Powerful, culturally
symbolic imagery which is recurring in Erizku's oeuvre, such as the Black Panther, the bust of Nefertiti, and Erizku's iconic hand and rose are combined with potent phrases in Chinese characters such as «Black Panther», «Black Power» and «Black Love», respectively.
Not exact matches
Apocalyptic literature follows the pattern of a vision in
which the author receives a call to write, and then describes, with highly cryptic
imagery, a series of
symbolic events
which predict the overthrow of evil and the triumph of righteousness.
The
imagery is startling not just for its
symbolic resonances, but for the breathless intensity with
which it sears the screen.
With Lifeforce, Hooper parodies the sexual panic that informs the classic vampire tale,
which is often famously preoccupied with the fear that giving in to what truly turns you on could upset your carefully governed symbiosis with the rest of society — a subtext that Hooper immediately elevates to text with a series of opening moments that follow Tom's crew as they enter a collection of alien chambers that must surely constitute some of the most vaginally
symbolic imagery in all of American cinema.
Through
imagery that combines painting with woodcut, drawing, silkscreen and intaglio methods, she builds series of works in
which different
symbolic elements encounter and interact with one another in altered, fictionalized landscapes.
«Speaking of People» examines the ways in
which contemporary artists including Jeremy Okai Davis, Margaret Gallagher, Kerry James Marshall, Lorna Simpson, Martine Syms and Purvis Young are developing concepts around the influential publications and incorporating their
symbolic imagery in their work.
The highly polished surfaces of the twist sculptures create fleeting, fluid reflections that dissipate or disrupt any stable
imagery, denying viewers the certainty of either the form's pre-twisted state —
which may also be
symbolic, scientific or spiritual in origin — or their own, familiar and fixed likeness beaming back at them.
Nation
imagery, such as that of the Vatan as a dying mother that has been failed by her children [41], and the
symbolic fatherland
which ethnically Hungarian groups, separated following the 1920 Treaty of Trianon from Hungary, construct [45], is created to elicit emotion [1].