Sentences with phrase «diverse cultural references»

In the cycle he integrates Clement Greenberg's theories of Modernism with urban art, appropriating diverse cultural references; for instance, to Jack Kerouac's novel The Dharma Bums (1958), to Dutch and Spanish football stars, and to films, including The Miracle of Candeal (2004).

These mimetic works blend mysticism with popular imagery — from a Hindu statue to an American football player, diverse cultural references appear to evolve within the series, almost as in a stream of consciousness.

Not exact matches

Culturally responsive teaching is a theoretical framework created by Geneva Gay that relies on «using the cultural knowledge, prior experiences, frames of reference, and performance styles of ethnically diverse students to make learning encounters more relevant to and effective for them.»

In Encampment — a multi-part 30,000 square foot installation occupying MASS MoCA's largest gallery — Clemente's transitory experience of changing geographies, diverse cultural climates, and indeed consciousness itself infuses his imagery and art with a particularly rich range of references and meaning.

Her experiential, large - scale works are often inspired by landscape and natural phenomena as well as diverse historical and cultural references.

A group of 25 diverse women artists were invited to create art about present conditions of DISILLUSIONMENT, whether personal, global, cultural, political or societal — addressing issues of deception, falseness, unfaithfulness, betrayal and treachery — with reference to wearing, inhabiting, being veiled, clothed, draped, revealed, exposed or wrapped in disillusion.

Finally, due to both the rational structure of her media - spanning, multi-layered works and her diverse spectrum of subject - related references to music, literature, and European cultural history, Hanne Darboven prefigures strategies and discourses of aesthetic knowledge production and mediation in current art.

Fernández's experiential, large - scale works are often inspired by a rethinking of the meaning of landscape and place, and by diverse historical and cultural references.

A conceptual artist known to combine disparate cultural references, Abbas's exhibition cascades meaning through diverse literary references and other linguistic play, akin to spending hours clicking through hyperlinks on Wikipedia.

Phillipson's recent exhibition at Zabludowicz Collection, through the flesh - tone scenario, the imported combi - boudoir (2013), saw the artist create a multi-layered installation that investigated the relationship between virtual and tactile spaces through cultural references as diverse as point - of - view «selfies», experimental architecture, supermarkets, museums and pop videos.

In «Encampment» — a multi-part 30,000 square foot installation in MASS MoCA's largest gallery — Francesco Clemente's experience of changing geographies, diverse cultural climates, and consciousness itself infuses his imagery and art with a rich range of references and meaning.

Cultural reference points are diverse, reflecting his Anglo - Japanese experience as well as a part - nomadic practice based around international residencies ranging from Arizona to Norway.

For More Sweetly, Mr. Kentridge enlisted the diverse sounds of a South African brass band and a team of sound and animation engineers in order to create a dizzying pastiche of cultural references for this unique version of the ancient dance, which riffs on Mardi Gras jazz and regalia, Mexican Dia de los Muertos imagery, Catholic funerary marches,»60s protest chants, traditional African dance, college marching band choreography, and military parades, just to name some of the influences present.

Inspired by a diverse array of visual artists, actors, musicians, writers, activists, and philosophers, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Joseph Beuys, Joseph Cornell, Parliament Funkadelic and Sun Ra, Johnson engages with questions of personal, racial, and cultural identity through his work, producing an amalgamation of historical and material references grounded in art and African - American history.

The American artist Stephen G. Rhodes's installations, which are distinguished by the combination of diverse media, are based on selected references from a wide range of historical and cultural sources, including the American past and the histories of art and film, which he fuses into a new and dense semantic system.

Fernández's conceptually - based, research intensive process of art making often contains many layers of diverse cultural and historical references; she uses devices such as proportion and unconventional material to draw the viewer into her work, evoking an individualised experience of engagement that prompts questions of both place and way - finding.

Fernández's conceptually - based, research - intensive process of art making often contains many layers of diverse cultural and historical references; she uses devices such as proportion and unconventional material to draw the viewer into her work, evoking an individualized experience of engagement that prompts questions of both place and way - finding.

Her large - scale works are often inspired by landscape and natural phenomena as well as diverse historical and cultural references.

Educational benefits are achieved from employing references to popular - culture plots or characters with which students have familiarity and share with other students, even students with diverse cultural, social, and geographical backgrounds.