Sentences with phrase «narrative history painting»

This graphic narrativization is a stylistic update of Marshall's best - known work, monumental paintings of African - American subjects based on the traditional genre of narrative history painting.

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The combination of history, art, and impassioned commentary will draw kids in to the questions raised by Brown's narrative paintings that show what it was like to be a slave — the suffering, anger, defiance, endurance, and rebellion under unspeakable conditions.

In a gracefully detailed interpretative narrative that stretches from ancient Greek and Roman mosaics to twentieth - century paintings, art historian Ebert - Schifferer presents the long and fascinating history of the still life, a highly symbolic genre.

In this powerful view of African American history, award - winning author and illustrator Nelson combines 44 arresting, full - page paintings with the fictionalized, informal narrative of an African American elder.

Known for his visual narratives documenting the African American experience, Jacob Lawrence conceived a series of paintings about the history of the United States that would encompass all of the nations's people.

The narratives in the paintings are stories taking place over a period of geological time, with references both topographic and tectonic, alluding to simultaneous multiple histories.

Titus Kaphar is an artist whose work interacts with the history of art by appropriating its styles and mediums through painting and sculpture, and then altering the work in a nod to hidden narratives and unspoken truths about the nature of history.

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Pitched between depicted action and the act of painting - paint's illusory potential and its materiality - Furnas entwines history with art history in provocative combinations of narrative and form.

Instead of accepting the historical narrative that leads from linear - perspective, through the camera obscura, to photography; Kwabena imagines an alternative history, one in which photography grows out of scroll - painting.

Her own work challenges these boundaries, as seen in her solo show Revenge, featuring consecutive paintings of black women protagonists and memorials to the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade, at Rochdale Art Gallery and the South Bank Centre, London, in 1992, which contested the pictorial narratives so frequently repeated in art history.

Ford's paintings critique the history of politics, natural science, and industrialism using complex narratives.

Dr. Tsai, the curator of the exhibition, will discuss the selection and presentation of nearly 60 works, including sculpture, stained - glass panels and oil paintings which together, as a whole, alter the narrative of art history.

Moreover, if one considers the alternate history of Schapiro's having continued to work in this vein of geometric abstraction, given the typical narratives of the time, her career would likely have plateaued in relation to a colleague like Held, in part because he was a male artist, with all the privileges that brought, and in part because he was, in that mode, perhaps a stronger artist: as impressive as «Byzantium» is, it can't compete with the impact of Held's paintings as paintings, their literal physicality — the extra thick stretchers and larger size and the paint handling, which manages to be worked even when flat — and their composition, which bends vision into sci - fi space but also retains the power of the overall ground.

Much of the meaning of Liu's painting comes from the way the washes and drips dissolve the documentary images, suggesting the passage of memory into history, while working to uncover the cultural and personal narratives fixed — but often concealed — in the photographic instant.

In his intricate paintings, Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers) re-imagines 18th century colonial history, conjuring a fictional cast of subjects within his own original on - going narrative that includes a rebel fighting force of freed slaves, militiamen, dikes, lords, and tribesmen.

Gutierrez's painted language contains an instinctive bow to history in contrast to darker narratives in sometimes idyllic settings.

Since 2000, he has painted narrative scenes filled with figures, often inspired by reproductions from newspapers or history books.

In his new series «Eclipse,» Paolo Ventura continues his exploration of memory, history and narrative using the tools of photography, painting and the stage.

Richter's more recent work has transformed into more recognizable narratives, a kind of contemporary history painting: «When I changed to narration it was also an urge that had to do, on a very simple level, with reality... I felt the desire to paint things that related to what I saw in the world.»

The supernatural compositions of Bas's past are here expanded into grand mythologizing narratives, taking on the weight and scale of 19th - century history painting.

Quinn's richly layered paintings combine striking landscapes with fragments of figurative narrative from the breadth of history, myth and ironic imagination.

Further highlights include Polly Apfelbaum's strips of textile that are combined to form a colorfully woven painting; Rashid Johnson's tropical enclave containing various unexpected elements from sculptures made with shea butter to video portraits; Katherine Bernhardt's monumental painting with tropical birds, cuddly robots and cigarette stubs, which at once editorializes and summarizes modern culture and the artist herself; an interactive multimedia installation by Nedko Solakov comprising nine sofas in the shapes of the nine Chinese characters constituting the phrase «I miss Socialism, maybe»; and Yu Hong's large - scale painting depicting a famous Chinese fable widely cited in both modern Chinese art history and Chinese Communist narratives.

