Sentences with phrase «popular imagery»

In this sense he may be seen as an important precursor of Pop Art and its use of popular imagery.
By integrating such popular imagery into the realm of fine art, he invited viewers to recognize the world around them in his work.
Many such works feature popular imagery, family members and friends, the artist himself, and American history.
This exhibition examines this psychology through popular imagery and the ephemeral aftermath of propaganda.
Or maybe popular imagery has led you to believe that climate change is an issue just for polar bears and not humans.
Inspired by cartoons and comic books, her work uses black humor and the aesthetic of popular imagery to examine pressing social and political concerns.
[19] With her use of popular imagery in her art, she became an early adherent of the Pop art movement.
In his most recent work, Simmons's has shifted away from the language and symbols of urban blackness to a vocabulary culled from popular imagery of the rural white South.
D'Onofrio embraces popular imagery as a means to critique it.
In his sculptures and drawings, Gavan seems to seek a synthesis of popular imagery with natural forms through constant pairing.
Influenced by her Pictures Generation counterparts and the 1960s protagonists of Pop Art, Wachtel appropriates popular imagery to critique an increasingly media - saturated society.
Works in the exhibitions draw on popular imagery such as a multi-coloured Popeye, adopt the strategies of medical technologies, incorporate the production of perfume, operate on solar power or reconfigure the operation of clocks.
In her most characteristic work, she combines popular imagery from everyday urban and domestic scenes, sometimes paired with curt texts, to skew otherwise banal images into anxious scenarios infused with a sense of irony and black humor.
Levinthal's work became an important influence on Pictures Generation artists such as Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons and Richard Prince, who came onto the art scene in the late 1970s and whose work incorporated popular imagery and mass media.
Roy Lichtenstein adopted popular imagery from advertising and comics, replicating benday dots used in mass - circulation publications like newspapers and billboards.
Johns is primarily considered within the Neo-Dadaist movement of the early 1960s, but his use of popular imagery places him in relation to the emergence of Pop Art and he is often considered an early influence of the genre.
Fukui's work makes brilliant use of the instant recognition of iconic popular imagery: a shorthand for the tropes of our daily lives gathered from art magazines, anime and cartoons, news, and popular culture.
Some artists decided to appropriate and re-contextualize popular imagery as a way to show oppression.
The works ranged from depictions of Joe DiMaggio as a young boy, Bob Dylan and the comic strip character Bazooka Joe to pieces dovetailing popular imagery with quotations from Marcel Proust, William Faulkner, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert or the Bible, and addressing themes of violence, humor, sex, evolution, religion, politics, literature, youth, art history and sports.
In particular, her current research examines popular imagery of Asians and Asian Americans in the context of U.S. immigration policies and neo-colonial strategies during and immediately following the Philippine - American War.
The program will also put into context the construction of popular imagery departing from the tension in baroque representations of death, modernization and the macabre, death in the invention of Modern Art in Mexico, and its political implications with visual culture.
The exhibit of the late artist's work focuses on his Kandors series, in which he reworked popular imagery and mythology from American comic books, exemplifying Kelley's characteristic conflation of both elevated and based popular culture.
The allure of popular imagery for Lichtenstein grew from the desire to blur the boundaries between «high» and «low» culture as a means of fusing art with daily life.
«I am interested in the ways that popular imagery informs how people perceive themselves and others around the world.»
Today's meme - ified popular imagery is perhaps the next phase in the evolution.
KAWS absorbs popular imagery to produce works that are semi-familiar, with layers of contradictions and subtleties.
Artists such as Seurat, Toulouse Lautrec, Stuart Davis and Willem De Kooning had been interested in integrating popular imagery in their art, but they had transformed their source material into their own art — Pop artists let their sources speak louder than their art.
By bringing together Internet imagery with the symbol of the flag, the work makes a statement about the democratization of information in contemporary society and the role of popular imagery in the shaping of national identity.
Like her Pictures Generation counterparts, Wachtel's work in the early 1980s appropriated popular imagery to critique an increasingly media - saturated society.
Mediated images have their own power, Warhol tacked his cart to that horse and rode into pop stardom, the Pictures generation (as Richard Prince, Sherrie Levine, Cindy Sherman, et al. are sometimes called) took a more critical take on popular imagery and mass media, as commentaries on power and capitalism, consumerism and gender, etc..
Majerus exploited this effect by combining popular imagery (high - top sneakers, cartoon characters) with painterly gestures and, in some cases, shaped panels layered to evoke retail signage.
He challenged perceptions of abstraction, with many of his works featuring popular imagery, family, friends, historical figures, and himself in a style that he called «a smorgasbord of the recognizable.»
Then his style shifted again, incorporating popular imagery, the brash colors of Fauvism and the gestural brushwork of Expressionism.
Despite his formalist ideals, the artist often drew inspiration from mass produced media and popular imagery as seen in commercial packaging and advertising.
During the next year, Lueg's paintings contained motifs adopted from popular imagery, including the Mona Lisa, washing detergent, soccer players, and Cassius Clay.
I felt much more connected to Polke because of his use of popular imagery in a kind of witty irreverent way, and that he was prepared to use all types of visual language in his own work, unlike Richter who would be painting paintings that looked like photographs.
This show was inspired by the resurgence of the aesthetics, design, and popular imagery of the 1980s — particularly from the iconic British poster company of the era, Athena — among the work of contemporary artists.
His most celebrated paintings from the 1950s and 1960s, with their bold colors, popular imagery, and sculptural elements, had an enormous impact on the development of Pop art, Minimalism, and Conceptual art.
The barrage of popular imagery — from lush magazines to color television — became fodder for work aimed at exposing the cultural hegemony.
With occasional insider art - world references accompanying the popular imagery, Lichtenstein's paintings can be both familiar and enigmatic.
Neo-Dada was exemplified by its use of modern materials, popular imagery, and absurdist contrast.
Though stylistically diverse, the creative expressions by wood engravers during this period — sometimes referred to as the woodcut revival — drew attention to the medium's decorative and typographic qualities, its associations with religious, primitive, and popular imagery, and potential for narrative through the invention of the wordless novel in woodcuts.
Deploying posters, books, postcards and even a café and hotel, his projects have consistently had at their center a focus on the American vernacular — its music, popular imagery and ephemera — mining the nuances of culture through its unsung conventions.
The Challenge of Realism will explore these significant questions through the juxtaposition of contemporary realist painting and the popular imagery of the mid twentieth century.
He exhibited his typed fictions and glossy photographic surfaces of erotic content, nature, and popular imagery in solo shows at key galleries from Rudolf Zwirner in Cologne, to Yvon Lambert and Daniel Templon in Paris and Hans Mayer in Dusseldorf, and a solo show in the Projects room of the Museum of Modern Art.
Warhol's Double Elvis documents and decodes the conventions of popular imagery.
Alphabets, text, numbers, figures from folklore, popular imagery and abstract shapes claim a larger subject matter, one invested in direct communication and attuned to the enigma of culture.
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.
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