Sentences with phrase «of black monolith»

The tribute to Berry is part of his Black Monolith series memorializing important African American figures such as James Baldwin, Barbara Jordan, and Muhammad Ali.

I have just completed another in my series of Black Monolith paintings, this one honors the rock n» roll master, Chuck Berry.

Africa has had a rare yet distinct place in popular science - fiction, from the opening scenes of Stanley Kubrick's iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey, depicting the mysterious appearance of a black monolith in the cradle of civilization, to the recent success of Neill Blomkamp's debut movie District 9, a multi-layered allegory on South Africa's recent internal and external tensions.

As the full title of Black Monolith V suggests, at the end of five decades, Whitten's memorial paintings have come full circle.

The mosaic - tile painting is part of Whitten's series of Black Monolith works paying tribute to African American visionaries — intellectuals, jazz musicians, and visual artists.

Not exact matches

He correctly points out that the Miami Cubans represent no monolith - they are too often portrayed in the media as knee - jerk anti-Communist Republicans - but he fails to grasp fully the community's views on a whole range of pressing social matters, including its relations with blacks, whites, Haitians, and recent Central - American immigrants.

Summary: While investigating a strange signal emanating from a large black monolith on the moon, the crew of Discovery One discover that their onboard AI (HAL 9000) is malfunctioning.

The black monolith, or one of its relatives, is back, having been recently excavated from the bottom of a crater.

Sure, there are gratuitous murders by the bucketload, more deus ex machina's than you can shake a stick at and the whole black egg thing is a little too close to the 2001 - A-Space-Odyssey-bone, i.e the monoliths,,, not the mention the falling pink stars,,, which may be a metaphor for something,,, perhaps the disgracing of gay celebrities,,, I've no idea.

The Dawn of Man A primeval ape man makes a breakthrough - becoming endowed with intelligence after experiencing a mysterious black monolith.

The fantastic narrative structure jumps from a pre-historic era, when apes first discovered using bones as tools and as weapons, to a futuristic space - age when man discovers proof of intelligent alien life in the form of a gigantic black monolith on the moon.

A black monolith buried beneath the surface of the moon is beaming a strange signal to Jupiter.

As an outsider to Wakanda and a black character getting acclimated to a new world filled with other black people from a different culture, Queen Divine Justice could offer an amazing perspective on various aspects of the African diaspora, proving further illustration that blackness is not a monolith.

As digital and virtual networks infiltrate our everyday lives and subjective experiences, our relationship with technology manifests less as the fear of invasion by mysterious foreign forces, and more as an intimate grappling with newly mediated realities of time, space, and interpersonal relationships — i.e., less as the black monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and more as the metaphorical «black mirror,» the small, hyperconnected screen prone to catching us in moments of accidental self - contemplation.

In ratifying a resolution to issue a moratorium on charter schools, the NAACP — despite its storied history of defending the civil rights of black and brown people in America — has made the same mistake that the majority has made about us for years: Assuming (wrongly) that black folks are a monolith.

The other color options (like «Lunar White» and «Human Flesh» «Sand») make some of the tablet's details pop a little bit more, but if you're into 2001: A Space Odyssey - style monoliths, the Indigo Black is the way to go.

Here in Brazil, ereaders are not a black monolith but are still a very uncommon piece of hardware.

12th August 2014 - Today, Warner Brothers and Monolith Productions released a brand new Shadow of Mordor Story Trailer in which Talion sets out to rage war against Sauron's servants, The Black Captains, who... Read More

Of course, what is shown at E3 didn't transpire when Fight Night Round 3 arrived on our beloved black monolith, raising questions of whether it was real - time after alOf course, what is shown at E3 didn't transpire when Fight Night Round 3 arrived on our beloved black monolith, raising questions of whether it was real - time after alof whether it was real - time after all.

Jack Whitten's first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth presents works from several series — «Quantum Walls», «Portals», lenticular works from the «Third Entity», one piece from the continuing Black Monolith Project, and a sculpture (all dated 2015 — 17)-- continuing a five - decade - long investigation of passions vis - à - vis a testing exploration of painting itself.

Odyssey is accompanied by a full - color catalogue that features the sculptures made by Whitten over the past 50 years, as well as the Black Monolith series of paintings, and archival photographs.

In recent years, Whitten's best known body of work has been the ongoing Black Monoliths series, begun in the 90s, which uses acrylic and mixed medium to create mosaics of black artists, writers, and political thinkers such as Jacob Lawrence and MalcoBlack Monoliths series, begun in the 90s, which uses acrylic and mixed medium to create mosaics of black artists, writers, and political thinkers such as Jacob Lawrence and Malcoblack artists, writers, and political thinkers such as Jacob Lawrence and Malcolm X.

In this session, Faith Smith (Associate Professor of African and Afro - American Studies and English) will discuss Jack Whitten's Black Monolith VIII (for Maya Angelou)(2015), acquired by the museum in 2016.

From left, JACK WHITTEN, «Black Monolith IV for Jacob Lawrence,» 2001; HANK WILLIS THOMAS, «Rich Black Specimen # 460,» 2017; SANFORD BIGGERS, «Quilt # 25 (Yemanja),» 2013 Courtesy SCAD Museum of Art, Photo by Dylan Wilson

Visitors first encountered five black stone monoliths (four made of marble and one of volcanic rock) set on pale plywood plinths.

The curator descibes the two aspects of this current approach as «asserting one's presence, and the presence of others» and «ensuring that the «black experience» isn't presented as an un-nuanced monolith, unattuned to the specificities of place, gender or even nationality.»

