Sentence examples for controversial portrait from inspiring English sources

More Arts News Enlarge This Image Sotheby's The controversial portrait known as "La Belle Ferronnière".

His controversial "Portrait of My British Wife" won second place last year in the Taylor Wessing competition run by the National Portrait Gallery in Britain.

The controversial portrait painter Jonathan Yeo's design for a deck chair for London's parks has been rejected on the grounds that it is too pornographic.

It was, as you might expect, a strident and powerfully argued article in which he defended his newspaper's position over its controversial portrait of Ed Miliband's father as a "man who hated Britain".

There were also further British success stories with Irish fantasy Song of the Sea winning best animated film and, after being snubbed by the British independent film awards, Asif Kapadia won best documentary for Amy, his controversial portrait of the tragic singer Amy Winehouse.

Then on to the plein air paintings of that decade; to paintings of white dresses and black dresses, including Manet's controversial portrait of a lounging Morisot, "Repose" (1871), accompanied by a few well-chosen sartorial examples; then a room of single and group portraits of men and their (mostly) sober suits.

Carroll's photographic output extended far beyond his controversial portraits of young girls.

The renowned photographer won numerous awards for his advertising campaigns and was acclaimed for his photo journalism as well his sometimes controversial portraits of celebrities and rock stars.

In the first episode of VICE Japan's new series, "The Art of Taboo," we focus on Oura Nobuyuki, who explains the meaning behind his highly controversial portraits of Japan's Showa emperor, titled "Holding Perspective".

In the early 1920s, Chancellor helped assemble a controversial biographical portrait accusing President Warren Harding of covering up his family's "colored" past.

Earlier this year he put his name to a letter deploring Hilary And Jackie, the controversial film portrait of the late cellist Jacqueline du Pre, who had been a friend of his daughters.