Sentences with phrase «using wry humor»

Motley was particularly adept at capturing the vibe of a specific time and place and using wry humor to explore delicate issues of race and identity.

Using wry humor to upset expectations about so - called high art and the meaning of its placement in a commercial space, the works are also indicative of the importance language plays in the artist's practice.

Reinhart uses wry humor, alliteration and other devices to ensure his text is both informative and entertaining.

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Fellini appreciated Flajano's deft humor, wry cultural observations, and subtly and used the writer to help pen some of his best films including La Strada (1954) and La Dolce Vita (1960).

Its wry sense of humor and surrealism reminded me of Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman, who used a checkpoint as a microcosm in his 2002 film, Divine Intervention.

In Jose Lerma's most recent sculptural painting using the largest polo shirt you could possibly imagine, he combines his well - known paint blobs into a work full of fresh and cynically wry humor.

Joyce J. Scott uses wry wit and humor to tackle complex, painful subjects with refined materials.

But as we have moved beyond that moment and into the 21st century and as we have moved into the era of post-modernism, particularly that category post-black, I really felt that it would be worth revisiting Archibald Motley to look more critically at his work, to investigate his wry sense of humor, his use of irony in his paintings, his interrogations of issues around race and identity.