Sentences with phrase «riffs on art history»
Thomas often riffs on art history — unabashedly posing her subjects to reference iconic paintings by masters such as Manet or Ingres.
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Charlie Tatum looks at how Mickalene Thomas riffs on art history to let black women determine how their bodies are presented.
Throughout her work, Ms. Thomas riffs on art history.
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Willie Cole, Deborah Grant, and Maureen Kelleher all riff on folk art and black history, but one also invokes Judaism and one is white.
Maureen Kelleher, Willie Cole, and Deborah Grant all riff on folk art and black history, but one also invokes Judaism and one is white.
Full of riffs on subjects ranging from the use of neon in art to the history of the Venice Biennale, it's as much a social history of the modern ‐ day art world as it is a guide to Nauman's life and career.»
Priced from $ 50,000 to $ 200,000, they riffed on popular culture and art history with paintings depicting celebrity magazine covers and a black - and - white version of Edouard Manet's «Olympia» framed by white neon lights.
Titled «Memory as Medicine,» this near - two - decade survey (organized by Carol Thompson and Michael Rooks of the originating High Museum of Art in Atlanta) featured thirty - one works riffing on key chapters from the grand narrative of black history, with frequent allusions to tribal West Africa, aptly demonstrating the artist's inspired ability to present his modern world as a continuum with his genetic past.