The powerful and contemplative painting, rendered in a shock of Pop
Red against a black background is one of the largest self - portraits ever attempted by the artist.
Not exact matches
Against a
black cover
background was printed in blood
red the question, «Is God dead?»
The video is a low - budget affair, featuring white or
red lettering
against a stark
black - and - white
background and a faintly ominous soundtrack.
The billboards are plastered with three messages, one for each sign in
black letters
against a blood
red background.
The thorny, towering
black trees look gorgeous
against the snowy
background, especially so with Valerie's bold
red riding hood thrown into the mix.
They may be parti - colored, with patches of
black, liver,
red, orange, or gold
against a white or roan
background.
The
red stands out beautifully
against the clean, white
background and the soft
black and greys.
Other highlights of the exhibition include her Neverland series from 2002, where she photographed objects, either alone or in groups, on fields of color; Figure Drawings from 1988 - 2008, featuring an installation of 40 framed images of the human figure; Objects of Desire from 1983 - 1989, where she made collages of found photographs and rephotographed them
against bright
background of
red, blue, green, yellow, and
black; Renaissance Paintings from 1991, featuring individual figures and objects from disparate Renaissance paintings isolated and re-photographed
against monochrome
backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text redacted.
Here the
red surface
against the
black background symbolizes the human lives that are lost on a daily basis due to the use of private weapons.
Brilliant beams of white, yellow, orange and
red emanate from the buoy and flow upward
against a deep
black, star - specked
background as if it were floating through space in a sci - fi scene that's been invaded by webs of Abstract Expressionist paint.
The Harlem Renaissance, with its celebration of African American music, art, literature and history, was in full force, as paintings such as William H. Johnson's vibrantly coloured Street Life, Harlem (1939) and Arthur Dove's Swing Music (Louis Armstrong)(1938, below) suggest, while the latter also reflects the rising force of abstraction, its irregular shapes in varying
reds and yellows
against a deep
black background evoking «
red hot» jazz in a darkened space.
Mordor's own flag is a composite of a National Socialist white circle
against a
red background, with at its centre a Malevich - inspired
black square from whose corners sprout colourful Smithson-esque scrolls.
In Painting, the only remaining vestige of his past work's chromatic intensity is the
red band that pulses
against the maroon
background while floating above the closely hued brown and
black rectangular fields.
Up until that time he had worked only in
black and white, but the jewel - like tones possible with Polaroid film led him to make his first of many color pictures, a
black - coated Man Ray
against a
black background wearing bright
red Revlon nail polish.
His image does not appear on the screen, rather visitors see a
red spotlight and hear the audio of his disembodied voice which is paired with the words in his act, displayed caption - style on the screen
against a
black background.
Bars and curves of color that bleed into one another anticipate Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler in the 1950s — like her 1919
Red and Orange Streak
against a green
background and a 1924
Red, Yellow, and
Black Streak.
Like the rest of the living room, the fireplace employs
red - orange and
black accents
against a white, neutral
background to create visual interest and a decidedly eclectic look.