Sentences with phrase «pop cultural movements»

So how could a cheap little movie that is in many ways, as our Todd Ramlow pointed out, a commercial for «what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas» debauchery, become one of 2009's biggest pop cultural movements (apart from Twilight of course)?

Not exact matches

Featuring a boyish animatronic figure reminiscent of literary and pop cultural characters such as Huckleberry Finn, Howdy Doody, and Alfred E. Neuman, the mascot of Mad magazine, the work is suspended with heavy chains from a large mechanized gantry, which is programmed to choreograph its movements.

Showcasing works from the 1960s through 2013, the exhibition surveys political satire and cultural commentary through art movements ranging from capitalist realism to contemporary pop art.

Memphis Living is an homage to the designs of the short - lived Memphis Group founded in Milan by architect and designer Ettore Sottsass, designs Bas first encountered predominantly through their pop cultural references and simulations, and which he only later came to know as an aesthetic movement.

One of the key figures in the Pop Art movement, his complex narratives of recognizable imagery are firmly situated in the cultural and political contexts in which they are made.

By pulling from art movements, such as Pop Art, Conceptualism and Art Brut, Ortiz spontaneously blasts both humorous and dramatic Tex - Mex cultural realities.

Although both British and American pop art began during the 1950s, Marcel Duchamp and others in Europe like Francis Picabia and Man Ray predate the movement; in addition there were some earlier American proto - pop origins which utilized «as found» cultural objects.

But if you're able to snag a few moments at these stations, you'll see the objects on view in the aesthetic and cultural context of significant artworks, monuments, and movements: Marcel Duchamp's 1913 readymade Roue de bicyclette [Bicycle Wheel]; the Crystal Palace at the 1851 World's Fair; Pop Art's embrace of mass - media messaging.

Manhattan at that time was a melting pot of contemporary avant - garde cultural movements: Pop artists and abstract expressionists, jazz musicians and experimental actors, novelists and film directors, socialised, collaborated, had affairs, marriages, fist fights and ideological spats.

Using theory, philosophers, current affairs and pop cultural figures as alibis to help her write, and casts of arguing characters to help her perform, Spooner produces plotless novellas, disjunctive theatre plays, looping monologues and musical arrangements to stage the movement and behaviour of speech.

While Robert Rauschenberg's mixed media Combines initially drew attention, it was his juxtaposed combinations of popular American cultural images that inked the artist into art history as a leader of the Pop Art movement.

The movement emerged amid the post-World War II explosions of capitalist consumerism and mass media, as artists explored new modes of mechanical production, often by taking commonplace consumer goods and pop - cultural icons as their subject matter.

With a number of 250 works from 110 renowned artists coming from cultural spaces of China, USA, UK, Taiwan and the Former Soviet Union, the Post Pop: East Meets West exhibition invites the public to explore the discourses which have emerged (and are still emerging) from the endless possibilities of the Pop Art movement.

Conceptual art emerged as an international art form during a period of social and cultural upheaval in the 1960s and 1970s, which coincided with the era of Pop - Art and the Italian movement Arte Povera.

Pop art was a descendant of Dada, a nihilistic movement current in the 1920s that ridiculed the seriousness of contemporary Parisian art and, more broadly, the political and cultural situation that had brought war to Europe.

The Pop art movement was largely a British and American cultural phenomenon of the late 1950s and»60s and was named by the art critic Lawrence Alloway in reference to the prosaic iconography of its painting and sculpture.

While his works have often been compared to those from other key figures of the pop art movement, such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Rosenquist's pieces were unique in the way that they often employed elements of surrealism using fragments of advertisements and cultural imagery to emphasize the overwhelming nature of ads.

The retrospective in the Neue Galerie Graz focuses on Pistoletto's early works, which were groundbreaking at their time and to be seen in context with movements such as Pop Art, Minimalism, or Conceptual Art, as well as socio - cultural changes in Italy.

Influenced by the cultural landscape of the early sixties, particularly the burgeoning Pop Art movement, these works pre-date more familiar works such as the non-site objects and the seminal, outdoor earthworks.