Sentences with phrase «black figures within»

The historical depth to these paintings and the political importance of a show that so deftly depicts and places black figures within art history, simply can't be overstated.

Kerry James Marshall's major monographic retrospective presents a broad range of pictorial traditions to counter stereotypical representations of black people in society and reassert the black figure within the canon of Western painting.

As Bearden transformed Homer's Odyssey into the Black Odyssey using the black figure, for Kerry James Marshall he has worked to reassert the place of the black figure within the canon of Western painting.

This voracious appetite for art history informed Marshall's singular artistic goal, appropriating the grand artistic gestures of historical movements in order to rectify the glaring absence of the black figure within Western art history.

Not exact matches

In addition, these merchants came within 3 percent of their Black Friday sales numbers, but only within 60 percent of CyberMonday figures.

Senior figures including party leadership contender Liam Fox said he had no chance of getting Britain # 10.4 billion in the black within four years anyway.

Set at the crossroads of black integration, Soviet vs US aggression and the early days of women in the workplace, Hidden Figures is a time capsule of personal fears, biases and hopes that just happen to collide within the NASA environment.

Nearly half of black graduates (47 percent) in the 2008 cohort enrolled in a graduate school degree program within four years, compared to 38 percent of white graduates (see Figure 3).

During that decade, he went on to become a key figure within the broad alliance of artists, which came to be known as The Black Art Movement.

But where is the black figure or black culture within this history?

Her current body of work explores the tensions found within systemic codes in which black males, in particular, are hunted, sexualized, feared, and imprisoned, yet are also seen as aspirational figures.

«For people like me, struggle has been part of our culture, and within that I've been looking at the ways black people keep moving and thriving,» says the Brooklyn artist, whose ongoing series of «Floater» paintings features black figures reclining blissfully in pools.

Among the works that did well were Lot 16, a charming small sculpture, one of three examples down in 1945 - 6, by David Smith, shown above, that sold for $ 220,000 (not including the buyer's premium) and had had a high estimate of $ 150,000; Lot 5, «Atantolone,» a gloss household paint on canvas of colored dots on a white field that sold for $ 170,000 (not including the buyer's premium), well over its high estimate of $ 120,000; Lot 14, a large 1943 painted wood and wire sculpture, «Constellation,» by Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) that sold for $ 1,982,500 (including the buyer's premium), more than double its high estimate, and Lot 24, a larger Calder sculpture, «Trepied,» that sold near its low estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 20, a large and very interesting and abstract but not very colorful 1953 Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), «Two Figures at a Window,» that sold above its $ 1.2 million high estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 27, «Tour III» by Brice Marden (b. 1938) that sold within its estimates for $ 1,487,500 (including the buyer's premium), tying the artist's record; Lot 41, «Grillo,» by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) that sold for $ 1,102,500 (including the buyer's premium), also within its pre-sale estimates; and Lot 31, «Vierwaldstätte See,» a large black and white 1969 landscape by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) that sold for $ 1,047,500 near its low estimate of $ 1 million.

Nineteenth - century landscape paintings by a self - taught black artist hang on the walls, Baroque sculptures of dancing figures face each other in an otherwise sterile vitrine, and baseball caps from Knuckles's collection are displayed commercially in a row within that nearby open - ended vitrine.

On bright white Dibond, black lines track the hand's erratic ambulations, while red gradations are contained within geometric figures of a more digital register.

As can be seen in Figure 2, the observational data (in black) falls within the range of climate model simulations that are run using all forcings (shaded red), but lies outside the range of model simulations run using only natural forcings (dashed blue lines).

Figure 2: Ice number size distributions as simulated (dendrites in red, aggregates in blue, total average in yellow) and observed (black and green, from different instrument combinations) within cloud (left) and below cloud (right).