Sentences with phrase «cultural imagery as»

The Indian Paintings reflect his continued interest in the use of cultural imagery as source material, which Schnabel assimilates and translates into his 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.

I explore issues of violence, social taboos, political conflicts and human behaviors by deconstructing iconic cultural imagery as a form of critique and analysis.

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Through such a change in the cultural imagery, we could «choose our own salvation as a political as well as spiritual act» (p. 910)

Any Given Sunday showcases a small group of artists who call attention to sports related imagery as a way to explore cultural topics such as the mass media, celebrity, race, and gender.

Chiefly recognized for his grand - scale meticulously blurred chalk drawings of referential and symbolic cultural motifs, the Wall Street Journal reports on Gary Simmons «s new presentations of boxing imagery in Miami and New York, as well as his participation in Prospect New Orleans.

Bradford's monumental painting My Grandmother Felt the Color, 2016, is currently on view at the BMA in a gallery dedicated to social abstraction, alongside other artists who have turned to abstract imagery to convey the humanity, complexity, and ongoing impact of specific cultural experiences, such as Jack Whitten and Ross Bleckner.

By combining Brazilian and Chinese imagery and stories, Varejão creates her own type of mestizaje, a term the artist often references as it embodies the concept of miscegenation — the cultural and biological mixing of race.

Yoshida, who encouraged the use of commercial and popular cultural imagery, led a group of artists who came to be known as the Imagists who distinguished themselves from the art scenes in New York and Europe with high color figurative paintings and drawings.

Biggers» syncretic practice positions him as a collaborator with the past, adding his own voice and perspective to those who made and used the antique quilts, African sculptures, and cultural imagery he references.

Indeed, cultural products, man - made images and objects, are at least as important to Rauschenberg as nature - derived imagery.

The imagery comes from several cultural influences, from Pop to 70's Italian cartoons, vintage signs, and graphic tabloids as well as from the art historical — AbEx, Post Minimalism, Surrealism, and Outsider Art.

As gossipy as it is reverent, Burr's proclivity for sorting, cataloguing, and cross-referencing thematic subjects comprises what critic and art historian George Baker's has succinctly described as the artist's «not - exactly - dialectical cultural pairings» of appropriated imagerAs gossipy as it is reverent, Burr's proclivity for sorting, cataloguing, and cross-referencing thematic subjects comprises what critic and art historian George Baker's has succinctly described as the artist's «not - exactly - dialectical cultural pairings» of appropriated imageras it is reverent, Burr's proclivity for sorting, cataloguing, and cross-referencing thematic subjects comprises what critic and art historian George Baker's has succinctly described as the artist's «not - exactly - dialectical cultural pairings» of appropriated imageras the artist's «not - exactly - dialectical cultural pairings» of appropriated imagery.

For many 20th century African American arts and cultural figures, the legacy of slavery and the Civil War defined career, influenced private life, and left lasting emotional issues to resolve as they endeavored to reclaim their culture and imagery.

Through a range of image sources and her stage - like environments, such as gallery walls painted with Chroma Key blue paint used in film or TV studios, Hamilton explores our associations to surreal and seductive cultural imagery while examining the histories of art, film, and performance.

Seamlessly blending pop cultural imagery, color theory, and psychology, Yuskavage draws on classical and modern painterly techniques and, in particular, marshals color as a conduit for complex psychological constructs.

But Stezaker was a student too at a time when a wholesale critique of the pop - cultural image was being launched by such thinkers as Guy Debord; the Situtationists» scurrilous repurposing of media imagery became an exemplary strategy for him, alongside his abiding, and then unfashionable, interest in surrealism.

Employing appropriation as a strategy of production, they incorporate prefabricated objects and imagery into their art, repositioning them in ways that expand our perceptions of history, representation, class, violence, resistance, and cultural practice.

Lê uses these new collages to illustrate a cultural shift in Vietnam in recent years, as corporate logos and insignias gradually replace the war imagery that has long dominated the country's visual lexicon.

