portraiture always does — they uncover and project their subjects' psychological aura.
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On seven Saturday afternoons in October and November, the school, a project of Argentinian, Buenos Aires-based artist Ad Minoliti, has offered free classes in traditional subjects including still life, portraiture, and landscapes.
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Some of these works may have been seen relatively recently, in other exhibitions with other themes: The photograph of the Soviet miner, for example, was on view last year in a show on portraiture.
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Category award: Portraiture finalistSeries name: Ukrainian Railroad LadiesAbout the series: Maslov set out to document the "fairy-tale" railroad crossing houses of his native Ukraine as well as the workers who live in them.
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With Sherald's romantic figures at the center, About Face explored portraiture as an effective tool for envisioning a more inclusive and authentic America, one created by diverse authors and devoid of tokenism and exoticism.
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Her portraiture embodies the rich cultural presence of Africans and African Americans, especially in a climate currently lacking in the representation of people of color across the industries of cinema, television, fashion, and art.
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The fair is much more interesting to me when I find the older, pre-modern painting work that succeeds, particularly in the portraiture, in constructing a scene that, while wholly invented, is emotionally convincing.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Artist Mari Katayama uses photographic self-portraiture to dismantle expected notions of beauty and sexuality and to explore the interconnectedness of the human body to fashion and props.
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Using methods of appropriation and costumed self-portraiture associated with the Pictures Generation, Gonzales-Day was busy in the close of the 20th century stacking dynamite at the door of the white art canon.
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The photographic series, created in collaboration with Mroczek, reimagines trans women from his birthplace—including activists from the Peruvian trans rights organization Feminas—as saints, cultural icons, and religious figures from 19th century portraiture.
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He had been spending a lot of time in New York in the last five years, shooting Occupy Wall Street as a photographer and doing portraiture on the streets of people that he'd meet.
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It should surprise absolutely no one that David Lynch, the Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director who once made a video of himself chewing on panties, is also a big fan of nude portraiture.
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The playful collages of Virginia Hoffman were created from MFTA's warehouse of materials, while the found object work of artist-in-residence Annalisa Iadicicco was a compelling mix of urban refuse and reclaimed portraiture.
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As noble an aspiration as this is, it's an unfair fantasy that plays on the turmoil without committing to the attached realities, instead relying on happy-ending portraiture to sidestep the really hard stuff.
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O'Reilly is perhaps best known for his photomontage and collage works where he explores notions of transgression and subjectivity by juxtaposing contemporary imagery and his own self portraiture with visual fragments of art history.
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When untold millions of selfies bob across social networks each day, it's natural to feel nostalgic for the old craft of self-portraiture, and the time and skill artists lavished on their own representations.
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This left her feeling that she never fully belonged in either place, which made her acutely aware of the ways identity and experience are constructed, something evident in her beautiful, eerie portraiture and landscapes.
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With up-and-coming art stars like Michaelangelo and Bottacelli nipping at his heels, da Vinci would be embarrassed to revert to old-fashioned Byzantine portraiture at that point in his career, Saltz asserts.
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"Home Again," on the other hand, is wholly resistible, partly because it can't fulfill the promise of that aspirational fantasy either on a craft level or in terms of its emotional and psychological portraiture.
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The large-scale drawings of artists' hands (in Haendel's words a "portrait of an artist, by another artist, as an uncanny personified appendage") seem like foreseeable choices for slightly alternative versions of classic portraiture.
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A foray into portraiture followed, with a show of world leaders he had painted from photographs — Tony Blair, Angela Merkel, Vladimir V. Putin and others — that revealed a new sophistication of depth and color.
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Jack Tilton is showing a group of collages by Derrick Adams that furthers some of the concerns around portraiture and identity in his recent, grandly scaled exhibition at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
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The prominence of portraiture also suggests a return — or, more accurately, a reconstitution — of the intact body in art following its decimation in war, and the ensuing collapse of social, economic and political structures.
