Sentences with phrase «graffiti scrawled»

Outside of a restaurant in St. Petersburg, I saw graffiti scrawled on a portrait of Alexander Pushkin.

Like graffiti scrawls, her fragmented texts also seem to justify the need for and the relevance of platitudes, especially if they emanate from a personal vision or from issues that hit home too closely.

But by the 1980s, with the rise of neo-Expressionism, a generation of younger artists like Jean - Michel Basquiat found inspiration in Mr. Twombly's skittery bathroom - graffiti scrawl.

His lifelong tendency to consume and subvert art history is evident in gestural flourishes reminiscent of Dubuffet, combined with Bacon-esque figures and subway graffiti scrawls.

Not exact matches

A bridge in Dublin is dedicated to the former United player and this weekend, when Liverpool fans are commemorating the 25th anniversary of Hillsborough, has been the victim of graffiti with «Munich bastard» scrawled across it.

«Paladino's views resemble the graffiti that gets scrawled on a bathroom stall.

As it happens, we glimpse graffiti on the walls beyond the train tracks: a scrawl of handwritten letters proclaims the mysterious «HUMAN PROJECT» that is so important to the plot.

Located in near southwest Detroits Mexicantown, a neighborhood thats lined with Mexican supermarkets, restaurants and car shops, and signs written entirely in Spanish, Csar Chvez stands out in an area where boarded - up and broken - down houses line streets, and graffiti is scrawled under bridges and along train overpasses.

Vulgar graffiti has been scrawled on school property.

He takes inspiration from the hard graphic lines used in graffiti alongside the scrawled naive lines used in child art.

Right across from the bed is a Kelley painting of Satanic - like graffiti with the words «Thay You Love Thatan» scrawled elegantly and scarily.

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.

Since his bravura institutional outing in 1997 at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Melgaard's forté has been crass, crudely drawn, graffiti - like images of, and writings about, bareback and interracial gay sex — «hate fucking,» «gay terrorism,» «white Daddy dick,» «big fat black dick,» «straight cock,» and other delightful variations on the theme, all layered and scrawled on paintings, old beds, couches spilling over with posters, and other messy piles of carefully amalgamated bric - a-brac.

Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream was vandalized with lightly scrawled graffiti that reads in Norwegian, «Could only have been painted by a madman.»

In a black - box gallery, white graffiti and drawings are scrawled across every plane of the room.

What from a distance appear to be vast empty skies, prove to be blank walls, scrawled with graffiti or stained with nameless effluvia, which crowd the painting into a narrow plane and seal each unhealthy ecosystem.

Often in enormous scale, some over 12 feet high or wide, these bombastic objects are sometimes decorated with graffiti - like scrawls in gaudy colors and glitter.

In his best works of the 1990s, Baribeau favors allover compositions filled with feverish layers of graffiti - like scrawls, collage elements and patches of unmodulated color, the surface overlain with spare networks of rough - hewn black lines.

On the other hand, the execution can verge on the primitive, and so perhaps Pettibon's is a kind of idiosyncratic folk art like graffiti — you can almost imagine it appearing overnight scrawled across the walls of an underpass, or the previously pristine screening erected around the construction site of some shiny new high - rise development.

While many skateparks are just graffiti - scrawled concrete slabs and rusted rails, the Clark County Winchester Cultural Center's is a surreal wonderland.

Some timbers contain found graffiti and scrawls, particularly initials and hearts multiplied over and over to symbolize individual lives, their passing and union.

Some works» physical presence, color and tactility appear ominous such as John Isaacs» The Cyclical Development of Stasis which presents itself as an oily black stone that may or may not be recognized as its actual source of the iconic seat of The Thinker and Sterling Ruby's massive white minimalist - inspired Formica Inscribed Monolith smudged with dirt and scrawled with gang graffiti.

Digitally souped - up versions of the artists» customary multipanel photographic format, the pictures add up to a Babel of graffiti - style phrases in English, Hebrew and Arabic, with scrawled racist and homophobic sentiments alternating with utopian slogans: «Abolish commodity; create community,» «Capitalism Needs War.

Abstract scrawling and graffiti influenced strokes create nice movement to the pieces.

Louise Fishman Artforum International; December 1, 2012; Turvey, Lisa; 700 + words Louise FishmanCHEIM & READ / TILTON GALLERYThe 1973 work that greeted visitors to Tilton Gallery's miniretrospective of Louise Fishman's paintings declares its maker as someone with an ax to grind: The phrase angry louise is scrawled graffiti style across the surface, framed by athletic strokes of

Six Crimee is the depiction of six black heads, each highly individualized and expressive, each topped by a nimbus, each hovering above abstract gestural paint strokes, a row of numbers, graffiti - like scrawls, and some recognizable imagery resembling game boards.

Making his artistic debut at Petersburg, Mr. Ricard illustrates his own work, usually with a distinctive, if Twomblyesque scrawl, graffiti - type doodles and seductive rainbow colors.

Power and protection are conjured in equal measure, along with image - fragments of African masks and scrawled, graffiti - like heads reminiscent of Jean - Michel Basquiat.