Sentences with phrase «culture creating imagery»

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• Génesis, el Don de la Vida (Genesis, the Gift of Life), the iconic 60 - foot - long glass mosaic mural by Miguel Covarrubias on permanent view at the DMA; originally created for another building in Dallas in 1954, the work is based on an ancient Mexican myth that four worlds preceded the world we currently live in, and incorporates imagery from numerous historic cultures in Central and North America.

Utilizing fragments of imagery borrowed from popular culture, Arturo Herrera creates collages, sculptures, and wall paintings that lie on the shifting border between legibility and abstraction.

[4] During the 1920s, American artists Patrick Henry Bruce, Gerald Murphy, Charles Demuth and Stuart Davis created paintings that contained pop culture imagery (mundane objects culled from American commercial products and advertising design), almost «prefiguring» the pop art movement.

In her words she is: «examining selfie culture in teenage girlhood and the power for young women to create, curate, and distribute their own imagery.»

Prince's initial goal was to emphasize the powerful impact of mass media imagery in shaping contemporary consumer culture, but eventually, he ended up creating his very own pop style and powerful series of works which became some of the most wanted materials at many prestigious auctions.

Moving between Paris, New York, and Los Angeles over ensuing years, Raysse created works that subtly critiqued consumer culture through their incorporation of media imagery and store - bought products, in a practice many historians cite as a precursor to American Pop.

Using ancient Armenian imagery, embroidered wooden sculptures, zoomorphic creatures and soundscape this exhibition creates lenses to view culture, history and identity.

Although Lowman's work is influenced by such earlier appropriation artists as Andy Warhol, Richard Prince, and Cady Noland, his own brand of image recycling disperses into an unstructured installation - environment in which posters, record jackets and silk - screened imagery create a large - scale narrative that ruminates on specific issues, from American gun culture to celebrity cults.

Canadian painter and draughtsman, Wil Murray, creates brash constructions — prints plastered together with pop - culture imagery and sweet - shop patterns.

German painter Markus Oehlen has created an eclectic body of mixed media paintings that sample imagery from pop culture and punk while remaining true to his anti-establishment roots in the raucous 1980s Berlin art scene, which included colleagues Martin Kippenberger, Werner Büttner and Georg Herold.

Why: Colombian born, Los Angeles - based artist Rodney McMillian creates sculptures, paintings, room - sized constructions, videos and performances that explore class, economic status, culture, race, gender and history in the U.S, sometimes using sci - fi imagery to mine the unraveling of social justice in our country.

Referring both to the perception of contemporary art and to the imagery of popular culture Lavier created the first pieces of this series in the 1980s after a Walt Disney cartoon from 1947 entitled «Traits très abstraits», which told of Mickey and Minnie's visit to a museum of modern art.

Just as Washington creates meaning out of an assemblage of found objects and detritus, Jen Ray's works are a pastiche of imagery drawn from high and low culture, grand artistic traditions and kitsch.

For more than sixty years, renowned Indian artist and teacher Om Prakash (Sharma) has created abstract paintings drawn from both the timeless visual culture of Indian imagery and more recent developments in modern art.

Reflecting her personal experiences of cultural translation and assimilation, Jiha creates kaleidoscopic compositions, layering imagery drawn from various cultures and periods.

Looking to Brazilian folklore and Baroque religious imagery, as well as Alchemical and Pagan symbols, Stephan has created his own unique language and style which embraces his influences and lets them evolve naturally into his own autobiographical work by combining them with his roots in urban art and Pop culture.

Reflecting her personal experiences of cultural translation and assimilation, Moon creates kaleidoscopic compositions, layering disparate imagery drawn from various cultures and periods.

Unlike Pop art which drew on imagery from popular culture, however, Op art was a style of abstraction that relied on geometric shapes, lines, and color juxtapositions to create optical illusions for the viewer.