Sentences with phrase «of a slave ship»

Across the bottom is a diagram of a slave ship.

Cole's first works employed irons and ironing boards to create images of slave ships, African masks and brand - bearing West African warrior shields.

Pencil drawings of people like sardines on the lower deck of a slave ship.

British abolitionist William Wilberforce, when he was laboring to abolish slavery in England, led small tours of slave ships.

They've also unearthed this contemporaneous canvas by Malcolm Bailey, which offers up delicate outlines of slave ships and a cotton plant in lieu of more typically Pop consumer goods.

Inspired by an 18th - century depiction of the torrid conditions of a slave ship, Willie Cole produced the huge woodcut Stowage in 1997.

The work's source — a horrific episode in the history of the slave trade, in which an infection caused the passengers of a slave ship to suddenly go blind — is obliquely referenced with a view of the ocean and a tiny eye standing in for a button on a coat.

One of my favorite Prospect discoveries is the rising star Genevieve Gaignard, a kind of mixed - race Cindy Sherman who re-designed two rooms into a combination salon and chapel, with old furniture, church pews, found photos, mirrors, and wallpaper that works in the schematics of slave ships.

That film is being screened outdoors on the museum grounds in a shack put together by Mr. van Lieshout from packing cases, with an interior meant to suggest the rude quarters of slave ships exporting their cargo to the civilized world.

Passing paintings of slave ships, boy scouts and girl scouts, Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, and anonymous African American artists, he discussed his approach to representation, the ways in which he elevates scenes of everyday life, and how in charting American history, he avoids sensational images by pursuing more thoughtful depictions of his subjects.

Biggers knits these multivalent themes together by applying to each quilt a complex system of imagery that includes star maps, dance notations, and the Buddhist lotus flower, whose petals are each formed by the image of a cross-section of a slave ship.

As a group, these paintings evoke the Middle Passage of slave ships between West Africa and North America, and the themes of immigration, class mobility, and aspiration central to American life.

The suggested route for visitors begins at a deep, subterranean level — its confines evoking the narrow space of a slave ship's hold — and progresses upward through multiple levels to the Culture Galleries located on the top floor.

Malcolm Bailey is best known for his late 1960s polymer paintings with collaged images of slave ships and their human cargo — based on 18th century abolitionist diagrams.