Sentences with phrase «popular iconography such»
His distinctive, monumental pieces are renowned for their adoption of popular iconography such as flags, numbers and maps and their textural painterly surfaces.
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Popular artistic practice has remained stuck in the prerevolutionary tradition, where artists are encouraged to create works that imitate early twentieth century masters such as Cézanne and Picasso or deal with religious themes and iconography.
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.
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.