The exhibition includes landscapes, portraits, intimate
depictions of women and children, and images of modern life in American cities, which together generate dialogues about techniques, composition, and subject matter.
Not exact matches
The culture in which our
children are growing up still has a long way to go when it comes to the representation,
depiction and role - modelling
of women.
I know that the world
of recent
childrens literature is a bright
and shiny place, filled with anthropomorphically correct villages full
of nearly endangered species, politically correct messages, psychologically correct relationships, aesthetically correct illustrations
and, for all I know, anatomically correct
depictions of the three little pigs, the gingerbread man
and an unedited but airbrushed centerfold
of the old
woman who lived in the shoe.
WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE More than 80 oil paintings
and pastels are included in this major survey
of William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916), the American Impressionist best known for his
depictions of landscapes, urban parks,
women and children.
Among Parks» works referenced are: Untitled, Harlem, New York, 1948, portraying gang members fighting (from Parks» first assignment with Life «The Making
of An Argument: A Harlem Gang Leader» 1948); Untitled, Alabama, 1956, depicting
children playing with guns; Boy with June Bug, Fort Scott, Kansas, 1963; Ethel Sharrieff, Chicago, Illinois, 1963, a striking formation
of women in hijab;
and depictions of Nation
of Islam members practicing self defense.
Painted in the technique
of chiaroscuro, her intense but tender gaze is inspired by historical
depictions, drawing influence from Caravaggio, Gustave Courbet's «
Woman with a Parrot» (1866),
and the iconography
of medieval Madonna
and Child.
Artifacts range from a wooden fire pump to bamboo skis; paintings
and prints show a cyclone
and women making silk;
and mannequins pose in reconstructed workshops
and tiny houses — one contains a tasteful
depiction of childbirth, with a midwife in attendance
and the older
children looking on.