Sentences with phrase «art historical icons»

Working conceptually, Tap exploits the subject of landscape to make historically situated interventions — in the past she has explicitly referenced Canadian art historical icons such as Homer Watson and David Milne.

Not content simply to blur the boundaries between high and low, Erró deploys a kaleidoscope of cartoon characters, art historical icons, and government leaders to comment on urgent social and political issues.

In the series, which references the «blue hour» between daylight and dark, he portrays 20th - century art historical icons that are sculpted and cast from nontraditional materials, which would be self - obliterating if ever used for their intended purpose.

Not exact matches

You can re-skin your mini-masterpieces at the touch of an icon — initially, you're given the classic Super Mario Bros art - style, along with that of New Super Mario Bros U, but there are countless others to acquire, taking you through some of the more obscure historical iterations of the game.

September 16 - 17 Ron English is a widely known contemporary American artist known for his irreverent appropriations and reinterpretations of advertising icons and art world historical imagery.

Mixing art historical references with images taken from the internet, their subject matter knows no limits: from icons of popular culture such as Roy Orbison to much admired paintings of the past such as Georges Seurat's Bathers at Asnières (1884); from the lonesome cowboys in a Steven Spielberg film to the shocking photographs of Mexican photographer, Enrique Metinides.

Building on Baldessari's homages to the art historical canon, which have centered on subjects from Giotto to Miro to Pollock / Benton, the new exhibition pairs two icons of art, Picabia and Mondrian.

John Baldessari, known for his homages to the art historical canon, will pair two icons of art: French painter Francis Picabia with Dutch painter Piet Mondrian.

Novoa constructs a language of symbols based upon icons of political, ideological, religious, and Art Historical significance in the trench between what one sees and expects to see.

Mixing art historical references with images taken from the internet, the paintings of Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal (born 1972) borrow liberally from the image glut around us, appropriating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.

«The Show is Over» continues the thread of Gagosian exhibitions such as «Imageless Icons: Abstract Thoughts» (2005); «Crash» (2010); and «Malevich and the American Legacy» (2011), which trace art - historical themes from the advent of Modernism to the present.

He paradoxically began his career with a blue heritage plaque announcing his own demise and posthumous recognition, but his subsequent work has drawn on art - historical icons to play with the idea of various reincarnations.

This silent icon of media art provides both an interesting sonic experience within Cloud and a fitting historical reference: the work operates with audio generators, an audio amplifier, and an altered TV monitor, marking one of the first instances in which an artist employed live interaction between a sound system and an electronic image.

In paintings, works on paper and ceramics, pop culture, art historical references and icons from the East and West collide, often fusing into hybrid symbols.

Yet Latham had a dadaist spirit of destruction, so perhaps making him into an art - historical icon is a false way to remember him.

Renée Green's (b. 1959) exhibition Within Living Memory is a meditation spurred by inhabiting an architectural icon — Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center — while exploring the historical and institutional legacies of modernism's other forms, including cinema, visual art, poetry, music, and literature.

We have art to thank for so many educational moments — for helping us freeze historical scenes in time or capture the likeness of legendary icons.

In the late 1950s, González established an artistic practice strongly influenced by icon painting, art - historical motifs, and local styles.

British born, international artist, Gavin Turk has pioneered many forms of contemporary British sculpture now taken for granted, including the painted bronze, the waxwork, the recycled art - historical icon and the use of rubbish in art.

He has pioneered many forms of contemporary British sculpture now taken for granted, including the painted bronze, the waxwork, the recycled art - historical icon and the use of rubbish in art.

This exquisitely designed and balanced piece reaches back into the historical archive to recreate, in pen and ink, a cover from a rare Czechoslovakian design periodical, Výtvarné Snahy (Art Endeavors), that was published in Prague over four years and stands as an icon of Lisstzky and Maholy - Nagy's New Typography movement.

Villalongo's intricately layered figurative paintings meld cultural icons, mythology, and art historical references into wild, at times unsettling narratives.