Meintest du modell?
While the thick impastos and bold strokes he used to model his face still create
Use your smartphone to explore a wide range of works through the voices of National Gallery of Art curators. Set your own pace by listening to as many stops as you like in the order you choose. Don’t forget to bring your headphones! To listen to information about a work of art, enter the stop number in the box below, select „go“, and press the play button when the stop appears. Â
I also worked as a model for artists, like the painter Edouard Manet who made this
shoulder, is consistent with Rembrandt self-portraits [fig2], the brushwork used to model
LAILA LALAMI: I’m not at all surprised to learn that the model for this painting
€“1669), whose influence is evident in Bol’s choice of an aged and rough-hewn model
immediately embraced and will long stand as a standard reference source and as a model
When The White Girl debuted in London in 1862, it puzzled viewers. At the time, portraits of this scale usually featured well-known people.
Hiffernan was Whistler’s primary model and collaborator during the early 1860s.
An artist, an ecologist, a poet, a chef, a ballet dancer – and more! Discover notable people exploring the many stories revealed in art from the National Gallery’s rich collections. Set your own pace by selecting as many tour stops as you like, in the order you choose. Just enter the track number below, press go, then press the play button when the tour stop appears. Don’t forget your headphones!  Made possible by a grant from the Alice L. Walton Foundation
LAILA LALAMI: I’m not at all surprised to learn that the model for this painting
Guitarist Sonia De Los Santos hails from Mexico, where as a child she was exposed to different musical influences. In Auguste Renoir’s Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar De Los Santos sees echoes of her younger self. Her song „Sueña“ is an ode to dreams.
MARY MORTON: No, she would be a model.
Go on a MONUMENTAL drawing adventure inspired by the Running Fence artists, the first in our series hosted by Wendy MacNaughton.
So they created a unique, smart business model: Christo made and sold preparatory
