Biography Research: Portraiture
Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry is an English conceptual artist. His famous tapestries are Perry's medium for telling the story of his subjects. I like the fly on the wall style of Perry's tapestries, how he overcrowds the pictures themselves in order to tell many stories through one image- it leaves a powerful effect on the audience, encouraging them to look at his work for longer in order to find more details. Perry comments on his tapestry series The Vanity of Small Indifferences:
The tapestries tell the story of class mobility, for I think nothing has as strong an influence on our aesthetic taste as the social class in which we grow up. I am interested in the politics of consumerism and the history of popular design but for this project I focus on the emotional investment we make in the things we choose to live with, wear, eat, read or drive. Class and taste run deep in our character - we care. This emotional charge is what draws me to a subject
Elizabeth Peyton
Peyton is an American painter, who tells the lives of her subjects, through intimate stylised paintings. Through brushwork and contemporary painting style she is able to provide an impression of the character behind the person she has painted.
Al Hirschfeld
An American cartoonist most well known for his monochrome cartoons depicting celebrities and famous faces using caricature to express their personality. Hirschfeld's work features in many major publications in America, most notoriously The New York Times. He aimed to tell stories through his works, and was highly praised by many, play write Terrance McNally once said:
"No one 'writes' more accurately of the performing arts than Al Hirschfeld. He accomplishes on a blank page with his pen and ink in a few strokes what many of us need a lifetime of words to say."
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