In the 1940s, he created a series of collages
combining images from popular culture and advertising.
Not exact matches
His paintings often
combine formal compositional elements with distinct art - historical references and
images appropriated
from popular culture; they resist classification and thoroughly beguile the viewer.
The drawings, which
combine fragments of text with
images culled
from American
popular and underground
culture, dominated the exhibition, due in part to the sheer number of them and in part to the appeal of familiar
images drawn in a simple graphic style.
His paintings often
combine formal compositional elements with distinct art - historical references and
images appropriated
from popular culture; they resist classification and thoroughly beguile the...
In the new works, Sarmento
combines his seminal portraits of the female form with
images taken
from popular culture (found and personal material) silk - screened directly onto the surface of the paintings, that read almost like fragmented film stills.
Combining iconography
from comic books, art history, and
popular culture, Art & Beauty portrays a broad selection of
images of female figures in diverse settings.
Chris Ofili's intricately constructed works,
combining beadlike dots of paint, collaged
images from popular media, and elephant dung, create a unique iconography that marries African artistic and ritual practices with Western art historical traditions and contemporary hip - hop
culture.
Artist Statement In my most recent constructed assemblages, I
combine material gathered
from popular and glamour
culture with digitized and magnified
images from contemporary media and art history.
Appropriating her content
from popular culture, magazines, and television, she superimposes or digitally alters found
images to create surreal vignettes that
combine fact and fiction.