Sentences with phrase «contemporary vernacular»

These are the underpinnings of the country - infused style known as shabby chic, a coinage brought into the contemporary vernacular by designer Rachel Ashwell.

From this starting point, «Hyperlocalization of Architecture: Contemporary Sustainable Archetypes» launches into a global journey to seek out contemporary vernacular architecture.

«Hyperlocalization of Architecture: Contemporary Sustainable Archetypes» is a beautiful written and visual source guide for contemporary vernacular architecture across the globe.

Mechanical pencil, graphite and charcoal, twisted wire, ceramic, carved wood, cut canvas, and belabored applications of paint reveals an eclectic community of fearless creators inducing a revised contemporary vernacular.

This is my path if you will... through the past and its wealth of tradition into the present, where I can explore those ideas through a contemporary vernacular, eventually having found my own line.

While stylistic references include turn of - the - century Nordic figurative painting, folk art, and local or contemporary vernacular, her evocative use of pictorial space and her juxtapositions of thick paint and textured washes is uniquely her own.

This potent mixture of the past and present reveals a rich contemporary vernacular that explores the fundamentals of painting (line and form, the space between illusion and matter, etc.) with new texture.

While stylistic references include turn - of - the - century Nordic figurative painting, folk art, and local or contemporary vernacular, her evocative use of pictorial space and her juxtapositions of thick paint and textured washes is uniquely her own.

This conflation of classicism and the contemporary vernacular is reminiscent of Philip Guston's late painting, equally in debt to Quattrocento painting and the cultural landscape of mid-century America.

The Boathouse is a rural contemporary vernacular architecture replete with nautical design themes, with upper and lower decks overhanging the lake.

In the contemporary vernacular, lustfulness is most commonly associated with extreme pangs of sexual desire.

Not exact matches

The presentation has a contemporary feel and relies on modern vernacular (there are two exclamations of «Booyah», for instance).

Though the DB11, introduced in 2016, was kissed with a touch of contemporary design language in the form of aerodynamic curlicues and a subtly pointed tail, it also kept a foot planted in the grand touring vernacular intended to satisfy the tweedy old world set.

Unlike those who came before him, and many of his contemporaries who wrote in French or Latin, Chaucer wrote in the English vernacular thus lending credibility and legitimacy to the language.

In the characters chosen, in the frank vernacular these characters speak, in the theme which runs through the series of stirring situations, Steinbeck's play is so contemporary that Continue reading

An exhibition of modern architecture and Caribbeanesque vernaculars, the private enclave offers the serenity of understated elegance with contemporary luxuries.

As such, «Logos from Japan» presents a contemporary study of logo design from this country that is vivid and varied in its vernacular.

5 Storr, whose essay is full of perceptive comments about Drexler's work (as when he notes how the «vernacular» quality of her colors evokes «sideshow signage») is certainly correct in making the connection between Drexler and her abstract contemporaries, but we shouldn't let the existence of such strong affinities (whether with Pop or with abstract styles) distract us from the distinctive qualities of Drexler's art, especially when it comes to materials and process.

It explores the role of vernacular forms in some 40 works by more than two dozen contemporary artists, which run the aesthetic gamut: the hand - crafted work of Aaron Spangler juxtaposes with Lari Pittman's carnivalesque day - glo paintings; Marc Swanson's glittering trophy heads with Rachel Harrison's urban relics.

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN January 29 - May 8, 2011 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX July 23 - September 18, 2011 Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ October 8, 2011 - January 1, 2012 Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC January 14 - March 18, 2012 Inspired by artist Mike Kelley's observation that «the mass art of today is the folk art of tomorrow,» The Spectacular of Vernacular embraces the rustic, the folkloric, and the humbly homemade as well as the crass clash of street spectacle and commercial culture.

The artist aims to capture content, specifically in search of «giving narrative life to objects, to alter their course, utility, and to amplify their charm; inscribing meanings and stories to these same objects, removing their varnish so as to not be perceived as «the [immutable] originals»; provoking collisions between images and assembling vernacular history with fantasies; fomenting a contemporary prosopopoeia, where a simple leather cushion, a tennis racket, or a lid of a tin biscuit box bare faces and voices.»

«Souls Grown Deep: African - American Vernacular Art of the South,» a groundbreaking exhibition of over 450 artworks by some 30 contemporary artists, highlighting a significant artistic tradition that has risen in concert with the Civil Rights Movement.

Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane's «Folk Archive» [2000 — 07], a collection of recent and contemporary British vernacular art, would be another.

Open to participants and audiences of the Open Engagement Conference, the dinner will take place within an exhibition curated by AMERINDA — Recovering Memories: Vernacular photography from the historical Native American Brooklyn neighborhoods and Contemporary Photography from the New York Movement of Contemporary Native American Art.

