Sentences with phrase «american pop culture»

Weather and climate are going to become a lot more important in American pop culture... at what point do Gawker or Buzzfeed launch their climate verticals?)

The colorful celebrity portraits and re-purposing of consumerism (which became his trademark) helped forge a new American pop culture mythology, while also defining the Pop Art movement.

Terms like anti-authoritarian, provocative and American pop culture are often attached to Kelley — and are certainly applicable — but such categorizations belie the baffling complexity of his works» construction and the critical gaze directed at issues including art, education and enlightenment principles upon which they are based.

Appropriated, relatable images and language from American pop culture and its 24 - hour news cycle form a narrative and tell part of the American story.

To this many layered show, the historical surroundings of the space add yet another level of irony to Flood's subversion of American pop culture.

What a great dialogue on American pop culture raised by Bougatsos, and one you smile about.

Since 2009, he has been making objects that explore the breadth of American pop culture.

Other notable works in «Words Matter» range from a selection of Michael Wolf's «Real Fake Art» series, to a tongue - in - cheek pop art knockoff from Hugh Brown's «Allegedly» series, a project that highlights the appearance of the chainsaw in American pop culture.

In the Positions sector, devoted to showcasing singular projects by up - and - coming artists, she will show Jibade - Khalil Huffman's multi-channel video installation, from a new and timely body of work by the artist that, according to Ebgi, «focuses on themes of the black male figure in American pop culture, film, and literature.»

His zany mixmaster skill for hybridizing European Old Master paintings with funky, American pop culture imagery is so powerful that he became instrumental in the international revival of painting - along with Jean - Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring - from the 1980s onward, influencing artists of his own generation and later generations.

In Paris, still anxious about its junior status to New York as the world's top art centre, American pop culture was tolerated rather than celebrated.

All to a greater and lesser extent owe a debt to post-1969 Philip Guston, and his dark corralling of American pop culture: bloodshot, nihilistic and hungover, post-Woodstock (where Guston had moved in 1967 and lived until his death in 1980).

The painter's visual vocabulary is based on models from art history, advertisements, design, and American pop culture, thus creating an assemblage with multiple cultural references.

The exhibition features American pop culture iconography and symbolism, with works by Bernard Buffet, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, Paul Insect, Faile, Robert Longo, Ron English, Nick Georgiou, Mark Hogancamp and Romon Yang, among others.

Get advice from an artist who mixes American pop culture with references to art history — George Condo.

«With Nigeria, all the tribes mix in, and then the British presence, but then American Pop culture starts coming in, like every other country in the world» (N. A. Crosby, ibid., p. 21).

Like many before him, Scottish artist Stuart McAlpine Miller confronts and digests American pop culture in his work, which is currently on display at Hoerle - Guggenheum through March 30th.

The resulting imagery adopts traditional Japanese technique and incorporates American pop culture illustration.

Of course, there were many thematic and visual references to poverty and exclusion that were framed by the discourse of art history — as in a metal construction by Jannis Kounellis [who died in February this year] that combines a hard - edged steel - cast minimalist frame with multicoloured rags of Arte Poveraat White Cube, for example; or in a an arresting display of Sadie Benning's «drawings» made of wood, Aqua - Resin, casein and acrylic gouache with motifs reminiscent of African textilesat Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; or works about otherness framed by the formerly excluded, or on their behalf — as in a display from the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa; or Andres Serrano's unforgettable photographs of notable figures in American pop culture, such as his portrait of Snoop Dogg (America)(2002) placed next to that of Donald Trump, on view at Galerie Nathalie Obadia.

From the folk - influenced compositions of Bela Bartok and Gyorgy Ligeti, cellist Matt Haimovitz and DJ Olive embark on a journey from Hungarian / Romanian folk roots to American pop culture, blurring the boundaries between concert music and dance party.

Los Angeles, the city of dreams and promises that constantly reinvents itself, has always been so tightly interweaved inside the American pop culture.

The exhibition is curated to demonstrate Davis's ability to transform the chaos of everyday American life into abstract paintings that capture the excitement, pace and emotional essence of daily life in America by combining the grounding of European abstraction with the spirit of American pop culture to create art that was uniquely American.