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While she references the Western art canon, with nods to Velazquez, Goya, and Gainsborough, Dufresne shakes up portraiture tradition and upends the conventional artist-subject power dynamic by working in collaboration with her subjects.
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Specifically, we're witnessing the awakening of black figurative painting and portraiture, and as a figure Michelle Obama "is an archetype," Sherald, 22017, told me last week on the phone from Baltimore, where she's based.
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Her self-portraiture, on which she's been working over the past four years, seeks to capture the many sides of her character, the stories she has to tell, and the political intersections of her identity.
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Delphine Diallo's stunningly beautiful photo collages of black women's fashion portraiture accompanies an equally stunning spotlight on the stark lack of representation and recognition of black models, artists, designers, and more within the fashion industry.
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"I never could have predicted that I would have done something that could be called portraiture," she said recently, in the house in rural Connecticut that she shares with her husband, the painter Carroll Dunham.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A new report published by the Society of General Internal Medicine finds that some students in medical school would like to see universities diversify their collections of institutional portraiture.
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" Across all of Tyrell's work, self-portraiture is a tool for figuring out larger ideas and potential universal truths about the construction of identity, Western history, and to " flesh out ideas with no one watching.
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In 19563, William Rubin curated an extensive exhibition on the subject ("Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation") at the Museum of Modern Art, featuring more than 200 works and accompanied by a richly researched catalog.
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In a blog post about the project, he writes that photographers exploring the repercussions of nuclear disasters tend to focus on portraiture, a powerful ploy, but far removed from the source of the actual issue.
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The dark corporeality of his oil portraiture doesn't show up in these early drawings, but a few landscapes in vivid colored pencil, feature birds and trees, which would become recurring motifs in his adult work.
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Fusing contemporary portraiture with photography, video, and sumptuous immersive installations, Thomas captures the strength, beauty, and vitality of the women around her, reinforcing the importance of being seen, both inside and outside of the gallery.
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"The myriad technological and business records they have published so far, plus a small number of personal documents, do not coalesce, like the facets of a Chuck Close painting, into full-color portraiture," he wrote.
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Along with the loving portraiture are elements of peculiar mystery; various members of the family are preoccupied with the loss of some human remains that Julita, who's a bit of a hoarder, has spoken of.
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"Portraiture is always contemporary, even if it was done back in the fourth century B.C. on a fish platter," because as the viewer, "you're bringing the moment to it, with all your baggage," she said.
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Portraiture: Herman Aguirre, Lucas Ajemian, Deborah Brown, Kristin Calabrese, Brian Calvin, Susanna Coffey, Angela Dufresne, Andreas Fischer, Howard Fonda, Richard Hull, José Lerma, Keith Mayerson, Frank J. Stockton, Henry Taylor, Storm Tharp, and Kehinde Wiley.
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They demystify the influences and experiments of a great artist, even as they also point to the gap between Ms. Sherman's vital, unsettling practice of sideways self-portraiture and the narcissistic practice of selfie snapping.
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The ban was instituted in 2010 when the National Portrait Gallery removed David Wojnarowicz's video "A Fire in My Belly" from its exhibition "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture" because of political pressure.
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If portraiture was one of the models informing Walker Evans's iconic photograph of Allie Mae Burroughs, it seems to me that the family album is one key to Killip's photographs of the people of Skinningrove.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In a zone between documentary photography and performance art, Indian artist Gauri Gill's images challenge the notion of portraiture by involving her subjects in the process of picture making.
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As explored in the recent exhibition on 19th-century posthumous portraiture at the American Folk Art Museum, the use of art to recall a lost loved one's face has long been a part of grief.
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The use of portraiture in the context of blindness is brilliant here, in that it's the act of seeing — the very thing that has stigmatized them — that is used to draw readers into their story. —A.
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Now, Foulkes — who first developed a career as a model and actress — is making a name for herself on the other side of the lens through her cheeky portraiture style and high-fashion and editorial bookings.
