Sentences with phrase «reference iconic images»

Through his geometric watercolors, the artist aims to breakdown, rearrange and reference iconic images from art history and pop culture.

Not exact matches

Other elements of Umbrico's exhibition include an animated video montage of «light leaks» created from smartphone camera app filters, and a collection of over 50 cereal boxes with the surfaces blacked out, leaving visible only the silhouetted images of frozen splashes of milk that slyly reference Harold Edgerton's iconic strobe photographs from the 1930s.

In the wake of controversy surrounding the recent removal of his iconic Spiritual America from «Pop Life» at Tate Modern in London, I couldn't resist hunting for some reference to the artist's rephotographed image of a naked, prepubescent Brooke Shields.

The inscribed circle is a direct reference to one of Tawney's iconic woven images.

There are many references to art and popular cultural imagery that have permeated the Chinese creative subconscious, be it an iconic Andy Warhol portrait and images of the twin towers with smoke pouring from them culled from print media, or the enduring allure of Hollywood and cinema's role in both reflecting and shaping the image of America in the minds of people outside it.

Navigating between art historical references, the existing art context and the aesthetics of the every day Bonacina's practice emphasizes the importance of the manifestation of meaning through the use of iconic elements such as images, actions and customs which are rooted and constantly reproduced in the collective today.

The concept of these shadow sculptures is applied in reverse to their light sculptures: constructions out of computer sequenced light - bulbs that reference iconic pop culture by creating images reminiscent of cliché kitsch tattoos and the tinsel - town arcadia of working - class sea - side Britain.

Thomas's interest in re-appropriating and referencing iconic modern western paintings stems from a desire to reclaim and reinterpret these canonised images of beauty.

Huang's sculptures and installations — drawing on the legacies of Joseph Beuys, Arte Povera, and John Cage as well as traditional Chinese art and philosophy — routinely juxtapose traditional objects or iconic images with modern references.