Sentences with phrase «of pop culture imagery»

Billboard (1957) marked the introduction of pop culture imagery into her paintings.

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The film makes use of some kick - ass cinematography (colorful imagery of the summer, and a picture that reflects childhood innocence), while the story sheds light on poverty, and the bad things that come along with it, and how it affects childhood, and for me, that is what pop culture nowadays would describe as «woke», because not a lot of films these days shed light on those important issues.

The film is very much of its time, trying desperately for «cult» credibility as it is by casting Lemmy, Iggy Pop and that bloke from Fields Of The Nephilim in cameo roles; it also sports a soundtrack by Goth - punk rockers The Ministry and contains the inevitable fractal imagery and pretentions towards artiness that were peculiar to post 80s popular culturof its time, trying desperately for «cult» credibility as it is by casting Lemmy, Iggy Pop and that bloke from Fields Of The Nephilim in cameo roles; it also sports a soundtrack by Goth - punk rockers The Ministry and contains the inevitable fractal imagery and pretentions towards artiness that were peculiar to post 80s popular culturOf The Nephilim in cameo roles; it also sports a soundtrack by Goth - punk rockers The Ministry and contains the inevitable fractal imagery and pretentions towards artiness that were peculiar to post 80s popular culture.

In a year filled with political noise about income inequality and the One Percent lashing out as what they might perceive as government overreach, it's pretty heartening to see a piece of mainstream pop culture embracing imagery that strikes unmistakable parallels between Collins» bruising make believe and the realities that many moviegoers who will be watching this film on opening weekend have to deal with outside the confines of the multiplex.

The artists associated did not adopt the name, or have a shared ideology, but they worked independently of New York contemporary art trends and incorporated imagery from popular culture into their works, although less cerebrally than New York Pop artists.

Cole's work is generally discussed in the context of postmodern eclecticism, combining references and appropriation ranging from African and African American imagery, to Dada's readymades and Surrealism's transformed objects, and icons of American pop culture or African and Asian masks, into highly original and witty assemblages.

Britain focused on the dynamic and paradoxical imagery of American pop culture as powerful, manipulative symbolic devices that were affecting whole patterns of life, while simultaneously improving the prosperity of a society.

Influenced equally by the history of painting as by the pulp imagery of pop - culture, Trenton Doyle Hancock transforms traditionally formal decisions — such as the use of color, language and pattern — into opportunities...

He moved to New York in 1978 to attend the School of Visual Arts, where he befriended Keith Haring and Jean - Michel Basquiat, whose art was also shaped by TV imagery, Pop Art and street culture.

Prince's initial goal was to emphasize the powerful impact of mass media imagery in shaping contemporary consumer culture, but eventually, he ended up creating his very own pop style and powerful series of works which became some of the most wanted materials at many prestigious auctions.

His imagery draws upon pop icons, advertising and consumer culture of the 1960s, including TV cartoon characters.

While some Pop artists use photography to react to consumer culture, Robert Heineken repurposes found magazine imagery to talk about the media's role in objectifying women, Richard Prince and Sarah Charlesworth of the Pictures Generation push the boundaries of image appropriation, Christopher Williams talks about means of image production and contemporary artist Lucas Blalock confuses subject and backdrop through Photoshop.

In a surreal amalgam of pop culture and the artist's own imagination, Hodgson's imagery is often exploding or coming apart, as if it unable to control the bonds of its own existence.

Emerging with the New York City graffiti and street art movement of the 1980s, Scharf's imagery draws upon pop icons, media advertising and consumer culture of the 1960s, including TV cartoon characters such as the Flintstones and the Jetsons.

Pettibon's literary quotations, however, come less from the kind of pop culture that provides much of his imagery than from the heady realm of nineteenth - and early - twentieth - century writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Ruskin, Henry James, and James Joyce.

Broadly speaking Jasper Johns» early work is seen as part of the Pop Art movement, a loose grouping that included Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist and Wayne Thiebaud, all of whom incorporated imagery from popular culture into their fine art.

An attempt to defuse the personal symbolism and painterly looseness of abstract expressionism, Pop Art merges popular and mass culture using instantly recognisable imagery and content, in the process elevating commonplace objects, people and symbols of everyday life to the level of fine art.

Moving between Paris, New York, and Los Angeles over ensuing years, Raysse created works that subtly critiqued consumer culture through their incorporation of media imagery and store - bought products, in a practice many historians cite as a precursor to American Pop.

A former student of Baldessari at CalArts in the»70s, Salle burst onto the contemporary art scene in the early 1980s with paintings that combined art - historical references and appropriated imagery from pop culture.

With PostPictures, we get a whole slew of artists manipulating familiar pop culture imagery; the premise being that digital artists working today are responding to what's up on digital screens, like Jack Goldstein, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, and Richard Prince did with print mags, TV, and cinema.

