Sentences with phrase «culture icons artists»

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When debate about an artist's merit no longer seems to have any point, one is left either with an icon of culture, too sacred to enjoy, or with a target of satire, brought down to our more humdrum level by a vaudeville lampooning of the unapproachable totem, as when graffiti artists paint a moustache on reproductions of the Mona Lisa.

Dynamite Entertainment has announced its continuing exploration of a literary icon — and pop culture sensation — with Sherlock Holmes: The Vanishing Man, a new series written by experienced Holmes writers Leah Moore and John Reppion, illustrated by rising talent Julius Ohta, and featuring cover artwork by superstar artist John Cassaday (Astonishing X-Men, Star Wars).

Shawn Mendes beat Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran to win the best - artist prize Sunday at the MTV EMAs, while U2 were proclaimed global icons in a show that celebrated London's diverse culture, from pubs to pirate radio.

Other notable pieces include a painting of Queen Beatrix by pop culture artist and icon, Andy Warhol, medallions by Frank Lloyd Wright, and a massive floral painting by Charles Ben.

The individual likenesses (artist peers like Faith Ringgold and Nancy Spero were joined as the decades progressed by icons of pop culture such as Yoko Ono, Grace Jones, and Faye Dunaway) dissolved into a complex biomorphic hallucination.

Designing Women celebrates female icons in TV, music, pop culture and history, as seen through the eyes of LAND's artists.

Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal... will be the photo - conceptual artist's first comprehensive survey, and explores how Thomas points to the roles that images, brands, and popular icons play in perpetuating stereotypes as well as upending dominant culture narratives.

Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal... will be the artist's first comprehensive survey, and explores how Thomas points to the roles that images, brands, and popular icons play in perpetuating stereotypes as well as upending dominant culture narratives.

«Blasphemous» Brazilian artist under fire for turning religious figures into pop culture icons

Akira Beard, a San Francisco based artist and teacher at the Academy of Art University, is well known for his engaging watercolor portraitures of pop culture icons.

The process by which the artworks are cast in urethane add to the blankness, as the artist has to fill in the puff stickers with paint to recapture the pop culture icons and weather them to recreate the look of the original.

The artist references the intimacy of worship, be it of a religious icon, celebrity and pop - culture, or the adoration of one's self through today's social media.

Mixing art historical references with images taken from the internet, the paintings of Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal (born 1972) borrow liberally from the image glut around us, appropriating anything from icons of popular culture such as Roy Orbison to paintings of the past such as Georges Seurat's «Bathers at Asnières» — from the lonesome cowboys in a Steven Spielberg film to the photographs of Enrique Metinides.

Exploring and questioning contemporary life through visual imagery, the approach of Pictures Generation artists is particularly relevant in understanding our current image - oriented culture and decoding the roles that images play as forms of representation, as icons, and as symbols.

The older artist brought a childlike innocence not just to icons of popular culture, but also to the knowledge of a disillusioned adult and to painting itself.

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is organising a collaboration between pop singer - songwriter, actress, fashion muse, front woman for Blondie, and icon of popular culture Deborah Harry and artist Marina Abramović.

Sometimes influenced by the European movements, artists and approaches, these artworks have become the icons of the popular culture, entwined in all spheres of life decades after their creation as the proud representations of the American people and spirit.

Dream Team to perform at MOCA Gala In November The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is organising a collaboration between pop singer - songwriter, actress, fashion muse, front woman for Blondie, and icon of popular culture Deborah Harry and artist Marina Abramović.

Brazilian artist Christian Pierini immortalizes his favorite pop culture icons using the stuff that surrounds him.

Brazilian artist, Ana Smile, has created a bit of controversy with her company Santa Blasphemy, which creates plaster religious statues painted in the form of pop - culture icons such as Batman, Frida Kahlo, Catwoman, Captain Hopper, The Joker, and Minnie Mouse.

Transformation episode details: Whether observing and satirizing society or reinventing icons of literature, art history, and popular culture, the artists featured in Transformation capture the sensibilities of our age while at times inhabiting the characters they have created.

These two famous faces, considered icons of feminine beauty, demonstrate both artists» fascination with identity and popular culture.

An upcoming retrospective at London's Victoria & Albert Museum celebrates the pop icon as an artist in his own right, a meticulous shaper of his image who worked with artists and photographers to sculpt Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke, and his other culture - making personae.

The artist has been particularly concerned with the diverse nature of British culture — its people, icons, folklore, history and politics.

Anthea Hamilton is a UK - based artist who creates multi-media installations that resemble theatrical stages or film sets and incorporate arrangements of prop - like objects, references to modernist paintings, and appropriated images of pop culture icons such as blow - ups of John Travolta in John Travolta, Bust - like, 2012.

