Sentences with phrase «popular iconography»
"Popular iconography" refers to widely recognized symbols, images, or representations that are commonly associated with a particular concept, person, or cultural phenomenon. It is the visual language that people often use to express or convey specific meanings that are commonly understood by a large number of individuals in a given society or culture. Full definition
His grand metal sculptures and large - scale narrative paintings are informed by popular iconography of political, social and historical realities, cultural myths and the Candi reliefs at Sukuh Temple.
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Indonesian artist, Entang Wiharso's grand metal sculpture, Double Happiness # 2 (2013), is informed by popular iconography of political, social and historical realities, and cultural myths.
Johns» breakthrough move, which was to inform much later work by others, was to appropriate popular iconography for painting, thus allowing a set of familiar associations to answer the need for subject.
«Pop art legitimized the appropriation of popular iconography from consumerist culture in fine - art practice as well as the use of materials derived from commercial art, such as airbrushing and the employment of opaque projectors to enlarge images,» writes the Guggenheim.
I suspect this stretch of film was subsequently whittled down to the bone because it lampoons a musician, Wilson, lacking popular iconography or a correlative biopic, but I found it much more uproarious, nay, fresh, than the comparatively popular Bob Dylan interlude, «Let Me Hold You (Little Man)» aside.
It's during these introductory «zombie» moments when director Jeff Baena experiments with his own, unique faction of the obnoxiously popular iconography that the movie proudly rears its creative head and is at the top of its game for it.
The triptych celebrates a universal tenacity and grace in the domestic activities of the 3 subjects while acknowledging the contradictions between popular iconography of motherhood and the reality of child rearing.»
This balance of culture and psychology is the underlying theme of this show that continues the artist's exploration of myth, folklore and popular iconography including familiar stories such as Snow White.
Often incorporating popular iconography, the artist attempts to shed light on the relationship between man and monument, coexisting as representations of one another.
Alongside that tragic American antihero, the Marlboro Man, the car has become one of the artist's central recurring motifs, subverting popular iconography with an air of both nostalgia and cynicism.
Drawing on popular iconography, commercial advertising, the art historical tradition of the still life, and cultural symbols, Pittman composes dense and boldly colorful paintings that reference the medium's rich history while simultaneously emerging as something that is entirely unique.
His distinctive, monumental pieces are renowned for their adoption of popular iconography such as flags, numbers and maps and their textural painterly surfaces.
Her work combines autobiographical fragments with impersonal and theoretical material, translated back and forth through contemporary popular iconography and music.
He soon formed relationships with Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham and began to make paintings that appropriated popular iconography — the American flag, targets, numbers, and letters — quickly announcing himself an important new artist.
Johns» striking use of popular iconography, «things the mind already knows,» as he put it (flags, numbers, maps), made the familiar unfamiliar — and made a colossal impact in the art world, becoming a touchstone for Pop, minimalist and conceptual art.
In this body of work, White incorporates themes from her past, popular iconography and language from the four countries of her grandparents, along with lone figures in silhouette, that allude to a kind of personal transformation.
The artist's planned work examines how refugees and migrants are de-humanized and demonized, by contrasting the personal stories of asylum seekers with public perceptions and popular iconography.
She is fascinated by contemporary modes of digital communication, the power (and sometimes the perversity) of popular iconography, and the situation of identity in the blurring contexts of technological virtuality and biological reality.
In the 1950s and 1960s, some American artists like Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008), Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929), Jasper Johns (b. 1930) and Jim Dine (b. 1935) even used the term «Neo-Dada art» to describe their «anti-aesthetic» works which used modern materials, popular iconography, and absurdist content.
Now based in New York her practice also incorporates the aesthetic debates of popular iconography and contemporary cultural theory.
Most Slaw readers will know that gavels simply aren't part of the equipment of Canadian or British judges — however much they may feature in the popular iconography of the American judicial system.