According to Chalabi, the exhibition, titled «Archaic», will «explore the different ways in which Iraq's ancient past has affected its modern and
contemporary visual languages -LSB-...].»
In each work, White has intentionally left strips of surface area completely blank, emphasizing the arbitrary cutting, cropping, and breaking of images — a regular feature in
contemporary visual language, and one to which we have become increasingly inured.
Contemporary visual language studies provide handling and creation of mediums that itself originates a new generation of art.
They speak to something ancient using
a contemporary visual language.
«At the Hammer Museum, Gary Garrels assembles a distinctly Angeleno strain of
contemporary visual language»
As they search for
a contemporary visual language with which to express our anxieties, our harmonies, our questions and our trepidations, our contemporary abstract artists happily are finding inspiration and conceptual guidance in the iconic Modern voices of the past.
Photographic and film mediums are an integral part of this show, exploring the translation of political propaganda into
a contemporary visual language.
Not exact matches
At the film's recent press day in Los Angeles, MoviesOnline sat down at a roundtable interview with Chazelle who discussed how he looked for ways to bring a
contemporary language that was musical,
visual and emotional to a genre that runs the risk of nostalgia.
Nico is part of an international wave of
contemporary artists working to establish a new
visual language for the still life in the information age.
Referencing past precedents of feminist art, installation, performance, and ideology, the artworks in the show present an expanded
visual language that has resulted from a more inclusive art world, shaped in part by the social movements of the 1970's, thereby paying homage to a generation who has paved the way for
contemporary female expression.
I've been struck by the fact that
contemporary advertising seems to know more about the kind of
visual language Labille - Guiard utilized (and for that matter, Johannes Vermeer and other golden age Dutch painters) than they know about
contemporary painting.
Assembling in Marfa will be a faction of
contemporary artists who are peeling the page one frame - at - a-time in an inquiry into the
visual dimension of
language, ranging from David Gatten's reflection on the role of documents and Michael Tracy's secret, worldly recitations to Julia Meltzer and David Thorne's digital archives where images become a fault - line between world views and hidden narratives.
His rhythmic patterns of repeating images, often featuring symbols of
contemporary folk culture, are hand painted and rendered through the
visual language of printmaking.
Their collaborative, ephemeral, and
visual works reflect on
contemporary culture through the
language of popular music, consumer culture and other genres.
The relationship between drawing and sculpture is particularly interesting in
contemporary art practice; Antony Gormley is one of the most eloquent artists when it comes to articulating ideas that pertain to individual perception, collective needs, intellectual processes, or the applications and development of a
visual language to assuage the spiritual or emotional privations of the modern world.
Cutting a swathe through 500 years of history, and tracing not only the movement of artists but also the circulation of
visual languages and ideas, this exhibition will include works by artists from Lely, Kneller, Kauffman to Sargent, Epstein, Mondrian, Bomberg, Bowling and the Black Audio Film Collective as well as recent work by
contemporary artists.
Her paintings draw on personal history, art history and environmental history, and investigate aspects of
contemporary American landscape and their relationship to the
languages of
visual art.
McGinness creates paintings, sculptures and environments by using the
visual language of public signs, corporate logos and
contemporary iconography.
Her research centers on
language - based work and intersections of experimental writing, performance, and
visual culture in modern and
contemporary art.
Plensa debuted the monumental sculpture Echo in Madison Square Park in 2011, and Rapaport was quoted in the New York Times article regarding the project, «When we think of great modern and
contemporary public art, usually we think of work that uses an abstract
visual language.
His research explores the relationship between traditional and digital technologies and the link between graphic
language and the development of
contemporary visual systems and environments.
Many of the forms used to represent roads, buildings, and train tracks seem to derive from
visual symbols used in
contemporary printed Japanese maps, an early example of the interplay between painting and popular
visual language and print media which is so important in
contemporary Japanese work.
Admittedly borrowing the
visual language of the designer Lance Wyman, Reyes similarly aims to send strong messages through minimal means that speak to our
contemporary moment.
A
visual language completely her own, the work of Tara Donovan is a true wonder of
contemporary art, a celebration of how far avant - garde thoughts and bravery to experiment outside of conventional limitations have brought us.
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.
Such machine imagery went on to figure largely in the
visual languages essential to modernism and successive historical movements, and today the bachelor machine persists in the works of
contemporary artists, albeit in less normatively gendered ways.
Since then she has remained at the forefront of developments in
contemporary painting, making highly distinctive works which seek to articulate an abstract
language in which relations of color and form generate
visual sensations.
