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Cindy Sherman: Serpentine Gallery. (London).


Serpentine serpentine (sûr`pəntēn, –tīn), hydrous silicate of magnesium. It occurs in crystalline form only as a pseudomorph having the form of some other mineral and is generally found in the form of chrysotile (silky fibers) and antigorite and lizardite (which are both tabular). chief curator Rochelle Steiner's Cindy Sherman overview focuses on staged portraiture portraiture, the art of representing the physical or psychological likeness of a real or imaginary individual. The principal portrait media are painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography. From earliest times the portrait has been considered a means to immortality. Many cultures have attributed magical properties to the portrait: symbolization of the majesty or authority of the subject, substitution for a deceased individual's living presence or theft of the, which allows the artist to hide in plain sight as a shape-shifting Everywoman: starlet, frump, Madonna, ogre OGRE - Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine
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, aging trophy wife. With some forty photographs from the "Untitled Film Stills" and more recent pieces that continue the artist's 2000 series skewering anxious, oblivious career girls, the show investigates Sherman's mix of satire and sympathy. "I want that choked-up feeling in your throat which may come from despair or teary-eyed sentimentality," she wrote early on, before burying all traces of sentimentality in grotesquerie. Her return to portraiture by proxy gives this show its unsentimental but happy ending. June 5-Aug. 25; Scottish National Gallery National Gallery, London, one of the permanent national art collections of Great Britain. Its building, in Greek style, stands in Trafalgar Square. It was designed and erected (1832–38) by William Wilkins and was shared for 30 years with the Royal Academy of Arts. In 1876 a new wing was added, designed by E. M. Barry. The nucleus of the collection was formed in 1824 with 38 pictures from J. J. Angerstein's collection. of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Dec. 6-March 7, 2004.
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Author:Aletti, Vince
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Date:May 1, 2003
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