Sentences with phrase «historical depiction»

Art history buffs will enjoy Sherman's interpretations of historical depictions of women, as with a picture of a round, Renaissance - style, breast - baring Madonna.

Through compelling portraiture and both intimate and disquieting scenes of domestic life, Kerry James Marshall comments on contemporary and art historical depictions of black identity.

One of the most useful applications of art to climate though, are the realistic historical depictions of mountain glaciers particularly in the Alps, but also further afield.

The language, written both in English and Arabic, is structured around historical depictions of the Wheel of Fortune such as its four directions in medieval art: I shall reign, I reign, I have reigned, I am without a kingdom.»

From historical depictions of familiar circus scenes to contemporary works exploring the glamour and grit, the exhibition will survey the complex, compelling nature of circus and why it still captures our imaginations.

While Colescott points to the vast lack of black artists in the art - history canon, ironically, there are many works in this show that can exist only with historical depictions of black bodies.

More recently, the artist's investigation into historical depictions of wings and flying led her to the work of Pietro Cavallini, whose fresco of The Last Judgment (c. 1293) comprises a host of angels within a highly specific organizational scheme.

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.

In the medium - scale drawings on view, the artist uses ink, gold leaf, crayon, pastel and pencil on paper to explore historical depictions of wings and flying, while her large - scale collages employ mapping to smartly reinterpret aesthetic and literary themes from the past.

Similarly, in creating Confession (Lady Chancellor), 2007, Ofili found inspiration in art historical depictions of the «penitent whore» Mary Magdalene (with her red hair used to dry the feet of Christ), images of nudes from Playboy Magazine (the disembodied hand offering a drink), and Trinidad's Lady Chancellor Hill (the outline is formed by the arch of the figure's back), thus creating a complicated portrait of temptation, sin, and the admission of guilt.

Join MIT List Visual Arts Center exhibiting artist Allison Katz and Elizabeth Rudy, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Associate Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums, in a dynamic discussion about a contemporary artist's take on historical depictions of time.

Do you honestly think that hokey picture of Jesus knocking at the door, holding up his lamp by William Hunt (an English Victorian) is an historical depiction?

Dozens of kneeling, peaceful protests fill the screen end to end, and the juxtaposition between the historical depiction on the movie screen and the current images on today's TV screens does not go unnoticed.

Some additional information that report buyers can expect to see includes: ongoing homeownership costs that includes monthly and annual cost estimates for owning that home, as well as closing cost estimates, an historical depiction of crime in the area, as well as an analysis of «value factors,» an approximation of neighbourhood features that add or detract from a home's value.

Mira Dancy's paintings of languid, muscular nudes mine the pop - cultural and historical depictions of women.

At times, her vessels allude to the historical depiction of severed heads, using the myth of Medusa as a point of departure to address the terror of female sexuality as it is represented throughout art history.

EW: The title Birth of the Universe alludes to art - historical depictions of the vagina, for instance Courbet's L'origine du Monde.

Or a historical depiction of an enslaved man?

As icons of the qualities assigned to the holder, the historical depiction of the chariot in hunting scenes demonstrated the power of an individual through the creation of visual forms of their power: images of hunting and military violence; embodying victory and defeat in harmonious relief.