BBC One’s upcoming series, In My Own Words, has unveiled its first batch of celebrity subjects, including Billy Connolly, Jilly Cooper, Jackie Kay, Hanif Kureishi, and Alison Lapper. This series, from BBC Arts, will offer viewers an intimate look into the lives and creative processes of some of the UK’s most renowned cultural figures. Each […]
BBC One’s In My Own Words Reveals Celebrity Subjects...
BBC One’s In My Own Words Reveals Celebrity Subjects...
- 6/11/2024
- by Noah Masire
- MemorableTV
Titian created the warmth of a living body on canvas just to turn men on. These days, it would be hard to get away with that
Nudity never stops causing anxiety, because it never stops arousing awe. Sienna Miller stands naked, beautifully pregnant. Painter Jonathan Yeo claims he chose to unveil this portrait in Berlin, because Germany, he says, is less hung up about nudity. Yet somehow he let images reach all the British papers. Is it daring? It is controversial? On the contrary: pregnancy has become the modern equivalent of a fig leaf, making nude images of women acceptable to all sections of society and all divisions of the media.
From Mark Quinn's Alison Lapper Pregnant to Damien Hirst's pregnant nude colossus Verity, imminent motherhood has become the respectable garb for artistic representations of naked women.
The reception of Yeo's portrait is typical. "Sienna poses naked...
Nudity never stops causing anxiety, because it never stops arousing awe. Sienna Miller stands naked, beautifully pregnant. Painter Jonathan Yeo claims he chose to unveil this portrait in Berlin, because Germany, he says, is less hung up about nudity. Yet somehow he let images reach all the British papers. Is it daring? It is controversial? On the contrary: pregnancy has become the modern equivalent of a fig leaf, making nude images of women acceptable to all sections of society and all divisions of the media.
From Mark Quinn's Alison Lapper Pregnant to Damien Hirst's pregnant nude colossus Verity, imminent motherhood has become the respectable garb for artistic representations of naked women.
The reception of Yeo's portrait is typical. "Sienna poses naked...
- 11/7/2012
- by Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
Directors say ceremony is about challenging perceptions and will be very different from Danny Boyle's
Those behind the Paralympic opening ceremony have revealed it will feature Sir Ian McKellen, Prof Stephen Hawking, and the "world's biggest apple crunch" as part of a "unique and extraordinary piece of work about challenging our perceptions".
Stephen Daldry, who is overseeing all four Olympic ceremonies, said the ceremony – titled Enlightenment and directed by Jenny Sealey and Bradley Hemmings – was very different from the Olympics ceremonies.
"If Danny Boyle's was very much about two revolutions and popular culture and Kim Gavin's was very much about a symphony of British music, then what you will get from Jenny and Bradley is something very different," said the Billy Elliot director.
Sealey, the director of the country's leading disability theatre company, said she and Hemmings were feeling "very slightly nervous, terrified and excited" about the ceremony,...
Those behind the Paralympic opening ceremony have revealed it will feature Sir Ian McKellen, Prof Stephen Hawking, and the "world's biggest apple crunch" as part of a "unique and extraordinary piece of work about challenging our perceptions".
Stephen Daldry, who is overseeing all four Olympic ceremonies, said the ceremony – titled Enlightenment and directed by Jenny Sealey and Bradley Hemmings – was very different from the Olympics ceremonies.
"If Danny Boyle's was very much about two revolutions and popular culture and Kim Gavin's was very much about a symphony of British music, then what you will get from Jenny and Bradley is something very different," said the Billy Elliot director.
Sealey, the director of the country's leading disability theatre company, said she and Hemmings were feeling "very slightly nervous, terrified and excited" about the ceremony,...
- 8/29/2012
- by Owen Gibson
- The Guardian - Film News
London, May 7 – Hollywood actress Pamela Anderson has been portrayed as a pair of conjoined twins in an art show by British sculptor Marc Quinn.
The glittering barely-clad statue of Anderson, depicting her as a pair of conjoined twins is a one of the many works of art in a new exhibition by Quinn indicating people who have transformed their looks.
Quinn is known for famous creation Alison Lapper Pregnant, which is placed on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.
“You have got people who have decided to change the outside of their bodies to fit how they feel inside,” Quinn said.
Anderson.
The glittering barely-clad statue of Anderson, depicting her as a pair of conjoined twins is a one of the many works of art in a new exhibition by Quinn indicating people who have transformed their looks.
Quinn is known for famous creation Alison Lapper Pregnant, which is placed on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.
“You have got people who have decided to change the outside of their bodies to fit how they feel inside,” Quinn said.
Anderson.
- 5/7/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
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