Sentences with phrase «comment on contemporary society»

The new commissioned canvases reflect the artist's practice of employing historical and cultural references to comment on contemporary society.

Having worked his way through university in Canterbury in one of the UK's first daily farmers» markets with an on - site food hall and restaurant using only locally - sourced produce, Trayte draws from his culinary background, creating beautifully made, voluptuous and often vibrantly coloured casts of food in bronze, ceramic or concrete that comment on contemporary society's production, marketing and consumption of food.

On the other hand, being highly critical of religion, mass consumerism and the general darker side of human nature, Peter Adamyan uses pop culture imagery to comment on the contemporary society.

Lluís Barba reworks iconic artworks to comment on contemporary society, introducing modern characters into Hyeronimus Bosch's or Pieter Brueghel's medieval scenes.

The Fipresci jury, led by France's Michel Ciment, gave the award to «Burning» as a «visually stunning film and an emotionally complex comment on contemporary society.»

In referencing this psychic practice, Baker is commenting on contemporary society's relationship with digital media and exploring how we interface with it.

Not exact matches

In an earlier era, freethinkers understood that the society in which they lived depended in part on the basic view of the world accepted by their fellow citizens — hence Robert Ingersoll and Elizabeth Cady Stanton not only defended a clear churchstate separation but commented onthe merits of specific religious ideas held by their contemporaries.

While Meckseper's earlier vitrine works commented on contemporary consumer culture using the shop window as an example and focus point for civic unrest and protest in our late capitalist society, her current works allude to the political dimension of early modernist display architecture and design between World War I and II in Weimar Germany.

A monument for the 21st century, Electric Fountain is a celebration of the spectacle, excess, beauty, and desire of contemporary culture and a provocative comment on the nature of consumer society, a theme often present in Noble & Webster's work.

She regularly appears in national and international media to comment on contemporary art and the role of the museum in society and has been a panelist or presented papers in national and international events, including The China Museum, Beijing and in Kyiv, Ukraine; Santiago, Chile; Cape Town, South Africa; and Sydney, Australia.

Clare regularly appears in national and international media to comment on contemporary art and the role of the museum in society.

Using found materials, El Anatsui draws on traditional African idioms and contemporary western art practices, to comment on West African culture, history, and society.

His slides — recreated this year at the Hayward Gallery — both replicate and comment on the crowdsourced energy of contemporary society.

Concerned with mass production and the mindless repetition of such production, the materials employed by Mach serve to comment on, and satirize the loss of individuality in our contemporary consumer society.

In this introductory podcast, exhibition curator Adrian Locke explains how Ai Weiwei, since his return to China in 1993, uses his art, not just his words or cyberspace to comment on contemporary Chinese society today.

The title, which can be read in a number of ways, comments on the hypocrisy rife in contemporary society, mistakes and bad decisions that are hidden, but hinting that their exposure is all to easy.

Recognising the emblematic power of cartoons and their ability to critique aspects of contemporary culture, Pensato freezes and modifies these familiar faces, isolating them to further comment on American society and its anxieties.

Reflection on systems of power and privilege as they have operated historically and continue to be perpetuated in contemporary society is also required to contextualise understandings of how a «joke» or comment can be so harmful.