Sentences with phrase «personal iconography»

"Personal iconography" refers to the collection of symbols, images, or objects that hold personal significance or meaning to an individual. It represents a visual shorthand for the unique experiences, beliefs, and identity of a person. Full definition
Each work condenses the film's dominant themes — death, rebirth, and the twilight era of modern America — into totemic sculptural form, while invoking the complex personal iconography of Barney.
Influenced by the Mugal heritage of miniature paintings, Qureshi has evolved his own personal iconography which permeates his paintings and more recently his site - specific installations.
Childish's imagery combines a historical photograph of the area where he lives and works with personal iconography pertaining to his experience of the place.
The exhibition at WIELS places an emphasis on her visual practice and highly personal iconography, bringing this singular work out of obscurity.
Influenced by the Mugal heritage of miniature paintings, Qureshi has evolved his own personal iconography which permeates his paintings and... see the artist page
Her work is created by a wholly original mash - up of Western modernism and post-modernism, classical South Asian and Tibetan traditions, and is always defined by the commonality of the painter's touch and sensitivity for process and materiality, creating work of a deeply personal iconography that investigates the universal dilemmas and mysteries of existence.
As with his ceramics, tapestries, sculptures and other works, Perry's dresses often incorporate personal iconography and contain a variety symbols that relate to themes of identity, social status, sexuality and religion.
Intrinsically linked to the milieu of Postwar American Art, every aspect of the artist's eccentric personal iconography will be on view for rediscovery.
Tunga, in contrast, is well into his Surrealist period, with a decidedly personal iconography for his dreamscape.
Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects Emmanuel Crespo's broad - spectrum personal iconography includes whales, paper boats, grasshoppers, goldfish, umbrellas and other images drawn from the bottomless depths of his imagination and memory.
The work in 3 Sets is not only symbolic and representative, but it demonstrates how history / memory and imagination conspire in generating abstract personal iconographies.
However, by the early 1980s he had adopted a much more personal iconography, including things present in his home and studio, allusions to his childhood and family and quotations from artworks — his own and others».
Showcasing more than 75 linocut prints based on ink sketches and printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, the exhibition revisits Kentridge's collection of familiar personal iconography; from coffee pots, to typewriters, cats, trees, nudes and other imagery.
In the late 1960s Guston returned to figurative painting, developing a complex and highly personal iconography.
Painter Mary DeVincentis Herzog employs her deeply personal iconography to investigate the universal dilemmas and mysteries of existence.
At the same time it was really made up of personal iconography.
For all the indiscipline, he is building a personal iconography.
Classified and archived in separate compartments, individual images make up a personal iconography to be read as a hypertext, whose total meaning is constantly in flux.
And having built up such a body of methods, modes of working, and an entire universe of personal iconography, there will no doubt be plenty to draw from.
The works he created parallel to his psychotherapy contain the elements of what became a personal iconography
His graphic drawings and personal iconography are replicated, re-contextualized, and materialized infinitely throughout his densely - layered paintings.
The exhibition will consider the key themes and the diverse, personal iconography that Kiefer has created in his work over the years and will look at the influence of place on his oeuvre.
McKenzie writes: «Kitaj was one of the most formidable and articulate artists to develop a personal iconography drawing inspiration from a range of sources.
Growing up in Manchester in the 1980s and 1990s, Ofili's personal iconography is infused with references to ethnicity and black culture.
Paul Klee: German - Swiss artist Paul Klee (1879 - 1940) came from a musical family, and he filled his paintings with a personal iconography of musical notes and playful symbols.
Imbued with a sense of personal iconography, his practice often combines signature figurative elements, such as bug - eyed humans and eclectic headgear with gestural, abstract blocks of color.
Largely influenced by the Mugal heritage of miniature paintings, Qureshi has evolved his own personal iconography that permeates his works as observed in his various paintings and more recently, his site - specific installations.
Jörg Immendorff's newest paintings continue to explore the artist's deep interest in an evolving, personal iconography, re-contextualizing symbols and characters of earlier series alongside images from contemporary and historical events.
Renowned photographer, in his works he presents a personal iconography always connected to a deep reflection on human existence.
The large - scale paintings in the exhibition and this accompanying book explore her personal iconography of forms.
From the brilliant colors and energetic brushwork of Alma Woodsey Thomas's paintings to shredded tire sculptures by Chakaia Booker, works featured in this exhibition testify to the enduring ability of abstraction to convey both personal iconography and universal themes.
The exhibition will consider the key themes and the personal iconography that Kiefer has created in his work over the years and will look at the influence of place on his oeuvre.
The exhibition not only celebrates these artists as leaders in the field, but also the enduring ability of abstraction to convey both personal iconography and universal themes.
Cryptic interpretations of history and identity, in terms of both her race and gender lead to an almost poetic understanding of the politics and personal iconographies that underlay both.
Her personal iconography often featured organic imagery such as birds, eggs, leaves, fruit and tendril - like automatist lines depicted with a sense of «surrealist black humour and violence», often within a dreamlike landscape.
I like using the same objects weaving in and out of paintings, creating a personal iconography and giving them a world to exist in.
His paintings and drawings range between abstraction and representation, with a focus on depicting his personal iconography and the essence of what he sees.
Through the rest of the decade he employed his personal iconography, by turns whimsical, menacing, and erotic, in a diverse array of projects.
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