Sentences with phrase «political gesture»
The increase in taxes on high earners is a petty political gesture rather than a serious financial solution.
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The whole urge to become an abstract painter was, to me, a very political gesture.
The awesome part is, this rejection was not some empty political gesture.
He transforms political gestures into abstract paintings of transcendent beauty that make visible the paradox between a real event and the representation of it.
It'll go on for a bit longer, various political gestures will be made, and then everybody will quietly forget about it as they move on to the next one.
In any case, as the 90s closed this rock - bohemian leftism increasingly appeared as little but a confused incoherence that took hyper - radical political gestures for granted (sort of as another mode of transgressionism — Chomskyite Marxism for me, Marilyn Manson for thee, piercings for both of us) even as its actual materialism and actual political impotence / apathy became ever - more pronounced.
Do you believe there is political gesture in stillness of her paintings?
Just a «friendly» reminder to Teheran about the «stick» of sanctions, and a way of political gesturing while allowing the JCPOA to continue.
For all of his theological limitations, Niebuhr epitomized a heroic age when men thought that the best political gestures were neither partisan nor ecclesial.
In both instances the use of the symbols was demeaning both to the user and to the audience, since they were so obviously calculated political gestures.
I read the speech and then watched it later, what struck me was how much there was in it that would not please the Party Environmental = Taxes / Liberal Hand wringing cant Taxes - The refusal to withdraw the 50p rate which we all know was an expensive political gesture Ring fencing International Aid - An expensive hobby and a democratic outrage given its continued unpopularity The EU - Nothing much....
«It was interpreted as a pro Republican political gesture,» Gyory said.
«It was interpreted as a pro-Republican political gesture,» Gyory said.
The scene set in the movie theater at the center of the film functions as the kind of almost subliminally consciousness - raising political gesture he has to use to get his point across.
The closest thing to an overt political gesture came early, in 1968, when Bernard Pagés lay sticks in coiled metal fencing, like a homemade bomb.
«Nobody picked up on the fact that it was a tiny political gesture,» he says, «my little personal squeak.»
In the New Yorker, Vinson Cunningham speaks to the artist Stanford Biggers, while on ArtNet, Tim Schneider looks at the arguments against the Met's decision to introduce a mandatory entrance fee and argues that we should «focus less on political gestures made inside galleries than on organizing for social causes outside of them».
His paintings shift from abstraction to figuration creating a surrealistic atmosphere with casual tongue - and - cheek political gestures relating to his Mexican - American heritage.
About the artist Taking fraught issues of personal and national identity as her subject, Yael Bartana (b. 1970, Kfar Yehezkel, Israel) works in photography, film, video, sound, and installation and focuses on the poetics of individual political gestures.
«It has become, perhaps as a direct result of Ford's formulation, an inexpensive political gesture for members of Congress to call for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justices whose decisions do not meet with political favor.
One fascinating tidbit that addresses a couple of these issues at once: «The whole urge to become an abstract painter was, to me, a very political gesture.
It remains to be seen if FIFA will take action — they frequently take a dim view of political gestures.
Building a mosque near the center is a political gesture victory for the Muslim terrorists...
Yet if any sanctions follow over what has been considered a political gesture it was not something that concerned the Catalan, who won 21 trophies at Barcelona and Bayern Munich, as he opened his City account.
«No, a wall is a political gesture.
The political gesture he made to domestic violence survivors - # 15million raised from the «tampon tax» would go to women's sector charities - was completely negated, if not outweighed, by the devastation caused by local council cuts.
This amendment, however, appears doomed to be a political gesture as the Senate remains Democrat - controlled and Obama serves out his second term.
This is something that Labour has previously spoken out against, describing it — among many other epithets — as a «political gesture».
Others saw Boughton's statement as a jab at Malloy and a political gesture to the Republican base.
If the NUT can not get the other teacher unions to support its action it will be seen as a political gesture rather than a professional organisation defending its members working conditions.
The painting celebrates marking as a political gesture and an artistic drive, underlining the performative aspect of the word the exhibition takes cues from.
Bradford: No, I thought it was a political gesture initially to push back against easy narratives of blackness or easy equations [to] give us the real story, the real figuration.
No, I thought it was a political gesture initially to push back against easy narratives of blackness or easy equations [to] give us the real story, the real figuration.
And her insertion of fictional black figures within a mostly white tradition of portraiture is a political gesture in itself.
The question that we should ask ourselves is, can formal abstract painting be a political gesture?
His keen examinations of political gesture are steadily outgrowing their categorization as visual art and becoming increasingly discursive projects rooted in actualization.
In an attempt to provide context, the label text says: «As a political gesture, [Hershman Leeson] partly painted the masks black to express her solidarity with the civil rights movement,» and moves on to discuss the controversy the works caused — due to the novelty of using sound in an art gallery.
Rather than acting as a static façade, Lee Kit's paintings operate against his formal training — another political gesture — by facilitating, or contributing to the illusion of his minimalist assemblages.
Positioned slightly below eye level, the face is cast from that of the Caucasian artist's, but using a dark, greenish - brown wax as «a political gesture... to express her solidarity with the Civil Rights Movement.»
The origin of Bearden's collage works, in a meeting of the Spiral group of African - American artists during the Civil Rights movement, specifically on the eve of the March on Washington of 1963, marked a political gesture to move away from abstraction to black figuration.
The subjects conjured from her imagination are always black — a «political gesture», she says, since «we're used to looking at portraits of white people in painting.»
All the figures are black, not so much a political gesture as because «it would be really weird if I painted white people,» Yiadom - Boakye said.
«Collaboration is a political gesture,» Sabbatino said.
Starting this narrative with Frankenthaler is a political gesture, yet the rebalancing of the historical record is hardly the only thematic emphasis.