Sentences with phrase «popular iconography from»

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Highlighting politics, religion and popular culture, sex, citizenship, mysticism, and iconography, Figueredo paints and carves images that are both recognizable and falsified, compelling the viewer to believe in these dream - like stills as scenes from the past, present and future.

With massive drawings, Jamal blends references from popular culture, religious iconography, and symbolism in an attempt to create a possible image of what our multilayered identities could look like.

Donoso addresses the multifaceted nature of identity and how it is informed by the confluence of diverse sources; he combines self - portraiture with motifs from Spanish Baroque art, patterning found in Latin American textiles and imagery from current popular culture and pre - Columbian iconography.

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.

Combining iconography from comic books, art history, and popular culture, Art & Beauty portrays a broad selection of images of female figures in diverse settings.

The juxtaposition of Wachtel's newly minted characters from popular pulp American greeting cards with folk art objects, in this case a preacher with a Bible, alluded to concepts around authority, history and iconography.

Chris Ofili's intricately constructed works, combining beadlike dots of paint, collaged images from popular media, and elephant dung, create a unique iconography that marries African artistic and ritual practices with Western art historical traditions and contemporary hip - hop culture.

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.

Jasper's work includes images and objects from popular culture and classical iconography that is known the world over.

I began to explore a diverse range of cultures and pictorial iconographies — from Western art history to American popular culture to Pre-Columbian art and beyond.

Smithson's prolific drawings from this period, including those about language and Christian iconography, sought out disorder from the hierarchies of social conventions and popular culture.

Martinez has become known in recent months for paintings that take the iconography of the Pee - Chee folder, but use it to tackle a variety of issues, from figures in the popular culture to police brutality.

In these pieces, the artist tackled genres like the still life, the portrait, figurative representation, landscape, interiors, historical painting, political propaganda, religious iconography, and the appropriation of elements from popular culture and art history.

Works by such Pop artists as the Americans Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Wesselman, James Rosenquist, and Robert Indiana and the Britons David Hockney and Peter Blake, among others, were characterized by their portrayal of any and all aspects of popular culture that had a powerful impact on contemporary life; their iconography — taken from television, comic books, movie magazines, and all forms of advertising — was presented emphatically and objectively, without praise or condemnation but with overwhelming immediacy, and by means of the precise commercial techniques used by the media from which the iconography itself was borrowed.

His work juxtaposes symbolic elements borrowed from pre-Columbian mythology, religious iconography, and popular culture to highlight cultural and historic collisions between Western and non-Western cultures that includes borders and immigration issues based on the artist's concepts of reverse Modernism and reverse anthropology.

Ronnie Cutrone, Rammellzee, Kostas Seremetis, and Romon Kimin Yang aka Rostarr, signal their membership through the distinctive use of style, spontaneity and popular iconography derived from their subcultural influences — and elevate as masters of their craft.

Furthermore, post-war popular visual culture, from queer iconography to MTV, owes a debt to Anger «s art.

Johns, Pettibone, and Rosenquist each deploy distinct iconographies derived from popular culture to articulate parodic and ironical views on subjects centered on American politics and consumer culture.

Running from 10:30 am - 4 pm, the day includes sessions on the Kandors» light and color; fantastical architecture; relationship to popular culture; science fiction iconography; musical influences; and more.

His influential body of work, from his earliest videos made in the late 1990s to his most recent performances and installations, combs the iconography of popular culture, its brands and its products, as it explores the affective pull they have on us.