Sentences with phrase «celebrity culture into»

Discover how one of the 20th century's most innovative artists forged an indelible legacy as a pioneer by ignoring art - world taboos and incorporating fashion and celebrity culture into his pop art.

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You can't log into any account without hearing about the latest pop - culture celebrity drama or Kardashian lipstick color or makeup line.

Ours is indeed a consumeristic culture, the kind that too often turns people into commodities, and I believe Christians can speak into that culture in a unique, life - giving way — not only as it concerns sex - on - demand, but also as it concerns food - on - demand, celebrity - on - demand, stuff - on - demand, cheap - goods - on - demand, pornography - on - demand, entertainment - on - demand, comfort - on - demand, distraction - on - demand, information - on - demand, power - on - demand, energy - on - demand, and all those habits that tend to thrive at the expense of the dignity and value of our fellow human beings or our planet.

Amy is not an easy watch, but in a culture that has elevated the idea of celebrity and has made fame into its own sort of idol, it's an essential one.

Because it's a heck of a lot easier to dish it out than it is to eat it up, let me tell you, and I think sometimes we inadvertently perpetuate celebrity culture by railing so loudly against it, by feeding into the caricatures with our derision.

Imagine a culture, a world like our own, where the popular masses are so into celebrities, that they pay money to be injected with the same disease a celebrity recently had to feel a sort of «biological communion.»

Zoolander and the gang have mostly ossified into pullstring See»n Says, though to encore the greatest hits of a fifteen - year - old movie whose footprint on popular culture has long since dissipated is to masturbate, really, and the celebrity cameos — about the same number as the previous film's, but much more elaborately integrated this time around — feel no less onanistic.

Deadpool breathed new life into the superhero genre for me thanks to Ryan Reynolds just OWNING his character, and Popstar held a mirror to everything that's ridiculous about our celebrity - obsessed culture, in true Lonely Island style.

Outside of the great script and great acting, I really admire how McKay tells this story by adding in pop culture references, news clips, and various celebrities into the mix.

At the film's recent press day, McKay, Lewis, Bale, Carell, Gosling, Hamish Linklater, Jeremy Strong, producer Jeremy Kleiner, and screenwriter Charles Randolph talked about turning the book into a movie and adapting it to the screen, why McKay was the right person to direct, what drew them to the project, how the actors met their real - life counterparts in preparation for their roles, the decision to combine a cinema verite documentary approach with other stylized elements, breaking the fourth wall, and using celebrities and pop culture figures as an entertaining storytelling device to explain complex financial concepts to the audience.

Although the script is thin, there's enough source material that could've been turned into a crackerjack movie satirizing today's insta - famous culture and the burdens of unwanted celebrity.

What made the film so brilliant and compelling despite its theoretically repellent cast of characters is that instead of going for cheap shots or silly attempts at psychological insight, Coppola simply observed them in ways that helped inspire a certain understanding into their mindsets and how they had been shaped and influenced by a celebrity - obsessed culture that overwhelms them on a daily basis.

Michôd didn't base his characters on real people («I felt reluctant to engage in what now seems to be a whole culture of turning criminals into celebrities,» he says in the press kit), but his fictional crime family feels chillingly real.

It contains a powerpoint and booklet with 51 questions + answers about France and French culture with: - 15 general questions - 36 questions divided into sections (geography, food, celebrities, monuments, music, culture)- answers at the end Enjoy!

Meticulously planned, announced with fireworks, these explosions have caught the public imagination, and the irony is that Chip, now an outlaw - celebrity, is drawn into the publicity - based culture he is aiming to disrupt.

Convinced that everyone from his agent, friends, and bums on the street are portrayed by famous actors, Self goes undercover into the dangerous world of celebrity culture.

Flood's paintings and collages of the 1980s and 1990s transform pervasive corporate, pornographic and celebrity imagery into provocative and knowing grotesques of the colliding worlds of art and consumer culture using adulterated found materials: signs, advertisements, flea - market paintings, and magazines.

Jonathan Jones: Phil Collins» artwork on reality TV victims may seem to attack celebrity culture - but that's exactly what he's turning the Turner prize into.

Together, this avoidance of the limelight and determinedly independent stance towards the art market have turned him into something of a cult figure — particularly for those of us dismayed by contemporary culture's ceaseless, vapid manufacturing of celebrity.

Although Lowman's work is influenced by such earlier appropriation artists as Andy Warhol, Richard Prince, and Cady Noland, his own brand of image recycling disperses into an unstructured installation - environment in which posters, record jackets and silk - screened imagery create a large - scale narrative that ruminates on specific issues, from American gun culture to celebrity cults.

Strongly influenced by pop culture, Stikki Peaches combines images of classic films, celebrities, and musical icons into hybrid characters.

The shockwaves that reverberated through America have come into focus again with Manson's recent death, making Helter Skelter I a timely piece that addresses the persistent issues of race, crime and celebrity culture that continue to structure urban America.

The emphasis on tragedy and pop culture in Ms. Rogers's work recalls Andy Warhol's celebrity icons and disasters, Mike Kelley's «Day Is Done» remakes of high school yearbook photographs and Karen Kilimnik's and Sue de Beer's trenchant forays into the female adolescent psyche.

During the late 2000s, Koh also became known for crossing over into fashion, internet, and celebrity culture, claiming that he wanted to «change history, not just to change art history, but to change what society could be.»