Sentences with phrase «urban folk art»

Urban folk art stencil patterns on a large scale that can look traditional or modern - equally at home in the town and the country.

ARTIST OF THE WALL FESTIVAL: Eighth annual event is an art showcase featuring urban folk arts and crafts, music and food along the lakefront.

Not exact matches

His paintings contain a mash - up of historical and cultural references, combining elements of 18th and 19th century colonial portraiture and folk art with visual signifiers of contemporary urban culture, including jewelry and body art associated with present - day gangsters and hipsters.

Although evoking the spirit and tradition of folk art, these works are also celebrating the urban lifestyle, particularly graffiti and sign painting culture through use of spray paint or latex paint.

We encounter lovers lifted from an Indian temple sculpture; monkeys and lion dogs borrowed from Chinese art; a grape - eating goat surrounded by lovely leaves (some made of felt), suggestive of folk art; and seemingly abstract planes of color that turn out to depict gallery walls, urban skyscrapers or a sendup of a suave brown Hollywood interior.

Silence of the Music combines folk art, pop culture, and urban detritus in order to offer an expansive impression of the artists» unique artistic perspective and creative process.

The artists exhibiting have taken their inspiration from the grass roots of culture, from their own experiences in early life, folk and street art, politics and urban decay.

Her projects include the Barnes Foundation, the American Folk Art Museum, the Asia Society Center in Hong Kong, the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, additions to the Phoenix Art Museum, the East Asian Library at UC Berkeley, Logan Center at the University of Chicago, and a residence at Urban Reserve in Dallas.

As well as the forms and patterns of flowers and leaf shapes that find their way into her painting and mixed media oeuvre, Milhazes has incorporated the rich atmosphere of Rio via its cheap, colourful fabrics and jewellery, its embroidery and folk art, and references to its rich and multi-facetted urban architectural mix.

Termed an outsider artist, a vernacular artist, and a folk artist, among other labels, Dial, who was African American, was one of just a few self - taught artists who, over the past century, began making art well beyond the borders of the predominantly urban, white mainstream art world but who would eventually find a form of success within it.