Commonly associated with artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Jones, pop art draws its inspiration from popular and
commercial culture such as advertising, pop music, movies and the media.
Not exact matches
The cult television favorite Portlandia gently satirizes a
commercial culture full of artisan - obsessives trafficking in
such esoterica as $ 68 handmade light bulbs.
In a ritually impoverished society, television lends ritualisitic elements by broadcasting civic ceremonies, sports events, and even
commercial advertisements.5
Such programming provides the images and iconography by which individuals become connected to the shared values of our consumer
culture.
While the
cultures» propensity towards spicy food has become a stereotype, reinforced through a
commercial push for «Latino» products
such as hot sauce and salsa, it remains true that the flavor of the
culture's cuisine is influenced by hot chiles of all kinds.
Some people suggest using fruit,
such as grapes; vegetables,
such as cabbage; or even
commercial baker's yeast to help start a
culture.
Such reasons are cited by the manufacturers of two leading brands of
commercial infant formula, Enfamil and Similac, as why their products still have a place in a
culture of increased breast - feeding.
Although the bulk of the
commercial manufacturing uses
cultures of bacteria,
such as Escherichia coli or Chinese hamster ovary cells, a few biotech companies are trying to produce therapeutic proteins in the milk of transgenic mammals (
such as GTC Biotherapeutics, which is using goats; PPL Therapeutics, which is using sheep; and BioProtein Technologies, which is working with rabbits), transgenic chicken eggs (
such as Avigenics or Vivalis), or even in transgenic crops (
such as ProdiGene or Meristem Therapeutics); but it is early days for these «pharming» methods.
If you are still having trouble, make whey out of already
cultured milk (yoghurt or kefir) or with a top brand of
commercial whole milk yoghurt,
such as Seven Stars Farm or Brown Cow.
✓ Fermented raw milk
such as kefir or yogurt, but NOT
commercial versions, which typically do not have live
cultures and are loaded with sugars that feed pathogenic bacteria
The benefit of freeze - dried yogurt
cultures such as the ones above is that this type of yogurt starter often contains a greater selection of beneficial bacteria than most of the
commercial probiotic yogurts.
«With
such a successful body of work as a
commercial and video director, he is ready to take the next step forward and make this incredible film that will be on the cutting edge of youth
culture.
«We need to move away from an expensive and time - consuming
culture of proliferating external examinations - modules, re-sits and retakes - towards fewer high - quality qualifications overseen and conferred not by
commercial organisations but by institutions of academic excellence
such as our best universities,» said Mr Gove.
Artists adopted the sources and techniques of
commercial culture,
such as comic books and billboards, sometimes with little transformation.
Josephine Meckseper, born in Germany, uses
commercial forms of presentation
such as vitrines, window displays, and magazines, to demonstrate inextricable influences of consumer
culture on society.
While this impulse is characteristic of Lichtenstein's fully developed paintings, editions
such as Ten Dollar Bill were his first to elevate
such quotidian forms of
commercial culture to the status of fine art.
For the past 35 years he has examined the relationship between the art and popular
culture, reimagining commonplace subjects
such as inflatable toys,
commercial imagery, and celebrity kitsch with an ingenious sense of scale, material and craft.
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.
Pictures
such as Reisterstown Mall (1965) celebrate what Hartigan called the «vulgar energy» of American
culture in their use of a flashy,
commercial imagery of rednecks and white goods.