Sentences with phrase «contemporary urban men»
Wiley has achieved international recognition for his highly naturalistic paintings of contemporary urban men adopting heroic poses directly referencing classic portraiture.
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Kehinde Wiley is known for his naturalistic paintings of contemporary urban men adopting heroic poses that directly reference classical portraiture.
Born in 1977, Wiley has already achieved international recognition for his highly naturalistic paintings of contemporary urban men adopting heroic poses directly referencing classical portraiture.
He has already achieved international recognition for his highly naturalistic paintings of contemporary urban men adopting heroic poses directly referencing classical portraiture.
The most consistent theme in their work has been the social and spiritual situation of contemporary urban man.
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An experimental non-narrative directed by Dziga Vertov, a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein (Battleship Potemkin), Man With a Movie Camera is an impressionistic portrait of urban life, giving us no characters but, rather, the sense of the complex comings and goings of everyday people through a city.
Some of the work selected would be familiar to readers of this journal: Jason Urban and Leslie Mutchler's Universal Gate, David Altmejd's Ringers, Hank Willis Thomas's Blow the Man Down (2013) and Ann Aspinwall's Fortuny have all appeared on our pages.2 Most, however, would have been new to even the most assiduous follower of contemporary prints.3
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.
B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Garden (featuring works by Auguste Rodin) Directors Roundtable Garden (featuring Three Quintains (Hello, Girls) by Alexander Calder) Levitated Mass by Michael Heizer Like, man, I'm tired (of waiting) by Sam Durant NuMu (a reproduction of Guatemala's only contemporary art museum) Primal Palm Garden by Robert Irwin Urban Light by Chris Burden