Sentences with phrase «fuse cartoon figures»

They often fuse cartoon figures and human forms into a state of metamorphosis, each simultaneously reflecting a plethora of emotions and gestures; a scream and a laugh within a single expression.

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Bob and Roberta Smith creates brightly coloured text - based paintings with powerful social messages; Yinka Shonibare clads figures in colourful batik to create politically loaded sculptural or photographic tableaux; Thomas Heatherwick is one of the world's leading designers, whose Olympic Cauldron fired the imagination of viewers in the opening ceremony in 2012; Rebecca Warren fuses everything from the ideas of conceptual artist Joseph Beuys to the cartoons of Robert Crumb, creating vitrines and lumpy sculptural figures; Conrad Shawcross brings engineering and sculpture into collisions of mechanics, sound, light and space; and Louisa Hutton, of architects Sauerbruch Hutton, designs buildings with a flair for colour and material richness.

Everyday events such as a picnic in the park, supermarket shopping or drinking at an inner - city bar are transformed into grand, sometimes humorously epic scenes where the artists» cartoon - like figures fuse together with the trails and currents of energy that animate the canvas.

For twenty years Trenton Doyle Hancock has gained international renown for his paintings, which fuse cartoon - style drawing and abstract expressionism, creating a fantastical world populated by strange creatures known as the Mounds, their nemeses the Vegans, and Hancock's alter ego, Torpedo Boy, who reflects his lifelong love of comic books and plastic action figures.