Sentences with phrase «into pop culture icon»

The documentary «RBG» explores the quiet rise of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg into a pop culture icon and, more importantly, a powerful voice in the nation's highest court.

And after more than a decade as one of the most popular franchises in the music genre, DanceDanceRevolution has transcended from a video game into a pop culture icon.

«Blasphemous» Brazilian artist under fire for turning religious figures into pop culture icons

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The decision to pair Dustin Hoffman's character up with an Alfa Spider instantly propelled the car and the company into pop - culture - icon status.

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The liberal lion of the Supreme Court (and second woman ever to be confirmed to the position) is presented in Betsy West and Julie Cohen's film as equal parts civil - rights pioneer and pop culture icon, with loving scenes of her lifting weights, cracking wise, and being turned into a meme spliced alongside original interviews and archival footage.

The movie welded several icons of pop culture into a virtual wonderland; it's unlike anything seen before it.

Humorist, feminist and pop culture icon Catlin Moran wades into the waters of fiction with her debut, a semi-autobiographical look at a young girl's coming - of - age in the Midlands in the 1980s.

Ten years into her run as Penny on CBS» The Big Bang Theory, Kaley Cuoco is a certified pop - culture icon.

«Whether it's a pop culture icon like Donkey Kong, an innovator and true original like Portal, or a game like Wii Sports that transformed millions of living rooms into interactive zones for all ages, they're among the most influential games of all time.»

These icons of digital pop culture long ago escaped the narrow confines of video games, and have gone on to conquer the screens of our mobile phones and the walls of our cities, taking over clothing and packaging, and actualizing themselves into designer toys, becoming highly prized collector «s artifacts.

The individual likenesses (artist peers like Faith Ringgold and Nancy Spero were joined as the decades progressed by icons of pop culture such as Yoko Ono, Grace Jones, and Faye Dunaway) dissolved into a complex biomorphic hallucination.

Vallejo creates striking, dynamic images as the discrete dots coalesce into semi-abstract ideas, pop culture icons, and sculptural forms.

Cole's work is generally discussed in the context of postmodern eclecticism, combining references and appropriation ranging from African and African American imagery, to Dada's readymades and Surrealism's transformed objects, and icons of American pop culture or African and Asian masks, into highly original and witty assemblages.

In paintings, works on paper and ceramics, pop culture, art historical references and icons from the East and West collide, often fusing into hybrid symbols.

Leckey's interests might have shifted throughout the last decade — from an obsession with pop culture, subculture and the figure of the dandy in earlier films such as Parade (2003), and in his band collaboration DonAteller, with fellow artists Ed Laliq, Enrico David and Bonnie Camplin; to the high / low culture face - off of his BigBoxStatueAction performances (2003 — 11), in which Leckey's giant speaker stack confronts icons of modernist British sculpture, such as Jacob Epstein's Jacob and the Angel (1940 — 1); to his later multimedia performance lectures, the Internet - driven epiphany of dematerialisation In the Long Tail (2009) and its antithesis Cinema - in - the - Round (2006 — 8), with its more reflective inquiry into the physicality of images via, among others, Philip Guston, Felix the Cat, Gilbert & George, Homer Simpson and Titanic (1997).

Strongly influenced by pop culture, Stikki Peaches combines images of classic films, celebrities, and musical icons into hybrid characters.

The emphasis on tragedy and pop culture in Ms. Rogers's work recalls Andy Warhol's celebrity icons and disasters, Mike Kelley's «Day Is Done» remakes of high school yearbook photographs and Karen Kilimnik's and Sue de Beer's trenchant forays into the female adolescent psyche.

Accompanied by his artwork, the pop culture icon presents a glimpse into his life, from a childhood spent in Berlin and Shanghai to his teenaged odyssey to New York City in the 1960s where he became a rising star in the art world.