Sentences with phrase «casting black figures»

The five paintings reimagine public housing projects in Chicago and Los Angeles (where Marshall grew up with his family in Nickerson Gardens), casting black figures at the center of romanticized pastoral scenes inspired by Italian Renaissance paintings.

Not exact matches

She cast two of the three supernatural figures who guide Meg on her quest as women of color (Oprah Winfrey and Mindy Kaling), and cast a little - known black actress named Storm Reid as Meg herself.

Black Panther isn't the visual breakthrough that Doctor Strange was, and the filmmakers haven't yet figured out how to make its protagonist as engaging as his supporting cast.

This year, three of the nine Best Picture nominees (Moonlight, Fences and Hidden Figures) have a primarily Black cast, with Joi McMillon becoming the first Black nominee for Best Film Editing for Moonlight.

Though the Black Series figures may be the best and most affordable, a close second are these die - cast Elite Series figures.

Zaza looks dashing in black tails and white collar — perfectly cast as a romantic figure — and scurries about with persecuted haste, a nervous twitch of a man.

Marvel's upcoming Black Panther solo film has added another actor to its expansive supporting cast, this time in the form of Emmy Award - winning and Golden Globe - nominated actor Sterling K. Brown as N'Jobu, «a figure from T'Challa aka Black Panther's past.»

From the legendary Blackbeard to the violent and malicious Charles Vane — Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag brings together a cast of historical figures unlike any other to tell the true story of the Golden Age of Pirates.

At once traditional in her approach to form, line, and color, and decidedly contemporary in her self - reflexivity about her medium, the British - Ghanaian writer, poet, and painter represents a bold and beautiful cast of black figures culled from the haze of memory, projection, and fiction.

Marcel Wanders» total environment will include several bodies of work: large abstract figural mirrors, such as Dysmorphophobia 1, 2 and 3, with carved details and cutouts, create an illusion of a character or ghostly figure; Self 2 is a steel cabinet and kinetic piece, balancing a sculptural ovoid form that abstracts a human head and physically rocks on the top surface; Tempter, an over-sized adult rocking unicorn is cast in bronze with metal chain stirrups; Shiqule Nuhai, two ceramic vases, monumental in height, reference Marcel Wanders» Delft Blue collection with a darker sensibility, using black glaze.

The British - born artist paints mysterious figures, a diverse cast of Black subjects plucked from her imagination.

In works like Darkytown Rebellion (2000), the artist uses overhead projectors to throw colored light onto the ceiling, walls, and floor of the exhibition space; the lights cast a shadow of the viewer's body onto the walls, where it mingles with Walker's black - paper figures and landscapes.

The Paolozzi, a robot - like agglomeration of machine parts cast in green - patinated bronze, also in that room, is not as immediately cringe - worthy, but it doesn't make much of impression, especially in the company of its neighbors, the aforementioned Giacometti and Louise Bourgeois» tall, black, and phallic «Sleeping Figure» (1950).

The experience was a bit bewildering at first, since the studio is a laboratory where the artist has more than a dozen «experiments» going simultaneously: a giant firefly contraption takes up a swing - set zone; materials for an upcoming performance are laid out on every surface of the seating and sofa zone; fish tanks surround a computer zone and provide the staging ground for an oceanic corral project; dozens of human arm forms, cast in a Black Power salute and cast in gold, are lined up along a wall, in preparation for a huge installation in Washington, D.C. this fall; a 3 - D printer is on pause as it creates Lilliputian figures for who - knows - what; and everywhere are various staging grounds of plastic models which will eventually be sprayed in gold and mounted on pins, to create Kaino's now - signature six - foot - tall, glittering gold pin drawings that suggest atomized worlds.

The two young men, one cast black, one cast white, are styled in the manner of Druids or Star Wars action figures, and presented as life - sized chess pieces — six foot tall pawns, standing on black and white marble squares.

Exhibition Checklist Main Gallery (Clockwise from entrance) Robert Arneson Splatt, 1983 bronze with unique ceramic base 71 x 21 x 21 inches RAs 130.01 Robert Arneson Elvis II, 1978 conte, pastel on paper 41 5/8 x 29 7/8» RAd 04 Joan Brown Self - Portrait at Age 42, 1980 enamel on canvas 71 3/4» x 60» JBRp 19 Steven Campbell Men Insulting Nature and the Notion of Travel, 1986 oil on canvas 83 x 99 inches SCamp 01 Carol Cole Tar Baby, 2004 mixed media 7 x 13 inches CCs 1 Peter Saul Come and Get Me, 1968 oil on canvas 63 1/2 x42 inches PSp 118 Richard Shaw Figure on a Palette, 1980 glazed porcelain 39 x 13 x 18 inches RSs 68 Andrew Lenaghan Big Sarah, 2005 acrylic on canvas 77 1/2 x 58 inches AnLp 395 Yoan Capote Madness II, 2004 steel 70 1/2 x 40 x 23 inches YCs 19 Collier Schorr Esther's Fine Dream (Ashes to Ashes, We All Fall Down), 1991 cast paper, acrylic, pencil, and collage L 18 x W 12 x D 10 inches CoSs 1 James Barsness Untitled (Red nude on street), 2004 acrylic, ballpoint pen 12 x 9 inches JBARd 60 James Barsness Untitled (with jack o'lantern), 2004 acrylic, ballpoint pen, inkjet archival print on paper 11 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches JBARd 61 Anthony Kulig Look - Out, 2005 plaster, acrylic Two figures 17 x 4 1/2 x 3 inches each AKuls 8 Don Colley Weave 2003 7 x 6 1/2 inches scratchboard, artist's frame DCp 10 Don Colley Reel, 2003 scratchboard, hand - made hardwood frame 6 x 6 inches DCp 09 Side Gallery Diane Edison Self - Portrait Interior (striped robe), 1992 color pencil / black paper 30 x 22 inches DEd 8 Adolph Gottlieb The Watchers, c. 1941 oil on canvas 30 x 24 inches AGotp01 Lesley Dill Of, 2005 unique bronze with oil paint 67 x 58 x 28 inches LDs 207 Alfred Leslie Bread and Coffee, 1983 oil on canvas 84 x 60 inches ALp 02 Stanton Macdonald - Wright Study for American Synchromy # 1, 1919 charcoal on paper (2 - sided drawing) 25 x 18 1/2 inches SMWd 3 Stanton Macdonald - Wright Study for American Synchromy # 2, 1919 charcoal on paper (2 - sided drawing) 25 x 18 1/2 inches SMWd 4 James Valerio David, 2004 pencil on paper 30 1/2 x 25 inches JVd 52

Also indoors are large - scale works in cast pigmented polyurethane including Swinburne Figure I (in pink) and Black Ice (in black), as well as a selection of ceramic sculptBlack Ice (in black), as well as a selection of ceramic sculptblack), as well as a selection of ceramic sculptures.

The museum purchased «Town of Hope,» a 1927 painting by Archibald Motley; a Two - Handled Jug, by enslaved South Carolina artisan David Drake, dated 1840; and two works by Sanford Biggers, «Khemestry» (2017), a wall relief with antique quilts, and «Overstood» (2017), which features a monumental wall silhouette of Black Panther figures casting a shadow over diminutive African statuettes.

A pair of French Art Deco bedside table Lamps consisting of two elegant silvered cast metal female figures, standing on rectangular black marble bases, near a brass candle holder, to...