Sentences with phrase «hooded klansmen»

Abruptly, the artist began creating nightmarish, cartoonlike figurative work, repeatedly using hooded Klansmen figures to emblemize America's violent and malevolent side.

A more prescient figure was Philip Guston, who abandoned Abstract Expressionism during the 1960s in favor of eerie images of hooded klansmen.

The invocation of smokestacks — and hooded Klansmen that Guston would have identified with himself — could well make one wonder whether the Romanian artist knows America.

Not exact matches

In an extremely funny sequence Django and Schultz challenge a raid by a hooded gang of proto - Klansmen.

I love Guston's abstract paintings but also his transition from abstraction to the Klansman series [his hooded figures caricaturing the Ku Klux Klan in the»70s].

Certain key motifs appear over and over: skinny legs that seem to have been de-boned, piles of old shoes, cartoonish and clunky, clocks with one hand, low hanging light bulbs and, again and again, these hooded figures that may be Klansmen or something more personally emblematic: the masks that artists, like all of us, hide behind; the disguises we don to face or shy away from the world; the evil, banal and faceless, that lurks within us all.

The hooded Ku Klux Klansman is one of the more ominous recurring images and in his paintings of the 1970's is a sort of self - portrait in the guise of evil.