Fisch Out of Water a flamboyant delight Nov 16, 2009
They have the look of a crowd gathered for a class portrait. Their array of colors is joyful: reds, oranges and greens, from brilliant to pale. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The ‘Olan Mills of the ‘hood’ Nov 15, 2009
com His own family portrait (lower left) is among Ben Harry's work on display at his Harry's Digital booth at Greenbriar Discount Mall ... com Harry situates Tiauna Antoine of Atlanta for a portrait ... Ben Harry This photo was taken in 1987 of Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins of TLC. Ben Harry This portrait of Shirley Franklin and her daughter Kali was done in 1993. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Old Boston, new ways Nov 15, 2009
The library is rescued from stuffiness by glints of off-kilter humor: In the anteroom to the fifth-floor terrace, a 1976 portrait shows a man seated in a hotel room, holding in his hand, library officials swear, a joint. See. (Boston Globe)
Portrait of the artist Nov 15, 2009
Exploring the life of Anne Frank - The Boston Globe. Local Search Site Search. (Boston Globe)
Shoppers' delight -- art, crafts, ski equipment Nov 14, 2009
Small town life is a portrait of the human condition, from childhood to grave. As it focuses on the details of everyday life and relationships with amazing clarity, the message of "Our Town" is to live fully, every, every minute. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
'Precious': Searing look at despair, resilience Nov 14, 2009
Yet this isn't just any portrait of a pregnant teen. With innocence, force of will and a welling largeness of heart, Sidibe conveys both the child Precious was and the adult she wants to be. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
Art world mourns a caring, gentle friend Nov 12, 2009
Nick Waterlow in the portrait byWang Xu that was a finalist in the 2008 Archibald Prize ... Wang Xu, whose portrait (seen right) of Mr Waterlow was a finalist in last year's Archibald Prize, described him as a very kind person who went out of his way to nurture students ... Nick Waterlow in the portrait byWang Xu that was a finalist in the 2008 Archibald Prize. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Michael Jackson painting sold for $812,000 Nov 12, 2009
LONDON: A portrait of 'King of Pop' Michael Jackson by legendary artist Andy Warhol has sold for $812,000 at an auction in Los Angeles ... A portrait of 'King of Pop' Michael Jackson by legendary artist Andy Warhol has sold for $812,000 at an auction in Los Angeles. (India Times, India)
REMINDER: Wicket, Witty, Women - opening Sat. Nov. 11, 2-5pm Nov 12, 2009
HEADSHOTS/CONCEPTUAL PORTRAITURE/FASHION ILLUSTRATION ... Let us shoot your next executive portrait or headshot or personal portrait ... Simple headshot s, editorial portraits, fashion shoots and model/actors composites can all be done at one of our convenient studio locations. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Nokia N900: Hot and Not Nov 12, 2009
Not: Limited Portrait Mode. Most of the N900's functionality is confined to landscape mode, which is probably why the phone is occasionally referred to as a tablet. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Warhol's Michael Jackson Sells For $812K Nov 12, 2009
AP Photo/ChristiesThis image provided by Christie's Images Ltd., shows a Michael Jackson portrait painted by Andy Warhol in 1984 ... Artist's Portrait Topped Estimates ... NEW YORK -- A "Thriller"-era silk-screened portrait of Michael Jackson created by Andy Warhol has sold for $812,500 to an anonymous collector. (KFOXTV.com, TX)
Purchase portraits and puppets to support the Wilmington library Nov 11, 2009
Support the Wilmington Memorial Library this holiday season by purchasing a silhouette portrait of yourself or your family ... Portraits cost $29 each. (Wilmington Advocate, MA)
Haller and Forrest to judge Pizzafest Nov 11, 2009
Custom child's portrait session by Geneve Hoffman Photography. Two refurbished Dell laptop computers donated by Newport Computer Services. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Arno Brignon, laurat de la Bourse du Talent Espace Nov 10, 2009
"La nuit est symbolique d'un territoire mental o; les symboles du pass; sont remis ; jour afin de leur donner une seconde vie qui refasse sens. En tentant de signifier par l'effacement. Je parle des hommes sans les montrer. C'est comme un portrait en creux d'une population rurale sur laquelle on peut se questionner. Comment elle am;nage son territoire ? Qui est-elle aujourd'hui ?". Nous vous donnons rendez-vous ; partir du 14 d;cembre 2009 au site Tolbiac / Franois Mitterrand (Alle... (AbsoluteArts.com)
New book shows lavish Shakespeare illustrations Nov 10, 2009
Portraits reproduced in full pages show what two of his rivals - Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson - actually looked like ... They include the Cobbe portrait, long thought to represent Sir Walter Raleigh but recently endorsed - or rejected - as Shakespeare by scholars in a 21st-century dispute. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Review: Axis Dance Company at Malonga Casquelord Nov 10, 2009
