Sentences with phrase «from cultural»

Abstract working artists very often also call their work Absolute Art, which, alienated from its cultural roots, opens uptowards a total freedom.

The social network of Pan Yuliang's early career as a modernist artist and an art educator in the period of the Republic of China resonated with larger social - political movements at that time: from the cultural construct of «New Woman» and the New Culture Movement, to the revolution and reform launched by the Nationalist Party and early Communists and the rise of modern nationalism in China, and from the end of World War I to the Japanese Invasion in 1937.

She received a one - year travel grant to Los Angeles for art practice and research from the Cultural Foundation Hesse, Germany.

BODYPOLITCX asks: If we have learnt from Shakespeare what love is, what can we learn from the cultural practice of pornography?

Accompanying the re-animated colour - changer is a digital video work that surveys and examines an existing cinema organ in its original installation, a building which has now become a Regent's Street store, illustrating the disembodiment of the machine from cultural consciousness and its passage from sound - producing object to silent relic.

«They all had come up during a political period, and even though they were different from the Cultural Revolution artists, they still had a connection to politics and purpose.»

«There is a lived experience in this work, and for people to come to Africa and to engage with it closer to where the dialogue originated... that says that African artifacts of our time are valuable enough from a cultural point of view to build a cathedral for them» — a cathedral, he added, on «the same scale and the same ambition and the same platform» as those devoted to, say, «Jeff Koons and Michelangelo.»

«Anaiis, you have to realize that your independence and self are not separate from cultural and social norms,» he told me, putting the small cup on the table between us.

We chose this theme in response to the national political dialogue around the idea of closing borders, and what it means to be invited or excluded from a cultural dialogue.

Where artists like Judd or Andre made use of industrial techniques and materials as an attempt to escape from the cultural baggage they saw weighing down traditional mediums, Koons chooses his materials precisely because of their baggage.

Photographic enlargements capture both conscious and unconscious deviations from cultural, social, racial, and gender expectations from the silent era through the Blaxploitation films of the 1970s.

Meanwhile, gallery three will boast an extensive installation of photographic lightboxes like The Four Seasons (2011 - 13), which highlights the artist's use of the self - portrait to explore scenarios from our cultural collective memory.

Talking about her work, Akunyili Crosby notes, «In much the same way that inhabitants of formerly colonised countries select and invent from cultural features transmitted to them by the dominant or metropolitan colonisers, I extrapolate from my training in Western painting to invent a new visual language that represents my experience - which at times feels paradoxically fractured and whole - as a cosmopolitan Nigerian.»

From the cultural myths of folklore, to the Old and New testaments, Kabbalah, alchemy, philosophy and the poetry of Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann, Kiefer's work wrestles with the darkness of German history and considers the complex relationship between art and spirituality.

Shaw mines his imagery from the cultural refuse of the twentieth century, using...

From cultural taboos to symbols of power, tattoos, piercings and other forms of body modification have played significantly different roles within different societies for thousands of years.

A conceptual catalogue of the Californication works, supported by eleven essays commissioned from cultural experts, authors, and men with whom Kita has had a prior relationship, will be released by Snoeck Publishing later this year.

This unruly object was complemented by a photocopied publication, which featured interviews (conducted by Cruzvillegas) with knitters, community gardeners, slam poets and other figures who issued from a cultural space that was alien to clichés of Parisian identity.

Inspired by his own conflicts and experiences, friction arises from the cultural and public framework of our time.

The sculpture, now removed from its cultural context, becomes a means of investigating perception.

In 1998, Ole received the annual Kristjan Raud Prize and he has received an annual award from the Cultural Endowment of Estonia on two occasions.

Atypical of publications that have dealt with the 13 - year period in question, Inventing Downtown shifts the discussion away from a progression of styles — Abstract Expressionism, figuration, Pop, and Minimalism — to a reexamination of the New York art scene from cultural, social, and economic viewpoints.

She is the recipient of commissions / awards from the Cultural Olympiad, City of Atlanta, Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Georgia Council for the Arts, and Center for Puppetry Arts, among others.

From cultural interventions such as happenings and the Artists Against the Expressway movement, to legislative initiatives such as the AIR (Artists in Residence) re-zoning and historic district designation, the panel will consider how activism and community engagement impacted this neighborhood.

