This theme of human movement is as particularly definitive to our global age as it was to the formation of 20th century Harlem.
Not exact matches
Although functional
human movement is the foundation
of FITMOVES, various
themes can be emphasized, such as cardio, hypertrophy, stability, balance or core work.
Ai Weiwei's 50 - metre long wallpaper installation, Odyssey (2016) represents the global, ancient and continuing
movement of peoples, touching on
themes from his newly - released film on the plight
of refugees worldwide,
Human Flow.
Her non-narrative video and multi-screen moving - image works, broadly addressing
themes of history, humanity and time, depict unidentifiable
human figures in
movement within a landscape.
Todd Merrill Studio presents an exhibition
of contemporary artists exploring the
human figure through the
themes of movement, expression, and abstraction.
For «
Human Traffic», Rina Banerjee has specifically produced a series
of artworks (sculptures, wooden panels, large format drawings) illustrating her reflections on the
theme of movement, which she interprets in a positive (journeys that generate a great cultural diversity and richness) as well as a more abrupt way, with the forced physical circulation
of bodies due to war, terrorism and poverty, thereby implicating migrations
of every kind.
Existential Art (1940s and 1950s) John Paul Sartre's existentialist philosophy, with its
themes of alienation and angst in the face
of the
human condition, can be seen in paintings by the American Abstract Expressionists, the Informel and «CoBrA»
movements, the French Homme - Temoin (Man as a Witness) group, the British Kitchen Sink art group, and the American Beats - all
of whom from time to time are designated Existential, as are many individual painters and sculptors: like the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, and the surrealist / expressionist Francis Bacon.