At the end, the five principals melt into a family portrait to the accompaniment of "How High the Moon," and the match of music and sentiment couldn't be more perfect. Of Charlip's droll "Air Mail Dances" (reconstructed from the choreographer's drawings of stick figures), "Reading Dance in a Winged Chair" proved the most winning entry. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Isabella and the Pot of Basil Nov 10, 2009
White began his career as an illustrator for Harper s Weekly and eventually became a respected artist and portrait painter. White s 1897 Isabella is particularly striking because of the strange netherworld she seems to be lost in, full of pale tones and dark shadows. (Suite101.com)
Cash boost for portrait gallery Nov 10, 2009
The award will go towards helping the Scottish National Portrait Gallery to open parts of its building which have been closed for 120 years ... When it originally opened in 1889, the Edinburgh-based gallery broke new ground as the first national portrait gallery anywhere in the world. (BBC News -- UK)
'Dorothea Lange,' by Linda Gordon Nov 9, 2009
Within a few years she was operating a profitable photo studio for portraits at 540 Sutter, and she wed a charismatic bohemian artist of Western themes, Maynard Dixon ... Portraiture would also inform her life's work ... Lange's specialty was the in situ portrait - sometimes candid, often posed - as was "Migrant Mother," which showed Florence Thompson, 32, with only three of her then-seven children. (San Francisco Chronicle)
'Uncle George' fondly recalled Nov 9, 2009
"Kumu hula Iwalani Kalima helped coordinate the service. She became a student of Naope at the age of 8 and later became a caregiver.She compared his role in the hula to that of Kalakaua, except that Naope revived hula by sharing it with the world.Friday's Roman Catholic service began at 5:30 p.m. After the placement of lei by the royal societies, and the invocation by Pastor Brian Welsh, Mayor Billy Kenoi read a proclamation marking yesterday "Uncle George Naope Day" in Hawaii County.The... (Honolulu Advertiser)
Diego Giacometti Artist-Designer Nov 9, 2009
And, as he had as a child (the artistically precocious Alberto s first sculpture was a portrait head of Diego aged 12), after Alberto returned to modeling from life Diego also sat regularly for him. Not that, a year or so later when they moved to the studio at 46 rue Hippolyte Maindron (where both worked until the end of their lives), Diego didn t pursue some art work independently, as Sonja Ganne relates in a 2009 about Diego entitled Brother, Where Art Thou. (Suite101.com)
Black and White Photography Book Re... Nov 9, 2009
The Art of Black & White Portrait Photography by Lozoya ... When Lozoya is photographing a portrait of someone his hope is to capture his interpretation of whom he thinks the model is ... In a portrait session arranged to please the sitter I might ask them what they like about themselves and what they don t. I will consider what they tell me while photographing them. (Suite101.com)
The pure brilliance of the Keating mind Nov 8, 2009
A too true portrait of a man brought down by his own hubris. Chenrezig | Warwick - November 07, 2009, 5:02PM. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Sorry for caring Nov 8, 2009
My brother went to the Albury tip one day and found a portrait of my grandfather lying in the refuse. It had once graced the foyer of St John's, looked upon by anyone who entered, right next to Pope Pius XII. But it seems everyone and everything is disposable, especially orphanage supporters. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Art a healing place Nov 8, 2009
Jill Connor / The CitizenDiane DelPiano's art, including portraits of women she's never met, is on display at The Center in Auburn ... Tiled on another wall were painted portraits of women DelPiano has never met ... A knitted afghan, for example, takes longer to complete than a portrait and, as a result, has more emotion in the mix. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Hawaii says farewell to hula master George Naope Nov 8, 2009
Throughout the speeches by friends, a portrait emerged of a man who loved life, cigarettes, alcohol and all. "There are so many sides of uncle," said Skylark Rossetti. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Letter from the business editor Nov 8, 2009
Our annual ranking of the most progressive employers in Massachusetts draws a portrait of organizations that found ways, both big and small, to treat employees right. Amid soaring medical costs, Whole Foods continues to offer free health care to full-time employees. (Boston Globe)
Through the eyes of a child Nov 8, 2009
