Sentences with phrase «popular urban culture»
French neo-expressionists (Figuration Libre group), mostly city - dwellers, based their art on popular urban culture.
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Anyone who reads The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, however, must recognize that, far from being uncritical, Novak evinces an intense and well - informed sense about where the American experiment has gone wrong and is going wrong» from race relations, to the urban underclass, to crime, and the debasement of popular culture.
Traumatic popular culture images, non-factual historical references and urban horror stories of childbirth reinforce birth - fear causing the very muscles designed for childbirth to constrict and tense.
Rhythm Factory's location in the city's popular Bangladeshi quarter — on Whitechapel Road, just around the corner from the East End's well - known Brick Lane — has historically been home to successive waves of immigrants and forms an eclectic urban melting pot with a flourishing youth culture and infectiousvibe.
The show, held at Laurent Delaye in June 2009, initiated a cross-referential dialogue starting with Robyn Denny's landmark, 1959 abstract painting «Place 3», which optimizes urban and visual popular culture.
«That Sidibé was a «popular» photographer rather than a satirical pop commentator on vernacular culture — which is to say he was a photographer firmly grounded in his environment who combined work - for - hire portraiture with his own exploratory documentation of the quotidian excitement of his Bamako neighborhood — made him one among several recording angels of a new generation of urban Africans, of which the other most important Malian example was his elder, Seydou Keita.
Inspired by American Abstract Expressionism, popular culture, and urban modernity, they recognised abstraction as their only conceivable route.
He celebrated the everyday, mined popular culture, and focused on a range of themes from urban alienation and environmental abuse to sexual intrigue and personal isolation.
The exhibition offers an overview of the main themes in Bradford's art from 2000 to 2010, including urban space, music, black men and popular culture, and the fate of New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina.
Other series, like her «Matador» paintings, explored sexual identity or incorporated elements from urban life and popular culture, although she passionately disapproved of the burgeoning Pop Art movement.
Popular culture, folk and urban mythology are common themes, as are alternative lifestyles, conspiracy theories, forgotten rites and subcultures.
West is influenced by classical structuralist film, urban mythology, folklore and popular culture, combining everyday actions and materials to create hypnotic, fast paced films.
The exhibition includes drawing, sculpture and printed matter that draws inspiration from horror, the occult, sex, despair, popular culture, comics, art history and urban life.
Drawing from classical painting and architecture, the contemporary urban landscape, and popular culture, Scheibitz deconstructs and recombines signs, images, shapes, and architectural fragments in ways that challenge traditional contexts and interpretations.
Much of her work is an exploration of how this decorative instinct is outworked in popular culture and within the urban environment.
Often addressing the use of feminine gendered adornment in the construct of urban masculinity within popular culture, Patterson embellishes photographic tapestries by hand with beading, sequins, fabric and jewelry.
The Group exhibition «A Luxury We Can not Afford», uses popular culture, economic and urban planning history, and art of the «50s /»60s and «00s, two moments in which Singapore was at the brink of economic utopia.
Artists created charged works by juxtaposing disparate images sourced largely from popular media, such as Hannah Höch's 1930 photomontage Untitled (Large Hand Over Woman's Head), a work of layered images from magazines that speaks to the representation of women in popular culture, and Kurt Schwitters» Mz 426 Figures (1922), an assemblage of discarded newspaper and printed detritus, which evokes the urban environment in which he lived.
As one of the most exciting and popular artistic spaces in Berlin dedicated to the cultures of street art, graffiti, photography and contemporary art, Urban Spree is home to many artists working in these fields.
Calligraphy drawn from the age of satellites beaming and technology blaring, Keith Sonnier's sculptures, urban neon and country trash, fuse the detritus of popular western culture with the suggestiveness of eastern imagery.
Their multi-media performances are influenced by urban popular culture and are informed by such elements as manga, pornography, animation and cabaret.
Inspired by his Spartan culture, Seremetis's signature style, fearless representation of urban realities in popular culture is evident.
A master storyteller, Marshall weaves the political, urban, suburban, and African - American history into ordinary narratives that are meant to upend popular perceptions of black culture as impoverished, violent or outraged and directly challenge conventional ideals of beauty.
Together with Claes Oldenburg, Edward Ruscha and the late Andy Warhol, Lichtenstein ranked among the most important American artists to explore the vernacular culture of mass - produced consumer goods and popular urban life.
While the exhibition highlights a wide range of distinct practices, when seen collectively surprising resonances and inter-relationships come forward, putting into relief ideas such as the urban landscape, mythologies of popular culture, art and narrative, contemporary abstraction, and the primordial.
Many incorporate everyday objects into their work, reference urban architecture and economies, or use new media to explore popular culture and Americana.