Sentences with phrase «white figure representations»

«I am overwhelmed by white figure representations every time I go to a museum.

As long as white figure representation outnumbers black figure representation there's a need to produce more black figure representation; it's just that simple.

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The Mete of the Muse (2006) juxtaposes differing representations of race in two bronzes: one a black patinated Egyptian figure and the other a white painted classical European nude.

The four largest are about 44 inches tall and feature singular, full - figure representations of young girls in the seven - to - nine year age group, all surrounded by large expanses of clean white paper.

In the black paintings as well as in the white ones, however, the geometric weave is interrupted by trims or by the transversal advance of the monochromatic background over the figure, and we are launched once again into the field of the representation delimited by the canvas.

A notable feature of his work was the representation of African - Americans alongside white Americans as peers rather than subservient figures, which is how African - Americans were often depicted during this period.

Just as white European figures are understood as representations of religious devotion, motherhood, power, wealth, and love, rather than as «white,» the artist presents figures whose beautiful and precisely rendered attributes, emotional bearing, inter-relationships, and geographically specific contexts seek to transcend generalizing categories and marginalizing reactions.