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One of the most instantly recognizable pop culture figures of all time, Mario's adventures across the Mushroom Kingdom and beyond are universally revered as some of the greatest games ever made.

One of the most instantly recognizable pop culture figures of all time, Mario's adventures across the Mushroom Kingdom and beyond are universally revered as some of the greatest games ever made.

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Following Hefner's death, Metropoulos released a statement: «Hugh Hefner was a visionary in business, a giant in media, and an iconic figure of pop culture whose legacy will leave a lasting impact.

«The Apprentice» made Trump a national pop - culture figure way beyond New York tabloids and glossy magazines, but more importantly, it promoted a different view of Trump: a confident but measured businessman who knew how to spot a good deal and foster success, and when to cut someone loose with a simple, «You're fired.»

Peterson has emerged as a divisive figure in both academia and pop - culture, and whilst he certainly has many antagonists, the popularity of the interview video seems to show that he also has a large number of supporters, many of whom are uncomfortable with the relativist media and grateful to find someone who is at least challenging this poisonous aspect of our culture.

A frequently fascinating romp through American culture with the emphasis on pop culture (some would say there is no other kind), showing the myriad ways in which the figure of Jesus has been detached from theological or churchly connections to become an icon for the promotion of almost anything.

Reflecting the varied interests and values of Millennial and Gen Z moms and dads, famous pop - culture figures from rap stars to Disney heroines emerged as name influencers, along with basketball champs and, interestingly, colors.

A pop culture icon and ground - breaking physicist, Stephen Hawking is one of the most prominent figures in modern science.

From the opening minutes of Craig Gillespie's unreliably narrated, glibly entertaining biopic I, Tonya, it's clear that Margot Robbie has disappeared into the role of disgraced figure skater and pop culture punching bag Tonya Harding.

Mary Magdalene is one of the most well - known figures in the New Testament, primarily due to her many portrayals in pop culture.

Take some squeaky clean young stars, add a couple of fashionable pop culture figures and throw them together into a crime - based party movie set during the annual student rite - of - passage: sounds like a sure fire recipe for success, right?

Sideshow has revealed Pop Culture Shock's line of Mortal Kombat 1 / 4th scale figures which includes Sub-Zero, Mileena, Raiden, Kotal Kahn and Kintaro.

Scientology has been played largely as a figure of derision in pop culture but Gibney seeks to show the dark side here, how it controls people and ruins lives, despite essentially being started as a way of writing off tax.

While I didn't get the opportunity to interview the man himself, it was great chatting with the cast about what it's like working with him, their favorite»80s pop culture landmarks, and for Lena Waithe, the importance of being an openly gay public figure.

In the recurring segment, James Corden hops in a car with a famous celebrity, usually a chart - topping singer but sometimes just another figure in pop culture, and they cruise around Los Angeles jamming out to an assortment of songs in the car, just like you and me.

The constant barrage of pop culture takedowns and rude behavior in general make it a little harder to accept (at anything other than face value) the «heart» portion of Deadpool 2, which consists mostly of the Firefist father - figure storyline (eerily similar to last year's Logan) and Wade's one - dimensional relationship with fiancée Vanessa (Morena Baccarin).

So if you missed book promotion opportunities in 2007, keep in mind that — in 2008 — part of your job as an author or publisher is to keep an eye on pop culture, and figure out how your messages tie into the news.

Do book publicists check out pop culture, and stay on top of «what's hot» in the news so we can figure out how to position you as an expert on the issues all media consumers are talking about?

Thanks to countless pop culture references and notorious 20th - century organized crime figures such as Al Capone, Bugsy Siegel and John Gotti, the concept of organized crime calls to mind images of bygone eras when speakeasies, Mob - run casinos and infamous M...

figures are always a great gift idea for pop culture fans, and this year we've found figures from two of the biggest games of the year.

The crate includes figures with one of a few different exclusive labels, each a pop culture mashup.

It is evident in the rococo renderings of Sam McKinniss, who paints pop culture figures — Prince, Lorde, Flipper — like hallowed aristocrats.

The format of Rythm Mastr, whether as an animated feature, graphic novel, or multi-panel sequence on newsprint, may feel like a departure from Marshall's painting practice, more tethered to pop culture than the high - brow arena where the artist's large - scale works fetch seven figures.

There, the combination of political figures, pop culture and the grotesque nature of sex and death generated a powerful show that has since influences the context of his work.

As New York Times art critic Roberta Smith has noted, the paintings of David Salle, another key figure from this period, are «pictorially rooted in Pop Art's use of common or degraded images», layering elements drawn from high and low culture.

Incorporating recent historical events, pop culture, television technology, and elements of his own figure into his work, Jackson comments on the way history has shaped our present moment, creating a body of work that reads as a new interpretation of post-war America.

