This graphic narrativization is a stylistic update of Marshall's best - known work, monumental paintings of African - American subjects based on the traditional genre of
narrative history painting.
Not exact matches
The combination of
history, art, and impassioned commentary will draw kids in to the questions raised by Brown's
narrative paintings that show what it was like to be a slave — the suffering, anger, defiance, endurance, and rebellion under unspeakable conditions.
In a gracefully detailed interpretative
narrative that stretches from ancient Greek and Roman mosaics to twentieth - century
paintings, art historian Ebert - Schifferer presents the long and fascinating
history of the still life, a highly symbolic genre.
In this powerful view of African American
history, award - winning author and illustrator Nelson combines 44 arresting, full - page
paintings with the fictionalized, informal
narrative of an African American elder.
Known for his visual
narratives documenting the African American experience, Jacob Lawrence conceived a series of
paintings about the
history of the United States that would encompass all of the nations's people.
The
narratives in the
paintings are stories taking place over a period of geological time, with references both topographic and tectonic, alluding to simultaneous multiple
histories.
Titus Kaphar is an artist whose work interacts with the
history of art by appropriating its styles and mediums through
painting and sculpture, and then altering the work in a nod to hidden
narratives and unspoken truths about the nature of
history.
after - image, cinema, cinema studies, cinematic, close - up, distance, drawing, duration, emotion, exhibition, film, filmic, gaze, gender,
history, intimacy, Judith Eisler,
narrative,
painting, time, voyeurism
Pitched between depicted action and the act of
painting -
paint's illusory potential and its materiality - Furnas entwines
history with art
history in provocative combinations of
narrative and form.
Instead of accepting the historical
narrative that leads from linear - perspective, through the camera obscura, to photography; Kwabena imagines an alternative
history, one in which photography grows out of scroll -
painting.
Her own work challenges these boundaries, as seen in her solo show Revenge, featuring consecutive
paintings of black women protagonists and memorials to the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade, at Rochdale Art Gallery and the South Bank Centre, London, in 1992, which contested the pictorial
narratives so frequently repeated in art
history.
Ford's
paintings critique the
history of politics, natural science, and industrialism using complex
narratives.
Dr. Tsai, the curator of the exhibition, will discuss the selection and presentation of nearly 60 works, including sculpture, stained - glass panels and oil
paintings which together, as a whole, alter the
narrative of art
history.
Moreover, if one considers the alternate
history of Schapiro's having continued to work in this vein of geometric abstraction, given the typical
narratives of the time, her career would likely have plateaued in relation to a colleague like Held, in part because he was a male artist, with all the privileges that brought, and in part because he was, in that mode, perhaps a stronger artist: as impressive as «Byzantium» is, it can't compete with the impact of Held's
paintings as
paintings, their literal physicality — the extra thick stretchers and larger size and the
paint handling, which manages to be worked even when flat — and their composition, which bends vision into sci - fi space but also retains the power of the overall ground.
Much of the meaning of Liu's
painting comes from the way the washes and drips dissolve the documentary images, suggesting the passage of memory into
history, while working to uncover the cultural and personal
narratives fixed — but often concealed — in the photographic instant.
In his intricate
paintings, Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers) re-imagines 18th century colonial
history, conjuring a fictional cast of subjects within his own original on - going
narrative that includes a rebel fighting force of freed slaves, militiamen, dikes, lords, and tribesmen.
Gutierrez's
painted language contains an instinctive bow to
history in contrast to darker
narratives in sometimes idyllic settings.
Since 2000, he has
painted narrative scenes filled with figures, often inspired by reproductions from newspapers or
history books.
In his new series «Eclipse,» Paolo Ventura continues his exploration of memory,
history and
narrative using the tools of photography,
painting and the stage.
Richter's more recent work has transformed into more recognizable
narratives, a kind of contemporary
history painting: «When I changed to narration it was also an urge that had to do, on a very simple level, with reality... I felt the desire to
paint things that related to what I saw in the world.»
The supernatural compositions of Bas's past are here expanded into grand mythologizing
narratives, taking on the weight and scale of 19th - century
history painting.
Quinn's richly layered
paintings combine striking landscapes with fragments of figurative
narrative from the breadth of
history, myth and ironic imagination.
Further highlights include Polly Apfelbaum's strips of textile that are combined to form a colorfully woven
painting; Rashid Johnson's tropical enclave containing various unexpected elements from sculptures made with shea butter to video portraits; Katherine Bernhardt's monumental
painting with tropical birds, cuddly robots and cigarette stubs, which at once editorializes and summarizes modern culture and the artist herself; an interactive multimedia installation by Nedko Solakov comprising nine sofas in the shapes of the nine Chinese characters constituting the phrase «I miss Socialism, maybe»; and Yu Hong's large - scale
painting depicting a famous Chinese fable widely cited in both modern Chinese art
history and Chinese Communist
narratives.