This one looked like the black monolith that was dropped from the sky in the opening sequence of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and I asked: «What's that?»

A well know series of work is called «Black Monoliths» which are «mosaic paintings.»

Six Columns (2006) by John McCracken is a grid of gleaming black pillars based on a drawing from the 1970s; while Untitled (yellow)(1966), by his contemporary Robert Grosvenor, suspends a similar minimalist monolith in mid-air.

The relationship between the self - portraits from primeval forests and the «Prism» of human civilization may have similarity with the tension depicted in the scene where the black geometrical monolith appears in front of people and animals in the natural scenery in the movie «2001: A Space Odyssey».

Also included in the show, which travels to the Metropolitan Museum of Art later this year, are works from Whitten's «Black Monoliths» paintings series, which pay homage to Ralph Ellison, W. E. B. DuBois, and others through abstract portraits.

This painting, part of Whitten's «Black Monolith» series, honors Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man, a book that parallels a story of a young black man's search for identity with «the struggle of the nation to define itself in the tumultuous years of the early Civil Rights Movement.&rBlack Monolith» series, honors Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man, a book that parallels a story of a young black man's search for identity with «the struggle of the nation to define itself in the tumultuous years of the early Civil Rights Movement.&rblack man's search for identity with «the struggle of the nation to define itself in the tumultuous years of the early Civil Rights Movement.»

22 Here, as in the case of his Ralph Ellison homage, Black Monolith II, Whitten's effort to represent visual elements of his experience comes in the form of a stark separation between figure and ground.

Kara Walker's racially charged gouaches in sepia tinged hues act as a sarcastically delicate counterbalance to Terence Koh's white chocolate monoliths; Tino Sehgal's harmonic narrative «This Is Propaganda,» performed by a female guard, adds an air of the ethereal to an otherwise politically heavy - handed section of the exhibition; artist team Tim Noble and Sue Webster's «Black Narcissus» (2006) draws us back into the corporeal with their penile and phalange inflected shadow - cast portraiture; and Cindy Sherman's work from the early 80s shocks with its carnal ferocity.

In an adjoining space, Naama Tsabar installed Closer, a white monolith with an embedded microphone and cello that is played by reaching one's arm inside of the wall cavity, and the black and bordeaux variations of her Robert Morris-esque felt / carbon paintings, which are fitted with guitar strings (and hooked to amps).

For over four decades, Whitten utilized the tesserae to develop his Black Monoliths, a series of abstracted tributes to Black artists, musicians, and public figures such as Ralph Ellison, Chuck Berry, and W.E.B. Du Bois.

His Black Monoliths, a series of abstracted tributes, memorialize important Black figures such as James Baldwin and Barbara Jordan.

Detail of Jack Whitten's Black Monolith X, Birth of Muhammad Ali, 2016.

Artists Conversations: Bradford Young by Sara Salovaara BOMB Magazine «Black Nationalism, rural Brooklyn, faces, and monoliths» encapsulates the subjects and symbols of filmmaker Bradford Young «s «Bynum Cutler,» a three - screen video installation on view at Bethel Tabernacle AME Church, the «God» in the recent exhibition «Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn.»

Black Monolith X, Birth of Muhammad Ali, 2016.

Whitten's Black Monolith V Full Circle: For Leroi Jones AKA Amiri Baraka (2014) serves as a memorial to the late writer and activist, an early friend of the artist.

Some works» physical presence, color and tactility appear ominous such as John Isaacs» The Cyclical Development of Stasis which presents itself as an oily black stone that may or may not be recognized as its actual source of the iconic seat of The Thinker and Sterling Ruby's massive white minimalist - inspired Formica Inscribed Monolith smudged with dirt and scrawled with gang graffiti.

Meanwhile, one of his most recognized bodies of work is his Black Monolith series, which honors friends and pivotal figures with whom he shares an intellectual connection, such as Lawrence, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Barbara Jordan and Amiri Baraka.

The ticketed exhibition includes 40 works inspired by the materials and traditions of Africa and ancient Greece, plus Whitten's Black Monolith paintings honoring prominent African Americans such as Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, and James Baldwin.

The artist's ongoing «Black Monolith» project dedicated to memorializing black artists, writers, thinkers, and poets, is represented by Black Monolith X, Birth of Mohammad Ali (2016), another large - scale painting that features two irregular shapes which appear both pooled across the surface and, from a distance, unmoored froBlack Monolith» project dedicated to memorializing black artists, writers, thinkers, and poets, is represented by Black Monolith X, Birth of Mohammad Ali (2016), another large - scale painting that features two irregular shapes which appear both pooled across the surface and, from a distance, unmoored froblack artists, writers, thinkers, and poets, is represented by Black Monolith X, Birth of Mohammad Ali (2016), another large - scale painting that features two irregular shapes which appear both pooled across the surface and, from a distance, unmoored froBlack Monolith X, Birth of Mohammad Ali (2016), another large - scale painting that features two irregular shapes which appear both pooled across the surface and, from a distance, unmoored from it.

Some monkey hits another on the head with a leg bone, and jumps up and down in front of a strange, black monolith, and wallah!

The deep black XZ Premium I tested is a 6.1 x 3 x 0.3 - inch replica of the Monolith from Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001: A Space Odyssey

The deep black XZ Premium I tested is a 6.1 x 3 x 0.3 - inch replica of the Monolith from Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001: A Space Odyssey — a tall, slightly forbidding rectangle with smooth edges.

The column for «Members leaving» resembles the black monolith from 200: A Space Odyssey, sandwiched like the centre of an Oreo cookie by the smaller white tablet representing «New members.»