Now the building is home to visual chestnuts of "Sensation" fame, including Marcus Harvey's portrait of the child murderer Myra Hindley, Marc Quinn's frozen cast of his own head in his own blood, Tracy Emin's unmade bed, Chris Ofili's glittery Madonna with elephant dung and Damien Hirst's pickled shark.
Some directors gain more fame for their visual style than for their narrative acuity.
Beaton's prose is far less gee-whiz and anesthetized than that of Andy Warhol, another visual artist who found secondary fame as a diarist, though when Beaton is writing about Warhol one finds him falling into what he more than once recognized as a habit of "subconsciously imitating" the speech and expressions of whomever he was around.
Similarly irreverent and playful, Franco Moschino founded his label in 1983, gaining fame for making visual puns and anti-fashion fashion statements (a jacket embroidered at the waist with the words "waist of money" and a gown made of garbage bags, for example).
Notably gaining fame via that iconic visual language that was so undeniably Haring (and also so irrefutably New York), he was an innovator with regards to how art is made, distributed and discussed.
I ended up studying visual art at LaGuardia, the old Fame school.
It was at New York's Fiorello H Laguardia high school of music and art, the launchpad for the film and TV series Fame, where he majored in visual art, that Walters came out of his shell and began rapping.
Today, its immediacy dulled by time and fame, it functions mainly as a visual metonym for the Great Depression.
In contrast to the great fame of the artist's works, their visual influence on later art is relatively limited.
"It is what is most valued and what is rewarded with fame and fortune, because we live in a visual, entertainment, ornamental culture.
