Sentences with phrase «african mythology»

These rainbow - candy shaded frames are influenced by fantasy film, animation, manga and African mythology; and intersect realism with the absurd, surreal and pop culture flair.

Marshall discusses why he makes art, African mythology, ideals of beauty, and the freedom that comes with mastery.

Her work weaves elements of East African mythology, as seen in the nguva, with Afro - surrealist elements of science fiction and fantasy, critiques of African and female stereotypes, and universal notions of power, race, and colonialism.

After graduating Harvard University with an honors degree in English literature, she studied West African mythology and culture in Salvador, Brazil.

African mythology is as vast and diverse as the continent itself.

(«In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology,»)

Marshall's unflinching dedication to «confronting racial stereotypes, race - based economic disparities, and African mythologies» provokes his viewer to acknowledge the transgressions of the past to reimagine their own present.

He opts for representational art over abstraction, yet he tends to portray his central figures in almost complete blackness, blurring many of the distinctive physical details while confronting racial stereotypes, race - based economic disparities, and African mythologies.

Shonibare combines powerful imagery from Christian European and African mythologies in order to create a hybrid: what the artist calls «a third myth».

Not exact matches

There are whole disciplines of academic study on Greek, Asian, African, Mesoamerican, and Egyptian culture and mythology, and her work consistently ignores key aspects of each and every realm of study her work tries to touch.

But in the charismatic movement we see the growth of a new mythology that originated in Afrikaner circles yet offers all South Africans a vision of a new Africa.

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According to this Lost Cause mythology, the South went to war to defend states» rights, slavery was essentially a benevolent institution that imparted Christianity to African «savages,» -LSB-...].

From the old — Forest Whitaker (Ghost Dog, The Last King of Scotland, Rogue One)-- to the new — breakout star and Academy Award nominee Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)-- Black Panther celebrates its blackness by filling every nook and cranny of the film with African symbolism, mythology, and memorabilia, in addition to its host of talent with their multitude of African roots.

While many have speculated about the inspiration behind these warriors, it is clear that one of their main antecedents was the famous all - female African military corps of Dahomey, West Africa (now The Republic of Benin), whom the French dubbed «Dahomey Amazons» after female warriors in Greek mythology.

The text was nearly 600 pages long, and it contained perhaps 30 pages written by African Americans, no more than that by Americans of Hispanic heritage, literally nothing by Asian Americans, and a 3 page speech attributed to Chief Seattle for which there is no definitive text and a lot of mythology that served other people's interests.

EW spoke with James, who says the inspiration for the series was an argument about the lack of diversity in fantasies like The Lord of the Rings: «It made me realize that there was this huge universe of African history and mythology and crazy stories, these fantastic beasts and so on, that was just waiting there.»

Skygoblin's The Journey Down [$ 4.99] is a classic point and click adventure with a certain visual similarity to Grim Fandango, due in part to the way that many of the characters» faces are modeled on African tribal masks, and a setting and mythology that owes as much to African diasporic culture as Grim Fandango owes to Latin American traditions...

As a mature artist, utilizing scenes of the black milieu, musical rhythms, various mythologies, and the physical joy of an array of materials and colors, Bearden wove together stories of the conditions and dreams of African Americans.»

If Houseago's works resonate, it is because they encompass a wide range of influences: the formal language of sculpture throughout the ages (from ancient to early modern), mythology, the natural world of plants and animals, African tribal art, cartoon imagery and contemporary music and culture (the title of the exhibition contains a fragment from the lyrics of «Wild Child» by Lou Reed and a reference to James Taylor's «Like A Circle Round the Sun»).

The title of Henrot's show, The Pale Fox, is borrowed from a 1965 anthropological study of the West African Dogon people, whose complex mythology — incorporating astronomy, mathematics and philosophy — informs Henrot's own convoluted study.

By integrating new and old materials, Bearden created complex narratives that were often inspired by the African American experience, mythology and religion; many of his works have titles with origins in literature and music, two lifelong passions.

In the Black Odyssey series, Bearden establishes an artistic bridge between Homer's poem — arguably the definitive work of classical mythology — and African - American culture by depicting Homeric characters as black players on the timeless stage of antiquity.

The museum describes Bearden's series as «rich in symbolism and allegorical content» creating «an artistic bridge between classical mythology and African - American culture.»

Interested in reinterpreting lost culture and mythology using modern and antique materials, he pays tribute to both spiritual and artistic African and Trinidadian identities which have been given new meanings through the Trinidadian carnival and the cross-cultural dispersion of ideas.