Sentences with phrase «of ironic»

I know, kind of ironic purposely painting a drop cloth.

And if they lose their home, and with a bit of an ironic twist, they may be moving in with their new college grad,» Tilp says.

Kind of ironic that the Bank of Canada is afraid of raising interest rates by only 0.25 percent.)

In fact it's kind of ironic to be willing to pay so much tax to then invest in something where the main benefit is it's tax free nature.

Dr. Susan Johnson: Yes, and it's sort of ironic, isn't it because of the image of the heart, the images of the heart but yes, that's right.

Yesterday was a perfect day, full of fun and even a bit of ironic humor.

The Fire TV OS itself is a fork of Android, so it's kind of ironic that it will now compete directly with Android TV devices made by Sony, Sharp, Phillips and others.

It's easy to blame corporations for data breaches that expose our personal information, but it's also kind of ironic that some people will post anything online.

That's kind of ironic because DNA testing — arguably the most scientific of all forensic disciplines — is highly regulated, while many other forensic techniques with questionable scientific pedigrees are completely unregulated in all but a few states.

It's kind of ironic that the resolution IMHO looks more like a social compact than an all out conflict of rich vs. poor.

It's sort of ironic, but many of the tools that allow up to be more productive can double as productivity killers when you're unfocused.

It would be kind of ironic if environmentalists succeeded in blocking our use of coal to generate electricity and then China and Asia started using more of our coal...

«It's kind of ironic that you have a president who wants to roll back regulations against oil producers, yet companies like Exxon want more rules to be heaped on them,» said Milloy.

This is kind of ironic, since the term geoengineering was originally coined to describe ocean disposal of carbon dioxide from power plants.

And kind of ironic.

Kind of ironic for you to mention creationist scientists, because that is actually where you are apparently casting your lot.

Nutrition science is another low - trust area, which is kind of ironic because diet is something that kills us by the millions, yet people are happy to jump onto pretty much any quack diet that comes along while screaming bloody murder about emitting plant food.

In one of those ironic twists that you couldn't make up, the very next billboard on the road out of the airport is another Queensland Government effort, this time to encourage people to buy shares in QR National.

One of the ironic facts connected to this is the popularity of the DMI arctic temperature data among certain denialists, who are in all other cases most disdainful of climate models.

(* No, I don't really expect learned or informed debate on Slashdot, but repeated clear explanations of how other popular misapprehensions are wrong has eventually caused some to either die out or retreat to the status of ironic in - joke — which leads me to hope, perhaps naively, that the might be true of wider society.)

It's cold, Olympian, disengaged; Guston's reinterpretation of that ironic grotesque, however, is an expression of rage, closer to Samuel Beckett's in its emotional intensity and its explicit engagement with the existential and the social.

Zeng Fanzhi (b. 1964) Number 6 in the list of the World's Top contemporary artists, Zeng Fanzhi is noted for his figurative works employing a combination of expressionism and realism, as well as his sequence of ironic Great Man paintings, which includes Lenin, Mao, and Karl Marx among others.

Flavin's Tatlin «monuments» are combinations of 8», 6», 4» and 2» white fluorescent lamps, suggesting architectural structures through modernist abstraction and a dash of ironic humour; as he explained, «These «monuments» only survive as long as the light system is useful» and, simply, they can be turned on and off.

Through the recurring use of ironic self - portrayal in their paintings, sculptures and installations, the artist duo V&B stir up a commentary on the (art) world.

As such, it is hard to underestimate their importance as we cast about today for subject matter that moves beyond our contemporary doctrine of the ironic, abject and just plain superficial.

Situated on the convergence of ironic distance, serious homage and play, Graham inserts painting into the context of a post-medium practice: the works are an extension of his artistic persona undertaking the act of painting and are inconceivable as separate from it.

He seems to have denied himself nothing while working — no color, idea or accident that came to hand — resulting in a pictorial overload that today looks like a foreshadowing of ironic postmodernist pastiche.

