The work is a combination of portraits and abstract paintings, some with figurative references.
Through a combination of portraits, pictures of military forces, landscapes and depictions of wrestling, marriage and other traditional activities, he draws out the rich symbolism of the region.
Ms. Wearing advertised for BMW owners who were willing to share their car experiences; she selected three and produced a combination of portraits of the subjects and silkscreen reproductions of their handwritten submissions.
The painters who enter pin their hopes on finding just the right combination of a portrait subject and a convincing display of painterly craft.
I feel that the combination of each portrait and the subject's personal items gives a striking first impression of who these women are.
It is, says Betsy Wieseman, the curator of Dutch art at the National Gallery, the first exhibition anywhere since the early 1950s to bring together so rich a combination of Dutch portraits.Portraiture in early 17th-century Holland came about largely by chance.
The combination of naturalistic donor portraits with grisaille imitation statues of saints is borrowed from that work, as is the treatment of the Annunciation.
And the combinations of small portraits (all men) and geometric pattern in the album by Sir Edward Charles Blount, a railroad magnate, evokes the stained-glass-like works of the Conceptual photo-artists Gilbert and George, which does not surprise.
One of the very best films in the programme is Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, which documents the musician's immersion into the disco scene.
By Sasha Frere-Jones Matt Wolf's documentary, "Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell," reconstructs the emergence and all too quick dissolve of the musician and composer, who died of AIDS in 1992 — as well as the rise and fall of the downtown New York community that nurtured him.
