Sentences with phrase «imagery in a contemporary context»

By placing socially historical imagery in a contemporary context, Dunn is able to rigorously question a range of issues from racial identity to social justice through his artistic practice.

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I want to uproot the imagery from the classical and European contexts, and place it in a contemporary, global context, leaving it up to viewers to interpret it from their own perspectives,» Rana says.

The most significant of the often loosely defined movements of early contemporary art included pop art, characterized by commonplace imagery placed in new aesthetic contexts, as in the work of such figures as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; the optical shimmerings of the international op art movement in the paintings of Bridget Riley, Richard Anusziewicz, and others; the cool abstract images of color - field painting in the work of artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella (with his shaped - canvas innovations); the lofty intellectual intentions and stark abstraction of conceptual art by Sol LeWitt and others; the hard - edged hyperreality of photorealism in works by Richard Estes and others; the spontaneity and multimedia components of happenings; and the monumentality and environmental consciousness of land art by artists such as Robert Smithson.

Works on view reference antiquity, using the imagery of gods in a contemporary context.

White's images explore historical photographic processes and, in her numerous public commissions, places imagery of native plant species in the context of contemporary urban surroundings.

Film noir imagery is taken out of context in order to connect viewers specifically to the romance, and occasional heroism found in American film noir, and to let them reflect on contemporary ideas of romance and heroism.

Bartlett's imagery fuses art historical, biblical and literary narratives in contemporary contexts.