Sikkema Jenkins also opted for a sparely curated stand with great results, bringing a tableau of Kara Walker's instantly recognizable
black paper silhouette cutouts to fill the back wall.
Rarely was there a situation where a student is capable of attracting so much attention with her piece as was the case with Kara and her mouthful of a mural — it wasn't just the theme of the piece that caught the notice of critics, but its notorious form of placing
black paper silhouette figures against a white wall.
At the age of twenty - eight, she became the youngest artist to receive the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant Award for her large - scale
black paper silhouettes cut and applied to white walls.
Twenty years after her breakthrough exhibition at the Drawing Center and more than five years after a Whitney retrospective,
her black paper silhouettes and their white masters can still anger black artists and black audiences along with unwitting whites.
Playing upon the privileged and prejudiced history of bourgeois painting, Walker decided to make her initial artistic mark through
black paper silhouettes.
Not exact matches
The Halloween be inspired by The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe and decorate your home with a raven theme, keeping everything
black with some feather or
black raven
paper silhouettes around your home.
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Cut out the inside
silhouette of the leaf so that a
black paper frame remains around the cut - out leaf.
She is best known for her room - size tableaux of
black cut -
paper silhouettes that examine the underbelly of America's racial and gender tensions.
Kara Walker is known for her
paper silhouettes which combine the saccharine and the horrific in their uncompromising representations of the
black body.
One can imagine his dream companions in the
black paper birds and human
silhouettes.
While best known for her monumental
black cut -
paper silhouettes mounted on walls, Walker has been making short films since 2004, and three of these works were included in the survey of her work at the Hammer.
From a cursory glance, Kara Walker's
black cut -
paper silhouettes look like benign 19th - century antebellum scenes or Walt Disney cartoon characters from such classic pieces as the 1946 film, Song of the South.
An artist would render a person's
silhouette by cutting
black paper to make a keepsake profile portrait.
«Do Not Abandon Me» originated with Bourgeois, who began the works by painting male and female torsos in profile on
paper, mixing red, blue and
black gouache pigments with water to create delicate and fluid
silhouettes.
«'
Black Out:
Silhouettes Then and Now» is the first major museum exhibition to explore the art form of cut -
paper profiles in terms of their rich historical roots and powerful contemporary presence.
My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, the first full - scale American museum survey of the work of artist Kara Walker, features works ranging from her signature
black cut -
paper silhouettes to film animations to more than 100 works on
paper.
Kara Walker is an African - American artist who rose to fame for her use of large
paper silhouettes to explore social issues surrounding gender, race and
black history.
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black granite, laser etched surface Blacklisted: A Planted Allegory (Asylum), 2015, Slide projector, 35 mm slide, custom Da - Lite rear projection aluminum framed projection screen Blacklisted: A Planted Allegory (Herbarium), 2015, Steel herbarium cabinets, MDF, wood, hardboard, brass, assorted
paper, 133 hand - cut
silhouettes Blacklisted: A Planted Allegory (Collection), 2015, MDF, cast glass, flameworked glass, tempered glass, silkscreen print
Kara Walker's instantly recognizable cut -
paper silhouettes are visually striking and charged with racial, sexual, and historical tension, commenting on slavery, the
Black American experience, and women's place in society.
It's smart, for instance, to put a classic Kara Walker cut -
paper silhouette drawing showing violent, lurid subject matter in hygienic white on
black alongside a gray Andy Warhol electric chair, «Triple Silver Disaster,» from 1963.
In her
black and white cut
paper silhouettes, which have become her trademark, the combined presence of both colours highlights their symbolic opposition in the context of the United States.
Christina Ramberg Untitled (
silhouettes) n.d.
black felt - tip marker and yellow marker on
paper, blue marker on reverse 11 x 8 1/2 inches
AT THE START OF HER CAREER, Kara Walker was first recognized for her mural - sized narrative
silhouettes — cut
paper depictions of the imagined indignities and violence experienced by
blacks in the antebellum South.
There is a great
paper from Ferm Living on wallpaperdirect.co.uk which is called «Fashion FW141» which has
silhouettes of people or you could go for a digital image such as «Eternal 30730» again
black and white.