Through Our Eyes: Portraits and Self-Portraits' work by the students of the Clarke County School District ... Kelvin is a first-grader at David C. Barrow Elementary School, and his work is one of more than 300 on view at the Lyndon House Arts Center in "Through Our Eyes: Portraits and Self-Portraits," all made by students in the Clarke County School District ... Maria Virelas, a second-grader at Chase, made "The Happy Colors," a portrait of a classmate that is indeed full of extremely happy... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Pam Hallandal wins 2009 Dobell Prize for Drawing Nov 7, 2009
Hallandal won the prize in 1996, with Self portrait and judged the prize in 1999. Born in Melbourne in 1929, Hallandal studied sculpture at RMIT and at the Central School of Art, London. (AbsoluteArts.com)
The Scottish Contemporary Art - feature artist Nov 7, 2009
The Peter Howson Portrait of Jock Stein. The portrait of Jock Stein by Peter Howson OBE comes up for auction next Tuesday. (AbsoluteArts.com)
The Ancient Tombs of Palmyra Nov 7, 2009
Many of these plaques survive and show individual portraits in an eastern rather than classical style. The result is a unique portrait of each deceased person. (Suite101.com)
Painting Pets on Commission Does ... Nov 7, 2009
Painting Pet and Animal Portraits is it Lucrative for the Artist ... Patti Vaz Dias - Animal Lover, Equestrian, Pet Portraitist in Oils ... Initially concentrating on pen-and-ink fantasty and sci-fi art, her venture into pet portraits grew from an exhibition she held in a friend s private gallery several years ago. (Suite101.com)
Berlin Wall divides L.A. art community Nov 7, 2009
Kent Twitchell, whose larger-than-life paintings cover entire walls and sides of freeways, said he planned to "bookend" two sections of the wall with portraits of President John F. Kennedy, who denounced the barrier in a Berlin speech in 1961, and President Ronald Reagan, who famously demanded, "Tear down this wall!" shortly before it came down in 1989. But as he rushed to finish the portraits, Twitchell said he was told by organizers that he could leave one of the paintings in his studio: There... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Performance artist's work benefits Farnham Family Services Nov 7, 2009
com photo Above is a David Garibaldi portrait of John Lennon ... Garibaldi performed his live stage show, Rhythm and Hue, during which he painted 6-foot portraits of musicians, and other famous figures, with musical accompaniment. (Oswego Palladium-Times, NY)
Local news briefs Nov 7, 2009
Pencil portrait class to be offered. The Art Gallery will offer a pencil portrait class from 6-8 p.m. Nov. 10 and Nov. 12. (Paragould Daily Press, AR)
MoMA Film Press Release: Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You, Nov 19-22 Nov 7, 2009
Tariq Tapa s Zero Bridge, a discovery of the 2009 Venice and Karlovy Vary Film Festivals, is a neorealist portrait of daily life in the war-torn city of Srinagar, Kashmir, as seen through the eyes of a teenage pickpocket in love with a girl whose passport he stole. Past nominees that have been featured in MoMA s Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You series have included Nina Paley s Sita Sings the Blues (2008), Ronald Bronstein s Frownland (2007), Chris Fuller s Loren Cass (2006), Goran... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Photographie 5/11/09 Nov 7, 2009
la Goutte d or, la photographe Hortense Soichet en r;alisant ; la mani;re d'une commande pour une revue de d;coration, le portrait du quartier parisien dit 'sensible', d;voile les tentatives chaleureuse mais vaines pour habiter son habitat ... Portrait de la Goutte d or Hortense Soichet Le quartier de la Goutte d Or, class; en Zone Urbaine Sensible, vit depuis quelques ann;es des transformations architecturales tr;s importantes, engendrant aussi des modifications quant aux rapports que ces... (AbsoluteArts.com)
The Unknown History Nov 6, 2009
The pieces on display spotlight films ranging from the 1937 movie The Good Earth, which featured a non-Asian lead actress wearing yellow face, to Roman Polanskis 1974 classic Chinatown, which painted a dark and mysterious portrait of its namesake neighborhood, to Taiwan-born director Ang Lees Academy Award-winning 2005 feature Brokeback Mountain. We want this show to be educational, said Chinese American Museum Executive Director Pauline Wong. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Hugh M. Hill; weaved stories as Brother Blue Nov 6, 2009
He made such an impression that Warren Leher wrote the 1995 biography Brother Blue: A Narrative Portrait of Brother Blue A.K.A. Dr. Hugh Morgan Hill. In 2003, Somerville s Yellow Moon Press published Ahhhh. (Boston Globe)
Public art boosted by tax scheme Nov 6, 2009
Norwich's Castle Museum has been allocated Landscape, by Thomas Gainsborough while Portrait of Princess Mary, by Van Dyck, will go on display at Hampton Court Palace. Family archives, architectural drawings and historical artefacts - including a Japanese Edo period helmet - were among other items accepted under the scheme. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Ultra-compact cameras with wide angle, zoom Nov 5, 2009
