Wool's 8 - foot - high enamel - on - aluminum painting, offered by an unnamed European collection, reads «If you can't take a joke you can get the fuck out of my house» in the artist's trademark
black block letters.
For «shot him in the face», his 2017 show at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, which later toured to Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, Pendleton installed a vinyl wallpaper bearing the provocative opening line from Ron Silliman's 1981 poem «Albany», enlarged in
black block letters: «If the function of writing is to «express the world».»
Not exact matches
State Sen. Tony Avella wrote a
letter to the state educational department asking them to
block Black from taking office.
InStyle's April cover star stepped out at LAX in the most Victoria Beckham-esque message tee we've ever seen (it is, of course, her own design), reading «Fashion Stole My Smile» in
block letters ($ 150; victoriabeckham.com), which she paired with a set of chic
black track pants and her boxy signature shades.
The appreciated English subtitles for the hearing impaired resemble closed captioning, with white
letters in
black blocks.
Jetzer points to the work of the Guerrilla Girls and Barbara Kruger — whose
black, red and white
block lettered poster works are now iconic — as examples since both riffed on contemporary in - your - face ad culture to bring to light issues of sexism, exploitation and privilege within American society.
Artist Hannah
Black sent an open
letter to the media, while another group
blocked the painting from view with their bodies last weekend, wearing shirts that read «
Black Death Spectacle» on the back as they stood in front of the piece.
In giant white
block letters on a
black ground, it proclaims, «Blind Idealism is Reactionary Scary Deadly,» with the words reactionary and scary overlaid by red crosses.
They culminate in «The Third Love Painting» (1960) in which a large phallus - figure topped with
black hairs contains a small
block of hand -
lettered text: the closing lines of a poem by Walt Whitman about his happiness while lying beside his sleeping lover, «under the same cover in the cool night.»
shout the
block letters in a small, sketchy
black - and - white canvas that Michel Majerus made in 1994, updating Andy Warhol's mid -»80s painting Somebody Wants to Buy Your Apartment Building!
Freestanding sculptures include a minimalist grid configuration by Carl Andre, a towering column of staggered concrete
blocks by Adrian Paules, a sleek
black triangular pillar made of resin by John McCracken, and a carved refrigerator by Josh Callaghan; wall mounted pieces include plaster bone forms arranged into
letters by Nathan Mabry, Light and Space artist Peter Alexander's colorful grouping of shimmering resin bars, and an annulus finished with silver leaf by Peter Shelton — each work displays a skilled proficiency in construction and intent.
His comments came after a private viewing of the finalists, which include a pornographic film retold in pink
letters, a coloured Perspex ceiling, and a giant
black block, entitled The Thinker.
Two massive works on paper,
Black People Are Shit and Green People Are Hark (both 2012), spell out their titles in massive,
block letters.
What to make of the neon piece spelling out the cryptic phrase «The subject self - defined» (Joseph Kosuth) or the painting over the sofa that reads «Feb. 27, 1987» in white
block letters on a
black field (On Kawara)?