Featuring some of the artist's most innovative works, Lichtenstein: Re-Figure aims not only to highlight the artist's engagement with the human figure — a central theme throughout his career — but also to «re-figure,» in the sense of reassessing, the common yet reductive view of Lichtenstein as the painter of pop culture images.

Imbuing familiar figures of American cartoon culture with psychological charge and emboldening them with aggressive, gestural physicality, Joyce Pensato reveals a darker side of American Pop.

Attending the New York Studio School in the 1970s, Pensato found her signature style and subject matter early in her career, merging a drawing - heavy, expressive markmaking - focused education with the pop culture figures that fascinated her in their form and content - such as the powerful image of Batman, with his ominous and formally striking mask.

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc TuymPop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc TuymPop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc TuymPop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc TuymPop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuympop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

Leckey's interests might have shifted throughout the last decade — from an obsession with pop culture, subculture and the figure of the dandy in earlier films such as Parade (2003), and in his band collaboration DonAteller, with fellow artists Ed Laliq, Enrico David and Bonnie Camplin; to the high / low culture face - off of his BigBoxStatueAction performances (2003 — 11), in which Leckey's giant speaker stack confronts icons of modernist British sculpture, such as Jacob Epstein's Jacob and the Angel (1940 — 1); to his later multimedia performance lectures, the Internet - driven epiphany of dematerialisation In the Long Tail (2009) and its antithesis Cinema - in - the - Round (2006 — 8), with its more reflective inquiry into the physicality of images via, among others, Philip Guston, Felix the Cat, Gilbert & George, Homer Simpson and Titanic (1997).

As Marquis notes, the figures involved in creating and promoting the movement «set off the «culture boom» of the 1960s, and were indispensable to the success, not only of Pop art, but of all the varied approaches to art that followed.»

Made between 1974 and 1976, and loosely based on Hans Magnus Enzensberger's 1976 essay «On the Inevitability of the Middle Class,» it consists of ten large - scale canvas - mounted works on paper, reproduced here in foldout color plates, in which densely inscribed layers of figures, traceries, sigils and quotation derived from the pop culture of the era narrate an epic vision of the scars and aspirations of postwar Europe.

Of course, there were many thematic and visual references to poverty and exclusion that were framed by the discourse of art history — as in a metal construction by Jannis Kounellis [who died in February this year] that combines a hard - edged steel - cast minimalist frame with multicoloured rags of Arte Poveraat White Cube, for example; or in a an arresting display of Sadie Benning's «drawings» made of wood, Aqua - Resin, casein and acrylic gouache with motifs reminiscent of African textilesat Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; or works about otherness framed by the formerly excluded, or on their behalf — as in a display from the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa; or Andres Serrano's unforgettable photographs of notable figures in American pop culture, such as his portrait of Snoop Dogg (America)(2002) placed next to that of Donald Trump, on view at Galerie Nathalie ObadiOf course, there were many thematic and visual references to poverty and exclusion that were framed by the discourse of art history — as in a metal construction by Jannis Kounellis [who died in February this year] that combines a hard - edged steel - cast minimalist frame with multicoloured rags of Arte Poveraat White Cube, for example; or in a an arresting display of Sadie Benning's «drawings» made of wood, Aqua - Resin, casein and acrylic gouache with motifs reminiscent of African textilesat Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; or works about otherness framed by the formerly excluded, or on their behalf — as in a display from the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa; or Andres Serrano's unforgettable photographs of notable figures in American pop culture, such as his portrait of Snoop Dogg (America)(2002) placed next to that of Donald Trump, on view at Galerie Nathalie Obadiof art history — as in a metal construction by Jannis Kounellis [who died in February this year] that combines a hard - edged steel - cast minimalist frame with multicoloured rags of Arte Poveraat White Cube, for example; or in a an arresting display of Sadie Benning's «drawings» made of wood, Aqua - Resin, casein and acrylic gouache with motifs reminiscent of African textilesat Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; or works about otherness framed by the formerly excluded, or on their behalf — as in a display from the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa; or Andres Serrano's unforgettable photographs of notable figures in American pop culture, such as his portrait of Snoop Dogg (America)(2002) placed next to that of Donald Trump, on view at Galerie Nathalie Obadiof Arte Poveraat White Cube, for example; or in a an arresting display of Sadie Benning's «drawings» made of wood, Aqua - Resin, casein and acrylic gouache with motifs reminiscent of African textilesat Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; or works about otherness framed by the formerly excluded, or on their behalf — as in a display from the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa; or Andres Serrano's unforgettable photographs of notable figures in American pop culture, such as his portrait of Snoop Dogg (America)(2002) placed next to that of Donald Trump, on view at Galerie Nathalie Obadiof Sadie Benning's «drawings» made of wood, Aqua - Resin, casein and acrylic gouache with motifs reminiscent of African textilesat Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; or works about otherness framed by the formerly excluded, or on their behalf — as in a display from the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa; or Andres Serrano's unforgettable photographs of notable figures in American pop culture, such as his portrait of Snoop Dogg (America)(2002) placed next to that of Donald Trump, on view at Galerie Nathalie Obadiof wood, Aqua - Resin, casein and acrylic gouache with motifs reminiscent of African textilesat Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; or works about otherness framed by the formerly excluded, or on their behalf — as in a display from the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa; or Andres Serrano's unforgettable photographs of notable figures in American pop culture, such as his portrait of Snoop Dogg (America)(2002) placed next to that of Donald Trump, on view at Galerie Nathalie Obadiof African textilesat Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; or works about otherness framed by the formerly excluded, or on their behalf — as in a display from the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa; or Andres Serrano's unforgettable photographs of notable figures in American pop culture, such as his portrait of Snoop Dogg (America)(2002) placed next to that of Donald Trump, on view at Galerie Nathalie Obadiof notable figures in American pop culture, such as his portrait of Snoop Dogg (America)(2002) placed next to that of Donald Trump, on view at Galerie Nathalie Obadiof Snoop Dogg (America)(2002) placed next to that of Donald Trump, on view at Galerie Nathalie Obadiof Donald Trump, on view at Galerie Nathalie Obadia.

