TOM HUNTER | Living in Hell and Other Stories | White Mercury. Posted in: Art (No ratings yet) Loading ... Currently exhibiting at The National Gallery is an east London artist depicting real life stories taken from The Hackney Gazette. Tom Hunter tells these stories using carefully staged, large format photographs, restaging them in compositions that often directly refer to classic paintings of the past, many of the paintings to which Hunter has referred for his compositions can be found in the National Gallery. Using his friends as models, Hunter directs them to use gestures, body language and facial expressions in the same way as the characters seen in paintings by historic artists.
Left: The Fight between the Lapiths and the Centaurs piero di cosimo c. 11500-15 (The National Gallery, London) Hunter first came to public attention in 1998, when he won the John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award, with a photograph entitled Woman Reading a Possession Order. Girls’ Sex Acts in Club: Court. Murder: Two Men Wanted A Satyr mourning over a Nymph Tags. Llective - tom hunter interview. Angels and devils in Hackney at The National Gallery. It’s a rare thing to see cutting-edge contemporary art in The National Gallery. But that’s what makes photographer Tom Hunter’s latest exhibition, Living In Hell And Other Stories, so ideal.
Father & Son run £2m Vice Racket (detail) & Living in Hell (detail) by Tom Hunter. This exhibition of large-scale photographs is a fascinating play on the frantic sensationalism of the media, particularly in Hunter’s local newspaper, The Hackney Gazette. He parallels the violence, murder, poverty and madness within the pages of the paper with the same themes in the paintings at The National Gallery. He draws on compositions and content from artists like Cranach and Piero di Cosimo to frame stories of strippers on the Hackney Road, people being attacked with swans, and wedding parties turning into brawls. Rokeby Venus (detail) by Diego Velazquez & Ye Olde Axe (detail) by Tom Hunter. Untitled document. Living in Hell Murder Two Men Wanted Naked Death Plunge Gangland Execution Sex Assault Road Rage Thug. Up Before The Beak Halloween Horror ‘Great is journalism. It is axiomatic: bad news sells newspapers. Because this is local news, however, it has the additional effect of instilling in readers an environmental paranoia which, with an inexorable circular logic, feeds a need to remain informed.
It is, in one sense, an old idea: many are the writers of fiction, for example, who have claimed that all they need for inspiration is a Bible and a newspaper. But his use of the local goes beyond a pragmatic sourcing of ‘immediacy’. We are in a Hackney park. Piero di Cosimo painted A Satyr Mourning Over a Nymph, whose concatenation of body, attendant and hound on grass Hunter’s photograph intentionally mimics, in the late fifteenth century. So it goes. Now, those paintings wielded beauty to argue for things: Neo-Platonism, Catholicism, Lutheranism, the supremacy of patrons.
—Martin Herbert. Four Figures at a Table by le Nain Brothers | my daily art display. Four Figures at a Table by the le Nain Brothers (c.1643) If I was an artist, which sadly I am not, I would always be sure to sign my name somewhere on my canvas after I had completed the work. It would be a matter of pride. It would be a matter of recognition even if it had not been the greatest work I had ever painted. Today I am going to look at a painting which does not have an individual signature upon it.
It is not that it hasn’t been signed. Their mother was Jeanne Prévost and their father was Isaac Le Nain who held the important position of Sergent Royal au Grenier à Sel in Laon. Sometime around 1629 the le Nain brothers moved to Saint Germain-des-Prés, a suburb of Paris and set up a studio, which because of its location, was outside the control and regulations of the Paris Guild. All three brothers attended the initial meeting of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture held in Paris on March 1st 1648 and were admitted to the Society as founder members.
The under-painting. A closer look at Hans Holbein’s “The Ambassadors” | Artstor Blog. September 13, 2013 by artstor Hans Holbein the Younger | Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve (‘The Ambassadors’) | 1533 | The National Gallery, London | Photograph ©The National Gallery, London Hans Holbein the Younger’s “The Ambassadors” of 1533 memorializes Jean de Dinteville, French ambassador to England, and his friend, Georges de Selve, who acted on several occasions as French ambassador to the Republic of Venice, to the Pope in Rome, and to England, Germany, and Spain.
