Sentences with phrase «black war paint»

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«Perhaps World Wars are the black spots necessary for the perfection of the divine painting» (p. 51).

Spielberg being Spielberg, there are some inspired visual touches right away: the reflection of tracers from rifle fire on the black camo war paint streaking Ellsberg's face.

Since players experience the war from almost every characters perspective, it avoids painting anyone in particular as a true villain (except Nobunaga Oda, that black armour wearing ****).

Gallery, New York, NY Cosmic Wonder, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Fransisco, CA Dark, Curated by Rein Wolfs and Jan Grosfeld), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands A Lover's Discourse: Nobuyoshi Araki, Annette Kelm, terence koh, Sakiko Nomura, Heinz Peter knes, Macos Rosales, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA War on 45 / My Mirrors Are Painted Black (For You), Bortolami Dayan Gallery, New York, NY

They became more colorful and less representational, leading to his first totally abstract piece, Composition I, a colorful painting destroyed during World War II, known now only through a black and white photograph.

Porter chose to paint what had been an earlier symbol of American abundance — and during the Civil War period one particularly associated with free blacks — when it was increasingly defined by virulent stereotyping.

In her Let us now Praise Famous Men (2012) series of acrylic paintings, Ruyter appropriated Depression - era black and white photographs from the archive of the Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information in the Library of Congress.

«Black and Red» is an oil on canvas, abstract painting executed in red, black and orange dabbed and running oil paints by Post War, Abstract ExpressioniBlack and Red» is an oil on canvas, abstract painting executed in red, black and orange dabbed and running oil paints by Post War, Abstract Expressioniblack and orange dabbed and running oil paints by Post War, Abstract Expressionist...

«Whirlwind» is an abstract oil and graphite on canvas painting executed in subtle shades of black, cream, burnt umber and rusty peach by Post War arti...

«The Day After» is an abstract painting executed in reds and blacks by Post War, Abstract Expressionist artist Michael Corinne West.

With an enduring «capacity for inspiring genuine delight as well as provoking disquiet,» 3 examples in Western cultures range from the satyrs in Greco - Roman mythology to early medieval church gargoyles to Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights (1490 — 1500), Peter Paul Rubens's two versions of The Massacre of the Innocents (c. 1611 — 1612 and c. 1638), William Blake's Nebuchadnezzar (c. 1795 — 1805), and Goya's The Disasters of War (1810 — 1820) and Black Paintings (1820 — 1823), in which strange creatures, disembodied heads, and diabolical tableaux meet masterful artistic skill and poignant existential resonance.

You started out with a series of monochromatic portraits of soldiers, either in red or in black, followed by a series of predominantly black paintings concerned with public war monuments and symbols of power, followed by a series of abstract white paintings and finally the gray abstract paintings.

His black - on - black «Black Dada» paintings — which incorporate letters from the titular phrase — reference the artistic and literary movement that arose in reaction to what he has referred to as the «state - sanctioned physical and intellectual brutality» of World War I, as well as LeRoi Jones's 1964 poem, «Black Dada Nihilismus.&rblack - on - black «Black Dada» paintings — which incorporate letters from the titular phrase — reference the artistic and literary movement that arose in reaction to what he has referred to as the «state - sanctioned physical and intellectual brutality» of World War I, as well as LeRoi Jones's 1964 poem, «Black Dada Nihilismus.&rblack «Black Dada» paintings — which incorporate letters from the titular phrase — reference the artistic and literary movement that arose in reaction to what he has referred to as the «state - sanctioned physical and intellectual brutality» of World War I, as well as LeRoi Jones's 1964 poem, «Black Dada Nihilismus.&rBlack Dada» paintings — which incorporate letters from the titular phrase — reference the artistic and literary movement that arose in reaction to what he has referred to as the «state - sanctioned physical and intellectual brutality» of World War I, as well as LeRoi Jones's 1964 poem, «Black Dada Nihilismus.&rBlack Dada Nihilismus.»

Finding his place in the Abstract Expressionism hall of fame alongside Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell is best known for his Elegy to the Spanish Republic series which he worked on throughout his life — over 140 paintings memorializing the injustices of the Spanish Civil War featuring bold black shapes on a white background.

Her more recent work, from 2007, called I Was In Baghdad Ochre Fade, is based on the transcriptions of documents from the Iraq War while her Redaction Paintings series from 2008 features declassified memos and much of the text is blacked out and censored.

After serving as a pilot and cryptographer in World War II, Kenneth Noland studied painting at Black Mountain College, an ultra-progressive school boasting faculty members Josef Albers, Ilya Bolotowsky, and Willem de Kooning, as well as students Robert Rauschenberg, Dorothea Rockburne, and Kenneth Snelson, among others.

From the tortured bodies in Francisco Goya's seminal Disasters Of War series to his surreal Black Paintings, daubed directly on to the walls of his house, the Spanish great depicted the darkness of the soul like no other artist.

