Sentences with phrase «references to the past art»

The challenge is to make a picture that stands on its own, but it doesn't mean that it shouldn't have references to the past art form.

Scharf's fun, colorful work is both a nod to the future and a reference to past art historical movements such as Pop and Surrealism.

Scharf's fun, colorful work is both a nod to the future and a reference to past art historical movements such as Pop and...

Not exact matches

Tarantino might have started this venture into martial arts cinema seeking cheap thrills and references to the past, but at this point he turns this story into something much more.

Referencing past precedents of feminist art, installation, performance, and ideology, the artworks in the show present an expanded visual language that has resulted from a more inclusive art world, shaped in part by the social movements of the 1970's, thereby paying homage to a generation who has paved the way for contemporary female expression.

For their first solo show as Ultra Violet Production House, Citarella and Troemel have chosen to materialize 20 works (out of the 200 they've conceived of and rendered over the past two years) that specifically reference art and art history (as opposed to some of the other subjects they've tackled like interior design, small business proposals, and food.)

Mixing art historical references with images taken from the internet, their subject matter knows no limits: from icons of popular culture such as Roy Orbison to much admired paintings of the past such as Georges Seurat's Bathers at Asnières (1884); from the lonesome cowboys in a Steven Spielberg film to the shocking photographs of Mexican photographer, Enrique Metinides.

[39] Certain artists quoted references to past or present art, but in general color field painting presents abstraction as an end in itself.

This skill, and Zhang's referencing of thousands of years of art history from the contemporary moment to the distant past, is visible in the large, boldly painted five panel work Nothingness, Water, Fire, Wind, Earth.

Mixing art historical references with images taken from the internet, the paintings of Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal (born 1972) borrow liberally from the image glut around us, appropriating anything from icons of popular culture such as Roy Orbison to paintings of the past such as Georges Seurat's «Bathers at Asnières» — from the lonesome cowboys in a Steven Spielberg film to the photographs of Enrique Metinides.

His references span from the deep and dark corners of the carefully mannered art world to the more esoteric branches of culture such as inglorious comic books, unsung hip hop heroes, and freakish, hallucinatory imagery from the drug - fueled political past.

What seems to be one of the biggest differences between the two categories is in this — Modern Art referenced the past and with this reference and appropriation, it attempted to understand the present time.

In One Stone Head, 1997, which has Mr. Hammons gluing a tight afro (complete with a razored»90s geometric design) onto a head - sized rock that sits atop an old - fashioned hat, the artist deftly reference the African - American styles past and present — from the jazzman to the hip - hop artist — while nodding, however improbably, to the whole human history of art, from the objet trouvé exploits of Marcel Duchamp to Easter Island.

«Guan Xiao has this unique quality to her work, she references the past but communicates a forward - thinking notion, it almost feels spiritual,» says Adrian Cheng, founder of the K11 Art Foundation and a collector of Guan's work.

The works of art, created during the past decade, include references to figuration, abstraction, landscape, and still life traditions.

They called for a less formal, more socially committed art while generally avoiding references to any past older than the headlines of the Los Angeles Times.

Anton Ginzburg uses an array of historical and cultural references as starting points for his investigations of art's capacity to penetrate layers of the past.

In past works, Sarcevic has formally juxtaposed two cultures by placing Gothic architectural references in one corner of an exhibition space and Islamic patterning in the other; exposed the residues of labor through worn work clothes; and forced a meeting between rival art institutions by applying a photo mural of one's exhibition space to the wall of the other's.

«These pieces all carry a history of art - making that spans five to ten years,» points out Pfister during a conversation at the gallery, and, in some cases, these references go back further into the past to post-minimalism and reductivism.

This exhibition will utilize Stony Island Arts Bank's archive by incorporating or making reference to images, music and text from the Johnson Publishing Library, the Glass Lantern Slides Collection, the Edward J. Williams Collection of objects of «negrobilia,» and the Frankie Knuckles Vinyl Collection, with a focus on past, present and future ideas depicting black culture's interest in futurism and its roots in Africa.

Engaging and often paradoxical narratives are constructed with references to his Scandinavian heritage, family memories, and the art and the literature of past.

Your letter of application MUST reference past projects and demonstrate how you see your own art practices related to the range of artistic practices that have take place at Koumaria.

These pieces play with references to art's recent past, while the even more recent process of their making is also visible — for instance, we can imagine the hundreds of hours Dahlgren must have spent sharpening pencils.

Titled «Review», a reference to the delimiting character of his artistic practice as a co-founder and editor of the influential / 100 art magazine, the exhibition brings together central works from the past 20 years, and in this synoptic display of works devised together, it experiments with the format of a 45 - year - old artist's retrospective.

While the country's longstanding former President Robert Mugabe was being ousted through a military - led coup, Chiurai was exhibiting his politically - driven work, which combines art historical imagery with references from popular culture and archival material to explore the visual language and tropes that help construct myths, history, and ultimately power.Under the continued curation of Candice Allison, «Madness and Civilization» re-stages this exhibition alongside new works and research that highlights Chiurai's creative projects over the past two years.

However, Quinn's real contribution to Irish art over the past 12 years has been his mixed - media «technology» painting, in which he incorporates Printed Circuit Boards or PCBs (the ultimate hi - tech icons) into his compositions, in order to reference the revolutionary effect of computers on our daily lives.

Referencing past, genre - bending artists such as Keith Haring and Sterling Ruby, art world renegades who successfully designed and applied their own aesthetic to commercial spaces, fashion boutiques, and public urban centers — blurring the line between private and public, between art and commodity — San Pablo has implemented his own distinct style to re-imagine the gallery space as an installation and retail platform which uniquely showcases the collaborative and multi-dimensional nature of Vacancy Projects.

Her artwork also plays with and subverts preconceived notions of Western art history by including portraits of her African family, material references to her Igbo tribe's customs, and images of Nigeria's British colonial past.

Working conceptually, Tap exploits the subject of landscape to make historically situated interventions — in the past she has explicitly referenced Canadian art historical icons such as Homer Watson and David Milne.

Raphael Rubinstein suggests in Art in America that what sets Oehlen apart from other contemporary artists like, say, Oscar Murillo and Josh Smith, who have been know to borrow freely from Abstract Expressionism's gestural language, is that Oehlen «doesn't simply plunder art history for stylistic options or knowing references, but instead seeks to understand, assimilate and, with luck, transcend past precedents.&raqArt in America that what sets Oehlen apart from other contemporary artists like, say, Oscar Murillo and Josh Smith, who have been know to borrow freely from Abstract Expressionism's gestural language, is that Oehlen «doesn't simply plunder art history for stylistic options or knowing references, but instead seeks to understand, assimilate and, with luck, transcend past precedents.&raqart history for stylistic options or knowing references, but instead seeks to understand, assimilate and, with luck, transcend past precedents.»