Sentences with phrase «black figures emerge»

Drawing on sources such as Jacques - Louis David's 1793 masterpiece The Death of Marat, carved and inked black figures emerge from swarms of writhing, fish - like eyes, with decorative woodcut prints and drawings collaged onto incised wooden panels.

His Black Painting (2003), for example, inspired by Ralph Ellison's book Invisible Man (1952) is a barely legible image of black figures emerging from a black ground.

Not exact matches

The elusive reality presented in Black Mould seems both topical and timeless, just as the robed figures emerge like actors without a clear script.

Boyce came to prominence in the early 1980s and, like Himid, she was a key figure in the period's emerging black British art scene.

Sonia Boyce (MBE, RA) emerged as an artist in the early 1980s as a key figure in the Black - British art scene, with artworks that spoke about race and gender.

In Viola's Transfigurations works, black - and - white images of ghostly figures emerge slowly from complete darkness eventually passing through a threshold of water into a world of color and light.

A striking aspect of Marshall's paintings is the emphatically black skin tone of his figures — a development the artist says emerged from an investigation into the invisibility of blacks in America and the unnecessarily negative connotations associated with darkness.

At the São Paulo gallery's European outpost, this weekend sees the first solo exhibition in Brussels by Luiz Roque, «The Modern Years», a series of three films emerging from the artist's interest in sculpture and bodily expression: Modern (2014) draws on research into Henry Moore's Recumbent Figure (1938) and performance artist Leigh Bowery (a fixture of London's»80s club culture) while in Rio De Janeiro (2017), a black transsexual woman holds a phone conversation with the founder of the city's Museum of Modern Art, in which she discusses a dream of the building burning.

Through these pages, Asawa emerges as one of the key figures of Black Mountain College and the radical artistic experimentation that came out of it.