Sentences with phrase «cultural references»

The name basically came out of a hole in the ground because there are absolutely no pop cultural references for the name.

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

It is filled with cultural references, both pop and classic.

He also uses materials with many cultural references, such as lead.

Do we need common points of cultural references for our society to endure?

According to the gallery, the name of the painting has a specific cultural reference.

Still others create objects that speak to the importance of shared cultural references while living during an era of unprecedented technological change.

And popular cultural references definitely helps ease into a more comfortable conversation.

These and many other Japanese cultural references never feel incidental or disrespectful.

The film is one of our most important common cultural references.

We enjoy cultural references because we understand the jokes and we feel like we are connected to something bigger.

The painter's visual vocabulary is based on models from art history, advertisements, design, and American pop culture, thus creating an assemblage with multiple cultural references.

His exhibitions are usually a departure from his drawing practice in which he combines architectural images throughout history with contemporary cultural references.

This is enforced through the eclectic cultural references inherent in the work.

Indigenous greenery and cultural references also appear throughout the hotel's interior.

The smooth incorporation of accurate cultural references, such as sports teams, songs and notable landmarks, can significantly enhance the experience of the intended audience.

He derives inspiration from his immediate environment, incorporating found objects gathered in and around urban neighborhoods and embracing varied cultural references.

The pupils developed performances, drawing from their own cultural references, music preferences and fashion styles.

His practice revolves around the politics of formation and representation of identity and the conflict between Western European and African cultural references.

The music videos pull in both creative visual elements and pop cultural references — each song will have a distinctive and visually original atmosphere.

The first song may require some level of explanation as there are many cultural references that can be quite obscure to students but it is an absolute classic.

Using collage as a system to put together a wide array of cultural references, I acknowledge my work questions its own mythology and history.

If you have similar tastes and shared cultural references your chances can only increase.

Hands tend to play a central role in the paintings, alongside predominant pop cultural references from the sixties and eighties.

Phillipson's recent exhibition at Zabludowicz Collection, through the flesh - tone scenario, the imported combi - boudoir (2013), saw the artist create a multi-layered installation that investigated the relationship between virtual and tactile spaces through cultural references as diverse as point - of - view «selfies», experimental architecture, supermarkets, museums and pop videos.

Drink Canada Dry knowingly borrows from lowbrow cultural references in the form of jokey puns and zinging one - liners, while its imagery is pilfered from the pages of joke books and magazines.

Visually it looks fabulous, and it's enjoyably packed full of modern cultural references from the past 40 years

Willie Stewart incorporates a broad range of complex, mundane, strange, and dark subject matter and cultural references into his work.

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

The works contrast with and complement each other through their formal as well as conceptual qualities and reflect a range of cultural references including: Steiner educational toys, gestural and geometric abstraction, fantastic theatrical costuming, and Post-Minimalism.

Peter Gerakaris's installations display a vibrant «Post-Pop Botanic» style, filtering botanical imagery through cultural references that are both recent and remote.

This recent series titled, «Mandala for Crusoe», brings together fourteen paintings developing Clemente's singular pictorial language, gathering together myriad cultural references and merging timeless symbols, iconic imagery and philosophies.

MacIntyre plays these characters and their deeds for laughs, from the easy jokes of slang and cultural references within the dialogue to the groan - based humor of the movie's overkill - happy murders.

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

The villains need more time to gestate before joining Apocalypse as nothing more than henchmen, and then of course, the cultural relevance of the 1980s is underplayed significantly, using cultural references for humor more than political - social commentary.

A lack of familiar cultural references in commercial fiction or British perspectives in non-fiction apparently makes anything other than English - language titles in these areas too problematic to consider.

's deep storylines, humour, character interactions and cultural references made it a hit with players and critics alike; now given a suitable remastering for the 21st Century, you'd be remiss to miss some afterlife action.

Encased in high - gloss resin, Tomaselli's conflations of hi - low cultural references radiate an intense optical overload.

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.

It's the same English you're familiar with, but peppered with film, TV and other cultural references from the past two decades.

But keep in mind that a very wide age gap — 10 years or more — can mean that you and your partner have different life perspectives, goals, and even cultural references — and all of these challenges can complicate a relationship over time.

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.

Cultural references abound as Chiasson revisits his adolescent years in 1970s Vermont, dropping allusions to cartoons, sports and drugs.

Typically, Quinn's intriguing portraits of these figures are loaded with broader cultural references.

By blending cultural references, however, Puryear avoids fixed associations of time and place.

Johnson seems to be navigating his own identity through this profusion of cultural references while deconstructing Western concepts of Africanness.

Most of these details are relayed to him by Gribble (Dan Fogler), a rotund, easygoing Earthling who has been stowed away there since the 1980s, a fact he reflects when dated cultural references flow from his often busy mouth (somehow he's also absorbed some more current slang, like «the bomb»).