Sentences with phrase «paintings of black»

Children ¿ s paintings of black - and - orange monarch butterflies inspired the color scheme in this warm living room.

Sweet is a group of primarily portrait paintings of black boys and men receiving haircuts in a barbershop, however they avoid featuring the identity of the barber him / herself.

Her hauntingly powerful paintings of black men and women, every one of them fictional, have been attracting more and more attention in the last few years.

Bernard Voïta's gray images remind one of Gerhard Richter's paintings of black - and - white snapshots.

Focusing primarily on solo presentations of artists, as in one artist per space, the show is well - curated with more than one canny juxtaposition (two personal favorites were Leigh Ledare's 16 mm film Vokzal [2016] of the public around three Moscow train stations with John Divola's elegant «Abandoned Paintings» [2007 — 8] photos, which feature recuperated discarded student paintings in derelict domestic settings, and Henry Taylor's big brushy paintings of black communities next to Deana Lawson's elaborately staged, intimate portraits of black subjects).

«Kerry James Marshall's paintings of black people simply being human stand out in an art - industrial complex where subjects, artists, purveyors, and consumers are pretty much white folk.

Troubling for some audiences has been Ofili's paintings of a Black Virgin, whom he paints surrounded by collaged - on body parts snipped from pornographic magazines.

«I want for people to see the work and feel empowered and normal,» he tells me, sitting in his Brooklyn studio before half finished collage paintings of black figures in repose for «Repose,» a solo show at UTA Artist Space opening October 28.

The retrospective largely traces nearly four decades of the artist's paintings of black figures, and pictures a contemporary, vast, and localized history of black American life.

To begin, entering the biennial's first gallery, we are met by paintings of black people, photographs by a black artist and paintings by a black artist.

Lydia Yiadom - Boakye is an interesting artist whose murkily monochrome paintings of black people — mostly men — in suggestive, but inconclusive, postures leave you with a pleasant sensation of bafflement.

Her inaugural exhibition with the gallery presents a series of new larger - than - life paintings of black men, long her sole subject matter.

Fans of Thomas's rhinestone - encrusted paintings of black women in»70s - style interiors will likely be attracted to her new approach as well.

By dint of their subject matter, her larger - than - life paintings of black men she met on the streets of Harlem inevitably recall the recent survey of portraits by Alice Neel of her neighbors in Spanish Harlem and on the Upper West Side, organized by Hilton Als at David Zwirner gallery.

Known for his vibrant, large - scale paintings of black man posing as famous figures, Kehinde Wiley's Obama presidential portrait features the US ex-leader sitting in front of a floral backdrop.

Through the creation of five life - sized paintings of black men, the artist asked the questions: «Who do you want to be?

Far more potent, and less didactic, are the mysterious paintings of black subjects that fill the main gallery.

A finalist for Britain's Turner Prize in 2013, Yiadom - Boakye is known for her paintings of black fictional characters that play on conventions of European portraiture, drawing attention to inequities in representation throughout art history.

Ms. Thomas's massive, French - Impressionist - inspired, rhinestone - embellished paintings of black female nudes are gaudy fun, yes, but they are also enormously ambitious.

«Nights in Harlem» included large - scale paintings of black male subjects at night — sitting, standing, posing — in the neighborhood she became familiar with during a 2015 artist - in - residence program at The Studio Museum.

One of the most significant young artists today, Kehinde Wiley (American, b. 1977) is known for his vibrant, large - scale paintings of black urban men rendered in the self - confident, empowered poses typical of classical European portrait painting.

But it was Kazimir Malevich who today is often viewed as the forefather of geometric abstraction, beginning with his seminal 1915 paintings of black shapes — a circle, a square — on a white ground, and his legendary white - square - on - white - canvas 1919 monochrome.

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.

His paintings of black people aim to diversify the images we see in the museum:» If I go to the museum and see white bodies, black bodies, Asian bodies, Latino bodies, then I will expect to see those things every time I go.

