Sentences with phrase «androgynous figure»
An "androgynous figure" refers to a person or thing that possesses qualities or features that are both masculine and feminine, making it difficult to determine their gender. It describes a lack of clear distinction between male and female characteristics. Full definition
In a nearby gallery, Jamaican artist Ebony G. Patterson's paintings suggest ethereal androgynous figures in vortices of glitter and paint in what a wall text calls her «exploration of Jamaican dancehall culture as a space for... masquerading and gender fluidity» in the «laissez - faire spirit of Carnival.»
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The paintings, with richly hued backgrounds, depict androgynous figures and abstracted and historically vague settings to blur the line between abstraction and figuration.
They will be filled with her signature protagonists: androgynous figures swathed in layers of dramatic dress and drapery.
And Elizabeth Peyton on occasion paints naked men, but her characteristically androgynous figures — whether unclothed or not — signal chaste longing more than carnal knowledge.
Chloe Piene's jittery drawings, nodding toward Schiele, show emaciated and androgynous figures masturbating.
The paintings shown at Galerie Thomas Schulte in this exhibition all show the same androgynous figure in a strict, sketch - like style.
Visitors to Upper Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park this May through September will be welcomed by ARMORS, a site - specific public art project on the park's Cloisters Lawn for which Icelandic artist Steinunn Thorarinsdottir has positioned each of three androgynous figures in
During her Paris years (1959 - 1964) she worked on series of Black Paintings, depicting androgynous figures and scrawled text fragments incorporated into the themes of mothers and children, lovers and prostitutes.
Strange signs up at what is basically Hogwarts East, a school of dark arts run by a principal even more venerable than Dumbledore, an androgynous figure supposedly of Celtic origins known as The Ancient One, who — as played with impeccably urbane grace by Tilda Swinton — should really be referred to respectfully as The One of a Certain Age.
The silence of this androgynous figure — whose presence is ostensibly about the role of the media in the dissemination of public speech — compounds the viewer's inability to assign a conventional gender definition.
Characteristic of Takano's painting style, the androgynous figures in On the Night of Departure have circular faces, rail - thin bodies, and eyes without pupils.
Its subject, an androgynous figure dressed in a coat and blazer, balances a blank notebook in one hand and a worm - ridden apple atop the other.
From what we can tell, we expect to see some wonky, androgynous figures, and goopy, lushly colored paint.
Enthroned on a mountain rising up from an icy landscape covered in blue crystals beneath a pink sky is an androgynous figure in a white cape — a resident of the planet Gethen, perhaps, the scene of Ursula K. Le Guin's 1969 novel «The Left Hand of Darkness»?
The works are comprised of brilliantly hued geometries, alphanumeric forms, and androgynous figures.
The androgynous figure appears situated between the sexes; its body has a prepubescent, almost childlike look.
Just when you thought it was safe to walk into a gallery and pretend to be shocked or titillated, you turn the corner and see his ludicrous portrait of art world arbiter Clement Greenberg as «Clemunteena Gweenburg» (1971), an androgynous figure simultaneously pleasuring and sodomizing him / her self with paint brushes.
The sculpture is comprised of an androgynous figure that seems to be caught between a knight in armour and a human.
Looking toward the matronly but androgynous figure on the fourth wall, the Lars Von Trier woman completes the circle.