Portraits

Studs, Pigs and Dogs: Renaissance Portraits at the Met

Daniel Maidman | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Ercole I D'Este, Laura Gilbert, Beauty Myth, Portraits, Renaissance, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Savelli Sperandio, Sculpture, Eleonora of Aragon, Mino Da Fiesole, Orsino Benintendi, Lorenzo De Medici, Niccolò Di Leonardo Strozzi, Arts News

All commissioned portraits testify to the wealth of their subjects. But Niccolò's portrait speaks more clearly than most. Straining my ear, I thought I heard him whispering across the centuries.

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A Motley Crew

Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Frank O'Hara, New York Art Exhibitions, Marlene Dumas, Alex Katz, Still Life, Alice Neel, David Zwirner, Figurative Painting, Slideexpand, Female Artists, Portraits, Video, Arts News

With an art career spanning from 1920 to the 1980s, Alice Neel painted family, poets, singers, bohemians, strangers and celebrities. She famously stuc...

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Kehinde Wiley On the World Stage: A Conversation With the Artist

Kisa Lala | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Kisa Lala, Kehinde Wiley, World Stage, UK Culture, China, Brazil, UK Arts, Jewish Museum New York, New York, Portraiture, Sean Kelly Gallery, Harlem, Interview, Arts, Israel, India, Portraits, Kalkidan, Arts News

By Kiša Lala Kehinde Wiley's Benediter Brkou (The World Stage: Israel), 2011, oil and gold and silver enamel on canvas. Private Collection. © Ke...

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Celebrity Photographer Uli Weber's Portraits Come to New York

Kirsten Chilstrom | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Uli Weber, Celebrity Photos, Portraits, Best of Ny, Celebrity Photography, Ivan Shaw, Ten 43 Gallery, Ivan Shaw Vogue, Uli Weber New York, NY Around Town, New York Art Galleries, Nyc Art, Ny Galleries, Ny Art, New York News

Until April 14, the Ten 43 gallery in Manhattan is featuring the work of acclaimed European photographer Uli Weber, concentrating on his signature creative portraiture.

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Kehinde Wiley's Take On Israeli Youth

Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Portraiture, The World Stage: Israel, Art, Paintings, Painter, Kehinde Wiley, The Jewish Museum, Contemporary Art, Israel, Painting, Portraits, Slidepollajax, Video, Arts News

Kehinde Wiley's paintings challenge our conventional views of portraiture by featuring black men in a mix of regal and street poses, using the brighte...

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Alec Soth: Escape Artist

Catherine Despont | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Photography, Outlaw, America, Paranoia, Off the Grid, Sean Kelly Gallery, Tree House, Alec Soth, Portraits, Escape, Arts News

If there is something lonely and frightening in these images, there is also something dream-like and remembered -- something fed by our own fantasies -- the desire for freedom and safety, the desire to provide for oneself.

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American Beauties: Portraits Of 100 Women

Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Photography, Women, Vogue, Portraits of Women, Claiborne Swanson Frank, American Beauty, Photos of Women, Female Artists, Portraits, Arts News

Georgia O’Keefe once wrote to Mabel Dodge Luhan, “I feel there is something unexplored about women that only a woman can explore.” With this in ...

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The True Tale Behind Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece

AP | By JONATHAN LOPEZ | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Austria, Art, Anne-Marie O'Connor, True Stories, Austrian Art, Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, Painting, Portraits, Arts News

-- "The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, `Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer'" (Knopf), by Anne-Marie O'Connor: In 1907...

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Portraits Of Latino Day Laborers Stir Controversy

Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Latinos, John Sonsini, Expressionism, Portraiture, Video, Labor, Cultura, Southern California, Hispanic, Inman Gallery, Portraits, On Our Radar, Arts News

There is something bourgeois, even aristocratic about sitting for a portrait, engaged in the labor of sitting still. That contributes to the unexpecte...

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Star-Studded Portraits

Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: David Mach, Art, Video, Marc Chagall, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Making Faces, Portraits, The Opera Gallery, Art Exhibitions, Arts News

The portrait (up there with landscapes, nudes and religious icons) is one of the great themes enduring throughout art history. For centuries artists h...

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You Won't Believe What These Portraits Are Made From?!

Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Senseteam, Video, Money Portraits, Money Art, Money Collage, Portraits, Collage, Design for Asia Award 2011, Arts News

Chinese creative agency senseteam (site currently down) gave new meaning to the phrase "made of money" when they created a series of artworks using cu...

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PHOTOS: Art's Best Bling

Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Kanye West, Titian, Renaissance, J Lo, Vermeer, Lil Wayne, Girl With the Pearl Earring, Henry VIII, Medici, Aristocracy Portraits, Hip Hop, Art History, Bling, Lil Kim, Ice, Slidepollajax, Portraits, Arts News

Notorious B.I.G. once said "Mo money, mo problems," and no one knows this quite like the Medici family. The ruling patrons of 14th century Florenc...