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" But the curators also agree that self-portraiture can function as an important vehicle for the authentic self-expression of an artist: "When done with complete truth, it offers a glimpse of someone's thoughts and feelings.
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I revere the Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase, but his fictionalized portraits of his extended family, complete with impostors taking the roles of absent wives and daughters, overturn expectations of studio portraiture much more than of maleness.
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A few highlights include Mr. Chin's recent "Unauthorized Collaboration" series, in which he cut apart old portrait paintings found in antique stores or bought on eBay to reconfigure formal portraiture into objects that critique cultural authority.
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The pieces here range from Franz Heuberger's wildly canny wax portrait from the 19603s of a German king to Bettina von Zwehl's contemporary photographs, which replicate 19th-century ovals, silhouettes and other early photographic portraiture techniques.
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Avedon instinctively understood the threat to our existence posed by "Little Boy" at Hiroshima; his stone-cold, corpselike representation of individuals in the second half of the 20th century remains the existential register of his portraiture.
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The 19th- and 20th-century collection, which was assembled in just two years by Wilhelm and Henny Hansen of Denmark, contains Impressionist French work, such as Morisot portraiture, Monet landscape, and the effervescent work of Gauguin.
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Like his previously nominated work, 2016's Ghost, Look Both Ways channels his vivid voice and his deadpan but tender portraiture of kids growing up in the city, with all its excitement and complexity and cacophony.
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"My use of traditional materials, scale, and representational technique is a critique of the historical erasure and marginalization of women and queer people in the canon of portraiture and visual art," she tells The Creators Project.
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Considered the finest painter in Valencia of the 252th century, his "Portrait of a Knight of the Order of Santiago" reveals how subtly and skillfully he blended Italian concepts of courtly portraiture with sumptuous surface detail.
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Murillo: The Self-Portraits is a fascinating look into Murillo's portraiture as well as the influence of his secular works across Europe, particularly in Britain, where he was one of the 19th century's most popular artists.
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Now, not only will I be able to work with a group of artists every day, I'll be able to work with the local population and invite people to be the subjects of portraiture and experiment.
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Then it went to tempera painting and self-portraiture, then to printmaking, and now in the last week, we're talking about doing a mural with a school, and we're also talking about doing a puppetry workshop.
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Its timeline of selfies whizzes from the Big Bang all the way to 2018 (naturally, with the opening of the Museum of Selfies), with stops in between for cave drawings and innovations in portraiture and photography.
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That was my interest when I was working with my image: a very specific kind of self-portraiture, where the character was a person, as opposed to somebody like Cindy Sherman's characters where she's exploring an everywoman.
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The French-Senegalese artist Delphine Diallo's portrait Highness-Hybrid I of a masked woman mixes the traditional—in portraiture and culture—and the contemporary, to render a stylized image that evokes the past and present at once.
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Since the 1980s, [Dijkstra] has captured striking photographs in a unique style of portraiture all her own — at first calm and simplistic on the surface, slowly giving weight to the subtle intricacies of posture, fashion, and psyche.
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The front gallery of the exhibition also contains a selection of other portrait work from the continent, which is, according to one of the curators, Joshua Cohen, meant to act as a primer on African photographic portraiture.
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The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives In Photographic Portraiture From Africa continues at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery (Schermerhorn Hall, 8th floor, Columbia University at 116th Street on Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan) through December 10.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads For me, The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives In Photographic Portraiture From Africa, on view at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery on Columbia University's campus, feels a bit despondent.
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Her work, which has been widely exhibited, including in a major survey at the Guggenheim, is formally beautiful—she cites Lewis Hine, among others, as an influence—and in addition to portraiture includes studio and landscape photography.
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Artist and photographer Cindy Sherman is the grande dame of self-portraiture, making a career of casting herself as countless (mostly) female archetypes, from silver-screen sirens and historical figures to society mavens and birthday-party clowns.