The good: Good lens specs; Smart Portrait System; nice design and features. The bad: Middle-of-the-road performance; ISO 1,600, 3,200 not worth using. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
2009 Dobell Prize winner announced Friday Nov 6 at 11am Nov 5, 2009
Image credit: Virginia Grayson No conclusions drawn - self portrait. Winner of the Dobell Prize for Drawing 2008 Art Gallery of New South Wales. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Starts this Friday: Contemporary Chinese Film Series Nov 5, 2009
Indie director Ying Liang follows up his celebrated debut Taking Father Home with a brutally frank portrait of the social and environmental problems plaguing contemporary China. A vivid angle into ordinary life in China (David Bordwell, Film Art: An Introduction), Ying Liang s filmmaking examines multiple facets of society with a deceptively direct filmmaking style that has few parallels in modern cinema. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Paranormal Team Searches for Ghosts at the Coffee House Nov 5, 2009
" Another candidate for after-life activity in the building is artist Joe McHugh the individual who lived in the building longer than anyone else. The artist left a well-documented legacy of unfinished business, according to his nephew. Among the large body of paintings, sketches and sculpture, the artist left, there was one picture that could not be finished in his lifetime. In 1999, at age 90, Joe painted the face of President Bill Clinton at the bottom of the large montage of every president... (Missourian Publishing, MO)
November Exhibitions and Events Nov 5, 2009
Screening: Belonging in BritainTuesday 3 November, 6:30pm Ingrid Pollard's film portrait of her parents includes their migration from Guyana to the UK in the 1950s ... National Portrait Gallery 9 October 2009 10 January 2010 Admission Free ... An exhibition of new work exploring alternative forms of self-representation and portraiture by contemporary artist Faisal AbduAllah and the Chasing Mirrors Collective, a group of young people from Arabic speaking communities in Brent, Barnet and... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Ancient Coin installation opens at UR Museums Nov 3, 2009
This coin represents the religious and aesthetic shift in coinage with a stylized portrait of the emperor holding a cross on the obverse. The installation was curated by Amanda Haviland, '10, business administration major, University of Richmond, as her project for a 2009 Arts and Sciences Summer Research Fellowship. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Management idea: Portfolio working Nov 3, 2009
It involves expanding the concept of freelance work far beyond the traditional collection of self-employed professionals individual accountants, lawyers or portrait photographers who work for themselves, selling their skills to a number of clients. The cost of such people s work is not just a function of time; it is a function of time plus, as the artist Whistler once famously put it, a lifetime of experience. (The Economist)
Dabbler draws inspiration from family Nov 3, 2009
"It's always portraits with me. I started out drawing faces, that's my favorite," Erdrich said ... Fixing a mistake with watercolor paints is almost impossible, she added, as the portrait can get "muddier" if the artist continues to try to correct the error ... Although watercolors are a challenge for Erdrich, portraits in which she chooses to include wrinkles on her subject are the most difficult. (Wahpeton Daily News, ND)
Peter Schjeldahl: “Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection,” at the Frick. Nov 2, 2009
The diminutive Fragonard (less than five feet tall) charms with a swift, sweet self-portrait. A tangy pocket drama by Nicolas Lavreince epitomizes the glad erotic cynicism of the seventeen-eighties: a gent springs a kiss on a lady as her chaperone dozes and a painted portrait sulks in the shadow of a curtain. (New Yorker)
A diverse spectrum Nov 2, 2009
Beautifully shot, it's an intimate, unhurried portrait of a triangular relationship in Mumbai's artistic community. "It's stylistically inspired by two Taiwanese films," says Varghese. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Cohasset native poses topless to draw attention to life after cancer Nov 2, 2009
The photograph of Brassey was displayed at the Chelsea Arts Club in October 2008 in an exhibit called extraordinary portraits ... Less than a year after the operation, Brassey s friend Brian Usher asked her to pose with her jewelry for an extraordinary design portrait ... Friends, strangers, cancer patients she s never met have all written to her to thank her for the portrait. (Cohasset Mariner, MA)
Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘What the Dog Saw’ takes riveting look at range of issues Nov 1, 2009
Million-Dollar Murray, a sympathetic portrait of a homeless man, challenges prevailing approaches to intractable social problems. Still other essays question our assumptions about events from 9/11 to the Enron collapse to the war in Iraq. (Boston Globe)
