Elizabeth Peyton.DEICHTORHALLEN If Dufy and Manet had collaborated on pinups for Melody Maker, the results might look like Elizabeth Peyton's meltingly romantic, dead cool portraits of red-lipped youngish men. Whether drawing or painting, Peyton has a deft, loose, and loving touch. Full of creamy flesh tones and atmospheric buzz, her pictures are a fan's notes, and her subjects--Liam Gallagher, Lord Alfred Douglas Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945) was a poet, a translator and a prose writer, better known as the intimate friend and lover of the writer Oscar Wilde. , Leonardo DiCaprio, Prince Harry--are vividly idealized i·de·al·ize v. i·de·al·ized, i·de·al·iz·ing, i·de·al·iz·es v.tr. 1. To regard as ideal. 2. To make or envision as ideal. v.intr. 1. , if disconcertingly dis·con·cert tr.v. dis·con·cert·ed, dis·con·cert·ing, dis·con·certs 1. To upset the self-possession of; ruffle. See Synonyms at embarrass. 2. effeminate ef·fem·i·nate adj. 1. Having qualities or characteristics more often associated with women than men. See Synonyms at female. 2. Characterized by weakness and excessive refinement. heartthrobs. For the artist's first retrospective, curator Zdenek Felix has rounded up some 120 works, the earliest a 1990 drawing of Napoleon, as well as a group of Peyton photographs, some of which are the basis for recent paintings of intimate friends. Sept. 28-Jan. 13. |
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