For the «Bacchus» series, painted in the midst of the Iraq War, the artist remembered again Homer's Iliad and returned to the very characteristic writing he had explored in the «Black Paintings».

Painting mostly with yellows, browns and whites and blacks in oil and metal on a 110 1/4 - by 154 1/8 - inch canvas, it conjures mud - strewn, war - ruined cities but it is more luminous than ominous and has a conservative high estimate of $ 40,000.

Motherwell speaks of his relationship with his parents; attending prep school; studying philosophy at Stanford University and Harvard University; his theory of automatism; European and American painters in post-war New York; teaching at Black Mountain College; teaching at Hunter College; his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art and other exhibitions; his collages with Gauloise cigarette packages; the photograph The Irascibles; his membership in American Abstract Artists; his marriage to Helen Frankenthaler; his use of color and light in his paintings; spending summers in Provincetown, MA; beginning printmaking; playing poker; working with the art dealers Kootz, Janis, and Frank Lloyd of Marlborough; his series Elegy for the Spanish Civil War, Je t «aime, Beside the Sea, Open, and Lyric Suite.

However, there is enough of the unignorable remainder — Disasters of War, Black Paintings etc — to ensure this emerges a rounded, intelligent assessment.

The very visceral process of the scraping and rubbing out of images in the Black Paintings, moreover, anticipates the ripped, torn and violated sheets of paper on which Spero literally unleashed her anger in works about the Vietnam War and the torture of women.

«Whirlwind» is an abstract oil and graphite on canvas painting executed in subtle shades of black, cream, burnt umber and rusty peach by Post War artist William Baziotes.

Having first encountered Swiss artist Philippe Decrauzat through his Komakino, 2006 — a Joy Division — inspired «wall decal» installed in «War on 45 / My Mirrors Are Painted Black (For You),» Banks Violette's recent curatorial endeavor at Bortolami Dayan — I approached his concurrent New York solo debut at the Swiss Institute — Contemporary Art with trepidation.

The booth features Wally Hedrick's black paintings, a series in which the artist painted over existing paintings in black paint every time the U.S. invaded another country, culminating in The War Room, an installation he made in the late 1960s; preliminary drawings from performance artist Simone Forti's «News Animations» series, her way of understanding and dealing with world news (one drawing reads «Reason, fear, hatred, compassion, survival» drawn on a figure); and Judith Bernstein's phallic sculptures and 2D works, including a modified American flag topped with phallic balloons contained in glass - covered frames.

Nowadays many creators have been seduced into the space of otherness and the abject, as a banner we can lift the embodiments of delusion of Goya in his Black Paintings and The Disasters of War, or visit the work of David Cronenberg in The Fly, Tod Browings with Freaks, the otherness worked by Lynch, Bacon's deformed faces, the sexual exaltation in Picasso and Kubin, Barney's beautiful Chimeras, the twisted bodies of John Currin, or the «Frankensteinian» exercises of Cindy Sherman, they like many other artists, have used this place as a sign of vulnerability of the predatory condition, of the primary lethal and self - destructive impulses of human beings.

To be sure, this painting (and its counterpart from the following year, Nazi War Cave # 2, which reverses the black ground and white foreground) is engaging on many levels.

Nazi War Cave # 1 (1985), a black - and - white acrylic painting, also from Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile, features some similar crystalline imagery and its own provocative text snippets running along the margins.

In 1967 - 1968 two drawings were reproduced in S.M.S. III by the Letter Edged in Black Press, (a series of portfolios assembled in protest of the Vietnam War), and I was included in New York 10 1969, a portfolio of prints published by Tanglewood Press, and an important article in Newsweek magazine about the new generation of artists, which featured a color reproduction of my painting Cheat River.

Open to the whole family, the free event will explore elements of collage, drawing and painting, while learning about the role and legacy of black solders during World War II.

Hedrick's Black Paintings culminated in 1967 with «War Room» — an installation of a group of four eleven - by - eleven foot black canvases, each filling a wall of the room facing inwards, then arranged into a square in the shape of a room with an entry Black Paintings culminated in 1967 with «War Room» — an installation of a group of four eleven - by - eleven foot black canvases, each filling a wall of the room facing inwards, then arranged into a square in the shape of a room with an entry black canvases, each filling a wall of the room facing inwards, then arranged into a square in the shape of a room with an entry door.

The Black Paintings were Hedrick's protest against the Vietnam War in which he took about 50 of his early canvases and painted them in heavy layers of black oil pBlack Paintings were Hedrick's protest against the Vietnam War in which he took about 50 of his early canvases and painted them in heavy layers of black oil pblack oil paint.

The Star Wars Black Series toys hark back to the days when you would chew the lead paint off Han - Solo's boot.Trying... Read more

The iconic art deco houses were painted black during World War Two to camouflage them from enemy aircraft — a tactic that paid off.