Sentences with phrase «on vernacular forms»
His practice also touches on vernacular forms, such as murals and comic books, in order to correct, in his words, the «vacuum in the image bank.»
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Drawing on vernacular forms and collaborative and performative actions, Iraqi - Kurdish artist Hiwa K (b. 1975, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq) makes work inspired by political events, chance encounters, oral histories, and his own experiences, including fleeing Iraq on foot in the late 1990s.
Drawing on vernacular forms and collaborative and performative actions, the Iraqi - Kurdish artist makes work inspired by political events, chance encounters, oral histories, and his own experiences, including fleeing Iraq on foot in the late 1990s.
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The show presented a new body of work — formal studies of the female form, including large, expressive line paintings of the body rendered in blue paint on raw canvas — that marked a radical departure from Emin's vernacular up until that moment.
Druecke sees a parallel between Garden Path and his series of bronze plaques: «It's interesting to see how effectively the path inhabits its form, inviting engagement through its vernacular function — visitors have been walking on it since I began installing it several weeks ago — but complicating that engagement with aesthetic considerations that tend to lead one away from individual sculptures at Lynden rather than toward them.»
Birch's visual style, a form of conceptual Southern Vernacular painting, is a syncretic blend of representation and abstraction that utilizes African diasporic retentions — cultural traits that have persisted across history — to create a record of the past's symbolic traces on the present, in order to preserve them for the future.
His research and eventual film work will explore how the influence of these committed intellectuals reverberated widely in the post-war cultural arena, eventually giving rise to an emerging discipline of «cultural studies», that, in its focus on popular art forms and vernacular traditions, posed considerable challenges to the established academic elite of that time.
Norton's project in PAFA's Historic Landmark Building uses paintings in the collection as sounding boards for a group of new works that reflect variously on issues like the historic portrayal of women in art, paternalism and colonialism, and the vernacular forms of folk culture.