Vivid free interpretation of situations, objects, figures and a complex sign language in pop culture and extended cultural exchanges as they move through historical motifs and compositions, posing notions of an expressive self, this is the general starting point for the artistic work of Korean artist Sinae Yoo (* 1985).

As a nexus between abstract expressionism and Pop Art, Joyce Pensato's mural Silver Batman II confronts visitors with the exaggerated features of figures drawn from popular culture.

Taken primarily from family photographs and Nigerian pop culture reproduced in magazines and online, she uses images of Nigerian stars, government officials, historical ceremonies, and contemporary cultural figures in a patchwork, dotted with images from her own family history.

With their hollow, zombie eyes, quizzical semi-squints and fingerlike ropes of flesh on their faces, the figures float between life and death, pop culture and high art.

Peter Blake is known as one of the leading figures of the British Pop art movement, and central to his work is his interest in images from popular culture.

Addressing the legacy of thinkers, activists, rock bands, contemporary artists and cult figures in pop culture, Hubbard reveals connections between what is perceived to be as more academic or inaccessible, and that which is more popular or widely disseminated.

They coalesce with A.L. Steiner's Greatest Hits exhibition: a collection juxtaposed photographs and videos of pop culture figures, such as Madonna or Boychild.

Richard Hamilton, a British painter and printmaker whose sly, trenchant take on consumer culture and advertising made him a pioneering figure in Pop Art, and who designed the cover of the Beatles» «White Album,» died on Tuesday at his home near Oxford.

All three share an interest in the body, sexualized and hybrid depictions of human and animal figures, materiality and references to art history and pop culture.

In the Positions sector, devoted to showcasing singular projects by up - and - coming artists, she will show Jibade - Khalil Huffman's multi-channel video installation, from a new and timely body of work by the artist that, according to Ebgi, «focuses on themes of the black male figure in American pop culture, film, and literature.»

James Rosenquist, one of the seminal figures of the Pop art movement, who took as his inspiration the subject and style of modern commercial culture.

James Rosenquist, (born November 29, 1933, Grand Forks, North Dakota, U.S. — died March 31, 2017, New York City, New York), one of the seminal figures of the Pop art movement, who took as his inspiration the subject and style of modern commercial culture.

Deviations on a Theme Artforum International; October 1, 1994; Rugoff, Ralph; 700 + words As they excavate pop culture's repressed fantasies, Paul McCarthy's demented mock - instructional videos, AudioAnimatronics - type sculptures, Hollywood - style sets, and mutant figures look like distorted family entertainments more than the objects of art history.

Noted pop - culture collectibles sculptor Pigott exhibits figures, production figures, book covers, wax originals and relief plaques, supplemented by photos and concept drawings of other creations from «Star Wars,» «Lord of the Rings,» «The Simpsons,» «Star Trek» and «Alien.»

Claire Pasquier's work ranges from abstract prints and drawings to intriguing portraits of individuals and pop - culture figures such as the Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker characters from George Lucas» Star Wars movies.

Over the course of her trailblazing artistic career, Mickalene Thomas has drawn inspiration from prolific artists and pop culture icons alike, from 1970s supermodel Beverly Johnson to Edouard Manet's Odalisque figures of the 19th Century.