Imagine portraits that combine inspiration
from Blaxploitation films, Jean - Auguste - Dominique Ingres «Une Odalisque» (1814), Andy Warhol's silk screen portraits, and Lil» Kim's album covers.
In the 70s, as new black heroes emerged
from Blaxploitation films to grapple with the racial, social, economic and political issues of the day, Marvel's writers once more attempted to make Black Panther more openly political.
In her elaborate, large - scale paintings, Mickalene Thomas (born 1971) has engages the tension between a personal investigation of eroticism, beauty, and black femininity and a critique of the overt sexual imagery prevalent in popular culture and media —
from Blaxploitation film heroines like Cleopatra Jones to the construction of middle - class, African - American taste in Ebony magazine.
She engages with the tension between a personal investigation of eroticism, black femininity and beauty and a pop - cultural critique of the overt sexual imagery prevalent in the media —
from Blaxploitation film heroines like Cleopatra Jones to the construction of middle - class, African - American taste in Ebony magazine.
Not exact matches
An African - American supporting actor, onscreen
from 1972, Blakely often appeared in
blaxploitation films.
He changed the ethnicity of the lead female character in Leonard's novel
from the white Jackie Burke to a black Jackie Brown which allowed him to cast Pam Grier and reference her
blaxploitation films «Foxy Brown» and «Coffy» as well as, employing the use of Bobby Womack's «Across 110th Street».
In an era where so many
films are merely stealing elements
from each other, The Mack emerges as one of the most unique, and even if it lacks the focus and jointed structure to call it a great
film for mainstream viewers, it is well worth seeking out for fans of not only
Blaxploitation films, but gritty crime dramas in general.
From here on out, the
film is a gleefully bloody homage to B - grade horror
films of the past as the Gecko brothers and their hostages, with the aid of bar patrons Frost (Fred Williamson, doing a fun sendup of his image as a
blaxploitation action icon) and Sex Machine (Tom Savini) fight for their lives.
Tarantino's favorite record crates to pull
from are 1960s - 70s Italian giallo (slasher)
films,
blaxploitation flicks, American b - movies and spaghetti Westerns.
His first foray into cherry - picking scores was a bit obvious, using music
from Pam Grier «s
blaxploitation films for the score to his celluloid statue built to Grier, Jackie Brown.
Gordon Parks Jr.'s 1972
blaxploitation film gets a slick modern update with 2018's Superfly, a new movie
from a filmmaker Director X. Watch the Superfly trailer below.
Accompanying a selection of portraits, documentary images and fashion photographs, are excerpts
from his
films The Learning Tree and Shaft, both of which signalled the start of the popular
Blaxploitation genre.
Drawing inspiration
from sources ranging
from 19th - century French painting to 1970s
Blaxploitation films, Thomas's work attempts to «inject black women into the art historical canon.»
The exhibition will bring together more than 12 of his canvases
from this period, which combine spectacularly rendered psychedelic surfaces with provocative imagery
from a staggering array of cultural sources,
from religious icons to
Blaxploitation films.
Turner Prize - winning Young British Artist (YBA) Chris Ofili draws inspiration
from an eclectic array of popular, artistic, and religious sources,
from the Bible and William Blake to
blaxploitation films, hip hop, and his Nigerian heritage.
Photographic enlargements capture both conscious and unconscious deviations
from cultural, social, racial, and gender expectations
from the silent era through the
Blaxploitation films of the 1970s.
Her subjects seem to have stepped directly
from a 1970s
Blaxploitation film, yet Thomas's influences extend far beyond.
In two works on view, Cyrus investigates the relationship between individuals and cultures at large, drawing
from an archive of African - American political and cultural history that includes abolitionist John Brown, the Black Panthers, and
Blaxploitation films.
From Birth of a Nation in the early 1900s to the «
Blaxploitation»
films of the 1970s, Black women were type - casted as carnal and promiscuous, often as prostitutes or «jezebels.»
Chris Ofili is renowned internationally for his richly layered works that combine imagery and influences
from sources as divergent as comic books, hiphop, Zimbabwean cave paintings, Biblical scenes, and 1970s - era
Blaxploitation films.
In his extremely diverse oeuvre, Ofili has taken imagery and inspiration
from such disparate, history - spanning sources as the Bible, hip - hop music, Zimbabwean cave paintings,
Blaxploitation films, and William Blake's poems.
The exhibition will bring together more than twelve of his canvases
from this period, which combine spectacularly rendered psychedelic surfaces with provocative imagery
from a staggering array of cultural sources,
from religious icons to
Blaxploitation films.
All have an overriding visual language drawn
from an audacious combination of
Blaxploitation film and Renaissance art history.
Common sources of inspiration comes
from vintage
blaxploitation films, black masculinity, hiphop, and the puzzling functioning of the art world with all of it's participants.
The artist's diverse oeuvre has taken imagery and inspiration
from such disparate, history - spanning sources as the Bible, hip - hop music, Zimbabwean cave paintings,
Blaxploitation films, and the works of William Blake.