Sentences with phrase «evoke earlier eras»

The subjects in Wiley's paintings often wear sneakers, hoodies, and baseball caps, gear associated with hip - hop culture, and are set against contrasting ornate decorative backgrounds that evoke earlier eras and a range of cultures.

Appropriating the format of specific paintings by renowned masters ranging from Titian to Édouard Manet, Wiley often depicts his subjects wearing sneakers, hoodies, and other gear associated with today's hip - hop culture and sets them against ornate decorative backgrounds that evoke earlier eras and cultures.

Each is set to a backdrop of ornate decoration that evokes earlier eras and a range of cultures.

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Jeep Jeepster Like the Wagoneer Roadtrip, the Jeepster is designed to evoke the era of the early years of the Easter Safari, though in this case it starts with a new JL Wrangler, with its windshield raked back by 2.5 - degrees and with a two - inch lower roof.

From the authentic rubberhose animations (popularized by Fleischer Studios and Walt Disney in the 1930s) to the live recorded early 1900s - inspired jazz and big band soundtracks, this title does an incredible job of evoking the atmosphere of the American «roaring twenties» era, which perfectly complements the game's energetic and action - packed gameplay.

These tranquil and dreamlike works evoke nostalgia and longing, exploring the search for individual and national identity in Japan during the early Taisho period (1912 - 1926), an era of rapid social and cultural change.

The radical transformation of the landscape in the early industrial era is powerfully evoked in Victorian images of factories ablaze at night, shown alongside an apocalyptic painting by John Martin.

The radical transformation of the landscape in the early industrial era is powerfully evoked in Victorian images of factories ablaze at night, shown alongside John Martin's apocalyptic The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (1852).

Focusing on New York in the 1970s and early 80s, Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls explored the vibrant and tumultuous era of change through the work of Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe, both of whom created significant bodies of work in self - portraiture, in which particular disguises, characters and ambiguous personalities are evoked.

Formally, the fifteen paintings in the 526 gallery evoke Marden's 1980s - era series of paint and graphite works on marble that are seen as transitional between his early monochromes and his later calligraphic paintings.

Incorporating disjunctive references to disparate eras, techniques, and aesthetics, they evoke «avant - garde theater stage sets from an earlier time... both buoyant and tamped down, comic and earnest.»

Political and social commentary was a constant thread throughout Polke's oeuvre referencing Germany's Nazi era in his early career with a sense of badinage, and sly wit not matched by fellow artist Anselm Kiefer — through «abstract» swastika's and the haunting series of Watch Towers from the mid-80s which evoke the structures on the perimeters of concentration camps, with the juxtaposition of a drab Warhol-esque finish.