Sentences with phrase «culture icons from»

Many of our pop culture icons from Tina Turner to Bob Dylan are seniors, with Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones and many others in the same demographic.

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There are many Icons (paintings) of him from that culture (Byzantium), and that faith, The Greek Orthodix Church.

Although both «lungs» of the Church of the Christ have experienced the tuberculosis of iconoclasm (indeed, the very term «iconoclasm» comes from the struggle of the Greek Church against the attempts of a Greek emperor to ban icons), the Greek version of iconoclasm was much influenced not only by imperial fiat but also by the surrounding sea of Muslim culture, whereas the iconoclasm of Western Puritanism was born out of Calvin's reliance on Old Testament Law.

A frequently fascinating romp through American culture with the emphasis on pop culture (some would say there is no other kind), showing the myriad ways in which the figure of Jesus has been detached from theological or churchly connections to become an icon for the promotion of almost anything.

From Men in Blazers: In this episode, Rog and Davo recap a lopsided Chelsea - Middlesbrough bout, break down the ever - tightening relegation battle, and welcome actor and pop culture icon, Kevin Bacon.

They are much less alienated from, and indifferent to, politics than is widely supposed - but also less invested in popular culture and its icons than people think.

Journalism icon, lawyer, former minister and now politician, Prince Tony Momoh, served as Minister of Information and Culture during General Ibrahim Babangida's regime from 1986 - 1990.

So say two of the world's most recognizable icons for luxury and culture — the BMW Group and Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation — which convened a gathering in the lobby of the Guggenheim Museum here Friday to provide details about the city's forthcoming BMW Guggenheim Lab, part of a social science project that aims to solicit input directly from the streets on how to improve urban living.

(NaturalHealth365) Connecting from the ribs and breastbone all the way down to the pubic bone, the «six pack» muscle or rectus abdominus is worshiped as the icon of fitness in our culture.

Turn photos into color palettes, patterns, type, materials and shapes to use with your favorite Creative Cloud Get the fascinating story behind the Girl Scout Cookie Program — from its grassroots beginnings in 1917 to its status as an icon of American culture today.

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Travolta and Jackson as Vincent and Jules respectively, became pop culture icons delivering some of the most darkly humorous lines from the mind of Quentin Tarantino.

Working Paper Series # 1: Michael A. Genovese, Art and Politics: The Political Film as a Pedagogical Tool # 2: Donald B. Morlan, Pre-World War II Propaganda: Film as Controversy # 3: Ernest D. Giglio, From Riefenstahl to the Three Stooges: Defining the Political Film # 4: John W. Williams, The Real Oliver North Loses: The Reel Bob Robert Wins # 5: Robert L. Savage, Popular Film and Popular Communication # 6: Andrew Aoki, «Chan Is Missing:» Liberalism and the Blending of a Kaleidoscopic Culture # 7: Barbara Allen, Using Film and Television in the Classroom to Explore the Nexus of Sexual and Political Violence # 8: Robert S. Robins & Jerrold M. Post, Political Paranoia as Cinematic Motif: Stone's «JFK» # 9: Richard A. Brisbin, Jr., From State and Local Censorship to Ratings: Substantitive Rationality, Political Entrepreneurship, and Sex in the Movies # 10: Stefanie L. Martin, Fiction and Independent Films: Creating Viable Communities and Coalitions by Reappropriating History # 11: Peter J. Haas, A Typology of Political Film # 12: Phillip L. Gianos, The Cold War in U.S. Films: Representing the Political Other # 13: Michael A. Genovese, The President as Icon & Straw Man: Hollywood & the Presidential Image # 14: Michael Krukones, Hollywood's Portrayal of the American President in the 1930s: A Strong and Revered Leader # 15.

Waters» film aptly mocks the gallows frenzy of the murderer - celebrity, reveling in the grotesque pleasure derived from these monsters we hail as pop culture icons.

Indiepix Festival Favorites, Volume 2 Value - priced, three film set of music documentaries: «Icons Among Us: Jazz In the Present Tense,» about the modern jazz scene, with Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen and Esperanza Spalding; «Echotone,» a lyrical documentary providing a telescopic view into the lives of Austin's vibrant young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city; and «Roaring Abyss,» a stunning audiovisual poem, the product of filmmaker Quino Piñero's two years of field recording traditional and modern music from around every corner of Ethiopia, a country of eighty different nationalities and cultures spread amongst mountains, deserts and forests.