Although his imagery seems to allude to some form of cultural commentary, the relation between abstraction as an irrational process on the one hand and the manifestation of the overlapping poured shapes on the other asserts a calculated agreement to disagree with the language of painting and its representation.

Or maybe it should be put the other way round: Stubbs's imagery seems constantly on the verge of converging into some form of cultural commentary, but the fundamental abstractness and even irrationality of his overlapping poured shapes seems calculated to prevent that — to insist on the painting as an agreement to disagree between wayward materials and stubborn intentionality.

Lien Truong blends American and Asian imagery and technique to examine the cultural and political conditions embodied in America's founding and ongoing agrarian philosophy, and how this symbolizes the values of Manifest Destiny and the creation of America as a State formed by colonization, diverse immigrant groups and slaves.

In Sullivan's imagery, the underground scene, the cultural elite and high society are always very close together, as are surface and abyss, the lust for life and the transience of youth.

Seamlessly blending contemporary cultural imagery and classical pictorial language, Yuskavage marshals color as a conduit for complex psychological constructs.

These mimetic works blend mysticism with popular imagery — from a Hindu statue to an American football player, diverse cultural references appear to evolve within the series, almost as in a stream of consciousness.

The two projects of the exhibition share an exploratory approach to the imagery and workings of individual and collective identity as it arises within social behaviors, sexual and legal ties, and linguistic and cultural contexts.

Each newspaper locates the drawing in a specific time and cultural context and acts as a ground for other imagery.

The mix of techniques and materials together with imagery from the U.S. and Nigeria — the late dictator Sani Abacha, a friend's North Dakota wedding, a band in Nigeria that began as Michael Jackson impersonators — speak to straddling nationalities, divided personal histories and the greater appropriation of cultural traditions.

Fixtures on the coffee tables of countless black families across the country, Ebony and Jet served as cultural barometers, vital news resources and bibles of aspirational imagery in their mid - to late - 20th century hey days.

A contemporary of photographers such as Robert Mapplethorpe and David Wojnarowicz, DeSana captures the cultural figures of Downtown New York alongside more intimate imagery of the human form.

ROBERT CREMEAN: THE BEDS OF PROCRUSTES and THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS uses this figurative imagery as well as the artist's highly personal aesthetic language to examine the enforcement of cultural conformity through myth and metaphor, communicating his own spiritual struggles and fundamental truths in a strikingly universal way.

By borrowing and manipulating familiar material, artists explore issues such as the non-transparency of language and the cultural consumption of imagery.

Kristofferson San Pablo is a Los Angeles based artist whose work explores ideas about bootlegging and remixing of cultural iconography & media imagery through art as a way to distort and transform the conditions for which they were previously used.

Influenced by the tropical climate and vegetation of her home country as well as by the urban vibe of cities like Rio de Janeiro, Milhazes combines traditional imagery and cultural clichés with plain geometric forms and accurate structured composition, creating dynamical and unexpected works.

While his works have often been compared to those from other key figures of the pop art movement, such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Rosenquist's pieces were unique in the way that they often employed elements of surrealism using fragments of advertisements and cultural imagery to emphasize the overwhelming nature of ads.

Chicharrón seeks to explore the expression of latinidad, understood as a narrative imagery, elaborated from shared cultural symbols and images.

Opening the pictorial space as an inclusive realm, Anderson invites the viewer to bring their own cultural experiences and memories to the canvas, thus creating a visual tension where viewer and artist are connected in their contextualisation of the imagery presented to us.

«While Pop is often characterized as a celebration of popular imagery, this exhibition focuses on the dark and unsettling ways in which artists looked at the cultural landscape of America in the 1960s and 1970s,» explains Chief Curator Donna De Salvo.

This group of artists is known for drawing on existing art and cultural imagery in their works, commenting on Modernist notions of originality, the autonomy of the art object and its status as a commodity.

Influenced by the folk aesthetics and history of her surroundings, Norton's work employs music, video, mixed media, and performance as her country - music alter ego Ninnie, in a manner that combines feminist thought with local and vernacular imagery inspired by the cultural traditions of the rural South and specifically of her native Kentucky.