Sentences with phrase «commentary on contemporary life»

consists of a simple plaque with text that is both a commentary on contemporary life and call to social action.

NS: You have said that these paintings are not meant to be purely ironic like the way that Jeff Koons uses appropriated imagery for a sly commentary on contemporary life.

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The poem is filled with playful and mainly good - humored commentary on recent poetry and contemporary life: «I confess that I am not / a modern man.

Trixie doesn't have this sort of range, and due to its self - conscious, stylish 40s - noir references, it can't function very clearly — as Breakfast of Champions does — as a commentary on contemporary American life.

It's a commentary on contemporary black life.

By rendering them in oils at poster size with quirky new titles, he transforms them into contemporary, often satirical commentaries on life and literature.

Placing these fragments on display in a contemporary art show asked the viewer to consider the forgotten lives of the people who made them, and offered a sly commentary on the very organizing principle of museums everywhere: What gets to be displayed by an institution, and why?

At the same time, his pieces offer a certain commentary on the modern world we're living in and on the contemporary art creations and their controversial nature.

My current painting practice centres on the representation of objects and is inspired by the history of still life painting — in particular, 17th century Dutch vanitas paintings, a genre which employed objects as a kind of commentary on contemporary moral and social concerns, as well as exploiting their aesthetic potential.

In 1992 The Whitney Museum of Art did a retrospective exhibition on the life works of this great American Contemporary artist and master of social commentary.

In addition, Mutu will present The End of Eating Everything, 2013 the artist's first animated short that is a mesmerizing commentary on mass consumption in contemporary life.

In 1992 the Whitney Museum of Art did a retrospective exhibition on the life works of this young American contemporary artist and master of social commentary.

Even in its abstractness, it has a touch of chutzpah, a quality that subsequent generations of artists adopted and evolved into irreverence, self - awareness and topical meta - commentary on art and contemporary life.

His work was a social commentary on American popular culture and, by association, on contemporary society's approach to life itself.

Cosby's wry and insightful commentary on the roles of parents and children, the importance of education, and the insidious onset of aging have made him one of the most celebrated observers of contemporary American life.