Sentences with phrase «from graffiti culture»

I particularly enjoyed the floating geometry of a gold rectangle against broad blue swathes of action painting, vocalizing on top of power chords, even as I wish he had abstained from the graffiti culture's obligation to tag everything with his initials right when the surface of the painting was shimmering with a certain delicacy.

Few contemporary artists have developed a visual vocabulary as immediately recognizable as the Chicago - born artist Christopher Wool's — and what's remarkable is that he was able to achieve this distinction across a number of different series, from his influential text paintings to his elegantly minimal canvases marked by fences and other repetitive forms to his dynamic gestural abstractions that borrow from graffiti culture.

Not exact matches

With funding from the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research and the Culture Division of the City of Vienna, Norbert Siegl spent months studying the «gender - specific differences in frequency and thematic content» of the graffiti in the toilets at the University of Vienna.

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Ranging from graffiti legends to the richest living artists in the world, these remarkable collaborations have varied from a mix of fine art paintings to photographs and comics and helped Supreme be at the forefront of incorporating art into street culture.

Like his late contemporaries Keith Haring and Jean - Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf has been a key figure in the translation of street - art culture from the walls and train yards of New York City to the fine - art galleries of Chelsea, applying the graffiti burner's tools of trade (spray paint, acrylic, scrawled words) to canvases.

Drawing from the art - historical lineage of cubism, graffiti, cartoons, figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Aaron Curry's eagerly awaited survey exhibition at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux next summer is as much about the breakdown of the human condition as it is the absurdities that define the perils of human evolution.

They drew from art history, the news, graffiti and pop culture.

Considering Andy Warhol's and Keith Haring's artistry, the New York - based artist Brian Donnelly, or internationally known as Kaws, is a prolific contemporary artist who has pushed the art of appropriation significant steps forward embracing pop culture with a wide range of influential artistic projects from toys, to clothings, graffiti, paintings, sneakers and videos.

It has evolved from that into street and graffiti art, and, from there, wall drawing has become so much a part of contemporary visual culture.

Born in San Antonio, Texas, Curry studied in Chicago and in Los Angeles where he still resides.Known Primarily for his large, flashy sculptures made of painted wood and aluminum, Curry's work is a puzzling exploration of popular culture as well as consumerism, and it features a rather dense range of aesthetic references — from graffiti and comics to Cubism and Pop Art.

The artists work with impressions from contemporary culture such as cartoon series and graffiti, yet when doing so, also engage with art historical traditions such as Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Neorealism, Pop Art or 1960s Performance Art.

With diverse influences from graffiti, street culture, and outsider art, she has produced commercial and non-commercial work in various media.

They are interested in pieces ranging from the area's graffiti culture to a wide array of vibrant pop art influences.

In 2011 his work is featured in DEFINITION: The Art and Design of Hip Hop, an anthology chronicling the impact of hip - hop on visual culture, written by well - known graffiti artist and designer Cey Adams, 5 Cities / 41 Artists: Artadia O8 / 09, Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue by Franklin et al Sirmans, NOPLACENESS: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape, as well as In the Eye of the Muses: Selections from the Clark Atlanta University Art Collection in 2012.

Gardar Eide Einarsson's work is characterised by borrowing elements from art historical as well as contemporary sources such as graffiti and skateboard culture.

Within his work he embraced the complexity and hybrid nature of urban culture — mixing everything from graffiti and Chinese calligraphy, to West Coast and East... Read More

Known by the tag name «Twist» for his graffiti and street art, McGee has also developed a career within museums and galleries, exhibiting drawings, paintings, prints, and large - scale, mixed - media installations that take inspiration from urban culture, incorporating elements such as empty liquor bottles, cans of spray paint, signs, scrap wood or metal, surfboards, and other found materials.

Entitled Versus, the new exhibition from the Spanish duo features paintings, drawings, and sculptures that form a cohesive body of work showcasing their signature combination of classical art and elements of graffiti culture.

It was just what you would expect from this hot young star, who at 28 had zoomed from street - level graffiti artist to pop culture icon.

The combined forces of his formal training, quick graffiti chops, and expert skills as a draftsman, along with multiple artistic influences (Mexican Muralists, tramp art, surfer culture, graffiti from the 1970s and 1980s, the beat poets, geometric abstraction, op art, early video and site - specific works, graphic design, typography, and cartoons) have factored into his unwieldy, yet unmistakable visual lexicon.

Eschewing formalism, Dahn's work favored experimentation and unexpected combinations of seemingly random imagery such as graffiti with Oceania; album cover art recycled with appropriated images drawn from popular culture; snapshots of friends juxtaposed with landscapes and architecture.

Additionally, his work has been featured in several texts including DEFINITION: The Art and Design of Hip Hop, an anthology chronicling the impact of hip - hop on visual culture, written by famed graffiti artist and designer Cey Adams; 5 Cities / 41 Artists: Artadia O8 / 09, published by ARTADIA in 2011; NOPLACENESS: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape, published by Possible Futures in 2011; and In the Eye of the Muses: Selections from the Clark Atlanta University Art Collection, Clark Atlanta University, 2012.

Drawing from the art - historical lineage of cubism, graffiti, cartoons, figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Comic Future is as much about the breakdown of the human condition as it is about the absurdities that define the perils of human evolution.

Born and raised south of San Francisco, Norling hails from a recent generation of artists raised on the fun and gun ethos of graffiti and the mark - making of urban street culture; from stickers to wheat - pasted posters, it is from this street aesthetic; one that is in dialogue with Norling's teacher Raymond Saunders, as well as younger artists such as Barry McGee and the late Margaret Kilgallen, that Norling's paintings, sculptures and installations derive much of their impact.

This metamorphosis done from series that overlapped in time, with contributions from Kitsch, from graffiti, with evocations from Pop and employing popular culture colours, led him to some sort of baroque from which he later escaped when he worked on monumental scale works, to which polished, rusted or burnt steel gave a much more austere aspect.

While this exhibition takes its starting point from hip hop, it branches out to include artists who use pop culture, graffiti, fashion and other signifiers of urban life in combination with more traditional forms of Aboriginal identity.

«Visionary» graffiti artist and entrepreneur, Montreal based artist Chris Dyer has crafted a style that synthesizes influences from astrology, spirituality, graffiti, Street Art, skater culture, and folk art into a modern representational style you may associate with glowing barefoot and shirtless celebrants at Burning Man or similar transformational / experiential festivals around the globe.

Elements from the contemporary pop art and graffiti culture can also be seen in her works.

Painting for an open source age, Abney draws on multiple references which she samples and remixes in order to create a new language inflected by elements of popular culture, from satirical cartoons to graffiti and hip hop, as well as politics, entertainment and the history of art.