People must be informed
through cultural symbols they can relate to, empathize and not be alienated, involved and not disinterested, to understand the complex issues connecting them directly to their daily existence.
Not exact matches
There are
cultural «repertoires of values,» says theologian Bernice Martin, which express themselves
through a «hidden vocabulary» of
symbols that saturate popular culture and structure its assumptions; We need, therefore, to look at
The typography was refracted by objects from London architecture: «We took models of the main architectural and
cultural symbols of the city which echo the idea of Future London Academy — knowledge
through the lens of London,» ONY explains.
Through research and spontaneous discovery, she seeks out images with a «subliminal
cultural power» within an extensive range — comics, nature photographs, 3D computer graphic, graffiti, and Eastern
symbols have made their way into her complex, dense works.
Through each of these mediums the artist finds contemporary currency, personal
symbol and
cultural meaning of longing, seduction, desire and romance, while also revealing a highly personal vision, fusing and transforming sentiment, wisdom and emotional experience into visual - art forms.
Raúl Santiago Sebazco: Sebazco's works of acrylic and sand on canvas evoke
cultural prehistory and ancient legacy of humanity
through texture, color and
symbol.
In response to critique of this history, which included displacing a generation of Aboriginal children into boarding schools where they were stripped of their linguistic and
cultural heritage, Australia has in recent years represented itself internationally
through a collection of
symbols drawn from indigenous sources.
Steel maize plants, ceramic jerry cans, concrete chainsaws and wooden AK - 47s become
symbols for the difficulties of surviving
through subsistence in difficult economic conditions and evoke the idea of brutal uprooting of
cultural heritage, political revolution and its self - perpetuating cycle of domination.
Her films, or digital montages, guide the viewer
through immersive virtual spaces, derived from the
cultural symbols and artefacts from the material world.
Through her installations and video works, Echakhch critically examines socio - political issues brought about by globalization, the way national
symbols are used, as well as
cultural differences and social phenomena, without however assuming a cautionary or rhetorical stance.
As in his Legends paintings, small - scale works that employ legible
symbols and graphic relationships as linguistic antecedent, Bosmans translates the mythic signification of these
cultural relics into plastic materiality
through facsimile and abstraction.
A meme has been characterized as a «categorization of a
cultural trend or truth, a unit for communicating and collectively sharing
cultural ideas
through words,
symbols and pictures.»