Sentences with phrase «banal items»

Susie MacMurray turns everyday banal items like hairnets, balloons, wires and fish hooks into beautiful but creepy works of art.

The Mexico City — based conceptual artist Minerva Cuevas explores the ways in which seemingly banal items like fruit, chocolate, and water reflect the practices and ideology of global capitalism.

The artist often photographs banal items of the mundane such as packages of goods, processed foods, cookware, and household items.

Taking his aesthetic inspiration from vintage movie posters and advertisements, Brannon's prints often feature banal items that hint at upper - middle - class notions of elegance — martini glasses, theater tickets, cigarettes, party invitations — rendered neatly and elegantly in retro 1950s colors.

Taking his aesthetic inspiration from vintage movie posters and advertisements, Brannon's prints often feature banal items that hint at upper - middle - class notions of elegance — martini glasses, theater tickets, cigarettes, party invitations — rendered neatly and elegantly...

The Mexico - City - based conceptual artist Minerva Cuevas explores the ways in which seemingly banal items like fruit, chocolate, and water reflect the practices and ideology of global capitalism.

Such banal items become metaphors for the inevitability of age and decay, but tempered with humor, hope and humanity.

«Leaf Observer» badge, Moonrise Kingdom Wes Anderson's films often use banal items to unexpected ends — like the Adidas tracksuits that serve as Chas Tenenbaum's family uniform in The Royal Tenenbaums — but in many cases, the ephemera of the real world aren't distinctive enough for the director.

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Snapshots of domestic personal scenes — a family at a picnic or banal living room interiors — are layered over items that circulate in public and private contexts — books without titles, UN treaty maps, magazine pages, or letters — that often show the signs of time and handling.

The result is that extremely banal everday items appear grotesque.

Naming the series after a form of Canadian folk art, which involves the decoration of keepsake ashtrays, boxes, and other household items, Kelley appropriates insignificant, banal and discarded items and elevates them to the status of a «high» art medium.

The works that make up these series pair seemingly banal subjects like floor tiles, cars, and weathered paint, with items of cultural significance, such as grave markers.