Art events offer unusual fun at Grace Cathedral Oct 30, 2009
When I called Donegan to discuss her piece, she took a break from drawing a portrait of her father, whom she plans to honor in her altar. The base of her altar will be a hollowed-out and refinished guitar, because her father was a luthier, and it will incorporate drawings of him made on coffee-stained paper and marigolds. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
November at the Center for Creative Photography Oct 30, 2009
My Eyes Were Fresh: The Life and Photographs of John Gutmann (2006, 30 minutes), a film by Jane Levy Reed, is an intimate portrait of the artist narrated by Gutmann in a series of filmed interviews and commentaries recorded in the years just before his death in 1998 ... Face to Face: 150 Years of Portraiture Through January 10, 2010 ... Face to Face: 150 Years of Photographic Portraiture explores the photographic portrait the stories portraits can tell, the ways photographers convey the essence... (AbsoluteArts.com)
New book puts a spotlight on the Bauhaus movement Oct 30, 2009
Weber also offers a truly touching portrait of the husband-and-wife team of Josef and Anni Albers, who befriended him during the 1970s, when he was a graduate student and they were teaching art in the United States. Visiting the elderly couple at their home in Connecticut, Weber expected to find a pair of dour Europeans, living in an atmosphere of modernist austerity and subsisting on "lean, geometrically organized food." But to his surprise, he discovered that they were disarmingly casual,... (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Roy DeCarava; photographer chronicled jazz, life in Harlem Oct 30, 2009
His works are in the collections of major museums, including the National Gallery of Art and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Beside his wife and daughter Susan, he leaves daughters Wendy and Laura. (Boston Globe)
Disney sets out to make 'The Passion for kids' Oct 30, 2009
A portrait of Michael Jackson by Andy Warhol is going on sale. A 71-year-old man thought to be Britain's oldest father of twins has told of his joy at the new arrivals. (Yahoo News -- 'The Passion of the Christ')
Finding a quality camera for under $300 Oct 30, 2009
For example, look for portrait, sports, macro and landscape modes. Enthusiasts will want manual controls. (USA Today -- Tech)
Last One Standing Oct 30, 2009
Upstairs in the art room, a senior is using the lunch hour to apply more brushstrokes to a portrait. A few kids are playing pickup ball in the gym, but more are crowded in the library. (Time.com)
Press Release: "Chinese Masters Prints" at Public Art Space, Pan Pacific Singapore Oct 29, 2009
Born in 1968 in Sichuan Province, China, Feng Zhengjie is best-known for his Portrait of China series featuring portraits of the modern Chinese women, in bright red and turquoise eye-catching colors. The signature vacant and diverging eyes are the iconic representation of the flamboyant and diverse world we are living in today. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Blind man gets S60 first Oct 29, 2009
Armagan has painted everything from historic buildings, seascapes, flowers and forests to a portrait of former US President Bill Clinton. On film. (iAfrica.com)
NYC auctioning Russian rarity discovered in Ariz. Oct 29, 2009
NEW YORK A miniature portrait of Czar Peter the Great in a diamond-encrusted frame owned for decades by an Arizona family that didn't realize its historic significance is going on the auction block. This photo combination provided by Sotheby's shows the front and back of a rare miniature Russian award portrait in a diamond-encrusted frame ... The front, left, features a portrait of Czar Peter the Great. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
The Photographers Gallery Talks and Events Listings: October 2009 - January 2010 Oct 29, 2009
Join the esteemed writer presenting his thoughts on portrait photography. 5. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Press Release: Announcing Printed Painting for Photographers Oct 29, 2009
These include:ADeluxe Hardcover EditionA print-on-demand softcover versionA traditionally printed softcover versionThe 8 1/2" x 11", 128-page deluxe hardbound version is signed by the author and comes with a bonus CD containing the tutorial source photos andspecially createdexclusive brushes and tutorials for turning portrait, landscape and pet photos into paintings ... Next,Painting for Photographersprovides step-by-step instructions and four-color illustrations for creating paintings... (AbsoluteArts.com)
* Iraq War veteran displays bomb wounds in portrait Oct 27, 2009
Iraq War veteran displays bomb wounds in portrait ... But he proudly displays those wounds in a portrait on display at a new exhibition at Washingtons National Portrait Gallery ... The canvas, by painter Matthew Mitchell, is one of 49 works that are part of a portrait competition at the museum. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
