Sentences with phrase «iconography draw»

His images of rainbows, distorted cartoon characters and religious iconography draw on influences as diverse as his memories of the Great Tokyo Air Raid of 1945, Japanese Neo-Dadaism, Andy Warhol, his stint as the first art director of the Japanese edition of Playboy, and the hallucinations he suffered following a near fatal pulmonary oedema in 1981.
Her iconography draws upon a cast of characters from Native stories, such as raven, coyote, and deer.

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But Heston, who started drawing in 1884, quickly crafted an irreverent new iconography.
The filmmaker is clearly drawn to the iconography and clean - cut morals of tall tales, and he still appears to self - consciously yearn, despite his unbelievable success, to be a great entertainer.
While not exactly subtle in a few key scenes, particularly those pesky flashbacks that may or may not have drawn the ire of others, the script gives Superman a much needed emotional context for the superb visual language and iconography Snyder is able to define him through.
Not only are paintings, religious iconography and books being published online, but also letters by from important historical figures, drawings and notes by artists and scientists such as Michelangelo and Galileo, as well as treaties from all eras in history.
Viola's art, like that of Robert Smithson or James Turrell, is situated within a contemporary art tradition that draws its authority and iconography from primitive art and mythology, reaching back in time to the origins of art in religion.
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The exhibition demonstrates how the act of drawing took on a central role in his practice at this stage, both as a favored medium in its own right and as a powerful means of translating and transforming his sources of pop iconography.
Encased in self - lubricating plastic frames, Barney's highly intricate drawings mirror the themes and iconography of all seven acts, and variously allude to masquerade, mythology and the cycle of death and reincarnation.
In Pages from the Neon Bible, Mason Saltarrelli draws inspiration from religious iconography and focuses on the concept of martyrdom.
This rather affordable edition — derived from a painting that sold for $ 87,500 at Sotheby's last year — investigates the iconography of the microchip, importing a sprig of natural life in the form of a green vine that the artist has hand - drawn on each edition.
He made these paintings by pushing the scale of the epic series of works on paper, Thirty - Four Drawings for Dante's Inferno (1959 - 60), which still represents the Rosetta stone for the understanding of the artist's iconography and technique.
The artist's body of work draws from a multitude of sources, including the human figure, cultural iconography and the reexamination of locations once visited.
The heads, modelled after individual young women from Asia, Europe, and Latin America, are treated with an unevenly burnt patina, which draws influence from both Eastern and Western iconography.
Using traditional tattoo iconography as well as a free hand drawing style, Dr Lakra brings energy to every page, canvas, or object that he floods with paint and ink.
With massive drawings, Jamal blends references from popular culture, religious iconography, and symbolism in an attempt to create a possible image of what our multilayered identities could look like.
WHAT I LOVED: SELECTED WORKS FROM THE»90S includes Catherine Opie's Vaginal Davis and Justin Bond; Glenn Ligon's Untitled (I Remember the Very Day); Lari Pittman's Existential and Needy; Karen Kilimnik's Actresses sisters as murderers; erotic work from Wolfgang Tillmans, Marilyn Minter, and Cindy Sherman; Elizabeth Peyton's Stephen Malkmus; Jack Pierson's large collage tribute to»50s iconography, Self Portrait (James Dean); Mike Kelley's Party Girl; wall texts by Kara Walker and Lawrence Weiner; and an extensive series of drawings by Raymond Pettibon.
Not to be missed are the four small collages from «The Aegean Series» (1983) including the translucent cut paper with drawing overlays of «Samos # 19» and the almost - Klee - like iconography of «Samos # 28.»
Both draw on the mythologies of the frontier culture of the American West and in particular, the loaded iconographies of the Cowboy, here imbued with a homoerotic quality redolent of Andy Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys, while also referencing the work of Martin Scorcese and David Hockney and continuing, as with Julien's earlier film work, to subvert preconceptions of race and sexuality.
Having a vivid interest in color, structure and volumetric line drawing, the artist's iconography is drawn from modernist architecture, Christian religious fervor, and the adolescent imagination that glamorizes one's own beliefs.
In his earliest works, he experimented with different media on paper, mixing collage and drawing techniques to explore the role of iconography in communication and to comment upon socio - political situations in contemporary India.
Though freighted with complex iconography, Michelangelo's drawing perfectly conveys the experience of dreaming and the half - remembered visions...
Throughout his career, Erizku has created a unique visual language and distinctive iconography that address issues of race, identity, politics and cultural history, while drawing from myriad references ranging from urban culture to advertising to the art historical canon.
Given this, it's not surprising that McKenzie's influences are just as diverse as her work: she draws inspiration from sources like Eastern European propaganda, Cold War iconography, 20th - century literature, and selected artists from the 1920s,»30s, and»50s, such as Hergé and Käthe Kollwitz.
McGinness creates paintings, sculptures, and environments and is known for his graphic drawings employing the visual language of public signage, corporate logos, and contemporary iconography.
Much more successful are the rooms dedicated to Raymond Pettibon's wall drawings, Mike Kelley's covert striptease, and Damien Hirst's cabinet of death iconography.
