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The word ekphrasis, or ecphrasis, comes from the Greek for the description of a work of art produced as a rhetorical exercise. It is a vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a visual work of art, either real or imagined.
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10-06-2023
Kehinde Wiley - Barack Hussein Obama
Kehinde Wiley, renowned visual artist known for his vibrant and larger-than-life portraits - that celebrate black and brown individuals; challenging stereotypes, and promoting inclusivity. For this and other artwork we discuss, please visit https://www.darwindarko.com/ekphrastic …its where you can find all this stuff catalogued for your viewing pleasure.
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10-06-2023
Kehinde Wiley - Barack Hussein Obama
Kehinde Wiley, renowned visual artist known for his vibrant and larger-than-life portraits - that celebrate black and brown individuals; challenging stereotypes, and promoting inclusivity. For this and other artwork we discuss, please visit https://www.darwindarko.com/ekphrastic …its where you can find all this stuff catalogued for your viewing pleasure.
13-05-2023
Cecily Brown - The Sleep Around and the Lost and Found
Cecily Brown has transfixed viewers with sumptuous color, bold brushwork, and complex narratives that relate to some of Western art history’s grandest and oldest themes. For this and other artwork we discuss, please visit https://www.darwindarko.com/ekphrastic …its where you can find all this stuff catalogued for your viewing pleasure.
05-04-2023
Rene Magritte - Son of Man
Rene Magritte was a Belgian painter who had a way of making poetic images visible. He reimagined painting - as a critical tool that could challenge perception and engage a viewer’s mind. For this and other artwork we discuss, please visit https://www.darwindarko.com/ekphrastic …its where you can find all this stuff catalogued for your viewing pleasure.
13-03-2023
Judy Bowman - He’s Not Coming Home
Judy Bowman - she was raised in Detroit’s Black Bottom neighborhood, and she sees it as her job to tell stories that are reflective of her coming of age experiences. Check out the main YouTube Channel: @theekphrastic For this and other artwork we discuss, please visit https://www.darwindarko.com/ekphrastic …its where you can find all this stuff catalogued for your viewing pleasure.
24-01-2023
Bisa Butler - Smart Girls Rock
Bisa Butler is an award winning African American textile artist. She is known for her vibrantly stunning larger than life sized quilted portraits that captivate viewers around the world. For this and other artwork we discuss, please visit https://www.darwindarko.com/ekphrastic …its where you can find all this stuff catalogued for your viewing pleasure.
08-11-2022
Maria Prymachenko - A Dove Has Spread Her Wings
Maria Prymachenko was a self-taught village folk artist from Ukraine. An inspiration for Picasso and Chagall, her works are now an international symbol of the call for peace. For this and other artwork we discuss, please visit https://www.darwindarko.com/ekphrastic …its where you can find all this stuff catalogued for your viewing pleasure.
05-10-2022
M.C Escher - Drawing Hands
Today MC Escher is one of the world’s most famous graphic artists. Despite wide popular interest… in his day, Escher was dismissed by the art world, but venerated by mathematicians. For this and other artwork we discuss, please visit https://www.darwindarko.com/ekphrastic …its where you can find all this stuff catalogued for your viewing pleasure. Twitter @TheEkphrastic; Instagram SN: theekphrastic, and YouTube Search: ekphrastic podcast
02-09-2022
Shirley Woodson - Flight Into Egypt
Shirley Woodson has worked a lifetime to tell stories of the African American experience through her figurative paintings. Beyond that, she is also a tireless arts educator and advocate, whose career spans over 60 years and counting. For this and other artwork we discuss, please visit https://www.darwindarko.com/ekphrastic …its where you can find all this stuff catalogued for your viewing pleasure.
01-08-2022
Hans Holbein - Portrait of Nikolaus Kratzer
Hans Holbien the Younger is considered one of the finest portraitists of the early Modern Period. He’s perhaps best known for painting the who's who during the height of English society at that time For this and other artwork we discuss, please visit https://www.darwindarko.com/ekphrastic …its where you can find all this stuff catalogued for your viewing pleasure.
04-07-2022
Jammie Holmes - The Illusion
Jammie Holmes is a self-taught painter, whose work tells the story of contemporary life for many black families in the Deep South; primarily focused in Louisiana. For this and other artwork we discuss, please visit https://www.darwindarko.com/ekphrastic …its where you can find all this stuff catalogued for your viewing pleasure.
01-06-2022
Peter Max - Love
Peter Max - is a famed illustrator and graphic artist who specializes in Pop Art and Neo Expressionism, and is known for his (lets just say) generous use of vibrant colors. For this and other artwork we discuss, please visit https://www.darwindarko.com/ekphrastic …its where you can find all this stuff catalogued for your viewing pleasure.
02-05-2022
Alexander Calder - Man
Alexander Calder redefined sculpture by introducing the element of movement, he is perhaps best known for his large, colorful sculptures, which incorporate elements of humor and chance into uniquely engineered structures. For this and other artwork we discuss, please visit https://www.darwindarko.com/ekphrastic.
07-04-2022
Danny Ferrell - Mac Miller
Artist Danny Ferrell is known for his sensitive paintings of people from within his LGBTQ+ community. But sensitive doesn’t mean weak. In fact, Danny’s paintings, abundant in a glowing pallet, assert in his subjects… defiance - saturated in color - brimming with life. For this and other artwork we discuss, please visit https://www.darwindarko.com/ekphrastic.
03-03-2022
Dominique Fung - Double Happiness
Drawing influence from her Chinese background, Dominique Fung’s contemporary surrealistic paintings critique the long history of Orientalism in art and the objectification of Asian women. For this and other artwork we discuss, please visit https://www.darwindarko.com/ekphrastic.
02-02-2022
Amoako Boafo - Reflection
Known for his empowering fingertip paintings, Amoako Boafo is regarded as a notable young voice in art of the African Diaspora - through his new approaches to the shaping of Black forms, and their dispositions in a larger global context. For this and other artwork we discuss, please visit https://www.darwindarko.com/ekphrastic.
08-12-2021
Bob Ross - Northern Lights
Known for his fast and easy "wet-on-wet" painting technique, Bob Ross reached millions of art lovers with his popular television program 'The Joy of Painting.' For this and other artwork we discuss, please visit https://www.darwindarko.com/ekphrastic.
05-11-2021
Georgia Okeeffe - Black Iris
Georgia O’Keeffe is commonly recognized as the "Mother of American modernism” and is one of the most significant artists of the 20th century. For this and other artwork we discuss, please visit https://www.darwindarko.com/ekphrastic.
02-10-2021
Calida Rawles - Water Dancer
Calida Rawles… The Los Angeles–based artist has earned widespread recognition for her exacting, ethereal depictions of water, and after spending over two decades selling work directly out of her studio, she has broken into the international art scene. For this and other artwork we discuss, please visit https://www.darwindarko.com/ekphrastic.
07-09-2021
Albrecht Durer - Young Hare
Albrecht Dürer, was a German painter, printmaker and theorist, and has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Renaissance in Northern Europe ever since. For this and other artwork we discuss, please visit https://www.darwindarko.com/ekphrastic.
16-08-2021
Futura - Boombox
Futura New York’s original street art vanguard, and one of the most renowned figures of the contemporary art scene is an illustrator, photographer, sculptor as well as fashion and graphic designer. For this and other artwork we discuss, please visit https://www.darwindarko.com/ekphrastic