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It has been a long time since I'd seen his portraiture and I was reminded of how exacting and caring he was with light, how he could make it caress a subject or throw it into spectacle.
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Despite a penchant for super-bold block colors, Philomene's portraiture work has a distinct sensitivity to it, something that comes from making friends with their subjects and allowing them to decide how they'd like to be depicted.
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De Kooning, by then separated from her husband, kept a base in New York but began teaching all across the country; continuing with her explorations of portraiture, she won a commission to paint President Kennedy, in 1962.
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Portraiture was the genre most resistant to Cézanne's struggle—the inception of "difficulty" as a notorious feature of modern art, needing specialist explanation—toward new ways of transposing the world's three dimensions into the two of painting.
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SECURING THE SHADOW: POSTHUMOUS PORTRAITURE IN AMERICA Americans once regularly commissioned portraits of their dead relatives, as seen in this major show of post-mortem images, ranging from 18th-century gravestone carvings to photographs. Oct. 5-Feb.
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Although their paths then diverged — Avedon shifting from fashion photography to portraiture and Warhol becoming a painter and filmmaker and a Pop Art stalwart — they moved in the same New York circles, often portraying the same people.
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I really wanted to sort of simplify things, to make very straightforward pictures in the way that I did when I first started photography and had this kind of purity of an encounter, particularly a portraiture encounter.
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Primarily consisting of portraiture of her family and friends in Kentucky, each subject seems to interrogate and confront the Banks behind the camera, becoming extensions of the artist's own insecurities and darker feelings inflicted by her hometown.
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Wiley is well aware of the dissonance between his work in theory—celebrating the black form, scrambling established art world portraiture hierarchies—and the reality of his paintings as commodities frequently acquired by wealthy white art collectors.
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Employing everything from the perplexing to the playful, the artist's vision effectively merges the characteristics of long-standing genres such as classical portraiture and plein air painting with postmodernist applications found in movements such as abstract expressionism.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads AUCKLAND, New Zealand — The first specialist in Māori portraiture — and the most sought-after, in his day — was not a native New Zealander but a Czech immigrant trained in religious painting.
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His richly toned and finely detailed black-and-white photographs of East Africa's surreal landscapes and wild creatures have the regal tone of court portraiture, a timeless, cinematic confidence, and the complex emotional gravitas of character studies.
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington turns to Camille Corot, best known for landscapes shrouded by curtains of leaves — but this show will reveal his lesser-known work in portraiture, specifically of women, opening Sept. 28.
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"Mario's portraits capture beautifully the character and contributions of valued members of our campus community and bolster our broader efforts to ensure Princeton's portraiture and iconography reflect the University's values and diversity," said university spokesman Ben Chang.
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Thomson is a British critic whose powers of thumbnail portraiture and plush, velveteen critical judgment — his "Biographical Dictionary of Film" is a must for film fans — are on vivid display as he brings the brothers to life.
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Obama and the usual flowers that often have peeked out from one side of the frame (flowers play a big part in first lady portraiture, perhaps because they are seen as included in the unofficial job description).
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Portraiture is considered to be a bit of an old-fashioned backwater in the larger art world, so there will be people who sniff at the whole idea of making a traditional likeness of an important woman.
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The exhibit is arranged by category: family, labor, war, social change, celebrity (including a carte de visite of Sojourner Truth), self-presentation, identification, self-portraiture and appropriation, which includes Carrie Mae Weems's appropriated photos of enslaved people.
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I wanted to portray the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) in a way that wasn't desensitized—with natural portraiture, as well as evidential landscapes, that told their stories in a humane and intimate manner.
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Even though Cindy Sherman has made a career out of self-portraiture, when she showed up at Mnuchin Gallery for the opening of her first New York exhibition since 2012, I was nervous I wouldn't recognize her.
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The beautifully-designed first issue, themed "Self Portrait," features the work of 31 contributors and is a physical "exploration of film and analogues process-based female self portraiture and artist words on the printed page," says Smith.
