Sentences with phrase «cultural icons»

To create a vintage American 1950s theme in your bedroom, find colorful fabrics for bed linen and pillows, and adjourn large prints of pop cultural icons from the era on the wall, such as Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley.

It has put out a great deal of pop cultural icons, and it is widely known as being the most population dense state in the union.

Is it not disturbing (as I point out in installment 4), that rather than leading the free - speech charge, cultural icons such as Margaret Atwood and David Suzuki seem utterly laissez - faire about liberty?

Which means that as more cultural icons start talking about climate change, millions of fans and followers do too.

Creativity expressed through cultural icons like dada, 12 - tone row, existentialism, and heavy metal seems less climate relevant.

Since the late 90's he has been replacing the faces of cultural icons chosen by advertisers with the faces of anonymous people to question the controls imposed on public space, the role models designated and the type of events that are guarded by the collective memory.

Paris Hilton and Britney Spears are cultural icons.

The exhibition brings together twelve of his canvases from this period, which combine spectacularly rendered psychedelic surfaces with provocative imagery from a staggering array of cultural sources and assemble a cast of characters including religious figures, political and cultural icons from across history, and imaginary heroes.

She is known for portraits of fellow artists, friends, and pop cultural icons such as Georgia O'Keefe, Andy Warhol, Kurt Cobain, Eminem, Elizabeth II and Napoleon, created in paint and various printing techniques.

When asked about the source of her imagery, Rocca has cited «the cultural icons of beauty and romance expressed by the media that promised happiness to young women of that generation.»

Centre stage is the musical heritage that took them from a London blues band in the early 1960s to inspirational cultural icons.

Over 40 years ago, Andy Warhol promoted the concept that artists are celebrities, just as worthy of portrayal as other cultural icons.

Villalongo's intricately layered figurative paintings meld cultural icons, mythology, and art historical references into wild, at times unsettling narratives.

Included in the mix are portrait subjects ranging from known to unknown: Among those «known» to us are a host of cultural icons, and — closer to home — Fountain House members.

Paschke's fascination with the print media of popular culture led to a portrait - based art of cultural icons.

Also on view is Keith Mayerson: My American Dream, a salon - style show presenting 100 + paintings ranging from landscapes to portraits of cultural icons and the artist's family that offer a progressive view of American values.

American painter Elizabeth Peyton is celebrated for her highly stylized paintings of cultural icons, which portray a wide range of subjects from Kurt Cobain to Napoleon to Marc Jacobs in her characteristic fey, androgynous fashion.

According to James Putnam, the exhibition curator: «Their [the group's] art is characterized by a sophisticated provocation juxtaposing incompatible subjects like archetypes and classical forms with contemporary cultural icons.

«Together these objects reveal Deller's artistic interest in the social connections around cultural icons and events, and his reinvestment in the histories and contexts of their creation,» says Locks.

I interpreted the series of illustrations as a circle jerk between cultural custodians and European cultural icons, from Michelangelo's David to Marcel Proust.

Her silver gelatin prints from the 1960s, 70s and 80s offer an intimate and fresh perspective on the familiar faces of cultural icons, from Philippe Petit to Robert Palmer.

Concrete Couples by John Baldessari references pop cultural icons that are as ubiquitous as the concrete tiles their names are drawn into.

Additionally, it draws upon the veneration of cultural icons and the failings of this occurrence.

The term «Nose Art» refers to a military form of folk art, where aircraft are graffitied often with popular cultural icons.

Unabashedly ornamental, Hankwitz assimilates mark making from pop, but instead evoke nature's prolific order rather than a critique of our cultural icons and clichés.

The exhibition offers a new, large - scale commission, a curtain made of hexagons that mixes Hubbard's portraits of cultural icons, along with color blocks, forming a hive shape.

Fryer's scientific inquiry, his visual awareness of popular cultural icons, combined with a sense of a poetic pieta gives his work a definite sense of the now.

This holiday season we are excited to bring two cultural icons, Andy and Barbie, to fans with the Andy Warhol Collector doll and lifestyle collection.»

