Sentences with phrase «southern vernacular»

«You know you're in a Southern lake house — there's a certain Southern vernacular — but there are modern elements, too,» says Pritchett.

It seems like most truckers have a smooth, southern vernacular that sounds like Wolfman Jack and Gomer Pyle discussing NASCAR on The Grand Ole Opry.

Using personal photographs of southern vernacular architecture, namely from Georgia (where the artist was raised) and Hale County, Alabama (a location associated with much of Walker Evans» depression - era photographs), Poor's -LSB-...]

Birch's visual style, a form of conceptual Southern Vernacular painting, is a syncretic blend of representation and abstraction that utilizes African diasporic retentions — cultural traits that have persisted across history — to create a record of the past's symbolic traces on the present, in order to preserve them for the future.

Whether rough - hewn beauties in earth tones or frenetic explosions of bright color, they reveal influences from southern vernacular art traditions and muralists such as Keith Haring.

Without formal training (in Lockett's case, deliberately so) and working largely with found materials, Lockett, Dial, Holley and peers like Joe Minter took their visual language from traditional black Southern vernacular art forms like the scrap quilt and the yard show but adapted it to speak of personal philosophies, social issues and the African - American experience.

Although criticized by some for the poverty reflected in the shacks, Ms. Buchanan believes her work to be a true reflection of the Southern vernacular architecture and the reality of current places and their surrounding landscape.

Beverly Buchanan (born 1940) examines southern vernacular architecture in her vibrant and expressive sculpture, paintings and photographs.

LESSON # 1: THE MISNOMER USE OF THE ADMONISHMENT «YOU KNOW BETTER» — Spun in the drawl of the Southern vernacular used in the film, the phrase of «you know better» is dealt to Richard Loving often in the film under the incorrect expectation of conformity to the majority culture or upbringing present in community and among his race.

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Perhaps with a screenwriter more in tune with the nature of the Los Angeles lifestyle, the vernacular, and the prevalent attitudes among the melting pot existence that is Southern California living, the authenticity could have pushed Freedom Writers from a watchable, likeable semi-fantasy into something truly substantial and worthwhile (a la Half Nelson, perhaps), even if it comes at the expense of the very clean, linear narrative.

I remember as a young reader being totally baffled by Joel Chandler Harris, who went so heavy on the southern illiterate vernacular that I couldn't understand it at all, OTO — Lewis Grassic Gibbon wrote in Scots vernacular, without a lot of phonetical misspellings and apostrophes.

Today, this vernacular architecture style is found across southern Louisiana.

«Souls Grown Deep,» an enormous collection of vernacular art — what used to be called primitive art — by Southern African - Americans is the show to see in Atlanta.

Although Ruscha denies this in interviews, the vernacular of Los Angeles and Southern California landscapes contributes to the themes and styles central to much of Ruscha's paintings, drawings, and books.

Enacting a dramatic narrative in the style of a soap opera or telenovela, Linzy's multiple personae express desperation, desire, and ambition in the vernacular of southern blacks from the lower socio - economic spectrum.

While Linzy draws on the experiences of poor southern blacks and the vernacular of working - class serial television in his videos, Hennessy Youngman (Jayson Musson) plays directly to the art world.

However, most of this work springs from an expressionistically freeform compositional approach which, in the case of Martin, was unabashedly influenced by the vernacular forms of black Southern artists like Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley, who had little choice but to employ the most abject of materials.

Composed on raw linen, the quick - witted drawings and hand - rendered texts are typically deadpan in their humour, while the bold leafy pattern and graphic elements recall the vernacular of Los Angeles and Southern California design.

Fever Within is organized by the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is curated by Bernard L. Herman, UNC - Chapel Hill's George B. Tindall distinguished professor of Southern studies and folklore, in close collaboration with the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, an Atlanta - based organization dedicated to documenting, researching, preserving and exhibiting the work of vernacular African - American artists of the American South.

Over the years, the vernacular of the New Mexican landscape became as important to his work as southern California was for Ed Ruscha, another member of Castelli's stable of artists.

The composition, which resembles a schematic rendering of a vernacular southern Mexican adobe dwelling, also provided Albers a means to trim the linear and graphic elements of his work in order to focus on color.

In collaboration with the SCAD preservation design program, the artist created a site - specific installation made of tabby — a southern, vernacular building material comprised of lime, sand and shells.