Sentences with phrase «urban consumer culture»

Not exact matches

While Andy Warhol's best - known work examines modern urban life and consumer culture, his interest in nature was life - long.

A film comedy directed with the grace of a ballet, the painstaking detail of an action painting and the affection of a love song, Playtime is one of the most sublime celebrations of individualism in the alienated landscape of modern urban life and consumer culture.

With a career spanning four decades, Isa Genzken's works draw upon everyday material culture, including design, consumer goods, the media, architecture, and urban environments.

Within this wide remit, we can see that the artists of today enjoy muddying the boundaries between consumer culture, everyday urban and natural materials, and art history.

Using systematically collected material from his urban neighborhood, Nari Ward creates dramatic sculptural installations that explore issues surrounding race, poverty, and consumer culture.

With a career spanning four decades, Genzken's works draw upon everyday material culture, including design, consumer goods, the media, architecture, and urban environments.

Artists like Nari Ward, who reclaimed discarded refuse from urban settings, and Gabriel Orozco, a Mexican artist who photographed quotidian scenarios gone slightly awry, achieved prominence for their ambiguously interpretable commentaries on poverty and consumer culture.

Even so, his central interests will make themselves clear; expect intricate urban landscapes, a close attention to repetition and patterning, subtle references to consumer culture, and an abiding interest in controversial figures like the infamous 1970s terrorist Carlos the Jackal.

Nicole Wermers creates sculptures, collages and installations which explore the modernist constructions underpinning consumer culture and our urban environment.

Together with Claes Oldenburg, Edward Ruscha and the late Andy Warhol, Lichtenstein ranked among the most important American artists to explore the vernacular culture of mass - produced consumer goods and popular urban life.

Green Spaces in Iran are Cluttered with Trash Fast - growing urban populations and the rapid spread of the kind of consumer culture that generates so much trash in the first place seem to have outpaced any type of consciousness about littering in Turkey, a problem apparently shared with neighboring Iran.