Other influences are comic books and American pop culture.

Lowman explores ideas involving desire using references and iconography from American Pop culture.

Sanford Biggers draws equally from African - American pop culture and Asian / Buddhist influences for his sculptures, installations and videos.

The influence of the American pop culture, especially hip - hop, and break - dance was crucial, as well as their working - class neighborhood.

Britain focused on the dynamic and paradoxical imagery of American pop culture as powerful, manipulative symbolic devices that were affecting whole patterns of life, while simultaneously improving the prosperity of a society.

The way in which Anne Collier skilfully re-photographs existing images of American pop culture from the 1960s, 70s and 80s using a large - format plate camera is similarly intriguing.

Mary Heilmann, Mojave Mirage, 2012 Oil on canvas, diptych 30 x 50 inches February 23 — April 5, 2012 Considered one of the preeminent contemporary Abstract painters, Heilmann's practice overlays the analytical geometries of Minimalism with the spontaneous ethos of the Beat Generation and the influences of American pop culture.

Each, too, flaunts the theatrical gesture under cover of deconstructing Modernism and American pop culture.

Cole's work is generally discussed in the context of postmodern eclecticism, combining references and appropriation ranging from African and African American imagery, to Dada's readymades and Surrealism's transformed objects, and icons of American pop culture or African and Asian masks, into highly original and witty assemblages.

Michael «Mike» Kelley often took on an anthropological view of American pop culture throughout his artistic career.

Whether the artist is making a statement about the corruption of religion, about genocide in Darfur, or simply about American pop culture, art has the ability to slap people in the face and wake them up, lull them into a sense of peace and tranquility, or inspire them to take up arms and march to war.

On December 1 - 3, Japanese fans of American pop culture will gather for Tokyo Comic Con.

Giant Robot specializes in «Asian American Pop Culture & Beyond,» which means that this is the store to go to to score obscure figurines, bizarre stationary and the ultimate Hello Kitty accessories.

Working Designs became known for a translation style that often took liberties with the source material, imbuing the dry, Japanese text with a goofy sense of humor and American pop culture references.

Evel Knievel is undoubtedly one of the more ridiculous pieces of American pop culture.

Each stage is based around popular Western misconceptions about ninja and Japan, making the game world a fantastic mix of ninja and American pop culture.

It's a pastiche of American pop culture wrapped up in the wackiest Japanese role - playing game ever made.

A country known only to my young mind through the iconography of American pop culture — Adagio For Strings, choppers, gunshot, blood and tears.

This prestige is often seen as the event which made the Basset Hound a popular part of American pop culture.

In American pop culture, lawyers seem to be almost equally depicted as both the righteous hero — and the diabolical... read more»

Nicola Scott grew up in Sydney, Australia, on a robust diet of British and American pop culture where her fetish for people with amazing abilities and crazy cosmic contexts germinated.

And as the 2009 documentary Shades of Gray - a warm and wistful look at Barker's life - shows, that would have been a shame for American pop culture.

Logan Lucky never forgets its theme about the pride of a traditional West Virginia, a region associated with bigotry in American pop culture.

Aniston is perhaps best known as Rachel on «Friends — an NBC sitcom that has earned itself a permanent presence in American pop culture, despite ending a decade ago — but hopes to continue to change that by disappearing «a little deeper» into different roles.

When much of American pop culture was infatuated with the swinging, psychedelic 1960s, John Frankenheimer was focused on the decade's darker side — the sour aftertaste of McCarthyism, the expanding military - industrial complex, the growing sense that technology might be controlling us instead of the other way around.

French director Xavier Giannoli borrows an obscure piece of American pop culture for his latest feature, Marguerite, a 1920s Parisian high society dramedy based loosely on the life and career of New England socialite Florence Foster Jenkins.

The performances stand for themselves as milestones in American pop culture; what endures is the heartbreak offered by what is essentially an editor's film: all intuitive juxtaposition, and brilliant.

His famous line «In a world...» is one of American pop culture's greatest gems.