Sentences with phrase «artists appropriate the language»

Too young to have grown up eating their breakfast cereal from a Russel Wright spoon while seated in an Eames molded chair, these artists appropriate the language of the modernist movement critically, using it to interrogate the meaning of style and its relationship to history.

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The exhibition's title Abstract Capitalism, appropriates the visual language of the «abstraktes Bild», which the artist understands as a particular stage in the development of capital.

The artists of the upcoming show appropriated modern commercial strategies in order to create an entirely new artistic language of commercialism, a revolutionary shift that continues to define contemporary art today.

Within this exhibition, Andy Warhol's Brillo Box (Soap Pads)(1964) borrows the visual language of mass - produced objects to produce iconography — in classic Warhol style, and artists such as Martin Kippenberger and Mario Schifano use similar techniques to appropriate universally recognizable typefaces, as the image of a brand or consumable personality.

The artist creates complex assemblages that appropriate familiar branded goods and imagery, reconfiguring them in an attempt to deconstruct the visual language of the consumerist aesthetic.

Whereas, conceptual artist John Baldessari has incorporated appropriated stock and movie imagery combined with texts for the narrative potential of images and the associative power of language, because of the structural similarities of linguistics to games, since both operate as a mixture of arbitrary and mandatory systems of rules.

With a visual dialogue established initially by working illegally with spray paint, making large - scale murals and site - specific work without permission, the artist has developed a process of painting that crosses abstracted, ambient fields of colour and gesture with traditional typography, vivid corrupted language and appropriated slogans.

Representing the artist's most recent exploration of the relationship between materiality and language, these pieces appropriate the LED medium typically employed in public context for news, information or advertising purposes.

Recognizing language as a primary method of expressing and maintaining power, these artists use poetry as a tool to manipulate the conceptual and structural elements of language and the social contexts in which language is employed, appropriated and abstracted.

David Claerbout's paintings on paper are fundamental to his film practice; Ilse D'Hollander's intimate canvases are sensual explorations of the physical act of painting; Jose Dávila interrogates how the modernist movement has been translated, appropriated, and reinvented; Laurent Grasso's meticulous appropriations of classical paintings integrate impossible phenomena, blurring the line between the historical and contemporary; Rebecca Horn's large - scale gestural paintings evoke her early performance work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze - frame.

I really like the way this title appropriates the language of the encyclopedic museum (more specifically, the language that this type of museum would use to introduce its gallery exemplifying Abstraction in art), but here it's used to frame a solo show by an emerging artist.

Hank Willis Thomas (New York) is a conceptual artist working with ideas of identity, history and race, appropriating language and images from the civil rights movement and changing their meaning to expose stereotypes.

Here, the London gallery shows two artists of different generations — Oliver Osborne and Julia Wachtel — who embed appropriated imagery (cartoons from European language textbooks, for instance) into their humorous, often probing paintings.

By appropriating various elements of the media, from the language of advertising to online dating, the participating artists determine their mediated identities for themselves.

The participating artists appropriate mass - media technologies towards various ends: Paper Tiger Television establishes independent public access television as a critique against the commercial media industry, Guillermo Gómez - Peña stars in a guerilla television performance piece in an act of electronic civil disobedience and Danielle Dean uses the language of over 50 years of water and toothpaste company advertisements to explore the rhetoric around purity and whiteness.

Syms, a Los Angeles - based artist employs historiography, semiotics, and Pop imagery, the artist explores how language and physical gestures are expressions of identity manipulated by the media, via video snippets; each «Lesson'takes the form of a 30 - second appropriated TV clip.

The artist considers language her primary medium, painting both appropriated and generated text across several distinct bodies of work featured in the exhibition.

Sharp, witty, satirical, and deeply subversive, the nearly 150 works in this exhibition examine the the origins and rise of counterculture artists in New York who appropriated modern commercial strategies to create an entirely new artistic language, a revolutionary shift that continues to define contemporary art today.

The artists in this exhibition use poetics as a tool to manipulate the conceptual and structural elements of language and the social contexts in which language is employed, appropriated, and abstracted.

Commentary from artists such as Julie Ault, Andrea Bowers, Jim Hodges, Mike Kelley, and Pae White, among others, does much to argue for Kent's influence on various trajectories of contemporary art production, especially those that investigate the malleability of language, appropriate popular and commercial imagery, and foment activism.