He first became known for paintings in which he used his name as a motif on the canvas, shattering the myth of the artist through an act of ironic self - marketing.

There's the Greek myth, biblical speak, a journalistic voice, and a kind of ironic touching voice.

Once defined, Garri - do three progressive movements: a staged exercise with each of the objects, a moment of photographic documentation and a final act of pictorial intervention by using texts which convert the pieces in memes of an ironic and meta - standardized character.

Afterward, guests swigged champagne at the Prince fete at FLY, a club on the outskirts of party neighborhood Lan Kwai Fong, where late in the night the DJ played Jessie J's «Price Tag,» a kind of ironic anthem for an art fair.

Flavin's Tatlin «monuments» are combinations of 8», 6», 4» and 2» white fluorescent lamps, suggesting architectural structures through modernist abstraction and a dash of ironic humour; as he explained, «These «monuments» only survive as long as the light system is useful» and they can easily be turned on and off.

They cover the principal phases of his career from the Pandemonium drawings of the early 1960s, the development of his ironic «Heroes» in the mid-1960s, and the subsequent fracturing of his motifs to the eventual inversion of the motif from the late 1960s.

Artists like Celeste Dupuy - Spencer, Henry Taylor, and Aliza Nisenbaum prefer to erect, through paint, a wall of ironic disengagement from their subjects.

Lambert is featured by a selection of ironic brightly lit, flashing signs, including one that says «100 %» in lights, yet is missing a single bulb.

Increasingly, the art world is in thrall to the triumph of art direction, something which places art in the service of the ironic presentation of forms, our distance from which is the art's message.

And whereas kitsch in art was once to be assiduously disdained, art that traffics in sentimentality and bathos behind a dancing veil of ironic laughter has become highly prized.

Although the works on display could echo random graffiti found on any city's walls and protest banners, the work emanates a series of ironic and yet satirical statements inspired by the national and global political scene, while at the same time consciously ignoring prominent issues such as immigration, terrorism and war.

He does this by means of ironic compositions and overly sentimental depictions of nature — beautiful pictures that he decomposes and examines in relation to clichés and familiar references.

These qualities can be viewed for their own sake, or taken with a certain amount of ironic distance.

Both his abstract and representational works seem to cover similar emotional terrain, a kind of ironic pessimism which made his work very fashionable in the late 1980s.

The Arte Povera artist reflects on the impression that popular military culture left on his early life through a kind of ironic adult - childlike lens.

With this exhibition, the artist herself has noted how the sex overlaps with politics, saying that the «Erotic undertones flavor the meaning of the term [kissing point]... giving these junctures a psychological dynamic and more than a bit of ironic interplay.»

For the occasion, the artist is revisiting some of the themes of that exhibition in which he transformed the gallery into a furniture showroom with a variety of ironic takes on furnishing conventions.

When later art slips in, it mostly dates from a flurry of the ironic detachment nearly twenty years ago.

Cage's silence, part of a distinctive form of ironic resistance, speaks directly to Automobile Tire Print.

Mai 36 Galerie's Kabinett will present five paintings by Cuban artist Flavio Garciandía (b. 1954), which are indicative of his ironic and satirical engagement with both Western modernism, as well as stereotypical artistic notions of «Cubaness» or «Caribbeanness».

In a kind of ironic way, being drawn to good - old fashioned painting on canvas gave her a lot of space, a lot of freedom to explore ideas,» said Scott Rothkopf, the Whitney Museum's chief curator and organizing curator of this exhibition.

Elliott Erwitt is an American advertising and documentary photographer known for his black and white candid shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings — a master of Henri Cartier - Bresson's «decisive moment».

«I've found that in working this way — with this bodily, physical experience of landscape — it's possible to be both engaged in the idea of an empathetic response to what's going on while at the same time having this sort of ironic detachment,» says Seattle - based artist Vaughn Bell, who built Personal Forest Floor (Portable Mountain), 2003 — 8.