Sentences with phrase «culture iconography»

Now he filters the traditions of his homeland through a Western pop sensibility, often pairing hypermodern and fabled human figures with the remains of pop culture iconography in surreal situations that defy immediate logic.

He lists as examples Op Art (think Bauhaus) and Abstract Expressionism (Mark Rothko and others), as well as popular culture iconography.

For «Dehydrated Rainbow,» Gordon selects amusement parks and rides (many of which are now abandoned), meshed with pop - culture iconography as her subjects.

For «Reversion» at Laura Rathe Fine Art, his first solo show in four years, he's produced a collection based on 1960s and»70s pop - culture iconography, especially heavy on images from film and TV, with frequent trips to the concession stand (Junior Mints or Dots, anyone?).

The exhibition features American pop culture iconography and symbolism, with works by Bernard Buffet, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, Paul Insect, Faile, Robert Longo, Ron English, Nick Georgiou, Mark Hogancamp and Romon Yang, among others.

Weldon is well known for his off - kilter interpretations of pop culture iconography.

A member of the Pictures Generation — a movement named by Douglas Crimp that collects artists like Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, and Barbara Kruger by their witty institutional critiques via the appropriation of pop culture iconography — Louise Lawler is the subject of a newly - open retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.

Hell, even Call of Duty has started incorporating more traditional video game and geek culture iconography.

Not exact matches

In a ritually impoverished society, television lends ritualisitic elements by broadcasting civic ceremonies, sports events, and even commercial advertisements.5 Such programming provides the images and iconography by which individuals become connected to the shared values of our consumer culture.

Although the actual fang dentures weren't found at the site, Chatters suspects such a prosthesis is the most likely explanation for the procedure, given the high frequency of humans with jaguar teeth in iconography of the Olmec, Mayan, and Aztecan cultures and the prevalence of such dentures in the region about 2,000 years later.

Karanth: Tigers, in fact, wherever they have occurred historically, if you look at the religion culture and iconography of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam — the three big religions that kind of cover the tiger range — tigers are very, very powerfully present everywhere.

New to this disc is the four - minute «In Walt's Words: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,» an audio - only interview with Walt Disney discussing the film set to an image track, the seven - minute featurette «Iconography» that explores the film's influences on popular culture, art, and fashion, «@DisneyAnimation: Designing Disney's First Princess» with four contemporary animators discussing the design of Snow White, and an «Alternate Sequence: The Prince Meets Snow White,» plus the breezy promo - style pieces «The Fairest Facts of Them All: 7 Facts You May Now Know About Snow White» with Disney Channel star Sofia Carson and the rap retelling «Snow White in Seventy Seconds.»

As with The Shining, Rob Reiner's Stand by Me is difficult to appraise afresh because its iconography, performances and mood are so ingrained in popular culture and have been so influential on American coming of age cinema.

Many gyrated over the book's overindulgent references to 80s pop culture, from coin - op arcade games to deeply engrained new wave synthpop cuts to the nerdcore iconography of John Hughes films.

Yet as much as Haynes obsesses over the iconography of mass culture, this arch semiotician has always spoken to and in the language of the ivory tower.

A rigorously shaped essayistic journey into the iconography and culture of war, Battles bravely carves an observational argument from various countries propagandistic efforts to form a worthy challenge to André Bazin's famed thesis that there's perhaps no such thing as an anti-war film.

Special Features In Walt's Words: «Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs» - Hear Walt himself talk about Snow White Iconography - Explore how this film influences pop culture, art and fashion Disney / Animation: Designing Disney's First Princess - Modern - day Disney artists discuss the design of Snow White and how it influenced the look of some of your favorite Disney characters The Fairest Facts Of Them All - Disney channel star Sofia Carson reveals seven intriguing facts about Snow White And Much More!

Isle of Dogs is a very busy place, a fully realized environment bustling with activity and overloaded with imagery that pays tribute to Japanese culture and iconography.

That the film confronts these issues head - on, without the crutch of allegory, is rare in itself, but what makes Black Panther truly unique is that this «dystopian» present is juxtaposed with a (stunningly staged) utopian vision that is also wholly steeped in the black experience — in its history, iconography, and culture.

The first one was that Maori students identified that they wanted teachers who respected their cultural location as Maori and part of that [is] teachers who are culturally appropriate; so, who understand some of the features of Maori culture, and use in the curriculum and use in the classroom what I would call «Maori iconography» - so students could see themselves in the curriculum.

A country known only to my young mind through the iconography of American pop culture — Adagio For Strings, choppers, gunshot, blood and tears.

Moreover, Super Mario Bros.» iconography has come to define games in popular culture.