Chagoya pulls from a range of sources in constructing his images: figures from art of all forms, cultural icons, sociological texts and recent journalism.

THIS LONG CENTURY is an ever - evolving collection of personal insights from artists, authors, filmmakers, musicians and cultural icons the world over.

This exhibition surveys twentieth - century African American artists from the South, restoring their identities and drawing in examples that range from stunning abstract compositions to brilliantly - conceived tributes to cultural icons like Jackie Robinson.

Drawn from the museum's permanent collection, this wide - ranging exhibition looks at the representation of the self, examining the idealized and mythicized ways that artists have portrayed pop and cultural icons, from Malcolm X to Thelonious Monk to a New Orleans grand marshal.

The movement emerged amid the post-World War II explosions of capitalist consumerism and mass media, as artists explored new modes of mechanical production, often by taking commonplace consumer goods and pop - cultural icons as their subject matter.

Deep inside a maze of spaces in a scaffolded building at the city's southern embankment, Khaled Hafez of Cairo showed Mirror Sonata for a Temple, his colourful video of millennia of cultural icons in a parade on the screen — satirically muscled men, bulls from Mesopotamian history, elegantly decorated architecture.

From the historic monuments of the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz, to the cypress lined stretches of the 101, to the cultural icons of beach life like the VW Bus and the classic Woody surf - mobile, Jon Francis gets outside and paints it all.

A major survey exhibition of Tom Sachs» paintings showcasing the artist's ongoing interest in combining mass - produced, pop cultural icons with a hand - made aesthetic.

Venturing away from his last exhibition at Freight + Volume, There's a Riot Goin» On, a self - described «rogue's gallery» of musical and cultural icons of the 1970's, Song of the Earth shows the artist honing a complex synthesis of influences involving poetry and song lyrics to experience and memory.

In both the «Ronnie» paintings and House of the Rising Sun, cultural icons lose their original meanings when they're repeated and changed.

His reconstruction encapsulates and exacerbates the flattening of narrative and identity that occurs when cultural icons become cultural stereotypes.

In her work, Bunny Rogers threads together uncanny representations of cultural icons, revealing something intimate about herself in the process.

And that has a kind of African context too in that the African artists or the medicine men and others who were involved with creating things — cultural icons and other things — would determine the value of something and place it in a different context; such as the use of objects from nature.

UPCOMING SHOW: Yokohama Triennale REGULAR GIG: Artist KNOWN FOR: In his theatrical photographs, Yasumasa Morimura dresses up as Western cultural icons, humorously commenting upon Japan's own complex historical absorption of American culture.

Portrait photography by Lyle Ashton Harris runs to white cultural icons along with a Harlem politician and himself.

And finally, artist John Baldessari is the latest in a line of cultural icons honoured with a guest appearance on The Simpsons (he joins Art Spiegelman, Frank Gehry, Thomas Pynchon and Shepard Fairey, among others)-- in a recent episode, Baldessari appears in a flashback scene with a young Marge, then a news reporter, who hopes to interview him.

Highlights also include portraits of cultural icons like film director Ingmar Bergman and fashion designer Issey Miyake.

UNDERCOVER designer JUN TAKAHASHI blinds prophets, dignitaries, and other cultural icons in a series of black - and - white illustrations; writers and graffiti artists NUG & PIKE collide tagging with trance rituals; photographer ALASDAIR MCLELLAN finds adolescence's last idyll; artist MATTHEW BARNEY takes us behind the scenes of his CREMASTER CYCLE; writer EMILY KING digs up ASPEN magazine's protest against uniformity;

Meanwhile the National Portrait Gallery breaks new ground with a show celebrating key cultural icons of Russia's artistic golden age, part of an unprecedented art exchange with the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

Even those pieces that are not traditional paintings critically engage the legacy of postwar Abstract Expressionism, which eradicated figurative representation in favor of all - over gestural marks that were considered to be indexical references to the hands and psyches of the artists, who were becoming cultural icons in their own right.

But that will say more about a need for cultural icons than it will about the complexities of art.

As a child, Saint Phalle searched for heroes and cultural icons to look up to and wanted to instill the same ideas into her biracial great - grandson.