Sentences with phrase «culture references work»

Pop culture references work when they fit with the circumstances.

Not exact matches

The books provide reference points and a common vocabulary for the top team as it works to protect and deepen OST's culture.

Just to work another pop culture reference in there, the «very high» to «low» suspension options will now range from a «depth» of 0 to «20,000 leagues.»

As director, he does solid work, but peppers his film with some bizarrely picked pop culture references.

They talk about Blake's pioneering digital art, which often obliquely if not directly referenced pop culture; one exhibition of his work was named after the eyeglass vendor in David Cronenberg's Videodrome, Spectacular Optical, and borrowed its ideas from the spatial dynamics in Cronenberg's early movies.

His work became the stuff of pop culture references.

Iv not read «Ready Player one» (yeh yeh I know, go do it) But I gather there are a lot of pop culture references, I wonder how that will work out, I mean like in a IP rights sense.

Park has worked his entire career to avoid the usual kids» film template: fart and burp jokes and pop culture references wrapped up with chase scenes and smashed inside some kind of valuable lesson.

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Referencing C.P. Snow's «two cultures», he introduced the «third culture» consisting of «those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are.

Reference laboratories provide us with advanced blood work, such as thyroid and seizure medication levels, urine testing, and culture, cytology, and biopsy results to further maintain your pet's health.

Working Designs became known for a translation style that often took liberties with the source material, imbuing the dry, Japanese text with a goofy sense of humor and American pop culture references.

You might be tempted to skip all the dialog (as I did at first) but to appreciate all the hard work that went into this game you should just read along and enjoy because Retro City Rampage doesn't stop at video game references, oh no, it dives into pop culture of the 1980s from movies to music.

The Legend of Zelda has tackled a lot of issues and has referenced great works of art, culture and literature.

Pop Life: Everyone needs a Thrill traces an arc from the 1950s to the mid-1960s, when there was a massive shift from Abstract Expressionism to work that began to reference and incorporate the symbols of an exploding consumer and commercial culture, ultimately giving rise to Pop art.

As in all her work, the installation draws from many references, ranging from pop culture ideas of nature and femininity to arcane literary traditions.

The largest survey of Nari Ward «s work to date, this traveling exhibition «focuses on vital points of reference for Ward, including his native Jamaica, citizenship, and migration, as well as African - American history and culture, to explore the dynamics of power and politics in society.»

Excited by the convergence of fine art and pop culture, Freeman's works reference modern design, the Adriatic coast, and rock and roll.

Her references could be literary and philosophical, what she said about her work was deep but different than an academic discourse, as much rooted in daily visual experience as in popular culture and in direct transmutation into paint of such experience.

Non-Chinese artists making work about Chinese culture or concepts, collaborations between Chinese and non-Chinese artists drawing on cultural references.

If Houseago's works resonate, it is because they encompass a wide range of influences: the formal language of sculpture throughout the ages (from ancient to early modern), mythology, the natural world of plants and animals, African tribal art, cartoon imagery and contemporary music and culture (the title of the exhibition contains a fragment from the lyrics of «Wild Child» by Lou Reed and a reference to James Taylor's «Like A Circle Round the Sun»).

He often works with found objects and materials drawn from stereotypical references to African American culture such as chicken wings, dreadlock clippings and Night Train liquor bottles and the outdoors have served as his exhibition space where he has sold snow balls in the street and installed real porcelain urinals on trees.

The title of the work and the persistent electronic hum of the soundtrack are references to Grasso's ongoing fascination with science and technology and their influence on human culture.

Her more recent work has included performative installations, variously incorporating ritual dance, sand painting, original music and videos, and cross-cultural references to the crafts of indigenous cultures around the 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.

William T. Wiley is primarily known for mystical watercolors that whimsically move between references to pop culture, literature, and art history, though he has worked in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, and performance.

This work can be interpreted in the simplest, most direct manner — as a stereotyped image of China's food culture and painting traditions, but at the same time, its multiple references to various Chinese social and historical backgrounds make interpretation much more difficult: the use of objects to express morality in Chinese landscaping, satirical poetry mocking ostentatious refinement, and the imitation of handwritten menus to capture a scene of civil life... Viewers unfamiliar with the specific context can easily find themselves lost in the smokescreen of mysterious Oriental poetic calligraphy and bonsai art.

