Sentences with phrase «popular imagination of artists»

Not exact matches

The sculpturesʼ stripe scheme not only invokes familiar patterns of the popular imagination, such as those on Barack Obamaʼs ties or 1970ʼs Hang Ten shirts, but also the headily disorienting reaction often experienced when facing the canvases of artists such as Bridget Riley or Kenneth Noland.

The nebulous notion of ephemeral storage for digital information captures the imagination of many contemporary artists, and it has also been a popular art subject throughout the ages that can now be marketed as if imbued with a new meaning, with Diane Arbus» 1960 photograph Clouds on - screen at a drive - in movie, N.J., offered by Fraenkel Gallery, being just one example.

The artist — popular both within and beyond the art world for his darkly subversive, laugh - out - loud drawings and sculptures — takes his place alongside Tino Sehgal, whose Tate Modern Turbine Hall piece last summer saw performers talking to gallery - goers, telling them intimate stories from their own lives; Laure Prouvost, the French - born, London - based maker of warmly mischievous installations and films; and Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, whose apparently traditional portraits of ordinary sitters turn out to be fabrications drawn from her own imagination.

The popular inaugural show, Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861 — 2008, is the first exhibition to look at the site not only as a strip of sand in Brooklyn but also as a seminal place in the American imagination — a muse for artists for more than one hundred and fifty years.

The Vienna of the past looms large in the popular imagination, with the Hollywood film Woman in Gold bringing Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch - Bauer to the big screen and high auction estimates for another painting by the artist, Portrait of Gertrud Loew, making headlines in advance of a Sotheby's sale.

The exhibition reflects and addresses the pivotal role of the studio in artists» practice while alluding to its enduring status in the popular imagination.

The exhibition will be curated by the artist himself and will delve into the subjects of imagination and iconography in contemporary popular culture.

The only thing missing here is Claes Oldenburg's fabulous «Mouse Museum,» a walk - in room in the shape of Mickey's head that is in fact a portrait of the Pop artist's fertile imagination and his omnivorous interest in popular culture.