Sentences with phrase «ironic commentary»

Many artists who use appropriation do so as a strategy for ironic commentary, parody, or critical reflection.

Sharrer's use of mass culture situates her as a bridge connecting the socially - engaged art of the 1930s, through the political suppression of the 1950s, to the more ironic commentary of Pop Art.

Furthermore, Mark's distinctive «sandwiched stories» — he starts an episode and then tells another before finishing the first one — offer ironic commentary on the interwoven episodes.

American flag outfits that might have felt like «Make America Great Again» - style patriotism from another brand felt more like ironic commentary from design collective Vaquera.

Throughout 45 Years, pop songs, heard on muted radios, provide bitterly ironic commentary — I Only Want to Be with You by Dusty Springfield, for example, while Kate snappishly turns off Young Girl by the Union Gap.

He combines personal life experiences with literary, musical, or art historical references into visual, ironic commentaries in various media.

The room is punctuated with ironic commentaries (printed in vinyl stickers and on t - shirts) criticizing the wider system in which art is made, validated and sold and pointing to the complex political situation in Brazil.

«I'm trying to be as cliché, sentimental and decorative as possible, not as a strategy for ironic commentary about sentimentality but because this is the stuff that time and time again I am drawn to, obsessed with — that I have faith in.»

Had Naughty Bear been a free or inexpensive indie game or XBLA title, and really taken its absurdist, twisted premise and wicked theme in a more extreme direction, we might praise it for being a hip, ironic commentary on videogame violence... or something.

His presence alone here is an ironic commentary, while also yoking Death Wish to an earlier, revered breed of gunslinger.

The songs not only add to the energy of the visuals but their lyrics form an ironic commentary on them.

She also created a series of works out of vacuum - formed plastic resembling plants and marine life — an ironic commentary on the abuse nature continued to suffer at the hands of humanity.

The painting, with a title taken from an American popular song, acts as an ironic commentary on the racial violence of her time.

The campaign was masterminded by K - HOLE, an art collective and «trend forecasting group,» which — like the ad campaign itself and similar to the mentality of DIS — exists simultaneously as an ironic commentary on and earnest participant in the very ideas it criticizes.

The work is an ironic commentary on the changing political and cultural landscape of Hong Kong, of power relations, and privacy.

Were they meant to be an ironic commentary on Robert Ryman's painting?