Sentences with phrase «of cultural imagery»

The Indian Paintings reflect his continued interest in the use of cultural imagery as source material, which Schnabel assimilates and translates into his paintings.

Both artists explore processes of accumulation and excavation of cultural imagery and sensual physical substance.

Psychology is the basis for any study of cultural imagery, Sentiment and identification are psychological phenomena, and «archaeology» a familiar metaphor for the probing of a troubled mind.

Not exact matches

But are classes like «The Material Culture in the Victorian Novel» or «The Power of Ornament: Roman Imperial Imagery and Its Reception» really more practical than studying gender politics through our cultural reaction to the VMAs?

The imagery that is used in Genesis 1 — 2 and in Genesis 6 - 8 finds many parallels in Mesopotamian and Egyptian cosmology, and if we don't understand these cultural contexts, we will almost certainly not understand these opening chapters of Genesis either.

Religious leaders, I think, face alternatives not easily reconciled: to try to form communities in which biblical imagery and ideas provide an alternative vision to our cultural ones, or to engage in a process of mutual critique, edification, correction and revision of frameworks that are informed both by our religious traditions and by the sciences and culture.

They are called «parables» or «point of view of the author» or «poetic and literary license» or «cultural accommodation» or «figures of speech» or «prophetic imagery» or whatever the preferred terminology might be.

Reports: Iraq: Mosul, Iraq: Destruction of Nebi Yunis (Tomb of the Prophet Jonah) Syria: Ancient History, Modern Destruction: Assessing the Current Status of Syria's World Heritage Sites Using High - Resolution Satellite Imagery Report Report (PDF) Ancient History, Modern Destruction: Assessing the Current Status of Syria's Tentative World Heritage Sites Using High - Resolution Satellite Imagery Report Report (PDF) Azerbaijan: High - Resolution Satellite Imagery and the Destruction of Cultural Artifacts in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan Report

and imagery, her lovely use of planes a multi-purpose metaphor that suggests a world of shrinking cultural gaps while foreshadowing the film's satisfying conclusion.

The Mackendrick film's plot and imagery both rely on the timely, English steam trains that always seem to be within earshot of the action, and the Coens found a wonderful cultural - historical parallel by setting the new movie along the Mississippi River.

It's a cultural touchstone with imagery that instantly became iconic, a deeply layered satire, and an exploration of race and relationships that has made an indelible impact on the world in the year since it debuted.

by Walter Chaw Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered is the most startling debut since Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou, with which it has a few things in common: both are constructed with a wilful disdain towards narrative; both are aimed at the outer limits of shocking imagery; both display an open hostility for the cultural status quo; and both joke on their audience's entrenched preconceptions of film form.

- you can manually maneuver your characters around the battlefield - if you have an energy wave that shoots forward in a straight line, you can now move into the best place to strike - environments you visit in The Lost Sphear will offer more diversity when compared to I Am Setsuna - the world is composed of different cultural regions - one is based on machinery, while another is focused on magic - the imagery of the moon is still a consistent visual theme tying the game together - the team is aware I Am Setsuna's skill system created problems for some players, and it is working to tweak it here - the game will have inns where you can rest to restore your health and magic - there are more unannounced features to be revealed

In Encampment — a multi-part 30,000 square foot installation occupying MASS MoCA's largest gallery — Clemente's transitory experience of changing geographies, diverse cultural climates, and indeed consciousness itself infuses his imagery and art with a particularly rich range of references and meaning.

Brischler's source material is culled from a wide swath of cultural references including book covers, vintage film posters, ephemera from long - out - of - print queer publications, and digital imagery in the age of social media.

Jack Whitten's narrative Abstract Expressionist works from the 1960s draw imagery from the Civil Rights movement, including ghosted images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; Joan Semmel's figurative paintings question representation of female sexuality through the lens of self - portraiture; Gay liberation and the AIDS crisis are the cultural context for narrative paintings by the late Hugh Steers (1963 — 1995).

< EXHIBITION Paying homage to Ebony and Jet magazines — cultural barometers, vital news resources and bibles of aspirational imagery in the African American community for more than half a century — the Studio Museum in Harlem mounts «Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art» on Nov. 13.

With its art historical and pop cultural references (which are sometimes combined), Dumas's practice is often based upon the painterly manipulation of found imagery.

The natural world is the counterpoint exhibition, Philodendron: From Pan-Latin Exotic to Modern America, tracking through art the centuries - long migration of plants from the jungle to the contemporary garden and cultural imagery.

Featured artist Jad Oakes, works from found and researched camera imagery, the work seeks to evoke the passage of time and memories from personal, cultural and collective perspectives.

Apfelbaum's work explores the limitations of traditional disciplinary forms, approaches to abstract representation, and references to graphic pop cultural imagery.

One of the key figures in the Pop Art movement, his complex narratives of recognizable imagery are firmly situated in the cultural and political contexts in which they are made.

Vernon Fisher: Flaubert's parrot Schrodinger's cat hey look monkeys throwing shit The celebrated painter unveils a new body of work with «a wide range of pop cultural and literary references that highlight the artist's play with imagery, association, and possible meaning.»

avaf works in a vast array of media, including painting, drawing, installations, video, sculpture, neons, wallpaper, decals, and often confronts gender, politics, and embedded cultural codes through pop imagery and neon colors.

