Sentences with phrase «cultural symbolism»

One of Anderson's most striking and iconic paintings, the green and red image is rife with cultural symbolism.

But alas, Alabama Agriculture Commissioner candidate Dale Peterson lost despite his profound understanding of resonant cultural symbolism, and apparently he got whupped real bad, too.

The central plot of all three versions, centers on a conflict between the countries of Hoshido (a feudal japan-esque country that contains Ninjas, Samurai, Shrine Maidens and a very eastern cultural symbolism) and Nohr (a more western oriented land that contains a darker, more brutal outlook, with Cavaliers, knights, dark sorcerers, and other common staples from the other Fire Emblem titles.)

Captured in a colorful resin panel are dozens of guinea fowl feathers, which have both personal and cultural symbolism for the artist.

I explore the tangle of representations, visual tropes, and myths — referencing historical events and invoking cultural symbolism.»

The distinctly American nature of the signage he uses references road - side ephemera and American cultural symbolism, and is imbued with poignancy and disillusionment.

Lotus flowers grow from the impure mud to reach for the light and bloom to the rise and fall of the sun; in Asia, it bears various cultural symbolisms such as prospects and rebirth.

Color is more than just a wavelength on a spectrum; colors are ideologically charged with cultural symbolism, metaphor, and ritual, and each one has a material history that can tell us about economic and international exchange.

In fact, survey research consistently shows that there are at least two dimensions of political attitudes: one for issues pertaining to economics and political power (what I'll call «justice» issues) and another one for issues of personal behavior and cultural symbolism (what I'll call «morality» issues).

Marshall's use of cultural symbolism and pictorial devices are informed by his own experiences of the world and his avid collecting of artifacts from classical mythology, folklore, African and African - American history, film history, art, literature, posters and comic books.

CR In African American painting there has been a certain reliance on a particular kind of cultural symbolism.

Each work reflected in another, the Plexiglas and painted aluminum structures produce competing color schemes: monochromatic red, evoking many political and cultural symbolisms, versus their multi-colored opponents.

With her sculptures, she investigates the historical and political resonance of materials and the physical relationships between objects and bodies, drawing from sources including archaeological artifacts, car mechanics and the cultural symbolism of Modernist architecture.

Paolo Chiasera (* 1978 in Bologna) is fascinated by historical icons, myths and cultural symbolism.

Rooted in his personal heritage, Aryanpour's works bring a thoroughly contemporary expression to the Iranian visual tradition — from its artistic techniques to cultural symbolisms - while referencing and exploring the Western tradition of abstract art.

In her own art, Ms. Antoni enlisted her body to act upon objects loaded with meaning and cultural symbolism (like chocolate).

«THEASTER GATES: Freedom of Assembly» @ White Cube Gallery London Drawing on matters of memory, history, politics and the cultural symbolism of material objects, Theaster Gates is presenting a new body of work — tar paintings, sculptures and installations.

Take away the cultural symbolism, which for me is only apparent in the accompanying texts and films, and most of them are simply boring — impressive only by virtue of their enormous size.