Sentences with phrase «totemic black»

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Reed Between the Lines is instead a totemic analogy, bemoaning in sitcom form the lack of well - adjusted black families living in upper - middle - class splendor on network TV.

Formally, the works are defined by Hull's distinctive and characteristic visual style - angular figures, bold, graphic lines and marks in black, contrasted with gestural abstraction in vivid, sometimes shocking, color, and recurring imagery — ships and nautical themes, and court jester or clown - like figures alone or interacting in totemic or frieze - like compositions.

Ligon writes in the catalog2 (which also includes an essay by Fred Moten) that his inspiration for the show occurred while he was standing in front of Ellsworth Kelly's totemic Blue Black (2000), one of three works permanently installed in the exquisite complex designed by Tadao Ando.

When vertical it forms a tall, totemic pillar and is known as All That Rises Must Converge / Black (1972).

In January 2015, the renowned American artist Ellsworth Kelly gifted to the Blanton Museum of Art the design concept for his most monumental work, a 2,715 - square - foot stone building with luminous colored glass windows, a totemic wood sculpture, and fourteen black and white marble panels.

Shown across five monitors, the work seeks to create an alternate reality in which five totemic entities recite an eerily subjective poem.A second piece of work utilises the cables from each of the five monitors, so that they become an integral part of a large black and white paper collage displayed on the other side of the wall, questioning what is the back, what is the front, and what the subject is?

Rostarr has built a extensive oeuvre of abstract polymorphic paintings, totemic iconographic characters and mostly black and white calligraphic drawings.

Organized by LACMA, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Cincinnati Art Museum, this exhibition is Pousette - Dart's largest in a museum on the West Coast and will showcase the artist's transcendental mysticism in fifty drawings from 1940 to 1992, representing his progression through as many styles — from the totemic, which marked his early years, to the abstract black - and - white of his later works — as there were decades of production.

Douglas Gordon: Black Burns will aim to render Flaxman's totemic sculpture of Scotland's national hero at once more human, more vulnerable and more exposed.