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For urban folklorists and analysts (such as Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, and Raoul Walsh) and for autobiographical portraitists and historians of style (such as Terence Davies and Sofia Coppola), the lives of others are naturally linked to first-person observations and modes of expression.
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
The lobby of the U.S. headquarters of UBS, in Manhattan, is adorned this spring with dozens of original paintings by Lucian Freud, the English portraitist.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2024
Of course, portraitists long before and after Sargent have exercised artistic license when portraying their sitters’ attire, for both aesthetic and symbolic purposes.
—Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2023
Barkley Hendricks, a portraitist and underground virtuoso, solidifies his place in the canon with a solo show at the Frick — its first ever for a Black artist.
—Roberta Smith, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
Dosunmu has created a catalogue of presentation that is, sometimes, stylized and posed, like the Malian studio portraitist Malick Sidibé, whom Dosunmu once shadowed.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
This is the work that established Sargent as England’s premier portraitist.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
While Venetian Rococo painter Rosalba Carriera and French portraitist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun are well known today, the vast majority of the 200 works’ makers are far from household names, presenting an exciting opportunity for discovery.
—Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2023
Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston This October in Boston, two exhibitions shine a light on the American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent, whose dazzling paintings have rendered him one of the greatest society portraitists of all time.
—Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2023
Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
The lobby of the U.S. headquarters of UBS, in Manhattan, is adorned this spring with dozens of original paintings by Lucian Freud, the English portraitist.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2024
Of course, portraitists long before and after Sargent have exercised artistic license when portraying their sitters’ attire, for both aesthetic and symbolic purposes.
—Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2023
Barkley Hendricks, a portraitist and underground virtuoso, solidifies his place in the canon with a solo show at the Frick — its first ever for a Black artist.
—Roberta Smith, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
Dosunmu has created a catalogue of presentation that is, sometimes, stylized and posed, like the Malian studio portraitist Malick Sidibé, whom Dosunmu once shadowed.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
This is the work that established Sargent as England’s premier portraitist.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
While Venetian Rococo painter Rosalba Carriera and French portraitist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun are well known today, the vast majority of the 200 works’ makers are far from household names, presenting an exciting opportunity for discovery.
—Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2023
Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston This October in Boston, two exhibitions shine a light on the American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent, whose dazzling paintings have rendered him one of the greatest society portraitists of all time.
—Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2023
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“Portraitist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/portraitist. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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