«At the Hammer Museum, Gary Garrels assembles a distinctly Angeleno strain
of contemporary visual language»
Not exact matches
At the film's recent press day in Los Angeles, MoviesOnline sat down at a roundtable interview with Chazelle who discussed how he looked for ways to bring a
contemporary language that was musical,
visual and emotional to a genre that runs the risk
of nostalgia.
Nico is part
of an international wave
of contemporary artists working to establish a new
visual language for the still life in the information age.
Referencing past precedents
of feminist art, installation, performance, and ideology, the artworks in the show present an expanded
visual language that has resulted from a more inclusive art world, shaped in part by the social movements
of the 1970's, thereby paying homage to a generation who has paved the way for
contemporary female expression.
I've been struck by the fact that
contemporary advertising seems to know more about the kind
of visual language Labille - Guiard utilized (and for that matter, Johannes Vermeer and other golden age Dutch painters) than they know about
contemporary painting.
Assembling in Marfa will be a faction
of contemporary artists who are peeling the page one frame - at - a-time in an inquiry into the
visual dimension
of language, ranging from David Gatten's reflection on the role
of documents and Michael Tracy's secret, worldly recitations to Julia Meltzer and David Thorne's digital archives where images become a fault - line between world views and hidden narratives.
His rhythmic patterns
of repeating images, often featuring symbols
of contemporary folk culture, are hand painted and rendered through the
visual language of printmaking.
Their collaborative, ephemeral, and
visual works reflect on
contemporary culture through the
language of popular music, consumer culture and other genres.
The relationship between drawing and sculpture is particularly interesting in
contemporary art practice; Antony Gormley is one
of the most eloquent artists when it comes to articulating ideas that pertain to individual perception, collective needs, intellectual processes, or the applications and development
of a
visual language to assuage the spiritual or emotional privations
of the modern world.
Cutting a swathe through 500 years
of history, and tracing not only the movement
of artists but also the circulation
of visual languages and ideas, this exhibition will include works by artists from Lely, Kneller, Kauffman to Sargent, Epstein, Mondrian, Bomberg, Bowling and the Black Audio Film Collective as well as recent work by
contemporary artists.
Her paintings draw on personal history, art history and environmental history, and investigate aspects
of contemporary American landscape and their relationship to the
languages of visual art.
McGinness creates paintings, sculptures and environments by using the
visual language of public signs, corporate logos and
contemporary iconography.
Her research centers on
language - based work and intersections
of experimental writing, performance, and
visual culture in modern and
contemporary art.
Plensa debuted the monumental sculpture Echo in Madison Square Park in 2011, and Rapaport was quoted in the New York Times article regarding the project, «When we think
of great modern and
contemporary public art, usually we think
of work that uses an abstract
visual language.
His research explores the relationship between traditional and digital technologies and the link between graphic
language and the development
of contemporary visual systems and environments.
Many
of the forms used to represent roads, buildings, and train tracks seem to derive from
visual symbols used in
contemporary printed Japanese maps, an early example
of the interplay between painting and popular
visual language and print media which is so important in
contemporary Japanese work.
Admittedly borrowing the
visual language of the designer Lance Wyman, Reyes similarly aims to send strong messages through minimal means that speak to our
contemporary moment.
A
visual language completely her own, the work
of Tara Donovan is a true wonder
of contemporary art, a celebration
of how far avant - garde thoughts and bravery to experiment outside
of conventional limitations have brought us.
Such machine imagery went on to figure largely in the
visual languages essential to modernism and successive historical movements, and today the bachelor machine persists in the works
of contemporary artists, albeit in less normatively gendered ways.
Since then she has remained at the forefront
of developments in
contemporary painting, making highly distinctive works which seek to articulate an abstract
language in which relations
of color and form generate
visual sensations.
Their
visual language is rooted in a tradition
of displays aiming at knowledge promulgation, although their take on this iconography places their work in the realm
of contemporary art.
«What's fascinating about Rafman's work is the way he uses the very familiar
visual language of the internet, social media, and computer games to create immersive narratives that reveal the anxieties and desires
of contemporary life,» says Maitreyi Maheshwari, program director at Zabludowicz Collection and curator
of the exhibition, which also offered up a waterbed, ball pit, massage chair, and filing cabinets streaming video games in first - person shooter.
These artists have had great significance for the development
of international
contemporary art, either because they have created
visual languages, objects and pictures
of originality and quality, or because they have reinvented important aspects
of cultural production.
The main influences came from his
contemporaries Joseph Beuys and Georg Baselitz, postwar tendencies in Abstract Expressionism and Conceptual art, but Kiefer is most regarded as an exponent
of the Neo-Expressionism derived from Minimalism and abstraction, advocating representational and symbolic
visual language.
Comprising programmes from the ICA Artists» Moving Image Network alongside several additional live events, the festival brings together a cross-section
of work that engages with the
language of contemporary visual culture to draw out critical and discursive reflections on its wider social influences.
