Sentences with phrase «incorporating popular imagery»

Levinthal's work became an important influence on Pictures Generation artists such as Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons and Richard Prince, who came onto the art scene in the late 1970s and whose work incorporated popular imagery and mass media.

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Influenced by the happenings staged by Allan Kaprow, George Segal, Claes Oldenburg, and others, which incorporated everyday objects and popular culture, Lichtenstein turned to an entirely new imagery culled from the contemporary world of advertisements and comic books and adopted the graphic techniques of commercial illustration.

The artists associated did not adopt the name, or have a shared ideology, but they worked independently of New York contemporary art trends and incorporated imagery from popular culture into their works, although less cerebrally than New York Pop artists.

Broadly speaking Jasper Johns» early work is seen as part of the Pop Art movement, a loose grouping that included Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist and Wayne Thiebaud, all of whom incorporated imagery from popular culture into their fine art.

Foulkes incorporates references to dada - surrealist iconography and the popular imagery of Walt Disney (Mickey Mouse is a recurrent figure in his works), and highlights with great ferocity the moral and political decline of the United States.

«New Realism» would shortly be replaced by «Pop art,» a term critic Lawrence Alloway had used to identify the work of several British artists who incorporated the imagery of advertising and popular culture into their work in the late 1950s.

Works in the exhibitions draw on popular imagery such as a multi-coloured Popeye, adopt the strategies of medical technologies, incorporate the production of perfume, operate on solar power or reconfigure the operation of clocks.

Lichtenstein's early works during the 1960s were comments on American Abstract Expressionist paintings by artists such as Jackson Pollock but it was his later brightly coloured prints inspired by popular cartoon imagery and comic strips, incorporating figures such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, which became characteristic of his oeuvre.

Emin, Tracey (b. 1963) Controversial but popular postmodernist artist; member of the 1980s Young British Artists group; noted for shocking contemporary works of so - called art, incorporating suggestive imagery and «found objects», such as My Bed (1999).

Much like Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann took imagery from popular culture, magazines, consumer goods, and advertisements to incorporate into his own paintings, which help him establish his name within the pop art community quickly.

A keen draughtsman, the artist occasionally incorporated drawings into his paintings, as well as other collage elements, such as popular imagery.