Sentences with phrase «by popular iconography»
Indonesian artist, Entang Wiharso's grand metal sculpture, Double Happiness # 2 (2013), is informed by popular iconography of political, social and historical realities, and cultural myths.
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His grand metal sculptures and large - scale narrative paintings are informed by popular iconography of political, social and historical realities, cultural myths and the Candi reliefs at Sukuh Temple.
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As with The Shining, Rob Reiner's Stand by Me is difficult to appraise afresh because its iconography, performances and mood are so ingrained in popular culture and have been so influential on American coming of age cinema.
Donoso addresses the multifaceted nature of identity and how it is informed by the confluence of diverse sources; he combines self - portraiture with motifs from Spanish Baroque art, patterning found in Latin American textiles and imagery from current popular culture and pre - Columbian iconography.
Uprooted from Cuba as a child, and brought to Miami via Spain in 1983, Andres Conde, an expressionist painter with pop tendencies, mitigates the feeling of displacement by merging images from popular American culture with historic examples of Cuban iconography.
Although creating very different works, Rauschenberg, Johns and Rivers are united by their take - off of Abstract Expressionism, their irreverence for tradition and their use of popular American iconography.
By uniting both past and present iconography with the techniques of mass communication, language and sign, Zhang's work deconstructs notions of tradition, gender, identity, the body, and popular culture while calling attention to these subjects in the context and construction of a multicultural society.
The artist's planned work examines how refugees and migrants are de-humanized and demonized, by contrasting the personal stories of asylum seekers with public perceptions and popular iconography.
Johns» breakthrough move, which was to inform much later work by others, was to appropriate popular iconography for painting, thus allowing a set of familiar associations to answer the need for subject.
She is fascinated by contemporary modes of digital communication, the power (and sometimes the perversity) of popular iconography, and the situation of identity in the blurring contexts of technological virtuality and biological reality.
The exhibition will be curated by the artist himself and will delve into the subjects of imagination and iconography in contemporary popular culture.
Works by such Pop artists as the Americans Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Wesselman, James Rosenquist, and Robert Indiana and the Britons David Hockney and Peter Blake, among others, were characterized by their portrayal of any and all aspects of popular culture that had a powerful impact on contemporary life; their iconography — taken from television, comic books, movie magazines, and all forms of advertising — was presented emphatically and objectively, without praise or condemnation but with overwhelming immediacy, and by means of the precise commercial techniques used by the media from which the iconography itself was borrowed.