Sentences with phrase «black monolith»

The exhibition also unites Whitten's Black Monoliths series for the first time to reveal how sculpture influenced his paintings.

They smile at his drawings, and brows furrow over his sculptures, and that black meta - computer of his which belongs somewhere between the portentous black monolith in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 and Rodin's Thinker.

I have just completed another in my series of Black Monolith paintings, this one honors the rock n» roll master, Chuck Berry.

According to Obrist, the installation is «based on Stanley Kubrick's black monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey,» he said.

Summary: While investigating a strange signal emanating from a large black monolith on the moon, the crew of Discovery One discover that their onboard AI (HAL 9000) is malfunctioning.

In the 1990s, Whitten concertedly separates figure and ground through color, as is evident in Black Monolith II and Vibrations.

Grid Revisited III (Study for Black Monolith III)(1997) Sumi ink on Rives mounted to ragboard 16h x 16w in (40.6 h x 40.6 w cm)

As the full title of Black Monolith V suggests, at the end of five decades, Whitten's memorial paintings have come full circle.

Apes, barely surviving amongst their more predatory enemies, develop tools when a tall, black monolith appears amongst them without explanation.

Around the edges of the large circle in this piece, Whitten has applied acrylic «tiles,» recalling works like Black Monolith II.

Jack Whitten, Black Monolith VIII (for Maya Angelou), 2015 (detail).

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).

Detail of Jack Whitten's Black Monolith X, Birth of Muhammad Ali, 2016.

The plot is not so much of structure but rather of events or moments in time that are united by the appearance of a large black monolith.

The ticketed exhibition includes 40 works inspired by the materials and traditions of Africa and ancient Greece, plus Whitten's Black Monolith paintings honoring prominent African Americans such as Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, and James Baldwin.

The source describes the device as «something like a smooth black monolith, with few visual interruptions to its sleek design.»

The mosaic - tile painting is part of Whitten's series of Black Monolith works paying tribute to African American visionaries — intellectuals, jazz musicians, and visual artists.

It's an imposing black monolith that would look like a giant chunk of coal hewn from the curtain of mountain behind it if it weren't for its rain - slicked obsidian sheen.

Yet perhaps fittingly for a quantum device, uncertainty persists around how the impressive black monolith known as D - Wave One actually works.

The Dawn of Man A primeval ape man makes a breakthrough - becoming endowed with intelligence after experiencing a mysterious black monolith.

Sony's 10 - year - old black monolith was all about the games, so we're calling out the greatest, year by year

In 2001, a similar black monolith has been found beneath the moon's surface.

A giant black monolith, also discovered on Earth by the protohumans earlier in the film, looms in this crater.

Looking like a suitably futuristic if unassuming black monolith, with all vents and most ports hidden round back, the matte / gloss aesthetic is divided by a glowing power line that glows blue at boot up before giving way to a more living room - friendly white.

Of course, what is shown at E3 didn't transpire when Fight Night Round 3 arrived on our beloved black monolith, raising questions of whether it was real - time after all.

Jack Whitten's first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth presents works from several series — «Quantum Walls», «Portals», lenticular works from the «Third Entity», one piece from the continuing Black Monolith Project, and a sculpture (all dated 2015 — 17)-- continuing a five - decade - long investigation of passions vis - à - vis a testing exploration of painting itself.

In recent years, Whitten's best known body of work has been the ongoing Black Monoliths series, begun in the 90s, which uses acrylic and mixed medium to create mosaics of black artists, writers, and political thinkers such as Jacob Lawrence and Malcolm X.

IN ADDITION TO SHOWCASING HIS SCULPTURES, «Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963 - 2016» will unite for the first time the artist's celebrated Black Monolith series, works that pay tribute to black cultural figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, John Coltrane, Ralph Ellison, and fellow artist Jacob Lawrence.

Jack Whitten Black Monolith V Full Circle: For LeRoi Jones AKA Amiri Baraka (2014) Acrylic on canvas; 84h x 63w in (213.4 h x 160w cm)

The parallel black monoliths of Terence Koh's Untitled, 2006, seem a totem

From the front it's an inky black monolith of a thing, with the stand - out feature being the way the left and right edges curve away into the all - metal body.

Jack Whitten, Black Monolith VIII (For Maya Angelou), 2015.

From left, JACK WHITTEN, «Black Monolith IV for Jacob Lawrence,» 2001; HANK WILLIS THOMAS, «Rich Black Specimen # 460,» 2017; SANFORD BIGGERS, «Quilt # 25 (Yemanja),» 2013 Courtesy SCAD Museum of Art, Photo by Dylan Wilson

Black Monolith X, Birth of Muhammad Ali, 2016.

22 Here, as in the case of his Ralph Ellison homage, Black Monolith II, Whitten's effort to represent visual elements of his experience comes in the form of a stark separation between figure and ground.

In Black Monolith V: Full Circle (2014), Whitten honors the writer Amiri Baraka, whose work addresses topics like black liberation and white racism.

In addition to an OLED display, the device is said to have a 5.8 - inch screen that will make it look like «a smooth black monolith,» with very few visual interruptions to its design.

Based on the black monolith from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the 10 - by -4-foot slab harbors a magnet that is constantly repelled by another magnet embedded in the floor.

It ends in a bright light, a vision of evolving consciousness, as a black monolith is discovered and explored on Jupiter by the mission astronauts.

The black monolith, or one of its relatives, is back, having been recently excavated from the bottom of a crater.

One day, a black monolith appears out of nowhere.

A black monolith buried beneath the surface of the moon is beaming a strange signal to Jupiter.

Like the black monolith in 2001, late novelist David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest casts a long shadow over the chatty, sharply observed The End of the Tour.

We are to rediscover this black monolith again in the film.

It's a black monolith with only one button - the power switch - and two jacks, for headphones and power.

Here in Brazil, ereaders are not a black monolith but are still a very uncommon piece of hardware.

We want people to see it as a cool gadget as opposed to «what is that black monolith on the floor?»»

The diptych, a red and black monolith, will be his largest work shown in the gallery to date.