Sentences with phrase «into cultural symbols»

British settlers first brought the tree to North America in the 1600s, where it became so popular as to develop into a cultural symbol for the United States.

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There's a whole essay to be written about the cultural appropriation of gangster rap symbols into this oh - so - twee British property, but this is neither the time nor place.

The Ed School students were divided into groups, with each group talking with one of the Japanese students about ways to improve learning and motivation in five areas addressed in the website, which uses symbols from the hiragana alphabet to introduce cultural topics.

Through research and spontaneous discovery, she seeks out images with a «subliminal cultural power» within an extensive range — comics, nature photographs, 3D computer graphic, graffiti, and Eastern symbols have made their way into her complex, dense works.

It delves into the cultural connotations of Warsaw's symbol, and its universality in the context of creating a modern urban identity.

Through each of these mediums the artist finds contemporary currency, personal symbol and cultural meaning of longing, seduction, desire and romance, while also revealing a highly personal vision, fusing and transforming sentiment, wisdom and emotional experience into visual - art forms.

Directly translating the cultural symbols of American suburbia into what are considered modern - day history paintings.

While those artists at midcentury were searching for a non-western approach, Pensato seems to fixate on those cultural symbols that have drifted out over the airwaves in the last 60 or so years and into the far reaches of the globe.

The art that shaped China into the cultural hub of the Far East has always been a symbol of the ongoing fight of the opposites: the fight of the old with the new, the native and the foreign.

Virginia Poundstone continues her investigation into some of most timeless and tireless of all cultural symbols, flowers.

In response to critique of this history, which included displacing a generation of Aboriginal children into boarding schools where they were stripped of their linguistic and cultural heritage, Australia has in recent years represented itself internationally through a collection of symbols drawn from indigenous sources.

Seeking insight into our cultural and spiritual identity in relationship to the rapidly changing environment, Bhalla utilizes photography, sculpture, installation, and performance to examine our shared relationship with water and its inseparable capacity to be both symbol and source of renewal.

Artists like Carlos Castro Arias, William Cordova and María Elvira Escallón bring symbols from the past into the present, collapsing temporalities to signal the cultural hybridity and diversity of Latin America's people, and a modern vernacular forged by shared co-existence.

The works presented in Repossession exemplify Attia's aptitude in creating hybrid cultural objects and collages that transform Western artifacts from icons of power and domination into symbols of freedom and resistance.

As in his Legends paintings, small - scale works that employ legible symbols and graphic relationships as linguistic antecedent, Bosmans translates the mythic signification of these cultural relics into plastic materiality through facsimile and abstraction.