Sentences with phrase «black figures often»

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He charts the devastating consequences of the transformation of this gang and others into high - stakes, often violent corporate enterprises engaged in franchised dealing in crack cocaine — an entrepreneurial «black capitalism» that does not figure in conservative programs for urban renewal yet plays a significant role in the economic life of the inner city.

Please don't be watching peoples comments on this site so you can categorise and pigeon - hole us into your groups, that will lead to the cessation of free speech here — not all of us know everything, we are often learning by the process of conversation and don't have lots of black and white answers figured out.

There are a number of reasons for this, but one particularly striking figure is that a quarter of American parents still put their babies to sleep on their stomachs, a percentage that rises to half among African - Americans; black babies die of SIDS twice as often as white babies.)

Though the overall figures can in no way be compared to those of the US, we can compare the distrust which has grown up in black communities because of the closing of ranks, secrecy and lack of accountability which so often follows a death.

They will not create artificial colors like hot pink, completely platinum blonde, or jet black (ok, so that isn't a fake color, I just haven't figured out how to do it...) The blonde / light recipes will actually permanently lighten hair since they naturally bleach it but the red and dark hues will leave a temporary tint for a few weeks (depending on how often you wash it).

It's been so cold here in Georgia and I've been wearing pants way more often than what I normally do so I figured it was time to finally invest in a pair of black skinny jeans.

We warn our diplomatic companion not to touch anyone for fear of being detected, yet figures in black often conversate freely with us and museum guards occasionally shoo us from one room to the next as if we are intruders.

And 4.1 percent of black students reported going to class late «often,» versus 2.2 percent of white students (See Figure 1).

The figure of Manuelito is often represented as a white boy with eyes out of glass and black hair obtained from the first haircut of a newborn baby.

Los Angeles - and Berlin - based artist Maren Karlson's distorted, flat figures, most often rendered over a black background, have been popping up on the pages of Artforum and Vice and on the walls of galleries like Insterstate Projects in Brooklyn and Pushkin & Gogol in Berlin.

Prudence Heward exhibited frequently during her lifetime and she often received positive reviews — although some of her figure paintings, such as The Bather (1930)(Art Gallery of Windsor) and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre's Hester (1937)(one of her paintings depicting a naked black woman), provoked hostile reactions in the press.

Wiley's larger - than - life figures disturb and interrupt tropes of portrait painting, often blurring the boundaries between traditional and contemporary modes of representation and the critical portrayal of masculinity and physicality as it pertains to the view of black and brown young men.

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).

The Portland, Ore. - based company produces art books, calendars and gift products and for more than a dozen years has collaborated with the gallery on wall calendars showcasing works by 20th century African American artists including Cortor, whose stately and graceful images often celebrate the black female figure.

Minimal images on a black background are embellished by the sensuality of the aerial disciplines of the circus and the dynamism of the human figure often associated with nature.

To continue on the theme of influence, think Philip Guston after his turn to Golem - like figures in 1970, but with a sunny, often pastel palette that has nothing to do with Guston's fleshy pinks, fiery reds and sooty blacks.

The black artist, of African, Irish and American Indian descent, used her work to dismantle negative stereotypes about blacks, women, and black women in the 1970s, often incorporating figures like Aunt Jemima and Uncle Tom into her conglomerations.

As a conjuror or priest - like figure, Byars often participated in his own exhibitions wearing a hat and black, red or gold suits, discussing the work with visitors or standing motionless as if he were part of living sculpture.

An intense drawing phase began in the late 1960s, culminating in a painterly break with the «purity requirements» of abstraction: Guston introduced crude figures and fragments of figures into his works; they populated his pink, red, black, and blue canvases - smoking, drinking, often painting as well.

Johnson himself is known for his photography, films, sculptures and installations that often draw on the identities of black figures from recent history such as Don King and Sun Ra, as well exploring his own upbringing.

Derrick Adams» solo exhibition combines two ongoing series: «LIVE» and «IN COLOR», a collection of large - scale mixed media collage capturing the bold character dramatizations of black figures in entertainment; juxtaposed with «GRAY AREA», a series of grayscale mixed media collage addressing the often imbalanced modes of speculation and assumption.

A unique feature of her work is that her figures are often painted in monochromatic black or white.

Over the past ten years, New York - based artist Jeff Sonhouse (b. 1968) has created a powerful body of portrait paintings depicting often - masked black male figures that consistently defy and obscure classification.

In Howe's case, the inaugural trope is a simple goof on the notorious figure / ground dichotomy: each canvas presents a «portrait» of a young woman, usually nude, as often black as white, done in a rather dashing, painterly style reminiscent of the Ashcan School, against a ground that cites Abstract Expressionism or its immediate derivatives.