Sentences with phrase «referencing such pop»

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Names such as Hermione and Iris have enjoyed revivals of late due to some pop culture references.

Randall is an enthusiastic narrator who leavens her prose with references to such pop culture phenomena as the group Talking Heads («And you may ask yourself, Am I right?

As we've come to expect from these type films, the dialogue is loaded with numerous goofy puns and timely pop - culture references that always provide entertainment for the grown - ups, but I don't think we've ever had them thrown at us at such a machine - gun like pace.

The Matrix has become such a touchstone of American pop culture - referenced, copied, parodied, and parroted)- that it's hard to remember just how new and different and distinctive it was when it debuted in 1999.

Adam Stockhausen's production design is dazzling, and it's fun to identify the nonstop references to pop culture, but they come in such profusion that the process becomes exhausting instead of exhilarating.

Such references more often than not feel like awkward pop culture plugs, in hopes of reaching out to a contemporary audience, or firmly dating this movie in 2013.

With numerous pop - cultural references, movie references, one - liners, visual gags and spoofs that parodied Hollywood and fairytales: Far, Far Away (Hollywood), Burger Prince (Burger King), Farbucks (Starbucks), Versarchery (Versace), Olde Knavery (Old Navy), Saxon Fifth Avenue (Saks Fifth Avenue), Gap Queen (Gap Kids), Tower of London Records (Tower Records), Friar's Fat Boy (Big Boy), Baskin Robinhood (Baskin Robbins), Banana Kingdom (Banana Republic), Marilyn Monroe's infamous pose from The Seven Year Itch (1955)- when Fiona's dress blows up, Meet the Parents (2000), Ghostbusters (1984), Mission: Impossible (1996), Alien (1979), Flashdance (1983), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Spider - Man (2002), From Here To Eternity (1953), The Little Mermaid (1989) and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and even more, such as Joan Rivers» red - carpet appearance, and the TV show Cops (parodied as KNIGHTS).

Most odiously, the movie gave rise to the prolific shit machine of co-screenwriters Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, which for many years polluted movie theaters with its audience - insulting, pop - culture - reference - as - punchline brand of dispiritingly popular spoofery, as seen in such abominations as Date Movie, Epic Movie and The Starving Games, whose title, I would imagine, is some manner of humorous allusion to the popular book and movie franchise The Hunger Games.

These include creative expressions such as idioms (up a creek); puns (references to an ill - fated cruise's «poop deck»); inside jokes (may the forest be with you); invented words (oyvaycation); pop culture memes (no vacation nation); similes (a hayfever sufferer in a garden is like a diabetic in a chocolate factory); and metaphors (down the black hole).

Thanks to countless pop culture references and notorious 20th - century organized crime figures such as Al Capone, Bugsy Siegel and John Gotti, the concept of organized crime calls to mind images of bygone eras when speakeasies, Mob - run casinos and infamous M...

That's why such games often replace extreme representation (be it either gore / hardcore / graphic or childish) with symbolic or pop - culture references.

Juliano - Villani's canvases pack such a volume of imagery and reference that they betray their pop - y superficiality almost immediately.

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.

Described as a «modern - day dandy» and is known for exhibitions combining sculpture, film and performance, many referencing pop culture icons such as the Simpsons and Felix the Cat.

Many of the 21st century artists — such as iona rozeal brown, Trenton Doyle Hancock, and Robert Pruitt — mix national, international, historical, and pop - culture references with personal stylistic preferences to produce images that provoke more questions about identity than they answer.

Honoring traditional Asian arts through her use of Hanji paper, Korean silk, and calligraphic brushstrokes, she plays with iconography and symbols that have been classified as «foreign» such as blue and white china patterns, fortune cookies (which originated in California but are identified as Chinese), Korean fans, and floating dragons and intermingles them with references to Pop and southern folk art.

It simultaneously references iconic pop culture symbols, such as marquee signs in Las Vegas and Times Square, and historical fountains built in civic spaces, such as Bernini's Triton Fountain.

His pieces often combine a dark sense of humor with a certain playfulness and Pop culture references, such as music videos, tabloids, and rock music.

Since the mid-1970s she has referenced and critiqued American popular culture, suggesting the influence of Pop Art while pointing to Abstract Expressionism through large, physical, drippy paintings of cartoon and comic characters such as Felix the Cat, Mickey Mouse, and Homer Simpson.

Anthea Hamilton is a UK - based artist who creates multi-media installations that resemble theatrical stages or film sets and incorporate arrangements of prop - like objects, references to modernist paintings, and appropriated images of pop culture icons such as blow - ups of John Travolta in John Travolta, Bust - like, 2012.

Jayson Musson, who plays Hennessy Youngman yet refers to him as his cousin, maintains a separate artist identity, making abstract paintings that reference pop cultural motifs such as Bill Cosby's notorious sweater patterns.

Of course, there were many thematic and visual references to poverty and exclusion that were framed by the discourse of art history — as in a metal construction by Jannis Kounellis [who died in February this year] that combines a hard - edged steel - cast minimalist frame with multicoloured rags of Arte Poveraat White Cube, for example; or in a an arresting display of Sadie Benning's «drawings» made of wood, Aqua - Resin, casein and acrylic gouache with motifs reminiscent of African textilesat Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; or works about otherness framed by the formerly excluded, or on their behalf — as in a display from the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa; or Andres Serrano's unforgettable photographs of notable figures in American pop culture, such as his portrait of Snoop Dogg (America)(2002) placed next to that of Donald Trump, on view at Galerie Nathalie Obadia.

There are references to pop culture characters such as Mickey Mouse, with the artist toying over the idea of false realities and choosing to live in an idealistic world.

His ethereal pieces experiment with the beauty of natural landscapes as well as pop culture references and influences, such as fast food.

«Today my work takes pop culture references from a variety of different sources such as newspapers, memorabilia and public records, to create artworks that are iconic and accessible.»

Encompassing the engaged and the conformist, references to celebrity and mass - culture, every media available and being completely democratic in terms of iconography, and definitely containing some inherent traits of pop art, it's safe to state that Urban Art is the perfect mirror of postmodernism, and as such, it's a movement in its own right.

Allusions to personal and collective memories are suggested in layered, theatrical environments which reference to numerous art historical and decorative styles, such as Post-Impressionism, Colour Field painting, postmodern décor, through to present - day Pop iconography.

Drawing upon historical movements such as baroque, pop art, and abstract expressionism, while referencing contemporary developments in graffiti and photo - realism, the duo create intricately layered canvases in which linear narrative falls prey to the chaos of our image saturated times.

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

Themes of exaggerated consumption, film noir and the depiction of women in art, the dystopic American landscape, and the intersection of popular culture and politics, are explored through works by acknowledged masters such as Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol, as well as by many artists not traditionally associated with Pop whose art may be understood within its wider field of reference.

The forms and gestures found in her work derive from a wide variety of inspirations and art historical references, such as CoBrA, Situationism and Abstract Expressionism but also pop cultural aesthetics like graffiti or cartoon that indicate Ekblad's genre - crossing approach.

The vast majority of the works selected by curator Lizzie Zucker - Saltz & Assistant Curator Ashley Westpheling are figurative with many reference pop icons such as Elvis, Marilyn & Donald Trump, while others portray local artists, performers, models and writers, such as performer Deonna Mann, artist Katie Walker, fellow resident studio denizen photographer Peter Frey.