Covering many subjects and countries, from war to human rights issues and from cultural identity to the sex industry, Meiselas uses photography, film, video and sometimes archive material, as she relentlessly explores and develops narratives integrating the participation of her subjects in her works.

Since the beginning of her career, Laval has alternated agency and magazine commissions and publications (Here is New York 2002) with an artistic practice, wherein she combines portraiture of personalities from the cultural world with images of geographical locations (France, Norway, Portugal, Cuba) and visual narratives.

A counterpoint to Wave Hill's lush summer gardens, this exuberant exhibition features four artists who share an interest in pattern derived from cultural and botanical sources to create fantastic hybrid forms.

Linzy's performances, and the visual language he draws upon in his still - and moving - image work, borrow from cultural artifacts that are rooted in the tropes of daytime soap operas, reality television, Hollywood drama and situational comedies.

Other awards include the Mary Hambidge Distinguished Artist Award (2015), and Individual Art Fellowships from the Cultural Alliance of Birmingham (2008) and the Alabama State Council on the Arts (2003).

The surrealists and modern artists from every cultural center of Europe had fled the onslaught of the Nazis for safe haven in the United States.

Working to establish balance and harmony between cultural extremes, his unique style of working references both western pop art and eastern artistry as he strives to re-invent a concept of beauty that's welcomed by viewers from all cultural heritages.

Not only are the extensive art collections, professional organizations and institutions of Philadelphia, New York City, and Washington, D.C. easily accessible, but the opportunities to complement Tyler's faculty with an extensive program of visiting artists, critics, and scholars drawn from these cultural centers are unlimited.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Director Alex Nyerges said: «This project is a true relationship between our museums and reflects the vitality of engagement with China throughout Virginia from cultural and economic development initiatives.

Surrounded by illustrations of stellar and lunar fields from the cultural imagination, the viewer is reminded of the unfulfilled promise of more than a century of technological achievements.

Shaw mines his imagery from the cultural refuse of the twentieth century, using comic books, record covers, conspiracy magazines, and obscure religious iconography to produce a portrait of the nation's subconscious.

The beauty that can emerge from cultural transfer and hybridity surely will be the overarching effect of these exhibitions, along with the particular political power of each artist's work.

Where German Expressionism never distinguished the personal from the cultural or political, Neo-Expressionism has a harder case to make before it can engage the present.

AR It was noticeable that the initial response to Brexit from the cultural sector was over legal, funding and administrative issues.

His fundamental concern with the relationship between «order» and «disorder» is manifest in his grid structures, derived from the «magical squares,» that feature sayings and aphorisms that stem from cultural, philosophical, mathematical and linguistic contexts.

As the title suggests, the exhibition casts a wide net, capturing everything from cultural artifacts (feminist literature, earthenware) to graphic design (exhibition posters, bakery business cards), to unique artists» works influenced by graphic novels, Girl Scout badges, stock photography, and other bric - a-brac.

His most recent exhibition, What Separates Us, at the Embassy of Brazil in London, centers around themes of circuits of exchange and value from a cultural, social, and political point of view.

That paean to her neighbourhood, which you can find in the catalogue to the current exhibition at Victoria Miro, was written just after the war and through the eyes of someone by now on intimate terms with her corner of working - class Upper Manhattan (Neel had moved from Greenwich Village, which by then was already a bohemian hangout full of artists, so it might appear she was deliberately cutting herself off from that cultural milieu).

With film recordings and photographs as well as correspondence, invitations, posters, and other ephemera, Joan Mitchell's vibrant personality and her various relationships to artists, authors, and other figures from the cultural world of her time are illuminated.

There was a huge interest from cultural outlets to talk about the game and whether or not it can serve as a gateway to understanding the backgrounds and hardships of migrants.

They've raised 50K euros from a cultural game fund to develop the ambitious RPG, which is now available in Early Access on Steam.

We host a variety of weddings, from cultural to LGBTQ, in our customizable venues.

Yoma Villas Bali in Canggu is a 40 minute drive from the cultural haven Ubud, 20 minutes drive fro Denpasar's famous morning markets, and just 10 minutes drive from the action packed Golden triangle of Kuta, Legian and Seminyak where all the night clubbing, shopping, dining, and fun combine in a tropical way.

From cultural activities to beach activities, there is no end to the nearby opportunities available.

However, in my opinion, those islands were not very interesting from a cultural point of view.

From the cultural village and going through Chinatown, visitors enter the early Indonesia era.