Sentences with phrase «afro heads»

It concentrates on black and white graphite works from the artist's early, almost abstract «afro heads,» to his intertwined figures, and on watercolors.

Directly referencing the movie through the titles of his subjects (each of Ofili's women is named after her filmic betrothed), the artist furthers the connection using his signature «afro heads» to create the nimble figures, evoking the bold angles and lithe arabesques of the film's fanciful choreography.

Afro head — celebration of Afrocentricity.»

A mainstay of Ofili's drawing practice, the «afro head» assumes new significance in the context of The Agony in the Garden, 2007, a suite of eleven intaglio prints.

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His hair springs from his head in a wild gray Afro, and his face often bears a comic, knowing smirk.

This fantastic and fun Afro - Caribbean dance routine focuses on the lower body, helping you lift and shape your booty, and lean out your legs while you burn fat and get a head to toe slim down.

The beat of the Afro - Caribbean drums to the rhythms of reggae and Calypso, forcing heads and hips to motion from side to side.

Written by New York Times Best Selling Author Jim DeFelice, the story follows the path of Kuma, a cybernetically enhanced killing machine with a bear's head who was made for one purpose, to kill Afro.

Stringing together small abstracted heads with Afro hairdos, Ofili ultimately clusters them into an undifferentiated black block at the right side of the page.

Tiny magazine cut - outs of people with Afros, their heads and faces only, are sprinkled throughout «She» and «Afrodizzia.»

A terra - cotta bust by Simone Leigh, its gray - beige head topped by an Afro composed of blue porcelain cowrie shells, is a homage to a specific person: the choreographer Katherine Dunham, who incorporated African styles in modern American dance and opened a performing arts school in East St. Louis in the 1960s.

In One Stone Head, 1997, which has Mr. Hammons gluing a tight afro (complete with a razored»90s geometric design) onto a head - sized rock that sits atop an old - fashioned hat, the artist deftly reference the African - American styles past and present — from the jazzman to the hip - hop artist — while nodding, however improbably, to the whole human history of art, from the objet trouvé exploits of Marcel Duchamp to Easter IslHead, 1997, which has Mr. Hammons gluing a tight afro (complete with a razored»90s geometric design) onto a head - sized rock that sits atop an old - fashioned hat, the artist deftly reference the African - American styles past and present — from the jazzman to the hip - hop artist — while nodding, however improbably, to the whole human history of art, from the objet trouvé exploits of Marcel Duchamp to Easter Islhead - sized rock that sits atop an old - fashioned hat, the artist deftly reference the African - American styles past and present — from the jazzman to the hip - hop artist — while nodding, however improbably, to the whole human history of art, from the objet trouvé exploits of Marcel Duchamp to Easter Island.

It is the same with the late 1990s pencil drawings, created almost obsessively from a myriad tiny heads with huge, stylised Afro halos and linked together by plaited beards to form chains of words and patterns like concrete poetry; perfect still for agit - prop posters.

A magnificent creation, it is built up in layers with bright, often iridescent painted whorls containing the cut - out heads of men with Afros, the surface dotted with dung - balls labelled with map pins spelling the names of eminent black sportsmen, and the whole thing spun into a psychedelic dazzle.

If you are familiar with older work then the dramatis personae of muscular bearded men and afro - headed, gender - ambiguous figures is still here amid odd, cactus - like growths.

The show includes five busts of black women, their lustrous ebony skin polished and smooth, their heads adorned with clusters of tiny porcelain flowers that resemble horns, an Afro, or a crown.

Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic has been conceived and developed by Tanya Barson, Curator of International Art at Tate Modern and is curated by Tanya Barson and Peter Gorschlüter, Head of Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Liverpool.