Sentences with phrase «low culture merge»
In the process, high and low culture merge, creating a new kind of art object.
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High and low merged in narrative paintings with influences ranging from devotional aesthetics and street culture to European painting and pop art.
In his photography, sculpture, installations, and works on paper, Breuning merges humor, kitsch, and pop culture to investigate the relationship between high and low art, often calling into question our assumptions regarding historically designated «masterpieces» by artists such as Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock.
The exhibition reveals the possibilities of merging disparate artistic communities on Manhattan's Lower East Side, a centuries old magnet for cultures around the world, while also offering collectors an opportunity to discover new artists and trends from other parts of the country.
Honey Moon transformed the lower - level gallery into a secluded Thai beach, and this fictionalized vacation blended personal narratives with paparazzi culture, highlighting the scripted intimacy inherent to honeymooning, a fetishized ritual in which private acts merge with public expectation.
Sultan's series comprises a confluence of seeming dichotomies, merging the industrial materials of Minimalism with representational painting, stylistically combining figuration and abstraction, and making references to high and low culture, ranging from topical events to art historical iconography.
Picasso merged low and high cultures in true modernist fashion, focusing on a group of prostitutes in a brothel in this masterpiece.
Kelley continues to merge high and low culture, including found objects from a typical childhood or workplace or marketplace.