Moving between and manipulating various styles — primitivism, cubism, expressionism, minimalism — Prata's encyclopedic use
of symbols and patterns grows into a
language rooted in the history
of visual art; however, in borrowing across time and style, Prata's distortion
of form — hieroglyphs in symbolic space — proposes a reflection on how representations are read within a
contemporary context.
With two distinct approaches to
contemporary painting, Bresson and Prata mute stylistic expectations in the service
of a
visual language that has no spoken form; a collection
of simplified narratives, signs and symbols that communicate from the silences between words or thoughts.
McGinness creates paintings, sculptures, and environments and is known for his graphic drawings employing the
visual language of public signage, corporate logos, and
contemporary iconography.
This panel considers the
contemporary way curators are using
language in experimental ways to expand
visual art practices, and what effects the crossover
of these fields has had on each.
The museum's unique collection
of international
contemporary art is a selective collection
of works created by artists who occupy key positions in the field, either because they have created a distinctive
visual language, objects and images with great originality and quality, or because they have reinvented important aspects
of cultural production.
Entitled Iconic, the presentation at The Art Show will mark the debut
of these intimately scaled portraits which use the
visual language and gestures
of 15th century icons to depict
contemporary subjects selected by Wiley from the streets
of New York City.
In the exhibition we see the subversive creativity and the physical, ironic
language used in Hail reflected in the work
of contemporaries of Clark and Atlas's day, as well as among modern - day artists active in
visual art and dance, music and pop culture, with their rebellious expressions.
In each work, White has intentionally left strips
of surface area completely blank, emphasizing the arbitrary cutting, cropping, and breaking
of images — a regular feature in
contemporary visual language, and one to which we have become increasingly inured.
Drawing on global weaving traditions as well as the history
of painting and sculpture, graphic design, and architecture, American artist Sheila Hicks has redefined the role
of fibre in art and influenced a generation
of contemporary artists with her interdisciplinary
visual language.
Jordan Nassar, who primarily produces hand - embroidered textile works and self - published zines, has recently begun making prints that blend the
visual language of traditional Palestinian embroidery with a
contemporary graphic sensibility.
Functioning as a series
of études to
contemporary computer code, these paintings flirt consciously with the provocative gestures and meta - questions
of conceptual art and the heavy
visual language and history
of abstraction.
«As minimalism became the default
visual language of contemporary art, there was a shift where all things scatological became almost suppressed,» Andrea Rosen, the president
of the eponymous gallery, said in a statement.
Contemporary visual language studies provide handling and creation
of mediums that itself originates a new generation
of art.
Sarah Charlesworth (1947 - 2013) is a
visual artist and photographer whose work addresses the
language of photography in
contemporary culture.
While Kim incorporates the
visual language of color and abstraction, he also addresses cultural and personal issues, positioning himself closely with many
of his
contemporaries, including Glenn Ligon and Felix Gonzalez - Torres.
My current work references early 20th century abstract art and design to develop a
visual language in response to the fast shifting streetscapes and architectural spaces
of contemporary London and its ever present half - built skyscrapers.
By balancing its four primary activities — gallery exhibitions, studio art classes, educational outreach programs and outdoor art shows — the
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia seeks to involve a diverse regional public in the rich and active language of contemporary
Contemporary Art Center
of Virginia seeks to involve a diverse regional public in the rich and active
language of contemporarycontemporary visual art.
Yet the
contemporary works seen here do not merely mimic the celebrated
visual languages of the past, but instead draw on and extend them, creating new dialects that are uniquely their own.
The era's limited palette
of bright colors, dynamic compositions, and strong graphic qualities allowed artists to tackle formal issues with the playful
visual language of stardom and comic books, while
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The artist created a far more daring
visual language than many
of his
contemporaries, fusing vivid narrative with dizzying spatial distortion and jarring hues to produce striking settings for characters
of diverse racial backgrounds and social classes.
Woodman's practice combines the
visual language of Greek art with a
contemporary understanding
of interdisciplinary work.
From Derrick Adams's inventive adaptations
of politically - charged designs by black fashion pioneer Patrick Kelly, to Firelei Báez's reimagining
of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party to grant women
of color their rightful seat at the table, artists are resurfacing
visual languages from the past to comment on
contemporary socio - political culture.
Simultaneous to León Ferrari's exhibition at Galeria Nara Roesler — SP, the 28th edition
of Roesler Hotel hosts Screenspaces, which presents the recent production
of 19 artists investigating
contemporary visual culture through photographic
language in a post-digital context.
Working within his own surrealistic
visual language — part front - facing hieroglyphics, part freehand cartooning — Green brought a lighthearted approach to an advanced understanding
of color, composition, and the realities
of contemporary situations.
Like his fellow Superflat artists, Mr. approaches the
visual language of manga as a means
of examining Japanese culture at large, fusing hi and low forms
of contemporary expression.