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Chris Ofili (born 1968) is an English born painter noted for artworks referencing aspects of his Nigerian heritage. He is one of the Young British Artists. He is a Turner Prize winner and his work has been a source of controversy. This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ...
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The Turner Prize is an annual prize given to a British visual artist under 50, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner. ...
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The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living by Damien Hirst (1991). ...
The Turner Prize is an annual prize given to a British visual artist under 50, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner. ...
Biography Ofili was born in Manchester in 1968.[1] He studied art in London, at the Chelsea School of Art from 1988 to 1991 and at the Royal College of Art from 1991 to 1993. Ofili was established through exhibitions by Charles Saatchi at his gallery in North London and the travelling exhibition Sensation (1997) becoming recognised as one of the few British artists of African/Caribbean descent to breakthrough as a member of the Young British Artists. Ofili has also had numerous solo shows since the early 1990s including the Serpentine Gallery. In 1998, Ofili won the Turner Prize, and in 2003 he was selected to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale of that year, where his work for the British Pavilion was done in collaboration with the architect David Adjaye. This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ...
The Chelsea College of Art and Design, previously called the Chelsea School of Art (1928-2001), is part of the University of the Arts London. ...
Charles Saatchi Charles Saatchi (born June 9, 1943) was the co-founder with his brother Maurice of the global advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, which became the worlds biggest before the brothers were forced out of their own company in 1995. ...
Sensation was a notorious exhibition of Young British Artists which took place in 1997 (18 September-28 December) at the Royal Academy of Art in London and later toured to Berlin and New York. ...
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living by Damien Hirst (1991). ...
The Serpentine Gallery is an art gallery in Kensington Gardens, central London, which focuses on modern and contempory art. ...
The Turner Prize is an annual prize given to a British visual artist under 50, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner. ...
David Adjaye (born 1966) is a British architect. ...
He is represented by the Victoria Miro Gallery. The Victoria Miro Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in London, run by Victoria Miro. ...
 No Woman No Cry by Chris Ofili (1998). The painting stands on two dried, varnished lumps of elephant dung. A third is used as the pendant of the necklace. In 1992 he won a scholarship which allowed him to travel to Zimbabwe. Ofili, who is of Nigerian descent, studied cave paintings there which had some effect on his style. Though Ofili's detractors often state that he "splatters"[2] elephant dung (a substance which is used in a variety of rituals in Africa) on his pictures, this is inaccurate: he sometimes applies it directly to the canvas in the form of dried spherical lumps, and sometimes, in the same form, uses it as foot-like supports on which the paintings stand. Image File history File links Ofili-No-Woman. ...
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Cave or Rock Paintings are paintings on cave or rock walls and ceilings, usually dating to prehistoric times. ...
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A ritual is a set of actions, performed mainly for their symbolic value, which is prescribed by a religion or by the traditions of a community. ...
Ofili's painting also references blaxploitation films and gangsta rap often to question racial and sexual stereotypes in a humorous way. His work is often built up in layers of paint, resin, glitter, dung and other materials to create a collage. Shaft (1971) Blaxploitation is a film genre that emerged in the United States in the early 1970s when many exploitation films were made that targeted the urban African American audience; the word itself is a portmanteau of the words “black†and “exploitation. ...
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A collage composed of magazine articles and pictures Collage (From the French: , to stick) is regarded as a work of visual arts made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. ...
Ofili has also been the brains behind the 'Freeness' Project[3]. This involved the coming together of artists, producers and musicians of ethnic groups (black, Asian, African and Chinese) in an attempt to expose the music that may be unheard in other spaces. Freeness allowed the creativity of today's British ethnic artists to be heard. The result of months of tours to 10 major cities in the UK resulted in Freeness Volume 1 - a compilation of varied works that were exposed during the tour.
Controversy
The Holy Virgin Mary and Mayor Giuliani One of his paintings, The Holy Virgin Mary, a depiction of the Virgin Mary, was at issue in a lawsuit between the mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art when it was exhibited there in 1999 as a part of the "Sensation" exhibit. The painting depicted a black African Mary surrounded by images from blaxploitation movies and close-ups of female genitalia cut from pornographic magazines, and elephant dung. These were formed into shapes reminiscent of the cherubim and seraphim commonly depicted in images of the Immaculate conception and the Assumption of Mary. Following the scandal surrounding this painting, Bernard Goldberg ranked Ofili #86 in 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America Saint Mary and Saint Mary the Virgin both redirect here. ...
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Rudolph William Louis Giuliani III, (born May 28, 1944) is an American lawyer, prosecutor, businessman, and Republican politician from the state of New York. ...
The Brooklyn Museum, located at 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York, is the second largest art museum in New York City, and one of the largest in the United States. ...
Sensation was a notorious exhibition of Young British Artists which took place in 1997 (18 September-28 December) at the Royal Academy of Art in London and later toured to Berlin and New York. ...
A cherub (Hebrew כרוב; plural cherubim, כרובים) is an angelic creature mentioned several times in the Tanakh, or Old Testament, and in the Book of Revelation. ...
å…翼天使 Seraphim(å…翼天使) is a Taiwanese symphonic metal band similar to Nightwish and Therion. ...
Mary, mother of Jesus as the Immaculate Conception. ...
The Assumption has been a subject of Christian art for centuries. ...
100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37) (ISBN 0-06-076128-8) is a book by Bernard Goldberg that was published in 2005. ...
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The Upper Room by Chris Ofili The Upper Room is an installation of 13 paintings of rhesus macaque monkeys by English artist Chris Ofili in a specially-designed room. ...
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