This show «is a five - part extended series that explores the iconography of popular culture and the desires and values it supports,» according to the press release.

Taking on the iconography of popular culture with a satirical edge, artist and animator Eric Yahnker challenges conventions of fine art with his impeccable drafting style.

Highlighting politics, religion and popular culture, sex, citizenship, mysticism, and iconography, Figueredo paints and carves images that are both recognizable and falsified, compelling the viewer to believe in these dream - like stills as scenes from the past, present and future.

Since his emergence in the 1980s, Jeff Koons has blended the concerns and methods of Pop, Conceptual, and appropriation art with craft - making and popular culture to create his own unique iconography, often controversial and always engaging.

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Taking up the iconography and subject matter inherent to Western culture and making use of crude painting techniques blended with the vandalistic language of graffiti, Lister appropriates and reformats codes and languages in order to create a new proposal of grotesque contours brimming with creative energy.

He re-animates the things around us — objects, images, characters and brands — to examine the iconography of popular culture and its affective pull.

With massive drawings, Jamal blends references from popular culture, religious iconography, and symbolism in an attempt to create a possible image of what our multilayered identities could look like.

The work of Paul McCarthy investigates the stereotypes and myths surrounding American popular culture, with particular focus on the unconscious effects of media, consumerism and iconography.

This movement rejected abstract expressionism and its focus on the hermeneutic and psychological interior in favor of art that depicted and often celebrated material consumer culture, advertising, and iconography of the mass production age.

Both draw on the mythologies of the frontier culture of the American West and in particular, the loaded iconographies of the Cowboy, here imbued with a homoerotic quality redolent of Andy Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys, while also referencing the work of Martin Scorcese and David Hockney and continuing, as with Julien's earlier film work, to subvert preconceptions of race and sexuality.

Superheroes and celebrities, totems and toys: the imagery of manufactured fantasy is reframed in the visual language of historical iconography in this multimedia exploration of popular culture today.

Tree - like columns filled with leaves and stones invoke the tribal iconography of nature while serving as a counter balance for the crocheted architecture - bringing together the tradition of the Brazilian Neo Concrete movement with the rituals of Brazil's indigenous cultures.

Donoso addresses the multifaceted nature of identity and how it is informed by the confluence of diverse sources; he combines self - portraiture with motifs from Spanish Baroque art, patterning found in Latin American textiles and imagery from current popular culture and pre - Columbian iconography.

Since his emergence at that time, Jeff Koons has blended the concerns and methods of Pop, Conceptual, and appropriation art with craft - making and popular culture to create his own unique iconography, often controversial and always engaging.

Lowman explores ideas involving desire using references and iconography from American Pop culture.

Simmons» practice examines race relations with a critical eye towards recent and contemporary history and the iconography of American culture.

Collectives like Spiral and AfriCOBRA mined African American history and culture and incorporated contemporary techniques of painting, printmaking, and fashion design to create a unique iconography for this vital political era.

Throughout his career, Erizku has created a unique visual language and distinctive iconography that address issues of race, identity, politics and cultural history, while drawing from myriad references ranging from urban culture to advertising to the art historical canon.

Donaldson's work across the decades is an amalgamation of energetic colors, intricate patterns, and African iconography that celebrates the history of African art and the roots of Black culture.

Using performance, video and sculptural installations, Matthew Nicholas» work focuses on the relationships between identities, iconography and the social complexities that have shaped American culture.

[36] This movement rejected abstract expressionism and its focus on the hermeneutic and psychological interior, in favor of art which depicted, and often celebrated material consumer culture, advertising, and iconography of the mass production age.

Known for integrating the iconography of youth culture with that of Catholic and pre-Columbian imagery, the El Paso portrait painter and longtime teacher is being honored with a 30 - year survey.

That polyglot character — mixing French, Spanish, Hebrew, English, even Chinese with the iconography of many cultures — is a hallmark of the work gathered in the current show, especially the works on paper, with their calligraphic inclusion of words and symbols.

The exhibition is the first UK solo show of his work in seven years, celebrating his multi-layered works which fuse traditional and contemporary North African culture with familiar Western imagery and iconography.

This movement rejected Abstract expressionism and its focus on the hermeneutic and psychological interior, in favor of art which depicted, and often celebrated, material consumer culture, advertising, and iconography of the mass production age.

In fact, the complex mix of religious iconography, racial themes, and popular culture is exactly what earned Ofili the coveted Turner Prize in 1998 (just before his 30th birthday) and led him to represent Great Britain at the 2003 Venice Biennale.

She layers iconographies from myriad cultures and time periods, imbuing the depicted figures with strength while abolishing a cultural hierarchy.