His body of work includes sculptures, performances, films, phonographic sound works, photographs, paintings, and texts, and often employs appropriated photographs and
pop culture images in a transformed, decontextualized environment that strips away assumptions in order to reveal the essence of the image.
Not exact matches
We tend to think of men as less nurturing than women, thanks
in no small part to
images in pop culture and the media as portraying men as lovable buffoons who mean well and try to do well but ultimately don't have the common sense to find their own behinds with both hands and a compass... unless, of course, we have an understanding and vastly more mature wife to help us along.
Part of the reason the creating of a
pop -
culture Jesus is so tempting is because many
in the Church realize that they are competing for the attention of people who are constantly bombarded with
images and sounds designed to overwhelm the senses.
The problem is that
in the context of American evangelicalism, where religious
images are often absent,
pop -
culture representations of the faith can become the formative symbols and
images that a faith community encounters.
The
pop art movement took place primarily
in the 1960s, and it is easily distinguished by its use of
images, objects, and themes from popular
culture as subject matter.
Out of fanboy love, he took a niche of
pop culture — mechs battling giant monsters, as an arrogant excuse for humankind to build giants
in our earthly
image — and created a memorable spectacle.
One might think that the first televised suicide
in American history would leave a more indelible mark on
pop culture history, but Kate can not find anything more than a still
image of one of her broadcasts to forge her character.
It's an
image that has permeated so much of
pop culture — with homages
in Forrest Gump and on this updated cover of The President's Daughter — but did you know that Christina actually existed?
One assumes that one can have an artist untutored by
images everywhere, while
in fact the new style derives
in part from admiration for the outline style of
pop -
culture sources.
The way
in which Anne Collier skilfully re-photographs existing
images of American
pop culture from the 1960s, 70s and 80s using a large - format plate camera is similarly intriguing.
In the 1970s, he worked tirelessly in film, performance, and recording, transforming pop culture images from television and advertisements into sequences devoid of their original context and functio
In the 1970s, he worked tirelessly
in film, performance, and recording, transforming pop culture images from television and advertisements into sequences devoid of their original context and functio
in film, performance, and recording, transforming
pop culture images from television and advertisements into sequences devoid of their original context and function.
In these sumptuous new
images, Brooks continues to address questions about how we frame beauty, and the phenomenon of fashion as a both
pop culture and artistictouchstone.
He first used the term «mass popular art»
in the mid-1950s and used the term «
Pop Art»
in the 1960s to indicate that art has a basis
in the popular
culture of its day and takes from it a faith
in the power of
images.
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.
His series «Cowboys» (1980 — 1992), for instance,
in which he rephotographed
images from the famous Marlboro advertising campaign, is indebted to
Pop art's critical interest
in consumerist
culture.
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.
Warhol began painting appropriated
images of
pop culture, such as his famous Campbell Soup Can, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis series,
in 1960, marking a significant turning point
in his career.
Although her early work was
in sculpture, she was better known for her multimedia
pop culture assemblages of found objects and her paintings, which included found
images.
Described by the UICA as having «elements of humor, horror, and
pop culture,» the collection is diverse
in its subject matter, presenting compelling
images that demand a second — if not third or fourth — look.
While some
Pop artists use photography to react to consumer
culture, Robert Heineken repurposes found magazine imagery to talk about the media's role
in objectifying women, Richard Prince and Sarah Charlesworth of the Pictures Generation push the boundaries of
image appropriation, Christopher Williams talks about means of
image production and contemporary artist Lucas Blalock confuses subject and backdrop through Photoshop.
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.
Jiha Moon's playfully layered
images — now on view at SCAD's Gallery 1600,
in an exhibition titled All Kinds of Everything — seem to approach you
in waves, radiating out from her weird, arranged collisions between
pop culture and tradition [June 10 - July 26, 2013].
It appears
in Njideka Akunyili Crosby's
images of family
in pop -
culture collage or Catala's plea for empathy.
An upcoming retrospective at London's Victoria & Albert Museum celebrates the
pop icon as an artist
in his own right, a meticulous shaper of his
image who worked with artists and photographers to sculpt Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke, and his other
culture - making personae.
In pop culture, print and images in the pages of magazines and newspapers illustrate our world through depictions of cars, celebrities, and lifestyle
In pop culture, print and
images in the pages of magazines and newspapers illustrate our world through depictions of cars, celebrities, and lifestyle
in the pages of magazines and newspapers illustrate our world through depictions of cars, celebrities, and lifestyles.
Beginnings of the
pop art were related to the irony shown to the fast growing society, life, space and design
images inevitably changed by consumerism, as well as to the critique of the elitist world of high
culture and abstraction
in art.
His early works
in the 60s, painted from
images sourced from the media, were parodies of the then - ascendant international styles of American
Pop Art and the postwar
culture and economic boom
in West Germany at the time.
Anthea Hamilton is a UK - based artist who creates multi-media installations that resemble theatrical stages or film sets and incorporate arrangements of prop - like objects, references to modernist paintings, and appropriated
images of
pop culture icons such as blow - ups of John Travolta
in John Travolta, Bust - like, 2012.
