Sentences with phrase «ironic commentary on»

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

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

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

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

A pair of detectives inserted into the mix function as mute, ironic commentary on the uselessness of masculine ratiocination in what is essentially an opera of female victimization and murderous empowerment.

Good ironic commentary on the church.

Not exact matches

«The occurrence is no doubt ironic and a sad commentary on road safety in Nigeria but must we give up on our country and abdicate leadership to mediocrity?»

Look, I am not unfamiliar with the pleasures that can be had from sitting down and watching a truly bad movie unspool and unravel before ones eyes — I was attending bad movie festivals when I was still a barefoot boy with cheek of tan, I used to carry a copy of «The Golden Turkey Awards» around like a Bible and I have willingly watched «Manos: The Hands of Fate» multiple times without the MST3K commentary — and I have watched it a number of times in situations ranging from at home on DVD to the full - out in - theater experience but I am at a loss to explain what the appeal, no matter how ironic in nature, could possibly be.

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.

NS: You have said that these paintings are not meant to be purely ironic like the way that Jeff Koons uses appropriated imagery for a sly commentary on contemporary life.

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.

Through the recurring use of ironic self - portrayal in their paintings, sculptures and installations, the artist duo V&B stir up a commentary on the (art) world.

Artwork may be an abstraction of recognizable imagery; satirical, ironic or social commentary on its subject; influenced by the internet age, and the network in which it exists; or may employ visual rhetoric of advertising, corporate branding and commercial software tools.