Since 1952 the African American weekly has published full - page photographs
depicting women of color in either bikinis or one - piece swimsuits accompanied by their name, city of residence, occupation, hobbies, and, often, physical measurements.
Her fierce «defend our mother» poster, a bold take on «mother Earth» imagery that
depicts a woman of color cradling a baby, was created for the 2014 People's Climate March.
Not exact matches
They
depicted Linda Jackson as a sex crazed wild black
woman and perpetuated the idea
of sleeping with a
woman of color as an oddity.
In reality, lighter - skinned
women of color are often
depicted as more desirable and more virtuous because they come closer to meeting the culturally dominant white beauty standards.
Among a dozen provocative, funky, psychedelic and
color - infused paintings, half
of the images
depict women, including «She,» «Blossom,» and «Foxy Roxy» (all 1997).
Christina Quarles» slick acrylic on canvas, And When the Clouds Clear, We Will Know the
Color of the Sky (2016),
depicts a flaccid
woman «starfishing,» but not as a lingerie garnering femme fatale, sexually defined to be iTouched, but as a splayed fluid body, stressed by the specific gravity
of the piece, like a floating wet noodle.
Alfred Lombard was a famous French artist widely known for his paintings where he often
depicted nude
women in brilliant arrangements
of colors.
Shaffer uses a shifting figure / ground relationship calling to mind the flow
of energy in, out and through us,
depicting women enveloped within fields
of gestural DNA - like marks or packed with radiating
color strokes like bursts
of energy set against darker voids.
Three series
of works are on view: Time - slices, which
depicts the meticulously tracked and quantified life
of Ben Lipkowitz on his website fennetic.net; 7 Days, which
color - codes data tracking a man and a
woman; and Leather Blocks, which uses a software called Manictime to plot a pattern mapping Frick's daily technology usage.
These horizontal
color photographs
depict closely cropped images
of reclining
women — a format that references the erotic centerfolds
of men's magazines.
Kersels's
color triptych
depicts a close - up image
of a large man (the artist himself) throwing a young
woman into the air (Kersel's long - time collaborator Melinda Ring).
It
depicts three
women of color in a garden setting and riffs on Manet's iconic canvas Le dejeuner sur l'herbe, which translates to «Luncheon on the Grass.»
An employee at First Street Gallery, a program for adults with developmental disabilities, Rae creates works from
colored pencil and graphite that exude a strange power and sense
of menace that
depict fierce and frightened - looking
women that seem to be hiding or escaping in furtive dream - like adventures, emerging out
of or disappearing into ornate floral patterns, shrouded in luxuriant foliage, or on the verge
of vanishing into abstraction.
One work by mixed - media artist Ruth Rodriguez
depicts a sketch
of a
woman overlaid on a
color - mixing guide.
A sequence
of ten paintings
depict a film test - intended to be used by technicians to calibrate how
color is captured and presented on film, not necessarily seen by an audience -
of a
woman's hand passing in front
of various
colors of cloth.
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Kelly Reichardt's unostentatiously virtuosic Certain
Women, based on Maile Meloy's short stories,
depicts hardscrabble Montana in angular austerity, with the simple lines
of mountains and fences and utilitarian buildings, in the subdued
colors of impending snow, through iterations
of circumstances that illuminate foibles and strengths.
The depiction
of civic virtue, honesty, and austerity became common themes
of this genre and the severe composition and cold
colors reflect the subject matter.This 1786 version was ordered by the Comte de Vaudreuil (
depicted in the exhibition in a portrait by Elizabeth - Louise Vigée - Lebrun) and is nearly identical to the original, except that the artist added a staff with a cleft end holding wool near the feet
of the
women.