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Al Held (October 12, 1928 – July 27, 2005) was an American Abstract expressionist painter.He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings. [1] As an artist, multiple stylistic changes occurred throughout his career, however, none of these occurred at the same time as any popular emerging style or acted against a particular art form. [2]
The police association has refused to remove the symbol. [60] In August 2021 the village board of Mount Prospect, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, voted to remove the thin blue line flag patch from police officers' uniforms. The police chief had stated that the symbol was intended as "a memorial to police officers killed serving their community".
One of the most fundamental elements of art is the line. An important feature of a line is that it indicates the edge of a two-dimensional (flat) shape or a three-dimensional form. A shape can be indicated by means of an outline, and a three-dimensional form can be indicated by contour lines. [1]
Tavar Zawacki (b. 1981, California) is a Polish, Portuguese American abstract artist and internationally recognized visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. From 1996 to 2016, he created work under the pseudonym ABOVE, famous for the "ABOVE arrow" symbol, representing the empowering message to “Rise Above.”
The figure in the artwork—a black man dressed in a midnight blue police uniform—represents the totalitarian black mass. [3] The hat that frames the head of the policeman resembles a cage, and represents what Basquiat believes are the constrained independent perceptions of African-Americans at the time, and how constrained the policeman's own perceptions were within white society.
Drawing from his Puerto Rican culture, la hara derives from the Nuyorican term la jara, slang for police, which is a play on the Irish surname O'Hara. [3] O'Hara was considered a common surname for New York police officers during the 1940s and 1950s. [4] The bottom of the painting is gray with steel jail cell bars.
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A triple fore-edge painting has, in addition to paintings on the edges, a third painting applied directly to the edges (in lieu of gilt or marbling). An edge painting that is a continuous scene wrapped around more than one edge is called a panoramic fore-edge painting. This is sometimes called a triple edge painting. [7] [8]