STREET ART CULTURE
As Street Art goes mainstream in Asia, Art Radar takes a look at its roots.
Modern graffiti art originated as an underworld activity and coincided with the hip hop movement in the late 1960’s and early 70’s in New York City [Associated Content], but many artists who started as ‘taggers’ have been recognized by the art world and achieved commercial success. This post will provide an outline of the humble beginnings of street art culture and the artists who have emerged from th...
Now living and working in East London, Stuart Pearson Wright grew up in the South of England, in Eastbourne, by the sea. He attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London and in 1998 won a travel grant from the National Portrait Gallery as part of the BP Portrait Awards. Wright used the cash to set off on a country wide tour, in a van, to paint and sketch. The resulting exhibition was called From Eastbourne to Edinburgh: A Painter’s Odyssey.
The work produced on tour drew comparison to Blake ...
Picture from the Australian National Portrait Gallery Though I was more than happy to hear that Paul French would once again get a chance to talk about Shanghai's sordid past (and that, despite the amount of time he had to prepare for it, it was "very entertaining") , it was disheartening to learn why Robert Dessaix, the author French subbed for at the Shanghai International Literary Festival this weekend, couldn't come - because somebody in the visa office didn't like how Dessaix was HIV-po...
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Published 08-Mar-10
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LONDON.- Scientific detective work has revealed a
mysterious coiled serpent in the hands of Queen Elizabeth I, which was painted
out by the artist shortly afterwards, in a portrait at the National Portrait
Gallery. It has also been revealed that this portrait of the queen, which has
not been on display at the Gallery since 1921, was painted over an unfinished
portrait of an unknown sitter. The revelations about this painting and
three others of the Tudor queen will form a new display, "Con...
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Published 05-Mar-10
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Behind the enigmatic smile: National Portrait Gallery to display 16th century work which has given up its secret after 400 yearsThe queen wears a magnificent gown and a faint, enigmatic smile - but then she knows what she really holds in her hands, a secret revealed again to the world after more than 400 years.Many portraits of Elizabeth I show her holding a posy, a conventional symbol of virginity or virtue. The National Portrait Gallery has discovered that in this portrait Gloriana originally ...
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Published 04-Mar-10
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Irving Penn's portraits are as electrifying and alive as ever, says Lucy
Davies. Rating: * * * * ...
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Published 03-Mar-10
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_"Look guys, if you're just going to stare at me, I'm going to bed."_ -Elvis Presley
Whether he'd like it now or not, nearly 33 years after his death, people from all walks of life are still staring at the man.
"His image is more recognizable now than it was at the pinnacle of his career," said Warren Perry, the curator of "One Life: Echoes of Elvis":http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/elvis/portraits.html, an exhibit currently on display at the &q...
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Published 02-Mar-10
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LONDON.- A new portrait of Anna Wintour, Editor in
Chief of American VOGUE, by artist Alex Katz will be on display for the first
time at the National Portrait Gallery in May 2010. The new portrait of Wintour
will be accompanied by the display Alex Katz Portraits from 15 May - 21
September 2010. One of the most significant artists of his generation,
this will also be the first time that there has been a display at the Gallery
dedicated to the work of Alex Katz. In this new portrait Anna W...
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Published 26-Feb-10
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A wide-ranging critic and author, he had an exceptional ear for vocal performancePatrick O'Connor, who has died aged 60 of a heart attack, was a critic, author, collector and broadcaster of unusually wide-ranging expertise. While his interests lay principally in vocal music, opera and musical theatre, they also extended to cinema, ballet, painting and the graphic arts, literature and gastronomy.His passionate interest in singers and performers began very early in childhood. His sister Patricia r...
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Published 23-Feb-10
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'When I was up for the Turner, people talked about me in terms of the emperor's new clothes. I could see their point'What got you started?Not being able to decide what I wanted to study. I was interested in architecture, music, psychology and literature. In the end, I chose art school, because art seemed to contain all of these.Who or what have you sacrificed for your art?It's really hard to work, in every way. You sacrifice something every time you make a choice between one thing and anothe...
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Published 22-Feb-10
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