Sentences with phrase «into iconographic»

Considered a forefather of the Pop Art movement, Stuart Davis translated the visual imagery of New York City and the jazz music of the mid-20th Century into iconographic abstract paintings of squiggly lines and flashy colors.

Donald Baechler transforms everyday imagery into iconographic editions employing a variety of printmaking techniques.

Reminiscent of the Pop Art movement of the time, his sculptures transform the banalities and trivialities of everyday life into iconographic material.

Not exact matches

Vittorio Storaro comments at some length on the color symbolism in Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, which he shot, demonstrating more critical insight into how the film works and what it's about than we are likely to find in reviews, and there are similarly revealing commentaries from Michael Chapman about the iconographic and stylistic sources of Raging Bull (Life magazine and the photographs of Weegee) and from Hall about the role played by chance in the lighting of a scene from In Cold Blood, where the shadows of raindrops appear to be running down Robert Blake's face.

Beds in History and Contemporary Art focuses on the historical as well as iconographic significance of the depiction of the bed and will include and juxtapose paintings, sculptures, drawings, photos, and video works spanning from old masters to present - day artists, subdivided into themes and arranged according to visual associations.

Divided into three iconographic themes — Flags, Weapons, and Dreams — That Was Then... This Is Now places these representations as central to artists» collective aspiration towards progress.

Separated into distinct body of works from his versatile arsenal, the first of seven exhibitions started at Michael Kohn Gallery with some of his signature iconographic work bursting with color and detail entitled simply Recent Paintings.

Blake's «rabbit» has evolved into the artist's iconographic surrogate for gay men (playing off the stereotype of the promiscuous gay man) as well as a threshold figure for black / white and male / female.

Expanding on the rabbit and hare's traditional portrayal as symbols of lust and fecundity, Blake's «rabbit» has evolved into the artist's iconographic surrogate for gay men (playing off the stereotype of the promiscuous gay man) as well as a threshold figure for black / white and male / female.

It demonstrates how the artist was able to construct an incisive and multifaceted iconographic discourse that, via its playful and ironic veneer, set forth a critical reflection — not free from a certain degree of fascination — on consumer society and contemporary media imagery, at the same time as it explored and spilled over into the limits between the popular and the cult, the natural and the artificial, the figurative and the abstract.

With them, he collages the real space in front of the painting with its pictorial space, at once subverting the glass's iconographic significance and inviting the viewer into the picture — only to throw him back out again.