Sentences with phrase «american pop culture references»

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.

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The Matrix has become such a touchstone of American pop culture - referenced, copied, parodied, and parroted)- that it's hard to remember just how new and different and distinctive it was when it debuted in 1999.

However, this is anything but a period piece, as the film retains an early»90s American pop culture feel more than anything else, replete with contemporary references and postmodern sensibilities.

In the end, «Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp» gets a lot of mileage out of funny names, ridiculous pop culture references and wildly inconsistent accents (it's almost worth it just to hear Wain say «Freddy Fuddy Duddy» in a ridiculous Israeli cadence).

The purported fun in «Disaster Movie» is in the relentless mashing up of pop - culture references: In the first few minutes, the film gropes dazedly for «Armageddon,» «10,000 B.C.,» «American Gladiators,» «Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull» and Amy Winehouse.

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.

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

Since the mid-1970s she has referenced and critiqued American popular culture, suggesting the influence of Pop Art while pointing to Abstract Expressionism through large, physical, drippy paintings of cartoon and comic characters such as Felix the Cat, Mickey Mouse, and Homer Simpson.

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.

These works enmesh newspaper clippings, some stemming from the Indian reservation, into overlaid figurative and Pop - heavy references to American culture.

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

Continuing to combine Meso - American iconography, art historical references and pop culture imagery, Enrique Chagoya's new work explores the representation of history and boldly comments on the current global political climate.

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 work is zany, humorous, and idiosyncratic, and combines elements of both classic American Pop painting in her references to consumerist culture but also to the flat painting technique of the more recent Japanese «superflat» artists like Murakami.

Themes of exaggerated consumption, film noir and the depiction of women in art, the dystopic American landscape, and the intersection of popular culture and politics, are explored through works by acknowledged masters such as Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol, as well as by many artists not traditionally associated with Pop whose art may be understood within its wider field of reference.

His work incorporates everything from pop culture references like Tony the Tiger and Scrooge McDuck to Americana elements like the Lincoln Memorial to the American Flag; to religious iconography including skulls, Buddhas and Ganeshas — all filtered through his own gaze.