Sentences with phrase «modern cultural references»

ongoing series refracts traditional painting and modern cultural references through the prism of the digital age, where everything can be accessed at once, according to the gallery.

Visually it looks fabulous, and it's enjoyably packed full of modern cultural references that take in music, film (ooh, look, isn't that The Iron Giant) and video gaming (wow — an Atari 2600) from the past 40 years.

None of the names really mean anything, or stand for anything, and if there is a higher theme we're supposed to derive from the cavalcade of classical and modern cultural references, we're damned if we can find it.

Visually it looks fabulous, and it's enjoyably packed full of modern cultural references from the past 40 years

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Speaking at the San Antonio Conference, Lesslie Newbigin made reference to his own cultural background in these terms: «As I look back on my own life as a missionary in India, I realize now in a way that I never did at that time that I was not only carrying the gospel but that I was also a carrier of this so - called modern world - view which I now see to be breaking down because it is false.

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The dialogue is a weird mix of stone age and «street» with just enough modern one liners and cultural references to spoil any immersion you might be able to dive into.

No such drastic punishment awaits Wes Anderson's («The Grand Budapest Hotel») modern day Isle of Dogs, however, though there are some who would be inclined to banish it to movie purgatory for its many Japanese cultural references that tread a thin line between homage and appropriation.

The dialogue is a weird mix of stone age and «street» with just enough modern one liners and cultural references to spoil any immersion you might be able to dive into.

The exhibition title references many facets of arts and culture traditions from ancient history to the modern day, arising out of Smith's meditations on the number's spiritual significance as a marker of immortality, as well a number of noteworthy cultural and historical facts and figures featuring the number itself.

The works express strong contrasting elements, such as the fusion of Western cultural elements with integration of classical and modern art, layered with references from Chinese classical art forms and details.

The phenomenal buoyancy of this trend, including the National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain, Tate Modern and the Royal Academy, predicates London's unique position as the leading global art centre, a touristic and cultural nucleus with no immediate reference, for example, to the indigenous local day - to - day art schools and their agendas.

Guston's existentialist canvases, which some found cartoonish or crude, are saturated with the influence of Italy's cultural and artistic heritage: from ancient and modern cityscapes that populate his Roma series, to references from Federico Fellini's films, his work is indebted to the Italian masters, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Giotto, Tiepolo and De Chirico to whom he pays tribute to in «Pantheon» (1973).

Fusing Nigerian and American source materials, histories and cultural references her works typically show members of Akunyili Crosby «s family in modern domestic interiors in a palette of subdued pastel hues, rife with printed fabrics and vibrant greenery.

Without any modern reference or climate science knowledge, history speaks very well to the great convenience of powerful cultural consensus, whether spawned by science, religion, or indeed past climate fears.