Their
visual language is rooted in a tradition of displays aiming at knowledge promulgation, although their take on this iconography places their work in the realm of
contemporary art.
«What's fascinating about Rafman's work is the way he uses the very familiar
visual language of the internet, social media, and computer games to create immersive narratives that reveal the anxieties and desires of
contemporary life,» says Maitreyi Maheshwari, program director at Zabludowicz Collection and curator of the exhibition, which also offered up a waterbed, ball pit, massage chair, and filing cabinets streaming video games in first - person shooter.
These artists have had great significance for the development of international
contemporary art, either because they have created
visual languages, objects and pictures of originality and quality, or because they have reinvented important aspects of cultural production.
The main influences came from his
contemporaries Joseph Beuys and Georg Baselitz, postwar tendencies in Abstract Expressionism and Conceptual art, but Kiefer is most regarded as an exponent of the Neo-Expressionism derived from Minimalism and abstraction, advocating representational and symbolic
visual language.
Comprising programmes from the ICA Artists» Moving Image Network alongside several additional live events, the festival brings together a cross-section of work that engages with the
language of
contemporary visual culture to draw out critical and discursive reflections on its wider social influences.
Moving between and manipulating various styles — primitivism, cubism, expressionism, minimalism — Prata's encyclopedic use of symbols and patterns grows into a
language rooted in the history of
visual art; however, in borrowing across time and style, Prata's distortion of form — hieroglyphs in symbolic space — proposes a reflection on how representations are read within a
contemporary context.
With two distinct approaches to
contemporary painting, Bresson and Prata mute stylistic expectations in the service of a
visual language that has no spoken form; a collection of simplified narratives, signs and symbols that communicate from the silences between words or thoughts.
McGinness creates paintings, sculptures, and environments and is known for his graphic drawings employing the
visual language of public signage, corporate logos, and
contemporary iconography.
This panel considers the
contemporary way curators are using
language in experimental ways to expand
visual art practices, and what effects the crossover of these fields has had on each.
The museum's unique collection of international
contemporary art is a selective collection of works created by artists who occupy key positions in the field, either because they have created a distinctive
visual language, objects and images with great originality and quality, or because they have reinvented important aspects of cultural production.
Entitled Iconic, the presentation at The Art Show will mark the debut of these intimately scaled portraits which use the
visual language and gestures of 15th century icons to depict
contemporary subjects selected by Wiley from the streets of New York City.
In the exhibition we see the subversive creativity and the physical, ironic
language used in Hail reflected in the work of
contemporaries of Clark and Atlas's day, as well as among modern - day artists active in
visual art and dance, music and pop culture, with their rebellious expressions.
Drawing on global weaving traditions as well as the history of painting and sculpture, graphic design, and architecture, American artist Sheila Hicks has redefined the role of fibre in art and influenced a generation of
contemporary artists with her interdisciplinary
visual language.
Jordan Nassar, who primarily produces hand - embroidered textile works and self - published zines, has recently begun making prints that blend the
visual language of traditional Palestinian embroidery with a
contemporary graphic sensibility.
It is difficult to precisely define what faux - naive means, but, loosely speaking, it is a term often attached to
contemporary painting that actively embraces elements from the
visual language associated with outsider and self taught artists.
Functioning as a series of études to
contemporary computer code, these paintings flirt consciously with the provocative gestures and meta - questions of conceptual art and the heavy
visual language and history of abstraction.
«As minimalism became the default
visual language of
contemporary art, there was a shift where all things scatological became almost suppressed,» Andrea Rosen, the president of the eponymous gallery, said in a statement.
With patience, perseverance, and inexhaustible dedication to his craft, he developed his own
visual language, which he sees as a bridge between traditional illustration and
contemporary graphics.
Sarah Charlesworth (1947 - 2013) is a
visual artist and photographer whose work addresses the
language of photography in
contemporary culture.
While Kim incorporates the
visual language of color and abstraction, he also addresses cultural and personal issues, positioning himself closely with many of his
contemporaries, including Glenn Ligon and Felix Gonzalez - Torres.
My current work references early 20th century abstract art and design to develop a
visual language in response to the fast shifting streetscapes and architectural spaces of
contemporary London and its ever present half - built skyscrapers.
By balancing its four primary activities — gallery exhibitions, studio art classes, educational outreach programs and outdoor art shows — the
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia seeks to involve a diverse regional public in the rich and active language of contemporary
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia seeks to involve a diverse regional public in the rich and active
language of
contemporarycontemporary visual art.
Yet the
contemporary works seen here do not merely mimic the celebrated
visual languages of the past, but instead draw on and extend them, creating new dialects that are uniquely their own.