In one series of drawings, Simmons plays with the iconography and architecture of roller coasters.
That exhibition, Exploring the Myths of James Dye, opens April 7, and features 21 dip pen, India ink drawings by the artist, whose meticulously rendered works blend themes from ancient myths with iconography that
In the new issue of our magazine, Marcia Pointon looks at the iconography of The Monarch of the Glen, Martin Coomer profiles the artists representing the UK at this year's Venice Biennale, Ivo Blom looks at Alma - Tadema's influence on Hollywood, Rachel Spence evaluates the history and immediacy of drawing, and Isaac Julien and Peter Doig meet to discuss art, friendship, collaboration and the late St Lucian poet Derek Walcott.
This year's theme, «Flower Power: Floral Imagery in Art, Antiques & Design», celebrates the 50th anniversary of San Francisco's Summer of Love, and sees a display of work that draws on the iconography of flowers — be it in jewellery, ceramics or paintings.
His graphic drawings and personal iconography are replicated, re-contextualized, and materialized infinitely throughout his densely - layered paintings.
Exploiting the creative potential of free association and past experience, he created deeply personal, often autobiographical, images by drawing liberally from such disparate fields as urban street culture, music, poetry, Christian iconography, African and Aztec cultural histories and a broad range of art historical sources, a practice that is particularly evident in this work.
On Proyectos Monclova's booth, the Mexican collective Tercerunquinto are painting Mexican political campaign murals directly onto the walls and there's more hard - hitting political work in a new series from Santiago Sierra on Milan's Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, together with a never before seen installation by Manuel Ocampo on Tyler Rollins Fine Art which, in the Filipino artist's inimitable style, draws on religious iconography to reflect on current global events.
From the year 1980, he integrates figures from mythology, ancient themes and draws on the iconography of old masters (Poussin, Goya, Courbet...).
He commonly engages in the history of art by taking motifs and iconography from twentieth century figurative and abstract art and reworking them in pointedly «low» media such as ink drawing, graffiti, cartoon and collage.
The drawing contains a bird (identified in Basquiat's distinctive handwriting as GEESE) perched above some hieroglyphic - like symbols — a motif the artist later xeroxed and incorporated into another series of works focusing on iconography from ancient Egypt.
The artist's wide - ranging iconography samples genres ranging from 11th - century Chinese landscape painting to Cubism, and draws on sources both high tech and mundane: spam emails, emoji, internet memes, newspaper classified ads, her own photographs, coloring book illustrations, fantasy environments, vintage embroidery patterns, and a host of whimsical plant and animal motifs.
George Sánchez - Calderón's winning public art project, entitled «Pax Americana,» draws inspiration from Bal Harbour Village's history, by reflecting upon the iconography that has collectively defined the archetype of «the American Dream.»
Pettibon's signature drawings combine imagery with text, stemming from is idiosyncratic iconography that takes its cue from «politics, religion, sports, advertising, sex, drugs and rock»n' roll.»
Hailing from Edo State, the historic seat of the Benin Empire, he draws inspiration from the dual aesthetic and spiritual traditions which infused his upbringing, using imagery and iconography from both Edo traditions and Catholicism.
I stretch the boundaries of what has been considered viable source material from which to distill human narratives to include exploration into product iconography, vintage illustration, commercial animation and the drawings of children...» T.L. Solien
Smithson's prolific drawings from this period, including those about language and Christian iconography, sought out disorder from the hierarchies of social conventions and popular culture.
Painted in the technique of chiaroscuro, her intense but tender gaze is inspired by historical depictions, drawing influence from Caravaggio, Gustave Courbet's «Woman with a Parrot» (1866), and the iconography of medieval Madonna and Child.
In this new series of paintings, loosely titled «If Wishes Were Fishes,» Furnas again tackles epic historic and religious iconography, this time drawing from both the lore of Melville's Moby Dick, as well as Jonah's flight from God that lands him in the belly of the whale.
Mixing hip - hop iconography and art - historical references, Gispert's photographs and sculptures have drawn critical acclaim.
Ganesh draws from a broad range of material, including the iconography of Hindu, Greek and Buddhist mythology, 19th century European portraiture and fairytales, archival photography, and song lyrics, as well as contemporary visual culture such as Bollywood posters, anime, and comic books.
Drawing from the legacies of the European Old Masters and Christian iconography, as well as mythology and cultural lore, the artist layers existing histories with new narratives suggested by contemporary world events to create a psychological terrain of pathos, tenderness and repulsion.
Blake draws from the experience of his own mixed racial parentage and from sources as diverse as the Easter resurrection, Renaissance and African iconography, Brer Rabbit, Bugs Bunny, Harvey, and Uncle Wiggly.
A cast of twenty - one well - known artists working in sculpture, drawing, photography, film, and video, including Robert Bechtle, Bruce Conner, Dominique Gonzalez - Foerster, Carsten Höller, and Steve McQueen, will contribute some thirty - five works — either extant pieces that address the novel's themes and iconography, or new work made
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