Marshall creates large - scale
paintings that explore African American culture from the Civil Rights to today, drawing from and weaving a
history of black experience into his
narratives.
His resulting
paintings including Vignette explode with
narratives and textures, linking aspects of art
history and American
history with reference to the American Civil Rights Movement, the
history of slavery, public housing projects, the modern welfare state, social reform and literature, as well as cyclic tales of birth, life, death and love.
Her works are often constructed on a grand scale; with
narratives of destruction and hope, they are in dialogue with classical
history paintings.
This ambitious large - scale
painting addresses the issues of black representation by interweaving
narratives of art
history, society, culture and politics.
Utilising a range of source materials from found imagery, film stills and the internet, the new works featured in this exhibition raise
narratives and juxtapositions regarding the
history of the
painted canvas and the photographic medium as visual document.
Although her work results from deep observations of the
history of
painting — from Velasquez, Rembrandt, Caravaggio and Cezanne among others — her personal vision transcends classical notions of genre and
narrative as she invites viewers into a delicious domain of confident brush strokes with a new aesthetic.
Whimsical and dynamic her
paintings remind us of the great panoramic
history paintings populated by heroic figures and the symbols that accentuate their
narrative.
These iconic compositions of complex, skewed angles and radiant, tonal color allude to the multiple
narratives coursing through the
history of modernist
painting, from the utopian vision of Russian Constructivism to the hallucinatory images of Op Art.
Visit his website at www.georgeschmidt.com to witness
history and
narrative painting come alive as he walks us through his May 2012 solo exhibition at the University of Louisiana in a series of YouTube videos.
«Epic
Paintings» carries with it a sense of
history and tradition, grand style, ambitious, and larger - than - life
narratives of the human condition.
For Schnabel, the images — enlarged snapshots of what look like
history paintings, portraits, Indian deities, and more — bring a sense of time, place and
narrative to his meandering, abstract materiality.
He's one of our great
narrative painters in the
history of
painting.»
Posed before a violent tableaux (a picture within the picture that pays homage to the sweeping compositions of classical
history painting), the scene appears as a suspended moment in a mysterious
narrative.
I cut, crumple, shroud, shred, stitch, tar, twist, bind, erase, break, tear, and turn the
paintings and sculptures I create, reconfiguring them into works that nod to hidden
narratives and begin to reveal unspoken truths about the nature of
history,» describes Kaphar his practice in his own words.
Presenting a
painting from his well - known body of work «Black Dada» as well as a work from a series layering text and images on mirrored stainless steel, Adam Pendleton's works in this exhibition give material form to the artist's engagement with a dynamic idea of
history; one that is ever mutable and reflective of subjective and infinite
narrative potentials.
Fallah left the sale with diaries, home movies, clothing and other objects chronicling the family's personal
history; he then spent the course of the next year sifting through these fragments of the family's life, filling in the gaps where necessary, to create a
narrative and build portraits of the family members through
painting, sculpture and collage.
The landscapes look familiar enough from Western
painting and Western
narratives, for all their polar extremes — just as «Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair» is an American folk song, Kerry James Marshall has taken to the barber shop as the locus of African American community, and blackness has a dark place in America's
history.
Owens»
paintings cull inspiration from American culture, comics, art
history and personal
narratives, and demonstrate painterly achievement that is equally contemporary and timeless.
Its
narrative is drawn from letters, diaries, and reports from the period, and these
histories are made tangible through a dazzling array of art objects, sculpture, costume, and
paintings.
Bryan Graf navigates the photographic medium with a discursive interest in the
history of photography and it's relationship to design,
painting, and
narrative fiction.
Sean Downey's recent
paintings combine sources, images, and fictions from American
history and cinema to create allegorical, open - ended
narratives.
Each
painting is measured to exactly the same dimensions, and her titles, such as Isko (2008) and Teite (2008), are drawn from a German dictionary of first names, emphasizing each
painting's individuality and imparting a deeper sense of
history and
narrative to the canvases.
If these most recent works are, as Hume himself stresses, a form of
history painting — representations of a series of «pregnant moments» connected to one of the great historical dramas of our time — Hume short - circuits this notion by rendering their historical scenes all but invisible, thus apparently declaring his disinterest in any
narrative whatsoever.
Each of his visually absorbing and intellectually evasive canvases offers entry into a personal, imaginary
narrative as well as a
history of
painting.
Based on diligent research and inspired by Harlem Renaissance artists Augusta Savage and Charles Alston, Jacob Lawrence illustrated African American
history through colorful
narrative paintings.
Look awhile longer and you'll discover that both their imagery and their facture reference landscape, cityscapes, pop culture and private
narratives while they index the
history of modern
painting.
In a way, you could say Yiadom - Boakye is using various
histories in her practice to activate both real and imagined
narratives for her
paintings.