Sentences with phrase «contemporary pop imagery»

Rey Zorro is a multimedia conceptual artist who combines traditional art making materials with contemporary Pop imagery.

Not exact matches

Think crisp grey palette, retro couches and pops of colour with statement pieces and photographic imagery completing the contemporary look.

The artists associated did not adopt the name, or have a shared ideology, but they worked independently of New York contemporary art trends and incorporated imagery from popular culture into their works, although less cerebrally than New York Pop artists.

Prince's initial goal was to emphasize the powerful impact of mass media imagery in shaping contemporary consumer culture, but eventually, he ended up creating his very own pop style and powerful series of works which became some of the most wanted materials at many prestigious auctions.

Drexler has been an active participant in New York's artistic scene, and her collages and large format paintings — which borrow imagery from movies, advertisements, and newspapers of the 1960s — reverberate with the Pop art of her contemporaries.

While some Pop artists use photography to react to consumer culture, Robert Heineken repurposes found magazine imagery to talk about the media's role in objectifying women, Richard Prince and Sarah Charlesworth of the Pictures Generation push the boundaries of image appropriation, Christopher Williams talks about means of image production and contemporary artist Lucas Blalock confuses subject and backdrop through Photoshop.

A former student of Baldessari at CalArts in the»70s, Salle burst onto the contemporary art scene in the early 1980s with paintings that combined art - historical references and appropriated imagery from pop culture.

Other artists even united a Pop aesthetic with their own folk traditions, bringing together contemporary imagery with local practices.

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.

Scharf was a pioneer among artists who integrated street culture into the contemporary art mainstream, incorporating pop and comic imagery in his sculpture, installation and paintings.

Reski enacts his own succumbing to the onslaught of contemporary pop - cultural imagery as a theatrical backdrop in which to plant images that distil desperation into metaphors for desperation.

Sidoli has carved himself a new niche in contemporary pop art as the only UK artist to combine text, imagery and neon elements in this way.

The most significant of the often loosely defined movements of early contemporary art included pop art, characterized by commonplace imagery placed in new aesthetic contexts, as in the work of such figures as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; the optical shimmerings of the international op art movement in the paintings of Bridget Riley, Richard Anusziewicz, and others; the cool abstract images of color - field painting in the work of artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella (with his shaped - canvas innovations); the lofty intellectual intentions and stark abstraction of conceptual art by Sol LeWitt and others; the hard - edged hyperreality of photorealism in works by Richard Estes and others; the spontaneity and multimedia components of happenings; and the monumentality and environmental consciousness of land art by artists such as Robert Smithson.

It ranges from Andy Warhol's Electric Chair to Barbara Kruger's interplay between image and text to the array of contemporary Chinese artists and the abundant pop imagery of chairman Mao.

Various movements, themes, and styles are represented, including Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Pop art, and Minimalism, as well as aspects of New Image Painting from the 1970s and beyond, recent developments in abstraction and figurative sculpture, and contemporary movements in photography, video, and digital imagery.

Following the quoted Pop mantra of Andy Warhol, these young and exciting artists absorb and reflect the ubiquitous consumer imagery so prevalent in contemporary culture.

Titled Eastern Orbit, Tsai's solo exhibition addresses the cultural exchange between Asia and the West and the artist aspires to revolutionise contemporary Chinese art and combine Chinese craft and skill with Western Pop imagery.

Pop - art may have been one of the first contemporary art movements to appropriate consumerist imagery, but Kruger's postmodern conceptual art - which also appeared on billboards and T - shirts - was the first to explore and analyze how the mass media presents, distorts and objectifies issues concerning identity, sexuality and the portrayal of women.

This group exhibition explores the power of pop culture — showing how its imagery, ideas, language and reception have influenced contemporary art.

However, in some places, Pop was intentionally adopted as a pre-packaged style of cartoonish imagery, bold colors and content focused on celebrity, consumerism and the artifice of contemporary life.

Perhaps more so than any other contemporary painter of his kind, Phillips's imagery has achieved a level of pop recognition outside of the art world with fashion, media, and film collaborations.

Waddington Custot Galleries is pleased to present «Pop Imagery», an international, group exhibition of painting and sculpture by artists associated with Pop Art and contemporary artists influenced by it.

The goal of The 4th Wall Gallery is to exhibit an amazingly diverse group of today's emerging and established cutting edge contemporary artists in areas of illustration, street art, and pop culture imagery.

Unlike his contemporary Andy Warhol, Mr. Wesselmann never became a household name, despite having given his own distinct erotic spin to the simplified, mundane and sometimes comic imagery characteristic of Pop Art.

Its use of non-art materials anticipated the use of «popular» mass - produced objects and cultural imagery of Pop - Art, and was an important influence on Arte Povera and contemporary Installation art.

With roots firmly planted in illustration, pop culture imagery, comics, street art and graffiti, put quite simply the New Contemporary Art Movement is art for the people.