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Dec 2, 2020 · Maerten de Vos, ‘The Vanity of Women: Masks and Bustles,’ ca. 1600, engraving on paper, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2001.341.1 (Image in the Public Domain). Mask-making Masks were actually made by skilled professional craftsmen.
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Mar 1, 2024 · It is curious that Tamara De Lempicka actually drove a yellow Renault, yet she painted herself in a green Bugatti – a racing car – wearing a leather helmet and gloves, wrapped in a scarf that floats in the wind as she races ahead. Even now, one can feel her independence and self-assurance, her single-mindedness in pursuing her goals.
Mar 26, 2024 · These paintings highlight how gloves have been used to convey complex messages about their wearers’ identity, status, and the cultural values of their time. Below are details about a few specific paintings in which gloves play a symbolic role.
Nov 10, 2021 · A new exhibition at the Guggenheim New York, Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks, encompasses almost four decades of the British artist’s career and features over 100 works, from her earliest photographs through her most recent “lockdown portraits” where she returned to painting with watercolours and oils.
Mar 21, 2021 · Gloves have long been objects of fashion: paintings from Fantin-Latour's portrait of Manet to Khnopff's mysterious symbolism.
Dec 22, 2015 · Any paintings of women wearing gloves showed shorter versions, ones that came up to just below the elbow i.e. only on the forearm. Long gloves would probably have been for the most formal of occasions.
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Nov 5, 2021 · Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks. Past Exhibition November 5, 2021–June 13, 2022. Profoundly empathetic and psychologically intense, Gillian Wearing ’s photographs, videos, sculptures, and paintings probe the tensions between self and society in an increasingly media-saturated world.