Sentences with phrase «universal visual language»

This comic book aims to leverage the universal visual language and transformative power of comics to educate people in every corner of the globe about the SDG 13, on climate action, and empower them to create positive and lasting change in their own communities and worldwide.

«There's a duality between the specificity of his feelings and emotions and his ability to translate them into a universal visual language that is readable for people everywhere» says Robbins, «It has a strangeness rendered very poetically.»

A publication exploring how the universal visual language of geometric abstraction relates to society and politics.

Not exact matches

Schrader enjoyed directing what remains (as of this writing) his last true studio picture, and Universal's budget allowed the director - classified by critics at the time as a «true American auteur» - to expand his visual language.

By expressing universal concepts of birth, death, love, sex and war, using a primacy of line and directness of message, Haring was able to attract a wide audience and assure the accessibility and staying power of his imagery, which has become a universally recognized visual language of the 20th century.

He employs the visual language of authority (universal icons) and remodels these tools of the state to express more surreal and poetic contemplations of the individual.

Forgoing the traditional narrative, these artists use their own visual language to convey a universal uneasiness about the future.

Each of them draws from their particular cultural heritage to develop their direction and a visual language that is both powerful and universal.

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

In his own work and in his promotion of other artists, he sought to prioritize visual and metaphorical abstraction — artworks which communicate the artist's inner vision and lived experience though a universal, intuitive and spiritually expressive language.

By harnessing the visual language of Abstract Expressionism and connecting it to the energy of all - encompassing nature, Mitchell circumvented the more solitary, emotional aspects of the genre and successfully paved the way for future generations of painters interested in universal expression.

Through constantly pondering, the artist seeks to narrate the outside world, universal experiences, and intangible feelings through a visual language.

Informed by neuroscience and leaps of intuition my paintings aim to reveal a new and different visual experience by articulating an objective, thus universal, color language that is based on certain predications of the viewer's response.

For Weiner, these coded communications were unhindered by distance, origin, or language, allowing for a universal language of abstract visual and aural signs.

Rather than articulate universal visual codes for collective mobilization, these works reduce the specific lives and experiences of those represented in the images to a pictorial field for the artist to play upon; the fetishized beauty of documented protest rendered even more beautiful, and even less capable of stimulating social change, by its sublimation through the commercially - viable language of abstract painting.