Sentences with phrase «like folk art»

This makes his increasingly large - scale surfaces less idiosyncratic, less like folk art, and brings them closer to mainstream painting.

One can see why he earns labels like folk art, self - taught art, or outsider art.

«You can always design other patterns, just like folk art.

Not exact matches

I had to teach myself to cook as an adult, and I was so grateful in my journey for folks like Simone who take pleasure in sharing these arts with other people.

The critics be damned, there are folks out there who actually like LeRoy Neiman's flashy sports art

Originally an Asian folk art, kirigami is the practice of cutting intricate patterns into paper and folding this paper, much like origami, to create beautiful, elaborate three - dimensional structures.

If there is one thing I was highly skeptical of, it was recreating folk art into a streetstyle look that did not look like you are coming from the movie set of Mama Mia!Naturally, when it comes to art, there is always an inspiration from an artist or an architect in this case.

The Magic Gardens is a three dimensional, immersive piece of installation art and a museum gallery space in Philly created by mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar, who were inspired by materials like used bottles, bike wheels and folk arts.

but my aunt calls me gabrella... I am a free spirited gal who loves fun... pleasure... love and positive energy... I cant function any other way... I like all types of arts and talented folks..

And, oh boy, those alebrijes, the fantasy creatures that leap around like Mexican folk art brought to vibrant life!

The thought that the arts are corruptive, both the drug and the delivery agent, is an idea upon which folks like Plato and William S. Burroughs agree, and a franchise like this one seems the prize channel through which to expand on the idea that language is a virus.

The physical release will contain the actual game along with a handful of retro goodies, like an art book, a double - sided poster, and a «making of» documentary by 2 Player Productions — the folks behind the documentaries Minecraft: The Story of Mojang, Double Fine Adventure!

Over the years, the fest has shifted from feature films — like Ed Wood's 1959 folk - art masterpiece, Plan 9 from Outer Space, considered, pre-Wiseau, to be the worst movie ever made — to shorts.

It looks like the folks over at Lucas Arts have decided to keep the focus on co-op play, and this...

Not recommended for the sensitive sort of folks who feel they can better relate to art films and dramas, but if you're into popcorn actioners, this is not a bad way to spend an evening with some like - minded people.

That experience came back to me while watching Camp, Todd Graff's tribute to the performing - arts summer program Stagedoor Manor, where he (along with folks like Natalie Portman, Robert Downey Jr., and Jon Cryer) was first bit by the acting bug.

It looks like it could turn dust collection into an art, but Chevy folks say it can be cleaned with a vacuum and typical cleaning products.

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Ultimate Spider - man # 12 [Marvel, Brian Michael Bendis (writer), David Marquez (art)-- Bits Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★]: Like many folk, we had long abandoned the Ultimate line of comics in favour of mainstream Marvel.

Enlivening the free zone spirit is an up - to - the minute three - theater performing arts center where acts like the Kronos Quartet and folk and blues musician Toshi Reagon have performed.

What's not on every block is a place like La Calaca, which sells an assortment of classic and contemporary folk art.

Like the other side of a coin, Zihuatanejo retains much of the laid - back, Mexican charm of a sleepy fishing village, with its winding streets, market, boutique hotels, galleries, folk art shops, traditional town plaza and palapa - style seafood restaurants serving up the daily catch.

It feels like a different kind of fighting game for folks interested in real - life martial arts, with a cumbersome grappling system and some branded bumbling with numbers and menus to appeal to the core audience.

Brooke Davis Anderson, previously of the American Folk Art Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has included self - taught artists like Holley and wood - relief carver Herbert Singleton in Prospect New Orleans, which she directs.

Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions Carmella Padilla and Barbara Anderson, eds., A Red Like No Other: How Cochineal Colored the World, Skira Rizzoli, in association with the Museum of International Folk Art

I do folk art with practical uses, like things for weddings & home decor or toys..

Bitter college professors, ignorant (but loving) parents, and skeptical art business folks like to push the idea that making a living as an artist is too hard, or that it doesn't pay.

Limitations in some templates; too much wasted white space (would love my work to be displayed much larger); integration of pages to sell prints and / or products with my work on it in pages with the original artwork (lower priced or alternative options for folks who aren't yet ready to invest in fine art); room setting view where customers can see the size / shape of a painting / print in an actual room like over a couch or bed, in a kitchen, etc; greater options in template layout (social buttons and email NL signup at top of page, etc).

