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Painted images of four of spades card, tank, horse’s mouth vomiting collaged black and white photographic portraits taken from a yearbook, spray paint can spraying flowers, intestinal track segment, and central image of human anatomical diagram surrounded by with black and white photo-collaged heads; palette of muted tertiary colors: pink, lavender, gray and brown.
Time Cycles
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Time Cycles

Artist George Afedzi Hughes (Ghanaian)
Date2009-2010
Place of originGhana
Mediummixed media (oil, acrylic and enamel paint, collage on canvas)
Dimensions24 × 30 in. (61 × 76.2 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineMuseum Purchase with Funds from the Caroline Julier and James G. Richardson Acquisition Fund
Object number2017.52
Collections
Visual DescriptionPainted images of four of spades card, tank, horse’s mouth vomiting collaged black and white photographic portraits taken from a yearbook, spray paint can spraying flowers, intestinal track segment, and central image of human anatomical diagram surrounded by with black and white photo-collaged heads; palette of muted tertiary colors: pink, lavender, gray and brown.
Image of Kongo power figure (nkisi) with one eye, collaged, rendered in watercolor, with paper cut out women's hands from fashion magazines and holding nails emanating from the body of the figure, nails, and a collaged paper cut out of TV color test bar in center of abdomen; pencil inscription on the bottom says 'Acculturation.."
Acculturation
Steve Bandoma
2011
Image of Kongo power figure (nkisi) with enlarged naturalistic head, red collaged lips, and broken legs, rendered in watercolor, with paper cut out hands from fashion magazines emanating from the body of the figure, nails floating in space around figure, red ropes on either side, and a small figure of St. Michale (collage image); plinth of figure has dates 1869-1960. The figure is being pulled off its plinth.
Forgotten Gold, from Lost Tribe Series
Steve Bandoma
2011
Playing Cards
Playing Cards
Indian Artist
19th century
39 Circular cards with vibrant colors, figures and images for diamonds, clubs, hearts, and spades
Playing Card
Indian Artist
19th century
39 Circular cards with vibrant colors, figures and images for diamonds, clubs, hearts, and spades
Playing Card
Indian Artist
19th century
39 Circular cards with vibrant colors, figures and images for diamonds, clubs, hearts, and spades
Playing Card
Indian Artist
19th century
One of 39 Circular cards with vibrant colors, figures and images for diamonds, clubs, hearts, and spades
Playing Card
Indian Artist
19th century
A print of a King of Spades playing card. The crowned figure holds two scepters. Its white face features black numbers like "4 6 4". The body consists of geometric blocks of red, green, blue, and black, with a large central spade.
Untitled (King of Spades)
Salvador Dalí
1970
A print of an Ace of Spades card. Two legs in blue heels point up and two arms reach down, radiating from a central black spade. A thick red ring and multiple gold swords overlay and intersect the bare limbs.
Untitled (Ace of Spades)
Salvador Dalí
1970
Embossed from of an apple with a circular collaged form etched in blue of a face (glued to the embossed sheet)
Azul
Felipe Davalos
1977
A minimalist vertical drawing featuring a faint outline of a figure's head and torso, with a collaged photograph of a smiling mouth placed on the face.
Made for Maidenform
Hiram Williams
1984
A machine with umbrella - peanut stand with collaged people and peanuts.
Crowd Watching the Last Peanut Vendor
Bryon McKeeby
1970

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