Sentences with phrase «popular iconography of»
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.
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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.
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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It favours multiculturalism but suspects the popular symbols and iconography of Englishness.
The iconography of the gauntlet remained popular, however.
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.
New to this disc is the four - minute «In Walt's Words: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,» an audio - only interview with Walt Disney discussing the film set to an image track, the seven - minute featurette «Iconography» that explores the film's influences on popular culture, art, and fashion, «@DisneyAnimation: Designing Disney's First Princess» with four contemporary animators discussing the design of Snow White, and an «Alternate Sequence: The Prince Meets Snow White,» plus the breezy promo - style pieces «The Fairest Facts of Them All: 7 Facts You May Now Know About Snow White» with Disney Channel star Sofia Carson and the rap retelling «Snow White in Seventy Seconds.»
As with The Shining, Rob Reiner's Stand by Me is difficult to appraise afresh because its iconography, performances and mood are so ingrained in popular culture and have been so influential on American coming of age cinema.
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.
This show «is a five - part extended series that explores the iconography of popular culture and the desires and values it supports,» according to the press release.
Taking on the iconography of popular culture with a satirical edge, artist and animator Eric Yahnker challenges conventions of fine art with his impeccable drafting style.
Since his emergence in the 1980s, Jeff Koons has blended the concerns and methods of Pop, Conceptual, and appropriation art with craft - making and popular culture to create his own unique iconography, often controversial and always engaging.
He re-animates the things around us — objects, images, characters and brands — to examine the iconography of popular culture and its affective pull.
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.
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.
The work of Paul McCarthy investigates the stereotypes and myths surrounding American popular culture, with particular focus on the unconscious effects of media, consumerism and iconography.
Superheroes and celebrities, totems and toys: the imagery of manufactured fantasy is reframed in the visual language of historical iconography in this multimedia exploration of popular culture today.
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.
Since his emergence at that time, Jeff Koons has blended the concerns and methods of Pop, Conceptual, and appropriation art with craft - making and popular culture to create his own unique iconography, often controversial and always engaging.
Foulkes incorporates references to dada - surrealist iconography and the popular imagery of Walt Disney (Mickey Mouse is a recurrent figure in his works), and highlights with great ferocity the moral and political decline of the United States.
In fact, the complex mix of religious iconography, racial themes, and popular culture is exactly what earned Ofili the coveted Turner Prize in 1998 (just before his 30th birthday) and led him to represent Great Britain at the 2003 Venice Biennale.
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.
In Reproduction, artists use the iconography of popular reproducible media to make a political or institutional critique like Uwe Wittwer's Family After Gainsborough, Negative.
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.
Although creating very different works, Rauschenberg, Johns and Rivers are united by their take - off of Abstract Expressionism, their irreverence for tradition and their use of popular American iconography.
By uniting both past and present iconography with the techniques of mass communication, language and sign, Zhang's work deconstructs notions of tradition, gender, identity, the body, and popular culture while calling attention to these subjects in the context and construction of a multicultural society.
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.
These picture of gay men as virile, confident, and unashamed — equally radical for their near - illicit, underground distribution — originated an empowering queer iconography and liberating spirit that has marked popular culture, art, fashion, and human rights.
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.
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.
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.
Often incorporating popular iconography, the artist attempts to shed light on the relationship between man and monument, coexisting as representations of one another.
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.
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.
Using bold, easy to recognize imagery, and vibrant block colours, Pop artists like Andy Warhol (1928 - 87) created an iconography based on photos of popular celebrities like film - stars, advertisements, posters, consumer product packaging, and comic strips - material that helped to narrow the divide between the commercial arts and the fine arts.
The exhibition will be curated by the artist himself and will delve into the subjects of imagination and iconography in contemporary 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.
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.
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.
His distinctive, monumental pieces are renowned for their adoption of popular iconography such as flags, numbers and maps and their textural painterly surfaces.
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.
His large - format collage drawings fuse poetry, song lyrics, and popular phrases with the visual iconography of biker culture, the sex industry, and the world of music.
A 21st - century channeling of Andy Warhol's original visual discourse on popular American culture, Longley - Cook's show places drag in the lineage of pop iconography with fresh, thoughtful perspective.
Self - described as a «mechanic artist,» Romero draws on Pre-Columbian iconography, colonial imagery, and popular culture to transform automobiles and their components into contemporary works of art.