The ghostly white figures are Koh's elegy to the creative process that took place at the studio, and a reflection on loss and longing.
In the former, a broken boat is lodged into the trees on one side of the work, while small,
ghostly white figures are wandering on the opposite side.
A huge, rectangular boulder was suspended in the Y of a tree, a group of
ghostly white figures circled a tree at the edge of a creek, a...
Not exact matches
One looks like a cloaked
figure or
ghostly apparition escaping from the
white wall.
Beasley has replaced the four church fathers surrounding the pope's chair —
white, male, privileged — with
ghostly figures he calls sentinels, guarding the empty throne of their fallen warrior.
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 ceramic.
A survey of painter Agnes Martin's work from the 1950s into this century might not sound very goth — Martin is known for her
ghostly canvases overlaid with barely perceptible grids — but open your mind to «
white goth» and perhaps then, you will find a cosmic emptiness in her canvases which, without
figures or forms, point to the disappearance of the self in art.
Mr. Oliveira strayed from the human
figure from time to time but always returned, with startling intensity in works like «Standing Figure» (1970), a pink female figure turned toward the viewer with a ghostly white death mask instead of a
figure from time to time but always returned, with startling intensity in works like «Standing
Figure» (1970), a pink female figure turned toward the viewer with a ghostly white death mask instead of a
Figure» (1970), a pink female
figure turned toward the viewer with a ghostly white death mask instead of a
figure turned toward the viewer with a
ghostly white death mask instead of a face.
The surfaces are predominantly painted black; projected on these dark backgrounds like fleshly X rays are translucent,
ghostly -
white figures, their heads always cropped by the canvases» top edges.
In Viola's Transfigurations works, black - and -
white images of
ghostly figures emerge slowly from complete darkness eventually passing through a threshold of water into a world of color and light.
In this work, displayed on a plasma screen mounted vertically on the wall, the black and
white image of a pair of
ghostly figures approach, coming into focus and eventually breaking through an invisible threshold into a world of color and light.