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Do Clothes Make The Man? Caleb Cole Pretends To Be Everyone

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Photography, Video, Indianapolis, Art, Artwork, Caleb Cole, Private Lives, Cindy Sherman, Genderbending, Portraits, Emerging Artists, Gender, Arts News

Caleb Cole describes himself on his website as "a former altar server, scout, and 4-H Grand Champion in Gift Wrapping." He is also a photographer who ...

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PHOTOS: Photographer Brings Mannerism A Sharper Image

Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Photography, Renaissance, Arts Exhibition, Period Costumes, Portraits, Christian Tagliavini, Diemar/Noble Photography, Arts News

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The Week In Art: Duets, Deviants, and DADT

Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Weird Facts About Artists, Duets, Art, Female Portraits, Video, Highlights This Week, Gross Facts About Artists, Street Art, Artists, Portraits, The Week in Art, Amy Winehouse, Tony Bennett Duets II, Arts News

This week at HuffPost Arts we catalogued out top ten duet in popular music, revealed the wild behavior of some very famous artists and marked the end ...

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Before Paparazzi -- Hollywood Glamour Photos of the Golden Age: At the Grolier Club, NYC

Kate Kelly | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: First Woman Studio Photographer, Robert Dance, Greta Garbo, Glamour, Hollywood, Photography Exhibit, Paparazzi, Hollywood Glamor, NY Around Town, Ruth Harriet Louise, Portraits, New York News

The story revealed by the exhibit is of a time before there were paparazzi. From the 1920s through the 1950s, movie studios molded the images and the careers of their stars.

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Captured in Collodion

Mia R. Benenate | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Photography, Artists, Cameras, Robert Christian Malmberg, Photographers, Photo Shoot, Portraits, Collodion, Arts News

Perhaps it is in the longer exposure, or perhaps it comes from the age of the medium itself, but Collodion brings out a side of those captured in its lens usually reserved for private moments of reflection in the mirror.

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'Car Fetish: I Drive, Therefore I Am'

VernissageTV | Posted 09.30.2011

Read More: Photography, Basel, Automobiles, Southern California, Photographers, Switzerland, Classic Cars, Cars, Portraits, Los Angeles, Art Exhibitions, Andrew Bush, Carmageddon, Vector Portraits, Arts News

Back in 1888, when Berta Benz made the pioneering long distance trip with her husband's car, no one could imagine traffic jams or even "Carmageddons"....

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Perfect Pet Portraits With Rory Mackay

Wendy Diamond | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Rory Mackay, Animal Fair, Lucky Diamond, Painting, Pet Portraits, Portraits, Wendy Diamond, Arts News

Rory Mackay is a classically trained artist with penchant for painting pooches! While he may not have predicted that the four-legged set would so th...

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Lucian Freud, British Realist Painter, Has Died At 88

AP | By GREGORY KATZ | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Portraiture, Dying, Death and Dying, British Art, Lucian Freud Dead, Painting, Lucian Freud, UK Arts, Portraits, Acquavella, Lucian Freud Dies, Arts News

LONDON -- In a time when other artists spilled their paints on the canvas, Lucian Freud carefully wiped his brush after every stroke. He painted inten...

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PHOTOS: Happy Birthday Rembrandt!

Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Birthdays, Dutch Golden Age, Painting, Artist Birthday, The Night Watch, Dutch, Dutch Art, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Northern Renaissance, Portraiture, Art, The Prodigal Son, Rembrandt Birthday, Rembrandt, Portraits, Portrait, Self Portrait, Arts News

Happy birthday to Rembrant van Rijn, who was born today, the 15th of July in 1606. A prominent painter and etcher of the Dutch Golden Age, Rembrant is...

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WATCH: Real Life Rube Goldberg Machine

Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Photography, Iphone, Art, Rube Goldberg, Apple, Viral Video, Rube Goldberg Machine, 2D Photography, Technology, Portraits, Ipad, Arts News

Canadian photography company 2D Photography has realized the lost dream of many people's childhoods: to build a Rube Goldberg style machine. The idea ...

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The Art of Saul Zanolari: Taking Away the Emperor's Clothes

Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Photography, Dolls, Digital Photography, Portraits, Digital-Paintings, Figurative Sculptures, Arts News

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University Sues Ryan O'Neal Over Fawcett Portrait

AP | By ANTHONY McCARTNEY | Posted 09.09.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, Education, University of Texas Austin, Reality TV, College, Arnold Robinson, Farrah, Austin, Warhol, University of Texas, Farrah Fawcett, Portraits, Los Angeles, Portrait, Lawsuit, Ryan O'Neal, Arts News

LOS ANGELES -- The University of Texas system and Ryan O'Neal are sparring over ownership of an Andy Warhol portrait of the actor's longtime companion...

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