Sentences with phrase «whitten black monolith»

Summary: While investigating a strange signal emanating from a large black monolith on the moon, the crew of Discovery One discover that their onboard AI (HAL 9000) is malfunctioning.

The black monolith, or one of its relatives, is back, having been recently excavated from the bottom of a crater.

Apes, barely surviving amongst their more predatory enemies, develop tools when a tall, black monolith appears amongst them without explanation.

The Dawn of Man A primeval ape man makes a breakthrough - becoming endowed with intelligence after experiencing a mysterious black monolith.

The fantastic narrative structure jumps from a pre-historic era, when apes first discovered using bones as tools and as weapons, to a futuristic space - age when man discovers proof of intelligent alien life in the form of a gigantic black monolith on the moon.

A black monolith buried beneath the surface of the moon is beaming a strange signal to Jupiter.

In 2001, a similar black monolith has been found beneath the moon's surface.

A giant black monolith, also discovered on Earth by the protohumans earlier in the film, looms in this crater.

We are to rediscover this black monolith again in the film.

As digital and virtual networks infiltrate our everyday lives and subjective experiences, our relationship with technology manifests less as the fear of invasion by mysterious foreign forces, and more as an intimate grappling with newly mediated realities of time, space, and interpersonal relationships — i.e., less as the black monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and more as the metaphorical «black mirror,» the small, hyperconnected screen prone to catching us in moments of accidental self - contemplation.

It's a black monolith with only one button - the power switch - and two jacks, for headphones and power.

Here in Brazil, ereaders are not a black monolith but are still a very uncommon piece of hardware.

We want people to see it as a cool gadget as opposed to «what is that black monolith on the floor?»»

Of course, what is shown at E3 didn't transpire when Fight Night Round 3 arrived on our beloved black monolith, raising questions of whether it was real - time after all.

Jack Whitten's first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth presents works from several series — «Quantum Walls», «Portals», lenticular works from the «Third Entity», one piece from the continuing Black Monolith Project, and a sculpture (all dated 2015 — 17)-- continuing a five - decade - long investigation of passions vis - à - vis a testing exploration of painting itself.

His subjects for the Black Monolith series include W.E.B. Du Bois, Muhammad Ali, and Maya Angelou, among others.

Odyssey is accompanied by a full - color catalogue that features the sculptures made by Whitten over the past 50 years, as well as the Black Monolith series of paintings, and archival photographs.

Jack Whitten, Black Monolith, II: Homage To Ralph Ellison The Invisible Man, 1994, acrylic and mixed media on canvas: molasses, copper, salt, coal ash, chocolate, onion, herbs, rust, eggshell, razor blade, 1.5 x 1.3 m. Courtesy: the artist and Hauser & Wirth © Jack Whitten

Jack Whitten, Black Monolith VIII (For Maya Angelou), 2015.

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 Malcolm X.

In this session, Faith Smith (Associate Professor of African and Afro - American Studies and English) will discuss Jack Whitten's Black Monolith VIII (for Maya Angelou)(2015), acquired by the museum in 2016.

WHITTEN OFTEN GAVE REVERANCE to African American intellectuals and cultural figures in his work, including his mentors for whom he made «A Salute To Norman Lewis in Red, Black, Green» (1980), «Spiral: A Dedication to R. Bearden» (1988), and «Black Monolith IV For Jacob Lawrence» (2001).

From left, JACK WHITTEN, «Black Monolith IV for Jacob Lawrence,» 2001; HANK WILLIS THOMAS, «Rich Black Specimen # 460,» 2017; SANFORD BIGGERS, «Quilt # 25 (Yemanja),» 2013 Courtesy SCAD Museum of Art, Photo by Dylan Wilson

The mosaic - tile painting is part of Whitten's series of Black Monolith works paying tribute to African American visionaries — intellectuals, jazz musicians, and visual artists.

From left, Detail JACK WHITTEN, «Black Monolith IV for Jacob Lawrence,» 2001 (acrylic on canvas).

This one looked like the black monolith that was dropped from the sky in the opening sequence of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and I asked: «What's that?»

A well know series of work is called «Black Monoliths» which are «mosaic paintings.»

Also included in the show, which travels to the Metropolitan Museum of Art later this year, are works from Whitten's «Black Monoliths» paintings series, which pay homage to Ralph Ellison, W. E. B. DuBois, and others through abstract portraits.

In the 1990s, Whitten concertedly separates figure and ground through color, as is evident in Black Monolith II and Vibrations.

This painting, part of Whitten's «Black Monolith» series, honors Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man, a book that parallels a story of a young black man's search for identity with «the struggle of the nation to define itself in the tumultuous years of the early Civil Rights Movement.»

As the full title of Black Monolith V suggests, at the end of five decades, Whitten's memorial paintings have come full circle.

22 Here, as in the case of his Ralph Ellison homage, Black Monolith II, Whitten's effort to represent visual elements of his experience comes in the form of a stark separation between figure and ground.

In Black Monolith V: Full Circle (2014), Whitten honors the writer Amiri Baraka, whose work addresses topics like black liberation and white racism.

For over four decades, Whitten utilized the tesserae to develop his Black Monoliths, a series of abstracted tributes to Black artists, musicians, and public figures such as Ralph Ellison, Chuck Berry, and W.E.B. Du Bois.

His Black Monoliths, a series of abstracted tributes, memorialize important Black figures such as James Baldwin and Barbara Jordan.

For over four decades, Whitten utilized the tesserae to develop his Black Monolith series.

Detail of Jack Whitten's Black Monolith X, Birth of Muhammad Ali, 2016.

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.

IN ADDITION TO SHOWCASING HIS SCULPTURES, «Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963 - 2016» will unite for the first time the artist's celebrated Black Monolith series, works that pay tribute to black cultural figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, John Coltrane, Ralph Ellison, and fellow artist Jacob Lawrence.

Black Monolith X, Birth of Muhammad Ali, 2016.

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.

Jack Whitten, 1939 - 2018 Black Monolith, II: Homage To Ralph Ellison The Invisible Man, 1994 Acrylic and mixed media on canvas: molasses, copper, salt, coal ash, chocolate, onion, herbs, rust, eggshell, razor blade 58 x 52 in

I have just completed another in my series of Black Monolith paintings, this one honors the rock n» roll master, Chuck Berry.

JACK WHITTEN, «Black Monolith, II: Homage To Ralph Ellison The Invisible Man,» 1994 (acrylic and mixed media on canvas: molasses, copper, salt, coal ash, chocolate, onion, herbs, rust, eggshell, razor blade).

Meanwhile, one of his most recognized bodies of work is his Black Monolith series, which honors friends and pivotal figures with whom he shares an intellectual connection, such as Lawrence, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Barbara Jordan and Amiri Baraka.

The ticketed exhibition includes 40 works inspired by the materials and traditions of Africa and ancient Greece, plus Whitten's Black Monolith paintings honoring prominent African Americans such as Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, and James Baldwin.

The exhibition also unites Whitten's Black Monoliths series for the first time to reveal how sculpture influenced his paintings.

The artist's ongoing «Black Monolith» project dedicated to memorializing black artists, writers, thinkers, and poets, is represented by Black Monolith X, Birth of Mohammad Ali (2016), another large - scale painting that features two irregular shapes which appear both pooled across the surface and, from a distance, unmoored from it.

The tribute to Berry is part of his Black Monolith series memorializing important African American figures such as James Baldwin, Barbara Jordan, and Muhammad Ali.

Some monkey hits another on the head with a leg bone, and jumps up and down in front of a strange, black monolith, and wallah!