Sentences with phrase «depict black figures»

Himid, whose popping paintings and sculptures tend to depict black figures in portraits or enigmatic scenes, just had solo shows at Spike Island in Bristol and Modern Art Oxford.

Working primarily in a muted palette, Noah's canvases depict black figures in intimate and isolated scenes.

Kerry James Marshall's exuberant works depict black figures in everyday situations, in order to subvert stereotypes and challenge the predominately white Western canon.

She depicts black figures in grayscale.

A 35 - year retrospective, featuring nearly 80 works, examines the career of a painter who is known for depicting the black figure in ways that are mordant, lordly and defiant — as well as painterly in the most sublime ways.

Fifty years after Omali Yeshitela tore down a mural at city hall in St. Petersburg, Fla., depicting black figures playing the banjo and eating watermelon, the 74 - year - old founder of the Uhuru Movement stood his ground and announced he wants to form a committee to ensure that whatever replaces it considers the interests of the African American community.

Not exact matches

A cross section of the hippocampus with some pyramidal cells depicted with the major incoming fibres (SC - schaffer collaterals, green), TA (temperoammonic pathway, blue), SH (septohippocampal pathway, black) Figure 3.

In weeding out the bad (again, for my body type) however, I quickly discovered not only the good, but the great, and in trying to make the best of my figure (it, like most peoples», has its own strengths and weaknesses) have attempted to focus the bulk of my wardrobe on these kinds of pieces, fifteen of which I'm going to share with you here today by way of black and white vintage images depicting each of them.

Hidden Figures Recently adapted to film — with Oscar nominations for best picture and best adapted screenplay — Margot Lee Shetterly's nonfiction book depicts the lives of four black women who, as mathematicians and engineers, helped send the first American astronaut into space.

Japanese artist Stephanie Inagaki's black and white charcoal drawings depict female figures that are not only an embodiment of her roots, but also of herself as an artist and a woman.

«Beside the Boot, the Truncheon Rests» depicts a voluptuous figure in black face, wearing tall black boots and a cobalt blue jumpsuit, with a long blonde mane braided into a noose.

Known for her silhouetted scenes depicting issues of power and agency among black figures, Walker's work brings a sense of gravity to this experimental album.

A standing figure is playfully distorted in Red, Blue & Black # 1 (2014), an image inescapably reminiscent of Gerhard Richter's hallmark «blur» technique, while Chromatic Impression # 1 and Chromatic Impression # 2, (both 2013) depict paving stones awash with rainbow hues.

In his most recent body of work, Santiago reimagines the history and story of the Black Knight that figured in several Renaissance paintings and literary accounts, such as the one depicted in the painting Chafariz d'el Rey, c. 1570 - 80 (artist unknown).

Exhibition highlights include: a rare 1943 Jared French egg tempera on board of four ghostly figures entwined; a newly discovered Henry Koerner masterpiece, The Arcades (1950), depicting the bizarre on display at Coney Island's boardwalk; a haunting 1950 black ink drawing of two children by Charles White; and Robert Arneson's Black and White Mask (1983), an unforgiving self - portrait in glazed cerblack ink drawing of two children by Charles White; and Robert Arneson's Black and White Mask (1983), an unforgiving self - portrait in glazed cerBlack and White Mask (1983), an unforgiving self - portrait in glazed ceramic.

AT THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL, there are two more paintings by Taylor on view depicting a black male figure in a white t - shirt.

The artist best known for his flattened approach to the human figure takes his signature aesthetic into sculpture with «Cut Outs,» a solo exhibition of four works depicting Katz's wife Ada, the full set of his nine - piece «Black Dress» series, and one larger, multifigure work, all rendered in stainless and porcelain enamel coated steel.

Alex Katz «Cut Outs» Paul Kasmin 515 West 27th Street CLOSES: April 12 The artist best known for his flattened approach to the human figure takes his signature aesthetic into sculpture with «Cut Outs,» a solo exhibition of four works depicting Katz's wife Ada, the full set of his nine - piece «Black Dress» series, and one larger, multifigure work, all rendered in stainless and porcelain enamel coated steel.

Her figures are on the surface black, but she depicts them on a sub - or extradermal level, as a sinewy interlacing of hair or musculature.

Undaunted, White continued to advance a politics of struggle in his art, celebrating historical figures who resisted slavery and depicting ordinary black farmers, preachers, mothers, and other workers with an unwavering strength and a silent, solid grace.

Prudence Heward exhibited frequently during her lifetime and she often received positive reviews — although some of her figure paintings, such as The Bather (1930)(Art Gallery of Windsor) and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre's Hester (1937)(one of her paintings depicting a naked black woman), provoked hostile reactions in the press.

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Yiadom - Boakye's edition of ten hard ground etchings was made to accompany her acclaimed exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery this summer and depict single black male figures wearing the ruff of feathers that has become a familiar motif in her work.

The historical depth to these paintings and the political importance of a show that so deftly depicts and places black figures within art history, simply can't be overstated.

As the title suggests, the black granite sculpture Woman Reclining depicts a female figure on a small divan, both legs raised over a planter filled with vivid blooming flowers.

Her own images, too, seek to examine and challenge the way black figures have been depicted throughout art history.

Likewise, though radically different in style, Katharina Fritsch's Oktopus, 2010, depicts a miniature three - dimensional rendering of an orange octopus squeezing a tiny black figure in one of its tentacles.

The 30 - foot - long, inflated sculpture depicts a black man lying on his front, appearing to breathe as an air pump continuously fills and deflates the figure slightly.

The ten portraits each depict single, black, male figures wearing the ruffs of feathers that have become a familiar motif in her work.

Depicting a lone figure executed with white pigment on a black ground, «Coach» is a rare example of the artist's unique body print technique and is estimated to sell for $ 300,000 to $ 500,000.

Important paintings in the exhibition include: «Acrobats,» depicting a large field of active figures seemingly defying gravity; «Noah's Ark,» a whimsical, multi-piece painting resplendent with creatures great and small, each inhabiting a little painted cage all its own; and the piercing «Diamond in a Rectangle,» prominent in a palette of gold, silver, black, and white.

The ten portraits depict single black male figures wearing the ruff of feathers that has become a familiar motif in her work.

Humor and form converse with primitivism in a piece by Nathan Mabry in which a towering black plank referencing a McCracken sculpture serves as the base for two stacked figures depicting African Senufo Rhythm Pounders whose hands are moved to cover their genitals.

Over the past ten years, New York - based artist Jeff Sonhouse (b. 1968) has created a powerful body of portrait paintings depicting often - masked black male figures that consistently defy and obscure classification.

Depicting the black male figure and the complexity of black male identity, the paintings explore masculinity, spirit, and humanity.

In Bonfire (2016), Bradford departs from her watery world of swimmers and depicts a gathering of figures, shrouded in black, entranced by an enormous blaze.

In the Falling Men series, Johnson uses his signature materials of white ceramic tile, red oak flooring, mirror fragments, and black soap and wax to depict inverted figures falling through the air that can be read as flying heroes or chalk outlines of deceased bodies from crime scenes.

Engaging with issues of identity and individualism, he frequently depicts his figures in an extreme opaque, black colour, which stylizes their appearance while being a literal and rhetorical reference to the term black and its diametric opposition to the white «mainstream.»