Sentences with phrase «like irreverence»

Much like the re-photographed Marlboro Man that shot Richard Prince to art - world fame in 1975, the artist and collector approaches his work with a cowboy - like irreverence.

Discussing her choice of title for the Serpentine exhibition with the gallery's Artistic Director, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Wylie explained, «It was Dada, it was irreverent, and I like irreverence.

Not exact matches

«Marissa is the type of boss that makes you feel like you're disappointing her at all times, so I always feel like I'm on the verge of being fired,» said Mr. Bonforte, who is widely respected for both his talent and his irreverence.

To establishment lawyers, the immigrants» irreverence toward the law and its minions looked more like cynicism than a way of keeping the things of the world in their proper place.

When someone tells me that irreverence, satire and sarcasm strikes a tone that isn't Christ - like, I wonder what Bible they're reading.

One of my favourite aspects of Clara's character to develop over time is her cheeky irreverence with the Doctor — plainly, I like that she teases him even when it baffles him.

A triumph of comic irreverence and dramatic purpose, Episode VIII dazzles like the sci - fi saga hasn't in decades.

The film chronicles the manner in which Hope and her family handle the nightmarish situation, often with what Saget described as «irreverence and dark humor» (At one point, Hope's brother Alan — a comedy writer — quips that scleroderma sounds like «a deli entrée»).

It's complete irreverence and absurdity are openly acknowledged, which makes the entire experience less like a losing battle and more like the joke equivalent of a pun.

The Coens» irreverence can be refreshing: the Communist study group is periodically droll, especially when David Krumholtz spews out an anti-capitalist epithet like «parasite.»

It might even play better today to adults than to children, especially if the latter have been weaned on the irreverence and sarcasm of today's talking animal comedies like Beverly Hills Chihuahua and the Alvin and the Chipmunks movies.

Indeed, Baldessari's irreverence for the sanctity of art permeates his oeuvre, whether it be negating all but a corner of a Parmigianino masterpiece, mocking the great art critic Clement Greenberg with his own words, parodying the color - field painters by «floating» large rectangular blocks of color outside the second - story window of his home (Floating: Color [1972]-RRB-, or pairing Goya's catastrophic texts from his Disasters of War series with everyday objects like a paper clip.

This irreverence surfaced again in the Shylock - like main character of Animation, masks (2011).

Few artists are as versatile or bring to their works such a sense of questioning playfulness as McLean and the exhibition at Bernard Jacobson is a masterclass of painterly light, colour and irreverence by the artist who likes to make «big art out of small details» Louisa Buck, 2012.

Within this time that produced button down, gray flannel, stamped - out - of - mold people there were also the comics like Shelley Berman and Mort Sahl and it was that kind of irreverence.

His daughter Gabrielle says in a 2014 interview that while he «came out to Berkeley just as Pop and Conceptual Art were ascending on the East Coast,» Selz turned away from these popular movements and instead «identified with the irreverence of styles like Funk art,» seeking to highlight the work of «ceramic artists like Peter Voulkos [who] were barely considered fine artists then» or Nathan Oliveira, «a figurative artist who did not follow the prevailing east coast trends.»

When these jokes and» zines were present, it seemed like everyone knew how to approach the paintings the way I wanted them to, with a certain irreverence.