Sentences with phrase «scale narrative history»

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With a soundtrack that is a melancholy fusion of Bluegrass and classic Folk accompanying tales penned by an eclectic group of writers, this game uses small - scale stories to build an overall narrative that is as epic as the factual history of America as a whole.

Best known for large - scale interiors, landscapes, and portraits featuring powerful black figures, Marshall explores narratives of African American history from slave ships to the present and draws upon his deep knowledge of art history from the Renaissance to twentieth - century abstraction, as well as other sources such as the comic book and the muralist tradition.

The supernatural compositions of Bas's past are here expanded into grand mythologizing narratives, taking on the weight and scale of 19th - century history painting.

Further highlights include Polly Apfelbaum's strips of textile that are combined to form a colorfully woven painting; Rashid Johnson's tropical enclave containing various unexpected elements from sculptures made with shea butter to video portraits; Katherine Bernhardt's monumental painting with tropical birds, cuddly robots and cigarette stubs, which at once editorializes and summarizes modern culture and the artist herself; an interactive multimedia installation by Nedko Solakov comprising nine sofas in the shapes of the nine Chinese characters constituting the phrase «I miss Socialism, maybe»; and Yu Hong's large - scale painting depicting a famous Chinese fable widely cited in both modern Chinese art history and Chinese Communist narratives.

Marshall creates large - scale paintings that explore African American culture from the Civil Rights to today, drawing from and weaving a history of black experience into his narratives.

Her works are often constructed on a grand scale; with narratives of destruction and hope, they are in dialogue with classical history paintings.

This ambitious large - scale painting addresses the issues of black representation by interweaving narratives of art history, society, culture and politics.

«Celebrated internationally for large - scale, gestural paintings, the Ethiopian - born artist addresses both the formal concerns of color and line and the social concerns of power, history, globalism, and personal narrative,» said the announcement from Skowhegan.

The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.

She is widely recognized for her experimental use of comic and large - scale narrative forms to communicate submerged histories and alternate articulations of femininity to a broader public.

Revisiting the ideologically charged genres of Western history painting and portraiture, Donkor's dramatic, large - scale works represent narratives of legendary figures and events from African history, as well as more recent issues associated with civil unrest and police violence.

The viewer moves from room to room, and thus experiences the narrative of art history as a sequence which forms a totality, and at the same time as a succession of separate individual presentations or small - scale exhibitions.

Here is a magisterial drawing that combines graphic power, expressive force, and narrative ambiguity on the grand scale of history painting.

Once the least respected of the academy's categories — history painting, with its large - scale figures and high - minded narratives ranked highest — still life became a favorite motif of modernists, since inanimate forms, such as bottles, plates, and even fruits and vegetables, permitted an emphasis on purely formal concerns.