Thierry Noir

Pienot pense au temps qui passe (Work on Paper)

1987

Throughout history and for thousands of years, from nomadic deserts to modern cities, people have migrated from place to place looking to improve their lives for the better. This wor...

El Ultimo Suspiro del Moro alludes to the story of the last Arab king weeping the loss of his Spanish kingdom. Under his rule Andalusia has become a place of enlightenment and tolera...

This painting draws on the tradition of wall murals with its simple shapes, bold colours and earth tones of the background “wall”. It offers the perspective of peace through good wil...

This painting is heavily layered and its surface is treated as a “wall”, a surface onto which messages, mottos, graffiti, posters and notices can be written or drawn. On these painti...

This depicts civil rights icon MLK, the Statue of Liberty, Iwo Jima, an assemblage of mixed media photographic images and painted collaged elements. A powerful, moving work, an ode to the black civil rights movement. John M. Mitchell is originally from North Carolina, and as an art student at North Carolina Central University, he was involved with the Civil Rights movement including participating and getting arrested at a sit-in protest in Durham in 1963. After graduating, he was one of the first art teachers to take a position at the newly integrated schools in his home state. Mitchell continued his education in the 1990s and earned an MFA in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1993. He later served as a professor there from 1998-2006. Of his inspiration to create, Mitchell says: "A lot of my work is based on my experiences during the Civil Rights movement," he says. "I see art making as a 'record' of experiences. My bittersweet past, growing up in the segregated South, inspires the content, focus and narrative of my work." Savannah-based artist John Mitchell believes that a home is more than a simple edifice. Rather, he argues that the sociological, psychological, architectural, and historical associations embedded in the structure “tell us about our culture, our lives. It tells us about where we come from.” Mitchell's signature shotgun house constructions, crafted from found materials and scraps of newspaper headlines, reference his childhood in North Carolina, where such modest architectural structures were once commonplace. In "ALA 1963," he uses the shotgun shape to create a heartfelt memorial to a group of African-American girls killed in a racially motivated church bombing in Alabama nearly 50 years ago. He also incorporates the shotgun symbol in "Victims," a powerful reflection upon crime in Savannah in the early 1990s, which reveals how little has changed over the past two decades. Mitchell's mixed media constructions operate, in many ways, like memory itself. Scraps, fragments and pieces loosely cohere around a central idea, making symbolic and metaphorical connections. In these richly narrative and boldly stream-of-conscious assemblages, the whole truly is greater than the sum of its parts. Mitchell's jazz collages...

Kristina Fjellman, a Minnesota-based visual artist and performer, seamlessly blends sculpture and performance art in her captivating work. She has garnered recognition with exhibitio...

Mickey Mouse is an original modern artwork realized by John S. Fawcett in 1972. Mixed colored collage on paper. Hand signed and dated on the lower margin. Includes frame: 36 x 28....

Composition is an original collage artwork realized Bruno Conte. Hand-signed on the lower right in pen. In very good condition. The artwork represents an abstract composition, the ...