Sentences with phrase «mocking social stereotypes»

Jarry's slapstick, clown - like imagery marked an affinity with Themerson, whose paintings and drawings were similarly crude and comic, often mocking social stereotypes and classes.

Not exact matches

This work can be interpreted in the simplest, most direct manner — as a stereotyped image of China's food culture and painting traditions, but at the same time, its multiple references to various Chinese social and historical backgrounds make interpretation much more difficult: the use of objects to express morality in Chinese landscaping, satirical poetry mocking ostentatious refinement, and the imitation of handwritten menus to capture a scene of civil life... Viewers unfamiliar with the specific context can easily find themselves lost in the smokescreen of mysterious Oriental poetic calligraphy and bonsai art.