The painting is well known for its anamorphic image of a skull in the foreground, but upon close perusal, the objects on the table between the two men prove just as fascinating. The upper shelf, which is concerned with the the heavens, includes a celestial globe, a portable sundial, and various other instruments used for understanding the heavens and measuring time, while the lower shelf, which reflects the affairs of the world, holds musical instruments, a hymn book, a book of arithmetic, and a terrestrial globe. Hans Holbein the Younger | The Ambassadors | NG1314. This picture memorialises two wealthy, educated and powerful young men. On the left is Jean de Dinteville, aged 29, French ambassador to England in 1533. To the right stands his friend, Georges de Selve, aged 25, bishop of Lavaur, who acted on several occasions as ambassador to the Emperor, the Venetian Republic and the Holy See.
The picture is in a tradition showing learned men with books and instruments. The objects on the upper shelf include a celestial globe, a portable sundial and various other instruments used for understanding the heavens and measuring time. Among the objects on the lower shelf is a lute, a case of flutes, a hymn book, a book of arithmetic and a terrestrial globe. Certain details could be interpreted as references to contemporary religious divisions. The broken lute string, for example, may signify religious discord, while the Lutheran hymn book may be a plea for Christian harmony. In the foreground is the distorted image of a skull, a symbol of mortality. Photography Tips, Tricks and Techniques. PhotographyTips.com is for everyone with an interest in photography. It is intended to help beginners get started in photography, and become so good at it that they turn into advanced amateurs. Accomplished photographers will also find useful photography tips and hints here. Our primary objective is to help people to take better photographs.
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Decent Exposures: The world's greatest portrait photographer. There are many great portrait photographers but none have had the impact that Yousuf Karsh had. You may have never heard of him, but you have seen his work. He specialized in making portraits for famous people, and capturing their essence and their soul. Many of his photographs are so well known that they are universally familiar to us. Karsh photographed just about every famous person of the 20th century. From heads of state to actors, celebrities, scientists and writers. Yousuf (his given Armenian name was Hovsep) Karsh was born in 1908 in Mardin, a city in eastern Turkey. His family fled to Syria during the Armenian genocide, and he when he was 14 years old he migrated to Canada to work with his uncle who was a photographer there. In 1961 I met Karsh in NYC, when I was 12 years old.
My father was a contemporary of his, and they were friends. Karsh had a gift for capturing the essence of his subject in the instant of his portrait. Karsh wrote in Faces of Our Time. 40 Captivating Photos That Depict Human Emotion. Rankin (photographer) John Rankin Waddell (born 1966), also known under his working name Rankin, is an English portrait and fashion photographer. In December 2000 Rankin launched his own quarterly fashion magazine, RANK. He also publishes Another Magazine, Another Man and more recently "HUNGER". In addition, Rankin has donated his services to publicity campaigns for the charitable organisation Women's Aid, providing photographs for use in the What's it going to take?
And Valentine's Day campaigns. In April 2009 Rankin created Annroy, a contemporary structure designed by Trevor Horne Architects that is home to Rankin’s own state-of-the-art photographic studio, gallery and living space, where he lives with his wife and model Tuuli Shipster. Each month ‘’Annroy’’ holds a different exhibition, which features some of Rankin’s current work. Rankin was first married to actress Kate Hardie. In 2002, Rankin was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by The Royal Photographic Society. Portfolio | Portraits | RANKIN. The History of Portraiture: A Trip Through Time. As long as people have made art there have been portraits. For the first few thousand years at least, portraits, whether drawn, painted or sculpted, were mostly reserved for those deemed important enough to be honored with a work of art bearing their likeness. The wealthy–mostly royalty and nobility– and important religious and historic figures were the most common subjects.
In Europe, kings and queens had their own court painters, charged with painting the royal family and their various associated servants and attendants, as well as “history paintings” depicting historical events and figures such as important generals or leaders from bygone eras. Diego Velazquez and Hans Holbein the Younger are among the most well known of these court painters, and their bodies of work offer favorable depiction of royalty as well as important clergy and other members of the court. Phillip IV In Armor Diego Velazquez 1628 Portrait of Henry VIII Hans Holbein the Younger 1540 Self-Portrait Andy Warhol 1967.