Sentences with word «scarification»

Olatunji's Tribal Marks series are a collection of hyperrealist portraits informed by his extensive research into the age - old practice of facial scarification, and discussions with carriers of these marks.
Jordan's Killmonger, an Afghanistan War veteran whose body scarifications flaunt the number of men he's killed, represents the angry black male consumed by vengeance.
The link to the African scarification practices adds to the depth of this very original sculptor.
Hannah Wilke, Scarification Photographs and Videotapes, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA
Is there any way you would give the numbers for birth scarification for the hospital group in addition to the non-hospital group?
The make - up effects for Pinhead and his merry demons are excellent, with each of them resembling dominatri of various ilk, resplendent with the fruits of their unhealthy scarification and piercing obsessions.
Understanding what is important, understanding what these things mean — you'll see scarification, you'll see the lip ring.
To complicate things more, the dead man was carrying along bits of the True Cross - the one Jesus died upon - and bears scarification that suggests a long - lost religious order may not be lost after all.
The artist extends the heads» scarification lines across the full lengths of his figures» bodies.
These gave way to monumental faces born of the lozenge - shaped eyes, linear scarification and mask - like bearing in Picasso's ferocious 1907 Cubist masterpiece, «Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.»
According to a BBC report, «Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that soldiers in Juba sometimes asked individuals about their ethnicity before killing or releasing them, or identified them from facial scarification
Cross referencing multiple cultural influences, including Islamic mosaics, ritual body scarification and tattooing, South American textiles, alchemical and esoteric symbols that span from India and the ancient Levant to fraternal enlightenment period hieroglyphics, she has built a composite visual language that is as deeply personal as it is accessible to a popular cultural audience.
Key solo museum exhibitions during her life included Hannah Wilke: Scarification Photographs and Videotapes at Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine in 1976, and Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective at the University of Missouri in 1989.
For her, the varied tones of the rubber parallels human diversity, while the tire treads suggest images as varied as African scarification and textile designs.
By «scarification» (I guess that was a typo?)
Adolescent and Young Adult Tattooing, Piercing, and Scarification.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has addressed those concerns in its clinical report, «Adolescent and Young Adult Tattooing, Piercing, and Scarification,» released in September 2017.
In addition to delighting the bibliophile, the exhibition boasts some scarification knives belonging to Jenner, and a pair of Goa Stones, imitations of stones found in animal intestines believed to ward off the effects of poison.
Just because screen violence shows — or purports to show — the scarification of flesh does not tighten a film's clutch upon our feelings, let alone its claim to truthfulness.
Drawing on elements from African history and tribal culture, as well as contemporary and forward - looking flourishes, «Black Panther» pulses with color, vibrancy and layered textural beauty, from the beadwork and textiles of Ruth Carter's spectacular costumes and Hannah Beachler's warm, dazzlingly eye - catching production design to hairstyles, tattoos and scarifications that feel both ancient and novel.
The look of the film is dazzling, a pan-African symphony of masks, gowns, scarification and headdresses.
The conflict and scarification he undergoes is designed to fully integrate him into a society he's only collided with up to that point.
WINNER: «Marco Polo» — «The Fourth Step» (Vanja Cernjul, ASC, HFS) «12 Monkeys» — «Mentally Divergent» (David Greene, CSC) «Gotham» — «Strike Force» (Christopher Norr) «Gotham» — «Scarification» (Crescenzo Notarile, ASC, AIC) «Game of Thrones» — «Hardhome» (Fabian Wagner, BSC)
Introductory chapters are enlivened by the superstitious theories of early medical practitioners and vivid descriptions of ghastly practices like bleeding and scarification.
Her own book with young adult writer Kathlyn Gay, Body Marks: Tattooing, Piercing, and Scarification (2002), was named a 2003 Nonfiction Honor Book by VOYA.
That's such a bizarrely specious, brash statement I don't even know where to start — particularly coming from someone who attended art school in «The West» and must've seen more than his fair share of «acts of scarification and physical modification.»
In non-Western cultures, there is often a celebration of flaws or deliberate and ritual acts of scarification and physical modification.»
His «Tribal Marks Series» of paintings depicts men and women — like the young girl pictured above — whose faces are marked from the scarification process, common among some Nigerian tribes.
The vertical and horizontal lines can be traced back to scarification and African art, reminding us that Europeans did not invent abstraction, but appropriated it.
The vertical and horizontal striations in his landscape abstractions compress ploughed furrows, scarification, and flagellation as well as an archaic way of counting time.
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