Portraiture

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

Kisa Lala | Posted 04.16.2012

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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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Kehinde Wiley's Take On Israeli Youth

Posted 03.05.2012

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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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Insightful Photo Portraits by Dutch Master in Retrospective at SFMOMA

Leo Stutzin | Posted 05.01.2012

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Leo Stutzin

To look at Rineke Dijkstra's images of a teen-aged girl on a beach or a Portuguese bullfighter who has just emerged from the ring is to see the subject. The person in front of the camera is all that matters, not the person who released the shutter.

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David Hockney On Posing For Lucian Freud

Posted 02.06.2012

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In July of 2011, the art world lost Lucian Freud, a brilliant mind and a world renown artist who was known for his striking, uncomfortable depictions ...

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Portraits Of Latino Day Laborers Stir Controversy

Posted 03.27.2012

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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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Cerise Doucede: "LOST"

Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 03.19.2012

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Lucian Freud, British Realist Painter, Has Died At 88

AP | By GREGORY KATZ | Posted 09.20.2011

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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

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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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Fashion And Feminism: Serena Cole's Portraits

Posted 08.27.2011

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(Via Beautiful Decay) Serena Cole‘s work bridges fashion and traditional portraiture. Showing a mastery of her medium, Serena transforms watercol...

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PHOTOS: A Love-Hate Relationship With Reality: Philip-Lorca diCorcia's 'Roid'

Posted 08.10.2011

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American artist Philip-Lorca diCorcia's 'Roid' is an opportunity to see him both develop and set aside the style of his trademark compositions. His fi...

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PHOTOS: STUDIO VISIT: Photographer Andrzej Dragan's Gritty Portraits On Beautiful/Decay

Posted 05.25.2011

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(From: Beautiful Decay) Andrzej Dragan's style of photography is gritty and raw. Detail of the skin is usually retouched and airbrushed out by a lot ...

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WATCH: CITY ART: Artist Jason Polan Attempts To Draw Every Person In New York City

Posted 05.25.2011

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A slightly different kind of street art has emerged in New York City. Rather than using the street as the canvas, artist Jason Polan uses the streets...

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PHOTOGRAPHY: Annie Leibovitz, Queen Elizabeth, Fidel Castro, And Other 'Portraits Of Power' In Italy

Posted 05.25.2011

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Now on view at the CCC Strozzina in Florence is an enticing exhibit called Portraits and Power. The show deals with the power of portraiture and the ...

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ARTS OUTREACH: Louis Vuitton's Inaugural Young Arts Project "Academy"

Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON-- This week heralds Louis Vuitton's Young Arts Project's inaugural "academy" -- a five-day intensive workshop that is a part of the larger prog...

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Portraits Of World Leaders: New Yorker Photographer Platon Photographs 44 (PHOTOS)

New Yorker | Posted 05.25.2011

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This past September, when nearly all the world's leaders were in New York for a meeting of the United Nations, Platon, a staff photographer for this m...

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Tracy Raver: Baby Photographer Explains How She Gets The Shot (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tracy Raver's photos of babies--particularly sleeping babies--are adorable. The Nebraska-based photographer appeared on the Today Show Friday, Septem...

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