Sentences with phrase «paintings of slave ships»

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.

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She has created an immersive environment with a newly - conceived soundscape to accompany her animation Typhoon coming on (2018), which features a digitally manipulated image of J.M.W. Turner's 1840 painting Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On).

The result is not a perfect distillation of Turner's marine painting — no «Peace — Burial at Sea» (1842) or «The Slave Ship» (1840), no history pictures such as «The Parting of Hero and Leander» (before 1837)-- but it is a vibrant, engaging show encouraging us to perceive the myriad ways in which Turner was, as Ruskin wrote, «the man who beyond doubt is the greatest of the age. . .

This new site - specific installation at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery will incorporate existing works by Perry, including Graft and Ash for a Three - Monitor Workstation (2016), a 3 - D avatar of the artist questioning the current productivity and efficiency culture, and Wet and Wavy Looks — Typhoon coming on (2016), which both references and digitally alters JMW Turner's 1840 painting, The Slave Ship.

,» Degas» «Little Dancer» and Turner's «Slave Ship,» as well as the largest collection of paintings by Claude Monet outside France.

This becomes breathtakingly clear to anyone who tours the Joyner - Giuffrida house in San Francisco's Presidio Heights neighborhood, where the 150 - odd works on display run the gamut from Whitten's The Eighth Furrow, a squeegee painting executed more than a decade before Gerhard Richter made the technique famous, to Kara Walker's epic Terrible Vacation, a reimagining in gouache of J.M.W. Turner's Slave Ship, to the young Brooklyn - based artist Jayson Musson's Anticyclonic, which is made from the scraps of innumerable Coogi sweaters.

The show's title is taken from J. M.W. Turner's painting of the British slave ship Zong, Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying — Typhoon Coming On (1840).

Every so often the projections flick to the manipulated surface of J.M.W. Turner's 1840 painting Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On), the canvas grossly deformed into an oily sludge.

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.

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.

Her early paintings were full of skulls, slaving ships, and general disaster.

Featuring a digitally manipulated image of J.M.W. Turner's 1840 painting Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On), the original work depicts the drowning of 133 slaves by the captain of the British slave ship, Zong, to claim compensation for these «goods» under the salvage clause of the ship's insurance poSlave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On), the original work depicts the drowning of 133 slaves by the captain of the British slave ship, Zong, to claim compensation for these «goods» under the salvage clause of the ship's insurance polShip (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On), the original work depicts the drowning of 133 slaves by the captain of the British slave ship, Zong, to claim compensation for these «goods» under the salvage clause of the ship's insurance poslave ship, Zong, to claim compensation for these «goods» under the salvage clause of the ship's insurance polship, Zong, to claim compensation for these «goods» under the salvage clause of the ship's insurance polship's insurance policy.