Sentences with phrase «referencing past cultures»

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Mixing art historical references with images taken from the internet, their subject matter knows no limits: from icons of popular culture such as Roy Orbison to much admired paintings of the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.

Andrews translates her Los Angeles movie - set references to a New York context — playing on the neighborhood's industrial and commercial past as well as its current associations with popular culture and advertising.

Mixing art historical references with images taken from the internet, the paintings of Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal (born 1972) borrow liberally from the image glut around us, appropriating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.

Simultaneously referencing the past and addressing the present moment, these exhibitions uncover what it means to be formed by experience, locale and popular culture.

Referencing the artist's interests in science fiction, hip hop, science and technology, sci - fi, comic books, Black political struggles and symbols of traditional African cultures, his work strives to convey the diversity present in the range of breadth of collective Black diasporic experience both past and present.

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.

He forged a distinctive, at times thrilling, brand from references to the high culture of the past, only rarely referring to contemporary events or issues.

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.

The work explores friendship making reference to Hannah Arendt's definition of culture as «the company that one chooses to keep, in the present as well as in the past», which suggests the importance of befriending people and also ideas, issues, objects, something chosen and renewed through thinking and doing.

Like German conceptual artist Joseph Beuys, with whom he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, Kiefer confronts the past by referencing such myths as Isis and Osiris, the ancient Egyptian myth of destruction and regeneration, and the history of German philosophy and culture.

Often making reference to Italy's history and culture in his works, he has employed traditional mediums such as bronze sculpture, mural painting, and mosaic, and often references Italian Futurism, aiming to connect the present and the past.

As artists with disabilities, their themes can range from loss, love, past trauma, travel, and family to favorite TV characters and pop culture references, but they all have one commonality — a desire to share their story and unique perspective with the world.

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.

Over the past two decades, Sanford Biggers has woven references to African American culture, Eastern spirituality, and global music and dance traditions into patchwork myths and rituals.

His work explores the historic implications of triumph, victory and ascension by re-contextualizing references from Roman antiquity and mending these with aspects of African - American culture both past and present.

Far from the airbrushed perfection that permeates images of nudity in popular culture, Audrey's pose references forms of the classical and renaissance past, whilst modernising the genre of the nude to act as a tool for philosophical investigation.

Pop culture is bursting with reboots, references, and a general nostalgia for the comfortable looks and feels of the past.