Sentence examples for folk image from inspiring English sources
Jyoti Bhatt's 1978 picture of a folk image of the goddess Kali painted on the interior wall of a village hut in West Bengal is beautifully spare.
Bristling with karmic vibes and perched on the back of a yelping lion (his face almost all mouth), she is a "folk" image of a kind that has only recently received museum recognition.
According to the later folk image, Boone the trailblazer was too unsophisticated for the civilization which followed him and which eventually defrauded him of his land.
The historian John Mack Faragher cautions that the folk image of Boone as semi-literate is misleading, and argues that he "acquired a level of literacy that was the equal of most men of his times".
There were folk images of women handing out white feathers, or cheating on their men at the front.
Jane Kaplowitz has been scavenging for years among the folk images of our day, and in "The Planet of the Apes" she sends up one of the more hilarious among them.
When most of her Mexican colleagues were focused on political murals, she was looking at tiny votive paintings, folk images of catastrophic deaths and miraculous resurrections, and modeling her work on them.
He retained formal aspects of European modernism -- oil paint on canvas, semi-abstraction, Constructivist geometry and so forth -- but added a content of pre-Columbian pictographs and Latin American folk images, to make an art that was both internationalist and non-Western.
An abbreviated history of modern Mexican printmaking might begin with José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913), widelywidistributedbuted satirical prints and cartoons made use of folk images like animated skeletons, or calaveras, to parody the doings of the rich and powerful and to denounce injustice.
The author, Bob Riesman, is also co-editor of Chicago Folk: Images of the Sixties Music Scene: The Photographs of Raeburn Flerlage.
Bob Riesman is co-editor of Chicago Folk: Images of the Sixties Music Scene: The Photographs of Raeburn Flerlage.