Whenever a well - known role is up for grabs, especially when its a comic book character or some other pop - culture icon, stories seem to flood forth from every last corner of the press and blogosphere.

A Nightmare On Elm Street, of course, arrived from horror icon Wes Craven in 1984, making an instant star of Robert Englund and an unlikely, wisecracking pop culture juggernaut of undead child - murderer Freddy.

From Academy Award ® - winning executive producer Brian Grazer, executive producer Chad Hodge (Tru Calling) and director Alan Taylor (Mad Men) comes a provocative new series about a time and place that challenged the social mores, where a visionary created an empire, and an icon changed American culture.

Taking aim at everything and everyone, from «Indiana Jones» and «Iron Man» to Amy Winehouse and High School Musical., DISASTER MOVIE lampoons the blockbuster movie, pop culture icons and public figures along the way as Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer satirize everything as only they can.

The latest «effort» from Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the guys responsible for Date Movie, Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans, is yet another bottom - feeding cash - grab that exploits current events, ridicules pop culture icons and compromises the integrity of the zeitgeist itself in order to create, oh, one - quarter to one - half of a funny joke within the shortest possible time frame that qualifies as a theatrical release.

The key takeaway from all of this however is that Deadpool's very own feature film is a riotous success laced with the fourth wall breaking, dick - joke quips, bloody dismemberment, and the dementedly twisted snark people have come to love, to transcend the Merc with a Mouth from cult phenomenon to the pop culture symbolic icon status he now carries around today.

It all starts off fairly well, with a random character chosen for you at the beginning of each level; ranging from pixelated army marines to characters clearly inspired by pop culture icons.

The Editing Award: World Cinema Documentary was presented to: Jonathan Amos for 20,000 Days On Earth from the UK (Directors: Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard)-- Drama and reality combine in a fictitious 24 hours in the life of musician and international culture icon Nick Cave.

The Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary was presented to: Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard for 20,000 Days On Earth from the UK — Drama and reality combine in a fictitious 24 hours in the life of musician and international culture icon Nick Cave.

Shawn Mendes beat Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran to win the best - artist prize Sunday at the MTV EMAs, while U2 were proclaimed global icons in a show that celebrated London's diverse culture, from pubs to pirate radio.

After his tenderly passionate debut Weekend and the strained marriage - in - crisis drama 45 Years — led by British New Wave icons Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling — Andrew Haigh continues his ascendancy into the upper tier of British screen talents with his third film and first transatlantic foray: an exploration of horse - rearing culture in the Pacific Northwest entitled Lean on Pete which, despite its divergent milieu from Haigh's previous works, richly and evocatively expands on his earlier films» themes of companionship, stability and the solemn dignity of love.

The books this year run the gamut from summer blockbuster source material (Avengers, Suicide Squad, Captain America) to pop culture icons (Archie, Doctor Who, Strawberry Shortcake, Sonic the Hedgehog) to cool little niche titles that you might not recognize now but might just end up being the next series that you slavishly follow every month.

Hernan finds inspiration for games from many sources; certainly from games they have played, but also from books Hernan read as a child, anime, comics, TV series, movies, and even pop culture icons such as Billy Idol or Joey Tempest.

Game franchises such as Call of Duty or Halo have gone from being mere video games to pop culture icons, spawning their own lingo, merchandise, and memes.

And after more than a decade as one of the most popular franchises in the music genre, DanceDanceRevolution has transcended from a video game into a pop culture icon.

Well, while some people are quick to throw out names from Tekken and SoulCalibur (likely the same ones who think it should have been Ryu or someone else from Capcom, rather than Mega Man), the obvious choice is the company mascot — especially when said mascot is not only a company icon, but a gaming icon and a pop culture icon as well.

Handmade dolls whose faces are from photos of Kawai's friends, icons of popular culture like John Lennon and R2D2 or Kawai herself, make up the population of this constructed world.

Cole's work is generally discussed in the context of postmodern eclecticism, combining references and appropriation ranging from African and African American imagery, to Dada's readymades and Surrealism's transformed objects, and icons of American pop culture or African and Asian masks, into highly original and witty assemblages.

Zhang's images have frequently featured a central cutout, the edges of which form the silhouette of an well known cultural icons from both eastern and western culture.