Snakes, spiders, scorpions, and other bits of nature from his hometown appear mixed in with Catholic symbolism, aliens, gang members, pop - culture references, and commercial imagery, giving brand logos and religious icons the same attention and placement.

Scharf placed his bright imagery, drawn from television and pop culture, on the streets and in nightclubs of the city, helping to nurture a dynamic and freewheeling scene.

In her videos, Prouvost plays with the lexicon of pop music, mass culture, and internet imagery.

On the other hand, being highly critical of religion, mass consumerism and the general darker side of human nature, Peter Adamyan uses pop culture imagery to comment on the contemporary society.

Working in the historical continuum of Pop Art, his recent paintings present abstracted cartoon imagery, making reference to both popular culture and the history of modern painting.

Look awhile longer and you'll discover that both their imagery and their facture reference landscape, cityscapes, pop culture and private narratives while they index the history of modern painting.

Richard Prince, one of the pioneers of the Pictures Generation movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s, has built a career out of wryly commenting upon the psychology of pop culture through appropriated imagery — perhaps best epitomized by his iconic Joke paintings.

His glossy photo - realist paintings isolate a particularly influential branch from our ubiquitous pop - culture cacophony — the movie poster — to illustrate the tensions, escape fantasies, conflicts, erotic stimulation and power of this popular form of mass - media imagery.

Artist Sarah Charlesworth, whose trenchant work investigated pop culture by borrowing from and tweaking its imagery, died of a brain aneurysm yesterday, according to her New York gallery, Susan Inglett.

Pop artists are so called because of their use of imagery from popular culture.

As initiated by the museum, this exhibition sought out current manifestations surrealism through an imagery of pop culture made uncanny or grotesque through intense subjectivity.

German painter Markus Oehlen has created an eclectic body of mixed media paintings that sample imagery from pop culture and punk while remaining true to his anti-establishment roots in the raucous 1980s Berlin art scene, which included colleagues Martin Kippenberger, Werner Büttner and Georg Herold.

Continuing to combine Meso - American iconography, art historical references and pop culture imagery, Enrique Chagoya's new work explores the representation of history and boldly comments on the current global political climate.

Pensato is fond of discarded toys and the pop - culture imagery from her youth.

Following the quoted Pop mantra of Andy Warhol, these young and exciting artists absorb and reflect the ubiquitous consumer imagery so prevalent in contemporary culture.

Warhol was a leading proponent of the «pop art» genre, a post-war style based on vivid imagery from popular culture.

The Tobias Brothers draw on a diverse range of sources and imagery in the creation of their works, ranging from Russian Constructivism to pop culture, to art historical references, to name only a few.

Now he is having his first show as a solo artist, presenting a series of paintings that riff on Mexican culture, pop imagery and the materials and landscape proffered by the desert he inhabits.

«New Realism» would shortly be replaced by «Pop art,» a term critic Lawrence Alloway had used to identify the work of several British artists who incorporated the imagery of advertising and popular culture into their work in the late 1950s.

Images of stretched and twisted bottles of Evian water, nostalgic imagery from pop culture, consumer products and other random representations exist alongside graffitied texts.There also will be a yellow painted truck in the center of the gallery.

The repetition and pervasiveness of commercial imagery in our visual culture has inspired many artists to pay homage to pop icons.

His zany mixmaster skill for hybridizing European Old Master paintings with funky, American pop culture imagery is so powerful that he became instrumental in the international revival of painting - along with Jean - Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring - from the 1980s onward, influencing artists of his own generation and later generations.

The term Pop - Art was invented by British curator Lawrence Alloway in 1955, to describe a new form of «Popular» art - a movement characterized by the imagery of consumerism and popular culture.

His imagery draws upon pop icons, media advertising and consumer culture of the 1960s, including TV cartoon characters such as the Flintstones and the Jetsons.

Combining pop culture subject matter with abstraction, his fragmented comic - inspired imagery paired with text is reminiscent of the 1960s Pop Art movemepop culture subject matter with abstraction, his fragmented comic - inspired imagery paired with text is reminiscent of the 1960s Pop Art movemePop Art movement.

This group exhibition explores the power of pop culture — showing how its imagery, ideas, language and reception have influenced contemporary art.

Markus's art typically binds three influences: the visual style of a historic male painter, pop culture imagery, and a painting technique from the abstract expressionists that lets colors randomly mix on the canvas.

The goal of The 4th Wall Gallery is to exhibit an amazingly diverse group of today's emerging and established cutting edge contemporary artists in areas of illustration, street art, and pop culture imagery.

Although Thiebaud is often associated with the Pop Art movement, his work does not critique the iconic imagery of American society and consumer culture, but embraces it instead.

The early lumping of Mr. Rauschenberg's work with Pop art now looks like a misreading, as his creativity went far beyond pressing low culture imagery into high art contexts.