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... the narratives and bend an association of ideas so that a black individual in a period setting is no longer synonymous with slave subservience and, by extension, does not instill fear or mistrust. She becomes the center of her own tale and hastens it forward. Creating pieces that simulate Old Masters’ techniques...

... bodies. Together they share a fundamental interest in defacing and deforming the gaze—both a gendering and a racializing gaze—as it has rested upon both the black male and female body and the black face. Comparisons with visual works by an old European master, Édouard Manet, and twentieth-century...

...Bruce Haines Copyright © 2002 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2002 J ohannes Phokela's mutated doppelgangers of Dutch and the cutting edge. Phokela is phlegmatic in his assertions not to Flemish Old Masters query illusions of aesthetic purity...

.... For Hendricks, this took the form of combining American realism from artists such as Grant Wood and Edward Hopper with the postmodernism styles that Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein brought forward. With these contemporary artistic colleagues and his interest in Old Masters portraiture, Hendricks first worked...

... figures old (and new) masters. The artist’s difference and thus functions as a work representing European countries vying early, colorful painting installations, on its own; at the same time, it stands for a piece of Africa are frozen in pos- such as Double Dutch (1994), cite and in contrast...

...• stitution. of recognizable body features and "normal" toral scenes, or in scenes appropriated from flesh tones and his paintings as gestures European old master paintings often seem aiming at "racelessness." Indeed, that seems aggressively...

... any measure of reality and becomes a whirl of cosmic dust, a Exposition in Addis Ababa and was awarded an Imperial scholarship movement tout court For the old masters, color determined the light...

... sets Yiadom-Boakye s paintings in conversation with the Old Masters, many of which surround this exhibition on other walls at the museum, is that they all feature Black dramatis personae. She is inspired by other painters, some of whom we feature strongly in our collection such as John Singer Sargent...

... a dialogue between two guard, and that he assumed I was a prostitute “work- characters: the voice of an old master and a con- ing” in the hotel. Later, while discussing the incident temporary troubled voice. The work begins with with some Cuban artists, I was told that women of the soloist’s...

... in collaboration with Hermanus, not just a stunning and epic work in itself but also a summation of his complicated journey so far as a person, a white South African and an artist. Epilogue is a thirty-minute polymorphic composition of documentary and family photographs, classical marble sculptures, Old Master...

..., the ing relationships and associations. One such case is cows that crowd at the water’s edge metamorphose the witty recording of a painted red ribbon over a into the carcasses of old-master paintings or sug- motorway signpost for the M9 so that their shapes gest, alternatively, the carrion...

... techniques of the old masters of European por• Eyck's Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban (1433) traiture, his intimate Jamaican landscapes of the impressed him with its handling of the richly fold• past twenty-five years share a dialogue with the ed red fabric of the turban and the unique...

..., with Wiley and his subjects movement from the 1930s through the 1950s that selecting their poses from textbook reproductions redefined blackness within a collective African of Old Master works. He depicted these figures on identity and cultural tradition.1 Inspired by the a large scale, placing his...

..., a twenty-one-year-old boxer; Harold Wilmot, thirty-two; and John Richards, a twenty- two-year-old carpenter. Photo: Douglas Miller McMillan Nka • 61 and analyses of dandyism...

.... Atnafu's art Ethiopian woman who grew up in Addis Ababa, reflects such qualities and more. Her work is the immersed as a child in a mythical Old Testament n i i i M l| i nn i u product of a rich heritage and a wealth of experience...

..., adjacent gallery, Portrait of Nat Turner with the Head of His Master provides a counterpoint with its muted palette and the enclosed space of the master’s bedroom. The viewer is caught in the rough cross-current between the two galleries; the logic of their connection is compelling and the emotional...

.... Though of Gujerati origin and married to a Hindu, Seejarim A lot of ritual and ceremony happens around me." has followed the Radhasoami Path of the Sikh guru, Master As a first generation South African of Indian-born parents, Gurinder Singh since he visited...

... prefers to address other issues in her in an old, reconstructed sugar planta• work. Like Lam, her involvement in the tion barracks (barracon) on the old La religion is through artistic exploration...

... is suggested by the way the new chande­ lier echoes the position of Wilson’s first chandelier, Chandelier Mori, at the point of entry into Wilson’s 2003 Venice Biennale exhibition. In effect, To Die upon a Kiss displaces the old chandelier, which is also the prototype for Othello’s Light. In the 2012...

... tints. These are very different from the canvases Gaba covered with Dutch money. The shreds the Bank of the Netherlands makes of its old notes look like gaily coloured...