Sentences with phrase «exploring social commentary»

He has had an extensive career painting, exploring social commentary, political criticism, and more recently colour & structure.

While he explores social commentaries, McReynolds's paint application varies in thickness and sensitivity.

Not exact matches

Granted, Atlanta is still as brutal in its social commentary as it was in 2016 (let's just say we're told right away exactly what «Robbin» Season» means), so its setting isn't always a place you want to be, but it is always a place you want to explore and revisit.

At the Washington, D.C., summit, for instance, «discussion split into two camps: scientific experts explored technical issues, whereas scholars who study science and society addressed questions about the possible disruption to social norms,» Sheila Jasanoff of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and Benjamin Hurlbut of Arizona State University in Tempe wrote last week in a commentary in Nature.

For the US has witnessed an impressive range of cultural commentaries on the epidemic, exploring the conflicts and evasions that determine so much social policy, from safer sex campaigns to television soap operas.

Majewski uses CGI to place actors within Bruegel's paintings and layer live action in painterly compositions, both as a way to explore the creative process and as illustration and commentary on the social and political reality of Spanish - ruled Flanders that inspired Bruegel.

I'm super excited to see just what direction this series takes because there's a lot of mythology to explore here and plenty of opportunity for social commentary that will make this futuristic tale as relevant as possible.

There's an interesting subplot involving an anti-government rebellion led by Michael K. Williams, but it's never fully explored (perhaps they're saving that for Part Three), while the half - hearted attempts at social commentary are difficult to take seriously when DeMonaco is constantly cutting away to people being mindlessly murdered.

Although all these strands are intermittently interesting, particularly the latter which emerges from witches suppressing their power (Rowling's social commentary on segregation no doubt), each one isn't given enough time to be adequately explored.

Her works explore the relationship between abstraction and representation, tickling your brain and provoking critical commentary on the social environment at present — all our vices, neuroses and obsessions.

The layers of ideas the artist explored in his early performance art, conceived of as existential explorations and social commentaries, have carried through to the more traditional studio practice he embraced upon moving to Shanghai in 2005, after living and working for eight years in New York City.

The exhibition will explore the artists» commentary on and challenge of social values, expectations, and conventions that are a part of everyday life — raising questions about national and global issues including gender - specific violence and sociopolitical conflict.

Showcasing over thirty contemporary artists based in Canada, Denmark, and The United States, the exhibition highlights the presence of characters in each artists» work and their function as a means to explore identity and ideas of beauty as a social commentary.

Artes Mundi 5 in 2012 explored social themes from across the globe with insight, compassion and humour offering an artistic platform for commentary on the world we live in today.

The layers of ideas the artist explored in his early performance art, conceived of as existential explorations and social commentaries, have carried through to the more traditional studio practice he embraced upon returning to China, after having lived and worked in New York City for eight years.

The show will explore the entire scope of the artist's career, including early cartoons and drawings; his macabre, emotionally - charged paintings of the early 1960s; his epic rock and postcard paintings of the late 1960s and early 1970s; his «bloody head» series of mutilated figures from the late 1970s through the present; and his social commentary paintings targeting corporate America, which include his narrative tableaux that combine painting with woodworking, found materials, and thick mounds of modeling paste, seamlessly blended into the painted surface to create a remarkable illusion of depth.

The layers of ideas this artist explored in his early performance art, were made out of existential explorations and social commentaries, and have carried through to the more traditional studio practice he embraced upon moving to Shanghai in 2005, after living and working for eight years in New York City.

Through his work he explores the human condition, offering a critical perspective on social, cultural, and political issues and visually eloquent commentary on memory, loss, and the difficulty of memorializing the past.

Other significant contemporary works include Hito Steyerl's «Liquidity Inc.,» a social commentary video exploring water's multiplicity of purposes and meanings, and Byron Kim's «Sunday Paintings,» a series of portraits of the sky on different days with descriptive superimposed text.

The purpose of the blog is to provide student commentary on ethical issues affecting the legal community in the digital age, exploring topics like social media and technology along with other breaking developments.