Sentences with phrase «cultural reference points»

The L.A. based artist likes to appropriate recognizable characters from history into his artwork in order to give his audience a familiar cultural reference point with which they can approach his work.

However, across the board, educators stressed that new media, digital artistry and idiosyncratic, global cultural reference points were to be celebrated, not ignored.

Whether it be pure physical attraction or a desire to meet someone who shares your specific cultural reference points, ethnic dating is a category of online dating that has grown exponentially in the last few years.

I grew up in the age of Martina Navratilova vs Chris Evert and John McEnroe vs Everyone, though, and that match was a common cultural reference point.

I bring this up because, as a novice when it comes to Chinese painting and Chinese movies, not to mention Japanese cinema, I depend on cultural reference points — and priorities for them — that are substantially different from Li's.

Vastly shorn of text, but tidily updated by screenwriter John Logan to a modern - day military setting that fuses Roman geography with British cultural reference points — in a delightful touch, BBC newsreader Jon Snow turns up as an iambic pentameter - spouting version of himself — «Coriolanus» runs hot, cold and very, very loud for much of its running time, until both Fiennes's conceptual ideas and the actors» energies peak in time for a knockout final act.

Since his early days with «Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story» and «Safe,» Haynes has developed sophisticated narratives out of existing cultural reference points.

For example, magazines include advertorials, email scams can be made to look official and legitimate, and TV ads can use features and devices such as metaphor, allusion, parody and narrative to provide cultural reference points for the audience.

«By midweek I had the nickname «RuPaul,»... Seguin kids were so taken aback by me that their nearest cultural reference point was a seven - foot - tall, black drag queen.»

The display looks left over from Richard Prince, and one might praise him for piling on yet more cultural reference points.

Often using appropriated material, he draws links between disparate cultural reference points, re-imagining them in new narratives and contexts.

Either as a pop cultural reference point or the conceptual link between the speculative practices of contemporary art and science fiction, this trend has seen dozens, if not hundreds, of international and Australian artists creating sci - fi - inflected pieces, with exhibitions around the world surveying their work.

It's a potent stew of cultural reference points that means Luke Cage ends up being fiercely watchable even for those who would not usually take in a superhero show.

So, many of your cultural reference points will NOT be identical.

A great resource for artist biog, links to influences and cultural reference points.

In his survey exhibition, Backstroke of the West, on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Rakowitz reconfigures an array of objects and cultural reference points, from ancient monuments such as the Babylonian Ishtar Gate to Saddam Hussein's dinnerware and Western Pop mythologies.

Cultural reference points are diverse, reflecting his Anglo - Japanese experience as well as a part - nomadic practice based around international residencies ranging from Arizona to Norway.

Marriage is, above all, about 50 - 50 partnership; differences in ages also mean differences in life experience and cultural reference points.