Sentences with phrase «elegy black black»

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I don't know what it is that makes black and white photography so appropriate for capturing the wide open spaces of the States, but for me it is up there with «Hud» or «The Last Picture Show», both also elegies for vital qualities that have been undermined or lost.

In Nebraska, shot in delicately toned black - and - white» scope, he has made a film that is, at its core, an elegy for the Midwestern men of an earlier era and all the tales and dreams and heartbreaks they left unexpressed and buried beneath a habitually unfazed stoicism.

Robert Motherwell (1915 - 1991) brought light to his paintings through the dualism of his monumental black ovoid forms set against a painted white plane in his Elegies to the Spanish Republic series for which he is most well - known.

In reference to Felix Gonzales - Torres» candy - spill elegies to those lost to AIDS, Strother finds a potent analogue in the ongoing drug crisis and its particular implications for black people.

«While black and shades close to black held special significance for many of the abstract expressionists — Robert Motherwell's Elegies and the late works of Pollock and Rothko come to mind — Still had a unique and recurring relationship to it,» said CSM director Dean Sobel.

Some well - known works are included, such as Robert Gober's pale yellow wallpaper for a youngster's bedroom, its pattern alternating images of a peacefully sleeping white man with a lynched black man; and, Kerry James Marshall's elegy to the murderous 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., his hometown, when he was 7.

The least colorful picture in the «Earth and Sea» series recalls Robert Motherwell's vast black - and - white elegies.