Sentences with phrase «contemporary descendent»

As a contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists — including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian, Ingres and others — Wiley engages the visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful and sublime in his representations of young men of color.

As a contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists - including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian...

As a contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists — including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian, Ingres, and others — Wiley engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic, and sublime in his representation of urban black and brown men found throughout the world.