With his bone - white face separated by four
vertical black streaks, Tonto certainly looks distinctive, though his very appearance is what disguises the inherently Depp - like appeal of the character.
Not exact matches
Likewise,
vertical black stripes
streaking down the centers of canvases or delimiting their perimeters bring to mind ghosts of Barnett Newman past, though Chirulescu's lines result from the
black frames of photographic negatives writ — and reproduced — large.
Beginning from the left, the viewer follows: broad, lateral bands of red - orange and yellow; s angled stripes of pinkish - white and
black; thin
vertical streaks of
black and gray; thick red and blue horizontal panels; imprecise strips of
black and gray; and broad bands of yellow and
black.
In films such as Swinging the Lambeth Walk (1940), where drawn and scratched lines undulate in striated
verticals and sine - wave - like horizontals to a jaunty jazz sound track, and Free Radicals (1958), in which chalklike inscriptions
streak and sway across a pitch -
black screen accompanied by African music, New Zealand animator Len Lye used the cinematic apparatus to make static frames (cels) appear to move.
Nearly ten feet wide, «Shadow Dance» is populated by taut, mostly
vertical streaks of
black acrylic on a white field.