The representation of fear and terror, of the anxious and the disturbed, is a prevalent
motif in art history.
While this pose has been
a motif in art history for centuries, Close's use of the reclining figure is as much about the process as it is about the subject.
The hortus conclusus is such a seminal
motif in art history that the Middelheim Museum could hardly leave the implicit meanings of the new museum grounds unexplored.
This is actually a classical
motif in art history, and an extensively exhibited sujet with prominent progenitors such as Botticelli and Rubens and Manet and Cézanne and Picasso — and... Read more
Not exact matches
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Art and Politics: The Political Film as a Pedagogical Tool # 2: Donald B. Morlan, Pre-World War II Propaganda: Film as Controversy # 3: Ernest D. Giglio, From Riefenstahl to the Three Stooges: Defining the Political Film # 4: John W. Williams, The Real Oliver North Loses: The Reel Bob Robert Wins # 5: Robert L. Savage, Popular Film and Popular Communication # 6: Andrew Aoki, «Chan Is Missing:» Liberalism and the Blending of a Kaleidoscopic Culture # 7: Barbara Allen, Using Film and Television
in the Classroom to Explore the Nexus of Sexual and Political Violence # 8: Robert S. Robins & Jerrold M. Post, Political Paranoia as Cinematic
Motif: Stone's «JFK» # 9: Richard A. Brisbin, Jr., From State and Local Censorship to Ratings: Substantitive Rationality, Political Entrepreneurship, and Sex
in the Movies # 10: Stefanie L. Martin, Fiction and Independent Films: Creating Viable Communities and Coalitions by Reappropriating
History # 11: Peter J. Haas, A Typology of Political Film # 12: Phillip L. Gianos, The Cold War
in U.S. Films: Representing the Political Other # 13: Michael A. Genovese, The President as Icon & Straw Man: Hollywood & the Presidential Image # 14: Michael Krukones, Hollywood's Portrayal of the American President
in the 1930s: A Strong and Revered Leader # 15.
Would their signature
motifs have gone down
in art history had they lived fifty years earlier, or could they paint like this only because greatness has come and gone?
Hurtado Segovia's
art is rooted
in craft traditions with themes of
art history, personal anecdotes, Christian theology, and ethnographic
motifs.
Informed by the aesthetics and
motifs of Minimalism, Hadjimichalis»
art also demonstrates a response to
history, ritual, and archaeology that is particularly rooted
in his Greek heritage.
The paintings highlight enduring interests and
motifs in Hockney's work:
art history, pictorial space and portraiture.
With the use of a heart
motif in the works, these paintings feel like they are influenced largely by not only pop culture and
art history but also automatic, frantic emotion.
She revisits religious and mythological subjects, re-imagining
motifs from
art history, yet her works possess a powerful resonance, startling
in their vulnerability and associative reach.
Attitudes towards this
motif have not always been the same, however, above all
in recent
art history.
He commonly engages
in the
history of
art by taking
motifs and iconography from twentieth century figurative and abstract
art and reworking them
in pointedly «low» media such as ink drawing, graffiti, cartoon and collage.
Of course, there were many thematic and visual references to poverty and exclusion that were framed by the discourse of
art history — as
in a metal construction by Jannis Kounellis [who died
in February this year] that combines a hard - edged steel - cast minimalist frame with multicoloured rags of Arte Poveraat White Cube, for example; or
in a an arresting display of Sadie Benning's «drawings» made of wood, Aqua - Resin, casein and acrylic gouache with
motifs reminiscent of African textilesat Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; or works about otherness framed by the formerly excluded, or on their behalf — as
in a display from the Goodman Gallery
in Johannesburg, South Africa; or Andres Serrano's unforgettable photographs of notable figures
in American pop culture, such as his portrait of Snoop Dogg (America)(2002) placed next to that of Donald Trump, on view at Galerie Nathalie Obadia.
Three Oranges with a Vase is testament to Hockney's deep understanding of the venerable lineage of the floral still life
motif within the pantheon of
art history, while also exemplifying his broader pre-occupation with the experience of looking
in the 1980s and 1990s.
Over the years, you have reinvented your style many times: early
in your career, you combined contemporary
motifs with allusions to
art history, and
in the 1980s you drew inspiration from the masks of popular culture.
Jean - Claude Lebensztejn's
history of the urinating figure
in art, Pissing Figures 1280 — 2014, is at once a scholarly inquiry into an important visual
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