Sentences with phrase «cultural symbols»

Every life is shaped by the struggle for survival, the accidents of history, and the power of cultural symbols and traditions.

Using materials as cultural symbols, the artist draws on his extensive background in costume design, as well as a deep interest in meditation and the investigation of the mind.

Working with Mexican cultural symbols such as mythical folk animals, tortillas and miniature houses, she investigates the meaning of home, family and identity.

These images often grow into cultural symbols, and negatively influence our beliefs and values regarding gender, sexuality, race and other issues related to identity.

The scheme developed in this article requires, I believe, more stress on the fact that religious and cultural symbols inevitably have a political meaning.

Actually, our human nature is shaped in some significant part by the interaction of people in specific periods of time with specific cultural symbols and specific historic environments.

Rashid Johnson's work integrates many materials and components that are inspired by different sources, from cultural symbols and artifacts to his own personal biography.

At the height of his career, Pollock painted in a barn in Springs, New York, but he was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912 and grew up in Arizona and Chico, California, experiencing Native American cultural symbols, which may have influenced his work as glyphs and motifs, what Jung called archetypes, emerged during his Jungian analysis.

Together these incongruent building blocks give form to a stream of consciousness that offers a different perspective on cultural symbols and artifacts.

Our ability to associate cultural symbols with ultimate referents somehow evaporated over time — a kind of linguistic devolution, perhaps.

Much of the new middle class is actually in the business of culture, is in control of many of the institutions that produce and disseminate cultural symbols, notably in the educational system and the communication media.

Dillenberger wants to discern in Abstract Expressionism a union of spirituality and visual sensibility that might produce authentic cultural symbols.

Prestige is a true Haitian brand that has become an emblem of national pride and an iconic cultural symbol.

Senators Klein & Savino, Assembly Members Gjonaj & Benedetto, Italian - American leaders & parade - goers rally to save cultural symbol at Morris Park Columbus Day Parade

Because nonhumans have not produced Mona Lisas, Notre Dames, and other cultural symbols, they were thought to lack culture.

People must be informed through cultural symbols they can relate to, empathize and not be alienated, involved and not disinterested, to understand the complex issues connecting them directly to their daily existence.

This unit of work was designed for KS3 and includes background information on tulips as a Turkish cultural symbol.

Robert Henry Contemporary will present «Sculpture 56: Noah Loesberg: Remote Barrier Storage,» which finds the beauty in the banal through everyday objects, and «Melissa Vandenberg: Monument,» which uses ephemeral materials and co-opts cultural symbols to manipulate feelings of nostalgia in the viewer.

As Khvay's work traces the generational transmission of traditional Cambodian belief systems, the artist is also interested in how Footprints of Yantra Man asks us to consider the significance in broader migrations of sacred cultural symbols and rituals as they are altered, remade, and reinterpreted across geographies and time scales.

A largely self - taught artist, Grebenak also fuses traditional techniques with modern cultural symbols in her vivid tapestries.

Cover Version focuses on the idea of book cover as inadvertent cultural symbol and indicator of taste.

«He was a major cultural symbol of»60s London — of a new confidence, a generation that was overturning everything.»

Beds and guns are highly charged cultural symbols that artist Kim Piotrowski dissects in her most recent mixed media paintings featured in Kanter McCormick Gallery.

Coney Island is a world - famous resort and national cultural symbol that has inspired music, literature, and films.

Rather than a universal cultural symbol, cycling has been reduced to a sign of the socially vulnerable groups in China.

With ambitious and spectacular acts, as well as simple gestures, Pivi playfully appropriates cultural symbols, resulting in unexpected visuals that also appear surprisingly familiar.

The Nike Air Jordan was a sought - after, pop - cultural symbol among Jungen's adolescent peers in the Doig River band of the Dane - zaa First Nation and established Jungen's interest in the reciprocal link between objects and people.

Inspired by his recent experiences, Jungen presents a new body of work that continues to explore cultural symbols of corruption and question the developing political and geographical landscape of Canada.

Báez's lush paintings often foreground female bodies and faces, incorporating imagery associated with various cultural symbols, from palm fronds and feathers to tufts of fur and intricate textile patterns.

This work highlights not only the artist's own experience as a Korean artist acclimatizing to American culture, but also the ways in which cultural symbols are disseminated in a globalized world.

Very much informed by his African and European background, Eshetu's work dissects cultural symbols and religious iconography.

In the early 1970s, the poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948, Santiago de Chile) made a series of paintings «that critically explore the patriarchal iconography of international socialism and reinterpret Andean cultural symbols.»

With untamed images and re-mapped contexts, statements of race, color, class alter the pre-determined cultural symbols underscoring the creation of «an America that included me.»

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

Amy Tay, Tiger Brand Director, Five Points Trading Company commented, «Dawn's artwork, formed from a curated selection of cultural symbols such as lanterns, firecrackers, blossoms and oranges, comes to life on Tiger packaging and promotional materials this season.

His work focuses on both landscape image as cultural symbol and landscape painting as a cultural signifier.

Sanford Biggers uses installation, film and video, and performance to create artworks that fuse a diverse range of cultural symbols, histories, and customs to suggest a spiritual and symbolic interconnectedness that transcends our differences.

New York painter Ford Crull explores the expressive power of personal and cultural symbols in a series of densely painted and vividly colored compositions.

UP will offer a chronological view of the artist's work as she aspires to inspire and engage audiences with cultural symbols of hope, joy and optimism.

Or do you just not understand the concept of cultural appropriation by a privileged group of an oppressed group's cultural symbols?

This type of reactionary overreach and delusional self - righteousness over a cultural symbol valued by a group of people you disagree with gives Atheists a bad name.