Sentences with phrase «overtly political work»

In the 1960s he made more overtly political work, epitomized by the monumental wraparound painting F - 111 (1965), a canvas in 51 pieces that places American goods against the backdrop of a military fighter - bomber.

For more overtly political work, there's a punchy installation of sculptures by the Amsterdam - based Folkert de Jong at James Cohan, with figures of ghoulishly melting, candy - colored American statesmen — Benjamin Franklin; Abraham Lincoln twice — set against an explosive Yinka Shonibare mural.

The most overtly political work in the exhibition, Means Without End sits somewhat uneasily in a show that is on the whole, carefully non-political, outside of photography's formally conservative circles.

State Britain, on show between January and September 2007 at Tate Britain's Duveen Galleries in London, was by far the most overtly political work in contention for the prize.

But several critics applauded Wallinger's victory and many arts commentators seemed hopeful that the jury's choice of an overtly political work would help the prize be taken more seriously in the future.

Also at Chancery Lane is one from a set of two altered chairs by Jaffa Lam, the only overtly political work in the exhibition.

State Britain, on show between January and September this year at the Duveen galleries at Tate Britain, London, was by far the most overtly political work in contention.

From overtly political works by artists such as Emory Douglas and Benny Andrews to the highly experimental abstractions of Frank Bowling, Sam Gilliam and Alma Thomas, the show is filled with imperative, but until recently overlooked, artists.

It's kind of a gamble to bring overtly political works to a fair like Art Basel, where the transaction is king — the photographs, which come in an edition of five, are selling for $ 10,000 each — but Mekas said it's important to make that connection.

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Question topics included the expected new bridge tolls, a toll and finance task force expected to have already been created, whether it's «overtly political» to not announce new tolls before the November election, whether there continues to be a $ 3.9 billion cap on the bridge cost, two Hudson Valley state senate races, how the crane was named, ebola and whether he anticipates limiting travelers into New York and Amtrak's announced plan to close four tunnels for lengthy repair work.

Lady Bird and Call Me By Your Name stand out for being the least overtly political of all of the nominees, but that might work in their favor.

Sundance this year seemed dominated by overtly political documentaries and small - scale, personally focused dramatic works.

Overtly political fiction is difficult to pull off, but Mosley makes it work by grounding his issues in the felt life of his characters.

While some works in the volume are overtly political — Ai Weiwei's irreverent CCTV Spray (2012) guides readers in making a spray - can device that can block out surveillance cameras — others more subtly reference the complex nature of cultural exchange in a rapidly globalizing world.

Most of this work isn't overtly political on its surface — there is Henry Taylor's monumental 2012 portrait of a woman grilling chicken on a barbecue, or Celeste Dupuy - Spencer's 2016 painting of a man making a playlist on his laptop, a cigarette - filled ashtray in front of him.

Jurors agreed this year's shortlisted works were overtly and unashamedly political.

Liu Wei's work has become less overtly political over time, dealing with universal themes of humanity.

Presented alongside African masks and prints by Otto Dix and Max Beckmann, German printmakers who were great influences, Smith's prints exhibited the stylistic treatment and overtly political content characteristic of German Expressionism, as well as the motifs and forms of the tribal masks that continue to influence his work today.

Her subsequent video works departed from overtly political content or critique in favor of more poetic imagery and complex human narratives.

While not overtly political (though it could be argued that, with the underrepresentation of women in tech, just working with technology as a woman artist is a feminist act), these works act as historical precedents to the more biting commentary by younger artists.

O'Grady earned attention earlier in the 1980s, with more overtly gendered and political work, in a decade of irony and the «Pictures generation.»

His photographic work explores the interdependence of landscapes and their inhabitants, often with overtly political themes.

Not overtly political, Barrada's work retains a sort of observational, academic cool with regard to her subjects; an attitude she cites as a result of her training as an historian at the Sorbonne.

«Although figurative painting is inherently narrative I try to avoid overtly message - based or political work.

Tate Britain director Stephen Deuchar said that while it was probably the most overtly political piece the gallery had housed, Wallinger had used the peace protest to create a work of art.

While his work is never overtly political, a persistent sense of urgency pervades, with the artist insisting the viewer «Pay attention» an admonition that appears in reverse on one of his prints.

From 1959 through 1964, Golub and his wife Nancy Spero opted to live in Europe, a move occasioned in part by the belief that Europe would be more receptive to their work dealing overtly with issues of power, sexual and political.

The exhibition includes artists whose work is more subtle, though not overtly political or dealing with a real issue or experience (as with Labowitz and Lacy and Hunter's), still critiques and makes visible the misogyny and stereotypes existent during the period.

It's an overtly angry and political work of art, one that has continuing resonance today.

A new show drawn entirely from OCMA's permanent collection focuses on works by 16 women whose art in the 1990s underwent a transformation, from overtly political to something more poetic and personal.

With numerous exhibitions at major museums and galleries, as well as ambitious projects at lesser - known exhibition spaces in Anyang (South Korea), Baku (Azerbaijan), Marrakech (Morocco), and Sharjah (United Arab Emirates), Murillo puts his politics of inclusivity to work without needing to make the work itself overtly political.

Unusually for a Pop artist, Mr. Hamilton made an overtly political statement with «Hugh Gaitskell as a Famous Monster of Filmland» (1964), merging a photograph of Claude Rains as the Phantom of the Opera with a newspaper photograph of Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the Labour Party, who, when the work was begun, had refused to support nuclear disarmament.

In one of The Armory Show's few overtly political moments, a powerful and timely painting by Titus Kaphar hangs on the booth's outer wall; the work (The Cost of Removal, 2017) was inspired by President Trump's hanging of a portrait of Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office and sees Jackson on a horse with the names of his slaves penned on shreds of canvas tacked on by rusted nails.

The paintings titled The People in the Pavement are not overtly political, but seem to reflect and comment on the lives of working people of Guyana, then British Guiana.

Of the artists in EXPAT, Henson's work is the most overtly socio - political.

Tillmans's embrace of an overtly aesthetic approach to image making alongside a personal commitment to political activism and social justice may have suggested to Klein an alternative way of working to the more rigorously institutional critique - driven aspects of his New York environment.

Activism and Camouflage denote works that are overtly political — like the Gran Fury collective's famous 1987 New Museum installation «Let the Record Show...» which is re-created in the exhibition with the same pink triangle and the words «Silence = Death» in neon — and on the opposite end of the spectrum, works in which artists «bury references to AIDS or sexuality so thoroughly that they often claimed that their work had no personal or expressive meanings at all,» according to the wall text.

He had become known for his dream - like paintings with a personal system of signs and symbols; once war broke out he introduced overtly political commentary into his work.

Third, her works are political without overtly announcing themselves as - such.

Showing works that were overtly critical of the government and the war in Vietnam as well as of museums themselves, the exhibition set out to disturb the artistic and political status quo.

Following the arc of his evolving practice, as presented by the exhibition, one sees Marshall working through an overtly political form of history painting to a more distilled mode of anonymous, intimate portraiture that often literally sparkles in its sequined detail.

But even abstract artists like Lewis, who resisted pressure from within the black art world to be more overtly political, were eclipsed — in part, paradoxically, because when curators did seek out black artists» work, figuration helped them check off a box.

However, his work was never overtly political or didactic.

While politicians and world leaders have been the subjects of her portraits, they are not overtly political nor endeavoring to make a larger statement on waste — which is what makes her work so compelling.