Sentences with phrase «popular cultural references»

Hyperbolizing iconic figures from silver screen era Hollywood starlets to High Renaissance depictions of Jesus Christ, his content is promiscuously drawn from art historical and popular cultural references alike.

His heavily laboured canvases are filled with popular cultural references and challenge the viewer to make connections between the seemingly unrelated content, a mechanism used in an attempt to represent the true complexity of our culture».

Elements of popular cultural references, anarchic messages and clever pictorial censorship play out on the walls of Delahunty Fine Art's new Mayfair premises in London.

The dialogue is riddled with awkward puns and out of place popular cultural references.

And popular cultural references definitely helps ease into a more comfortable conversation.

Not exact matches

Although Britain becomes ever more a cultural 51st state of the US, there are certain references in popular culture that remain specifically American: baseball, the yellow school bus, and that line in a Paul Simon song about «going to the candidates» debate».

Visitors from the North sometimes refer to it as «La Isla Bonita» because there are few other cultural references available to capture the natural and cultural wonders of the most popular tourist location in Belize.

They found unique ways of referencing popular culture, either through stylistic simplifications evocative of popular illustrations and cartoons, or through the direct depictions of pop - cultural tropes.

Mason's work touches on the cultural and political significance of aesthetics through a confluence of art historical references and popular culture.

If such perception - events are more about ideas and concepts — our own, or those we glean through interactions with different communities or society at large — to what extent would notions such as popular visual tropes, specific cultural references, or language itself tend to be associated with physical sensations?

The sculptures reference the tradition of immortalizing subjects stemming back to antiquity while taking inspiration from art history, fashion, popular media, cultural anthropology and even pornography.

Rooted in architecture and sculpture, Michael Rakowitz's research - based practice commonly employs references to archaeology, popular culture and science fiction to humorously tease open the complex social, political and cultural relationships between the East and West.

There are many references to art and popular cultural imagery that have permeated the Chinese creative subconscious, be it an iconic Andy Warhol portrait and images of the twin towers with smoke pouring from them culled from print media, or the enduring allure of Hollywood and cinema's role in both reflecting and shaping the image of America in the minds of people outside it.

Verabioff's explicit references to land artist Robert Smithson are tongue - in - cheek and mount a sly back - door critique, perverting his titles and hijacking his term «cultural confinement» to expose the gender inequality and power structures ingrained in contemporary art and popular culture.

These mimetic works blend mysticism with popular imagery — from a Hindu statue to an American football player, diverse cultural references appear to evolve within the series, almost as in a stream of consciousness.

Educational benefits are achieved from employing references to popular - culture plots or characters with which students have familiarity and share with other students, even students with diverse cultural, social, and geographical backgrounds.