Sentences with phrase «tribal masks in»

In Maroons, a group of three small collage and gouache works on sheet music announce the artist's racial background most explicitly, depicting, for example, West African tribal masks in one and an elderly black woman raising a sword á la Liberty Leading the People in another.

James Luna created an art installation in 2011 humorously emulating Northwest Coast tribal masks in, «We Become Them.»

Not exact matches

► A man wearing a tribal mask stands on a woman's balcony and waves to her, and she screams apparently in fright.

It has hints of colour to it, maybe even vibranium, but it lacks any discernible African influence in the design, which makes for a pretty glaring clash with that tribal mask (which could just be a disguise for all we know).

Sheridan's cosmic contexualizations can get wearisome (the Ice Cream shop Sarah works at is called Heaven and Mateo's apartment, what with all its dangerous - looking tribal masks and paintings, is not unlike a mini-Hell), but every image in the film is so full of love that he earns the right to lay on the fairy - tale gravitas thick.

Skygoblin's The Journey Down [$ 4.99] is a classic point and click adventure with a certain visual similarity to Grim Fandango, due in part to the way that many of the characters» faces are modeled on African tribal masks, and a setting and mythology that owes as much to African diasporic culture as Grim Fandango owes to Latin American traditions...

This abstract anatomy, evocative of tribal masks and almost sculptural in its execution, subsumes the viewer in a hypnotic fervor and induces a primal heightening of the senses.

The sliding security grills are pulled down by a third above the entrances, while the light - diffuser panels are removed and stacked in a corridor area, with The New Black (2014), an orange - painted African tribal mask, perched on top.

A synthetic tribal - seeming beat thuds with quiet urgency throughout; in a room off to the side, plastic deer decoys sport equally faux - plastic replicas of Masai masks, posed stiltedly amid pale silhouettes of African spears that line the walls.

Newborn's opacity to interpretation even as it were in the process of being experienced, also applies to Levine's crystal glass forms that could be said lightly to also incorporate the position of the African tribal masks of Man Ray.

Inspired by the notion of an «abstract ancestry,» Harrison focuses on collecting relics and symbols of African culture such as tribal masks, vases and tools, in order to reproduce them with his homemade low - resolution 3D printers.

In MacConnel's well documented trip to Western and sub-Saharan Africa in 1989, he speaks of how he went «in search of Picasso's ghost;» meaning he researched the African tribal masks and traditions that Picasso incorporated in his own tribal art and cubist paintings like Les Demoiselles d'AvignoIn MacConnel's well documented trip to Western and sub-Saharan Africa in 1989, he speaks of how he went «in search of Picasso's ghost;» meaning he researched the African tribal masks and traditions that Picasso incorporated in his own tribal art and cubist paintings like Les Demoiselles d'Avignoin 1989, he speaks of how he went «in search of Picasso's ghost;» meaning he researched the African tribal masks and traditions that Picasso incorporated in his own tribal art and cubist paintings like Les Demoiselles d'Avignoin search of Picasso's ghost;» meaning he researched the African tribal masks and traditions that Picasso incorporated in his own tribal art and cubist paintings like Les Demoiselles d'Avignoin his own tribal art and cubist paintings like Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

This sense of interconnectivity is made more explicit in his ongoing Systems of Display series, a collection of small, mirrored works printed with found historical photographs: photojournalist Ian Berry's documentation of Congolese liberation, a set of Bauhaus dinnerware, a tribal mask from a Liberian secret society.

(His 2007 exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, New Zealand, and Germany set reinterpretations of Warhol, Basquiat, Koons, McCarthy, and Mike Kelley works into environments teeming with constructed tribal masks, finger paintings, wooden stakes, rocks, ponds, and vegetation.)

Nigerian artist Olu Oguibe, who now lives in the United States, presents blocks of wood topped by tribal masks laid out across the floor like Egyptian sarcophagi.

The search for the unschooled, the naive and raw in art has a pedigree throughout modernism, from Picasso marvelling at tribal masks to Jean Dubuffet's post-war search for «Art Brut»; literally «raw art», produced by the unschooled and marginal.

He went on to explain that «many of those in the know now give Frieze a miss and head straight for the neighbouring fair Frieze Masters [that] is a cornucopia of every kind of art that isn't strictly contemporary: illuminated manuscripts hang beside tribal masks, classical sculpture and an unbelievable array of 20th - century art.»

The volume includes an essay by Mario Diacono and a text by the anthropologist Giancarlo Scoditti who explores the notion of the mask as an expressive form which in many tribal cultures can be related to a mental image that reveals itself in a ritual context: a subtle game of cross-references to something other than what is visible.

The mother and daughter on horseback, their quiet faces implacably black against the blue and white of the sky; the marchioness in her chair (the walls in the gallery have been painted the same rich red as the room in this painting); and Selective Histories, a wry close - up of a wall of heavily framed paintings, hung salon - style and surrounding a tribal mask.

In «The Window: Rented Earth: David Hammons,» [9] an early solo exhibition at the New Museum, Hammons dealt with the diametrically opposed relationship between spirituality and technology by juxtaposing an African tribal mask with a modern - day invention — a child's toy television set.