Drawing inspiration from
the rich symbolic world of the black rural South and with no formal education, Dial has developed a truly distinctive and original style.
Not exact matches
Last and most significant, congregational plot — capacious, political, and historical — testifies to the
symbolic relationship that exists between the
rich drama of church life and the struggle of the
world's peoples.
Much like jazz musicians, the artists of this tradition reflect the
rich,
symbolic world of the black rural South through highly charged works that address a wide range of revelatory social and political subjects.
Often, Stettheimer's energetic, richly
symbolic, and vibrantly colored scenes of daily life of the
rich and glamorous are thinly disguised attempts at satire; such as this brilliant painting of beach revelers at a segregated resort in New Jersey, where a vivacious mixed - race crowd parties without a care in the
world.