A canvas represents a group of workers gathered below a portrait of Stalin.
Attia says this monochrome theatrical canvas represents "opposites such as life and death, strength and fragility", recalling his Ghost piece, on view earlier this year at the Saatchi Gallery, which consisted of rows of aluminium foil sculptures depicting Muslim women in prayer.
Artist's Statement: This series, my first that is strictly acrylic on canvas, represents a departure for me from the more three-dimensional and abstract mixed-media work that I have done in the past.
The painting is finished with a stylized portrait of Murphy and cowry shells are glued to the canvas representing the money won by Murphy during his career.
Sometimes he cuts small holes into the canvas to represent doors or windows and, in so doing, calls attention to the physical fact of the canvas.
Ms. Kheirallah's raw scenes of the recent war -- she produced a second piece that has a baby's pacifier hanging from a nail in another shredded canvas -- represent the conflicting emotions of the new Iraq.
Straight lines are then drawn on the canvas to represent the horizon and 'visual rays' connecting the viewer's eye to a point in the distance.
Tyson Fury said he had to get up from the canvas to "represent" mental health sufferers during the 12th round of his epic draw with Deontay Wilder.
Davidson's recent acrylic on canvas paintings represent his attempt to bring imagery rooted in the Haida past towards contemporaneity, a project that Barbara Brotherton -- the curator of Robert Davidson: Abstract Impulse -- acknowledges and supports.
A strong, dark line with circular protrusions bisects the canvas: it represents the Canning Stock Route, a series of wells sunk by white settlers in the early nineteen-hundreds for the convenience of inland cattle drovers.
