Sentences with phrase «culture references associating»

Kelly said he used to «feel terrible» in response to the pop - culture references associating him and urinating.

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And I suppose that you are using the word «comrade» as some sort of reference to Communism, which you associate with every person or idea that does not fit in with your ignorant view of the world, however during the Cold War the minority of the Middle Eastern Muslim cultures that hated the US tended to be even more hostile to the Soviets (who where officially Atheist).

Named in many ancient cultures, the primary star is commonly called «Muphrid or Murfid» in modern star catalogues, which may have been convolutedly derived from an Arabic reference to the «lance bearer» and associated with nearby Arcturus (Richard Hinckley Allen, 1889: page 104).

Whilst Houseago's oeuvre can be seen as a continuation of a historical sculptural tradition, the unusual combinations of materials, the inclusion of references drawn from popular culture and the unusual interplay between two and three - dimensional elements, all challenge the hierarchy inherent within visual forms, and the materials and values associated with them.

His paintings contain a mash - up of historical and cultural references, combining elements of 18th and 19th century colonial portraiture and folk art with visual signifiers of contemporary urban culture, including jewelry and body art associated with present - day gangsters and hipsters.

Animated by flânerie — the idle, detached observation of street life that 19th - century writers associated with the rise of modern cities, that was an important strategy of the French Impressionists — and making reference to African tribal art, Ward's oeuvre resonates with the Barnes collection and speaks with penetrating insight and imagination to a broad range of subjects, including black history and culture, the dynamics of power and politics, and Caribbean diaspora identity.

There is a an undeniable reference to memory and youth in these images, specifically the childhood associated with 1950's popular culture — from the use of the artist's own toys, to the evocation of editorial pages from Life and Look magazines or family - oriented situation comedies like Father Knows Best.

Art as a fully engaged institutional critique, capable of extending its frame of reference directly into the political sphere is, if not a purely historical phenomenon, then one that is now associated, almost exclusively, with contexts outside Western centers of culture and commerce.

Themes of exaggerated consumption, film noir and the depiction of women in art, the dystopic American landscape, and the intersection of popular culture and politics, are explored through works by acknowledged masters such as Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol, as well as by many artists not traditionally associated with Pop whose art may be understood within its wider field of reference.