This year marks the 101st anniversary of a turning point in the history of visual art, when Russian artist Kazimir Malevich created his momentous 1915 paintings of black squares on white backgrounds.

She made 100 paintings of black rope.

The painting of a black Virgin Mary beside lumps of elephant dung so offended then - NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani that he sued to remove it from the Brooklyn Museum.

This contradicts the picture general relativity paints of a black hole from which nothing can escape.

I have a little trouble with the picture it paints of blacks, but the satire is interesting and well done.

Emblazoned with stenciled text detailing in time, down to the exact minute of death, the painting of the black pit bull serves as the face of the ban breed - specific legislation, or BSL, Barone and the organization do not support.

The Turner Prize - winning artist Chris Ofili has been a bit chary, let's say, of showing in New York City ever since a certain Mayor Rudolf Giuliani threatened to defund the Brooklyn Museum for showing his absolutely gorgeous The Holy Virgin Mary — a 1996 painting of a black Madonna with a bared breast made from dried elephant dung, surrounding by putti made from female genitalia cut from porn magazines — as part of the 1999 stateside leg of Saatchi Gallery's «Sensation» show.

This epic show takes Kazimir Malevich's radical painting of a black square — first shown in Russia 100 years ago — as the emblem of a new art and a new society.

Elsewhere in the show, a darkened galley features a large floor painting of black - and - white spirals, Spazio Ad Attivazione Cinetica 6B (1966/2015) by Italian artist Marina Apollonio.

And Kehinde Wiley's giant painting of a black Judith decapitating a blonde female Holofernes suggests, with a jovial brutality, that Judith would prefer to be done with white standards of beauty.

And then, a little off to the side, almost unassumingly so, there was a glitzily colourful painting of a black Virgin Mary, leaning against a wall, and supported on little globs of elephant dung, by a young artist called Chris Ofili.

The mixed - media painting of a black madonna with an exposed breast composed of elephant dung gained notoriety when it appeared in «Sensation,» a 1997 exhibition at the Royal Academy in London.

The painting of a black Virgin Mary beside lumps of elephant dung so offended then - New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani that he sued to remove it from the Brooklyn Museum almost two decades ago.

Chris Ofili's painting of a black Virgin Mary decorated with elephant dung that caught the ire of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani sold for 2.9 million pounds at Christie's, an auction record for the British artist.

Mr. Ofili's first one - man show in New York may surprise museumgoers who have not seen his work since 1999, when a painting of a black Madonna with a clump of elephant dung on one breast caused an uproar.

Backdrop for Minor Arts places what looks like an old vase sitting atop a black pedestal in front of a typically modernist painting of a black square and rectangle.

British artist Chris Ofili's painting of a black Madonna, which incurred the wrath of the New York mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, has been attacked at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Not on show at the moment: «The Holy Virgin Mary» by Chris Ofili, the painting of a black Madonna that incorporated elephant dung and created a political furor when it was shown at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1999.

This picture is while I'm in the process of painting both of the black with chalkboard paint.

I can appreciate the one black wall, but if you paint all of them black, you can never expect a menopausal woman to stay there.

Not exact matches

An acrylic - on - canvas hand - painted Imgur logo that, when illuminated with a black light, reveals a hidden image of «dickbutt,» a not - quite SFW meme.

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He and his roommate were the only residents of a 10 - bedroom frat house, and they would cover the windows with black trash bags and the walls with bright paint.

Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson has apologized profusely for the incident, a major black eye for a company that paints itself as espousing progressive values and which famously caused a controversy in 2015 when it sought to foster discussions of racial matters between its baristas and customers, an idea it quickly dropped.

«I'm a black man, with a bunch of money, and having a crib in Brentwood [California] and having the word «n -----» spray painted on my gate,» James said.

He went on to use the specifics of Mill's case to paint a picture of injustice in the criminal justice system at large, including how black people are disproportionately imprisoned for probation or parole violations.