His snarky references to art history and pop culture keep the work fresh, and relatable to both young and old crowds.

Kass, a Brooklyn - based artist who creates works that are historically and politically analytical, draws on a variety of art historical and popular culture references, and speaks poignantly about the state... read more... «Deborah Kass interview at Thirsty Beach»

Drawing visual references from both cultures, Ebtekar comprises these works that together create a dialog with the unknown.

Known for his carefully constructed paintings that move effortlessly between abstraction and figuration, the imagined and the real, this new body of work sees de Balincourt moving away from direct references to current social, political or popular culture, and instead depicting a world in which indications of specific place or time are absent.

The selection includes works by the foremost practitioners of the art of miniature painting in England, Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, and portraits of writers, such as William Shakespeare and John Donne, who wove miniatures into contemporary culture through references in their plays and poems.

As in all her work, the installation draws from many references, here ranging from pop culture ideas of nature and femininity to arcane literary traditions.

An interest in the culture of consumerism and the particularities of the contemporary recessionary moment are explored in an ongoing series of soft sculptures works that reference shopping carts.

Creating works from synthetic materials such as resin, neon and rubber and reworking ubiquitous matter such as glass, plexiglass, wood, sand and metal, Webb often parodies modernism to wry and poetic results - referencing consumer culture and making use of the solid and the open and the soft and rigid to explore new sculptural possibilities.

His work is rooted in the counterculture of punk rock and skateboarding while also using references from current events and pop culture.

References to popular culture can be found in the «music video» of Mark Verabioff, an ersatz theatre ovation by Kate Gilmore, faux aerobic exercise tapes by Susan Lee - Chun, and a modern dance work by Yvonne Rainer.

Hye Rim has developed and evolved her animated character TOKI, which parodies the obsession with beauty created by phallic motivations in cyber culture and gaming, with the work referencing critical contributions from contemporary mythology, psychoanalysis, technology, cybernetics, aesthetics, plastic surgery, feminism, consumerism and eroticism.

With stylistic references to modernist masters and Pop Art added to these doses of pop culture, Baechler is celebrated for his works that overflow with the joy and idealism of an adult who hasn't quite forgotten the innocence of childhood.

Always rich in colour and technique, de Balincourt's work is a bountiful confluence of reality and fantasy, where references to society, politics, or popular culture are never less than equalled by free association and painterly invention.

From this, Kentridge developed a work that draws on the propulsive theatricality of his grand opera productions to address a running theme in his fine art practice: the impulse of Western countries to colonize the bodies and souls of non-Western cultures, with special reference to his native South Africa, where Kentridge still lives and works.

In addition to politics, his work references issues of art, pop culture, and philosophy, combining them in ways that inspire thought.

The panel will explore the timeliness of this recent iteration of digital abstraction, with three artists who variously work through issues such as: how gesture, expression, and authenticity might continue to be possible in a contemporary image - based culture; whether our digital era truly produces an ahistorical condition in which images and marks have no specific reference and no relevant point of origin; how structures of and interfaces with digital technologies have necessitated new models for thinking about memory, distribution, and reproduction, as well as degradation, rupture, breakdown, and the void; and how the ubiquity of the screen in all aspects of life has given rise to a renewed interest in the relationship between two - dimensional and three - dimensional space, with a refreshed focus on tromp l'oeil and «topographical» painting.

I believe that Cecily Brown's work, by its own nature — with the historical intersections, the references, the culture, and the education that it constantly documents — is an example of this same approach.

It is an exploration of high and low culture, the occult, and alternate realities — how mortality compliments growth and is made tactile in works that pull references from minimalism, sci - fi shamanism, and ritual.

In her works, von Bonin turns on a spinning machine that spits out refererne after reference the pop and high culture and also to art history.

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.

Her drawings, objects, and installations conflate references to nature and culture, each work embodying a single instance of their collision, taking inspiration from the artist's personal experience, cultural memory, or historical events.

While we can use the imminent changes in Chinese culture and politics as an underlying reference point for his work, Yang Fudong: An Estranged Paradise teaches us more about this particular artists» sensitivity to color, framing, composition and human behavior.

Part fictional, part autobiographical, Hancock's work pulls from his own personal experience, art historical canon, comics and superheroes, pulp fiction, and myriad pop culture references, resulting in a complex amalgamation of characters and plots possessing universal concepts of light and dark, good and evil, and all the gray in between.