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
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
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
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
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
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).
-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo
culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist
in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early
in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases
in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least
in many interviews the New Museum curator did
in the famed Italian artist's stead
in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black
culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled
in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died
in a car crash
in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional
Pop painter of odd
image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist
in an attempt to satirize the
Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after
in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «
culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos
Art Slant Chicago Art Talk Chicago Bad at Sports Bite and Smile Brian Dickie of COT Bridgeport International Carrie Secrist Gallery Chainsaw Calligraphy Chicago Art Blog Chicago Art Department Chicago Art Examiner Chicago Art Journal Chicago Artists Resource Chicago Art Map Chicago Art Review Chicago Classical Music Chicago Comedy Examiner Chicago Cultural Center Chicago Daily Views Chicago Film Examiner Chicago Film Archives Chicago Gallery News Chicago Uncommon Collaboraction Contemporary Art Space Co-op
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Pop Up Art Loop The Post Family The Recycled Film Reversible Eye Rhona Hoffman Gallery Roots &
Culture Gallery SAIC Blog The Seen Sharkforum Sisterman Vintage Site of Big Shoulders Sixty Inches From Center Soleil's To - Do's Sometimes Store Steppenwolf.blog Stop Go Stop Storefront Rebellion TOC Blog Theater for the Future Theatre
in Chicago The Franklin The Mission The Theater Loop Thomas Robertello Gallery threewalls Time Tells Tony Wight Gallery Uncommon Photographers The Unscene Chicago The Visualist Vocalo Western Exhibitions What's Going On?
One of the founders of
Pop Art
in the early 1960s, Dine is best known for his series of hearts, tools, Venuses, and bathrobes —
images that have become icons of American
culture.
In installation, photography and video, the authoritative fixity of representational media is betrayed as those bodies presumed to be contained — as ghosts, as
pop culture signifiers one step removed from the referent — return to haunt the
image as desiring bodies, as spectres, as present absences that make even the quotidian an uncertain experience.
Vibrantly patterned photo - collage areas are created from
images derived from Nigerian
pop culture and politics, including pictures of
pop stars, models and celebrities, as well as lawyers
in white wigs and military dictators.
Ito didn't succumb to the gestural trends of Abstract Expressionism, to the alluring
images derived from mass
culture in Pop Art, or the flat hardline compositions of Minimalism.
In these sumptuous new
images, Brooks continues to address questions about how we frame beauty, and the phenomenon of fashion as a both
pop culture and artistic touchstone.
Uprooted from Cuba as a child, and brought to Miami via Spain
in 1983, Andres Conde, an expressionist painter with
pop tendencies, mitigates the feeling of displacement by merging
images from popular American
culture with historic examples of Cuban iconography.
By juxtaposing these painted cartoon characters with
images of
pop stars, nuclear power plants and masks from so - called primitive
cultures, Wachtel's work also tackles the function and significance of
images in modern society and the socio - political landscape of our time.
In creating his multimedia works, Irish artist Gerard Byrne draws on a range of different sources including literature,
pop culture, art history and contemporary history, selectively borrowing
images and stories and viewing them by present - day standards.
By the 1960s and 1970s, his well - known
images of the Twentieth Century Fox logo, gas stations, and other icons of American
culture — as well as his association with the renowned Ferus Gallery group — had established him a leader
in the West Coast
Pop art movement.
In conversation with one another, Notes on Gesture and these images speak to the way black womanhood is volleyed between extremities in pop culture, between caricature and performance, hyper visible — or hardly noticed at al
In conversation with one another, Notes on Gesture and these
images speak to the way black womanhood is volleyed between extremities
in pop culture, between caricature and performance, hyper visible — or hardly noticed at al
in pop culture, between caricature and performance, hyper visible — or hardly noticed at all.
Prince recycles these American (male)
pop culture fantasies from found materials, most often advertising
images and magazine layouts which he rephotographs, repaints or overpaints, arranges
in collages, or breaks down into fragments.
Scott» s 1969 film portrait of Richard Hamilton continued this collaborative formula, with Hamilton musing about cinema, art, and celebrity while
images of his works, their original source materials, and related elements from
pop culture flash by
in rapid succession.
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.
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.
In a similar manner, collages and drawings by William Cordova amalgamate
images to represent the body's relationship to vernacular architecture, sound,
pop culture, and politics.
The concept of these shadow sculptures is applied
in reverse to their light sculptures: constructions out of computer sequenced light - bulbs that reference iconic
pop culture by creating
images reminiscent of cliché kitsch tattoos and the tinsel - town arcadia of working - class sea - side Britain.
Images of stretched and twisted bottles of Evian water, nostalgic imagery from
pop culture, consumer products and other random representations exist alongside graffitied texts.There also will be a yellow painted truck
in the center of the gallery.
In a way,
Pop artists were doing the same thing with
images of the popular
culture.
The explosion of popular music and television was reflected
in the
Pop - Art movement, whose
images of Hollywood celebrities, and iconography of popular
culture, celebrated the success of America's mass consumerism.