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Since we'd already gathered a ton of content on the theme of portraiture, when we were told that ICP's first exhibit would be on themes of privacy, I figured there was a perfect opportunity to mix ideas.
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Hailed at their unveiling in 1933 as "the finest racial portraiture the world has yet seen" and viewed by millions of visitors, the sculptures were banished to storage in 1969, embarrassing relics of discredited ideas about human difference.
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Since the 1980s, the artist has captured striking photographs in a unique style of portraiture all her own — at first calm and simplistic on the surface, slowly giving weight to the subtle intricacies of posture, fashion, and psyche.
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My tendency to construct scenarios and perform for my camera in my portraiture and self-portraits have given me a grasp on my preoccupation with femininity, selfhood, and the ways that sexuality contributes to the construction of identity.
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Using mixed media—including portraiture, documentary photography, and collage—she attempted to record the ongoing effects of the war on Ukrainians, particularly young soldiers, and to draw renewed attention to a conflict that seems to have been forgotten.
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The portraiture exhibition that opened last week, which the critic Holland Cotter of The New York Times called "immediately engaging," exemplifies this integrated approach, with works by African-American artists, female artists and younger artists alongside established names.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti immortalized two of his models: Elizabeth Siddal and Jane Morris, both of whom feature in the "Whisper of the Muse" section, which examines painted and photographic portraiture in these circles in the 1860s and 70s.
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The series also functions to refresh the institution, by refreshing how we will look at its artworks, which in the case of much of its 17th to 19th century portraiture has seemed to me, frankly, dated and repetitive.
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It displayed a remarkable return to large-scale portraiture that was reminiscent of his early works and provided glimpses into what he thought of Black Lives Matter and the police violence happening against black children, women, and men.
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His juxtapositions of contemporary black figures with poses and settings from traditional Western portraiture are instantly recognizable: Wiley has created his own visual language of black bodies surrounded by bright florals or inserted into 18th-century military scenes.
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The script seems to be acknowledging the limitations of its own methods of portraiture when Boz, after dutifully enlightening the culturally insensitive Tim about American-Punjabi life, encourages him to bring his friends to her newly opened bar.
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Sanghyuk Ko, 2000, known professionally as Mr. K, is a former graphic designer from Korea with a specialty in fine line portraiture that looks like what would happen if you successfully applied No. 163 pencil to the skin.
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The Obamas' choices come at a time when figurative painting and portraiture are growing in popularity among young painters interested in exploring race, gender and identity or in simply correcting the historic lack of nonwhites in Western painting.
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Her signature technique was to use herself in carefully constructed photographs, videos and performance works — sometimes her whole body, sometimes just her lower torso, her legs or an arm — but not in the conventional terms of self-portraiture.
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An art exhibition in Amsterdam takes a sweeping look at 400 years of oil portraiture, and reminds us that "before the news release and the photo call, the most effective means of image control was the painted portrait."
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In "To Wander Determined" at the Whitney Museum's lobby gallery, her first museum show in New York, Toyin Ojih Odutola works in the same genre — portraiture — except her subjects are two fictional aristocratic families in her native Nigeria.
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It is worth pausing to admire its sheer, dazzling craft, the deftness of its tonal shifts — from polemical to playful, from humorous to horrific, from blaxploitation to Classical Hollywood and back again — and the quality of its portraiture.
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As effective as "Premature" is as an engaging genre exercise, it's even deeper and more enduring as portraiture that's every bit as steeped in history, culture and social space-claiming as a Jacob Lawrence or Kehinde Wiley painting.
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The four young artists in "The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives in Photographic Portraiture From Africa," at Columbia University, all work in a genre that has become internationally associated with Africa, portrait photography, but stake out their own turf.
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On the opposing wall, two 2014 photographic portraits by Omar Victor Diop oversee the scene; they feature a young African man dressed in costumes that smack of Renaissance portraiture, but include the accessories of a contemporary soccer player.
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