Over the past 39 years, the gallery has offered significant works in the American vernacular, from the Hudson River School to Impressionist, Modernist, Abstract Expressionist, and Contemporary Art.

The video Present Perfect reflects the origins and results of these inspirations through a journey that captures folklore impulses observed in Japanese landscape, gardens and vernacular architecture to present a contemporary reinterpretation of their fundamental values found not only in Metabolism but also in Tokyo's metropolitan manifestation.

Torrance Art Museum invites you to attend the Opening Reception for Dae - Bak Super Cool, an exhibition presenting Korean and Korean - American contemporary artists that relate to traditional, modern, and pop vernacular idioms.

«American Vernacular: Selections from the Permanent Collection,» The Contemporary, Spring 1998, p. 3.

Romancing The Fragment presents works that are invested in materialist histories, reconstructing our vernacular visual languages in various forms, freezing its fragments and revealing our contemporary culture in ruin.

Exhibition presenting Korean and Korean - American contemporary artists that relate to traditional, modern, and pop vernacular idioms.

Taking its title from David Bowie's song Changes, the exhibition examines the vernacular through which artists interpret contemporary culture whilst re-evaluating established genres and conventions.

Opening April 3rd at EFA Project Space, Common J ive presents a spectrum of contemporary artists who summon up vernacular and traditional craft approaches in their art - making practice.

With this in mind, let me evoke the American noir sensibility through the contemporary notion of key words (here grouped for poetic effect): Contorted Narrative Alienation / Distant Blue Darkness / Dramatic Adjectival Allure / Visceral Black & Blue Bruises / Pleasureless Expressionist Stiletto / Awkward Lone Gothic / Unforgiven Repressed Revulsion / Strangled Outsider Vernacular.

Immersed in the worlds of sign painting, murals, and large - scale festival and installation work, the pair wanted to create opportunities for communities to come together around art that celebrated both the contemporary art world and the vernacular of place.

She mines vernacular traditions for geometric patterns and templates that she can use, extending the options from contemporary art - making while honoring the labor - intensive activities of everyday folk.

At opposite ends of the main gallery, but not necessarily of the art world, Alex Brewer (HENSE)'s enormous geometric wall painting and Michi Meko's wood - assemblage wall piece both illustrate the journey from gritty vernacular experience to elegantly shaped contemporary art.

Whilst the drawings are not narrative in the traditional sense, they succeed in creating an evocative slice of contemporary life, embodying what Brian O'Doherty defined as Rauschenberg's «vernacular glance.»

The gallery shows works by 20th century master photographers, lesser - known mid-century photographers, the Pictorialists, select contemporary artists, as well as unique vernacular and anonymous photographs and selected 19th century works.

«Rathbone's willingness to embrace a vernacular distinct from the realms of the conventional languages of contemporary art is demonstrated throughout his practice.

Beckman's innovations overlap two cultural spheres — neither completely in line with the vernacular of the American structural filmmakers in which it was exhibited cinematically in festivals — nor maximized to its full potential in contemporary art durational venues, where opportunities for installations focusing on projection, sculpture and sound were limited.

Gary Taxali's work mixes vintage advertising vernacular with contemporary jest, simultaneously poking fun and embracing the sheer absurdness of human nature.

Altogether, these works use familiar and vernacular techniques to introduce viewers to complex contemporary issues.

She sends advertising vernacular on a collision course with abstraction in this immersive exploration of contemporary feminine identity.

This body of work stems from historical painting as a documentary means to capture vernacular moments in time and space while playing with common motifs in contemporary snapshot photography.

In a contemporary British context, Turk's works also help to fuel the insatiable desire for the latest vernacular art shock.

In discussing their proposal for «The Dissolve» with Santa Fe media on October 16, the curatorial pair unveiled a list of 26 artists and 4 historical animations that reflect, said Lewis, «a desire to stay connected to the body, the organic;» «a vernacular or homespun aesthetic;» and a deliberate interpretation of art history that considers early 20th - century technological breakouts that contemporary artists are referencing and reinventing.

His art began in despair and ended in tragedy, yet in the meantime it explored areas that neither vernacular nor mainstream contemporary arts proper have, as a rule, been able to reach on their own.

None of this was done with the intentions of fine art, but contemporary artists have been deeply influenced by the tropes of vernacular photography.

Originally employed as a linguistics term, vernacular is now broadly applied to categories of culture, standing in for «regional,» «folkloric,» or «homemade» — concepts that contemporary artists have investigated since the late 1950s as part of a deeper consideration of the relationship between art and everyday life.

His work layers historical and contemporary traditions, incorporating both elevated and vernacular subject matter.