Shaw mines his imagery from the cultural refuse of the twentieth century, using comic books, record covers, conspiracy magazines, and obscure religious iconography to produce a portrait of the nation's subconscious.

Any Given Sunday showcases a small group of artists who call attention to sports related imagery as a way to explore cultural topics such as the mass media, celebrity, race, and gender.

Through its collage of images, creating, according to Rosenquist, «a kind of motion in the mind», America's mainstream cultural values were being questioned by its own popular advertising imagery.

Chiefly recognized for his grand - scale meticulously blurred chalk drawings of referential and symbolic cultural motifs, the Wall Street Journal reports on Gary Simmons «s new presentations of boxing imagery in Miami and New York, as well as his participation in Prospect New Orleans.

avaf works in a vast array of media, including painting, drawing, installations, video, sculpture, neon, wallpaper, decals, and often confronts gender, politics, and embedded cultural codes through pop imagery and neon colors.

Bradford's monumental painting My Grandmother Felt the Color, 2016, is currently on view at the BMA in a gallery dedicated to social abstraction, alongside other artists who have turned to abstract imagery to convey the humanity, complexity, and ongoing impact of specific cultural experiences, such as Jack Whitten and Ross Bleckner.

By combining Brazilian and Chinese imagery and stories, Varejão creates her own type of mestizaje, a term the artist often references as it embodies the concept of miscegenation — the cultural and biological mixing of race.

Hank Willis Thomas has long illuminated the histories of racialized labor, Black cultural economies, politically crafted imagery, and their cumulative roads to revolution.

But they cast a wide cultural net woven of found imagery, wabi sabi (the beauty of things worn by being handled, things overlooked or thrown away), crazy quilts, poetry, art history, feminist art, eroticism, intimacy, violence, maps, colonialism, and the continuing war on black and brown bodies.

Fisher's latest body of work presents a wide range of pop cultural, literary, and scientific references that highlight the artist's play with imagery, association, and possible meaning.

The theoretical complexity underpinning Lloyd's practice finds its material and processual counterpoint in the synthesis of past and future - combining high and low cultural perspectives, digital and analogue techniques, and traditional and non-traditional artistic imagery and processes.

Yoshida, who encouraged the use of commercial and popular cultural imagery, led a group of artists who came to be known as the Imagists who distinguished themselves from the art scenes in New York and Europe with high color figurative paintings and drawings.

Integrating new scholarship, documentary imagery and archival materials, Robert Rauschenberg is the first comprehensive catalogue of the artist's career in 20 years, an important contribution to American cultural and intellectual history and a necessary volume for anyone interested in contemporary art.

In a culture that is stuffed full of imagery, icons, argument, products, brands and just plain junk, can we invent something new by mining, reframing, re-contextualizing, and re-conceiving some of the ideas and objects that make up the cultural moment in which we live?

Curators Stephanie Plunkett and Joyce K. Schiller have the pleasure of teaching a MICA course exploring the artistic and cultural underpinnings of published imagery through history, and we are pleased to present the findings of our talented students in this weekly blog.

Norman Rockwell Museum Curators Stephanie Plunkett and Joyce K. Schiller have the pleasure of teaching a MICA course exploring the artistic and cultural underpinnings of published imagery through history, and we are pleased to present the findings of our talented students in this weekly blog.

As gossipy as it is reverent, Burr's proclivity for sorting, cataloguing, and cross-referencing thematic subjects comprises what critic and art historian George Baker's has succinctly described as the artist's «not - exactly - dialectical cultural pairings» of appropriated imagery.

Integrating new scholarship, documentary imagery and archival materials, Robert Rauschenberg is the first comprehensive catalogue of the artist's career in 20 years, an important contribution to American cultural and intellectual history across disciplines and a necessary volume for anyone interested in art of the present day.

Recalling the look of chalk on blackboards, the effect reinforces the mysterious quality of Simmons» imagery while suggesting movement, the fleetingness of time, the pliability of history, and the inevitable fading of both cultural and personal memory.

For many 20th century African American arts and cultural figures, the legacy of slavery and the Civil War defined career, influenced private life, and left lasting emotional issues to resolve as they endeavored to reclaim their culture and imagery.

Through a range of image sources and her stage - like environments, such as gallery walls painted with Chroma Key blue paint used in film or TV studios, Hamilton explores our associations to surreal and seductive cultural imagery while examining the histories of art, film, and performance.

George Basilitz erects large statues, but their roughly hacked wood goes along with his love of folk imagery and German cultural traditions.

Using photography, video, painting and installation, the artists referenced the imagery and text of football to explore the cultural environment of the game.

The exhibition will bring together more than 12 of his canvases from this period, which combine spectacularly rendered psychedelic surfaces with provocative imagery from a staggering array of cultural sources, from religious icons to Blaxploitation films.

Drawing on diverse cultural sources including literature, history, art, music and religion, Khan has developed a unique narrative involving densely layered imagery that inhabits the space between abstraction and figuration and speaks to the themes of history, cumulative experience and the metaphysical collapse of time into single moments.

But Stezaker was a student too at a time when a wholesale critique of the pop - cultural image was being launched by such thinkers as Guy Debord; the Situtationists» scurrilous repurposing of media imagery became an exemplary strategy for him, alongside his abiding, and then unfashionable, interest in surrealism.