Sentences with phrase «blending cultural references»

Yinka Shonibare, who was born in London but grew up in Nigeria, uses multicoloured batik fabric to blend cultural references and his work including a 3D headless version of French artist Fragonard's The Swing.

Not exact matches

These are often mixed together in what I want to be a spontaneous blend of images rich in cultural references, I hope held together by passages of pure painting and lyrical colour in a «new representationalism»

Iona Rozeal Brown's transnational paintings blend African - American and Asian cultural attributes and reference the appropriation of hip - hop style among Japanese youth.

Since the 1990s, Rachel Harrison (born 1966) has developed a colorful and delightfully grotesque sculptural idiom out of the most contemporary detritus — styrofoam, plastic buckets, vacuum cleaners — which she blends with slapstick humor and art historical and pop cultural references.

The video's soundtrack, moreover, moves from Delta Blues to seventies groove music to ambient noise, adding yet another complex layer to Walker's ambivalent blend of cultural and historical references.

These mimetic works blend mysticism with popular imagery — from a Hindu statue to an American football player, diverse cultural references appear to evolve within the series, almost as in a stream of consciousness.

Producing all the costumes, make up and sets and playing all the characters herself, Maclean creates disturbing yet hilarious narratives that blend appropriated present day pop cultural material with a multitude of narrative references.