Sentences with phrase «depicted against the black background»

(The three player party members depicted against the black background would be tiles instead.)

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LaValle takes Lovecraft's deeply racist tale of a city plagued with supernatural horror against a background of distastefully depicted brown people... and makes a black man the engine of the narrative.

Mickalene Thomas's rhinestone - embellished, mixed - media paintings depict powerful black women against culturally rich backgrounds and also capture textured, enviable interiors and lush landscapes.

Executed in charcoal, ink and often ballpoint pen, her self portraits and images of her brothers and others are usually set against dark backgrounds, the subject's skin depicted in black hues defined by pattern, texture and mark making.

A similar cocktail of influences is present in Hendricks's 1976 painting Northern Lights, a study in three poses of a black, disco - inflected Bostonian man, depicted against a muted grey background.

From a distance this piece is an abstract composition of grays and blacks against a white background, but closer inspection reveals multiple series of images (some depicting the same subjects as in the upstairs gallery) each printed in the form of a postage stamp from an undeclared country.

Standouts include a Ruscha lithograph that depicts the signature implements of the California Gold Rush - a pick, pan and shovel - against a gold background and Richter's largely abstract black - and - white silkscreen of the Swiss Alps.

Working in a hyper - realistic manner, Chun creates a split - view of his subject: a classical image depicting the whole stone against a deep black background and an extreme, almost abstract detail where, like Seiden, Chun painstakingly mimics the patterns drawn by Mother Nature.