Sentences with phrase «low brow art»

This past weekend the Merrry Karnowsky gallery (one of the more established galleries for the so called «Low Brow Art» in Los Angeles) presented an exhibition of four artists Tara McPherson, Lady Aiko, Deedee Cheriel and Lindsay Way.

As a self - taught artist my works vacillate between high brow and low brow art.

Not exact matches

Image © Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society Written for eHarmony by Ben Clover Each August Edinburgh is home to the world's largest arts festival, showcasing everything from the highest of high culture to the lowest of the low - brow.

With his rock star dalliances and a desire to marry high - art style and low - brow subjects, Cubitt sits at the photographic edge.»

Bolshoi Confidential deftly shatters the distinctions between high - brow and low - brow, art and politics, authority and violence.»

As in much of Friedman's practice, which culls from art historical tradition with an intent to subvert, the work combines an investigation of low - brow materials — in this case, baking tins — with massive scale and the permanence of steel.

When most of these artists go to art school they're usually forced into the decision of either wiping out their past identity and conforming to the look of «high art», or the more prideful yet limiting path of rejecting the art world entirely and pursuing a more «low brow» art.

Disciplines, genres and styles encompass conceptual and post-conceptual works, low - brow and street art, photography and illustration, and architecture.

There is a mutual fascination between the two fields, and yet it seems that the art world would prefer to keep its consorting with the fashion industry confined strictly to social events, rather than consider fashion (so low - brow!)

A juxtaposition of high and low brow materials combined with a rough finish attribute a cynical element to her work that mocks art's desirability in today's overly moneyed global art market.

Arrested Motion: Online magazine providing exclusive worldwide coverage of the low brow, urban and contemporary art scene on the daily.

By day, Low Brow Artique is an art supply store with the focus on everything street art.

A general category describing works of art which focus on relatively low - brow subjects to do with eveyday life, as opposed to the «ideal» or romantic settings employed by artists up until the 19th century.

Pop - Art also shared Dada's subversive approach, by deliberately inflating the aesthetic significance of low - brow objects and imagery, much to the consternation of many «serious» critics and curators.

Important themes since 1960, such as the formal and contextual extension of the term «art», the «upgrading» of the trivial, and the ensuing related debate on whether low - brow and high - brow are equal in status are at the center of extensive groups of works by Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Georg Baselitz, Jeff Wall, Rosemarie Trockel, and Anselm Kiefer.

Viewed as a signature movement of artists immersed in subversive or Low Brow culture, Street Art is increasingly making its way into fine art practiArt is increasingly making its way into fine art practiart practice.

The main contribution of abstract expressionism to «modern art» was to show that good art could be low - brow, and could be made of anything.

Second, in contrast to many of the traditions of fine art painting but firmly in keeping with Dada philosophy, he believed that art could be made out of anything, no matter how low - brow or trivial.

Pop - art was often scorned by critics for its low - brow focus.

In 1994 he founded Juxtapoz, a successful art magazine that presents a diversity of artistic formats, both low - brow and high - brow.

He was iconoclastic, innovative, intellectual and could provide a highly coherent explanation of his vision of low - brow art, made out of ordinary materials, in which the spectator was entangled and obliged to participate.

Although not as highly thought of, by art critics, as his friend and fellow artist Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 88), Haring attracted a widespread following for his brand of public art, exhibited with New York's most influential dealer Leo Castelli, and successfully bridged the gap between contemporary art proper and the more low - brow mass market.

Blending high art with low brow, he mixes the ambiguous lines and shapes with a rigid, design - oriented punk rock sensibility from his early days in the Southern California punk scene.

By combining low - brow references, kitsch religious imagery, and high - art quotations, Smithson developed a visual cornucopia in which Jesus was sexy and bikers were godlike.

In addition, by including a range of low - brow «found objects», his pop art also addresses many of the issues tackled by the movement as a whole: such as, what can art be made from?

Nice - based GCA Gallery, one of the finest art spaces on the Côte d'Azur, is a contemporary art gallery that is probably best known for its focus on graffiti, street art and low brow.