Sentences with phrase «pop cultural references»

Paul McCarthy's energetic new London exhibition at Hauser & Wirth does not disappoint, turning out to be one of 2011's «must - see» shows Paul McCarthy's major new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth is a joyous sprawl of pop cultural reference, creaky robotics, and splayed legs.

With pop cultural references serving as an entry point, ranging from Time Magazine and National Geographic to art history and Greek mythology, Washington's practice reflects a distinctly personal mythology.

Painted in bright, sun - drenched hues with an almost cartoonish quality, Calvin's figures are shaped by pop cultural references.

Oh, and there's also a plethora of misguided pop cultural references — most dismally through extended cameos from the cast of the deplorable Jersey Shore.

Time travel pop cultural references are back, but feel tired and overused in this instalment.

Hands tend to play a central role in the paintings, alongside predominant pop cultural references from the sixties and eighties.

By presenting bold and striking African American women in historical compositions, Thomas offers an alternative to mass media imagery and simultaneously makes thoughtful allusion to pop cultural references like Blaxploitation and suburban kitsch.

In his series Planet Madness, Hungarian director and motion designer Rene Mednyanszky has provided his own spin on the period — injecting supernatural characters into neat concrete landscapes that contain pop cultural references associated with the time.

Mounted on fields of primarily black and blue, Kass incorporates neon lights in her paintings for the first time, limiting her signature palette, to spell out puns and phrases bearing pop cultural references that provide a somber meditation on the troubling present, and uncertain future.

A mercenary by trade, he's frequently apathetic, utterly self - obsessed, fairly unhinged (he talks to the voices in his head, and they often respond), and a veritable encyclopaedia of pop cultural references.

Painted in bright, sundrenched hues with an almost cartoonish quality, Calvin's figures are shaped by pop cultural references.

Contemporary heir to the pop artists, Da Corte combines these common consumer objects with pop cultural references, personal family narratives — and even other artists» work — in vibrant sculptures, paintings, videos, and immersive installations.

My view, which isn't WAY EXISTENTIAL (note the pop cultural reference to CLUELESS), is that blogs should be very informal, fairly rude, and just FUN (which is a lower pay grade than witty).

The name basically came out of a hole in the ground because there are absolutely no pop cultural references for the name.

There are no fart jokes, pop cultural references or any annoying R&B songs in How to Train Your Dragon.

In the midst of all this, Reynolds never stops cracking wise on every comic book or pop cultural reference that can be squeezed into two hours.

The music videos pull in both creative visual elements and pop cultural references — each song will have a distinctive and visually original atmosphere.

With its art historical and pop cultural references (which are sometimes combined), Dumas's practice is often based upon the painterly manipulation of found imagery.

Combining art historical, political, and pop cultural references she introduces a complex vision of what it means to be a woman and expands common definitions of beauty.

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.

Through her dynamic application of paint and pop cultural references, Pensato's compositions extend the possibilities of action painting into bold figuration and abstraction.

But she bucks this value judgment, focusing instead on the psychology at work behind the interplay of interaction and confrontation between wildly different materials that relate to a confusing set of pop cultural references.

Through refined, calculated, and controlled gestures, whether it's application of paint, color choices, compositions, or pop cultural references, all of these works lead to moments of reflection and beauty among the chaos.

These are designs Bas first encountered predominantly through their pop cultural references and simulations.

Either as a pop cultural reference point or the conceptual link between the speculative practices of contemporary art and science fiction, this trend has seen dozens, if not hundreds, of international and Australian artists creating sci - fi - inflected pieces, with exhibitions around the world surveying their work.

Hills Snyder explores history and myth through installations that playfully combine arcane and pop cultural references.

Since the 1990s, Rachel Harrison (born 1966) has developed a colorful and delightfully grotesque sculptural idiom out of the most contemporary detritus — styrofoam, plastic buckets, vacuum cleaners — which she blends with slapstick humor and art historical and pop cultural references.

Through her dynamic application of paint and pop cultural references, Pensato's compositions boldly extend the possibilities of action painting.

Rendered in bright colors and with acute precision, these works suggest a core sample of pop cultural references that have been manipulated just short of illegibility.

An internationally recognized artist based in New York, Thomas is best known for her large - scale paintings combining art historical, political, and pop cultural references to explore the contemporary female form.

He describes his work as «the line between painting and sculpture, through these collage pieces that have pop cultural references.»

Paul McCarthy's major new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth is a joyous sprawl of pop cultural reference, creaky robotics, and splayed legs.