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Untitled Film Stills
''Untitled Film Stills'' is a series of black and white photographs by American visual artist Cindy Sherman predominantly made between 1977 and 1980, which gained her international recognition. Sherman casts herself in various stereotypical female roles inspired by 1950s and 1960s films. They represent clichés or feminine types "that are deeply embedded in the cultural imagination." It was later sponsored by Madonna at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1997. Details Cindy Sherman poses in various stereotypical female roles inspired by 1950s and 1960s Hollywood, Film noir, B movies, and European Art house films, art-house films. They represent clichés or feminine types (the office girl, bombshell, girl on the run, housewife, and so on) "that are deeply embedded in the cultural imagination." The characters in all of these photographs are always looking away from the camera and outside of the frame. Sherman casts herself in each of these roles, becoming both the artist and subjec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black And White
Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white to produce a range of achromatic brightnesses of grey. It is also known as greyscale in technical settings. Media The history of various visual media began with black and white, and as technology improved, altered to color. However, there are exceptions to this rule, including black-and-white fine art photography, as well as many film motion pictures and art film(s). Early photographs in the late 19th and early to mid 20th centuries were often developed in black and white, as an alternative to sepia due to limitations in film available at the time. Black and white was also prevalent in early television broadcasts, which were displayed by changing the intensity of monochrome phosphurs on the inside of the screen, before the introduction of colour from the 1950s onwards. Black and white continues to be used in certain sections of the modern arts field, either stylistically or to invoke the perception of a hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Untitled Film Still 48
''Untitled Film Still #48'' is a black and white photograph taken by Cindy Sherman in 1979. It is part of her '' Untitled Film Stills'' photographic series, taken from 1977 to 1980. This picture is also known as ''The Hitchhiker''. History and description The current photograph was taken in Arizona, when the artist was there on holiday, and depicts her portraying a woman, with a blonde wig and arms crossed behind her back, dressed in a pleated skirt, standing at the left side of a road, with her briefcase behind her, looking away, probably waiting for someone to pick her up. To her left, a natural landscape extends. This picture reflects the influence of both American and European cinema, like the rest of the series, and also recalls the work of American photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Sherman said about the picture: "Out there I wanted to be further away from the camera; I didn't want to compete with the landscape. I liked being smaller in the picture and having the scenery tak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970s Photographs
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on an artificial canal between the Tigris a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980 In Art
Events from the year 1980 in art. Events * January 1 – Gary Larson's single-panel comic ''The Far Side'' debuts in the ''San Francisco Chronicle''. * February 7 – Pink Floyd's The Wall Tour opens at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. * May 22– September 16 – Pablo Picasso Retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the largest and most complete Picasso exhibition ever held in the United States. * December 8 – Annie Leibovitz photographs John Lennon with Yoko Ono in New York for the cover of ''Rolling Stone'' magazine five hours before his murder. * Robert Hughes presents a series (with accompanying book), '' The Shock of the New'', for BBC Television in the United Kingdom on "art and the century of change". * Benedikt Taschen opens a comic book store in Cologne which will evolve into the art book publisher Taschen. Exhibitions *February 17 until April 6 - "Afro-American Abstraction" (curated by April Kingsley at MoMA PS1 in New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 In Art
Events from the year 1979 in art. Events * October 25 – Frederic Edwin Church's 1861 painting '' The Icebergs'' sells for US$2.5 million at Sotheby's New York, the third-highest amount paid for any painting at auction at this date. * November 15 – Art historian and former Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures Anthony Blunt's role as one of the ' Cambridge Five' double agents for the Soviet NKVD during World War II is revealed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. * The ''Xing xing'' ("The Stars Group") of 20 avant-garde Chinese artists (including Ma Desheng, Wang Keping, Huang Rui, Li Shuang, Qu Leilei, Ah Cheng and Ai Weiwei) stage an illegal exhibition outside the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. * The Bauhaus Archive, designed by Alexander Cvijanović with Hans Bandel after Walter Gropius, is completed in West Berlin, Germany. * Edward Delaney's statue of Wolfe Tone in Dublin is destroyed by terrorists. Awards * Arch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 In Art
Events from the year 1978 in art. Events * 27 June – '' Stitching the Standard'' by Edmund Leighton is sold at Sotheby's in Belgravia to a private collector. Awards * Archibald Prize: Brett Whiteley – ''Art, Life and the other thing'' * John Moores Painting Prize - Noel Forster for "A painting in six stages with a silk triangle" Works *Alicia Austin – '' Alicia Austin's Age of Dreams'' * Zdzisław Beksiński – '' AA78'' * Christo and Jeanne Claude - "Wrapped Walk Ways" in Loose Park in Kansas City, Missouri * Dan Flavin – ''untitled (to the real Dan Hill)'' * Helen Frankenthaler – ''Cleveland Symphony Orchestra'' * David Gentleman – " Eleanor cross" mural for Charing Cross tube station (London) * Jack Goldstein – ''The Jump'' * Michael Heizer – '' Isolated Mass/Circumflex (Number 2)'' (land art, Houston, Texas) * Bryan Hunt – '' Big Twist'' (bronze, Houston, Texas) * Nabil Kanso – '' Hiroshima Nagasaki One-Minute'' * Liz Leyh – '' Concrete Cows'' (M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 In Art
Events from the year 1977 in art. Events * April 19 – Yale Center for British Art gallery, designed by Louis Kahn (died 1974), opens to the public in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. * May 8–24 – Suzanne Lacy's extended performance piece about rape, '' Three Weeks in May'' takes place in Los Angeles. * September 12 – American poet Robert Lowell Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (; March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet. He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could trace its origins back to the ''Mayflower''. His family, past and present, were important subjects ... dies having suffered a heart attack in the back of a cab in New York City while returning to his ex-wife Elizabeth Hardwick (writer), Elizabeth Hardwick carrying a portrait of his current wife Lady Caroline Blackwood by her first husband Lucian Freud. * Starr Kempf constructs the first of his "wind sculptures". * documenta, ''documenta'' 6 takes place. * Douglas Crimp cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Works
Events January * January 8 – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 – 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown Bacteria, bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst Granville rail disaster, railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. * January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207 Azor, CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, Valencia, Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black-and-white Photographs
Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white to produce a range of :wikt:achromatic, achromatic brightnesses of grey. It is also known as greyscale in technical settings. Media The history of various visual media began with black and white, and as technology improved, altered to color. However, there are exceptions to this rule, including black-and-white fine art photography, as well as many film motion pictures and art film(s). Early photographs in the late 19th and early to mid 20th centuries were often developed in black and white, as an alternative to sepia due to limitations in film available at the time. Black and white was also prevalent in early television broadcasts, which were displayed by changing the intensity of monochrome phosphurs on the inside of the screen, before the introduction of Colour television , colour from the 1950s onwards. Black and white continues to be used in certain sections of the modern arts field, either stylistically or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminist Works
Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern societies are patriarchal—they prioritize the male point of view—and that women are treated unjustly in these societies. Efforts to change this include fighting against gender stereotypes and improving educational, professional, and interpersonal opportunities and outcomes for women. Originating in late 18th-century Europe, feminist movements have campaigned and continue to campaign for women's rights, including the right to vote, run for public office, work, earn equal pay, own property, receive education, enter into contracts, have equal rights within marriage, and maternity leave. Feminists have also worked to ensure access to contraception, legal abortions, and social integration; and to protect women and girls from sexual assault, sexual harassment, and dome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
