Ms. Bassman became highly sought after for her expressive portraits of slender, long-necked models advertising lingerie, cosmetics and fabrics.
KNOWN for her vibrant, dripping, wildly expressive portraits of models ripped straight from fashion magazines, Katherine Bernhardt paints like a person infatuated with her subject.
October 13 , 1984 New York, New York), American realist painter celebrated for her honest and expressive portraits, produced at a time when Abstract Expressionism was the prevailing style in American painting.
Although their work is not well known outside Russia, the serene landscapes of Isaak Levitan, the expressive portraits of Ivan Kramskoy and Ilya Repin, and the socially oriented genre paintings of Vladimir Makovsky, Vasily Perov, and Repin arguably deserve an international reputation.
Other pioneers of photography represented in the series include Bauhaus professor and avant-garde artist László Moholy-Nagy, Eadweard Muybridge, whose locomotion studies of the 1870s changed our understanding of animal and human movement, and fellow Victorian Julia Margaret Cameron, famed for her expressive portraits and tableaux vivants.
Pompeo Leoni, (born 1533, Milan [Italy] died October 13, 1608, Madrid, Spain) Italian late Renaissance sculptor and medalist who, like his father, Leone, was known for his expressive sculpture portraits.
In one expressive self-portrait, Sukumaran's eyes are full of pain and defiance, his face a patchwork of bloody colours.
1533 Milan, Italy October 13, 1608 Madrid, Spain Pompeo Leoni, (born 1533, Milan [Italy] died October 13, 1608, Madrid, Spain), Italian late Renaissance sculptor and medalist who, like his father, Leone, was known for his expressive sculpture portraits.
The pointedly titled Expressive Self-Portrait of 1945 is a fretful, brushy inquiry into what it feels like to inhabit a human body at a moment in history when humanity itself appears to be broken.
But Soviet officials, backed by a conservative ballet establishment, attacked Jakobson for the very kind of grotesquerie that made this solo so expressive as a portrait of the great 18th-century French dancer Auguste Vestris.