The outlined people, a bit like cartoons, have the charm of folk art as much as the terror of the unconscious — or of modern life.

For about a decade, Clare Rojas was renowned for her folk art - inspired figurative paintings exploring gender relations punctuated by quilt - like patterning.

Once artists like Kandinsky, Rodchenko, Dove, and O'Keefe had looked for universal symbols — a folk art, as it were — of the collective unconscious.

This is not the search for a folk artist or an outsider art, but for someone who can turn recent history inside - out — or, like the Guggenheim's hopes for Group Zero in Germany, reset the count.

Jerry Saltz doesn't like the American Folk Art Museum's building but before he launches into that he conveniently points out that Los Angeles — which Eli Broad would like to see recognized as an art capital, if not the art capital of America — has made several major talent acquisitions in the past few yeaArt Museum's building but before he launches into that he conveniently points out that Los Angeles — which Eli Broad would like to see recognized as an art capital, if not the art capital of America — has made several major talent acquisitions in the past few yeaart capital, if not the art capital of America — has made several major talent acquisitions in the past few yeaart capital of America — has made several major talent acquisitions in the past few years:

Aaron Johnson's merely pose in front of American flags, like a meeting of folk art, the GOP convention, and Peter Max.

Elaine Reichek creates paintings from weavings, like Sheila Hicks, another bow to folk and decorative arts, while Vincent Fecteau's sculpture looks at first glance like piled fabric.

Like many colonial Mexican houses of the period, it's built around a central courtyard, filled with cacti, fruit trees and indigenous plants, and the couple's collection of Mexican folk art and archeological artefacts.

They scout at art fairs, like collectors; one look at Instagram confirms that many of these folks travel constantly.

Firstly, lists like these can help soothe the sense of helplessness many folks feel about visual art's current transformation into a plaything for the megarich.

In his mature work, one can see connections between this legacy and Texas regionalism, which, like Bates» work, drew inspiration from early Renaissance art and American folk art.

I like ancient sculpture from the Pre-Columbian era, sculpture from the Middle Eastern civilizations of the Tigris and the Euphrates, African art, American folk art, Japanese prints, and on and on.

With its bird's - eye view of smooth, swelling hills and nearly abstract banded squares of green grass and plowed earth, this painting and the few others like it can pull you equally toward Walt Disney, Josef Albers, photography and folk art.

Inspired by personal experiences growing up in the south as well as distinct events in American history like the migration of African - Americans from south to north and the Watts uprising of 1965, Outterbridge's works are as rooted in folk and African art as they are in dialogue with twentieth century art movements such as Dada, assemblage, and the readymade.

As the debates among artists and intellectuals around a «racially representative art» shifted to discussions about social responsibility and a «folk» identity, artists like Aaron Douglas increasingly turned to the public arena as a means of addressing art and life in the 1930s.

However, in time it has come to describe and influence many other forms, like Gagaku music — both Shinto ritual and folk music, as well as the tea ceremony and martial arts.

The artist talk made the experience feel like looking through the art history telescope, revisiting folk art traditions in Dwyer's works and taking a back - country nature stroll through Momm's delicate plant materials.

On the other hand, the execution can verge on the primitive, and so perhaps Pettibon's is a kind of idiosyncratic folk art like graffiti — you can almost imagine it appearing overnight scrawled across the walls of an underpass, or the previously pristine screening erected around the construction site of some shiny new high - rise development.

Artists since, like Betye Saar, Faith Ringgold, Rosemarie Trockel, or Alighiero e Boetti, whose iconic «Mappa» series includes the embroidery work of Afghan craftswomen, have taken an interest in the textile arts to critique the split between «folk» and «high» art.

Smith confronted the fact that folk art is still isolated and exhibited separately than academic art, particularly in museums like the National Gallery in Washington, the Metropolitan Museum, Yale University Art Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts in Bostart is still isolated and exhibited separately than academic art, particularly in museums like the National Gallery in Washington, the Metropolitan Museum, Yale University Art Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts in Bostart, particularly in museums like the National Gallery in Washington, the Metropolitan Museum, Yale University Art Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts in BostArt Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Berman and Heinecken were really pioneers of that, and anybody concerned with «media critique» in their art stands on their shoulders, be it someone very established, like Richard Prince, or, more recently, folks like Carter Mull or Amanda Ross - Ho.