Sentences with phrase «culture as their point of departure»

These new works take historical paintings and Internet culture as their point of departure and utilize paint and digitally manipulated printed images to create hybridized portraits suffused with cultural and societal critiques.

These new works take historical paintings and internet culture as their point of departure and utilize paint and digitally manipulated printed images to create... Read More

Also taking a critique of popular culture as her point of departure, Glasgow - based Rachel Maclean's hyper - saturated videos unfold narratives through characters — often played by the artist — that quote classic films such as The Wizard of Oz but also draw from horror movies, talent shows and TV advertising.

For her solo show she has created large format paintings and sculptures using the foundation's main gallery as her studio this summer: these new works take historical paintings and internet culture as their point of departure and utilize paint and digitally manipulated printed images to create hybridized portraits suffused with cultural and societal critiques.

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The port of Brindisi was recognised as a UNESCO heritage site for culture of Peace as it was always considered a safe harbour for travellers and a point of departure.

Mixing pop culture with elements of Surrealism, French artist Pauline Curnier Jardin's theatrical films take history or myth as their points of departure and use improvisation, excessive characters and strange forms to create a «patchwork narration».

Rich in detail, his obsessively worked drawings take, as their point of departure, the Southern California punk - rock culture of the late 1970s and 1980s and the do - it - yourself aesthetic of album covers, comics, concert flyers, and fanzines that characterized the movement — but they have come to occupy their own genre of potent and dynamic artistic commentary.

The Wayland Rudd Collection exhibition examines representations of Africans in Soviet culture during this time, taking as its departure point more than 200 images including paintings, movie stills, posters and graphics from the collection of New York - based, Moscow - born artist Yevgeniy Fiks.

The Pop movement was a major departure from the prior artistic movements of the mid-twentieth century, abandoning the use of the painterly concerns to use everyday products and popular culture as the focal point of the artistic discussion.

Coming from a diverse religious and cultural background, having been raised by Christian grandparents as a liberal, homosexual Muslim, Adams uses Islam and South African «coloured» culture as a departure point to make sense of religious, racial and sexual liminality in South Africa.