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Website. karawalkerstudio .com. Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November 26, 1969) is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, printmaker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes.
A traditional silhouette portrait of the late 18th century. A silhouette ( English: / ˌsɪluˈɛt /, [ 1] French: [silwɛt]) is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is featureless, and the ...
A Heap of Broken Images is the debut studio album by American hip hop production duo Blue Sky Black Death.It was released by Mush Records in 2006.. The album title comes from the T. S. Eliot poem The Waste Land ("A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, and the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief").
Isle of the Dead: Fifth version, 1886. Isle of the Dead ( German: Die Toteninsel) is the best-known painting of Swiss Symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901). Prints were very popular in central Europe in the early 20th century— Vladimir Nabokov observed in his 1936 novel Despair that they could be "found in every Berlin home".
The human skull is an obvious and frequent symbol of death, found in many cultures and religious traditions. [ 1] Human skeletons and sometimes non-human animal skeletons and skulls can also be used as blunt images of death; the traditional figures of the Grim Reaper – a black-hooded skeleton with a scythe – is one use of such symbolism. [ 2]
English: A dead tree in a field at Foots Cray Meadows, London Borough of Bexley. Date. 13 May 2018, 13:47:02. Source. Own work. Author. Ethan Doyle White. Camera location. 51° 25′ 29.05″ N, 0° 07′ 12.91″ E.
Brutus Buckeye is the athletics mascot of Ohio State University and an anthromorphic buckeye nut. Brutus made his debut in 1965, with periodic updates to design and wardrobe occurring in the years since. As a member of the spirit squad, Brutus Buckeye travels to many events around the university and often makes appearances around Columbus .
Post-mortem photography is the practice of photographing the recently deceased. Various cultures use and have used this practice, though the best-studied area of post-mortem photography is that of Europe and America. [ 1] There can be considerable dispute as to whether individual early photographs actually show a dead person or not, often ...