Whitten's
Black Monolith V Full Circle: For Leroi Jones AKA Amiri Baraka (2014) serves as a memorial to the late writer and activist, an early friend of the artist.
In
Black Monolith V: Full Circle (2014), Whitten honors the writer Amiri Baraka, whose work addresses topics like black liberation and white racism.
As the full title of
Black Monolith V suggests, at the end of five decades, Whitten's memorial paintings have come full circle.
In 2001, a similar
black monolith has been found beneath the moon's surface.
Not exact matches
The
black monolith, or one of its relatives, is back,
having been recently excavated from the bottom of a crater.
Sure, there are gratuitous murders by the bucketload, more deus ex machina's than you can shake a stick at and the whole
black egg thing is a little too close to the 2001 - A-Space-Odyssey-bone, i.e the
monoliths,,, not the mention the falling pink stars,,, which may be a metaphor for something,,, perhaps the disgracing of gay celebrities,,, I
've no idea.
In ratifying a resolution to issue a moratorium on charter schools, the NAACP — despite its storied history of defending the civil rights of
black and brown people in America —
has made the same mistake that the majority
has made about us for years: Assuming (wrongly) that
black folks are a
monolith.
In recent years, Whitten's best known body of work
has been the ongoing
Black Monoliths series, begun in the 90s, which uses acrylic and mixed medium to create mosaics of black artists, writers, and political thinkers such as Jacob Lawrence and Malco
Black Monoliths series, begun in the 90s, which uses acrylic and mixed medium to create mosaics of
black artists, writers, and political thinkers such as Jacob Lawrence and Malco
black artists, writers, and political thinkers such as Jacob Lawrence and Malcolm X.
The relationship between the self - portraits from primeval forests and the «Prism» of human civilization may
have similarity with the tension depicted in the scene where the
black geometrical
monolith appears in front of people and animals in the natural scenery in the movie «2001: A Space Odyssey».
Africa
has had a rare yet distinct place in popular science - fiction, from the opening scenes of Stanley Kubrick's iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey, depicting the mysterious appearance of a
black monolith in the cradle of civilization, to the recent success of Neill Blomkamp's debut movie District 9, a multi-layered allegory on South Africa's recent internal and external tensions.
I
have just completed another in my series of
Black Monolith paintings, this one honors the rock n» roll master, Chuck Berry.
In addition to an OLED display, the device is said to
have a 5.8 - inch screen that will make it look like «a smooth
black monolith,» with very few visual interruptions to its design.