A necklace by a pioneer in Art Nouveau Design, a rare wooden gong from the Gabon's Tsogo culture, an 17th century Ethiopian icon and a selection of photographs including a work by Richmond - based Cynthia Henebry, are among the works acquired by VMFA in October.

Mixing art historical references with images taken from the internet, their subject matter knows no limits: from icons of popular culture such as Roy Orbison to much admired paintings of the past such as Georges Seurat's Bathers at Asnières (1884); from the lonesome cowboys in a Steven Spielberg film to the shocking photographs of Mexican photographer, Enrique Metinides.

He is well known for his advertisements and creating artwork for pop culture icons such as commissions from The Beatles, Marilyn Monroe, and Elizabeth Taylor, among others.

Mixing art historical references with images taken from the internet, the paintings of Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal (born 1972) borrow liberally from the image glut around us, appropriating anything from icons of popular culture such as Roy Orbison to paintings of the past such as Georges Seurat's «Bathers at Asnières» — from the lonesome cowboys in a Steven Spielberg film to the photographs of Enrique Metinides.

In paintings, works on paper and ceramics, pop culture, art historical references and icons from the East and West collide, often fusing into hybrid symbols.

Snakes, spiders, scorpions, and other bits of nature from his hometown appear mixed in with Catholic symbolism, aliens, gang members, pop - culture references, and commercial imagery, giving brand logos and religious icons the same attention and placement.

This exhibition presents Warhol's book work, from early student - work illustrations of the late 1940s, through to his careers as a commercial artist in the 1950s, Pop fine artist and underground filmmaker in the 1960s, and photographer and Pop culture icon of the 1970s — 80s.

Leckey's interests might have shifted throughout the last decade — from an obsession with pop culture, subculture and the figure of the dandy in earlier films such as Parade (2003), and in his band collaboration DonAteller, with fellow artists Ed Laliq, Enrico David and Bonnie Camplin; to the high / low culture face - off of his BigBoxStatueAction performances (2003 — 11), in which Leckey's giant speaker stack confronts icons of modernist British sculpture, such as Jacob Epstein's Jacob and the Angel (1940 — 1); to his later multimedia performance lectures, the Internet - driven epiphany of dematerialisation In the Long Tail (2009) and its antithesis Cinema - in - the - Round (2006 — 8), with its more reflective inquiry into the physicality of images via, among others, Philip Guston, Felix the Cat, Gilbert & George, Homer Simpson and Titanic (1997).

Between Pop Art and Trans - Avantgarde Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Happiness; A Survival Guide for Art and Life Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Stiftung Maria und Gerald Fischer - Colbrie Auden Galerie, Bad Homburg, Pop - Art Meets Minimal Art Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada, American Pop Icons Burkhard Eikelmann Galerie, Dusseldorf, The Pop Art Show Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL, Some Assembly Required; Collage Culture in Post-War America, white8 Galerie Dagmar Aichholzer - Villach, Villach, Summer Exhibition 2003, 20 Contemporary Artists, Artiscope, Brussels Union is Force; Collages & Assemblages Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, Andy Warhol and the Pop Aesthetic; Permanent Collection and Loans Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, The Pow!er of Pop Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich, Thirty Three Women The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI, Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post-War America County Hall Gallery, London, Marilyn; The Life of a Legend Fischerplatz Galerie, Ulm, Leckerbissen The Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA, POP and More from the Frederick Weisman Art Foundation Collection

To this end, he condenses well - known consumer objects culled from mass culture with agitprop icons to create so - called «superforms» in drawing, prints, and film.

I am taking cues from wide ranges of history of Eastern and Western art, colors and designs from popular culture, Korean temple paintings and folk art, internet emoticons and icons, fruit stickers and labels of products from all over the place.

Entitled Shrapnel, the exhibition will showcase Lola's «exploding» portraits of icons taken from popular culture, movie starlets and fellow artists as her subject matter.

The Bruce High Quality Foundation, known for their humorous and irreverent projects and performances that often take a subversive and critical stance towards the current market's seemingly insatiable appetite for hyped new artists, answers this question ad nauseum by insinuating the image cum icon of their namesake, Bruce High Quality, into thousands of images from popular culture and art history.

It was just what you would expect from this hot young star, who at 28 had zoomed from street - level graffiti artist to pop culture icon.

The work presents a nightmarish animation of man and beast in apocalyptic scenes derived from popular culture and Mexican icons.