Marshall creates large - scale paintings that explore African American culture from the Civil Rights to today, drawing from and weaving a history of black experience into his narratives.

His resulting paintings including Vignette explode with narratives and textures, linking aspects of art history and American history with reference to the American Civil Rights Movement, the history of slavery, public housing projects, the modern welfare state, social reform and literature, as well as cyclic tales of birth, life, death and love.

Her works are often constructed on a grand scale; with narratives of destruction and hope, they are in dialogue with classical history paintings.

This ambitious large - scale painting addresses the issues of black representation by interweaving narratives of art history, society, culture and politics.

Utilising a range of source materials from found imagery, film stills and the internet, the new works featured in this exhibition raise narratives and juxtapositions regarding the history of the painted canvas and the photographic medium as visual document.

Although her work results from deep observations of the history of painting — from Velasquez, Rembrandt, Caravaggio and Cezanne among others — her personal vision transcends classical notions of genre and narrative as she invites viewers into a delicious domain of confident brush strokes with a new aesthetic.

Whimsical and dynamic her paintings remind us of the great panoramic history paintings populated by heroic figures and the symbols that accentuate their narrative.

These iconic compositions of complex, skewed angles and radiant, tonal color allude to the multiple narratives coursing through the history of modernist painting, from the utopian vision of Russian Constructivism to the hallucinatory images of Op Art.

Visit his website at www.georgeschmidt.com to witness history and narrative painting come alive as he walks us through his May 2012 solo exhibition at the University of Louisiana in a series of YouTube videos.

«Epic Paintings» carries with it a sense of history and tradition, grand style, ambitious, and larger - than - life narratives of the human condition.

For Schnabel, the images — enlarged snapshots of what look like history paintings, portraits, Indian deities, and more — bring a sense of time, place and narrative to his meandering, abstract materiality.

He's one of our great narrative painters in the history of painting.»

Posed before a violent tableaux (a picture within the picture that pays homage to the sweeping compositions of classical history painting), the scene appears as a suspended moment in a mysterious narrative.

I cut, crumple, shroud, shred, stitch, tar, twist, bind, erase, break, tear, and turn the paintings and sculptures I create, reconfiguring them into works that nod to hidden narratives and begin to reveal unspoken truths about the nature of history,» describes Kaphar his practice in his own words.

Presenting a painting from his well - known body of work «Black Dada» as well as a work from a series layering text and images on mirrored stainless steel, Adam Pendleton's works in this exhibition give material form to the artist's engagement with a dynamic idea of history; one that is ever mutable and reflective of subjective and infinite narrative potentials.

Fallah left the sale with diaries, home movies, clothing and other objects chronicling the family's personal history; he then spent the course of the next year sifting through these fragments of the family's life, filling in the gaps where necessary, to create a narrative and build portraits of the family members through painting, sculpture and collage.

The landscapes look familiar enough from Western painting and Western narratives, for all their polar extremes — just as «Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair» is an American folk song, Kerry James Marshall has taken to the barber shop as the locus of African American community, and blackness has a dark place in America's history.

Owens» paintings cull inspiration from American culture, comics, art history and personal narratives, and demonstrate painterly achievement that is equally contemporary and timeless.

Its narrative is drawn from letters, diaries, and reports from the period, and these histories are made tangible through a dazzling array of art objects, sculpture, costume, and paintings.

Bryan Graf navigates the photographic medium with a discursive interest in the history of photography and it's relationship to design, painting, and narrative fiction.

Sean Downey's recent paintings combine sources, images, and fictions from American history and cinema to create allegorical, open - ended narratives.

Each painting is measured to exactly the same dimensions, and her titles, such as Isko (2008) and Teite (2008), are drawn from a German dictionary of first names, emphasizing each painting's individuality and imparting a deeper sense of history and narrative to the canvases.

If these most recent works are, as Hume himself stresses, a form of history painting — representations of a series of «pregnant moments» connected to one of the great historical dramas of our time — Hume short - circuits this notion by rendering their historical scenes all but invisible, thus apparently declaring his disinterest in any narrative whatsoever.

Each of his visually absorbing and intellectually evasive canvases offers entry into a personal, imaginary narrative as well as a history of painting.

Based on diligent research and inspired by Harlem Renaissance artists Augusta Savage and Charles Alston, Jacob Lawrence illustrated African American history through colorful narrative paintings.

Look awhile longer and you'll discover that both their imagery and their facture reference landscape, cityscapes, pop culture and private narratives while they index the history of modern painting.

In a way, you could say Yiadom - Boakye is using various histories in her practice to activate both real and imagined narratives for her paintings.