Sentences with phrase «ironic statement on»

It is a simple painting, which offers a subtle and ironic statement on contemporary art: these dandies, who seem to epitomize an art world obsessed with abstraction and minimalism, are themselves the subject of a traditional figurative painting.

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It's ironic — those who champion nondiscrimination, in the name of nondiscrimination, are creating rules that push out those who «discriminate» based on biblical belief statements.

Business Council President Heather Briccetti, in a statement says: «It is ironic and troubling that just days into the school year the teacher's union is asking its members to spend their energy trying to repress opposing views rather than focus on fixing the crisis in our schools.»

The WFP in a statement issued Tuesday evening noted it was particularly ironic, given how the comments came the same day in which two wings of the Democratic Party — liberal and moderate — came together on the national stage.

With no time to build atmosphere, the film goes heavy on jokey / ironic one - joke premises, leaving the few straight - up horror statements to seem like a wet blanket.

Intent on making definitive, album - length statements, spurred on by his obsessive competitiveness with The Beatles («Rubber Soul» predates «Pet Sounds», and though Paul McCartney cited «Pet Sounds» as a primary influence on «Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band», the release of that album is often blamed for Brian Wilson's nervous breakdown), and sensing the opportunity in 1966 of being at the vanguard of the psychedelic movement with a follow - up album (the never - completed «Smile»), the story of The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson is as operatic and tinged with ironic destiny as an Aeschylean tragedy.

(It was an ironic statement, because one heard it by reading — all the more so for me, as I first read it on a Kindle.)

On the first floor, Ceal Floyer's wall of speakers blaring the engaged signal of a failed telephone call, Line Busy (UK)(2011), is both a minimal work of art and a note of restrained humour; Cory Arcangel's hacked computer game screens, MIG 29 Soviet Fighter Plane and Clouds (2005), could be either political statement or benign dreamscape; while Allora & Calzadilla's Solar Catastrophe (2012) is a hard - edged abstraction made from solar panels, as well as an ironic admission of the wreckage left behind by this renewable energy source.

Although the works on display could echo random graffiti found on any city's walls and protest banners, the work emanates a series of ironic and yet satirical statements inspired by the national and global political scene, while at the same time consciously ignoring prominent issues such as immigration, terrorism and war.

It's ironic that a Chinese artist should make one of the more important political statements about the convergence of devastation, celebration, and heroism in the midst of an American war on terror.