This exhibition presents Warhol's book work, from early student - work illustrations of the late 1940s, through to his careers as a commercial artist in the 1950s, Pop fine artist and underground filmmaker in the 1960s, and photographer and Pop culture icon of the 1970s — 80s.

UPCOMING SHOW: Yokohama Triennale REGULAR GIG: Artist KNOWN FOR: In his theatrical photographs, Yasumasa Morimura dresses up as Western cultural icons, humorously commenting upon Japan's own complex historical absorption of American culture.

Leckey's interests might have shifted throughout the last decade — from an obsession with pop culture, subculture and the figure of the dandy in earlier films such as Parade (2003), and in his band collaboration DonAteller, with fellow artists Ed Laliq, Enrico David and Bonnie Camplin; to the high / low culture face - off of his BigBoxStatueAction performances (2003 — 11), in which Leckey's giant speaker stack confronts icons of modernist British sculpture, such as Jacob Epstein's Jacob and the Angel (1940 — 1); to his later multimedia performance lectures, the Internet - driven epiphany of dematerialisation In the Long Tail (2009) and its antithesis Cinema - in - the - Round (2006 — 8), with its more reflective inquiry into the physicality of images via, among others, Philip Guston, Felix the Cat, Gilbert & George, Homer Simpson and Titanic (1997).

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Inspired by popular culture in all its forms, Sidoli places a special emphasis on Bowie as a pop icon, crediting the release of his 1971 album «Hunky Dory» as a defining moment in his development as an artist.

Entitled Shrapnel, the exhibition will showcase Lola's «exploding» portraits of icons taken from popular culture, movie starlets and fellow artists as her subject matter.

The latest exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum celebrates seminal New York artist Tom Sachs» ongoing fascination with and reinterpretation of the icon of hip - hop and street culture, the boombox.

The Bruce High Quality Foundation, known for their humorous and irreverent projects and performances that often take a subversive and critical stance towards the current market's seemingly insatiable appetite for hyped new artists, answers this question ad nauseum by insinuating the image cum icon of their namesake, Bruce High Quality, into thousands of images from popular culture and art history.

It was just what you would expect from this hot young star, who at 28 had zoomed from street - level graffiti artist to pop culture icon.

Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei himself has risen as a cultural political pop icon due to the controversy surrounding his arrest by the Chinese government, in turn, artists around the world created politically charged pop artwork to demonstrate for his release, hence bearing witness to unforeseen polipop culture in the making.

Dating as far back as the 1990s and extending to the present, the exhibition reveals the artist's wry treatment of pop culture and his appropriation of its symbols and icons.

From a feather extracted from Sigmund Freud's pillow to flattened brass band, from a silver spoon to the height of Niagara Falls — the artist's work ranges from the microscopic to the epic, conceptually unravelling icons of both high and low culture.

The hullabaloo over Tracey Emin's unmade bed - which became an instant icon of popular culture - further inflamed feelings, especially when a protest by two Chinese artists who jumped up and down on it only brought yet more publicity for the woman who has supplanted Turner himself as Margate's most famous export.

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale will present an exhibition of 25 pivotal photographs by artist David Levinthal (b. 1949), whose work is a commentary on American popular culture, icons and ideologies.

Throughout these discussions with Obrist, in which architects and artists such as Rem Koolhaas and Gustav Metzger also participate, this icon of twentieth - century culture shows herself to be a generous and smart personality, and a multifaceted artist of enormous influence.

The repetition and pervasiveness of commercial imagery in our visual culture has inspired many artists to pay homage to pop icons.

The artists on view in Outsider Art also share something beyond their often improvisational methods of art - making: Their works are woven together by common threads such as religion, the mystical world of animals, pop culture and icons of American history.

Described by New York Times art critic Holland Cotter as «a classic artist's artist and one of our few important practicing history painters» Saul is best known for his paintings depicting exaggerated, provocative images of pop culture ranging from well - known art references to political icons.

New York - based artist Adam Lister creates «8 - bit» watercolor versions of pop culture icons and famous paintings.

Whether satirizing society or reinventing icons of literature, art history, and popular culture, the artists in Transformation — Cindy Sherman, Yinka Shonibare MBE, and Paul McCarthy — inhabit the characters they create and capture the sensibilities of our age.

About Tom Sachs Tom Sachs is a sculptor, installation artist, and painter known for his innovative renaming, examination, and questioning of icons of capitalist culture and systems of daily life.

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«Gilbert & George are world - renowned artists who have transformed themselves and their images into icons of contemporary art and culture.

American artist Scott Listfield combines astronauts, famous brands and pop culture icons to create his amazing paintings.

Whether satirizing society or reinventing icons of literature, art history, and popular culture, the artists in Transformation — Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, and Yinka Shonibare MBE — inhabit the characters they create and capture the sensibilities of our age.